The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-09-22

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sudden!
| The Japanese Government has IS
med an order restricting emigration Of
Der people to the United States
Bank deposits in Montana have more
than doubled in six years, while In
Wyoming they have trebled.
China proper has an area Of 1886, S41
square miles, with n population, ac-
cording to a recent estimate, Of $780,
100000.
Austria Is the country most lenient
TO murderers. In ten years over 800
persons were found guilty of murder,
Of whom only twenty-three were put
to death.
The poets have been officially noti-
aed by the Partisan astronomer, Able
Mareux, that 1t will not be in good
form this year to use the smile ''as
spotless as the sum-"
A physician vindicates matrimony.
He has investigated 800 cases of bald
ness in men, and finds that the trouble
prevails to greater extent with
bachelors than married men.
Now that the world has ceased to
wonder over the Roentzen X-ray and
Marconfs wireless telegraphy it is
time for some new electrician to come
| to the front with another discovery.
1t is interesting to note that not so
long ago, in County Donegal, Ireland,
the market price for knitting a pair of
cocks used to be one penny, and w0-
men worked cheerfully for that sum.
Although Canada's situation among
the principal wheat-producing coun-
tries, with respect to quantity, is hum
BILE, with respect to quality 1t is high.
The output is also increasing steadily.
The highest court Of appeal in Great
Britain has sustained the decision that
a circulating library can be held pecu-
niarily responsible for libelous state
ments contained in any Of the volumes
which it circulates.
The people Of st. Louis expect to
spend ON their Exposition the same
amount of money ($12,OOO,OOO that
was paid for the Louisiana Territory
In 1SO3-an area of 1,1S2,755 square
miles.
Germany seems to lead the nations
in higher education. In that country
one man in 213 goes to college; in
Scotland, one In $50; In the United
States, one in 1000, and in England,
one in 5000.
During the past year the University
Of Pennsylvania received endowments
amounting to $9OO,OoO; but Washing
ton University, st. Louis, had already
received this year $3,OOO,OOO, and the
endowment is an unconditional one.
A fine Of $50 has been imposed on
Mr.. Roberts of Utah, convicted of hav-
ing one wife more than the law allows.
This puts polygamy out there on
cash basis, and the price fixed for a
plural marriage cannot be called high.
Under the French law a girl may
aot marry until she is over fifteen
years old, and a man until he Is more
than eighteen. Men under twenty
ave and women under twenty-one
must have the consent of their fathers
and mothers.
In Texas, Mississippi and Georgia
the convict lease system has been var
led in favor of convict farms operated
BY the State. This has resulted in
profit to the State without appreciably
Injurious competition against private
agriculture.
England is looking up new names
for its Boer conquests. Chamber
lainia" and "Robertsland" are sug-
sested by the st. James's Gazette,
which, however, would prefer some
thing made up from the name Of the
future ruler Of England, Edward VII.
The Tennessee State Board of
Health has adopted resolutions declar
ing tuberculosis a contagious and in
fictitious disease, and directing that all
inmates of State institutions afflicted
with it be isolated in rooms or wards
yet aside for such patients.
Now is the time when the life saving
crews at the various seaside resorts
must be alert, for fools will persist in
going beyond the breakers and the life
lines, just to show how ''nervy" they
are. They take their lives in their
hands when they do this, and then yell
.or help.
| age uOeS uOt WlthcI hui CuSlom
stale the absurd and archaic system
hat allows railway employees, espe-
.ially at this season Of the year, to
break and damage the trunks of pas ?
Iengers. Cannot some one frame q law
hat will make the companies quickly
liable? That is the only likely remedy.
The citizen of Springfield, ILL.,, who
ried to get the smallpox that he might
spread it around the town for the pur-
pose Of getting revenge. is to be isolat-
ID. That is unnecessary. The mere
act that he wanted to acquire the dis