The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1897-11-13
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

After all it isn't so very felhafhao,o 81
chat a Chicago man who recently y
failed for 81 900, 900 should have y
"kept all his accounts in his head. 4
His creditors are now seeing dividends !
Sin their minds. "
Imnroved sanitation, including clean
streets. has reduced the mortality rate L
in New York from 81 Is per thousand
in 1891 to 10. So in 1897. The rate IN
London has been reduced to IL. 20 by s
similar measures covering longer
period.
Tn England it was stated at a meet
| ing of farmers that one acre uhoei 4
rloss exceeded 100 acres III producing
profit. and that the labor anu eose
was no greater in proportion to area
than for 100 acres, excepting the OH
ginal cost of the glass and hXtufes'
Paris has voted 100000, 900 to the
Exnosition of 1900, or more than
double the amount appropriated iot
Its last exhibition. Two great palaces
will be erected in the Champs Elysees'
and the Seine, crossed by monu-
mental bridge, is to be transformed
into a Venetian. canal, with terraced
hanks and ornamental payilions.
An old colorod woman, former
slave. who died the other day IN oak
land, CAL, was commonly reputeo 10
be 102 wears old, and the death GER
tif;cate so stated, but documentary
nroof has since been produced show
mo that she was only eighty-sl1'
MANY other reputed centenarlans
t might suffer equal deductions IN years
Il tbe truth could be established as
3 easily.
eft is a remarkable fact" says
contributor to knowledge, LONDON
.stbot the two countries which are now
+ competing most keenly with us IN the
industrial race-especialiy IN those
DEPARTMENTS allied to engineering
o are Germany and the United otates
two which have for many years pceh
in the van in the matter OF providing
facilities for education in matters per
tanning to the industrial arts.
I'll According to an estimate in the Sun
as ,lorgymen in preaching average apou
30 words minute, campaign speaker
ITO. and senators in debate from ~ ~
10 10 800. Very rapid readers find DIM
,nlty in uttering intclligently SO man.
en- - 975 words a minute. And yet
as story is going the rounds about
stenoerapher who is able to write Az
vords in go seconds. But OF VIVA
oractical use is such excessive rapldlty
To what extent fogging is still to
y grated by English law IS shown =
-. certain prison returns inst presente
--' n Parliament, from which 1T woul
,nnear that no less than sixteen hui
.ss bred foggings per annum take pia'
in the local and convict prisons OF u
United Kingdom. Besides thes
!, 7 there are six hundred and seven
In. 1oggings a year in the military p
sons which means that the hoggin
If soldiers belonging to the Britt
,rmv average nearly two day
Not in years has there been su
strife among the big cities, east a
cad west. for commercial supremacy. n
and York. Chicago, Philadelphia o
cry Baltimore are all striving to get
business of interior merchants O
shippers of farm produce. rms en-
alb yetic competition among the ira
.anters must prove Indirectly help
king - the farmer. because it means
Fora ;her whiting down OF mioaieihe
pio- expenses and freights on what
:. farmer has to buy and has to sell.
The indispensable character
nany of the mighty modern engl
i 90 # war has been forcibly illustrate
vour connection with the late man oeu,
Of the British feet. Both the N
. for md the Terrible, the former n
II the ster of $4,000 tons, were sudde
placed entirely out of the range OF
lion by trouble with their high p
o.,.;c snre cylinders. The truth is
.;me oaval construction at the present
,nds.n is largely in an experimental ST
.ctiye. We have discarded sails and we
their not depend on our engines.
lelting .;.l 5obt dur,np the
lanu' Ave wears in England shows an
ace daily increase of nearly SlOo,
from Dnrino the same period the nat
debt Of the United States SHOW
id you average daily increase OF more
s125. 600. Frances debt incre
n IS 500, Oo0 daily, Germany's debt
Ell IN, me $3.50, 900, while that of Russia = ;.
GU n'' daily growth of not less than :
MOO Frances national debt tod
the largest, heading the list
nderfui s6. 900, 600, 900. Russia comes
then Great Britain and then Gerr
ZONE ssThe East does not know,
the Denver Republican. land WI
to sing believe that Colorado is golt
ducing State, except IN moo
ompani- way. Above all, it does not
that it will surpass California
wear. and that in the course OF
he inn years it will go ahead OF the han
thing at trict in South Africa. Poop
n down ready enough to believe stories
discovery of almost fabulous wei
you the Yukon Valley, but they
to him? deaf ear to the statement that
not your rsdo is one of the greatest g
gions N the world.
Ireland of prehistoric times '
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