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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-02-14

The London fog has often been described so
often that II somebody had simply sent IN two
words the news that there was "a fog there, q
clever reporter might easily have written a
column about it, But the cleyercst would
despair Of producing such yiviS picture of the
re mes in London as that tecgraphod hy MT.
BENNnT's poetic correspondent. MIR. nrNNET
should encourage tins fertile writer to telegraph
at even greater length the products ofhis fanciful
mind.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-05-11
A Brief Essay on Mules.

The mule is the most unhealthy ami
NAL in the world-unhealthy to have
around.
He is continually possessed of a
yearning desire to stretch himself es-
pecially his hind legs.
No man ever sees mule kick him.
The man is usually seized with
obscured vision just at that juncture.
We have seen man get up after a
mule had kicked him Every rarely
though) and swear with both hands up
lifted that he didn't believe the animal
had stirred peg-he looked so inn
movable and unconcerned.
A mule is very ssquick' animal.
Great quantities of that substance lie
hidden away beneath his toe calks.
Caution-take our word for this, and
don't go hunting around in that vicinity.
You can't weigh mule with any sort
of accuracy.
An ounce Of mule weighs more than
a pound of any other live stock.
The mule is very headstrong beast.
He is likewise exceedingly heel
strong.
The mule-but blame mule any way !!
Chicago Journal.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-05-11

A MODERN bluebeard has turned up
in Brooklyn in the person of one Chas.
G. Schnaufer, wealthy but coarse and
brutal German. He had been four
times married, and suspicious have
arisen that all was not right in one or
two of the cases. His fourth wife, An
ME, he treated with unexampled bru-
.tality, and her disappearance within
the past few months has led to the
worst suspicious. Mr.. Tighe, . Brook
lyn lawyer, learning Of Schnaufer's in
tended fight to California, had him
arrested on q charge of murder, and the
result Of his examination has still fur
ther confirmed the spspicions of the Of
ficers. One of this interesting ruff
fans methods of torture was to starve
his wife, lock her up in her room, pour
hot candle grease in her eyes, put her
out in the yard on bitter cold nights.
Some time ago his grocery premises
were burned to the ground, and there
are many circumstances pointing to
himself as the incendiary. It is earn
estly hoped that the law may be pow
erful enough to mete out to this man
the vengeance which his cowardly vii
iany SO well deserves.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-05-11
A Contrary Ms J.

A farmer in this county, says ~. 81
Carolina paper, has 3 mule 20 ewe1
contrary that he can do nothing Ntka n
Put him in harness and it 4 hard e. +
which way he will travel. Puta snda
on him and he appears to doze, =
to mount him, and he will all a 81 =.
den begin to kick every way -sx
out, straddlebug, with al four
once. As to eating, he viii go
thing, from his feed-trough ~ "a
wooden saddle. The owner too
ton to have him shod, but -
out the blacksmith shop and r1n
home. The owner tried to ~
sometime back, SO he tied his 60
trace chain and rode him tx -
secutive days and nights - hAIN = > ;.
could under whip and spur. IT. y
is, that he nearly killed himself \ ~!
effort, and had to be carried NJ ..z
to bed, and his firm belief w. - =.
mule wqald die that night; bus 4 4 RS
astonishh ent, the next moEnm -
found that the mule had kcke4 ~ ri
q Chester sow weighing 500 p01nf y.
. piece out Of his horses shouiosfs rs
up q saddle, blanket, and bridlss e
down the fence, and WAS spluEg1.e e
more devilish than ever, TO ma !gs..s'
thing else meaner to do.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-05-11

