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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-04-29
Russian Superstition Breeding Madness.

Not only does the vast majority OF
Russian peasants believe firmly in witch
craft, but the name of its superstitions is
legion. There is scarcely a village in
Russia without its Jurodivi," or in
spired idiot, its 90 Kaldunja,n or sorceress.
and its s. Klikusha," ahysterical scream
ing woman, subject to fits, who is an
especial object of fear and reverence to
her neighbors. A strange illness, at
tributed by some of the eminent Russian
Psychologists to the effect produced upon
the nerves by all these silly superstitions.
has made its appearance in several prov
inces OF the Empire among the hardy
and robust rural populations. No effica-
cious method has as yet been devised for
treating this malady, which generally
eliminates in insanity. The village priests
regard it with Indifference, and make no
effort to discourage the demoralizino
credulity in which it originates. The
district surgeons shrug their shoulders
over it, and confess their inability to
comprehend the phenomena of its genesis
and incubation. Meanwhile, it appears
to be rapidly spreading, and largely re-
cruiting the ranks of the "Chiisti,'' a
fanatical sect which practices fasting and
self-castigation with the most shocking
results to its followers to
those OF the female sex.-Londop Tele-
graph.
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still nicer, it can be deliberately embroid-
cred on canvass in Berlin wool, and fin
ished by the upholsterer or finished at
home by putting large cord around the
edge to suspend it by, with balls or tas-
sells to correspond.
Fern holders are very pretty made of
lantern globe, when no other glass
presents itself, and ornamented with
transferred pictures. Another style is
with a frame for the back, and pocket
in front, formed of long oat straws, cut
ting them between the joints, winding
them with very narrow strips of gilt
paper, so that it will show as much of
the straw as the paper. Sew the straw
frame together at the corners, leaving
an inch or so, rustic fashion, then finish
with tiny cord and tassels.
The back should be six inches wide
and ten long, the front lacking four or
five inches Of reaching to the top, and
joined at the bottom. When the two
frames are completed, stretch on them
pink or white carleton, lacking it under
meath, lightly to the straws. Then paste
embossed pictures on the front piece and
upper part of the back
Suspend with cord and tassels. An
other cord and tassel at each upper cor
ner OF the front piece is fastened to the
back in such manner as to let the front
fall forward a few inches to form a
pocket.
Another fern holder can be made of
Bristol-bOard pinked and ornamented
with pictures and put together in the
same manner as the last described.
The carleton has fairy-like appear
ance that is very charming. Tassels or
balls for these delicate-looking articles,
should be made of pink and white zephyr
or something equally dainty and delicate
in color.-Cor. R4raI NeW Yorker.
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The Projected Forts on Mt CssIk

AN italian military periodical si1s
an account of the arrangements for ths
construction of the forts designed y
bar the road over Mont Cents IT,
works are three in number-ons
namely, at Casa, 6,4O8 feet above y
level OF the sea; second at Varlsels
4. 400 feet, and a third at Roncia. 7,W
feet above the sea level. The forts =
to be completed in four years from q !.
time they were begun, or perhaps
would be more correct to say in $40 dayi
as work can only be carried on duriB
on an average eighty days in each " Z.
on the heights of Mont Gents, and eI
laborers, Of whom 22O are masons -
bricklayers, are employed on the worn
The labor Of constructing the foFs !
greatlv enhanced by the absence q .
building materials in the neighborhooe
Sand, wood and even water are w.
ing, and these, together, with all 9,
that may be required, have y
brought up road the gradients
which are in many places as step
one in ten. Most of the materials y
obtained from Susa, some fifteen Nv
distant from the forts, two trscu
engines being employed in their ~
port. Each of these locomous
despite the steebness of the road, 6
drag two wagons laden with from ~
and half to four tons of materisi y
Susa to the forts in about eleven hous
accomplishing the return joufrs
about half the time.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-04-29
flor Aoung Beadtfs.
LOST, a BOY.

