The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-04-01
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

I ~ oPP cSUst OiISu ulc II
and the Gruson gun mandatory, neal
Magdeburg, have been amalgamated
Krupp possesses the secret of the manu-
facture of the best steel for heavy guns
and the Gruson works have hitherto
produced the best armor plating il
Germany and the most effective armor
piercing projectiles in the world.
Statistics of the cost of the late gen
eral election in Italy show the amount
spent on treating" to aggregate q
total of 10. 600, 900 lire, about 81, 000, 600
In some districts the peasants had meal
and wine, all they cared for. at the
candidates expense. for whole weel,
before the election, and one candidate
is said to have spent1100, 900 lire fol-
electoral purposes"
The general surface of the Sahara,
although parched and fiery in summer,
wears mantle of green on all places
uncovered by arid sand after the first
autumnal rainfall. 1t keeps green all
winter, and from that verdure the
Bedouins derive their only means of
life, the food of their numerous herds
of cattle. which is the only tribute
which that immense waste pays to hui
mainly.
Successful experiments for the use
of the telephone in warfare have been
made in France. Telephonists have
been organized in sets of two men, each
set being provided with equipment for
n mile of telephone communication.
The receiving and transmitting appara-
tus is very simple. and is attached to
the cap, the wire is on reels, in the form
of a breastplate, and the whole equip
ment for each man weighs less than six
pounds.
An inmate of the Lambeth work.
house named Sheridan has been iden-
titled as the heir to a fortune, in real
and personal property, of $500, 600.
This fortune was awaiting him when
he entered the workhouse as pauper
several years ago, but the lawyers of
the estate could not locate him until
a few week ago. A sister of Sheridan's
father, a Mrs. Blake, died in 1858, in
testate, leaving property aggregating
$500, 900 in value, and Sheridan is found
to be the next of kin. He is an OLD
man. Two sons whom he has not seen
for some years he believes to be in
America.
The bark Gladys on recently-fn-
ished voyage from Iquique to Hamburg
passed a large iceberg in 40 deg. south
33 deg. west on which were the dead
bodies of five people. A very plainly
marked beaten track was noticed on the
northwest side of the berg, and rude
shelter, apparently cleft in the ice
One of the bodies lay just outside the
shelter and another in the pathway
leading to it. No signs of life could be
seen, and night coming on and the
place being densely packed with bergs,
The Gladys could make no investigation.
fhe impression was that the dead bod
es were those of shipwrecked people
whose vessel had probably been sunk
by contact with the berg, who had
on to it for safety and died
rom exposure and want.
-Bull-ighting statistics show that |
he Spanish sport does not decline |
Judging from the taurine statistics, |
pull fighting is not decreasing in Spain. |
During the present year the number of |
irst-class bull fights in important cities |
las been 2s9, the bulls killed being |
1874. There have also been s07 fights
# young bulls (novillos). in which
,4oT were slaughtered. OF the chief
ights 20 took place in Madrid, Is in
'eville, IL in Barcelona, and II in Va
encia. Two Observation-Disclosures
Tiled: of the espadas and banderillos
8 were more or less seriously wounded.
n each course from six to eight bulls
re killed; but recently in Madrid, in
ght which extended two days, IS were
nishcd off. On some days a dozen
orses, or even more, are gored to death.