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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-07-17
Farmer D0dge's Story.

At recent meeting of the American
Institute (New York City, Farmers
Club, milk being the topic, Farmer
Dodge told story, as follows:
ga Teuton made little fortune here
not long ago in the milk business, and
decided to return to Germany and enjoy
it in his old home. In the ship that was
bearing him homeward was a mischiev-
Gus monkey. The monkey, prying
around one day, found heavy bag and
ran up to the masthead with it. The
German clasped hands in despair at see
ing the bag; it had his money, all in
gold. The monkey in leisurely way
pulled out piece and flung it down to
the deck, when the ex-milkman gather.
ed it up. Then the beast tossed Sec
ond piece into the sea. Thus alternate
ly the pieces went, one into the ocean and
the next into the distracted mans pock
ct. sAh,' said the ex-milkman as hs
pocketed just half of what he had start
ed With, it is just. One-half of tina
milk have sold was milk, and tn
money for it comes back; the ether hal
was water, and half goes back to wa
ter IN. 7. Sun.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-07-17
Utilizing Waste Products.

The following is from an address de-
livered by William II. Wahl, Ph. D.,
before the Wagner Free Institute of
Science, Philadelphia:
Those inventions are deserving of
special honor, and generally receive the
most substantial recognition, which de-
velop new industries or utilize waste
products.
The glycerine industry, which has at
tanned colossal proportions, is notable
illustration of a great manufacture based
entirely upon the saving of what until
lately was waste product of the soap
boiler. As even more important, Imay
mention the industries connected with
the manufacture of anilihe dyes and arti-
fetal madder from the refuse coal tar
that was formerly the curse and nui-
sance of the gasworks. Old boots and
shoes and leather waste are turned
to good account by the chemi-
cal manufacturer in produc-
ing the cyanides, ferro and ferrid
cyanides, so Indispensable in color.
printing and photography. Of the car
casses of slaughtered animals, not s
scrap or morsel is allowed to go t6
waste, as you are well aware; and ever
the waste blood of the abattoir is usee
by the sugar-refner and the manufac
turer of albumen. Sawdust mixed witt
blood, or some other agglutinative sub
stance, and compressed by powerful
pressure in heated dies, is formed int
door-knobs, hardware and furnitur
trimmings, buttons, and thousand use
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-07-17
Cheek Never Pays.

The race is not always to the swift,
nor the battle to the strong, nor is it the
man with the largest mouth who gets
the most favors in this world. Yester-
day forenoon very quiet stranger en-
tered a real-estate Office on Griswold
Street and softly asked if he could use q
blotting pad . moment. One was hand
ed him and he sat down to a table,
looked around, and said:
"Ah! thanks, but have you pen and
ink?''
They were furnished him. He tried
the pen on the pad, shook the ink
around, and modestly continued:
"H you could spare sheet OF pa
A sheet was handed him. He wrote a
brief letter, folded it up, and whispered
"I shall have to beg an envelope OF
youP"
An envelope was passed over, and
when he had directed it he looked al
over the table, under the table, up al
the ceiling, and inquired:
"You couldn't lend me stamp, coule
A three-center was handed out, ane
when it had been licked on, the strange
rose and started out, saying:
GAS you have no office boy l suppos'
I shall have to take this letter to the OF
fee myself. ."-Detro1 Free Press.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-07-17
Wouldn't Have Him for Pall-Bearer.

Some time ago citizen of this place
was very i'll. He fell into stupor
which lasted three or four days. He
was carefully watched by his wife and
one or two ladies from the neighbor-
hood. One afternoon the attending
physician said he could not live through
the day, and the sorrowing wife, with a
view to having every thing in readiness
for the end, held a consultation with
her friends as to the arrangements for
the funeral. The conversation was
held at the bedside of the dying man,
and in short time all the details were
arranged except the names OF those who
should be asked to be pall-bearers.
Three or four young gentleman had
been selected, when the wife said, in a
sobbing tone suitable to the occasion
How would Mr.. So-andso do?''
"Oh, he would do nicely" echoed the
chorus of friends, "He's such a nice
young man." There was a sudden
movement under Fthe coverings OF the
bed, and the dying husband slowly rails
ed himself on one elbow, rubbed nj!
eyes, and said in weak voice, "N No, hi
won't do. 1 ain't going to have tina
fellow for one of my pall-bearers.'
The ladies were astonished at the reviva
of the sick man, but the wife laid hin
back gently on the pillows. and salt
soothingly: "Never mind, dear; dom
worry. This is matter that need no
trouble you. 1t is sad duty which W
will have to perform after you ar
gone" "No, it isn't" said the hus
band GROSSLY. "That fellow isn't 60
ing to be one of my pall-bearers:
don't like him, and never did, and
you are going to have him I'll get well
see if don't" Again he fell back j
the bed and became unconscious, but i
} a few hours there came change for tn
better. To-day he walks the streets
hale and hearty as any man -H't
burq (Pn.) Telegraph.
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st. Joseph, Is; St. Louis, 4; St. Paul,
II; Toledo, Z; Washington, 80; We'll
don, Z; Wilmington, 13.

