The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-02-04
GENERAL BREVITES.

Plate Glass Company OF England, meas
uring 10 feet 5 inches long, and 10 feet
Sinches wide.
THE sspull-back" is very old. Hesiod,
upwards of twenty-eight hundred years
ago, wrote:
.Iet no fair woman tempt thy sliding mind
with garments gathered in knot behind.'
An effective cement for fastening
psper tickets to tin goods is said to con-
sist in solution of gum to which am
mouia has been added. Glue with
which small quantity of glycerine has
been mixed is another good cement.
An unbroken line of railway now ex-
tends from Mount Gems to Reggis op-
posite Messinia distance of 1880 miles.
passengers are ferried over between
Scylla and Charybdis in an hour, and
then proceed by rail to the southern ex-
tremity of Sicily.
next to oysters, Parisians like lob
sters and crawfish--the latter possessing
the advantage of being in season all the
wear round. The chief supply of lob
sters comes from Roscoff, in the depart
ment of Finisterre. After Paris, Belgi-
um, Russia and Germany are the best
customers.
A MEXICAN paper says that Mr..
Gerding, who has been prospecting in
that country for cabinet woods, has dis
covered three varieties of the walnut
white, red, and black-in great abund-
anre. OF these the black is the most
valuable, as it is curly in grain and as
fine as the European or South Sea ISL
and wood.
THE other day a new Funeral Re-
form Company in London got up a
mock funeral, hearse, sables, mourning
coaches, mutes, and all other trappings
Of woe, and paraded the streets, while
men on the foot-way distributed hand
bills, calling attention to the superior
way in which you might be buried.
IT is said that about $1,000 punches
Of violets are sold per day in Paris.
Their sale amounts to 100000 francs a
year. They are not in so much favor
now as they were during the Empire,
for the violet is looked upon as an i'm
perial flower. 1t is, therefore, a politi-
cal flower, and some people fear to be
thought Imperialists if they wear vio-
let in their button-hole.
AT the last discussion held at the Lit
erary Union of Bangalore, Hindostan, a
Brahmin pundit, who paid the society a
visit, stated, while contrasting the past
and the present state of civilization in
India, that there is clock in the Tin
nevelly district which was constructed
by natives 1900 years ago, and that it
is moved by large Jumps of arsenic. He
further stated that it is yet keeping
time, being kept in repair by the de-
scendants of the maker.
THE other day, while the workmen at
the sawmill, Camperdown shipbuilding
yard, in Dundee, Scotland, were en-
gagged cutting up large log of Quebec
yellow pine, they laid open several sec
tions of a wasp's nest. The nest being
near the center of the tree, the animals,
several thousand in number, must have
been enclosed for upward of a hundred
years. The prisoners are in good state
representation, and are evidently of the
wasp species, with very large wings ir
comparison to the size of the body.
THOSE who have affected to believe
that the affection of the dog was fol
persons and of the cat for places have
to consider the fact that the Pawnees
who recently left their reservation in Ne
braska for one in the Indian Territory,
were unable to induce their dogs to ac
company them. 1t was very reluctantly
that the Indians parted with their pets
but the dogs would follow but shor
distance and then return to the ole
camp. People from the reservation re-
port than hundreds of howling, yelpins
ours are running around the old camp
mg-grounds, hunting for something t.
DuRlNG one of the fairs in Paris, SOM
Years ago, Baron James de Rothschilt
was patron. CHANGING to pass stant
Where some pretty young ladies were in
stalled, he asked, in a bantering tone
well, my dears, what can do TO
you?" .Ah, Baron," said one, "yo1
can give us your autograph" "Witl
i Pleasure" responded the gallant oil
Baron. ''if you will preface it with al
agreeable sentiment" So the youn.
lady, without ado, wrote on a daint,
dip of paper: 81 thereby donate to -
charity ten thousand francs," and tn
Baron Immediately signed his name il
mlL and smilingly paid the amount t,
sae enterprising Partisan.
In IA work describing the present con
ution of the domestic Industries of Rus
va, NJ. Weschniakoff states that not les
.aan thirty millions of wooden spoon
| Ns annually made in that country, tn
aauustry having its great center in tn
ustrlct OF Semenow. Poplar, aspen
maple, and box are the woods used TO
l w purpose, and the cost of the spoon
,s 'aries from about IS to 800 per thou
so1Q. ..Jhn first onnrafion CONSISTS L