The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-05-13

IngS OF our species 6nu niotc o"Po
animal life in all its forms .
Than they are at present Bridges. tun- ,
nels, roads, viaducts, and cities were !
scarce, but where there are hopeless .
deserts now there were rivers, forests !
md abundance of game. IA
The idea of the dies irw that shall en- ,
gulf the world in sea OF flames was
perhaps, after all, not wholly absurd.
of the habitable earth has
been ruined by the action OF
fire. Nj. Camille Flammarion computes
that the bodies of human beings slain
in battle. If erected in the form OF
column; would reach up to the moon
the timber of the trees destroyed oy
forest fires in the course OF the lass
sixty centuries would form q massive
tower of the same height. II
The works of human labor destroyed
during the same period In the confa-
grafton of cities and villages would
form a pile as high as Mount Hamilton.
The treasures of art thus annihflated
in Rome alone would stock thousand
museums.
A list of great cities burned would De
a list of nearly all the great capitals OF
the world Persepolis, the spiend1d
residence of "a long series OF rulers
whose tributary provinces extended
from the Indus to the Hellespont, was
burnt with all it's palaces and temples;
BABYLON and Carthage were so utterly
DESTROYED that their very location has
become a matter of doubt Rome was
burnt eight times, Jerusalem four times,
and though they rose from their ashes'
The second temple is not like the first
Athens, Syracuse, Bagdad, Alexan-
dria and Antioch now exhibit only
shadow of their former grandeur The
Phnnicians, like the Spartans and AS
syrians, disappeared with the ruin OF
their capitals, but the most fatefni con-
fiarration recorded in the history OF the
world is perhaps that of Moscow.
"They talk as it the fate OF Europe
had been decided at Waterloo" said DE
Bourienne in his memoirs OF the flrst
empire. "If Napoleon had beaten Wei
liupton and Butcher dozen times 1T
could not have retrieved the reverses OF
the three preceding years The truth
is that the French Cesar and his fort
unes were ruined by the burning OF
Moscow That city was the funeral
pile of the great nation"
When London burned for three days
and three nights in 1866 its population
hardly exceeded two hundred and nifty
thousand, and in regard to the extent
of the destruction, neither that fire nor
, those of Hamburg and Chicago can
compare with the confagration OF
Rome under Nero at a time when the
capital of the Roman empire had prob
ably moro than three million inhablt-
ants. That calamity, by the way, may,
after all, have been caused by an acci'
dent. Prof Emile Reich, in his history
). of the ancient civilization, proves tina,
both Nero and Tiberius were the VIC
Tins of gross ISLANDERS, not limited tt
!. the exaggeration of their vices and tins
!. misrepresentation OF their pohtica
. acts. The authors of their annals wer'
: politicians whose privileges had beer
! curtailed by the omnipotence OF thu
: Caesars and who avenged them
: selves by painting the objects 0
their resentment in the darkes
! possible colors That Nero. in hi
: mania for music, fiddled durin'
: the burning of Rome is likely enough
- but it is hardly credible that he wout
\ have survived even the suspicion OF tn
Al alleged monster crime.
= The revival of such cities as Atheu
: and Damascus can be explained by Tn
= unrivaled advantage of their location
! an advantage which has also more tina
- once proved the salvation of Constant
- nople. The fire service of the Turks
= capital is a century behind the averag
A. of the times, and in the southern sui
NJ nrbs there are miles of streets line
Il with nothing but wooden houses, bt
IS the aristocratic quarters in their pre-
rel ent condition are really almost mr.
-. tproof. The palaces OF the Turks
~ frandees are built almost exclusivel
nc d stone, the very floors consisting OF
rlv mAsaic of variegated marmble, whi
ad an abundance of water is supplied :
at indoor baths and fountains, but In ado
IN ton to all that they are surrounded
,at acres of evergreen shrubs which
40 their Surn are inclosed by massive stoI
he walls.
,ra A single establishment of that so
+be land Their number runs up in the hu
n. dred) corAd stand unscathed in t
for midst of flaming streets, and old Sta
rye boul may. b the same way. survive
he bombardment of the predicted Russi
ca invasion. Itssite, at all events, won
mr. insure its resufrection. San Francis
on Chronicle.
for Not aSuccess.
ian II tried my poemon dog, sir, as y
advised" said the peet.s
'Nell," said the editor, what "
the result?"
81 was arrested by an officer of
oric society for the prevention of cruelty
animals. Brooklyn Life
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list, Osresre.sea.
saw Old Salt (sadly)-Whaling sin't WI
he it used to be.
mere Little Johnnie-Well. great huud
the you amt sorry. are you?-Truth.
Ocean waves have on number
nan, occasions dashed over the tops of Liz
DOM houses which are $50 feet high.
Veas wave in the open ocean is accompas
QUO by a depression as deep as the wav
mas high, ship in the trough Of the
the encountering such waves would
luoi banked by hills of water, If the t
nade nav no used three hundred feet b