The Louisiana populist., 1897-09-17
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

tpf thlN Ntut about VI tliC VA-
tire output are women. Fifty years
ago only about half of one per cent.
of college graduates were women.
Queen Victoria has thirty great
grandchildren, all of whom are living,
aud nineteen of the number are boys.
Matronly honors are gathering also on
the Queens Oldest daughter, the En-
press Frederick, who has seventeen
grandchildren.
Kansas boasts that it had a hail
storm the other day in which the hail
stones We're as large as ostrichs eggs,
and it is said that one enterprising
farmer filled his cellar with the stones,
covered them with sawdust, and will
sell them to families that need ice.
The proudest man in the State of
Washington at the latest mail advices
was Mr.. j. r. Know, of Latah, Spo-
kane county, to whom four children
has been born. One Of them is a boy
and him the happy father has named
Rogers, after the Governor of the
State.
| A recent statement, based on good
authority, aflirms that between twenty
five and thirty million birds are annu-
ally imported into England alone for
decorative purposes, and that the sup.
ply for Europe requires not less than
one hundred and fifty million. Add
ing fifty million for America it makes
total of some two hundred million
birds sacrificed annually on the altar
of fashion.
The recent Danubian floods have
apparently been as destructive as those
of the Mississippi, and left as many
| people homeless. Twenty thousand
inhabitants of Galatz, in Moldavia,
have been drowned out by the deluge,
the severest recorded in that region
within the century. With its tale Of
! earthquake and flood and various
forms of calamity and ruin around the
world, the current year has taken a
prominent place, but has several
months left in which to redeem its
reputation. It is quite time it set
about it.
! Up to the year 1904 the Bible had
only been translated into thirty Ian.
guages. Most of these, besides the
English, were dead languages. But
now, by the latest statistics, the mum
ber of versions of the Scriptures in
existence in 1895 is 381, so that the
Bible within about ninety years has
been translated into some $50 Ian
guages. These translations comprise
those Of all the great non-Christiar
nations, so that nine-tenths of the
world now have the Scriptures in theil
own tongue.
Thanks to the encouragement which
Emperor William has accorded to the
practice of duelling, it is now being
adopted by the medical profession ii
Germany. A couple of physician:
summoned in consultation became in
| volyed at the bedside of the patient III
SO vehement dispute with regard tt
the character of the malady and of it,
treatment that they concluded to fgh'
the matter out The conflict tool
place on the outskirts of Bonn, on thu
Rhine, one of the combatants, DIR.
Fischer, receiving bullet in the chest
which killed him instantly. This may
be said to constitute an altogether new
departure in what is known to layme1
as medical etiquette.
The French parricide, who slew hi
father and mother and was asked upo1
condemnation what he had to say VIII,
sentence should not be pronounced
upon him, entreated the Court to hav,
mercy upon poor orphan. This tai,
is green with the moss OF ages ant
may not be true, but something like j
is true of a woman named Marie Gel
vet, recently sentenced by Paris tri
bunal to twenty years Imprisonment
at hard labor for the murder of he.
sister. While in court she constantl,
wore d long crepe veil. "Why dt
you wear this veil?" asked one of tn,
officials, to which she replied that sh'
was in mourning for her sister. Show
ing an affectionate sensibility, th
earlier exhibition Of which, however
would have been more becoming t,
her even than the garment.
w. Bokaseff, of Russia, is thu
quoted in The Washington Post: 'f
have come to America to study you
methods of farming and dairy bust
ness, and especially to look into tn
cultivation of the sunfower plant il
this country, I am a sunfower far
mer at my home in Russia. One o
my family was the first person in Rus
sia to obtain oil from the seed OF tn
sunfower. It is one of the leadin
agricultural industries in the Czar'
dominions now, and the people cal
clear more money from it than an,
other crop. Ii the soil and clinlati
conditions are right in the Unite'
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