The New York correspondent of the
Detroit Free Press, in writing OF Danlei
Drew's financial collapse, says: Inere
is food for reflection in the fact that al
most eyery man who has risen to emil
nenee as speculator in Wall Street
during the past twenty years has fallen
much more rapidly than he rose. VAN
derbilt is the only exception can think
of just now, but Vanderbilt never was
a speculator in the strict Wall Street
sense. His policy all along was to buy
only those stocks which he knew to be
valuable, and never to buy on mar
gin. When he bought stocks he paid
for them in full and then locked them
up in his safe. But the general rule Is
to sell short or go long on a margin,
and many a man has it brought to
grief. Among the monarchs OF the
the market who preceded Drew, or
were his contemporaries, one of the first
was Henry Keep, who made a large
fortune in a short time, lost the greater
part of it in less and then withdrew
from Wall Street, to die in compare
tive obscurity few years later. Wood
ward, a Brooklyn Sunday school Super
| intendent, next figured conspicuously,
and got jammed to jelly, so to speak,
| in the great Rock Island corner several
years ago. That was the last of him. jim
Fisk's career is too well known to need
any particular mention here. He was
supposed to be worth millions, but when
death snatched him, through the pistol
of Stokes, they quietly melted away te
thousands. Stockwell, the head of the
Pacific Mail clique, who almost ruled
the street few years ago, lost nearly
all he had made and has disappeared
altogether. Legrand Lockwood went
down as suddenly and is now almos
forgotten. A broker named Dimmocf
made sensation for short time as thu
leader of the Atlantic Mail speculation
but he, too, got swamped, and ever,
dollar he had made was swept away
, Jay Gould is the successor of these and
: several others. Luck has stood by hin
, thus far, but it will be strange if he
too, is not brought down in the lonl
) run. Fate seems to have ordained tina
every man who takes the leadership il
J Wall Street shall ultimately come Il
3 grief. Vanderbilt left the street lon|
5 ago, and he advised Drew to do tn
} same. But the fascination was to-
: strong for Uncle Daniel. He kept o.
: fooling between Scylla and Charybdis
e and one of them got the old man a
0 last. .
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-05-11
Strange Revelations BY the Microscope,

There is story that an eminent mi
croscopist had a bit of substance SUBJ
nitted to him to decide what it was.
To an unaided eye it might be q morsel
of skin which the baggage-smasher
knocked off the corner Of q smoothly
worn hair trunk. The savant appealed
to his microscope. Entirely ignorant
of this tiny bit Of matter, except as he
had taken council with his instrument,
the wise man declared that it was the
skin of human being, and that. judg-
ing by the fine hair on it, it was from
the so-called naked portion of the body,
and, further, that it once belonged to .
fair-complexioned person. The strange
facts now made known to the man Of
science were these: That thousand
years before, Danish marauder had
robbed an English church. In the spirit
of the old-fashioned piety the robber
was fayed Get us hope that he was
killed first), and the skin was nailed to
the church door. Except as tradition
or archaeological lore had it, the affair
had been forgotten for hundreds of
years. Time, the great erodent, had
long ago utterly removed the offensive
thing. Still, however, the church door
held to its marks of shame, the broad
headed nails remained. Somebody ex-
tracted one, and underneath its fiat head
was this atomic remnant of that ancient
Scandinavian melefactor's pelt--that
fair-skinned robber from the North.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-05-11

To PREVENT FLAT-IRoNs FRoN RUST
ING.-Melt / ounce Of camphor, and
pound Of fresh hogs lard over slow
fire; take off the scum, and mix as
much black-lead with the composition
as will bring it to the color Of iron.
Spread this over the articles for which
it is intended. Let it lie for "a hours,
and then rub it well with q dry linen
cloth. Or smear the iron over with
melted suet, and dust thereon some
pounded unslaked lime from q muslin
bag. Cover the irons with baize in a
dry place when not in use.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-05-11
A Good Joke on q Lawyer.

The ownership of dog was the sub
ject of litigation in GAINESVILLE, KY. and
there was a large attendance of coun-
trymen at the trial. Great things were
expected of the opposing lawyers,
Hurd and Dougall, who had been
hired at great cost to come from Louis
vile. Hurd was prompt, but Dougall
was delayed, and the Justice, being q
stickler for punctuality, decided that
the case must go on. All the evidence
had been taken when Dougan entered.
/" I'm afraid I'll have to lose my fee"
he whispered to Hurd, who responded,
sob, no; I'll give you the points Of the
evidence in two minutes, and you can
sum up just as well as though you had
been here from the start, Thereupon
Hurd told him that the trouble was
about trade of a dog for q jackass,
and pretended to give him the particu-
lars. The audience was impatient dur
ing the whispering, and was deeply at
tentive to the oratory when it began.
Dougan glowingly described the quail
ties of the dog, told affecting stories OF
his sagacity, and wrought his hearers
up to high pitch of enthusiasm. Then
he paused, wiped his heated brow, and
said, solemnly: "Now, gentlemen Of
the jury, we come to the jackass. y
Eh?" said the the justice. ssNow,' -
the orator repeated, with impressive
emphasis, tive come to the jackass.' =
You are the first jackass I've hearn
of in this CASE" said the justice, and
an outburst of laughter informed Dou-
gall how badly he had been sold. On
the way to Louisville he said to Hurd
81 will make an earnest effort not te
kill you, if you will promise never t.
mention this case;;" but Hurd said he
would risk his life rather than not tell
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-05-11
The Borax Lake Of California.

