The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-05-12

Ii mosquitoes are rcspOnSioic ioi
malaria, and rats for the plague, and
impure water for typhoid and cholera,
then the mosquito frame, the rat trap
and the filter are the emblems oil
health.
An automobile that cost when new
$4,000 sold at auction recently in Paris
for $13, 200, after making fast record.
1t appears, comments The Trotter and
PAGER, that developed speed is valu-
able in machines as we'll as in horses.
Army surgeons report that the Maui
ser bullet makes "a humane wound.
Few persons have been aware until
now that there could be wounds OF
that sort.
In Philadelphia the other day,
man fell down fight of steps and
fractured his skull from tripping on
dangling shoe-string. Never was
there a more striking illustration OF
the necessity of doing small things
we'll
DR.. Jameson, who led the famous
raid upon the Transvaal, must think
queer things when he reflects that he
once imagined that he could conquer
the Beers with force of 500 men.
Events have shown him to have been
the prize mis- calculator of the age.
The French Under-Secretary OF
State. who is responsible for the posts
and telegraphs, has, with view to
avoid the transmission Of infectious
diseases, just made an order that the
receivers and transmitters OF all
public telephones shall I've disinfected
daily by being washed with a strong
solution of carbolic acid.
The reforms promised in the British
army will be most effective if they in
clude the opening of the line and
staff to the common people. Official
position is too commonly reserved for
the aristocracy. Still, yearly larger
percentage of promotions from the
ranks has occurred since commission
by purchase was abolished.
OF course it is not generally known,
but it is fact all the same, that the
larger part of the olive oil imported
into this country is simply the pro-
duct of the cotton seed extracted in
the United States, sent abroad, re-
fined and returned to us as the pure
Mediterranean article. While sailing
under false colors it is possible that
the cotton seed oil is more wholesome
than the genuine olive.
An Atchison man is telling q story
about a servant girl that has been
working for the same family for twenty
one years. If this man would come
out of the woods and become war
correspondent CT worlds fair guide,
or a theatrical press agent or some
thing in which there is real progress,
new and lucrative vistas would open
to his peculiar genius.
Among the thirteen countries Wnlcn
add largely to the supply of new books
the United States occupy the fourth
place. Germany provides nearly
twice as many new publications as
the United States and England com.
bined. The circulation figures of
successful books are, however, much
larger in these countries than in Ger
many.
1t is a pleasure to notice the con-
tinued decline in the practice of haz
ing at the colleges throughout the
country. The prominent universities,
which are more readily influenced by
public opinion, naturally took the
lead in this reform, and one by one
the smaller colleges have followed
suit. The vigorous stand recently
taken by President Moffatt of Wash
ington and Jefferson University adds
one more to the list of enlightened
institutions ~ would rather" he
said, ''have 100 student without haz-
ing than 500 with it.