The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-09-15
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.
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Minister Wu must admit that the
prejudice against the Chinese in this
country has never reached the violence
of the Boxers"
The Missouri Supreme Court has
sustained the principle of arbitrarily
assessing property for street improve
me1rts at front-foot or sQuare-foot
foot rate.
Ohio and Indiana are In litigation
over the Ohio River. The river is un-
conscious of the trouble and at last ac-
counts was vending Its way unruf-
fed to the sea.
One of the peculiar institutions
which the Paris Exposition has
brought into existence is a school In
how to see the fair.
Famines are not new in the history
Of India or the rest of the world. A
thousand years ago families in Great
Britain and Europe often occurred,
costing the lives of many thousands.
The British poets are either out of
luck or their theme Is distasteful to
the muses., Swinburne has tried war
poetry and has apparently made as
rank a failure of it as the poet lau-
reate.
Germany proposes to establish rig
orous system of examination Of all
meat food products Of domestic origin,
and to require similar treatment Of all
such products imported, from what
ever country. In that she Is impartial
and not unreasonable.
Engineers say a 10O-foot-wide canal
II to Is feet deep, between Lake Su-
perior and Grand Forks, N. D., is an
engineering possibility. The scheme is
a grand one, and the agricultural
northwest wants it carried through.
Some time ago the Connecticut Leg
islature, following the precedent estab-
lished by the Swiss Cantons in case
of the edelweiss, passed a law pro-
tecting the trailing arbutus. This Is
said to be the first law ever passed in
any State in the Union for such pur-
pose.
Sir ]. Crichton Browne Is of the
opinion that consumption in the United
Kingdom will, in the ordinary course,
disappear in sixty years. He believes.
however, that with caution in the
nursing of patients it may be got rid
Of In half that time.
Eighteen years ago the first news
paper was published in Japan. To-
day there are 575 newspapers, a large
numbers of religious papers. IL scien-
tific and 35 medical journals. This Is
very convincing evidence of Japanese
progress.
There has been a marked improve
ment in the state of trade In Palestine
since the opening up Of the country by
the Jaffa-Jerusalem Railway. The
transportation of goods from the coast
to the interior is now rendered very
easy.
1t is an Ill wind that blows nobody
any good. A mild case of the bubonic
plague In one of the coffee centres of
Brazil resulted in a rise of 60 per cent.
in coffee prices inside of three months.
The industry is said to be now in a
better condition than for some time,
and with the very marked increase in
the use of Brazilian coffee in the
United States, prices are likely to con-
tinue at the same level.
Professor Metchnikoff has some fine
theories about checking the inroads of
old age, but somehow the serum and
other things that have been used to
arrest decay of the powers have all
proved futile. Oliver Wendell Holmes
made very careful study Of the sub
ject and had high hopes of living to be
100, but he died at s., despite all his
precautions.
Up to the present time land in Siber-
la can be acquired only by farmers
and settlers. During the last two
years a large number Of concessions
for the purchase of land have been
asked for by merchants, engineers and