Hc went from the old home hearthstone
Only two years ago,
A laughing, rollicking fellow
1t would do you good to know.
Since then we have not seen him,
And we say, with a nameleSs pain,
The boy that we knew and loved SO
We shall never see again.
One bearing the name we gave him
Comes home to us to-day,
But this is not the dear fellow
We kissed and sent away. --..
Tall as the man he calls father,
With mans look in his face,
Is he who takes by the hearthstone
The lost boys olden place.
We miss the laugh that made music
Wherever the lost boy went. -@
This man has smile most winsome,
His eyes have grave intent;
We know he is thinking and planning
His way in the world of men,
And we cannot help but love him,
But we long for our boy again.
We are proud of this manly fellow
Who comes to take his place,
With hints of the vanished boyhood
In his earnest, thoughtful face.
And yet comes hack the longing
For the boy we must hencefOrth miss,
Whom we sent away from the hearthstone
Forever with a kiss.
-Eben Il. Rerford, in Youths Companion.
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Queer Signatures.

The practice Al signing as mode OF
giving formal assent to written contracts
or charters is probably as old as, and in
one sense we may say older than, the art
of handwriting. Amongst all peoples the
art of authenticating document was &C
complished by the most illiterate per-
sons, either by affixing a stamp with the
signet ring they carried, or by initiating
the process Of signing by some other and
ruder device. Conspicuous amongst
these more rustic maneuvres was that
which Gibbon mentions as adopted by
Theodore, the great Ostrogoth King OF
Italy. He had a gold plate made in
which the first few letters of his name
were cut in the Greek character; and
when paper had to be signed by him
the plate was laid upon it and His Ma
jesty, passing the pen along the paper
in the interstices of the metal, traced by
these means the royal signature, which
he could never remember in any other
way.
A still more barbarous and ungainly
device was that which was invented, or
at least practiced, by the Turkish Sultans
of Iconium, when that town was their
capital. They simply dipped their hand
IN the bowl of ink presented to them,
and laying it flat upon the paper or papy-
rus, left the indelible impress of it in .
gigantic and most conspicuous shape. A
somewhat similar habit is reported from
India, where landowners in the Mahratta
country are. or were until lately, accus-
toned to dip their thumb in the sandal
dye, and by pressing it ON the paper
leave their sign manual, or, as in this
case, it should perhaps be called, their
sign digital. This was in the case of
rajahs or zemindars, who could not write
their own name; but it is said that in an
other part of India Brahmin who was
highly educated resorted to a practice
very like that of the Iconium Sultans
whenever it was his intention to make
very generous and comprehensive grant,
the character of which he thought would
be well typified by the mark of the open
hand.
The origin of the "mark' with which
illiterates now sign is enveloped in some
doubt; but it would be quite wrong to
suppose that the cross they now use was
employed in very early times. On the
contrary, it is said that for many CEN
turtles after the Dark Ages those who
could not afford to wear ring or keep
signet used to make some special and
peculiar mark, such as an arrowhead,
in which it was supposed, and perhaps
rightly, that their autograph could be
recognized,
It is well known to any bibliophile
that William Shakespeare spelt his own
name in several different ways. In
France, Malesherbes spelt his in at least
five different ways at different times.
Raphael signed most usually in Latin,
but sometimes in Italian. Napoleon al
tered the spelling both of his Christian
and his sirname. So Mary Queen of
Scots, whose English was most feeble,
signed indifferently as Mary .sMarie''
and "Marye.n A number of persons
have dropped the conclusion of their
names and signed with the first syllable,
either making sort of illegible scratch
to represent the other letters, or simply
them altogether, as did Theo-
dOric-T O71flO3z GloIe
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Domestic Economy,

