The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-11-17
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NOTES AND COMMENTS:
Efforts are being made In this coun-
try to wrest from England her big coal
| trade.
Spain, relieved of her colonial in
cubus. is making rapid strides toward
prosperity.
The Electrical Review declares that
lightning-rods of every sort and kind
are useless.
In the past ten years the italian ma
tion has descended from the third to
the seventh place as naval Power.
The funeral of the dead railroad king
again recalled the Spanish proyerb,
'There are no pockets in the shroud."
1t is possible to say at last that the
popularity of the sO-called coon song"
rs a means of entertainment has be-
gun to wane.
Men may yearp to wear shirt-waists
as commonly as women, but they will
never enjoy discussing shirtwaist fash
ions with equal zest.
The Gazette of Cologne is in favor
of a policy of terror in China. For
tunately other nations will have to be
consulted in this matter.
An apparatus for condensing sea fog
into drinking water has been invented
by Professor Bell. 1t will be welcomed
as a desideratum by ocean voyagers.
Another proof of the fickleness of
the public The klssing-bug Is fully
as Industrious as he was last summer,
but he doesn't attract the same inter-
est.
If n Yankee met the Empress Dow
ager in Pekin it Is odds that his first
remark would be to remind the old
lady that the Chiness Invented gun
powder.
According to the latest report of
United States Consul Ingersoll at
Copenhagen, Denmarck, the popular
ity of American goods is rapidly in
creasing in that country.
Among other signs indicating that
man is insane, it has been recently
discovered by specialists in nervous
disorders that irregular eyebrows are
entitled to consideration.
A scientist who has made study of
electrolysis is now in a position to en-
tighten trolley-car conductors and
motormen who have not been able to
discover just why they died.
All buildings belonging to the Chi
nese Government are yellow, and it is
a capital offense for any private person
to use that color on the exterior Of his
dwelling or place of business
Professor William r. Harper, head
of the great University of Chicago, de-
clares that the small colleges will have
to materially change their plans, and
that eventually they must unite.
A German surgeon recently cut off
patients second toe and sewed it to
the stump of a missing forefinger. 1t
proved a very good substitute, and can
be moved by the owner, as an artificial
finger could not be.
In q paper which he recently read
before the British Medical Association
DR.. Pye-Smith prescribed a remedy
for most nervous disorders that is
within the reach of the poorest. This
cure is steady hard work.
Bicycle road races have been bad
enough. Automobile road races would
be an intolerable outrage. The pub
lie highways are for the common and
ordinary use Of the public, not to be
turned into private racetracks for
steam engines at fifty miles an hour.
The Government is about to pay the
final half million and take over the
Eads jetties. 1t is still claimed that
the jetties are success, but it will
be well to defer judgment until the
first report after they are Government
property.
The late G. P. Huntington was not a
believer in college training for men
who are to follow a business career.
And a Western paper, moralizing on
his career, asks: Had he played foot
ball at college until his bearded days
would he have been so successfulY'
During the recent French naval
manoeuvres the squadron under Ad-
miral Gervais succeeded in slipping
through the Straits of Gibraltar at
night without being noticed by the
British observers on the Rock So at