The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1896-10-22
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Illal report shows that the number OF
railway employees killed during the
year ending June 80, 1885 was 1911,
and the number injured was 21,696
These figures compared with those OF
the previous year shows Il decrease OF
twelve in number Killed. and an in .
crease of 2,2Il in the number injured.
The number of passengers killed was
17u. the number injured. 2315. These
figures give for the year a decrease of i
/ 1Ji in the number killed and 6o9 in the
| number injured. The number OF pas
! SpngrrS killed is remarkably small. The
! smallest number killed in any of the
preceding seven years was 2SG. IN lN'W
! One pmploye was killed for each A33
employed. and one employe was injur-
cd for each thirty-One employed. Or
the class of employees known as train
! men, that is. eng gInCerS. IreEtn. con-
, ductOrS and other employees whose ser
vice is upon trai:2s, it appears that one
was killed for each ~ in service, and
one injured for each P4pVen in service.
The number Of passengers carried for
each passenger killed during the year
was 1854 S. and the number carried
for each passenger injured was 2i3.G0l
The liability of passengers to accident
is better shown in the fact that 1885,
743 passenger miles were accomplished
for every passenger killed,and5 5,13l,9T
passenger miles for every passenger in
jured. A comparative statement shows
that considerable advance was made
during 1893 in respect to railway casu-
alties. 1t is suggested that beneficial
results were derived from the fitting
of cquipment with automatic appll-
anccS as we'll as from the r"i~ing Of the
character of railway service and grade
Of railway equipment, first noted in the
last report.
. The Boston Transcript notes the fact,
which may not be known to some Of
our readers, that in no less than seven
, ! teen of the states a voter need not be a
: citizen of the United States. These
r states are Alabama, Arkansas, Colo
y RADIO, Florida. Indiana, Kansas, Louis
f lana. Michigan, Minnesota. Missouri,
e Nebraska. New Jersey, North Dakota,
8 Oregon, South Dakota. Texas, and Wis
/ consin in the larger number of these
0 states it is only necessary that one has
s declared his intention to become cll-
r, zen, and he can vote at the presidential
/ election the same as the American who
Il can trace his ancestry back to the first
; white settlers in America In few OF
s the states there is some additional re
y quiremcnt. In Florida the W0uld-be
, voter must have paid 4 capitatiOn tax
81 for two years: in Indiana he must have
4 resided in the Cnited States one yeal
- and in the state six months subseQuen
-. to declaration; in Michigan it is neceS
-, sary to have made declaration sly
. months before election and to have
- lived in the state Two years and half
u in Missouri the alien must have leclaI
n ed his intention not less than one yea
j. or more than five before offering t.
r. vote: in New Jersey declaration mus
le have been made thirty days prior t.
N election: and in North Dakota and Ore
le gon declaration must have been mad
ct one year before election.
d. knowledge comes. but wisdom liz
tI gers, so far as the application of SC
~ ence to the art of keeping cool is col
cerned. The supplying Of heat is nov
a great business. and the appliances fo
this purpose have attained Il very hig
degree of perfection. But when
re comes to supplying cold, we are yer
II backward The electric fans do goo
~ service, but after all what they do
,' not to cool the air, but only to stir 1t u
~ Nothing is more primitive than the &c
- lection of ice in winter and its diStI
n. button in summer. 1t Is HNrrSSlV'I
nd wasteful and extremely inconvenlen
,o The problem of cooling and drying a
Of is very simple. Our men OF srlen'
cn know how to do it, and the machlnel
lot REQUIRED could easily be constructs
ur The accommodations provided +
is dead cattle could certainly be adaptt
lot 10 the use of live men. When we co
rty slider the enormous eXpendlturN OF TIN
and money involved i'll conveying n
ac- man beings to places where they G;
Gle enjoy cool air, it is difficult to hPlle
ent that there is not Il forum" waiting [
yer the man that shall attack the probe
' ill., on the opposite side. and convey t
'ie cool air to human beings.
ist,
we Professor Ball, the astronomer roy
ar of Ireland and one of the most popul
no. astronomical writers in Great Brlta
un- has lust finished a curious calculate
Of on the distance to the nearest OF
ne fixed stars" The calculation was
spired by a visit to one of the gre
Lancashire thread factories. The
perintendent of one of the factories
spected by the astronomer inform
me the star-gazer that the combined o
ian put of the various Lancashire thre
all factories was 155.OOO,O0O miles
The thread per day! Those figures W.
ngs certainly enough to astonish anyo
nen unless it should be an astronomer. t
al fessor Ball has long since passed
ter point where he expresses surprise a
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