A spendthrift is brother to a miser.
Let us avoid both extremes. The maxim
that "a penny saved is two pence
earned" should be remembered, es-
pecially by people in moderate circum-
stances. The difference between penny
earned and penny saved is this: in the
former case you have to work for it, in
the latter you do not Some families
dress well and live well, while spending
less than half as much as some Others
who never have enough to wear or eat.
The difference is simply one of economy
and prudence. There are poor, hard
working families, always complaining of
hard times and poor health, who ignore
Indian meal as an article of diet; fine
bolted flour they use, and that contin-
ually. Perhaps they imagine that meal
does not agree with them. Doubtless
they have weak stomachs, as the result
OF eating too much concentrated food.
Give horse nothing but flour for few
months, and venture to say he would
not be able at the end of that time to d.
gest hay, or even oats. Let nv wife
make one of her good old-fashioned
loaves OF rye and Indian bread, the rising
material OF which is composed largely Of
stale bread, doughnuts, gingerbread,
etc., with cup of molasses in it to give
it a good color and flavor, and place it
on the table beside the best fine wheat
bread that can be made, and you will see
that nine-tenths of those at table, old or
young, will take the coarse bread in
preference to the fine, and yet the coarse
bread costs only about one-third as much
as the fine, pound for pound.
Harriet Beecher has well said, if house.
keepers would take more pains to cook
well the coarser articles of diet, people
would not care nearly so much for food
that is finer and richer. Take as simple
adish as "hasty pudding when proper
~ made, it is dish {. fit for king,
but when half cooked or seasoned, It is
tit only for pigs or chickens. Cooking
Is just as truly chemical process as any
result secured in a laboratory. And as
in chemistry, the least deviation from
proper proportions in a given compound
will give result entirely different from
the one sought, SO it is largely in cook
ing. May heaven bless the careful, con-
sclentlous cook-she is means of grace
as well as of health, for who can praise
and serve his Maker as he should with a
diseased stomach or gorged liver.
How few farmers have q good bed Of
asparagus, SO desirable in early spring
between ebay and grass" when the
whole system cries out for fresh yegeta-
bles, and yet such bed is easily started,
and will last for fifty years. Some
farmers do not " feel able'' to afford their
families any kind of meat but salt pork,
summer and winter, and yet they can
buy good. fresh beef from the butchers
cart for less than what they would sell
their everlasting pork, and by "boiGng
down. in the kettle with a few light |
dumplings you can have fresh meat
dinner that will be eaten almost as
heartily as roast turkey. But time would |
fail us to show the difference between
the prudent, economical housekeeper.
who thinks as well as works, and the
person who works hard and pondereth
not.-Cor. New England Farmer.
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LAST Sunday morning, says tns -.
cramento Bee, ten or thirteen me, -.
in a Roseville saloon talking abous - =,
men. The question arose as 70 VIZ -, Y
the bravest man in town, when = PIX ~,
apainter, stepped forward and to0L n =
honor to himself. j. Blair, 70 -
bravery, asked him to step cus y ~
street about forty feet and let hln !. a
at his hat, it being on his hesa B n.
time. No quicker said than
Berry stepped out forty feet, ans 81
with an old Colts revolver, nreas 81
ing hole through his hat aDo% s.ip|
inch from his head. The crown - ~
more to say about bravery
changed the subject
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-04-29

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cient and prehistoric Egypt: ~ n
lieves that the country was nrig ~
a number of streams which g u
through channels, still traccsu 81 ID
which the Arabs of the desert spF
phrase drivers without water.
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learn that the +" Liverpool lurch' and
the Boston Dip are no longer the
fashion, having been replaced by the
7" Boston grip" and the "South-sea cud.
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-04-26
MAINE CITIES.
lettings bv Press Correspondents.
LEWISTON AND AUBURN.

