The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1902-02-22
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There are notable exceptions to tn
rule that ''the good die young" 4
Pennsylvania clergyman has recent
died. after an active passionate of sey
enty-fve years, at the age of ninety
six.
Norway's population Is the smalles
in Europe compared with her area
Each Of her inhabitants could hav
forty acres of land, while the Britol
would have to be content with les
| than an acre.
Of all the European countries whicl
enjoy representative government, blu
four declined the bicarmeral system o
parliamentary construction. Thes
countries are Norway, Servia, Greece
and Bulgaria.
The Paris correspondent of the Lon
don Lancet points out that. owini
chiefly to maternal ignorance as t,
how to feed and otherwise take car,
of babies. infant mortality still reacbe;
the enormous total of 1877 per thou
sand.
The city of Cleveland, Ohio, has ap
pointed an official bacteriologist. The
wees of it's inf 9itants may be sale
to be just abof to begin. The dis
coveries of this new officer will doubt
less enable their imaginations to rur
unrestrained.
France is in dead earnest about in
creasing her population. The Cham
Der of Deputies has voted urgently fol
a bill making all marriage ceremonies
absolutely free of cost. No nation car
maintain itself as a great military
power without continual reinforce
ments of light infantry"
The French Government proposes to
adept the novel experiment of estab-
fishing and maintaining an industrial
college or school at Philadelphia, for
the express purpose of teaching French
students American industrial methods.
This is the latest development in mod.
err international competition. and its
effect will doubtless be watched with
deep interest.
The smallest navy in proportion tc
population is Mexico's. Twelve million
people are protected" by fleet" OF
two dispatch vessels, two unarmored
gun vessels carrying one fourton muz.
zle-loading cannon and four small
breech-loaders, and five second-class
torpedo boats. This fleet" is manned
by ninety officers and 500 men.
Arrangements have been completed
for the purchase of about 435 acres
south of Indianapolis, Ind, on which
new factories are to be located
One hundred and twenty acres of the
tract are to be divided into twenty-four
factory sites, and the remainder into
building lots for employees. Ten fac
tories are to be the nucleus around
which others will gather. The promot
ers OF the plan will give a guarantee
bond for 100000 that they will have
not less than ten factories, employing
not less than 1000 hands, in active op
Grafton on or before December 81, 1902.
A well-known insurance statistician
of America states that the death rate
Of persons under twenty years, and
young children, is greater In
the United States than in most Euro.
pean countries; but that after middle.
age Americans live longer.
The Island of Java, about 673 miles
N length and 125 miles in width, and
located only three degrees off the equa
Tor, has the distinguishing position OF
supplying practically all the cinchona
bark from which the worlds supply
Of quinine is made. There are about
$4,000 acres of this island used In
growing cinchona.
The recent uncovering of the shrine
lot far from the banks of the Tiber
where the Romans pad tribute to The
of the founder of the Eternal
City, the twin sucking of the she wolf,
nay possibly inspire hopes that some
ortunate excavation of the future may
ay bare the molten image of "Hora.
Jus, the Captain of the Gate" who
'mote the great Lord of Luna, and
With Laritus, the proud Eamnian, on
lis right hand, and strong Herminius
IN his left, kept the bridge SO valiant |
y in 'the brave days of old" Some
# these figures that loom large in the |
wilight of history may have been real
nen after all.
The national park embracing the bat |
leield of Santiago, Cuba, may eventu. |
lily prove TO be one of the most strik. |
ng spots in the western hemisphere. |
Whatever the future of Cuba, that area
viii stand as the token of the depar.
ure of Spain from the new world and
f the intervention of the United
tates to save crushed people. The
cid of Santiago may some day become
sort OF Mecca to patriotic Cubans,
Thatever flag floats over the execu.
i've headquarters at Havana. Gener.
Woods action in securing posses.
ion Of this ground Is in every way