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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-05-29
Grandfather Lickshingle on Mr..
TennySOn.

"For his poem, The Defense Of
Lucknow and its prelude, addressed
to the memory of the Princess Alice
Mr.. Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate
received $500"
When one of the children read this
item IN the paper yesterday evening
Grandfather Lickshingle started up from
doze in his easy-chair, and said:
"Au' this leads me to remark thai
Mr.. Tennyson is maxim nice little
stake out of the business of poet lau.
reate, an just wish to goodness l had
his place."
"Why, grandfather, you couldn't -
"When I'm in practice l can write
just as good poetry as he can. An
then in the capacity ofpoet to the
Queen, all you have to do is to catch on
to the joys and sorrows of the royal
household, an celebrate 'em in i'm
mortal verse. I've been watchin' Mr..
Tennyson, an | fully understand his
modest operandi, as we say in the French.
When member of the Royal family is
born, gets married, or dies he hurries
OFT to his den, grinds out few stanzas,
an sends in bill to the Queen. l re.
member when the Prince of Wales was
married Mr.. Tennyson rushed into his
office, his doubles all Embraced, no hat
upon his head, his stockings fouled Che
was a little behind with his washer
woman), ungartered, an down gyved
to his ankle-but lookin' happy as
clam withal-an' remarked to the bow
that sweeps out the place:
"' Hits a mighty hill marriage that
don't blow somebody heny good. This
is the first royal weddin' we've 'ad hin
long time, hand we must make the
most of hit, even though the harum-
scarum fellow should break the BRIDES
art inside of a year."
Grandfather, are you sure Mr.. Ten
nyson said that?''
"By the pale reflex of Sister Anthony's
brow, that tips with silver all these fruit
tree tops, he said it! He also said:
Bring forth the machine, me boy,
hand we will soon grind out a few hap
verses for the OCCASION
"The machine was dragged out of the
corner, the gudgeons were oiled, new
packing put in the cylinder head, an
the result we all know. For this poem
MIR. Tennyson received E40O; but times
were better then, an Russia was not as
much On her Royal ear as at present.
81 do notremember the exact amount
he received for his poem on the mar.
rage of Lord Lorne," continued grand
father; d" but it paid his rent an butch.
'r's bill for several months, an bought
him new sui5 of clothes, includin' a
striped ulster. I remember that the
Queen kicked little against the price,
out she finally paid it. The next day.
however, her majesty heard that the
Poet Laureate was grindin' on a poem
n commemoration of one of her grand
'hlldren haviE' its leg hurt by bein'
Knocked down by milk-wagon, an she
'alled a halt on the heaven-born pro-
luction, as follows:
"' Stop the machine, Mr.. Tennyson!
top the machine! The event doesn't
eem to me to call for the outlay of
ouch money, except to buy salve an
mica; an, besides, | don't believe in
ldin' free horse to DEATH "-Cinctn-
att Enquirer.
STAIR RODs.-To clean stair rods. use ,
wooden cloth wet with water and dip- ,
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CHEAP DRAINAGE.-There is no in
vestment that pays the farmer better
than draining his wet land. Now under
present circumstances there is little to
encourage the farmer to improve his
land, as the prices realized for the pro-
auctions of the farm are so low that in
most cases it won't pay for the cost of
raising, and, in most cases, falls far be-
low it, so that the more the farmer raises
the poorer he gets. But this will all
cure itself The farmers in the West
are beginning to realize the situation,
and will secure legislation that will pro-
tect them from the harpies that are at
present preying on them. In respect
to cheap drainage can speak; after rs
years. experience, was forced to put in
some sunk drains to get about over nv
farm, as there were numberof slouehs
and springy places that l could not
crop except in the dry weather, and
some of them not then, as they would
mlre team; and whenever one of those
places existed large space on
either side was lost for turning
on and produced nothing but weeds.
L have seen good deal of under
draining whilst travelling in England
and Ireland, but that style of thing
was beyond my reach, as could not
command the means, and there was no
government drainage fund" provided
IN this country, so went to work and
hired bitches cut two feet deep and as
narrow in the bottom as a spade would
work. 1 then cut long slim willows
along the creek, laid them on the bot
tom as straight as possible, tramped
them down as firmly as could till they
hiled the ditch about foot, then took
the sod that formed the first spit taken
out OF the ditch Chat had been placed
on the opposite side from the dirt) and
turned the grassy Or sod side down and
then filled in the dirt and left it round
ing. Those drains have answered
good purpose for twenty-five years, how
much longer they will last l can't tell, |
but pillow and haul over them. put in
more or less of those drains every year,
and you should see the corn 1 raised last
year on spots that produced nothing but
cattail fiaggers and rushes heretofore!
Recently l substitute split oak, old
rails or any thing solid for the willows,
cover with old boards and then some
waste straw or hay before filling in the
dirt; care should be taken to leave no
large holes where minks, muskrats. etc.
etc-, could get in and work up the drain.
For many reasons those drains are pre-.
terable to the tile as the roots of water
plants frequently get into the Joints of
he tile and prevent the surplus water
rom getting in.
NOW a few hints about digging drains
n sloughs. Never follow the middle or
owest part of the slough but lay off
our drain to cross it frequently so as to
'oSoro the seep water. The surface
water should follow the slough (Which
gu can't prevent) in heavy rains when
here IS much water, it will have to pass
If in the old channel, but if your drain l
In the middle it will wash out ,
spite of all your efforts to prevent
:. Most of the sloughs are more or less s
rocked, and straight ditch will cut
Ito the rising ground on either side so '
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-05-29
WIT AND WISDOM.