SATURDAY, April "a.
Larenty says he has kept the pledge.
Another liquor seizure to-day
Court has been tame this week.
The shootists propose a State tournament.
Morse has printed Auburn city report
Grand jury returned twenty indictments.
Mr. Kanada's family are to sail for Europe.
The police shot ferocious day to-day.
One hundred Patriarchs and two bands will
visit Portland Monday.
The Mendelssohns will hold forth Thursday
evening.
The Boston Museum Company contemplates
another visit here
Died to-day, High St. Uniyersalist church,
aged Al years.
Mining brokers are doing a big business.
Bananas glut the market.
The first strawberry festival of the season.
May 9th, at City Hail.
Concert by Portland talent at Court St. F. B.
Church is announced
DIR. Donovan is i'll.
Obsequies of Geo. E. Langley occurred YES
terday at Greene. Crowded house and i'm
pressive services.
Several new dwellings are going up on Main
street.
Rev. Mr.. Perry is conducting a service of
talks on botany at his church
Nj. l: Paine VS.. NJ. B. Preble is on trial.
Plaintiff sues to recover balance claimed to be
due him for carpenters services rendered
Rev. Owen Street of Lowell, Mass, conducts
the union service tomorrow.
Bushels of Mayhowers have been gathered
in the suburbs to-day.
Six members of the Y. NJ. C. A., conduct
three services at West Auburn tomorrow.
The many friends of W. I'll. Iothrop in this
vicinity We're deeply panied at the sad news of
his death.
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BATH
rpDAY ADril "a

SATURDAY, April "a.
Weeks mortality, two deaths.
A telegram yesterday announced the death
in Detroit, Mich, of Chas. Coulliard, Bath
boy, who had lately gone to Leadville.
The Phoebe is at Moulton's for repairs.
Mr.. John n. Moody is building handsome
pleasure barge.
AT the municipal court this morning, before
Judge Tallman, Bridget Oliver. single sale,
fined 800 and costs, appealed. Mr.. Footer,
single sale, 500 and costs, appealed.
Three drunken sailors, arrested Friday after
noon and put in the palas to cool by the mar
shall and officer Tibbetts.
Thirty-five vessels in port
Ship Prussian is loading ice at the Arctic
wharf.
The porgy boats are being made ready for
the summer work.
The Patten Library is well patronized
Fifty thousand dollars of Bath capital is in
vested in Lewiston cotton mills.
These moonlight evenings crowds flock to
Washington street promenade.
The Portland skaters in Columbian Hall
Monday, day and evening.
Kit the Arkansas Traveller, Tuesday even
ing.
The Stanmore theatre was not well patron
lied. Edith Stanmore is no beauty. The
troupe is of good calibre and merits success.
Lots of down river fishermen up today.
The Gen. Shepley has foundered at sea
The woods were full of juveniles after May
flowers this afternoon.
A man named Perkins chopped his hand
nearly off while cutting wood in Winnegance
this morning.
Miss Snow is building huge barn on her
place at Hardine's Station.
Big sale of Independents this afternoon
owing to the interest in cotton manufacture
for Bath.
Citizens generally are taking universal in
terest in making their residences attractive by
painting and repairs this spring.
The Winter street sociable at the residence
of Capt. Jarvis Patten was unusually pleas
ant
Winter street church grounds are being
graded, the old fence has been removed and
concrete walks are to be laid.
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But the lamp was lighted and burning
now as sensiby as the others-if we could
have seen it. AS We soon discovered, the
glass was covered by kind of tarpaulin in
tensely black and strongly adhesive, and the
carriage was as completely dark as if no
lamp had been there at all. The perplexity
IN DAVIS IS tace was as great as my own
when | told him who had travelled here.
"They couldn't have left the train here, at
any rate" he said; and | knew that as well
as he did.
But you have guessed the end. During
those few minutes that we stopped on the
line, the two thieves, darkening the lamp
even after l had left them, and using their
own key, had left the carriage under cover
OF the darkness, managing their escape in
their black dresses, out into the blackness of
the night as cleverly as they had managed
their theft and subsequent concealment.
But how could they have depended on this
unusual delay-this exquisite oppor-
tunity given them in the utter dark
ness close to the city vet at no station?
when L officially made my deposition and
explained the cause of my stoppage, some
thing OF the truth seemed to break upon us
all; but it wasn't for good while that il
settled into certainty. Then it got clear to
us all that the older scoundrel had duped us
more lngenlously than the younger one. As
Ihe iil'dpaple olu lady, deal as stone, ana
SO blind that she had to peer through her
glittering glasses, with ewes always half
closed, and so hungry that had TO stop the
train for luncheon basket, he played upon
us the neatest trick of all. Where on earth
were the thick iron-gray hair and whiskers
by which we were to have identified him?
But by the time the police saw the thing
clearly it was too late to follow up any clue
to them.
The cab which had taken the eccentric old
lady with her parcels and flowers from Eus-
ton was lost in the city and could not be
tracked. A high reward was offered for in
formation but no one ever won it. My firm
belief is that it was no legitimately licensed
cab at all, but one belonging to the gang and
part of the finished fraud. verify believe,
too, that sometimes, now-though perhaps
on the other side of the channel-those
three practiced knaves enjoy a hearty laugh
over that December journey by the night ex-
press,
Davis still assures me with the most
cheerful confidence, that he shall yet have
the pleasure some day, of trapping three of
the most expert and skilled thieves in Brit
ain. l wish felt as sure of it.
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RAILROADS.
Portland and Worcester Line
PORTLAND & ROCHESTER, r.. r.
SPRING ARRANGEMENT.

