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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-07-29
Americanizing London.

The opening of the new hotel in Ira
ialgar Square marks one stage in what
IS called Americanization in London.
Our cousins tell us that we have not
succeeded in developing the genuine
article; but we have certainly made a
good many steps in that direction.
Whether the change is or is not an inn
provement may be settled by those wise
persons who have made up their minds
as to the true significance of modern
progress. 1t is curious to remark that
the alteration in the character of En-
gllsh inns was almost the sole case in
which even Macauley could not pre-
serve his entire complacency when com
par1ng our own time with that of our
ancestors. He tries to reconcile him.
self to the admission of our relative in
feriority by the doubtful consideration
that good inns mean bad roads. "It
IS evident" he says, &c that, all other
circumstances being supposed equal,
inns will be best where the means of
locomotion are worst" In the seven.
teenth century traveller required
twelve or thirteen meals and five or six
nights lodgings between York and
London. Now he finishes his Journey
between breakfast and dinner, and his
meals Gf the word '.mear' be not dis
honored by applying it to such miscel-
laneous feeding) during the wretched
ten minutes for refreshment. The ar
gument will hardly bear investigation
as it is stated" other circumstances,
will certainly not be equal when loco
motion becomes easier. improved
means OF travelling implies an increased
number of travellers; it means in this
particular case that whole classes
which used to be sedentary have he
come movable, and that those who
move, move ten times as often as be-
fore. If people make fewer stoppages
between London and York, there can
be no doubt that the number of people
IN want OF lodging somewhere has in
creased at a much greater rate than
the total population. If the old road
side inn is deserted, the inns in the
great centers have done much more
than simply absorb the custom of their
predecessors-they have tapped new
sources of demand.-PaN Man Gazette. |
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-07-29
Incidents Of the Afghan War.

One OF the most curious episodes of
the occupation of Cabul by the English
troops after well-nigh forty years. alb
sence is that awell-known Major in one
OF the Ghoorka battalions finds himself
again in Cabul, his birthplace in the
days OF the old occupation. Born in
Gabul he was carried by his mother,
the wife OF a staff officer of the army,
through all the horrors of the dreadful
retreat, was borne into captivity, re-
leased by Shakspeare's cavalry, and
grew up to bear Her Majesty's commits
sion and again to enter Cabul. Stranger
still, the jailer of his mother came to
Cabul and visited his prisoner of by
gone days.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-07-29

hard to help people. She sat in her
little armchair all the time, tying up
Susan Hopkins joints. She thinks SUI
san is the best of all our dolls, but
don't. Her joints are all loose, and
| her legs rattle. Bessie isn't so much
use as am. She kept out of the way,
tending to Susan, while Maria had
to change every one of my clothes,
cause the naughty water sloshed; and
Bessie didn't even pick up the broken
pieces of basin for poor Maria! Maria
told her not to touch 'em, for fear of
getting her feet wet and cutting her
fingers.
Afraid! They're afraid of every
thing. The very minute Maria had me
dressed again, began to pick up the
pieces for her, and 1 didn't cry even
when did cut my hand, and the bleed
got all over my lice clean apron. 1
don't think it was very polite of Maria
to set me down so hard ON the sewing
machine, and tell me not to move till
she'd cleared up the floor.
Bessie is bigger than [ am, but she
isn't busybody at all. She only plays
while there's work going on; and only
see how much work I've done this
morning! I've fixed up mammals
work-basket for her, and I've stuffed
all the rags and little pieces of our new
dresses that were piled up on the ma
chine into papa's collar drawer. Then
| cleared up a whole lot of muss after
Maria. She went to answer the door
bell, and while she was gone 1 took
papa's clothes-whisk and swept up a
big pie of dust she left on the hearth,
and dumped it where nobody can see it,
in dark corner of the closet, under
mammals dresses.
1t was real luck went to the closet,
too, for found the waist of mammals
best walking suit. heard her say one
day that she was going to change the
trimming on the sleeves, so I took it
out, and got a needle and thread, and
I'm going to do it my own self for her.
Bessie's darning stocking that Maria
gave her. and I'll sit right in front of
her, so l can see how she pulls the
needle through. The ends of the lace
get right in the way of the needle,
though, and don't know but what I'll
have to cut some of it off, so as to sew
it better. am going tohurry fast, and
see if I can get it done before mamma
comes home from market. -Mrs. L. G.
Morse. IN Harper's Young People.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-07-29

