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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-03-14

A Keokuk butcher gives
away a chrome with every ten
pounds of meat.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-03-14

GA San Francisco masked
ball was attended by a young
4adyiwho personated Nicotine.
Her dress was made of tobac-
co leaves, her necklace was
cigars, and she carried a fan
and parasol constructed of the
weed.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-03-14

"A Minister of the Gospel
has favored the st. Louis Dem
rocrat with a libel suit. Fifty
thousand dollars is the sum.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-03-14

The temperance excitement
is spreading in the West,
Pennsylvania and New Eng
land.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-03-14
Subscription, So in Advance.
1000 oranges in Iowa.

Diamonds have been discov-
cred in Australia.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-03-14

A Trinidad, Colorado, mob
thought it best to hang a man
who had murdered a woman
because she owed him 81.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-03-14

Jericho, Conn, has a new
post-office. It is about time if
it is the Jericho we read of.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-03-14

i. Many negroes who left Geor-
aia for Mississippi are return
ing to their old homes.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-03-14

The demand for postal card S
has settled down to nine mil
lions per month.
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In Keokuk a young ladies'
society has been formed to
hunt up husbands who remain
at 'the lodge" after II p. m.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-03-14

The Duke of Somerset, from
England, has been sojourning
and hunting in Bent County,
III Colorado, for some weeks
past. He gets s25o,00o a year
for being his fathers son.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-03-14

O1flc1al Journal OIL faftsh ana @taAes
BY w. H. SCANLAND.
Subscription, So in Advance.
1000 oranges in Iowa.
Diamonds have been discov-
cred in Australia.
A Keokuk butcher gives
away a chrome with every ten
pounds of meat.
A death notice in a Spring
field (Mass.) paper has the
strange final words, Burial
private
The Hon. Fernando Wood
never plays poker. It is his
brother, the Hon. Ben. Wood
who is a great expert.
An American vessel was
boarded by Spanish officers
and searched off Matanzas.
It. is a lamentable fact that
a sexton in Troy has run
away with $4,000 iu pew rents
The temperance excitement
is spreading in the West,
Pennsylvania and New Eng
land.
The demand for postal card S
has settled down to nine mil
lions per month.
Jericho, Conn, has a new
post-office. 1t is about time il
it is the Jericho we read of.
= In keokuk a young ladies
society has been formed to
hunt up husbands who remain
at "the lodge" after II p. m.
The Duke of Somerset, from
England, has been sojourning
and hunting in Bent County.
III Colorado, for some weeks
past. He gets s25o,ooo a year
for being his fathers son.
Minneapolis, March 2.-The
Lltchheld House, at Thompson
Minnesota, burned last even
ing. Loss, $4,000.
st. Louis, March "a fire
at West KANSAS City yester
day burned four buildings. in
Guiding the Continental Hotel,
saloon and restaurant, and the
4Laclede Hotel. Loss, $4,000
Vasques andyhis gang rob
bed the passengers of the Los
Angeles stage near Soledad
on Friday, and got three hun.
dred dollars. AT Soledad they
robbed a store and stole six
horses from a sta BILE; then rob.
bed a teamster and started fol
the mountains.
The farmers around Kyne.
ton, Australia, were no sooner
thoroughly frightened by
swarms of locusts than thou-
sands of voracious crows
swooped down and ate the
plague.
GA San Francisco masked
ball was attended by a young
1adyfwho personated Nicotine
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The farmers around Kyne-
ton, Australia, were no sooner
thoroughly frightened by
swarms of locusts than thou
sands of voracious crows
swooped down and ate the
plague.
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missioners be and are hereby au-
thorized and required to negotiate
a loan OF money from time to
time if required to promptly pay
the salaries and expenses OF the
Metropolitan Police Department
when from any cause or at any
time there is not sufficient funds
to its credit in the hands of the
fiscal agent; that the rate of in
terest for any loans so negotiated
under the provisions Of this act
shall not exceed one per cent a
month and as security for the pay
ment OF money thus borrowed,
said Board of Police Commission.
ers is authorized and empowered
to pledge by written contract the
tax due and to be collected for the
support and maintenance of the
Metropolitan Police Department
from the respective cities, town
and parishes composing the Me
tropolitan Police District.
Sec. 8. Be it further enacted,
ETC., That the treasurer of the
Board OF Police Commissioners
shall be required to pay salaries
of the members of the Metropoli-
tan Police force within i've days
after receipt of money! for such
purpose from the fiscal agent. The
members of the police force shall
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-01-08
How Long Shall we Sleep.

