The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-10-06

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NOTES AND COMMENTS.
We now have seventy new ships of
: war built or building.
The bee industry employs 100000
persons, and the revenue from it is
? about $20,OOO,0OO a year.
The kangaroos, which used to be a
plague in Australia, are now getting
so scarce that it pays to raise them
in herds.
The wheat crop this year of one state
Of the union, Kansas, was worth more
than all the gold product of South At
RIGA for twelve months. e
The Chinese, like the Beers, began
preparing for war several years before
they began it. Both acted upan ia
miliar and we'll established maxim.
The United States last year export
ed more meat products, leaving out
| sheep and mutton, than all the rest of
| the world combined. The amount was
nearly 2OO,OOOOOO, and the great prod
acts of Indian corn are the foundation
Of the trade.
Women delegates appeared for the
FIRST time in both national conventions
this year. Is this case where a TWEEN
tieth century event casts its shadow
before?
The Journal of Commerce shows that |
the fire losses for the first six months |
of the year foot up $1O3, 29S, 300 in the
United States and Canada. For the first
six months of 1899 the total was $685.
&C., $50. The increase, it will be seen,
Is something appalling.
: In San Diego County. Cal, recently
there died at the great age of 1873 years
Augustine, chief of the Sequoia tribe
of Indians. He had ruled the tribe
over one hundred years, and in all that
time lad never been incapacitated by
sickness for more than one day at a
time.
A new summer charity has been in
troduced by Jewish women. of Cincin-
natl, who furnish free trolley rides for
convalescents among their sick poor.
In many cases such ride affords the
single opportunity of the year to see
open fields and wide horizons, and is
said to be Of incalculable medicinal
value.
In railroad mileage the United States .
has 1892 per cent. of all the railroads
Of the world, or 1S6,245 miles out of
q total of 466,539 miles. This is 49,
1856 miles more than all Europe, 7,251
miles more than all Europe and Africa
and 4,245 miles more than all Europe !
and Australasia.
London promises soon to have ;.
greater number of fine. collections of
lrt than any other city of the world.
rhe latest addition to these palaces of
irt is the Wallace collection at Hert- :,
ord House, which has been opened to u
he public. 1t includes paintings, por-
.elains and other objects of art, many
f which are priceless because of their
.reat rarity.
The gypsies of the United States held q
three days convention in St Joseph, st
Itch, the other day, and it is said to III
ave been the first National conven- Ill
ion ever held by them in the country. L
here was lively struggle in the Sc W
ection of chief. The balloting lasted II
II one day, and Gene Fernando of In l.
lana was elected by two-thirds vote Sc
yer Gala Marcule of Kentucky. Sc
Canada is now to have the honor of at
the longest bridge span in Oh
lie world The new bridge is to cross Ill
lie ST. Lawrence at Quebec. 1t will III
e of the cantilever type, and not the M
The central span will be l. tia
10 feet, as opposed to the 1000 of the
rooklyn bridge and the LOO feet of
lie Forth bridge, in Scotland. The fo
ork will cost $4,5O0,O00, and it is an wi
her triumph for American engineer sit
g enterprise that the contract has bu
zen let to an American concern. col
ca,
The illiteracy of Russia exceeds that Wis
any other country claiming to have pa
civilized government. In 10000 vii aD
ges of the vast empire there is not tio
school, and it is estimated that not ga
yenty per cent. of the population of bu
e empire has acquired even the rudi- the
ants of a common school education. 1t tln
S been figured out that if the cZar VII
ould disband 100000 men Of the vast ma
my he would thereby save money ant
ough to provide a school or each of boy
csc villages. the
ter
The comment of the experts In the but
rman newspapers regarding the De
ppelin airship is rather unfavorable. Ii
e general verdict is that it lacks boy
Eye witnesses pointed
t the fact that it was impossible for
, airship, acting under the most ia
rable winds and conditions, to re- 8"
n to the starting point. The ex- pro