st. Joseph, Is; St. Louis, 4; St. Paul.
u; Toledo, =; Washington, 80; We'll
don, I; Wilmington, IS.
THE island of Saghalien, to which a
large number OF persons suspected of
being connected with the Nihilist con-
spiracy are to be deported from Odessa,
lies OFT the mouth of the Amoor, and ex-
tends for some 600 miles along the east
coast Of Manchooria, from which it is
separated by the Gulf of Tartary. The
island was first occupied by Russia in
1853, in pursuance of the policy she has
steadily followed for two centuries of
bringing the Russian seaboard on the
Pacific down to temperate climate. In
1875 Japan gave up her share of the Is
land to Russia. Owing to the existence
of coal on it, and also through its posi-.
ton as natural outwork covering the
estuary OF the Amoor, Saghalien is in
some respects valuable possession, but
it can hardly be esteemed a desirable
place of residence. Situated in from
latitude As degrees to "a degrees north,
its climate appears to be much colder
than that of most other places in the
same parallel; and the island, it is stat
ed, is entirely covered all the year
round with fogs of extraordinary densi-
ty. Attempts have been made to colo.
nize the island, but without success.
THE plan adopted by Mr.. Jerome
Marble of Worcester, Mass, of travel
ing in his own palace car, is not only
positively comfortable, but comparative
ly cheap. He told correspondent of
the Northwestern Ls&mbsrmdn that the
entire cost of a trip of seven weeks
made by himself and friends, covering
1900 miles, on the Northern Pacific,
was but a little over 5000 per head.
The charge made by the railroads for
hauling his car is but their regular first
class fare for passengers occupying the
car, provided it carries minimum num-
Der of II. Mr.. Marble further said that
his entire car expenses, exclusive of the
amount paid to the railroad companies,
but including board. were 81 cents daily
for each person. The Pullmon Com
pany is reported to be constructing two
cars on the same pattern, which they
will let to hunting and pleasure parties
for the season. Mr.. Marbles car in.
cludes II double berths, and is in three
compartments. One is devoted to Offices
the other to lavatories, etc. The mid
die is sleeping room by night, and
luxurious parlor, including piano, Ii
brary, etc., by day. A far pleasante1
place on a wet night, after day!
shooting than a soaking tent on slopp!
ground. .....---
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-07-17

