The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1902-04-26
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Royalty enjoys many privileges
But it is not immune from the atten'
ions of the gossips.
! The end of the revolution in Central
America is announced. Does this re-
| fer to the rear end of one that is dis.
appearing Or to the front end of the
one that is coming?
| The proposition to increase the cen.
| sus facilities should bring a thrill OF
| pride to every American. We have
grown to be such an enormous popu.
Iation that it is no small job to count
us.
German soldiers do not want to be
| conspicuous targets. Their bright
buttons are being changed for dark
ones and their blue tunics are being
replaced by others of grayish-browD
tint.
1t is said that the whispering gal
lery at the Capitol N Washington has
been abolished but the Whispering
in the secret sessions of the Senate
will cOntinu- to be heard from Maine
to California
Ia Chicago it has been judiciously
decided that s25 is all the cash a mar
needs to get married. OF course, that
means that there is a fixed price fol
the license and that the marriage fec
shall not go above a specified limit
What difference. however. does II
make how much money the groom has
If only the brides family is in condi
tion to do the proper thing.
That shoplifting. like every other in
dustry, is being reduced to a science
is shown by the arrest of young wo
fessor Of the art in whose pocket wa:
found a drawing of the layout of
New York City department store. This
point. Unfortunately for the young
man his system slipped cog, as more
elaborate schemes are sometimes apt
to do.
Buffalo meat to an Indian brave IL
evide.rly much like a red rag to a
bull A buffalo was recently so injur
ed during transportation near Guthrie
Oklahoma, that it was necessary tc
kill it. The owner gave the body tt
h@ Do, vrI;
held a buffalo dance" and worked
themselves into frenzy which has
not yet abated. They now insist that
vast herds of buffalo are coming bach
to the country, and they are threaten
ing the white settlers, whose presence
they claim, will discourage the roam
ing herds.
The French Senate has taken up the
question of the declining birth rate,
having been alarmed by the inability
of the Government to enlist men
enough to bring the army up to the
requirements of the law. One Sena,
tor presented statistics to show that !
during the recent century the popula,
tion of Germany had increased 207
per cent, and that of England nearly
242 per cent, while the increase in !
France was but fofty-two per cent |
He charged that the French system |
Of baby farming resulted in the death |
of eighty per cent. OF the infants.
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line who has been crossing the Allan
tic for only three years less than |
half century is about to retire, after |
voyages of a total much in excess OF
two millions and a half of miles. II
he isn't true old salt. an ancient |
in the best sense, there never
was one. He. is still hale and hearty |
so we'll picked with brine, so breezy.
Sc vigorous and lusty Triton, that
he would enjoy sailing the sea for
many a year of the new century. May
he cast anchor in the calmest Of
hayens!
To the triumph of modern surgery
there is scarcely limit. Nothing ap-
parently is beyond the reach of the
confident and daring hand that wields
The life saving blade. The hitherto
hidden recesses of fatal disease are
made into broadening highways for
,xplorative scientific endeavor. No
organ of the body, from brain to kid.
1ey, is exempt from successful opera
i've procedure. Even a stab or bul.
ct wound of the heart itself is boldly
,utured in the short intervals between
pulsations. states DR..
George l.. Shrady, in the Chicago
An ingenious arithmetician, writing
n the London Speaker, makes the fol-
owing calculation in comparing the
weight in flesh of the Beers and the
,ost in gold of the war. Assuming
hat the Boer army proper contained
originally about 22,S70 men, averaging
n weight 154 pounds, and accepting
he estimate of Mr.. Lloyd George, the
o-Boer member of Parliament, that
he war will eventually cost England
ome $4,000, 100000 he makes the dis
.overy that the whole of the original
,ransvaal army might have been weigh
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