St. Landry democrat., 1894-02-10
NOTES AND COMMENTS


TIE United States has the fastest
| cruiser afioat, and the new Columbia Will
not depend upon that fact for It's safety
| lut for !csscning the safety ct lis foe.
\ MAN in PENNSYLVANIA is the owner Of
| a beach tree that has borne fruit for the
| last seventy wears The Hartford Journal
| shrcw,ilv observes thnt there cannot be
I many boys in his ncighborhood.
TIE granite for the mammoth tomb, to
| he erected to the memory of General
:. Grant, in New York City, is being
I uu8rricd ut North Jay, Me Ii is a white,
| fine 1ra ned granite that when cut and
work d into the walls of a building pre-
duccs a most beautiful effect. Two hun
| drcd Iubcrers will be employed for two
Years in preparing the stone.
W1ru the passenger cars reported
owned last year We might make Il train
! that would reach from Boston to WITHIN
t. miles of Philadelphia. Placing the
| freight cars together in a continuous
| tran the train would l." 1,o-S miles long,
and would reach from Boston to San
Francisco, from San francisco back to
Boston, and from Boston again as tar
west as Chicago.
The women of the West are taking
| ample advantage Cf their new political
privileges They took an active pYrt i'll
| the school elections in Seattle, Spokane,
and other Washington towns, going to
the polls in companies Of from dozen to
Il hundred. Candidates of their own sex
were nominated in several districts,
which helped greatly to enlist the inter
| est of the women.
A GENTLEMAN who Just returned from
| there are upward Of che hundred build
| ings there but they are all deserted. y
| few fishermen dwell ne II the shore in
| their own rude shanties. Some OF the
| deserted buildings are handsome struc-
! lures, one business block having cost up
ward of $50. 0O).
THE Woman's Suffrage Association of
| Belgium shows, by the latest census
| held in Europe, that the Continents
| population comprises 10, SCI males
| and H. 914, l19 females, the lattcrs
| plurality being 4,OJ3,1oS. Among SIX
| teen European nations the female sex
| prcdominatcs most strongly in Portugal
aud Norway, least ia Belgium and
| France.
THE Federal government has given the
| brick and tin battle ship Illinois at the
Worlds Fair to the Illinois naval militia.
| Chicago's amateur scamen will now be
| able to familiarzc themselves with all the
equipments Of a modern battle ship and
| all of the features Of jacks life atioat
| except tie uualn3s Of sc!sickncss and the
! art of retaining pcrpcndicular!ty CT per
SON with pitching deck under foot.
! SIR EDWARD WALKlN, the great Eng
! lish railway maguate, is actlvcl y engaged
| in an effort to promote the cutting OF a
canal across Ireland, from Dublin to
Galway Bay. lie thinks that Il canal
which would carry the largest SHIPS
| could be cut for about $40 y 10, coo, and
says, as the prin"ip1l argument in It's
i favor, that it would materially shorten
! the route from England to the United
States.
! bacon HARDEN JIIcKEY, formerly a
: Paris journalist, and now u res dent Of
| New York, AID SoH-inlaw Of john H.
! Flaglcr, is mptuTing Il scheme to cplonihe
the Island of Trinidad, about seven
! hundred miles from the coast Of Brazil,
/ and now entirely unIn,aJitcl. although
twenty three miles long and two OF
! three miles wide, an,i having abundant
vegetation The Baron intends to make
! the colony a separate pr:n 'Ipailty, I'M
/ connected with any other government.
TIE American Lawyer. a legal journal
/ published in New York City, tells OF Il
/ lawyer of that city WHO S cured a tee OF
! $3.50, 900; of another WHO WAS pad
! 500, 900 for his services on Il celebrated
! case: while other fees are mentioned
! running from t2J, OOJ to $4,000 Won
| by lawyers. not by conducting, but by
| avoiding, litigation. In FACE, it IS aN-
! parent that moe money is made now
! aAays bv LAWYERS who settle cases out OF
court than hy those who put their clients
! to the expense OF litigation.
TIL; late census states the number of
! Americans from the United States rcsld-
ing in Fran to be 1924, of whom up
! wards Of two-t thirds are domlclIcd i'll the
! Department Of the Srinc. Next III order
| follow the Department Of the BASES s
| PvrcnceS, with $50; Apes Naritimcs,
$50; Girondc, o1o; Seine ct Oi>c 1862;
Bouchcs -du Khone, 81: Seine lnIc'lcure,
no. In some Of the central departments,
few, ii any, Americans are to be found.
; The proportion Of sexes is 100 women to
| % men.
SOMEBODY has discovered that church
! slcepincss is to be explained on scientific
! principles 1t is, in fact, a condition Of
| hyppotism, and SO far from indicating IN
attention to the sermon, shows rather
complete absorption by it. Fixing ones
| mind on the voice of the minister, III the
! otherwise complete silence Of the audi
! cncc -room produces ju-t the conditions
necessary to domination by another 5
| mind, and the nodding head and droop-
ING heavy cyelids are not eloquent OF tie
! preachers dizziness, but rather mute testi-
! monials of his powerful influence.
SOMETHING much akin to CONSERVATION
has been created throughout Greece by
the Issue of warrants f + the arrest OF
several members Of the national legisla-
ture on charges of completely in the acts
of brirunlage which are now mOnopolz-
ing the attention Of the Hellenic govern
ment. Que Of the most prominent sup
porters of NJ. Delyannis, namely, NJ.
Talks, representing the district of Trik-
kala in parliament, has already been
lodged in jail, and it is expected that he
will shortly be joined there by several Of
his colleagues who ure accused of being
in league with the TIIessalan banditti.
RECENT discoveries in Egypt and
Chaldca, says Mr., Boscawcn, indicate
that, although the monuments there carry
US back about 5000 years before the
Christian era, they do net constitute the
| o,,. e I,