The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1892-09-17
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The house in which Christopher
Columbus once lived, in Via Dritto, at
Pont;cello, is being restored. 1t will
be provided with Latin inscription to
the effect that mo house is more
worthy OF note than this, within whose
walls Christopher Columbus passed his
youth"
THE days of the giraffe are NUM-
bered. Where herds of seventy or
eighty could be easily found ten years
ago, nowadays nineteen is considered
an unusually large number to find
Khama, an African chieftain, has taken
the giraffe under his protection and is
striving to preserve it from entire ex-
tinction.
The work of installing the Jewish
Immigrants in the Argentine republic
is being actively carried on. A branch
railway is being constructed to what is
known as the Maurice colony, where
the Hebrews are being established, and
two hundred families are comfortably
settled and engaged in the cultivation
of the soil.
The mysterious subject of hypnotic
influence has been agitating society in
Calcutta. A young government clerk
made several attempts recently to get
married to the girl of his choice, but
each time he was mysteriously over
come at the altar and thrown into a
| trance of stupor. He has made no less
than six attempts, failing each time.
I'm the winter in Norway all the
| vehicles are sledges-the carriages,
| cabs, carts and even the perambulatorf
are on runners. Outside the town,
where the road is not trodden hard. II
is impossible to walk without the snow.
shoes of the country. These are called
ski and are long wooden planks,
measuring nearly nine feet for full
| grown man. The wood for ski is not
sawn, but split with the grain. SO thai
they never break and can bear tire
mendous strain.
A notion said to be prevalent II
London is that of temporarily ex
changing cooks-a sort of progressive
housekeeping, as it were. Just wha'
benefit accrues is not stated, unless it Il
to indulge for a month in delicious en-
trees at the expense of poor sauces
while your friend with your treasure i
undergoing vice versa experience
Naturally such exchanges must be car
ried on between establishments con
Quoted on the same plan, or trouble vii
promptly begin on reinstatement.
| Women are not permitted to sit il
the body of the Temple church OF Lon
don, because many hundreds of year
ago the seats were reserved for tn
monkish knights, for whom the church
| ing the tenacity of custom in Europeal
communities, is that of the sentinel a
certain point in public garden i
London. Nobody knew why he wa
stationed at that particular point unit
some one, delving in old records, dis
covered that generations before ser
tinel had been placed there to war
people of newly painted bench.
An interesting discovery has bee
made in q deep railway cutting at Al
dresy, near Paris, France, where til
. workmen ran upon huge Merovingia
cemetery of the sixteenth century.
, MANY as six hundred tombs have alread
been uncovered, yielding a hitherto III
heard of mass of carved sarcophag
!. knives, spears, vases, ornaments an
pottery of unique shapes and styles I
decoration. 1t is recalled now that tt
, tiny hamlet of Andresy, in the gener'
ton succeeding the introduction I
! Christianity, was an important mi
sionary center.-Philadelphia Ledge