The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-12-30
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

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Cremation is gaining favor i
France and Japan. Last year, in tn
crematory of the Pere la Chaise GENE
terry, in Paris, there were s,741 crema
lions. In Toxic, the chief city of ia
pan, the average number of cremation
is thirty day.
Female suffrage is to have a tria
in New Zealand. The Legislative coun
Gil of that colony has agreed, by tn,
narrow majority of two. to the thirt
reading of the electoral reform bill
which confers the right of franchis
upon women. The general election O
next December will be held under tn,
new law.
The archbishop of Canterbury re
ceives salary of $75, 900 year. Mex
to the queen he occupies the position
as the head of the church. The arch
bishopof York and the bishop of Lon
don receive $50, 900 each; the bishop O.
Winchester nearly as much. and Other
salaries of the Episcopal body range
from $40, 200 to $25, 200.
The government of Saxony ha.
adopted novel method to secure the
payment of taxes. The names of per
sons who did not pay their taxes last
year are printed and hung up in all the
restaurants and saloons. The proprie.
tors dare not serve those mentioned on
the lists with food or drink, under pen
atty of losing their licenses.
All the English sovereign's sons re.
ceive especial honors as princes. They
take precedence of all subjects; they
are addressed by the title of royal
highness; they are served at the table
on Bonded knee, except in the presence
OF the sovereign. All subjects are to
uncover the head in their presence and
to kneel when admitted to kiss their
hands.
France il soon to adopt an inter-
esting innovation in the postal card
system. The cards will be issued in
the form of check books, with stubs
The sender of tbs postal card can
make memoranda of it's contents on the
stub, and can have this stamped at the
post Office before the card is detatched,
SO that verified record of the CORE
spondence can be kept.
Returns show that the amounts ex-
pended on circumference and outdoor
relief by the boards of guardians in
England and Wales during the half
year ended Lady day last were 50, $685.
1888. The number of paupers in receipt
of relief last July was %. per 1000 in
habitants, which is smaller than in the
corresponding month in thirty out of
thirty-six years comprised in the re-
turn.
The tea consumed in England last
year amounted to about five and half
pounds per head: forty years ago it
was only two pounds per head. The
consumption of coffee is now less than
half a pound per head, while forty
years ago it was more than one and
quarter pounds. There is four times
as much cocoa used now as there was
in 1859. SpiriSs and wines show de-
crease in their consumption.
The Turkish sui tan lately decided
that his 167 wives should be vaccinated.
A doctor was called to the harem, and
he stood on one side of a tenn porary
wooden wall, through which hole was
bored. No outsider is ever permitted
to gaze upon the faces of the sultan's
wives. An arm of each woman was
passed through the aperture, and the
them all without get
ting a glimpse of their faces.
"A correspondents at Christiania gives
an account of a very curious phenom-
enon witnessed from the top of Gausta
(height 5000 Norwegian
feet), in Telemarken, south of Nor
way. He says that early in the even
ing, after heavy fog, a double rain
bow, forming complete circle, seem
ngly about thirty feet distant, was |
in the heavens. Continuing |
further he adds: I'm the middle of this
circle we all appeared as black, erect
md nearly life-size silhouettes. The
outlines of the silhouettes were so sharp
hat we could easily recognize the fig
ires of each other, and every move
nent was reproduced.
The price of food varies as greatly
n European as in American cities. Ac-
'ording to the London Times, prime
'eef averages in Vienna 16 cents a
,ound, in Prague Is cents, in Rome and
Budapest II cents, in Paris "a and 80
ents. in Lille "a cents. Flour in Buda-
'est sells for ~ cents; for cents in
'aris, Frankfort and Florence; for 4
ents in Berlin; for ~ cents in Lille.
bread in Lille costs 2% cents a pound
nd in Berlin ~ cents. Potatoes are
lnder 2 cents pound in all the cities
kept Hamburg. Rice ranges from 2s<
ents a pound in Brussels to 10 cents
lsewhere. In Brussels coffee is had
rom the Dutch colonies for 2sA cents
pound, while in Berlin it is 32% cents
nd In Paris (roasted) so ts.-Balti-
1ore Sun.
THE RAJAH OF SARAWAk.
low the Son of an English Clergyman
Became an Eastern Potentnfa