The fact is, that as life becomes con-
centrated, and its pursuits more eager,
short sleep and early rising becomes
impossible. We take more sleep than
our ancestors, and we take more be-
cause we want more. Six hours sleep
viii do well for a plowman or brick
layer, or any other man who has no
exhaustion but that produced by man
ual labor, and the sooner he takes it
after his labor is over the better. But
for man whose labor is mental, the
stress of the work is on the brain and
nervous system, and for him who Is
tired in the evening with day of mem
tai application, neither early to bed or
early to rise is wholesome. He needs
letting down to the level of repose.
The longer the interval between the ac-
tive use of the brain and his retirement
to bed, the better his chance of sleep
and refreshment. To him an hour after
midnight is as good as two hours before
it; even then his sleep will not so COM
pletely and quickly restore him as it
will his neighbor who is physically
tired. He must not only go to bed
later, but lie longer; his best sleep pro-
baby lies In the earlier morning hours
when all the nervous excitement has
passed away, and he is in absolute rest.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-01-08

MEANING OF THE HANDs.-Profound
study has led NJ. de Arpentigny to the
conclusion that the hands represent
three types. Those who have fingers
with pointed tips are possessed of
rapid insight into things are extra
sensitive and pious, impulsive. This
class belongs to the poets and artists.
To the ''square tops" belong scientific
people; sensible, self-contained char
acters, professional men. The spade
shaped tops-thick tips, with little pads
of flesh on each side of the nails-are
materialists, commercial, practical, with
a high appreciation of all that tends
to bodily ease and comfort. Each fin
ger, mo matter what the kind of hand,
has also one joint-that which is near
est the palm-representing the body /;
anoEher-the middle-the mind, and the
top the sonl- Each of these divisions
corresponds with one of the types above
given.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-01-08
Lighting.


The length of a fash of lightning is
generally greatly under-estimated. The
longest known was measured by NJ F.
Petit at Toulouse. This flash was ten
and half miles long. Arago once
measured a series which averaged from
seven to eight miles in length. The
longest interval ever remarked between
flash and the report was twenty-five
seconds, which would correspond with
district of fourteen miles. Direct re-
searches have shown that a storm is
seldom heard at greater distance than
from seven to ten miles, while the aver
age are barely heard over four or five
miles off This fact is the more curious
as cannon may be distinctly heared
double or treble that distance, and in
special cases much further. During the
bombardment of Paris, in the winter of
1870, the Krupp guns, which had been
left over from the Exposition of 1867,
was heard at Dieppe, a distance of
eighty-fOur miles. Arago states that
the firing at Waterloo was audible at
CreiI, one hundred and twenty miles
! distant,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-01-08
strike Of LOCOMOTIVES Engineers and
Firemen.


The telegraph brings intelligence Of
a simultaneous strike Of locomotive en-
gineers and fremen On the Pennsylva-
mia Central. st. Lotus, Indianapolis and
Yincsnnes, Jacksonville, Madison and
Indianapolis, Panhandle, Pittsburg,
Fort Wayne and Chicago, Erie and
Pittsburg, Cleveland and Pittsburg, and
Great Eastern railways. The cause Of
the strike was a reduction of ten per
cent. IN wages from Dec. 1. This re-
duction includes the salaries of all Off
Gals, clerks, contractors, engineers and
others employees. The engineers con-
cluded to demand a restoration of the
former prices, and if not granted to de-
clare a general strike, which has been
done. The strike causes great inoon-
venience, but every effort is being made
by the different companies to fill the
places of the strikers, and it is thought
that all trains will soon be running
again with usual regularity. No dis
turbance has taken place, but an at
tempt to throw Panhandle train off
the track is reported.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-01-08
A Legal Point.


