The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-11-17

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the organs of the human body.
Falcon Island, in the Pacific, which
was thrown up some years ago and
gradually washed away till in 1898 it
could not be seen, has been discovered
again by the British cruiser Porpoise.
1t now looks like whales back and
stands nine feet out of water, with the
sea breaking over it so that it forms
a serious danger to navigation.
The French saw declares that no one
is ever SO happy or so miserable as he
thinks he is. The half-hearted way
in which this truth Is accepted shows
all the difference between the pessimist
and the optimist. The optimist accepts
the latter half and SCOTS at the former,
and the pessimist rails at the latter
half and praises the former.
Says the Baltimore Sun:-"South
America promises to be the scene of
international plotting after China is
disposed of, and pamphlet just pub
lished by Alexandra Garland, of Peru,
on South American Conflicts and the
United States shows that Peru will
welcome our interference in the dis
putes of the South American States"
Upon opening a car laden with hay
In a Chicago freight yard the other
day the consignee was astounded to
find two valuable horses inside, while
nearly one-third of the hay had been
devoured. How the animals had got
ten into the car and how long they
had been there no one seemed to know
Their stomachs were so much distend-
ed from overeating that both animals
had to be killed.
In New York Police Court the other
day Boston man who had been ar
rested at the instance of his wife on
the charges of desertion and non-sup-
port presented novel defense. He al
legged that his wife had consulted an
astrologer, who told her that she was
destined to be married at least twice.
81 was her first husband" said the
accused man, land 1 saw that 1t was
up to me to get move on. ] had to
either die or skip again, and l pre-
ferred to skip" The Court, however,
declined to follow that line of reason
ing, and put the man under bonds to
support his wife, regardless of the as
trologer's horoscope.
And the mystery of the origin of a
cold is not deeper than the mystery of
its cure. While every one is perfectly
competent to cure his neighbours cold,
no one has ever succeeded in curing
his own cold. His choice among the
thousand and one infallible remedies
Is hampered by the condition that 1t
must be taken in time" and no one
ever discovers that he has cold until
the time is up. What Is needed is
remedy which will cure a cold at any
time, and such remedy is badly need
ed in the Interests of good feeling and
a higher morality. The man with the
cold is not merely n victim of the in
justice of Providence but a sufferer
from the heartless Indifference and
even derision of his fellow-man.
Bruce Benner, of Coffeyville, Kan,
has made small fortune during the
past few months by exhibiting a So
called "feathered dog" in various parts
of the Sunflower State. So far as the
feathers were concerned the animal
was, of course, a fraud, as has just
been discovered through the enterprise
of country newspaper. The dog had
been completely covered from nose
to tail with a tight fitting coat of
Canton flannel on which pigeon feath-
ers had been SO skiilfully sewn as to
seem like natural growth. A report
er who had been detailed to visit Ben
ner's show plucked handful of feath-
ers from the animals back unobserved,
and the dog never WINGED. The fraud
was thus exposed, and Benner fed
from the Kansas Jurisdiction