The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-12-29


no doubt he looks back with regret to
many opportunities he has overlooked |
for owing money.
The Washington young woman who |
married in order to secure a trip to
the Paris Exposition had a delightful
time abroad and is now ready for di-
vorce. application for which has been
duly fled in the proper court.
The society reporters of Europe are
not doing their duty. 1t has been sev-
eral weeks since they announced that
Hollands pretty little queen was en-
gagged.
The Park Board of Cincinnati, in
1872, paid $500 for consignment OF
English sparrows. They would give
double the sum now to get rid of them.
How the late X. l.. Stevenson. peace
to his ashes. would have delighted in
that story of the Chicago bank 'presi-
dent who received the head Of his de
tective in a parcel by express. What
an addition to the New Arabian
Nights it would have made.
Every time a miser dies and leaves
fortune to be stolen OF quarreled over,
II becomes obvious that the miser neg
lected a royal good time and that
strangers had it on his account. With
half a million in the bank there is real
ly no excuse for neglecting ones meals.
Insurance for bathers is the newest
enterprise in the insurance line in Eng
land. The company which devised the
scheme is placing penny-ln-the-slot
machines along the beach at all popu-
lar watering places. Upon dropping
In q conner the bather receives life
insurance policy good for twenty-four
hours.
There are now thirteen cable lines
across the Atlantic in successful Oper-
alton, yet the charge for sending mes
sages remains what 1t has been for
| twenty years or more-twenty-nVe
cents a word for commercial messages,
and fen cents word for press dis
patches.
Chicago spends more money FOR
park and boulevard construction ana
maintenance than any other city in
the country. In the matter of expendl-
ture for fire protection fourteen of the
leading cities of the United States sur
pass her. and five cities spend more
money for street cleaning than does
! the western metropolis.
Chinese historians estimate the
population of their country, in the
wear III A. D.. at only 50,O000OO. In
1880 the accepted figure was Go,OOO,-
900: in 1892 it was 307,OOO,0O0. The
present population is probably between
$40. OOO. 900 and 400.00O.OOO.
The latest official report on lunacy
In Ireland shows that mental dis
orders are still increasing there. The
aggregate number Of patients in the
hospit.,ls for mental diseases is the
highest on record. whereas the est
mated population is the lowest In re-
cent years. The average number O
the insane per 100000 Of the popuia-
ton has increased from go in 1SS'
to 400 IN 1899. OF the deaths in hos
pitals far the insane, consumption Il
returned as the cause in 2S.4 per cent
II took y long time, but France ha
finally been just TO herself. The GOV
eminent has restored Colonel nc
mart TO his rank in the army. VI al
the army officers this man showe'
himself the most courageous. He fot
lowed the lead of his conscience
through all despite humiliation
At last til, Republic proved ltsei
strong enough to follow Colonel Pic
quarts example.
Florida. according to local papers,
becoming oae of the great tobacc
growing States. and the product ma
heen pronounced in some respect
eoual to that of Cuba. Sumatra wraI
ner tobacco raised in Florida recenti
took the prize at the Paris Expositio
in competition with samples or tn
same variety produced In many othe
States and countries. The same qnal
,tv of tobacco is being raised in ID
catur and other counties of souther
Georgia. and it's production is rapid
Incoming lucrative industry.
. The American hog is on the wan
The most conservative figures OF tn
Government statisticisns show th'
: there is general decrease in the nun
her of hogs now being fattened,
| compared with the records of recel
years This decrease varies consider
ably i'm the different States, rangtn
all the way from one per cent. in SON
States to sixteen and eighteen pr
cent. in Missouri, Kentucky, Nebrask
and Kansas. The only question
doubt is to the amount of the decreas
and the approximations given abo'
are believed to be very close to actu
figures.
( The value of bacteria in our Too
products is chiefly from the navo
e which they produce. Among the ne
{ chemical compounds to which bacter
+ give rise there are many which ha'
| very strong tastes. much strong
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