The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1899-02-11
NOTES AND COMMENTS

most DrOUIdUlc ihAoSeAS |
what's better, she has q cihcn ~ Il
II is absolutely secure from compel" D
ton. o
rho naonle who dined around MI.
Actor,s big tree will observe ina. ui,s c
ao,,,,+rv can furnish Europe Win Ine
table as well as the things " p"'
II.
Tho latest quotation for breach o.
nromise of marriage is $12,ooo.
Is cbean enough for tri1ing Win Que
affections. but so long as the tyrant
man monopolizes the jury DoA II i'n
likely to average much mgner.
American manufacturers are prepar-
ing to spend thousands in displaying
their wares at the Paris exposition. Al
paris tbe goods will be seen chiefly Dy
inhabitants Of European manu1actul
| ing countries. Expositions IN SCUM
| Africa. South America, Australia, ASH
| ond other countries where there are
| markets to win are the places Wnere
our manufacturers should not laia "
show themselves.
A Swiss anthropologist, on his return
from Patagonia, brought home Win
him a complete collection OF Patago-
MAN skulls, and when the CUSTOM
house proposed to tax them, on the Va
ais of animals bones imported as ma
nure. he protested that this was an ID
suit to humanity. To his surprise nus
objection was listened to, and ne re-
ceived a receipt for the duty charged
nnon a higher SCALE with the skulls en-
tered as returned emigrants' worn FL
1 fects."
: The activity of France in Africa has
: been increasing during the last three
Q or four wears. There are millions OF
. miles of territory as yet unannexeo'
Q and France is seeking to get the non
Y share of it. Explorers and sololers
L are now engaged in an effort to gam
+ additional territory which will be val
l. uable when the dark continent be
r. comes light. At every turn, however
p France finds England, and this Is the
40 cause of the trouble between the tive
countries.
It seems little odd that, IN mat
ter like water piping, British manufac
ed turers should be exposed to America
NV competition. A few months ago tn
an Glasgow corporation bought 1000 ton
,as of water-pipe in this country, as tn
&c. price was IS ton less than the natl'
m article, making a neat little diferent
for of $1,000 Bids for a second supp
hs have lately been received, and the al
ference has been reduced from SOU
toS5OO. The Commute hesitated whet
or to contribute that sum to the su
Sa- port of home industries. In tram cal
rvs too, American competition is strong
OF felt.
80 In New Zealand the legislative
10 . sembly has passed bill providing
',,uv pensions for persons over sdxty-n
aors years of age. The pension amour
only to 500 a year, or about Sl.E
week, and no one who has an inco
Inc" of over IS a week or property wo
K on more than Sl'ioo VIII NC eni ~,
"yel- it. Again, % OF the pension WIN
oked deducted for every SIS income whic
pensioner may receive from OF
. sources. There are certain other q
ifications, among them twenty ye'
residence in the colony and ten ye
exemplary conduct, which shuts
-, =. the vagrant and the drunkard.
exist Massachusetts presents the most
me of structiye and accurate Industrial sts
tics Of any State in the Union.
from striking fact in the labor census
have the decade from 1885 to 1895 is TIL
the manufacturing establishment
II Massachusetts have been run 10
n full capacity in 1895 they would
nroduced almost exactly twice
much as they did, and in 1880
would have produced nearly twlc
much as they did. That Is to say
ran to 59.2 per cent. Of their fuii CT
inv IN 1885. and to only sos per
3S:JS in 1895; and then they were tro'
S.RS by market gluts. Nothing couid
nv strikingly show the extent to "
production or investment In produ
processes has outrun consumptloI
Numismatists in England are
at pro- interested in the recent discover
"a men. ancient Venetian coins in proxlm
proof: one of the Mashonaland rivers.
can / coins in question have, in the
n have time. been sent down to Natal
, you / submitted to expert scrutiny at I
lime Of maritzburg, with the result that
4 head Of the originals are to be sent
at tired London. The coins are declared
ything. medals struck at Venice between
ydia E. and 1877 A. D. On one side Is
nd, one of st. Mark, with the inscrl
I Liver ssThis Dukedom be Thine, y
,son.s ! and the giver be Thine; while
D suffer reverse are three figures. two
ny who kneeling position, the other vi
nplaints with a halo, on which the inscl
advice. is: 1.-The Doge Alloys Mocengo
!, Wis. magistrate of Venice"
a.. California man has invel
n;oh sbs "health shake" or invigoratini
non Ting machine, which is warrar
- provide in Ten minutes all the e
Nh a man needs in a day. The cal
for a general shake-up stands
oscillating platform, and, wher
ready, the current is turned o
n OF dys. a DYNAMO. The intensity OF