The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1894-03-03
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

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The last new stage performance for
children is shaving. An eight-year-old
girl, daughter of the champion shaver
of the world" who gives exhibitions OF
rapid work at the London Aquarium,
had been shaving thirteen men in ten
minutes every night until the law STOP
ped her to investigate.
On the island of st. George, one OF
the Pribylov group in Behring sea, the
breeding of blue foxes has become very |
profitable. They generate very rapid
ly, and when an island of good size
once becomes we'll stocked it is impos-
sible to deplete it, as the law provides
that thew must not be shot, but trapped,
the restriction being imposed mainly to
keep them tame.
The effort to have Joan OF Arc
canonizcd will probably fail. The OPP
position says there is no evidence OF
heroic virtue or of the sacred character
necessary for the insertion OF a name
in the calendar. No miracles have been
worked by her intercession, and most
of the signs demanded by the Congre-
cation OF Rites are wanting. The fer
vor of French Catholics in her behalf,
therefore, is apt to be disappointed.
1T is estimated that from four to
seven hundred thousand mummies were
embalmed in Egypt during about three
thousand years. So the supply, though
seemingly sufficient is not inexhausti-
BILE. The demand is from modern trav-
elers who add them to collections OF
c-a-brac, and the prices range from
sixty dollars to five hundred dollars,
the former for baby sizes, and the lat
ter for notables and finer specimens
The London police grew out Of the
night watchmen established in the
metropolis by Henry III. in 1858, an
order of things which. continued down
to the first quarter of the present CEN
fury. Many persons still living can
recollect the Anticipated individuals
who did duty in that force in the early
days of the century, and whose chief
duty appeared to be to disturb the
nights rest by calling out at each hour
the time and state of the weather.
I Paris tradesmen who sell photo
graphs say that the pictures of promi-
neut men are very little in demand
nowadays. They are seen so often in
the illustrated papers that photographs
no longer GO The actresses and fash
ionable women, of all social grades,
are eagerly bought, not by their adj
mirers among men mainly, but by
dressmakers of the second class in Paris
and the provinces. The latter buy the
photographs to study the patterns.
"A house servant in Vienna says he
committed his various crimes, includ.
ing robbery and attempted murder,
because of the maddening effect OF
being required to shave off his mus,
tache. The woman who engaged him
made it condition that his upper LIP
should be clean shaver and the man
agreed under protest. After five years
he had been discovered to be a Grim
inal, and in his confession he says that
his motive was to revenge himself or
his mistress for the wound she gave his
manhood.
|! Eight cars loaded with human hail
, arrived in Paris recently, consigned t.
: dealers in that merchandise. The hail
! came from India and China, whenc,
, thousands of pounds are annually sen
i to England and France. This traffic,
!. foreign medical journal says, is thu
: cause of the introduction of many dis
I eases in Europe. The hair is cut from
persons after death in China, and, al
h though it is disinfected upon arrival il
. France, it often carries the germs o
= disease. Asiatic hair, owing in part t
. its coarseness, can be purchased cheap
Il ly.-Philadelphia Telegraph.
!. The total production of coal il
!. Belgium in 1892 was 1883, 173 metri
/ tons, the average value being stated a
4 n96 per ton. The total number Q
employees, taking the average for tn
v year, was 11S,57s. of whom So, 500 wer
g employed below ground. and 2e,T72 o
q the surface. 1t is stated that the nun
r Der of women employed below under
h ground is decreasing, and it is hope
that the employment of women, e,
e sept on the surface, will soon cease a
IS together. Wages have shown sligf
70 decrease, the average amount paid pc
d head last year, including all employs
d in and about the mines, having bee
le 1887 against SOS. so in 1892. Eve
IS with such low wages trade was M
d rerv profita BILE, for the average prof