A poor apprentice IN Berlin was lucky
enough at the last drawing of the state
lottery to win one-fourth of the great
prize. His principal, who knew that
the lad had no money Of his own, or
nothing like the amount required to go
for one-fourth (forty thalers would be
about the price Of a ticket, pressed his
apprentice to confess where he obtained
the money for this purpese- The win
ner penitently acknowledged Is was the
produce q a sale Of piece Of goods
stolen from his employer. The princi-
pal now claims the lottery prize as his
property. The bay's relati0nss ON the
other hand. object to its surrender, and
the legal profession viii be called upon
decide point which has probably never
been raised before.
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The Isles Of the BEST.

SA~ 1850 "a SA$ e@~NNea
Lends VVhieh Vvhiie mans Foot Has
Never Tr0d-
Tie cruisers engaged in Watching
the expectation Of labOrerH from islands
of the South Pacific ocean fell in with
strange places and strange people. At
New Hanover, Capt. Simson, of her
maiesty's ship Blanche, found men and
women very much In a state Of nature
he thinks that they had never before
been visited by white men. They were
ignorant Of the use of tobacco, and any
old pieces Of paper were taken by them
in preference to the usual trade articles.
Both men and women came along IN
great numbers, and showed no fear.
They had little or nothing for barter
except spears. They appeared good
humered, but are arrant thieves. a
party of officers landed, and except that
their pockets were picked were in no
way molested. Capt. Simpson. when
off the coast of New Britain, took an
opportunity Of perpetuating his name
and that of his ship. He found two
spacious bays or harbors with good an
chorage, land-loeked, and sheltered
from all winds. One, which he has
called Blanche bay, has been formed by
the upheaYing of three volcanic noun
tains called the Mother and Daughters
the lava poured down in past ages has
formed two points which he mentions
as Point Sulphur and Point Bridges.
Simpson Harbor, about five miles long
and three wide, lies between Point
Bridges and the main land he believes
there is space, with from twenty to
twenty-five fathoms Of water, for the
navies of the world to anchor in.
About a mile south from Point
Bridges, with deep water round them,
are two remarkable. sandstone rocks,
both standing on the same base, which
is about quarter of mile in circum-
ference, and edged with coral, the gap
between them being covered by few
feet of water. The largest of these
rocks is sixty or seventy yards in cir
conference, and rises perpendiculafly
TO height of nearly two hundred feet,
and though there is not vestige of
soil upon it, stunted trees cling here
and there TO its perpendicular sides,
and on the small platform at its base
there are few cocoanut trees. But the
most remarkable thing that is clustered
on the narrow ledge which surrounds
these rocks and which is partly under
water, is a village containing about two
hundred inhabitants, who evidently
support themselves by fishing. Many
of these houses are built in the water
: on piles. They had numerous canoes
moored around them. Capt. Simp-
son has named those rocks the Beehives.
| They form an additional protection to
Simpson Harbor He found in the Nj.
> garik group of islands only one inhab.
tied, and the people have a short his.
4 tory. There are about hundred Of
, them, and no less than sixty are chill
= dren. The people say that about forty
t years ago a captain from Sydney tool
: the island and destroyed the inhabit
t ants, or nearly every soul some years
l after that q man named Paddy came
: with some natives of Ponope island anG
: settled there, claiming the island as hi
T own, and the population has since rap
s idly increased. What has become o
: Paddy is not stated. London Times.
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Spiders.