It appears that the incredulity with
which statements concerning the borax
lake have been received in England has
been considerably lessened by supplies
of the material coming to the London
market. The pottery districts are es-
pecially interested in the discovery. Ac-
counts set forth that very extensive
works are now nearly completed for the
refining and purifying of this borax for
shipment. Stimulated by the action Of
the railroad company, the Borax Com
pany has put up large works, and ex-
poets to turn ont from 20 to so tons OF
the mineral per day. The deposit OF
borax extends over an area of Is miles
in length by 6 to s miles in width COW
cred with crude borax to the depth of 8
to feet. The crude mineral averages
from 20 to 40 per cent. of the pure salt.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-05-11

CLEANING KNIvEs.-A small, cla6e
potato, with the end cut off, Save
convenient medium of applying brick
dust to knives, keeping 1t about nv /
right moisture, while the juice 81 ~
potato assists in removing stains ftun
the surface.
INDIAN CAKE, OR PoNE.-1 qusrt =
buttermilk, 4 teacupfuls of Indian mesi
2 Of wheat flour, tablespoonful 81 ~.
lasses or brown sugar, ! even tahle.
spoonful each of soda and salt. BAH 4
quick oven. This rule makes n
handsome cakes.
BATTER PUDDING.-1 quart So
rich milk, ~ tablespoonful flour, ! n.
tie salt, 8 eggs. Beat the eggs separstn.
ly, very light, and have the batter 81.
| fectly smooth. Bake quickly, and sana
to table Immediately. Serve with buI.
ter sauce.
SPONGE CAKE.-12 eggs, the Weie,e
Of 10 in white sugar, the weight 81 I 4
flour, the juice Of / lemon. Beat a.
ye1ks of the eggs with the suvsr IN
very light, add the whites, beaten q I
stiff froth, lastly the flour. This makaI
a large cake. 8
| SILVER CAKE.-1 pound whitesufur
pound flour, 6 ounces butter, wkitos
Is eggs. Rub butter and sugar toeetl.
er, add eggs, well beaten, then ilouT, Is.
to which put q measure of Horsford1
Bread preparation. Flavor with hittr
almond.
j To CLEAN THE INSIDE OF ATxA-Por..
LII the inside Of your teapot OK cofIte.
pot is black from long use, gu It Nh
water, throw in small piece u hara
soap, set on the stove and let Il bon
from half an hour to an hour. Il vim
clean as bright IS new dollar, m
costs no work.
| SCOLLOPED VEAL.-Chop cold cool
J ed veal fine, put q layer in baking
dish, alternating with . layer Of pow
dered crackers, salt, pepper and buita,
J until you fill the dish. Beat up : en-
add q pint Of milk, pour it over tAeys1l
and crackers. Cover with plats M
let the top brown. lss i
OLD-FAsHIONED INDIAN PuDuua.
. Scald pint of milk, turn it on 10 op
of Indian meal; egg, I cup Of moll1.
es, salt and cinnamon to tagte. Add
pint Of cold milk, and bake a,oui I
|. hours, stirring two or three times Will
cooking, so as to make It whsyey.
TEA CAKE.-a pound dom, ! pond
butter, / pound sugar, 8 egg, teacll
sweet milk. Put into the Aouf ~
r spoonful baking powder. TlsvR VII
: vanilla. This baked in jelly cake pallI
8 makes 8 cakes, and with jelly betNsl
is very nice for tea.
ell To REMOVE MOTHs.-M0fh1 w
a work in carpets in rooms that ~ m
warm in the winter as wen asin e.
i summer. A sure method Of remcvi4C
! the pests is to pour strong alnnA-W1n
4 on the floor to the distance a hn4
yard around the edges before layi1gtl
: carpets. Then once or twiee dnz3!|
= the season sprinkle dry salt cyet T.
i carpet before sweeping. insects a. Il
like salt, and sufficient adheres y t.
b carpet to prevent their alighhng uPelIs
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-05-11
Facts Net Generally Known.


