The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-06-11

"A p8IbflQ8o VIVA WuAoo wings AnH
been eIuding the best English sports
men about Ledbury.
A municipal Council in France has
ordered its proceedings to be reported
by photograph.
Diamonds are not dug out of the
ground, but are generally found In
narrow crevices of rocks.
In the Bank Of England there are
many silver ingots which have lain I'M
touched for nearly 200 years.
Alaska has seacoast Of 26, 900 miles,
exceeding that of the remainder of the
United States two and half times.
Opium eating has become habit
with the Kafirs in South Africa. The
Chinese are the chief purveyors of the
drug.
It is said that in some of the farming
districts of China pigs are harnessed to
small wagons and made to draw them.
We cannot see the sun itself, we see
only the cloud or vapor shell that
covers it like the mantle Of Wells
bach burner.
The Chinese dictionary, compiled by
Pa-cut-she, 100 years b. O., is the
most ancient Of any recorded in liter
airy history.
In this great and glorious land of
the free you always have to pay for
the drinks in order to get whack at
the free lunch.
A woman may wear boomers, ride a
| wheel, bet on the races, stand up in a
street car and still be no gentleman.
In recently designed pocketknife
the inner end of the blade is made
with a semi-circle of teeth, which
mesh in sliding rack in the back of
the knife, operated by sliding knob
at the side of the handle to open and
close the blade.
A newly discovered spot on the sun,
visible now, is said to be 500 miles
in diameter.
Chocolate is still used in the inte-
rior of South America for a currency,
as are cocoanuts and eggs.
In the jungles of Sumatra the larg-
est spiders are found. Some of the
largest specimens measure eight inches
across the back and have seventeen
inches of leg spread.
Temper lamp chimneys by putting
them in a pan of cold water on the
range and bringing the water to boil,
letting the glasses cool in the water
after being removed from the heat If
the brass catches are not too tight,
breakages will be few.
A correspondent of the Westminster
Gazette calls attention to the curious
juxtaposition of twofnger posts at
tached to public house near Bridg-
end. One reads ''To the Asylum"
and the other ''To the Cemetery"
Some of the oldest trees in the world
are to be found in Great Britain. The
tree called William the Conquerer's
Oak, in Windsor Park, is supposed to
be 1900 years old. The famous Bent
ley and Win farthing oaks are at least
two centuries older.
The longest continued cataleptic
sleep known was reported from Ger
many in 1892. It continued four and
one-half months.
The leaf of a creeping moss found
in the West Indies, known as the ''life
plant" is absolutely indestructible by
any means except immersion in boiling
water or the application or a red hot
iron.
Lemon extract has become favorite
beverage !. with the Ponca Indians,
owing to the quantity of alcohol it
contains, and it is said that they have
been able to get roaring drunk on
fifty cent bottle.
-Corks are being made for medicine
bottles which will drop the liquid in
stead of pouring it,, an air inlet being
cut in opposite sides of the cork with
bulb over the air inlet to control the
air vacuum inside the bottle.
''How is the young king getting on
in his studies?" inquired one member
of the Spanish cabinet. WELL" re-
piled the other, she doesn't seem to
hrve nearly as much trouble with geog-
raphy as we have. Washington Star.
Hicks = sThat was Mr.. Blank.
Strange you didn't know him His
picture has been in all the papers.
Wicks-"Th was probably the rea-
son why I didn't recognize him.
Boston Traveller.