We do not believe there is much hui
man affection wasted upon the spider :;
nevertheless it is a very useful creature,
and should not be despised. Its speci-
fic Office is to prevent the dangerous
multiplication of winged insects. En-
trapping flies is its forte; and it has
been remarked that { if spiders should
strike, and for a single month in sum-
mer refuse to set their traps, we could
hardly defend ourselves against armies
of noxious insects that would take pos
session of our dwellings, Neverthe-
less, there may be such thing as too
many spiders In the world-a POSSIBLE
ity against which nature has provided.
When spiders are thickest and busiest
catching flies, large peculiar-looking
fly appears upon the stage of action,
and adroitly seizes the spiders wherever
they are found. These spiders are
slowed away in secret cells to be food
for young flies. Thus there is compen-
sation all around.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-01-08

THE ACTION OF ANTIsEPTIC SUBsrAN-
oEs UPoN VRUs.-M. Davaine has re
Gently examined the following sub
stances, which he classes in regard to
their power as antisepties in the sub
joined order: Ammonia, silicate of
soda, ordinary vinegar, and carbolic
acid; then caustic potash, chloride of
oxide of sodium %, hydrochloric acid,
permanganate of potash, chronic acid,
sulphurie acid, iodine. The power of
ammonia, of vinegar, and of carbolic
acid being represented by 1000, that of
iodine would be by liz, 600. Iodine
should therefore be considered as the
best antiseptic to be employed in the
treatment of maladies such as malig-
nant pustule, boils, carbuncles, and the
like, when, not having become local
lied under the form of a simple pus-
tule, they had taken up q certain extern
sion. Injections of 5000 of iodized
water are recommended.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-01-08

PUNCHING HoLEs IN STRAPs.-Phe
punching of holes through the various
straps of harness for buckle tongues
and for attaching the buckles, is a mat
ter of considerable importance, and
does not, as n rule, receive the atten-
tion that il should. The cid method of
punching them from the upper or grain
side of the leather has been generally
abandoned by the manufacturers of
fine work, il being deemed injurious to
the leathei. The principal objection
arises from the liability OF the grain Of
the leather to crack from the strain on
the buolxle-tongue, and to be the cause
eventually of the leather tearing, as Il
causes such crease where the tongue
catches that it Injuries the texture of the
leather, and making il tear the hole
more or less. In addition to this, If the
leather is very strong, the tongue Of the
buckle is sure 10 be bent ont of shape.
All these objections can be obviated by
punching from the under or flesh side
of the strap, and Sy using punch the
long sides being parallel with the length
of the strap. The punch should be set
at an angle of about twenty degrees,
cutting the hole at such an angle that
the buokle-tongue viii rest on it with
out throwing any strain ON the inside Of
the leather. Some object to punching
the hole from the under side on account
of its forcing the grain out, and thus
dishguring the outside edges of the
hole. This can be corrected, however,
by driving the punch through the hole
from the outside, which win cut away
the slightly turned edge of the grain
and set il down smooth and clean. Il
is not necessary, however, TO repunch
any holes except those that viii be ex-
posed when the harness is complete.
Punches should be as thin as possible,
as the extra thickness Of the metal
strains thu leather.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-01-08

How TO FORETELL TIE WEATHER.-
An exchange has made an important
discovery, by means of which every
man can be his own :" Old Probabili-
ties" This is how it is to be done:
g If you wish to know whether it is GO
ing to storm or not. all you have to do
is to find the storm vortex and see
which side of it is the most moist.
Multiply this by the square of the lat
emit heat, subtract the time of the day,
and divide by the weathercock. The
result VIII be the ratification, plus the
thermometric evolution Of the north
pole-and then a wayfaring man, though
a natural knoW-nothing can tell what
VIII follow. How wonderful, and yet
how simple Is the economy Of nature
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-01-08

TO THE SUFFERING Am old retired
physician, who is candid enough to tell
the truth about progress, has declared
that the recent discovery by DIR. Walker.
of California, of his me licine. He has
tested them thoroughly, in his own FAM
lily, among his friends, and upon him
self and he is driven to the conclusion
that they possess rare and unexcelled
curative properties. He says of them /:
"They contain no dangerous drug.
They never reduce the patient-never
render one liable to take cold-never
interfere with everyday business of life
never make their continuous use
condition of cure, and are adapted to
even the most delicate organization.
They act as kindly on the tender infant,
the delicate female, or infrm old age,
as on the vigorous and athletic system !;
exercising healthful effects upon every
blood vessel-on the brain, nerves and
lymphatics-on the blood, bile, gastric
juice, etc., enriching Impoverished
fluids, and imparting vigor to mind and
body.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-01-08