AZ Ah"h VIII e0Li mC NudI u0 tllnkp
of his Majors, l can tell him what NJ,
Majors think ov him.-Josh Bsllino.
We have Just written an interestin,
owed to a friend, commencing: "Sir,.
days after date" etc. We expect i,
will go the rounds.--Boston Transcr;a
ALL the worlds but a Pullman q,
and the men and women merely pa,.
sengers bound through and without
return tickets.--CsncinDati Con,nsercinl
A CULTIVATED mind may be said 10.
have infinite stores of innocent gratih.
cation. Every thing may be made in.
teresting to it, by becoming subject Of
thought or inquiry.
THE water-cart has appeared OF thu
streets and the driver has ALREADY yrs
sick of replying to the young man ii
the new spring suit who wants to know
what business the driver has to irrigaie
the sidewalk.-Boston Post.
THAT was clever Oakland boy who
when he was given 50 to dig up Mn
aunt's garden, hid two-bit piece in IT,
and then told all the boys in the neigh.
borhood. The next morning the ground
was pulverized two feet deep.-Sm
Francisco Post. Ii
'"No MAN shall ever kiss me except nv
future husband" she said, as be ws
about leaving her at the gate. "Sur
pose agree to be your future"- "Why,
then I'll kiss you," she replied eagerly.
and she did. Her mother was informed
that he had proposed, and the old Lad,
called around next day to fasten mat.
tiers, and before he knew it be wu
eternally booked. 1t was a mean "a.
vantage, bat bird in the hand is worth
two on the front gate.-Binghamton Re-
publican.
ALL of one long happy hour manus
had been reading to the little ones, Sun.
day afternoon, and talking to them
about heaven and the angels, and show.
ing them pictures of angels with theie
snowy wings. Suddenly Jack shouted,
Mother, when I'm an angel I wantts
be Shanghai" Shocked silence On
the part of the family circle, followed
by the explanatory clause by jack,
"Feathers on my legs, You know"
Mother dismissed the little congrsga.
ton without the usual benediction.--
Burlington HaUkeye
ADAPTED FROM HORACE. as
Some men, M@cenas, when the fervid giovs
OF springtime suns reflect DER hin ani
dale,
And when the bile throughout their systeus
flows,
Find patent liver pads of much avail;
Some men who shake with periodic chils
And nurse the fell malaria in their veins
Seek consolation in cathartic pills as
And find they rid them OF ten thousanl
pains;
And some there be, when bile and fevers clog
The channels of the head and heart aud
chest,
Imbibe the Asiatic kollygog
And live anew with freshcned doctofeA
zest;
But as for me, Mscenas, in the broif
OF vernal sun and journalistic fray,
find more good in genial castor. oil, i
Which purges all terrestrial Ills away.
With Oil lubricate the tuneful Tyre
And fwanr with uow. horn yaaI tho OolhAn
bars
feed my hyssoped soul with metred fire
And strike my head against the twtnklia
stars.
Eugene Field, in st. Louis Times Journal
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STAIR RoDs.-To clean stair rods, use
wooden cloth wet with water and Dip
ped in sifted coal ashes; afterward rub
with dry cloth.
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NOTHING BUT AN EARACHE.-Ear.
ache often passes away spontaneously,
but OF acute Inflammation of the middle
ear it is ordinarily the earliest symptom.
The mucous membrane of the drum
cavity swells, closing the opening of the
Eustachian tube, fluid is poured out in.
to the cavity and finds no means of es-
cape. Hence tension, pressure, pain.
Under appropriate treatment, or even
without treatment, resolution may take
place, with absorption of the effased
fluid. But if the fluid continue to accu-
mulate it must either be let out by the
surgeon, with relief to tension and pain
and often prompt and perfect cure, or
it will break through the drum-mem-
brance, perhaps with relief to the symp-
toms, or the Inflammation may extend
to some neighboring part. Because ear
ache is so common and 50 often passes
away spontaneously, it may well be
asked do physicians usually feel
any alarm at being told that
some one has the earache. 1t is too
often looked upon as a matter of no
consequence. Why should it be other
wiser Let the following history answer
this question: Case 1 A strong healthy
man complained on Saturday of an un-
comfortable sense of fullness in one of
his ears, unaccsmpanied by pain. On
the next day imitation by Politzer's
method relieved this discomfort. We'd
nesday the same condition returned.
On examination it was found that he
could hear the watch with this ear
only % inches, while it was heard at a
distance of "a inches by the other. The
case was considered one of simple ca
tarrhal otitis media. Imitation again
gave relief, causing the hearing distance
to be increased to inches. Two inches
were directed to be applied to the ira
gus, and the daily imitation of the ear
was advised. On Thursday the patient
said his ear felt as well as ever. Early
rrioay morning severe PAIN came on in |
the ear, which continued unchecked for
"a hours, then ceased, and agonizing
pain commenced in the corresponding
side of the head. About noon on Sat-
urday the drum-membrane, inject
ed and bulged out by fluid in
the drum-cavity, was incised, giving
exit to pus and blood, but this caused
no abatement to the head-pain. This
ceased spontaneously next day, Sunday,
and the patient lay in a partially uncon-
scious condition until evening, when he
died of acute meningitis. A post-mortem
examination showed that the intiamma-
tory process had extended from the mid
die ear through its roof into the cranial
cavity. Resume; Saturday a sense of
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AGRICULTURAL.