Captain Adolphus Greedy, who goes
out as commander of the Howgate Arc
tic expedition, is handsome younp
New Highlander. a native of Newbury,
port. Mass, tall and thin, with blue
eyes and black hair and look of plucky
endurance. He has great energy and
ambition and has been an unwearied
student. He married within few wears
beautiful young lady of San Diego,
CAL, and he goes on his cherries and
dangerous undertaking leaving her and
a young son behind, from whom he can
hear little or know nothing during
the years of his absence. The wives Of
sach husbands need some heroism them
selves,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-07-29
COckrOaches.

CoCKRoAcHEs are not likelv il t.l.
the trouble of going up stairs into to b issg
rooms unless they have some ob;so ~ :
it, and that object is generally tbs "a 4. =
ter and smaller insect which nra A..
bedrooms to kitchens. Sailors ara ~,
aware of this fact, and that aNorio1aa
Towards" and cockroaches cannot a via
in the same ship, and curious insts r,s'
OF this fact is recorded in the "Nsrr.
tive of Fosters Voyage in the Chant,
cleer:" "Cockroaches, those nuisancs.
to ships, are plentiful at st. Helena M M
yet, bad as they are, they are mora n.
durable than bugs. Previous to our \.
rival here in the Chanticleer wa hsd
suffered great Inconvenience from IA
latter, but the cockroaches no sooner
made their appearance than the buos
entirely disappeared. The fact is, ia
cockroach preys upon them. and leaves
no sign or vestige of where they have
been; so far it is a most vsluable il.
sect"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-07-29
The Cucumber.

The cucumber is a native Of the nd
die and south of Asia, where Il grows
to an immense size and Furnished food
for the wild inhabitants. II belongs II
botany to the class cucumis, and I
writer in the ''First Edinburgh Ency-
clop@dia" mentions more than fift
different kinds of this plant. 1t sur
missed that the word mandrake occur.
ring SO frequently in the Old Testament
is synonymous with our cucumber Il
is said to have been common in 3D.
gland in the time of Edward Ill, but
went out of culture during the was
of the Roses, and was reintroduced
from Holland during the reign Of Henry
Will, in 1888. In the Bible it is sup
posed to be mentioned several times b
a word that is translated s.mandrske,n
while the word that is translated cucunf
Der means sometimes a gourd. Tbs
cucumber was also known among the
Egyptians.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-07-29

The photographers have a new speech
With witt. which to gladden. the hearts Of
their victims. They say: ssTry and
look as if you were sure that your
candidate would be elected
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-07-29

EDWARD MORRIS has written an = Oce
infancy" beginning as follows:
:" 0 little child!
Stretched on thy mothers knee with Gesr
fast gaze
And innocent aspect mild,
Viewing the novel scene in mute amaze
Too much poetic license here, Edwnaa
When child is stretched on its motness
knees it doesn't view things In ~ ~
amaze" Hardly. The series Of bowls W.
come from its throat would discount noss,
gong. And as for the "innocent ~. s
mild" it is not there-at least, 1t soon olssp
pears.-NorristoWn Herald.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-07-29

In Cleveland, Ohio, the other day :
gentleman was arrested and tried fef
smoking on the street-cars after e,
peated orders to refrain from so doing
The court decided that the offense ~
no greater than that Of many ocaIed
ladies who annoy passengers on tne
cars by the use of vile toilet perfumes
and that the defendant might be r.
leased on payment of costs.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-07-29

A DELAWARE farmer revived thesys.
tenn of torture in his place the other
day by calling in two Of his neighbon
and, with their aid, putting rope
about the neck of his hired man and
hauling him over the limb of q tres ia
order to make him confess the stealing
OF the farmers pocket-book containing
six dollars. He refused to acknowledge
the crime, and the farmer, tying him y
the fence, went into the house for )
gun with which to shoot him II he IT.
tempted to escape. There he found
the pocket-book where he had LETT i
He thereupon apologized to his man,
and admitted that he had been 8 little
hasty. The man thought SO, too.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-07-29