Spinach is Persian plant.
Horseradish is native of England.
Melons were found originally in Asia.
Filberts originally came from Greece.
Ounces originally came from Corinth. |
The turnip came originally from
Rome.
The peach originally came from Per-
STA.
Sage is q native Of the South Of
Europe.
Sweet majoram is a native of Portu-
gal.
The bean is said to be a native of
Egypt.
Damsons originally came from Da-
mascus.
The nasturtium came originally from
Peru.
The pea is native Of the South Of
Europe.
Ginger is native Of the East and
West Indies.
Coriander seed came originally from
the East.
The cucumber was originally tropi-
cal vegetable.
The Greeks called butter boutourus-
"cow cheese
The gooseberry is Indigenous to Great
Britain.
| Apricots are indigenous to the plains
of Armenia.
| Pears were originally brought from
the East by the Romans.
/ Capers originally grew wild in Greece
and North Africa.
u The walnut is q native of Persia, the
Caucasus, and China.
4 The Glove is native of the Malacca
Islands, as also is the nutmeg.
Vinegar is derived from two French
words, vifs Gigre, sssour wine."
, Cherries were known in Asia as far
, back as the seventeenth century.
!, Garlic came to us first from Sicily and
7 the shores of the Mediterranean.
Asparagus was originally wild sea
coast plant, and is q native of Great
i Britain.
Nectarine is said to have received its
, name from nectar, the principal drink
Of the gods.
II The tomato is native of South Amer
. lea, and takes its names from Portu
: guese word.
Greengage is called after the Gage
} family, who first took it into England
a from monastery in Paris.
), Parsley is said to have come from
t Egypt, and mythology tells US it wa.
used to adorn the head Of Hercules.
Apples were originally brought from
the East by the Romans. The cral
apple is Indigenous. to Great Britain.
y When James Buchanan was Ministe
d to England he had ears of corn, hermet
+ ically sealed, sent to him from thi
e country.
81 It is a curious fact that while all tn
n names Of al our animals are Of tn
j. Saxon origin, Norman names are givel
Il to the flesh they yield.
q The onion was almost an object Q
It worship with the Egyptians two thou
,e sand years before the Christian era.
l. first came from India.
- The cantaloupe is native of Amer
/, lea and so called from the name of
le place in Rome, where it was first cult
n waited in Europe.
ID Before the middle of the seventeenth
N century tea was not used in England
Is and was entirely unknown to Greek
8, and Romans.
u The word biscuit, in French,
r sstwicebaked," because, originally, tbs
t. was the mode of entirely depriving
n. of moisture to insure its keeping.
il Cloves come to us from the Indial
Of and take their name frt,m the Lati
rs clauvus or French ekim, both meanin
sn q nail, to which they have resen
Id blance.
of Lemons were used by the Romans
- keep moths from their garments, an
)" in the time Of Pliny they were conside
We ed an excellent poison. They are native
- of Asia.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-05-11

What is the difference between a
trumpeter and hornet? Why, the
trumpeter is cornet of horse, and the
other is Q hornet of course.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-05-11

THE biggest Indian chief now is
named /" Step-two-miies. - The soldiers
run him 16 the other day.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-05-11

"STovE-LID currency" is whatthey
call silver dollars in San Francisco.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-05-11

manned by Chinese. he gets bonus
onevery pound of rice brought from the
South for the imperial graneries, six
times as large as that for which Ameri-
can or English steamers would carry it.
In addition to this, 26 out of every 100
tons of rice his line carries can pass the
Custom House free. Notwithstanding
the immensely of the rice traffic, it is
clear that LIE Hung Chang has very
"soft thing
A REMARKABLE case was decided in
the New York Supreme Court few
days ago. Josephine Ash brought suit,
through her guardian, against Henry
Aston, one of the well known Aston
family, for sc, 900 damages for assault,
alleging that, in 1869, Aston violently
pushed plaintiff, then only four years
old, from chair, causing such injuries
as to cripple her for life. Her father
testified that the girls backbone was
around her hips, and that she was COM
PEELED to go around the house on all
tours; and that she is now unable to
walk or care for herself in any way
and that Mr.. Astor made him promise
not to tell any body, saying he would
put 5000 in the bank for the child,
which he never did. The jury found q
verdict for plaintiff for the full amount
claimed, and the Court added 1900
for costs.
The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1876-02-03
GEORGE Z. 6ENEX,

A rroRNEY AT Law: ONE 21ss9 oTeb n,io ne
a iiSb'S Clothing store 1lnlh' OnlO.
-
The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1876-02-03
Germany at the Centennial Building.

