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NEWPORT INDEPENDENT "
. F. Drummond Bdg. Newport,
n Upper Front Street. Arkansas.
Read the Dailv Independent
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THREE MEALS A DAY. j
: Relntlon Detween a Nation's Food
Bills auil Its Commerce Shown
by Statistics.
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Statistics have been collected to show
j that the measure of the prosperity of ;
! a country is the amount of food con
i sumed by its inhabitants—in other
i words, that diet and commerce go hand
in hand. The countries which consume
the largest amount of food and drink per
capita are the countries which have the
largest surplus for export to other
! lauds; the countries which are abstemi
| ous or moderate in their consumption
of food and drink havbTittle surplus to
send away, says the New York Sun.
The average cost of food per capita
in the United States is 60 cents a day;
I the United States stands at the head of
exporting countries with an average of
$1,250,000,000 in a year.
The average consumption of food and \
: drink in England is 50 cents per capita,
I and England stands second on the list
l °f exporting countries. Germany is the ;
j third with an export trade of more than :
$1,000,000,000, and 45 cents a day the
| average per capita spent for food and
! drink (beer included).
France has an export trade of $800,
000,000 a year and the average expense j
to each inhabitant for food and drink
is 40 cents a day. Russia, with an ex- ;
| Port trade of $375,000,000, expends 20
cents a day on food and drink per capita,
and Italy with $275,000,000 of annual
exports, spends 18 cents a day, in maco
j roni, wine and other articles of diet,
j AH of which convinces statisticians
who have unearthed this notion of the
relation of productiveness to diet that
“three_meals a day for each inhabitant”
is the open door to world powet in com
I uierce, manufactures and the surplus
products of a fertile soil.
FOOTBALL ACCIDENT.
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Emphasizes Faet That Only the
Strongest and Physically Fit
Should He Allowed to Play.
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So many accidents have been laid to
I the game of football and so many lads
have been crippled thereby that we sel
dom hear of the injuries and deaths
that .might have been avoided. The
death of a young medical student of
Baltimore during a contest, but at a
time when the ball was not in play, S
says the New York Herald, affords a
striking instance of an easily prevent-!
ible accident.
| The victim had been a sufferer from i
I heart disease for a long time and yet
was allowed to take active part in the
game. His condition should have
been, if it was not, known to his med
ical associates.
There is no account of his having
received any injury previous to the
time he was stricken with collapse.
No better proof of his unfitness for any
extra physical exertion can be given
than the suddenness of his death while
he was merely resting. The lesson of
the sad story is emphatic and con
vincing.
There is no game that requires more
careful and systematic training than
football and only the strongest are
j capable of bearing the strain. If there
is any physical weakness in the can
didate it becomes quickly manifest as
he goes on with his exercises, and why
such incapacity could not have been
discovered in time to have saved the
unfortunate youth is difficult to imag
ine.
TOLD IN ENGLAND.
London Publication Again Rcaur>
recta the Mythical American
Who Toadiea to Royalty.
A continental hotel keeper, says a
writer in the London Truth, recently
confided the following story to a friend
of mine: Some years ago, after Queen
Victoria had been staying at a certain
hotel, a wealthy American called on the
proprietor and signified his desire to
sleep if it could be managed, in the same
apartments, the same bed, and if possi
ble, the same bed clothes, as those which
had held the sacred person of her maj
esty before they had been sent to the
wash. Money was no object to him.
wnat. wuuiu 11 cost.'
The hotel proprietor was equal to the
occasion. He thought it could be ar
ranged for £20. A bargain was struck
on these terms. The millionaire duly
arrived, and retired to the royal couch.
No doubt he thoroughly enjoyed his
night’s rest, and the prospect of subse-1
quently electrifying his friends with the '
story of his regal experience. His pleas
ure must have been somewhat marred
when he discovered later on that her
Britannic majesty always traveled with
her own bed and bedding.
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Galileo and I’rbun VIII.
Galileo's wit got him into trouble
| when he put into the mouth of Sim
i plicio, the foolish opponent of the
! Copernican theory in his “Dialogues,”
an argument that Pope Urban VIII.
had himself devised, and insisted on
Galileo incorporating in the work.
Galileo made Simplicio quote it as an >
argument he had from a “very eminent '
and learned personage.” The enemies 1
of Galileo persuaded Urban that he had
: been “made game of,” and this was the
offense of which Galileo was guilty. It
was not for upholding the theory that
I the sun stands still and the earth moves
that Galileo was tried by the inquisition.
; Urban himself had supported the
Copernican doctrines, both as cardinal
and as pope.
Biggest Raisers of Hops.
The United States how produces
more hops than any other country.
| Of the world’s crop of 1,760,000 hun
; dredweight, the United States furnish
es 462,000 hundredweight.
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Insurance Slot Machines.
London has accident insurance slot
machines. The device defies fraud and
baa the appearance of a clock.
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