TIE attention of our many readers is
called to the attractive advertisement OF
J. N. Harris & Co., advertising their
great and valuable lung remedy, Al
lens Lung Balsam." This balsem has
been before the public ten years. Not
withstanding this long period, it has
never lost one whit of its popularity, OF
shown the least sign Of becoming I'M
popular, but, on the contrary, the call
for it has been constantly increasing,
and at no previous time has the demand
been SO great, or the quantity made
been so large, as at this day. We earn
estly recommend its trial by any one
who may be afflicted with a cough or
cold, and we warrant il to cure if direc-
lions are followed. It is sold by all our
druggists.
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rRRFpARARLE.

The sorroW Of al sorIoWs
Was never sung or said
Though many poet borroWs
The mourning Of tie dead
And darby buries plrslsure
In some mslodioaa MEASURE
The loss Of youth is stdness
To all who think, OF feel
wound no after Elldnoss
Can ever wholly heal
And yet, 50 many share il.
We learn at last 70 bea,; it.
Toe faltering and the falling
Of friends - Eadder still
For friends, grown foes, assalling
Know when and where to kin
But souls themselves sustaining,
Have stiu friend remaining!
The death OF those who love us,
And those we love. Is sore;
But think they are above MS,
Or think they are no more
We bear the blows that sever,
We cannot weep foreyert
The sorrow OF all sorrows
Is deeper than an these,
And al thar anguish borroWs
Upon its Blended kneess
No tears nor prayers relieve it,
No loving VOWS deceive IT.
It is one day to waken
And ma thEt love II dcEn,
And cannot be 0'eFtGken,
And We are left alone:-
No wo that can be spoken.
No heart that can be broken.
No wish for loves returning.
or somsshing in its stead;
No miss .ng It, and yearning
AS for the dsarer dead:
No yesterday, no mOrrow,-
-gcriJsers.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-01-08

JEAN PAUL RICHTER says: To insure
modesty, would advise the educating
of the sexes together, for two boys will
preserve twelve girls, or two girls
twelve boys, innocent, amid winks,
jokes, and improprieties, merely by
that instructive sense which is the fore
runner Of matured modesty. But I will
guarantee nothine in school where
girls are alone together, and still less
where boys are"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-01-08

MANHkrTkE, Kan, April s 1878.
R. Y. PIERCE, Buffalo, II. =.
z1eGr aSir-Your favorite Prescription has
done my wife a world of good. She has taken
nearly two bottles and has felt better the past
two weeks than at any TINA 10 the past two
years. No moro periodical pains; none Of that
sching back or dragging sensation il her
stomach she has been accustomed TO Tor ssYe-
raj years I have 50 much confidence in It
that would be perfectly wiling to warrant 70
certain customers Of ours who would be glad
to get hold of relief at any expense. have
tried many patent medicines, but never had
any occasion to extol one before.
VERY truly yours,
GRO. B WHITING.
Mrs 4. R. DAILY, Metropolis, H. writes, Jan.
9Th. 1873:
"Dr. R. V. Pierce-Afy sister is using the
fsvorite prescription with great benefit"
NARY AK FR1sBIE, Lehman, Pa, writes, May
%, 1872:
DIR. r. Y. Pierce-What have taken OF
your medicine has been CT more benefit TO ne
than all others and hunh eds Of doctors bills"
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United Sac Finances.

a Glance at the Past--An Interesting
Table.
The following table, made up by the
New York Evening Post from figures
accompanying the report of the secre-
tary of the treasury, will be found in
teresting and valuable for reference.
The second colume Of figures shows the
amount of outstanding principal of the
public debt of the United States on the
list of January of each year mentioned,
and the third the gross expenditures of
the government for each fiscal year:
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-01-08

For throat diseases and affections of
the chest Browns Bronchial Troches are OF
value. For coughs, irritation Of the throat
caused by cold, or unusual exertion Of the vo-
cal organs, in speaking in public, or singing,
they produce beneficial results.