The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-07-21
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

The Dead Sen is soon to be trssersed
~ a steamboat line. The first vessel
las been purchased and will shortly
| ,egin running.
Baseball is good while it lasts. 1t
Keeps boy from smoking cigarettes
while he wears the cage over his coun-
| .enance.
Automobiles may crowd tire horse to
the wall, but so long as there ara wars
md sieges there will be demand for
The sage and succulent mIle.
A new American industry Is being
developed in Alaska. Toothpicks made
IF walrus whiskers are being shipped
n large quantities from that territory
10 Europe.
Paris Is having some difficulty In
regulating people who want to race
their automobiles. This problem will
soon be adding gray hairs to the head
Of the bicycle policeman in this coun-
try.
Several articles have recently ap-
peared in the magazines advocating
systematic physical exercise from earl
lest infancy. Wise parents have al
ways felt instinctively that romping
with the babies was beneficial to all
concerned. Now educators are trying
to devise a progressive system of ex-
ercises.
Emperor William has empowered
the Prussian Minister of Education,
DR.. Studt, to forbid hereafter the use
Of Latin in all university and faculty
degrees, assigning as reason the i'm
portance of more general use OF the
German tongue" An order to this ef-
feet has been issued.
In the book publishing industry this
country is rapidly crawling up on
Great Britain. In 1898 less than 5000
books were put on the market here.
In 1899, however, the output amounted
to 5000 new publications. In Great
Britain, during the same year, 7,249
books were published.
A woman lawyer of Chicago, in de-
tending a woman accused Of vagrancy,
contended that the charge was absurd,
as women were not intended to work.
She won her case. 1t was delightfully."-
characteristic, because counsel con-
tradicted her own plea. Unless, of
course, the practice of law is not work.
The growl Of the Ameer Of Afghan
lstan against the Indifference Of the
Government of India may be his way
Of demanding more bachsheesh. If
so, the demand is made at an inoppor-
tune time, for the Indian Government
has all it can do just now to provide
for the millions of ADMINISTRATOR
ryots who are dependent upon 1t for
support.
The fact that more than 100000
could be lost in the burning of a Mex
lean town of which the average Amer
lean had probably never heard must
cause an opening of eyes on the part
Of those who deem our next neighbOr
to be a land of poems and "greasers."
Two million dollar towns are worthy
of good places on any map.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has
decided, in reference to the Milwaukee
street car muddle, that the power Of
city council to grant street car fran
chises is not contractual but legisla-
tive. There Is n very important prin-
ciple involved here, for with the ac-
ceptance of this doctrine Is involved
limitation of franchises. A law can
be un-made or revoked by the success
sors of the legislators who enact 1t,
whereas a contract is binding upon
them.
If England has been slow to recog-
nize the serious nature of the invasion
of her markets by the American manu-
facturer, it cannot be denied that she
Is now acknowledging its success with
astonishing frankness, and probing
deeply into her own methods In the
search for the true cause of her fail
ure. The leading technical journals
have thrown open their columns for a
free discussion, both of the secrets of
American success and Of the apparent
inability of English manufacturers to
contend with it.
There has recently been published
In Germany an interesting book en-
titled "a Century Of Copper" which
shows that the United States now fur
nishes more than half of all the cop
per used in the world. While the pro-
duction has increased with great rapid
ity in other countries, in none has the
copper industry developed SO rapidly
as In the United States. In 1890 the
total value of copper manufactured
was only s., 349. 1902; I'm 1899 it had In
creased to So, 1883, $50. In 1890 we ex-
ported 20,237 400 pounds to foreign
countries. In 1899 we exported 3d.
9S7, 164 pounds.
John G. Brady, Governor Of Alaska,
who went to Washington in the inter
est of the Alaskan bill, said: 'The
want Of land-title laws has retarded
the growth of Alaska more than any
thing else. For instance, Alaska would
be glad to receive the large number of
immigrants who are coming from
Finland to this country. They are just
the kind Of people who would build up
Alaska. They would be at home In the
,lir IL kIo fhox,