The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-03-03
TIMELY TOPICS.

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IT is now ascertained that Winslow.
the boston Drger, sailed from New York
for Rotterdam, Holland He laid his
plans well, as there is no extradition
treaty with that country.
CHINAMEN stand by each other in
this country. Those employed in shoe
making in North Adams have contri-
buted out Of tneir scanty earnings $s47
to defend one who is entangled in law in
Nevada.
'IHE Northampton, Mass, bank rob-
berry, tu'ns out to have been tremen-
deus hs.ul for the cracksmen. It is esti-
mater. that over 100000 in money,
stocks and bonds were gobbled by the
robbers.
The hanging question is being in
vestigated in Great Britain in the inter
ests, not of the condemned criminal alone. !
but OF humanity. Prof. Haughton, of the
university of Dublin, who has given the
subject Q good deal of attention, repro
pates very strongly the use of any method
winch fails to produce instantaneous
dsaol, and recommends a long drop with
the knot under the chin.
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, ir.. con-
tributes an article to the Atlantic Month
~, in which some interesting statistics
are given, showing that the deaths by
rail are lower than from almost any other
cause. For instance, he shows that more
deaths occur from falling down stairways
IN the city of Boston in proportion to the
population, than occur on the railroads
OF Massachusetts, in proportion to the
persons travelling. i
The ladies Of England are not dis
posed to allow their sisters on this conti-
nent to have monopoly of honors won in
intellectual contest with the lords of
creation" Miss Isabella G.. Clark sue.
cessfully passed the major examination
of the English pharmaceutical society
and was thereupon duly admitted as a
pharmaceutical chemist. Her perform
ance in passing the examination is the
first on record Of a lady doing SO.
The late postmaster of Boston bears
testimony as follows to the excellence of
the service rendered by the much ma
ligned feminine clerks in his department.:
'"The women have proved far superior to
men in looking up mis-sent and mis-
directed letters, and in making returns
to the dead-letter Office. They have also
proved entirely reliable. There has not
been single instance in nine years
where the accounts of any woman have
shown deficiency Of one dollar in the
Boston postofice.'
A PHILADELPHIA cxperimenter has
been emulating the example of Dio Lewis
in respect to economical living and
vegetable diet, and communicates to the
public the result of his effort to feed a
family of three ON a dollar week. He
tried corn-meal and found it insipid.
Buckwheat soon followed, and potatoes
soon failed to sustain bodily strength.
Then oatmeal was tried, and at the ex-
piration Of two weeks, says the experi-
menter, II found myself four and a
quarter pounds heavier. Ny wife had
gained three pounds, while the lad had
gained over five pounds. Our food out
lay for fourteen days was exactly two
dollars and eighty cents, or less than
seven cents per day for each person. We
are now pursuing the same course. with
an occasional mixed meal." ~
TIE success of the new harmonic
system Of multiplex telegraphy pa
charmingly simple name, by the way
excites the suspicion that our knowledge
of the powers and uses of electricity is
merely in its infancy. 1t suggests, more
over, an immediate application of the
fluid in a manner which will benefit i'm
mensely all those large cities and towns
Of the country which are gifted with
musical taste. Ifthe telegraphic appa-
ratns can be so constructed as to produce
notes it would seem an easy matter to
connect an operatic company or Thomas
orchestra by wire with every town which
has telegraphic facilities, and make one