The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-05-19

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bition viii Be Held 6 Milan this year.
English and American newspapers are
aslod 10 co-oporate in order that the
countries where It 10 moro vigorously
appreciated and cxtended-"
Auburn, Kentucky town Of 1000
inha bitants, disconr1ges the Kentucky
interest of whisky making. The vii
lage has not had an open saloon Tor hk-
teen years -Four elections in that time
have turned upon tho question of licens-
ing the sale of strong drink, but at no |
election has the affirmative vote reached
fortylfive. Meanwhile the Churches |
flourish and Auburn is we'll pleased to !,
be singular among its sister villages
The power of song is illustrated in |
a custom on tho railroads in northern !
Florida Whenever q train crosses the
Suwanee river, the conductor an
nounces the fact in each car. If any
passenger has never heard ''Way Down
Upon the Suwanee River this particu-
larization of the stream must seem pc
cu1iar,i and the Suwanee is like a dozen
other rivers in the same region, and
these are passed without comment from
the conductor.
The dead and gone New York hotel
used to have an almost continuous sue
cession of meals on the American
plan. There were breakfasts early and
late; there was a MONDAY dinner for
guests accustomed to such a meal;
there was a late luncheon; there was
the usual evening dinner, and. finally,
there was a late supper between 10 p
m. and midnight There were guests
| at all these meals, but an q Ia carte
| restaurant instituted late. in the life of
the hotel was never very successful
The United States geological sur
vey, says the report of Director Powell,
| has carried on Typographical surveys in
twenty-eight states and territories in
1898, covering an area of about $1,000
| square miles, at a cost of 1923. O23 or
| less than $40 per square mile. Since
| it's organization this department has
| surveyed an area of $4,000 square
| miles, in forty-scven states and terrific
ries. The photographic force has been
| tabulatin statistics as to the value OF
| running streams, and roughly foots up
this value at 5000, 200. 600.
| Some of the odd personal names
| met with in this country originated in
English warehouses, where it used to
mates in "Oliver Twist" to name
| foundlings for some utensil about the
| asylum, or for any thing else that might
strike the stupid fancy of the authori-
tics. Thus many persons were launched
upon the world bearing the names of
the days of the week, or some church
CIR street near the asylum, and of a hun
bred and one other things furnishing
equally absurd cognomens-
Il The germ theory is largely respon-
sible for some of the marvels of modern
surgery Out of the germ theory grew
the scrupulous care of surgeons as to
the aseptic and antiseptic treatment of
wounds. so that the fevcrs and infiam
| nations that used to be the inevita bic
consequence of surgical operations are
| now unknown in Nve1l-managed hos
! pitfalls. Surgeons will now chip off the
| Of a / y
to a curious class of students. send him
, to bed with his ''wound'' antiseptica]ly
dressed. and bring him back week
later with nothing to show of the op
: ration but slight and well-hcalcd
, | scar.-N. Y. Sum-
Il Model tenement houses have paid
, well in London. Sir Sydney Water
low made the first experiment of the
, ! kind in 1860 when he built at his OWE
: expense four blocks in Work street
. Fipsbury. The buildings accom'no
, dated eighty families, or four hundred
| persons and such was their success:
that in three years, in conjunction
with several friends. he started the I'm
. proved Industrial Dwellings Co.. o
' which he is chairman. That company
t in the erection of dwellings on forty
q five estates in London The dividend
q paid is five per cent. and the averaE
C rent OF each room is fifty cents.
: One of the largest, If not the larg
: est monoliths ever cut in this country
n granite column, forty and a hal
y feet long, six and a half feet in diane
q ter and weighing ninety-two tons ha
. been successfully transported from
is Stony Creek, Conn.,, to West Point, y
v. 1t is intended for the battle monu
o ment at the latter place. The shat
n was loaded on two platform cars on tw
g heavy pedestal blocks and crossed tn
d Hudson river at Fishkill after tn
transfer bridge at the ferry had bee
t. strengthened. The original block fro,
1t which the shaft was cut weighed on
W hundred and thirty-five tons. 1t wi
10 besurmounted by granite ball fol-
feet in diameter. supporting d bronz
a figure of Victory.