An attempt to poison the family q
William Champion, Of Greensboro
Georgia. was made by the cook putting
bluestone in the coffee. The pecul6
odor of the coffee attracted the atten-
ton of the family, and thus they wsls
prevented from drinking it. The co0k
at once disappeared.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-07-29

GALL work and no play makes Jac A hsg,
boy" Very few Jacks will become uuA
If left to themselves.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-07-29

WATER expands LOO times III In ~ bps
steam. Remember this and Keep on i
OF the boat when you 20 on an eAeu.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-07-29

IT was ten years ago when Mrs; Se s'.,' ,' X
Guilford, Ont, was struck by llgntni ~ uss
thrown from the buggy in when w a"othsr
riding, but she survived to be killed %
stroke during storm only few dass 4s
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-07-29

Two DEAF mutes were married tne O.. 49,
day in Chenango County, N. Y. It's pr -,
Ing to think that no harsh words VIII e'''
pass between them.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-07-29

A BRIGHT little five-year old mics was ~
to the barn to see some sheep, and alter loo Y.
ing at them for a moment she exciaims y
's'Oh, auntie, see; the sheep all wear fner ~
bangedn
, 1880-04-26

An ORATORS TESTIMONY. - Henry
Grattan was one of the most brilliant
of Irish orators. His life was passed
in those political struggles which are
apt to leave men with but little time or
inclination to reflect upon religious
themes. Men thought him Indifferent
to Christianity. But when he came to
lie on the bed which be left only to be
borne to the tomb, he gave evidence
that he had pondered deeply the great
est thought which man can entertain
his accountability to God.
One day, as his daughter was read
ing to him from the Bible. he said:
"If I had not read this book before,
it would be of little service to me to do
SO now. 1 can do nothing of myself.
1 PROSTATE myself, with all my sins, at
the foot of the Cross, and I trust to the
mercy of my Redeemer."
His sons and daughters had often
listened with rapture to the eloquent
words of their father, but they treasured
these utterances. Strange must it
seem to an unbeliever that dying
mans broken sentences are more in
spring, mora tenaciously retained,
than the rhetoric and thought which
gave him reputation.
The near prospect of death corrects
mans conscious errors. and he consci-
entiously speaks the convictions of
lifelong experience.
, 1880-04-26

A BLIND MANS PLEAsUREs.-Profes
sor Fawcett, the blind member of par
lament, says that when at twenty five
he lost his sight there were many things
of which he was passionately fond, and
he resolved that those pursuits which
he could follow he would. No one
enjoyed salmon fishing in the Tweed or
the Spey more than he did, no one
more enjoyed throwing the fly in some
quiet stream in Hampshire or Willis
bure. He enjoyed it as much as any
one did galop sver the turf in compa-
ny with some friend. He appreciated
all the health-giving vigor of long
row from Oxford to London, ard al
though the late severe frosts nipped up
great many people no one in the
whole country enjoyed better than he
with friend did a fifty or sixty mile
skate on the Fens. He referred to these
facts in no spirit of egotism, but as
showing that there was still for the
blind store OF happiness and pleasure
If only they had the courage and deter
mination to avail themselves of it.
, 1880-04-26
Sudden Deaths--COngestion Of the
Lungs.