full and decorative articles; or, as in the
case with the spent bark of the tau
neries, it is utilized for fuel under steam
boilers. Oyster-shells, of which our
barbarous progenitors of ages ago made
the she'll mounds that delight the soul
of the anthropologist of to-day, are
burned to lime; the waste of the lin
seed oil manufacturers is eagerly sought
after as food for cattle; the waste ashes
of wood fires are leached for potash;
river mud is mingled with chalk,
and burned and ground to
make the famous Portland cement; and
the ruthless hand of Utilitarianism has
not even respected the brickbat, that
had served from time immemorial only
to crack the heads of opposing factions,
but grinds it up to make cement with
lime. The finest glue size is made
from the waste of parch-
ment skins. The waste gases
of the blast-furnace are now util-
lied to heat the blast, to generate the
steam that drives the engine that makes
the blast, to hoist ores, drive machine
1y, ETC.. and even the Stag, that has
served for years only to decorate the
hillsides, is now cast into paving and
building blocks, or granulated to make
building sand, or ground for cement,
or mixed with suitable chemicals and
turned into the commoner grades of
glass, or blown by a jet Of steam into
the finest filaments to form the curious
substance called mineral wool, now
largely used as a non-conductor OF
heat, upon steam pipes. boilers, roofs,
etc, etc.
So, too, the enormous hills of anthra-
cite coal dirt, that in the coal regions of
our State have for years borne silent but
eloquent testimony to the crudity and
wastefulneas of our methods of mining
coal, now bid fair soon to disappear be-
meath boilers supplied with ingenious
dust burning devices, or in the form OF
Jumps of artificial fuel. Even the an
thracite coal deposits, now so enor-
mously valuable, were few years ago
but 80 many layers of black stone, un-
appreciated and valueless. The waste
heat of the lime kiln is made to gener-
ate steam, and warm immense public
buildings in England and on the Cont
nent; and the ssexhaust" of the steam
engine is made to do service in heating
the water fed into the boiler.
1 might multiply examples like the
above almost indefinitely, to show how
with the most benefcent results, tht
genius of invention has enabled us tt
reap advantages where none were sup
posed to exist, or where, if they weR
suspected, they were undervalued o.
simply neglected.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-07-17
An OId.faShiOned Comet.

A new comet is coming-sit down, sit
down, sit down; what's the use of get
ting excited? 1t is only visible from the
second peak of Mount Aytchimboguan-
dalahasta in Central Asia, and only
there with three story telescope, and
then it is only visible twenty minutes, at
midnight, and not then unless the at
mosphere is exactly right; and when it
is visible it only looks like star about
half the size of the little one in Jobs
coffin. By all the starry worlds that
swing in space, when "we" were a boy
the comets used to come around every
summer, with heads on them like fire.
balloons, and tails that stretched from
the big dipper to the southern cross, and
wagged back and forth ike bewildered
torchlight procession, and came so close
to the earth that they put the moon out
Out on these single-barreled comets,
three for quarter, that they get up fol
us in these degenerate modern days!
We wouldn't walk from here to Asia to
see hundred of 'em. = Burlington
HdWkeye.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-07-17

A HOUsEKEEPER who has mathe-
matical turn has recently made this Gu
rious calculation: For her family of six
persons she every day washed and wiped
2l3 separate dishes or separate pieces
on an average. These in the course OF
the year amount to 1879. She spends
at a low average an hour and hall
each day over the dishes, and according
to this estimate has spent what is equiv.
alent to three years of her life-days
nights, Sundays and holidays-at the
dish-pan.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-07-17

SWEET PoTAroEs.-Jacob Coply,
Wayne County, o., makes hills in a
corner of a corn-feld about six inches
high, mixes about one pint of hen drop
pings with soil, then sets plants, works
them with the corn. When vines run
and take root, lays them on the hills.
Last year he had some potatoes that
weighed four pounds and four ounces
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-07-17

WHILE a Boston young woman was
recently witnessing the practice of a
Rossville (Staten Island) rifle club, she
said she could surpass the best shooting
of the day. A rifle was given her, and
she did this by making 81 in possible
IS, off hand at 200 yards. Subsequent
ly, while practicing with a Springfield
rifle weighing II pounds and 20 grains,
with 7-pound trigger and a recoil of
20 pounds, out of a possible 50 she made
% points. At the next regular meeting
she was elected an honorary member OF
the club. Experienced marksmen con.
slider it something of feat to kill a gull
sitting upon the water, but this young
woman bagged four of the birds with
her rifle while spending few weeks at
the seaside last summer.
MYRoN G.. Collins of Tennessee
claims to have discovered cure for rat.
tlesnake bites. Drs. Eve and Shacklett
of Nashville, according to the American
made test of the medicine. Collins
let rattlesnake bite him on the wrist
and at once applied to the wound anc
took inwardly decoction of mosse
from oak and hickory trees. He suf
fered from nausea, and his pulse ant
temperature were excited, but within al
hour he had completely recovered. Th'
bite of the same reptile speedily killed {
! dog.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-22
The Memphis Refugees.

