The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-07-28
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

NOIES AND COMMENTS.
Minnesota's schools cost about S.
100000 annually, and that is one thir
= Of the money raised by taxes in tn
d State.
n In Chicago it is proposed to pass a
l. ordinance regulating street car traffi
h in which the main feature shall be IN
l. seat no fare"
t. President Eliot of Harvard said re
e Gently that greater proportion of Har
: ward men were going into journalism
and literature than into any other bust
ness or profession, except possibly tn
, law. "And it is good place for then
to CO." he added.
A will has just turned up In Della
ware after having been hidden on,
hundred and twentyfour years. Here
is the most successful effort on record
to dodge a contest.
The word Observation-Disclosures
has ceased to be the longest word in
the English language, as a new Ok
ford dictionary will contain the word
"nonintercommunicab
An electric railway is projected be-
tween Brussels and Antwerp. 1t will
be twenty-four miles long, and the dis,
lance is to be traversed without STOP
pages in twenty minutes.
So the Kaiser has dismissed his bar
Der. 1t is reported that the royal mus
tache no longer f1aunts fiercely. A ma
tional style in lip-thatch is about to be
changed, and all because of the uppish-
ness of single mental. This Is indeed
an era of the bigness of small things.
That VladivostocK is becoming a
modern city is shown by a statement
from Consul Greener that a twenty
five mile trolley road, electric light
works, on which American contractors
might bid, are about to be established
there.
The Glasgow municipality found that
its horse cars cost seventeen cents
car a mile to operate, and the receipts
were twenty-three cents. Since the in
PRODUCTION of electric traction the cost
Of running has been reduced to thir-
teen cents and the receipts have risen
to twenty-eight cents a car mile.
Few persons appreciate the enormous
addition now being made to the navy
OF the United States. Over sixty war
vessels are being constructed, and some
of them are approaching completion.
The cost of these will be over $780,
100000. These vessels, when COM
pleted, will just about double the size
and strength of the American Navy.
Japan at present has 10000 schools of |
all sorts, maintained at an annual out
lay of about $S,OOO,OOO. The number
of graduates is 100000. The number |
of pupils of both sexes about 5,OOO,-
600. About two-thirds of the total pop-
ulation of school age are receiving tut
ton after the model of the school sys-
tenn of the United States.
Consul Barelman, of Malaga, Spain.
called attention to the renewed COM
a1ercial activity in Spain, as evinced
by the newly constructed and project
ed railways, nearly 200 miles having
been built on six new roads and ten
others being projected. in addition to
having been granted for
fourteen trolley roads.
Some of the big western railroads
ire planning to greatly extend the
movement inaugurated years ago to
row timber for their own use. While
is the motive behind this,
he railroads being enormous consum- |
rs of timber, the scheme is none the {
esS cOmmendable, observes the Amer I
can Cultivator. The rapid destruc-
ion of our natural forests, not only in
he northwest, but also in the middle
outh, calls for persistent and intelli-
ent effort to build up new ones, and {
very legitimate enterprise in this di- t
ection should be encouraged. t
The plan of bringing 1,5O0 Cuban 4
rhool-teachers to the United States t
uring the summer is one of the most !
dmirable educational measures that S
ere ever conceived thinks the Now II
ork Post. 1t is proposed to take them h
Cambridge, Mass, where Harvard \
University has promised to furnish L
lem free instruction at summer Il
'hool, and to board and lodge the Il
nall army for six weeks. 1t Is de- o
red to supplement this work with an r
)portunity to see something of the II
'untry, by taking the teachers on an Il
lcursion, first to Chicago, then to Il
ashingtOn finally to New York City IL
r their return voyage c.
IN
For a trifle over $1,000, If he use ST
'od Judgment in making his bar fl
inns, man can get himself prac- CT
ally made over His outfit of arti-
iality will include: New hands and
ct, new arms and legs, nose, a wig,
pair of eyes, pair of ears, thirty-two
eth, ear-drums, a tube for the wind as
pc and few incidentals. To be ~
act, this outfit would cost S1.O45 IL til
ocured at the best advantage. 1t Is HI
rious to reflect that to keep whole al