The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1904-10-05

physician OF nigh repute In FarlS,
rho holds singularly advanced views.
nys that senility is infectious. He has
ailed, up to the present time, how
wer. to discover an effective %antitoxin
against old age, and it is feared that
yeople of fourscore and mere will con-
iuue to give up living in the old fash
Nued way when their bodily powers
NE exhausted.
American Medicine states that in
New York DR.. Biggs finds that during
y years there has been a great in
sease in the acute respiratory dis
Ases, ance and diseases of the cir
xIat0ry apparatus and the kidneys.
he increase in lancer amounts to
abcut II percent, and the increase in
h acute respiratory diseases amounts
= about Is percent. while the increase
\ the diseases Of the circulatory ap-
0ratus and kidneys combined equals
sbout 40 percent. The profoundly i'm
Dortant question still remains un-
su1ved as to the causes of these in.
sesses and then Of the methods of OBJ
stating them.
The country's losses by fire have at
lines reached 500. 600. 900 q year. and
eume near that figure on . general
average. In tables for q given year.
sowing their origin incendiarism
leds with 1927 cases: defective hues
we're responsible for 1900. Sparks.
matches. explosion Of lamps. lightning.
inrdst fires and spontaneous combus-
l6cn r enumerated ~ principal
sanDes, but no Of them reaches .
nird Of the number which the arebugs
sesse. The frecracker comes in at the
sail Of the list with 105: about half the
Amber lit BY pipes and cigar stubs.
Taken year by year the several causes
ahow pretty steady averages. as II
ohefs was m element Of destiny in it
heyond precautionary measures to vary
q modify.
The new 1000-ton barge canal which
New York state is to build at an esti-
oated cost Of SOL. 900. 900. to take the
plaee Of the old Erie canal. will diff
Or almost - widely from the old canal
= IT. character IS . present-day rail-
nay locomotive differs from Stephen
SINS Rocket, says the Chicago Record
Herald. An idea that it will be mere
y wider and deeper Erie canal is to-
enlly wrong. Il will. to start with. be
a1apted to steam instead Of mule pow.
q, and hence will have no need Of .
srvpath; but beyond this it will util-
h for the greater part Of its course
- beds Of the rivers, which the old
email carefully avoided. The old way
~ to follow the hillsides. keeping
vsll out Of the river valleys. where
fssshets would b sure to destroy the
1bwpaths from time to time. The new
Nv involves . control by engineering
works Of the torrents Of the rivers
themselves. Old-time engineering abili-
y was not equal to this.
Il h IN age Of ccarse effects. m age
e advertisement, says Blackwcod's
Magazine. A poet could not conscien-
tfously sing now about . rose left to
Noon unseen, for excursion trains
would Be sure to be arranged there 1t
D1sced rates. It is . confidential age,
and VI demand . confdant as much a.
. natter Of course q the heroine Of
- old-fashionsd Italian opera-in
III, We demand the undivided attsn-
tsn a the whole world. We sing our
sunU and listsn, greedily for the ap-
y1snss Of the gallery; We meet with
dnmsstic misfortune and We weep on
- bosom Of the divorce court. and the
1aily papers weep with N. We do not
= good By stealth, but rather in such
. vav that We set . baronetcy or q
decoration. 20 when you zee I man Ill
elnkly with little stars and things yoa
v1n know that he ID always . very