The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-12-08

poetry for reading at funerals soon
earns that it is useless to look much
,eyond the poets of the last generation
for anything which can be used with
put a sense Of discord.
The Breeders Gazette says that one
Of the chief difficulties in the way OF
as it is usually conducted on
the overlarge Western farms, Is the
of the hired help, hence
the need of apprenticeship in the
of the farm.
The fine old gentleman Of 70 years
who travelled 1900 miles to horsewhip
another old gentleman of 20, whom
he had not seen for twenty-five years,
exhibited an amount of persistence and
energy that might well have been de-
voted to q better cause.
An act for the prevention OF cruelty |
to wild animals has just become ef-
fectiye in England. The new law ex-
tends the provisions of the act, winch
has heretofore applied only to domes-
tic animals, to all birds, fishes ana
reptiles not included in that measure
and makes offenders liable to three
months Imprisonment or tine or $zo.
England, according to the St
James's Gazette, has still S2,0OO,OOO,-
600 tons of coal unused and available.
According to the past average rate OF
consumption, it will be more than oOO
years before this quantity is exhaust
ed. The official returns for last year
showed a consumption of 151,OOO,OOv
tons in Great Britain and Ireland.
Garibaldi, to whom Is given the
credit for the inception of the shirt
waist idea, is now said by Thomas
Mast to have got it from the red shirts
of the old New York Volunteer fre
department. Where the fire lighters
got it is another matter. 1t seems
| tn he but another endless chain.
Verify there is nothing new under the
| sun.
| Recent statistics show that although
the seaman Of the present day is bet
| ter cared for and less exposed than
the seamen of former days, diseases
of the respiratory organs have IN
creased enormously in the British navy
and invading for bronchitis, pleurisy,
pneumonia, and phthisis has more than
doubled since masts and yards have
gone.
One of the curious. and suggestive
details in the latest report Of the Swiss
factory inspectors relates to the atti-
tude of the operatives in certain fac
tory in regard to an improved venti-
lating apparatus. They objected to i
because it would breed rheumatism
Two years later the same laborers re-
fused to go to another building be
cause it lacked that ventilating ap-
paratus.
In France gardening is taught, prac-
tically, in $4,000 primary and elemen-
l tary schools; each of which has gar
: den attached. In Sweden even as loni
= ago as 1871, $1,000 children receives
Y instruction in horticulture, and each
4 2.O16 schools had for cultivation fron
4 one to sixteen acres. Not a day la
: borer but could tell the names Of tree
and pants and even weeds.
t Late English criminal statistics shov
h that Glamorgan, after Monmouth,
+ the blacklist county in the island fo
q the number of crimes in proportion I
. the population. The drunkards' ma
= shows Glamorgan in a bad light ais
Northumberland is much the wOrs
:. county for drunkenness, London an
Lancashire have hardly half the Pre-
IL portion of inebriety found in North
cumberland.
The director Of the HYGIENE Inst
- tute of Rome, Professor Cell, hi
al written a book in which he declar'
ie that the peasants of the Campaign
/ about $4,000 in number, are to-day
Is a more wretched condition than thu
or were in the time of the ancient r,
ne mans. Then they were mostly slave
I'll but well housed and fed, while tod,
at they are on the verge of starvatio
of and there are only about 500 nous
s. for $4,000 persons. In some cases
tn many as $50 persons Of all ages al
be both sexes live in one large wigwan
he
w A law has gone into effect REGULATE
es the entrance of foreign students in
70 japanese schools. Such students mi
-. have recommendations from their I
!. spective Ministers or Consuls. Th
~ are exempted from the regulatio
-, which apply to native students, a
" pay no entrance fee or tuition fees
nc The trade relations between the u
ted States and Siberia have greatly
,es creased Of late years. Until recent
howeves, ths demand for Amssso