The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-03-11
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The scientific commission appointed
20 select site for q new capital for
Brazil consists of five civil engineers,
two astronomers, a naturalist and IN
expert in hygiene. The commission has
started for the central plateaus OF the
republic, where it hopes to find an ideal
site for the future greatest city OF
South America"
The oldest horticultural association
in Europe is the Royal Society OF Agri-
culture and Botany Of Client, estab-
lished in the year 1903. Its annual ex-
hibitions are always of great interest,
and every five years it holds interna-
tional exhibitions, the thirteenth OF
which is announced to open on the 10th
of April next and to close on the Esd OF
the same month.
The basis of Dickens 'Jarndyce
versus Jarndyce." the famous Jennens
case. in which claim is laid to one-hah
the ground of Birmingham, has been
rcopened. The property was valued at
nearly forty millions of dollars thirty
| wears ago, and is immensely more valu-
| able now. The new claimant is
| wealthy, has a car load of documentary
evidence, including hundreds OF certifi-
Gates of births, marriages and deaths,
and has also the opinion of one OF the
most eminent English lawyers that his
case is good.
Ever ON the lookout for fresh mar
kets, the New Zealanders have been at
tempting to get up frozen venison''
export trade with the old country. The
venture has proved disastrous The
average price obtained was ten cents
per pound, and out of all this charges
had to be betrayed. On the other hand,
Scotch and English venison was selling
at twelve cents Russian frozen dee'
fetches seven cents per pound on the
London market, so that the New Zea
landers will have to abandon any at
tempt at business in this direction.
| Mexico is land of mysteries, O
! statesmen, of scientists, of enormous
treasures and wealth unearthed, O
millions of acres untitled. In many
. places throughout the republic it is thu
! same to-day as it was upwards of thre'
, centuries ago. In its twenty-eigh
states and two territories there ar
nearly IL, 1000, 900 people, of which. mum
Der nearly three-eighths are Indians
!. Most of the others are mixture o
, Spanish and Indian blood, while Their
are, of course, some purely Spanisl
! people, and some English and Ameri
. cans.
IL There is a wonderful grapevine a
! Gaillac, q town in southern France
} Although the plant is only ten year
from the cutting. it has yielded a
q many as 1.247 punches of fine fruit in
single year. There is but one othe
: vine in cultivation that is known to ex
/ eel this prolific shrub, and that is tn
I historical vine at Hampton court, En-
!: gland, which was planted in 1863 L
o one year this noted vine has born
$500 punches. The fruit from this win
e is kept for the exclusive use of Quee
!, Victoria and her household, the SUI
! plus being made into wine for the sam
:. purpose.
81 The latest solution proposed fo
e the London fog and smoke nuisance
o is the use of gas for all cooking, heai
> ing and laundry purposes. The al
q thor of the scheme would make its us
:, compulsory. He estimates that
would cost only $40, 000. 900 to buy u
, the gas companies. and the cost of tn
Il new plant to enable the whole OF tn
"a Q, 0O0, 600 tons of coal now burned ]
London to be consumed as gas woul
be SIS, 200, 900 more. Gas as q resu
would be cheapened, smoke would di
appear, $50, 900, 900 would be saved on
right each year, and London life woul
be lived in sunlight by day and til
lovely glow of electricity by nigh