SPRING ARRANGEMENT.
sesssesssssees 1850, Passenger Trains will leave
-xA-3O n. mn. and rs p. nm arriving
at Worcester at 2.15 p. m. and 7.30 p. m. Return
ing leave Union Depot, Worcester, at 7.3O m. and
I1.16 a. m, arriving at Portland at LIS p. and
800 p. m.
For Clinton, Aver juno, Fitchburg,
Nashua, lowell, Windhnm, and Ep-
ping at 7.S0 N. mn. and HIS p. m.
For Manchester, Concord and points North at
Lis p. nm.
For Rochester, SPringvale, Alfred, Wat-
erbOrO and Saco River.5.3O n. M. Is
p. M. and (mixed) at 6.45 p. m. Returning
leave Rochester at (miXed) 6.45 a. M, IL. 05
Am, and 3.40 p. M; arriving at Portland
(mixed) 9.35 q. M, LIE p. m. and 600 p. m.
For Gorham, Saccarappa, Cumberland
Mills, WestbrOOk and Wo0hford's.
at 73O IA. M. LIS, 6.l5 and (mixed) 6.4J
The Ills p. M. tain from Portland connects at
Aver juno. with EkO0sac Tunnel Route for
the West, and at Union Depot, Worcester, for
New York via Norwich Line, and all rail,
r. ('Steamer Maryland Route') for EshiladeI-
phia, Baltimore, Washington, and the
South and with Boston 81 Albany &c. e. fol-
the West.
Close connections made at Wesabro u june
ton with through trains Of Me. Central Il. r.. and
at GrandTrunk Transfer, Portland, with through
trains of Grand Trunk r. II.
Through tickets to all points South and West, at
Depot offices and at 'ia'iins y Adams No. % Ex-
change Street.
apr1dtf j. M. LUNT. Supt.
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: RAILROADS,
Eastern Railroad,
FALL AND WINTER SCHEDULE.
October l8. 1879.

Trains Leave Portland
. IL. n,. Daily except Mondays, Might Express
from Bangor) for Saco Biddeford, Portsmouth,
Newburyport. Salem, Lynn and Boston. A special
Pullman Sleeping Car will be ready for occupancy
in Portland at p. m. and will be attached to this
train. Passengers have full nights rest and ar
rive in Boston at $50 am. in season for all morn
ing trains South and West.
S.4J n. m. Daily except Sundays For Boston and
way stations, arriving at 1.30 p. m.
4 p. m. Daily except Sundays. Express train with
Pullman Parlor Car for Saco, Biddeford, Ports
mouth, Newbnyport, Salem, Lynn and Boston,
arriving at $50 pm. in season for Sound and Rail
connections South and West
For Portland, leave Boston,
7.3O a. m. H. 80 and p m, arriving at 1910,
and IL p.
Through tickets to all points South and
West at lowest rates at Depot Ticket ONCE, Com
mercial street, j. NJ. French and at the Union
Ticket Office, E. A. Waldron, Agt, 40 Exchange
street.
Pullman Car Tickets for Seats and
Bertins sold at Depot Ticket Once.
LUCIUS FUTILE,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent.
D. W. SANBORN, Master Transportation.
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