A Hamburg gardener, Mr. Harms,
who is renowned throughout Europe
Z for his success in cultivating roses,
has had plot Of ground assigned to
him for flower culture. Among other
choice specimens, he will exhibit the
black rose, which he is said to have
been the frat to produce.
q handsome building will be erect
ed by the Commission for their offices
and headquarters OF German exhibi-
tors and visitors. It will contain, be-
side the business offices, q reception
room and a parlOr and q reading
room, where German newspapers and
periodicals will be found. The cost
was SIS, 600. A Kosthalle or Tasting
Hall for wines and beer will be put up
by private enterprise The plans have
not yet been received from Berlin,
but the building will probably be 8
long, narrow structure, with q broad
passage running through it from end
to eLd between two rows of small
booths or stalls, in which the wines Of
the Rhine and MOselle and the beer
from the famous breweries of Munich,
Berlin and Hamburg will be sold by
the glass. Mr.. Krupp Is going to
make grand show Of his death-deal-
ing engines. If only from military
considerations land they now appear
to be dominant at Berlin) Germany
ought to display her educational sys-
tenn. II has done more toward win
ming her battles than all the cannon
that Mr.. Krupp ever made. The cele-
brated maker of big guns has charter
ed steamer to convey to Philadel-
phis his pOnderous weapons and some
Of the machinery used in making
them. Among the special features Of
the German department will be q coll
lective exhibit Of miDing industry, i'm
cluding models, charts, ores, etc,
which will probably surpass in COM
pleteness anyth ing OF the kind shown
by other countries.
The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1876-02-03
Poll teal Points.


The Terre Hauts Journal thinks
''the battlefield this year will he Ohio
and Indiana"
Lafayette Courier Republican.
ism saved the nation from overthrow,
Republieanism can alone preserve
it."
Ben. Hill's speech will not be large
ly circulated by the Democratic Ex-
ecutive Committee outside the bound
aries of the late Southern Confede-
racy.
DR.. J. w. Draper, in his "History
of the Civil War" vol. 8, p. 315, says
$50 atrocious is the crime perpetrated
at Andersonville that it is not for
men to deal with it. None but God
can justly measure its enormity ;
none but God can adequately pun
ish.u
1t is to be hoped that hereafter Ben.
Hill will do duty in rear, and have
the good sense to see that 1t is in bad
taste for a man who was not in the
army, to put himself forward as q
champion of those who are represent
ed on both sides in Congress by fight
ing heroes.-NGrthern Ohio Demo.
crGt.
The Cleveland R,dindedler, like the
Cincinnati Enquirer, refused to print
Mr.. Blaine's amnesty speech, pre-
ferring to sacrifice its reputation as
newspaper rather than infiiet Sc
rious injury upon its party. But there
never was q greater mistake in the
world than that of an editor who sup
poses he can keep important news
away from the people.-ChicGgo Tri6-
tGEe.
The Richmond Whig deeply de-
plores the action OF the Virginia
House of Delegates in refusing to vote
an appropriation for the National
Centennial. 1t says: ''The House oi
Delegates, by its refusal to aid the
State in q proper presentation and
representation in the grand National
Centennial Fair, have said, it grieves
US to record it. In our fathers house
Virginia will have no place. I"
The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1876-02-03
The Hard Winter In Europe.

The vagaries OF this extraordinary
winter Of 1876 are absurd enough on
this side Of the Atlantic, but on the
other side they have worn a more
serious aspect. All through the holi-
days New York was enveloped in a
London fog, and the free-soup atmos-
phere suggested thoughts of home in
the breast Of every true born Briton
who happened to be In the American
metropolis. But in Europe Nature
has apparently been seeking to "make
herself good'i for the exceptional
mildness Of the season here. France
complains bitterly of cold, and Ger
many has been buried out Of sight
under the snow for some weeks. Bat
it is in Russia that the weather has
been most terribly severe. Accustom-
ed as they are to q low tenn perature,
the people remember nothing like the
rigor Of this winter. In st. Peters
burg the thermometer marks thirty
two degrees belew zero eentigrade
Fifteen below zero Fahrenheit) every
day "the frozen gas-lamps give out
vague and insufficient light; the
wheels OF the vehicles crunch hOrri-
bly, through the snow; the
faces OF the unluckJ cab-drivers
and wOrkmen who are obliged to face
the polar air present nothing more
than a blue surface surrounded with
icicles foot passengers go at q full
run, covering their faces with thick
fur conversation turns solely on the
state OF the atmosphere the head
becomes heavy, and at last languor
overcomes every one in spite of the
artificial heat OF the stove" One or
two more such seasons as this will go
far toward convincing the Gar of the
desirability Of carrying out the pro-
gramme OF his fathers of removing his
capital to Constantinople. II he
waits for other powers to drive the
Turk out of Europe, there is danger
that his majesty will freeze to death
in the interim.