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Show A BRILLIANT DISCOVERY. The Ixiulslana Legislature hns taken a new departure In legislation opened up a new field for legislative action It has declare 1 that nn htator) iililrh falls to glio Admiral Hthlo) the credit for the victor) nt Santiago sh ill lie used In the public schools of thnt Slate Great possibilities are oene up by this vote lf the nnthorlt) fo- historical his-torical facts Is to be obtained In I-egls-Intlvo act, why not seek for the authority au-thority for other courses of study In the same source? In history the Leg. tslitute might decide authotltntivel), for Instance who wrote the letters ot Junius nnd who, was tho man In the Iron mask It might derliro who was entitled really to tlie credit of the battle bat-tle of I.ake Erie Commodore Perry or Captain 1 llloit In mathematics it could declare whether there are reall) limitations unci ome shadows ot uncertainty uncer-tainty upon tin axioms ot gecmctry ns ome critic now contend and whether a fourth dimension Is possible possi-ble or what shall be (aught in the schools of Louisiana with respect to It ami what liormd It might settlo nrlotis questions In dispute on inquiries in-quiries Into h i llty and establish the 1 roper percenn of htrltnge of truces of genius in the descendants of great men and women Tho legislature coul I dwlare the true law of lolconlo forces concerning width there Is so much dispute It might also declare the true Interpretation of the first thnpter of O ntsls, nd say whether the di)s were really da) or long geo-logical geo-logical periods It could reconstruct the Song of talmnnn nnl connect tlio frag, ments by rit plying lost matter And-Jo) And-Jo) of JO), It could settle u,e nnion-Miakiapcira nnion-Miakiapcira conltoietsy' Hurrah for the new departure mode by the Louis linn I eglslnturo' Htteifter no un u qu lon disturbing the luhllo need remain long unsoljed a legislative enactment will settle the matter and tho enforce! lent of that settlement tan lo by ptocesci of 4n Hit , mu ho sprung this gicut dli n n r ,,, tr( methol to settle dispm i , stl.,n denrica tho a liniratinn of tt t r i and should re eiio It in aoundunrc Some dlmo museum should get him without delay, nnd show him to all the people. |