The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-06-12

clined to f1irt with the girls. But the
church is now agitated by the discovery
tnat MS sermons have all been stolen
from the Rev. DR.. Storrs's works. and
that he is no ordained clergyman.
DIR. G. Nj. BEARD, in an article on tho
"Hygiene of Chronic Nervous Diseases ,,
read before the Kings County IN. "
Medical Society, holds that phosphorus
(as well as sea fish, oysters, ETC., which
largely contain it) exerts calmative
or sedative effect on the brain and nery-
Gus system, something like that produc-
ed by bromide of potassium. Such
remedies, he says, induce "disposi-
ton to sleep more than to think; not &C.
celebrating, but slowing down the wheels
OF the mind, and therefore excellent and
adapted for the nervous and overwork-
ed and overworried. Electricity, sci
eentihcasly applied, he thinks produces a
like effect.
The Woolwich Arsenal in England
has been of late busy in preparing bal
looms for the African war. The largest
IS called Saladin, and contains $4,000
cubic cfeet OF gas. There are also the
Iallsman, of 19. 900 cubic feet, the Sara
cen OF 1000, the Vidette of Ii, 900, and
a little balloon named the Pilot of 600
feet. Arrangements have been made
for telegraphic communications with
them, when aloft, by means of a wire
running through the cable restraining
them. Means have been also found for
reinforcing them with gas while in the
air. This latter process is not explain
ed.
RUSSIA seems to have the highest
death rate of any country that collects
mortality statistics. The report of the
Medical Bureau for the year 1877 has
but recently been published, and it
shows that in a population of eighty
millions, the deaths of the year were at
the rate of from thirty to fifty per thou
sand. The ravages of diphtheria put it
first in the list OF diseases; next comes
typhoid fever, and next smallpox.
There are about $4,000, 900 sectarians in
Russia who do not allow vaccination,
aEd this accounts for the large mortality
from smallpox. As to the typhoid, it
is called in Russia "hunger typhus," :"
for its greatest ravages are always in the
famine stricken districts.
A PASTOR of a church in Baltimore
has devised new way to collect pew
rents. Several of his congregation be-
ing remiss in their settlements, he or
dered the pews of the delinquents to be
nailed up. Quite number were thus
secured, and the pastor announced that
he had adopted this means to secure the
prompt payment of the money due him,
without which he could not conduct the
affairs of the church satisfactorily. He
called attention to the fact that the de-
linquents were nearly all, if not all, able
to pay. Their wives and daughters
bristled with silks and satins, founces
and furbelows, and the pew rent re-
mained unpaid. The novel expedient
has proved a complete success.
Col. MEEKEs lived by himself in
Hardin County, Iowa, and his neigh
bors supposed he was a bachelor. Last
winter a woman and boy arrived in
the place, announced themselves as
Meekes's wife and son, and were receiv-
ed by him with seeming joy. He said
that he had parted from his wife many
years ago in England, but was glad to
get her~back. She was Immediately in
stalled as mistress of his household. A
month ago woman registered at the
village hotel as Mrs Meekes, and ex
planned that she was the wife of the
Colonel, having married him in Wash
ington City. He admitted that she was
right, and went to live with her at the
hotel. This over supply of long-lost
wives does not seem to cause him much
trouble. One wife remains in content
ed possession of the home while the 9TH
er is apparently as happy in possessing
the man.
r. w. BOIssELIER and his brother,
Casper D. Boisselier, of German par
entage, but born in st. Louis, who,
however, spent most of their boyhood
and were educated in Germany, have
sent q communication to Secretary
Evarts, stating that for the past two
years they had been greatly annoyed by
Prussian officials claiming that they are
under obligations to serve in the Prus-
sian army; also that their father, Carl
G. Boisselier, who is now residing in
the village of Borbye, near Eckern-
foerde, in the province of Schleswig,
and who is naturalized citizen of the
United States, had been threatened with
confscation and attachment of por-
ton or all of the money or property he
may see fit to bequeath to them if they
fail to appear in Court at the City OF
Schleswig on the I'd day of July next
They ask Secretary Evarts to take such
action as will stop these demands of the
Prussian Government, and protect them
in their rights of American citizenship
The Boisselier brothers have lived and
done business in St. Louis since 1873
and are registered voters.
DIR. DUFAUR, French physician, re
ports this interesting case: A common
brown owl built its nest beneath the
projecting roof of farmhouse, where
it had q brood of young. One day the
farmer, moved by curiosity, drove away
the old bird, took out the young owls
and, after looking at them, replaced
them uninjured. In the evening, as hi
was entering his house with his servant
) the latter suddenly heard the beating o
wings, and felt the claws Of the owl OF
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