The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-02-29
PARAGRAPHS OF THE PERIOD.


that day before yesterday, we're grains
of wheat, and yesterday, were nerve
and muscle, to-day are sparkling
thought. Hence life; hence oysters
and all other folks"
A Louisville girl was shot in the
foot day or two ago, and the doctors
are now engaged in mining for the
ball. One Of them has worked his
passage into the foot for so great dis
tance that they are obliged to let his
provisions down to him by rope.
Many very good people are annoyed
by sleepiness in church. The follow
ing remedy is recommended: Lift
the foot seven inches from, the floor,
and hold it in suspense without sup
port for the limb, and repeat the rem
edy if the attack returns.
FARM AND CITY
And old farmhouse, with meadows wide,
And sweet with clover ON each side;
a bright-eyed boy, who looks from out
The door with wo0dbine wreathed about,
And wishes his one thought all day;
"Oh! If I could but Hy away
From this dull spot the world to see,
How happy, happy, happy,
How happy should be"
Amid the city's constant din,
A man who round the world has been,
Who, mid the tumult and the throng,
Is thinking, thinking oil day long,
"Oh could only trace once more
| The feld-path to the farmhouse door,
| The green cid meadow could see,
l. How happy, happy, happy,
i How 60DDV / shOuld he ~
| ALPHONsE KARR was once heard to
i say that from the moment he furnished
a house he ceased to be an Independent
creature. "From that hour" he con-
tinues, "the chairs and tables that l
thought / owned owned me. They
were the masters of my whole destiny,
and it was my duty to see that they
met with no ill-treatment and were
not scratched, smashed or otherwise
abused" Many q housekeeper can
corroborate this confession of the witty
Alphonse. This is one of the chief
reasons why 80 many families break
up housekeeping and 60 into board
ling-houses, where the scratching and
smashing are SO common that nobody
heeds the destruction.
The SoLACE OF AGE.-
Il Howe'er Ger youths unclonded sky
The mists Of grief may fall,
And lift to heaven the pleading eye
And prayers imploring call
Be sure that ripper age will bring
i Occasions few nor brief,
When mercy's overshading wing
Must send thee sweet relief.
Be sure that when the hair grows gray,
And youth seems dim and far,
q And that long rest beyond the way
81 CLEANS like welcome star
Be sure that then the boon Of prayer
4 A blessed guard against despair,
i A link tween heaven and earth.
i When Mother Eve the tempting fruit
Plucked for her only kin,
Il She then and there did institute
i A precedent for sin. AHss sss
She knew the apple tasted sweet,
it But thought mot Of its price,
!. And said to Adam, " Let MS eat
i It's naughty, butts nice"
i For several years past an Italian ge-
ologist has made q study Of the trem-
blings or quakings Of the earth, and
!, more especially those which are so ex-
~ CAACAy ASut ~ uUV W UCa pS1ACEpbiME
save BY pendulums placed in the fields
Of microscopes. In one year he recog-
nized between 8, 1000 and 6 600 Of these
movements; and graphically represent
ing the same over many years by q
curve, he finds that the line CORE
lsponds neither with the thermometric
curve nor with the tidal phenomena,
nor can it be brought into any relation
. with the distances or positions Of the
sun or moon. With the barometric
curve, however, it is otherwise, and it
appears that, in the large majority Of
/ the cases, the intensity Of the move
ments augmented with the lowering of
Il the barometric column, as if-as the
Investigator states-the gaseous masses
imprisoned ii the superficial layers Of
the earth escaped more easily when tho
weight Of the atmosphere diminished,
which certainly is an interesting fact.
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