The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-09-24

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! Austria there should be but single
society, and no attention paid to the
utilities of the bird In It's relation 70
| army movements. The routes OF flight
| followed In Germany by the Military
| Carrier-pigeon Society are laid down
every year by the Prussian Ministry OF
| War. Flights take place from Linz,
| st. Polten, Vienna and Budapest for
training the birds, which are sent
In truckloads from Cologne. Over one
hundred and seventy societies take
part. German officers are specializing
as to what use, If any, will be made OF
pigeons by American military author
! tiles in the coming Cuban campaign.
When the Dolphin bombarded and
| wrecked a Spanish railroad train In
Cuba she revealed new possibilities OF
naval warfare. To students of history
she recalled another historical incl
dent of a precisely opposite sort. In
January, 1895. body of French cavai-
ry and artillery galloped over the ice
| of the Zuyder Zee and captured fleet
of English naval vessels that were
locked up there by the frost. This IS
the only instance in history In which
a cavalry force has assailed and cap
tured a naval squadron. On the other
| hand the Dolphin performance is the
/ only instance in history in which a
warship has attacked and destroyed
a railroad train. The legend of the
"horse marines" Is after all not so alb
surd as it might seem.
Imagine a people taxed at the rate
| of GO cents on the dollar of their in
comes. 1t is not that the income tax
is put at that figure, but it is so large
that the enormous indirect taxation
makes up the difference. According
to the "Statesman's Year Book" the
Italian income tax varies greatly in
its incidence. Income from personal
property pays 20 per cent, while in
the case of industrial and commercial
incomes, the tax is so per cent. That
is to say, merchant or a manufacture
er is expected to give UP half his in
come to the Government. Italy is not
rich country. It's principal industry
is agriculture, and yet in 1896 its 2S,-
600, 200 of population were taxed to
make up the Government revenue OF,
in round figures, $360,000,O00, as COM
pared with 1920, 976 200 raised for the
same year in the United States with
100000 population and the richest
: territory in the world.
The Dry Goods Economist says: II
our Uncle Samuel has got to pick out
"best girl. among the sister nations
i of Europe, we cannot help approving
his choice of Britannia She is lady
9 of great strength of mind and body
) of honesty and good reputation, and
I seems to have tastes more akin to
those of Uncle Sam in regard to com,
( mercial, social, religious and other i'm
) portant matters than any other; but
/ even with Britannia we urge that he
3 should have only platonic friendship
no marrying none of the with
) all my ships and men l thee endow.
> There might come up quarrels IN
, which it would be our uncle's duty to
, take off his coat and make common
. cause with his close friend, but, on
the other hand, Britannia is liable to
have lot of troubles of her own with
, her sisters in which our beloved uncle
should carefully guard his right tt
: stand aloof. If some such contract as
! this can be drawn we are heartily II
l favor of it.
q 1t has been popularity supposed thai
: the gypsies of Europe, like the Indians
of North America, were becoming an
8 extinct race; and the conditions Of
s their existence are not such as would
e seem to assure longevity. But a re-
' Gently published official report of the
/ English Government shows that the
number of gypsies in England, so fal
from declining, is actually on the In
crease, and the same is true of some
q other European countries from which
. figures are at hand. By an authentic
computation made recently, there are
, $4,000 gypsies in Great Britain, 7,OO(
q more than at the time of the last pre-
, vious enumeration, though, perhaps
. that may have been somewhat imper
! feet. There are in the whole OF Europe
nearly threequarters of a million o
! gypsies, the figures being; Grea
Britain, $4,000; Spain, 900; Russia
$4,000; Germany, $4,000; and Austria
Turkey and the Balkan countries 200,
a 600 each. In the United States Their
are few gypsies, for the reason, per
haps, that they meet with great com
3 petition in the pursuits which in Euro
pean countries furnish them witt
their revenue-fortune-telling, divina
! ton and sooth-saying.
= His Secret of Perpetual Health.