The Memphis refugees met at the Lytle
Greys' Hall, on Sixth street, this morning,
for the purpose of making arrangements
for transportation at reduced rates, to Mem.
phis. The meeting was called to order
promptly at half past 10 o'clock, by the
President, L. Lehman, Esq, with Charles
Gardner, Acting Secretary. The Commit
tee on Transportation reported that no
offer of reduced rates had been received
from any of the roads communicated with,
with the exception Of the Ohio & Missis-
sippi, which road agreed to carry the refu-
gees as far as Cairo at the rate of IS per
head. Mr.. Kelly, of the Vandalia Road
being present, said he would agree to carry
them to the same point, at the same price,
which is about half fare.
After few questions we're discussed by
the most prominent gentlemen present q
motion was made, and carried, to appoint
the President Committee of one to pro-
ceed to st. Louis IA pass having been
grantedl and make arrangements with the
Memphis & st. Louis Packet Company for
transportation from Cairo. He then to re-
turn and make final arrangements for de-
parture. Considerable debate was had on
the action of the Louisville & Nashville
Railroad Company, who most emphatically
refused to grant reduced rates over their
route.
After registering the names of those de-
srous of availing themselves of the offer
above mentioned, the meeting adjourned
There are nearly five hundred refugees in
this city.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-22
Local Personal.

Hon. VIM. Heilman. of Evansville, Ind,
is registered at the Gibson House.
Charles A. Miller, the late Democratic
candidate for Treasurer, is still under
taking.
Hon. Alex. Swift has returned home
from Michigan, where he has large lumber
interests.
Mr.. Chas. Francis Adams, Jr., arrived in
this city last evening from Indianapolis,
and is stopping at the Grand Hotel.
Mr. Frank P. Barnes, brother of Mr. Mil.
ton Barnes, Secretary of State, was in the
city to day on visit to Auditor Cappeller.
Jerry Mulroy, of the Police Chiefs office,
has resigned his position of messenger to
accept position in Judge Matson's Office.
Messrs. Hopkins, DeCamp and Mendel,
Cincinnati artists, who have been studying
at Munich, will go to Florence with their
teacher, Frank Duveneck.
Mr.. Henry Rentrop, of the Ninth Ward
Guards, will be married this evening to
Miss Emily Foss, by Rev. Scholz, in st.
Johns Protestant Church, OH Elm and
Twelfth streets.
Mr.. Herman Thumann. the halter, on
Race street. near Elder, was married yester-
day to Miss Philomena Ruthmann, by Rev.
Otto Jair, O. S. F., of St. Johns Catholic
Church, corner of Bremen and Green
streets
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-22
Police Court Affairs.

Edward Inloes, an old vagrant, literally
covered with vermin, was disposed O
speedily for three months He could easily
have made his escape for he was given {
wide berth by the officer when he passed
down stairs.
John McElroy, for drunkenness, wa.
given ten days.
Mike Quigley, John Gray and John MAIN
were arraigned for obstructing sidewalk
They are part of gang that congregates
nightly at the corner of Eighth and Broad.
way to the disgust of residents in that
vicinity. The Judge fined them each SIC
and costs, which was remitted on condition
that they keep away from that corner here.
after.
Jacob Winters was sent to the Work.
house for thirty days for drunkenness.
Mary Flanagan was sent to the same in.
stitution for ten days for having too much
liquor aboard.
George Clark, charged with voting lille.
gally, had his case continued until to-mor.
row morning.
William Bowers was before the court this
morning charged with cutting Isadore Del
cho with intent to kill. The cutting took
place night before last on Sixth street. near
Vine. The case was continued until Fri
day next.
Charles Busch the butcher who went to
Verhage's packing g-house on Walnut street
yesterday, and fired off his little gun so
promiscuously, was before the Police Court
this morning, but no affidavit having been
filed against him, the case was dismissed.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-22
CITY COMMISSIONER.
Another Proposed Street Railroad.

