The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1902-01-04

1902.
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John Bull is still buying horses in the
United States for cavalry remounts III
South Africa. He knows serviceab.e
animals when he sees them. and he
knows where to get them.
The Nebraska State game warden has
forbidden the farmers to fight the grass
hoppers with poison, saying that the loss
of birds and game is too costly a price
to pay for the destruction of compare
lively few insects
Over King Edward of England hangs
the menace of death by cancer-an old
enemy of the Guelphs, and one against
which modern medical science is impo-
tent. There may be a prolongation OF
days whose every hour is anguish, bit
no cure.
The Yellow River, in China, may be
likened to the vacillating murderous
kings of history. Twenty-Five times dur
ing the last century it has changed its
course, and during that time its floods
are said to have killed eleven million
people.
Brock, in Holland, is the neatest town
in the world So tidy are the people
that they won't allow horses in the
streets. 1t contains population of a.
700, and the chief industry is making
cheese Even the cows that furnish the
milk are not allowed within the town.
Mrs. E. D. Gillespie, Franklin's great
granddaughter, who died in Philadel-
phia the other day, and who in personal
appearance and in many of her intellect
ual characteristics greatly rcsenbled him
used to say: No gcntlewonlan can be
real gentlewoman who cannot sex
we'll"
South Australian apples are now sold
in European markets at from five cents
to ten cents each; choice ones even high
err. The apples are packed and shipped
in small, long boxes containing 100 each.
They are wrapped separately in tissue
paper, and are packed in wood, wool ard
the leaves OF corn husks.
Another American invasion" OF En- |
gland has begun, this time by the watch |
trade. An American firm, it is said, has
contracted to deliver 100000 watches |
in London during the next twelve
months, the Americans having underbid
the Germans and the Swiss. The order
is said to be the largest ever given.
To study leprosy DR.. Louis Knapp. |
of St. Louis, Mo-. has undertaken the
sole care of Chinese leper in that city,
and will be isolated with his patient I'M
til the death of the latter releases him. |
The doctor parts with his wife and four
children indefinitely, and assumes his
charge in the hope of discovering rem
edy for the disease
Chicago has named new park Mic
kinley Park. 1t has an area of forty /
acres, and along its southern edge all
artificial hill has been built up, the only
elevation for nearly a mile around. In
one corner of the park wadng pool |
has been made and near it a large swim
ming pool, about eight feet deep in its
deepest part
The earliest maps of America are said
to have been discovered in the historic
Castle Of Wolfegg Wurtembe.g, by a
professor of geography, Father Joseph
Fischer The maps bear the dates OF
1907. and 1916, respectively, and are said
to be in remarkable state of preserva-
ton. The first is believed to have been
drawn under the supervision of Column
bus. The find is considered the mos;
important of its kind in modern times.
A number of philanthropic London
vegetarians have opened several man.
moth kitchens in the slums of the En-
glish capital. 1t is the purpose of the
originators of the scheme to supply
wholesome vegetable and cereal food to
the poor of the great city at nominal
cost, thus eventually teaching these peo-
pie what is. to the vegetarian's enlight-
ened minds, the proper way of living re-
specially at small cost.
Professor Dexter, of the University
of Illinois, who has studied the effects
of weather on morals, finds that the de-
sire to fight rises with the thermometer.
but stops at eighty-hve degrees; willis
after that as the mercury rises. Assault
cases are therefore commoner in sum-
mer than in winter. Drunkenness, how
ever, lessons with summer and inereases
with the coming Of cold. Suicides are al
a maximum on bright days with high
barometer and increase a. the wind
rises.
Engiishmen are congratulating them
selves on the invention by one of their
countrymen of loom which automatic
ally removes the shuttle when the yarn
therein breaks or is exhausted, and sub