The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1894-02-10
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

"a Partisan shoplifter carried q
bogus baby with her during her preda-
tory excursions. The infant had a wax
face and hollow leather body. 1t was
the thiefs custom to dexteronsly trans
fer purloined articles, such as gloves,
laces, etc, to the spacious baby, which
usually gained much in weight during
these little excursions
The Woman's Suffrage association
of Belgium shows, by the latest census
held in Europe, that the continents
population comprises ITO, SIS, 561 males
and l74,9l4. 119 females, the latter's plu-
rality being 4.095,5ss. Among sixteen
European nations the female sex pre-
dominates most strongly in Portugal
and Norway, least in Belgium and
France. Chicago Herald.
"A Proconsul was originally Ro-
man Consul, who at the close of his
term Of Office was sent to govern a
province. Exceptions were often made,
however. and in later times it was not
required that the proconsul should
have been a consul. The proconsuls
We're, however, when they had not
been consuls, appointed from the MEM
bers of senate and held office year
or longer, If the senate SO directed.
AT Canton the average number of
executions is about 300 per year, but
in 1885 $4,000 rebels were beheaded.
Females are sometimes strangled and
the worst criminals are nailed upon a
cross. Sometimes the sentence directs
that the criminal, while living, shall oe
cut into number of pieces, which
number never exceeds thirty-six. The
headsmau formerly received 81 a head.
but the supply and competition has re-
duced the wage to 80 cents apiece.
Most OF the criminals who are be-
headed are water pirates or land band
its.
lin Turkey the first press copy of a
is read by an agent of the
censor, SO that Turkish journalism is
carried on under great Inconvenience.
The paper is often much delayed by
the failure of the inspecting official to
arrive at the time set for going to |
press. If there is any article in the
paper that is likely to be displeasing
70 the heads of the government the
'orm in which it is made up
must be taken out and changed. All |
;he space must be filed too, for it is |
lot allowed that blanks shall indicate
where condemned article was taken
nut.
British husbands, when their din
Ter parties turn out failures, are apt
% grumble at their wives for the cooks
but they abstain from
he practical style of rebuking prac-
iced by the celestials Recently the
'hinese professor at a university gave
national banquetto fellow professors
nd WAS much put ont because the
cookery was not to his taste. After a
ime he got up, bowed solemnly, said:
Go lickee wife," and departed, re-
urning presently, smiling as blandly
S usual, after having administered
udicious chastisement to his better
aIf.
Recent discoveries in Egypt and
haldea, says Mr.. Boscawen, indicate
hat, although the monuments there
AIRY us back about 5000 years before
ne Christian era, they do not consti-
ute the limit of our sources of history.
hey indicate the origin of these peo-
lie to have been in western Persia.
.urdistan and Luristan show more
ncient remains than have been studied
! any part of the world. The old
abylonian civilization and Chinese
vilization both came probably from
lis region, and it may yet yield us
of time far earlier than any
lat we yet know of.