Application was made by John Nolan for
permission to construct and operate street
railroad over the following route: Com
mencing at the intersection of Liberty
street and Walker Mill Road or State ave-
nue., running south on Walker Mill Road
or State avenue with double track to Gest
street; thence east on Gest street, using
double track, to Freeman street; thence
south on Freeman street to Court street,
now used to the center line of the street
tralavenue, using double track; thence south
on Central avenue to Court street, using
double track, but adjusting the track now
used to the center line of the street; thence
east on Court street with double track to
Race street; thence continuing on Court
street with single track to Main street,
using the south side of the street; thence
south on Main street with single track to
Fifth street, then continuing on Main
street to Fourth street, using the track
now laid upon said street; thence west on
Fourth street, using the Consolidated Street
Railroad track to Race street; thence north
on Race street, using single track, to Court
street; thence west on Court street to point
of beginning. The application was re-
ferred to the Committee on Railroads.
O. NJ. johnson filed his complaint against
any change being made in the location of
Purcell avenue. Referred to the Commit
tee on Grades and Improvements
Applications to tap sewer were granted
as follows: +. Kanman, northwest corner OF
Dayton and Linn streets; Henry Schmidt,
Livingston street, between John and Linn;
Louis Estermann, northeast corner Wade
and Barton streets; Celia Rentz, No. 243
Sixth street.
The City and Suburban Telegraph Asso-
citation were granted permission to erect
line of poles on Fifth street, from Smith to
Elm; on Vine street, north from the canal
to Corryville; on Third street, from Smith
to Mill; and on Plum street, from Front to
Canal.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-22
Death of Samuel 3. Allan,

Mr. Samuel B. Allen, the senior member
of the firm OF s. B. Allen & Co., drug
gists, on the southwest corner Of
Fifth and Main streets, died quite suddenly
last night at his residence in Glendale,
caused by suffocation from phlegm.
His lungs had been troubling him
for sometime, but nothing Sc
rious was anticipated. Mr.. Allen
had been connected with the
store OH Fifth and Main for forty five
years, his father having established the
business several years earlier.
He was born in Boston, Mass, and came
to this city with his fathers family when
quite boy, and has always been known as
good business man, and straightforward
citizen.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-22
Real Estate Transfers.

The following are the transfers of real
0eate from noon yesterday to noon to-day
Raphael Strauss and wife to the City and
Suburban Telegraph Association, leasehold
tor s years, to 16 by 921z feet, on east side
ef Elm street; annual rental of $500.
George Weller ct al. to Theresa Guent-
IAN, quitclaim to leasehold estate, 20 by
. feet, on the north side of Hopkins
street, 1888 feet east Of the west line of Free
aan street; ST and other considerations.
Administrator of Cyrus Brown, deceased,
- James John, 2s 80-100 acres, in the
southwest corner of Springfield Township;
RAO0 10.
Elmore w. Cunningham, trustee, to
Henry Lewis. trustee, quitclaim to grant
prs interest as trustee in the estate of J. L.
Keck ct al; 81.
Alexander Long and wife to Catharine
0rif1ith ct al, so by 200 feet on the west
ide OF lngleside Place, All 77-10O feet south
from Mcmillan street, Walnut Hills; So, 200.
Harry K. Probasco. Master Commissioner,
b the Pennsylvania Company for Insurance
On Lives and Granting Annuities, 8 $685.
1000 acres, on the east side of Clifton ave.
niue, 2l0 feet south from Green Hill ave-
nue., Clifton; $5,666 6e.
Martin Groeschen and wife 10 John
Stephan Groeschen, 25 by 90 feet, on the
north side of Kilgour street 43S feet west
Of Third street; also, At by liz feet, on the
south side Of Eighth rect, 142 feet west of
Sycamore street; $4,000.
Administrator of M. s. Wade to John
zurmuhlen and John D. Borrnemann, Al
by 80 feet, on the north side of Wade street.
100 feet west of Central avenue; $1,000.
John D. Bornemann to John Zurmuhlen,
undivided one-half of same premises; 81 and
other considerations.
Johanna Hamann to the German Evan
gclical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio
and other States, trust deed, 28X BY 74L
feet, on the east side of Pike street, below
Third street; 81.
- Michael ]. Kerwick and wife to james
Aerwick, 20 by 100 feet, on the north side
Of dest street, 60 feet west of Garrard
street; $500.
Mary =. Sims and husband to Geo. w.
zroNbridge, 25 by 80 feet, ON the north
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-22
France.

HUMBERT, THE COMMUNIST IN Hoo.
Paris, Oct. 22.-M. Puteux Humbert the
ags1rned Communist. who was recently
elected Member of Municipality for Javille
4snrter, was yesterday condemned to six
xasnths' imprisonment and to pay fine of
- francs for insulting the Magistracy and
Attending occurrences which the law char
ncterizes as crime.