examined we have found slight differ
ence in the growth and leaves. George
Husmann of Missouri thinks they are
distinct, but SO much alike that it would
hardly pay to have both, and he prefers
Amsden and would plant this only. He
says it is one of the few new fruits which
have not been overpraised. He has had
the peaches over eight inches in circum-
ference, and he sold his crop for over
So per bushei.
A RELISH FOR FARM SToCK.-The
importance of an occasional relish Of
salt and wood ashes for all kinds of
stock can not be too highly appreciated.
The most convenient form in which
these materials are offered, according to
feeders of wide experience, is in solid
mass, which admits of diligent licking
on the part of the animal without gain
ing more of the mixture than is desi-
rable. In order to mix these ingredi-
ents so that solid mass may be formed,
take salt and pure wood ashes in the
proportion of pound for pound, with
water sufficient to hold the mixture to-
gether. To preserve the mixture in a
solid state place it in troughs or boxes
sheltered sufficiently to keep rain and
snow from reaching it and converting
it into an alkaline pickle. These troughs
with their tempting contents prove eff
Gent as bats for alluring animals, turn
ed out on long runs during the day,
home at night.
When cattle chew leather, wood and
old bones, remember that it indicates a
lack of phosphate of lime in their food,
which is required to supply bone mate
rial. A teaspoonful of bone-meal given
daily with their grain will correct the
habit and supply the deficiency which
induces it. If the disposition to
eat bones is INDUCED in when COWS are
on grass, the deficiency then evidently
exists in the soil, and the pasture will
be greatly benefited by top-dressing
OF bone.dust. Two or three hundred
pounds to the acre, sown broadcast,
will repay attending expenses in bet
ter yield and quality of milk and butter.
-NeaU York World.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-05-29
CARE OF THE HEALTH.

