The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1894-04-07
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

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The British government has neen
furnishing Buckingham palace Win
an entirely new drainage system ana
has redecorated IL inside and improved
1t generally. At present the palace
with its grounds, is estimated TO DC
worth $50. 900, 900, aside from It's valua-
bic art collections.
France will soon adopt an inter-
esting innovation in the postal cara
system. The cards will be issued IN
the form of check books with stubs.
The sender of che postal card can make
memoranda of its contents on the STUD,
and can have this stamped at the post
Office before the card Is detached. SO
that .. verified record Of the correspond
ence can be kept.
An invitation to dinner in Japan
commences as follows: II beg PARDON
for thus insulting you, in begging your
company at my house to dinner. Inc
house is small and very dirty. Our
habits are rude, and you may not get
anything fit to eat; and yet nope tnae
Won will condescend to be present Win
us at six O'clock"
The Egyptian minister OF puo.o
works proposes that Sir benjamin
Ba,ser. M. Boulc, of Paris, and Signor
Torriceli of Rome, should be invited
through their respective governments
to proceed to Egypt in order to study
and advise upon the question OF reser'
voir for storing the water of the Nile
and utilizing it for irrigation during
the months whe n the river is atits low
est.
Although French law prohibits
women from going about disguised II
mems clothes, except when they have
: obtained permission from the prefec
of police, curiously enough, there is NJ
lleo:,l obstacle to men parading TN
$ streets in women's clothes. This fac
: has lust been brought to light BY tn
: paris courts, which have acquitted
9 man named Florentin Gosreider, WI
L was charged with wearing an unat
g thorized disguise with the OBJECT
q concealing himself from the pursuit
= revengeful wife.
. in the courtyard Of the palace Q
Versailles is clock with one hant
- called III Horloge dc la Mort du Roi
II contains no works, but consis
y merely Of a face in the form OF SUI
- surrounded by rays On the deatn Oh
!" king the hands used to be set TO u
o. moment of his derrise and RENAME
40 unaitered till his successor had ]olnt
az him in the grave. The custom orig
=, mated under Louis Mi. and continue
~ till the revolution. II was revived
III the death of Louis AVIIi-, ana u
og hand still continues fixed on the pr
az else moment of that monarch's deaf
~ A French physician, DIR. Qu'ntal
- has invented the ''tronometer, a
vice for gauging the trembling
p, nervous people. This instruments &C
sists of a metal plate pierced WI
~. twenty holes of different sizes n
.i0 graduated scale. and needle viii
the patient endeavors to put mo
holes. When he has succeeded
~. placing the needle in hole, he CO
~, p]etes an electric contact and ring
y" hell The immoderate use OF col
mr. stimularts. as well as lead or IN
curial poisoning, produces trembiil
va which can be tested with this sim
appliance
The most pernicious winds are
: to saihieis' OF nv -. .- tl,o cor
.ra west and bring with them inhl
he. quantities of fine dust, which pr
,rs trates even the minutest crevice-
%. thermometer often rises to one
80 1red and twenty-five during their
To- t;nuance. and thousands of human
80 ings have been known TO perish I
IT, .uffocation in the fiery blast IT
80 ono of these samiels that DESTROYED
ne r, army of Scnnacherib. Alexander
'''' threat nearly lost his whole forc'
..h. another and the army OF Campyso
- Il utterly annihilated.