The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1902-09-20

Ping-pong has a rival In Germany
called chuck-chuck This new game
is kind of indoor curling.
StatiSticians point out that war kills
more people than volcanoes. But,
after all, this is pretty lame apol-
ogy for a volcano. ...-.a.
The fact that Spain still has beef to
waste in bnll-fghts arous2s suspicion
that the reports of that nations poy-
erty have been exaggerated.
The Automobile Club of America
has itself undertaken the task of
regulating speed. It takes an auto
mobile to catch an automobile.
Manifestations of the British indus
trial awakening. following the alarm
sounded by the American and German
invasions are apparent everywhere.
In the really large successes of this
matter-of-act world the men who win
are those who first prepare them
selves to use an opportunity. then
work for and create the opportunity
and seize 1t on the instant.
i The Car told President Loubet
that armies make for the worlds
peace. And to show that he has the
courage Of his convictions. Russia has
invested s210.OOO,OOO in new fortifica-
tions. As peacemaker the Gar
comes high.
While Chamberlain is sneering at
the suggestion that Great Britain Is
entering a period of her history Of
commercial and industrial subordina-
tlon to the United States, Carnegie
lie predicting that the time is approach
Ing when tlls British people Will tbe
seeking admission to~the' Union.
The killing of the two French air
ship experts the other day does not
appear to have given any great en-
Encouragement to the rest OF the ma
chine fliers. =, Such practical illustra-
Etions Of the difficulty in mastering
what always must be q hazardous
science are really not calculated to
make even the present professors
contemplate the future without con,
cern.
| The total vote of Oklahoma, the
most populous of the Territories now
seeking admission into the Union as
States, was $4,000 in the election OF
1900. In the same contest Delaware
cast 41OOO votes, Florida $4,000,
Idaho $1,000, Louisiana $4,000 Missis'
appi $4,000, Montana $4,000, Nevada
10 900, North Dakota $1,000. Rhode
Island $4,000, South Carolina $4,000
Vermont $4,000 and Wyoming 24.oOO
Anew 105-foot telescope Is being
erdeted at the. Yerkes Observatory OF
thd iUniversltyl Of Chicago. at Williams
Bap, Wis, which, If sucwssful,E will
mafk the Introduction of the methods
of the physical laboratory into astron
on1, and enable the astrnnpmetflto
apply to the detaik Of his work zrec
ording, ;Apd measuring instruments
Witch cannot be operated. With al tsle
scope balanced and moved by AN aus
tqomical clock. n
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Detailed reports of the earthquake
in Guatemala recently tell of the ter
riffc energy which. marked that seis
mil! disturbance. Quezaltenango, the
second largest city of the Republic
waa completely destroyed in ninety
sespnds. The few buildings that re
NAMED standing were rent from tor
to Ibottom; the killed and manned
iuthbered 5000. while 1000 were left
hoiAeless. What connection the dislo
cation OF terra firma in the Central
American fire circle" may haye. had
with the eruptions within the vol
iattc ring of the Antilles remains to
teshemenstrated.- i, The awful -explo
sih of Morne Garu on st. Vincent ir
isfk was preceded by violent earth
duikes m Venezuela. one Of which
shook the city Of Caracas into ruins.
The manufacturer. of furniture uses
such names as ''bird,s-eye maple,
@curIy-walnut," and 9quartered oak
with so much familiarity that one un
familiar with the tricks Of the furni
ture trade might think that bird's-eye
naples, and all the rest, were distinc
tive sorts: Of trees grown especially
to make chamber sets, and table tops
In reality these names merely Indicate
the -maaner. Of the cutting Of maple
walnut. = or oak logs. Bird's-eye
maple Is .. veneer. produced by cut
ting around d log with 9 huge knife
beginning just under the bark. The
process is like peeling an apple to the
lore. = This thin peeling is glued to a
to1fd piece Of wood and snfoothed and
beHshed. Furniture. made, in. this way
cannot be tiurabfe. CHARTERED oak
made. By saving q fine oak log into