Natchitoches populist., 1898-07-29


expect to see with earrings, yet ever!
cow in Belgium must wear them now
The Director General of Agriculture
has issued regulation that all ami
mails Of the bovine species are to veal
earrings as soon as they have attained
the age of three months.
1t is interesting to know just at thii
time that in the United States Senate
there are twelve Senators who served
in the Union Army, and twelve who
served in the Confederate Army. There
are ffty-seven Representatives who
served in the Union Army and thirty
who are ex-Confederates.
AS a business where fortunes are
sunk the bicycle-making industry is
now making reputation only equalei
by its early record of fortune-building
The securities of bicycle tire companies
which are dealt in on the London Elk.
change, having par value of $50, ,000,,
600, and market value of 41,175 00(
a year ago, are now quoted at S15,27
coo. If less money had been made in
the early days Of the industry through
undue exactions, less money would
have been lately lost in it.
0thello's record has been dug up In
Venice by gentleman named Cesare
Augusta Levi. Signor Levi is nuis-
ance. He discovers and proves by
documentary evidence which the Lon
don Telegraph accepts: First-That
0thello did not kill his Desdemona
Second--that her name was not Des-
demona, but Palma. Desdemona gone
to join William Tell and all the other
fakes. Too bad, exclaims the New
York Journal. It is about time fo1
some one to prove that there is some
truth in some one of the things that
we have always believed.
The Pomological Society of Southern
California has decided that the navel
orange is the most profitable orange
This is simply reiteration of what a
large number of growers have discoy-
cred by practical experience. Nothing
will convince man who has once eat
en- a seedless orange that any variety
which contains seeds is as good. II
will soon be The same with the grape
The seedless varieties are as sweet and
nutritious as any others and they have
the great advantage of no corrosive
seeds to spoil the enamel of the teeth
or subject one to danger of appendi-
citis.
California Is preparing to establish
! at st. Helena an experiment station
and school of instruction in the graft
ing and planting of vines. Three acres
| Of land will be devoted to the work.
Professor Hayne, who lis in charge OF
the work, has sent to France for $500
cuttings, 1000 of the Rupestris st.
George, and $500 assorted varieties.
These will be grated and planted in
nursery, and by the cutting method a
crop can be secured the third leafng.
Free instruction is to- be given in
| grating, so that the great demand for
men expert al. this work may be sup
piled to the vineyard owners of the
State.
The Philippines, now under the con-
troll of the United States navy, is won
derfully rich In natural resources
which are still largely undeyeloped.
Enormous quantities of tobacco, hemp,
sugar cane, coffee and cocoa are pro-
dueed, a considerable part of which is
shipped to the United States The
value of all imports from the Philip
pines fluctuates widely between $1,000
900 and $1600o,00O annually. This ex-
tensive group OF islands in the Pacific
ocean, several hundred miles southeast
of the coast eff China, is said to con-
tain about 100000 square miles, with
population estimated as high as TO-
100000. There are three seasons; a
cold season from November to March,
hot season from March to June, and a
rainy season from June to November.
The shifting of places of several
British Ambassadors has called atten-
tion afresh to some features of the
British diplomatic service, especially
to the handsome rate at which the rep
resentatives of the Empire are paid for
their services. The Ambassador at
Paris, for example, gets $4,000 a year;
at Berlin, Constantinople and Vienna,
each, $4,000; at st. Petersburg, $780,
600; ait Rome, S35 900: at Washington,
$50, $500; at Madrid. $27, 500; at Peking
and Teheran, each, $4,000: at Toxic,
$4,000; at The Hague, $4,000; at
Athens, Sill, 400, and at Stockholm and
Copenhagen, each, $4,000. Now, these
sums are not merely in payment for
the Minister'S services. They are like
wise to enable them to represent their
Government In hehttlng style and 10 do
tas most esfeoslYe weFk In its behalf.