The white Of the eye often becomes
intensely red. In this case, the minute
blood-vessels, generally SO small as to
be invisible, have become gorged with
blood, and thus enlarged-.hey are
congested.
The blood-vessels in any part of the
body may be similarly congested. The
lungs have reddish pale color, but
when they are congested they are in
tensely red, and their minute vessels
swell out and crowd upon each other.
The consequence is, that the smaller
air-passages are obstructed-as an in
fants nostrils are by cold in the head,
and bat little air can pass through to
the microscopic air-cells, where alone
the blood is oxygenated and purified.
Sometimes death from this cause is
very sudden, and the person is popu-
larly supposed to have fallen dead from
heart plant.
The lungs can suffer great injury
without destroying life. Bullets may
pass through them; assesses may eat
out large portions; an entire lung may
be rendered useless by its spongy sub
stance being rendered solid (hepatised,
made l1ver-llke) from lnhltratlOn, and
yet the person may live and enjoy COM
Portable health to old age. But con-
gestion, the result of sudden chill,
as simple as that which gives child
the snutfies. may prove fatal in few
moments.
OF course, every attack of pulmonary
congestion is not fatal, for an ordinary
cold 'on the lungs is simply slight
form OF it. Further, all are not
equally liable to such fatal attacks.
Each ones susceptibility is more or
less different. The chill which affects
one in the lungs affects another in tAe
bowels, another in the brain, etc.
Each has his own weak point toward
which the injury tends. But all-the
weak and the aged especially-should
avoid chill, as being possible blast
of death.
, 1880-04-26

The Keene Sentinel relates the follow
ing striking instance of honesty. A lady
from West Swanzey bought some cot
ton cloth very cheap of one of our
prominent dry goods dealers the other
day, by representing she could buy it
at another store for the price paid. She
afterward ascertained that the other firm
had marked up their goods and she sent
tie deficiency to the dealer she patron
lied,
, 1880-04-26
Intelligence Items.

St. Louis has 55O, 900 people, but
only 10000 Protestant church mem
bers.
The first glass factory in the United
States of which we have definite knowl-
edge, was built in 1850.
The first compass was used in France
in 115O though the Chinese are said to
have employed the loadstone earlier.
The New York Broadway Tabernacle
needs only seven more members to
make 1000. DR.. Taylor received 81
during 1879.
A requiem mass for the repose of
Sunday morning, Feb. s, in the Sistine
Chapel, Rome.
The population of the globe is esti-
mated at 81, 800, 900 900. Nearly every
man thinks he ought to be the l, where
as he is only al O..
Everything is working like clock
work with the laboring classes. That
is to say, the hands are busy getting up
strikcs.-Boston Bulletin.
The value of the oranges shipped
from Columbus. Ga. during the season
just closed was SIT ,204 40. Columbus
is the shipping port for considerable
portion of Florida.
The interest on the public debt due
April l amounts to 81 ,3S9 ,62O, it being
the quarterly interest on S73S ,962 600
four per cent bonds. OF the interest
due, S., 134, ,173 is on registered bonds.
There arc 1914 Congregational
churches in the United States, whose
benevolent contributions last year were
81 ,09S ,691 43, and whose home expen-
di.ures were 1874 ,22S 81.
The number of men that were killed
by accident in the st. Gothard Tunnel,
from the commencement of the under
taking to the end of February Sth,
amounted to 120 400 were wounded.
The first sovereign who adopted the
phrase, '' In the year of our Lord, was
Charles Ill, Emperor of Germany,
$40. It is now the accepted mode of
designating the year in all Christian
countries.
Sandwich Islands Christians con-
tribute $24 600 annually for missionary
purposes outside their territories.
oOuC Cau1CuCS dNCIuSc d1olO tuaA We
per member. One church sustains
more than five foreign missionaries.
A package of fine tobacco sent by
young lady of Asheville. N. c.. to
Richmond, to be sold, brought $5 25
per pound when it was learned that the
fair shipper intended to devote the
proceeds to the relief of the Episcopal
church at Asheyille.
A church in Madison, Conn.,, has
been in existence 173 years, and has
had but six pastors during that period.
No minister has ever been dismissed,
all having continued there till their
death. The church edifce has been
built three times.
The wife of Adjt.-Gen. Ross, of In.
diana, has received from the ladies in
the Treasury Department at Washing
ton small cross made of $4,000 in
greenbacks that were ground in the
treasury and nodded into its present
form. 1t is stamped with quaint in
scription.
, 1880-04-26

There is a famine in Brazil which
outrivals the distress in Ireland. The
northern provinces is the scene of the
trouble. It is said no famine of such
magnitude has been known in modern
times. Half millien of souls have
already died of starvation and the num-
ber will be doubled if succor does not
soon reach them. It is appalling to
contemplate oil the woe and misery
such condition involves.
, 1880-04-26

