The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1894-03-24
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: An Australian paper speaks highly
Of the attempt to cultivate arrOwroot
in tropical Queensland, and there Is
every chance that the plant will be as
successful there as it is in the Bermu-
das. After unsuccessful trials OF other
varieties. il was found that the Gamma
edulis was best suited to the climate OF
Queensland.
Ten minutes after Duffy had mar
ried Miss Kelly in Liverpool he began
objections to her treatment Of one OF
the male guest" Before night was
over Mrs. Duffy had fed to a neighbor's
house with both eyes black and her
nose bleeding, and although tenn
porary reconciliation was effected the
next morning she vanished for good
and all.
An increased impulse to flax cul-
tnrc in Scotland seems likely to be
given by the invention of machinery
for scutching the fax. A well-known
arm in Leeds is manufacturing newly
invented machine which is said to work
to per feet satisfaction. yielding good
fiber, with very little tow, and without
breaking or damaging the tendcrest
fiber Of the fax.
One hundred and seventeen cats
were exhibited at the exposition organ
lied by the Cat club of Brussels, an in
crease Of twenty-seven over the expo
sition of 81. In the interesting collec-
ton there were Eve Siamese beauties,
three Isle of Man tailless Toms, two
wild cats, eight blue cats, fifty-four
short-haired cats, forty long-haired
cats and two of the heaviest and big
gest cats in the world.
The Hungarian prime minister has
succeeded in re-estab lishing royal
court in Buda Pesth. Hitherto, when
the emperor of Austria, as king OF Hum
gary, came to visit the capital OF Hun.
gary, he took his Austrian household
with him. Henceforth the Hungarian
lords are to surround him Upon all
ceremonies in Buda Pesth, and they
will also attend him at ceremonies in
Vienna, side by side with their Austrian
counterparts
Another communist colony 10 to be
started in East Africa. Everything
viii be managed by voluntary groups
of self-governing men, who will own
all they can raise, but have no exclu-
sive right to the land. Twenty mem-
bers Of all nationalities, including En-
glish and American, will soon sail from
Hamburg to settle at the Falls OF
Hagazo, $50 miles from the sea. Other
parties will soon follow. Each man
subscribes $3.50.
The dairy farmers of Australia are
confronted with the margarine ques-
ton, which has the most serious import
TO the farmers of Victoria. The great
margarine question is just now agitat-
ing the mind of the British farmer.
Upon the settlement of the struggle
going on in the British butter market
as to which is to win, butter or mar
garine. will largely depend on the con-
tinuance of good prospects for the Vic
toria dairying industry.
Last September Sarah Bernhardt
was robbed of fifty thousand dollars
worth of jewclry in Rio Janeiro. and
the suspected thief was tried for. it.
The Paris Evenement published pre-.
tended interview with Sarah in which
she confessed that the whole thing
was an advertisement. This article
had the effect after it reached Rio OF
causing the prisoner to be discharged.
Now that Sarah has returned to Paris
she sues for six thousand dollars dam
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