The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-06-29

GENERAL BREvITIES.
A FRENCH paraphrase Of the familiar
injunction "Keep dry" appears on a
case of fine goods intended for the Gen.
tennial Exposition. The inscription in
English is I" please beware for it of the
humidity"
You never hear Krupp, the Prussian
cannon-maker, say "Let US have
peace" but when couple Of nations
get to making up faces at each other,
he stands around and spats his hands,
and says "Seek 'em! seek 'em!'
"METHRALroN, the astrologer, "well
known to the British public, whom he
easily gulled, has been arrested and i'm
prisoned. For ten years he has been
advertising to streveal futures" and
supply glove talismans. In his house
10000 letters were found, many of them
being from people of rank.
A TAILOR of Trouville, France, be-
came so crazed through adversely that
he ran into the church of Bon Secours
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the altar. He hurled chairs at them,
and was so violent that the congrega-
ton was dismissed. In prison he tried
to commit suicide, and had to be taken
to the hospital, bound hand and foot.
THERE is an old lady near West
minister, Mass, who for fifteen years
has lived entirely alone. She is 50 years
old, and entirely blind. Yet she makes
her own fires in the old-fashioned fire.
place, prepares her meals, and does the
general work of the house. She owns
considerable property, but doesn't care
to squander any of it on hired help or
companions.
ACCORDING to the last census in Eng
land and Wales it was found that the
mortality among males employed in the
Potteries was thirty-eight per cent.
higher than the average death rate for
the whole community. Professor
Church, having incinerated the lungs
of potter, found that there existed in
the ash left the amazing amount of
forty-eight per cent. of silica, eighteen
per cent. of alumina, and five per cent.
of oxide of iron.
THE marvellous recuperation of
France is again proved by Leon SAYS
budget for 1877. In 1869, the last COM
plete year before the war, the revenue
amounted to 1,400, OOO, 600 francs; the
expenditure for 1877 is estimated at the
enormous sum of 2,12O, OOO, 900 francs,
which shows that in eight years the
taxation of France has increased so per
cent, the excess over last year expend-
iture being 100000 francs. For
the army and navy $50, 0O0,0 600 francs
are allotted, but for education only 49,
OOO,OUO francs.
HALLS Journal of Health thus sums
up some of the uses of salt: It will
cure sick headache, make cream freeze.
make the butter come, take ink-stains
out of cloth of any kind, kill wens, kill
worms, make the ground cool; so it is
more congenial to celery, cabbage, etc.
1t will cease the itching pain caused by
irritating skin diseases, like hives, itch,
etc. 1t will produce vomiting or stop
it, as you like; and many other things
too numerous to mention. All pure
salt will do this, to a certain degree,
but sea salt is the most efectual in its
action.
The Blumerberg will case, in San
Francisco, concerns the genuineness of
a signature. A professor Ct mathemat-
les was put on the stand to testify as to
what the lawyer called ssthe rule of
chances" by which the probability of
man varying from his custom in writ
ing his name could be computed. The
signature to the will had one letter
formed unlike the same letter in any
other writing by Blumerberg that could
be found, and the intention was to con-
vince the Jury of the improbability of
his having made an exception in that
instance. The Judge, however, would
not allow the Professor to expound the
''rule of chances
Two formidable instructions are now
disturbing the peace Of China. One is
IN Quang-tong, which has gained great
strength, the rebels having been joined
by the Imperial troops sent to quell
them. Several interior cities were
taken, and are now held by this body.
The second is in Shan-see, the impor-
lance of which may be estimated by the
fact that the Viceroy of Kansu is en-
deavoring to negotiate loan of 1O,OOO,-
OOO taels expressly to pay troops and
purchase arms and materials to subdue
1t. The payment of the loan is to be
secured by hypothecating the customs
OF ports on Yangtse River.
PROF. TERRIER, of Kings College,
London, who has made the phenomena
OF sleep special study, recently said
In lecture thereon that any thing
which has tendency to abstract blood
rom the brain favors sleep. Exercise