More than 81. 500, 900 is said to be iu-
vested in mission buildings in New
York city.
, 1880-04-26
TESTIMONIALS:

SAN JOSE, September "a, 1873.
To the Standard Soap Co.-Gentlsnen:
1t affords me pleasure to say to
the public that have used and pre-
scribed your PHOSPHATE SOAP
as a remedy in various forms of
cutaneous diseases with the hap
piest results. am of the opinion
that it is the mildest and most per-
feet detergent that can be used,
either for cleansing the skin and
leaving it soft and healthy, or for
removing the fetor and corroding
influences of sores and alterations.
should be sorry to be without it
in shaving my face or making my
toilet, to say nothing of my good
opinion of its remedial qualities.
A. j. SPENCER, M. D.
Gentlemen: '''~
I received a package of your SOAP
(Phosphate Soap and it gives me
great pleasure to testify as to its SUI
perlor excellence. AS toilet SOAP I
have never seen anything to sur
pass 1T. 1t also possesses superior
remedial qualities. have used it
in two cases Of obstinate skin dis
ease, one Of intolerable itching.
Pruritus, the other an Eczema. In
both great relief was obtained.
Its emollient properties arc remark
able. Respectfully,
w. A. DOUGLASS, MD.
126 O'Farreu st,
To the Standard Soap Company.
The genuine merits of PHOS-
PHATE SOAP and persistent adj
vertising will force every druggist,
groceryman and general dealer to
order it by the gross sooner or later.
Ask for 1t IN every store. The re-
tail price IS IS cents per cake. We
wish to sell 1t only at wholesale, but
in case you cannot find it we will
send nice box Of three cakes by
mail, postage paid, on receipt of 85
cents in stamps.
STANDARD SOAP CO..
2OA Sacrame to St.. 8. r
, 1880-04-26
DR.. Spinney & Co.

II Kearmy St, San FranciscO. There are many
men from thirty to sixty years of age suffering from
general prostration and a weakening of the system
which they account for, DR.. Spinney will
guarantee perfect cure in all such and COM
pete restoration of the physical and nervous powers.
P.S.-For special diseases Of short standing a full
of medicines sufficient cure. with necessary
Instructions. will De sent to any address receipt
of $40.
, 1880-04-26
partly answer.

Abundance of fresh air, plenty OF
healthy exercise, the curative powers
of old Ocean, simpleness of diet, all, in
spite of want of care, convenience and
thousand attending hardships, serve
to assist nature in restoring the patient.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-08-20
NUMBER 30.
..rrr nANcoc.s N co,sMAND.-

q. W t'I-AfEl
Our broken lines, with battle torn.
And faces grimmcd with powder,
Closed Up their gap and onward borne
Toward cannon booming louder,
With sad dismay saw borne away,
Their general all CORY.
Then asked i'm dread, with leaders dead,
who next viii lead 90 gl0rye
''Put Hancock Ia command, put Hancock in com
mauG:
With one more round ven hold the ground,
with Hancock in command"
But who is IFauc5cka~ comrades cry.
And draw their v-aistuelts tighter
Then wave their ragged Rags on high
And ask ifEe's o fighter.
With stately tread among the dead
On war-h0rso stepping proudly.
lis blue eye shines along the lines;
Tho veterans clam0r loudly;
''Tut Hancock in command, put Hancock in com
maud:
Wen stand at bay, we'll win the day.
With Hancock in command
with such q leader in their front,
The BOYS ne'er dream Of yielding.
His breast receives the battle hrunt
His arm bis bright sword welding.
The leaden hail his lines ass8u.
IIc sinks beneath q v1IIcv,
But frantic yslLs the victory tolls
Resistance world Pee folly.
With Hancock In command with Hancock IN com
mant.
lie is not dead. but lifts his head
To give q last command
FOR years. with broken party lines
The cOuntry's banner trailing,
But now new hope before us shines.
Our victor leader hauIu--
With peace restored. we shcathe the sword.
But honor stlIl our leader:
Let hand Join hand. God bless o1r land.
The ship OF state God speed her.
with Hancock in command. wilh Hancock IL
command:
a man OF might IH peace or fight.
Put Hancock iu command