The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1897-03-27

thirty-three times as much as he can
carry on his back. What the road trar-
fic of cities owes to the street railways
is illustrated by the computation that
on metal rails horse can draw one
and two-thirds times as much as on the
best asphalt pavement; four times as
much as on Belgian blocks, nine times
as much as on cobblestones, twenty
times as much as on an earth road. and
forty times as much as on sand"
The city authorities of Chicago have
issued permit for the building OF q
gospel ship in that city. 1t will be a
church in the form of ship with
masts, rigging and smokestack. Its
promoters have secured the lease Of
lot on Carroll avenue for its site. The
cost is s., 900, of which the greater part
has been pledged. The auditorium will
seat 500. The idea of ship will be
carried out by having smoke from the
smokestack during services, and the
presence of corps of naval cadets and
naval band. The sensational meth
DDS are simply to attract the people.
| Services will be held every evening,
and the ship will be open at all hours.
1t will be ready to SAIL about Jan. l.
| DIR. Abbott, the secretary OF the
Board of Health of Massachusetts,,
gives the bicycle long mark as rae
| tor in the improvement in the health
of Massachusetts women. He says that
| last year for the first time in the his
| tory of the State, there were FEWER
deaths by consumption of females than
! males. He gives the bicycle the credit
for the change. Bicycle-riding gets
women out-of-doOrs and strengthens
their lungs. Five years ago, about the
time bicycles began to be prevalent,
the annual rate of mortality among
i Massachusetts women by consumption
began to decrease, and has steadliy
diminished ever since.
ssEhe Boston Transcript thinks the
election Of Mckinley confirmation OF
the. old tradition that the American
people like their presidents to have only
one Christian name. The flrst nve
presidents had no middle name, and
when Mckinley is inaugurated he VIII
! be the seventeenth president WITHOUT
one. The list includes George wash
ington, John Adams, Thomas Jeffer-
son, James Madison, James Monroe
= Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren,
John Tyler, Zachary Taylor, Willard
Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James
Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew
, johnson, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin
Harrison.
Zone can't help observing with mucl
), satisfaction says w. III. Webster
/ that the bicycle has attracted tn
e favorable attention of the postal au
r thorities in European countries, nota
$ bly, England and Spain. The posta
Y folk at Washington are also investl
v eating the bicycle as means OF p0sta
+ delivery. and rather exhaustive ex
r periments will be made in this coun
# try next year. This is as it should OF
Il I think that the bicycle is destined
is be an important factor in the postal sci
II vice. and that, too before many year
d have passed. Its advantages are al
n parent to any one. who considers u
y subject"
: Spanish inefficieney has been show
: up in a ludicrous way by the recei
!" self-fioating of the new cruiser Pril
cess de Asturias at Cadtz. The We
sci, which it had taken seven years
!. !. build, got stuck in the mud when the
= tried to launch her, over month ag
= After trying their best to float her Wit
= out success for thirty days, the Spa
= ish engineers gave up the job, adoptir
. the usual Micawber policy of Spain,
waiting for something to turn up. The
le were justified by the cruisers slippir
Id into the water of her own accord OF
a afternoon when no one was watchir
IS, her.
p 1t having been stated lately In the =
10 glish papers that Queen Victoria d
been total abstainer for several veal
!" somebody has deemed it worth VIII
n to investigate the important matte
u and now this announcement is mad
- "Her Majesty drinks little wine, but
81 . o'clock lunch-which really cons
= tutes her dinner-her beverage IS
=, glass of weak Scotch whiskey and M
eral water. At dinner her Males
= does little more than merely touch
~ wine"