CARE OF THE HEALTH.
CARDIAC hypertrophy or muscular
enlargement of the heart-a very seri-
Gus diseases often induced by an ex-
cess of muscular exercise, fact that
should not be forgotten by those men
and women who indulge in contests of
strength, endurance, or agility.
AN exchange informs us that the
horse-radish root will afford instantane-
Gus relief in most obstinate cases of
hoarseness. This is simple remedy to
try, and surely can do no harm. Hoarse-
ness is very common difficulty at this
season.
Ice IN THE SICK RooM.-Mention is
made in foreign paper of plan pur-
sued by an ingenious physician for in
surfing a supply of ice for use in sick
rooms during the hottest nights, and
without disturbing the patient. This
plan is to cut piece of flannel about
9 inches square, and secure it by liga-
ture round the mouth of an ordinary
tumbler, so as to leave cup-shaped de-
preston of flannel within the tumbler
to about half its depth. In the flannel
cup so formed pieces of ice may be
preserved many hours-all the longer
if piece of flannel from to 5 inches
square be used as loose cover to the
Ice cup. Cheap flannel, with compare
lively open neshes, is preferable, as the
water easily drains through it, and the
ice is thus kept quite dry.
REvACCINATIoN.-Dr Melville of
Nyon, in Switzerland, lately read before
the Vaudois Society of Medicine an in.
teresting paper on the effects of revac-
cination as practised by him during a
recent outbreak of smallpox. The first
case was that of a little girl, whose fam
lily consisted of her father and mother,
and eight sisters and brothers. Two
members of the family only, the father
and one of the elder daughters, had been
revaccinated. After a few days. sick.
ness the girl died of continent small
pox. The mother, who alone of all the
family had visited her, showed the first
signs of varioloid IA days afterward,
and died from the rupture of an aneur-
ism before the disease had reached It's
height. On the same day DR.. Melville
revaccinated the three younger children
and the eldest daughter, but he was un-
able to persuade two of the boys, one
IA, the other 10 years old, to submit to
revaccination. Eight days afterward
the three younger children sickened of
the smallpox. The disease took its
mildest form, and the little patients
were quickly restored to health. The
two sons, who had refused to be revac
cinated, were attacked directly after
ward, and both died of continent small
pox after four or five days. illness. The
father and the eldest daughter entirely
escaped. Thus all who were not revac.
cinated died, while all who followed
DR.. Mieville's advice were either only
slightly affected by the contsgion or not
at all.
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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-05-29

AN exchange informs us that the
horse-radish root will afford instantane-
Gus relief in most obstinate cases of
hoarseness. This is simple remedy to
try, and surely can do no harm. Hoarse-
ness is very common difficulty at this
season,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-05-29

CARDIAC bypertrophy or muscular
enlargement of the heart-a very seri-
Gus diseases often induced by an ex-
cess of muscular exercise, fact that
should not be forgotten by those men
and women who indulge in contests OF
strength, endurance, or agility.
Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1879-12-20
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@sbanten beberridte unb fsinsn sSiden
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Ice se,ceen unb itn eamit III lesre Neht
tinausseiioeen.
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Mutdnge non ;. Gipilifntton"

DEM .. G." mirb aus Seraiewo se
idrieben ]: YOr Der occupation bat man
ME cine Serbin, reid ober arm, pbne bic
tiirfiide Yluoerboie seieben, msbrenb
iett elm GROCER Ibeil oerietben bereits in
mosernen eurcpiilden S(eipern anf Der
Safe prcmenirt, unS serabe auf oieisn
ibren NnsuS nidt weniS ifol3 ino. Tiirfe
uro Serbe bat friber tein anbereS Brpa
setannt, a!s bic icsenannten ttirtiiden
,.Qaibeln," jett iinb bic eiusepanoerten
Bidder nidt in! Stanbe, senus Brob gu
Baden - ia es CAB Dor Sur3em eine 3eit,
po man bieieS grpb BEL cenlslben 4. ..
am Wtittwcd fir ben 5reitas beteqen
unb porauS bs,ablen mubte. prebbefe
iDar bier gar nidt betannt, ieet teoient
iid 9iirte uno Serte oerielsen. Jiinb-
| fleild fano ic5uiasen ourd bic Occupa.
tica @insans, oa friiber nur 5an,mel
flsiid senciisn wurpe. Stiefel mnroen
frlsber sar nidt setrasen, jebt fdnst man
an, ih oerlelben ausemein 3u beoienen.
Auber einem thrills 1idibut coer Ell.
ner Cigarette bate nlln bier iraber tel,
men anoeren Gabud Setannt, isbt Gebt
man idpu bie uno ba ,. ,.Wirsiniar" BON
Iarteu uno Serben itmauden, ia id
babe iosar cine Serbiu seieben. bic nit
elmer nieDliden Sdnupftatadspoie perie.
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Sblafbetten maren bier untefannt, jeei
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bier unsetannte WsTen = iebt ri9tet itt
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in Serajewo sar tsine = iebt bat mar
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