The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-03-03
MISCELLANEOUS,

creased. ninety, per, cent. since the in
PRODUCTION OF cheap standard literature.
The new Congressional Library
building will cost about $500, 900 with
shelving capacity for 2, 800, 900 volumes.
1t will be located in judiciary square
"A great many men are cottage built;
that is to say, they have but one story.
And they are forever telling it, Boston
Transcript. They, doubtless. look upon
such one as telling story. 81 5f'..r
IA travelling party lost their dog at
Leipzig, and ten days afterward, when
at Berlin, about one hundred miles dis
tant, the animal joined them again,
ragged and gaunt. The dog had not
before been over the road. 'z'.'''' IS !
1t is said that the new trunk line,
known as the Baltimore, Cincinnati and
Western Railway, will touch two hun
-dred and eight towns between Balti-
more and Cincinnati, of which only
twenty have now any railroad connec-
ton. s--.......
Vice President Wheeler has pre-.
sided nearly four years over the orderly
Senate and has never broken a single
gavel. When Mr. Blaine was Spea .er
OF the more turbulent House it is said
he used to break several gayels at each
session. lirt er ri iad L.Hs RHl .ale11
An elegant picture of Mrs. Presi-
dent Hayes is soon to be placed in the
White House. 1t is the donation of the
friends of the temperance cause who
thus honor the recipient for her devo-
ton to their principles. The picture
and frame are to cost 50, 900. y 's3ssfitT
The threadbare conundrum; "When
is'a cent more than cent? was prac-
ltically answered in Baltimore a few
days since, at an auction sale of rare
and curious coins. "A, United States
cent of 1898 proved to, be worth, to
somebody, 1913, and three others of the
same date, but mutilated, aggregated
SIG. %. Half-dollars of various dates,
from 1875 to 1852, sold at from 49, so to
to S1.20 each. Dimes of 1896 brought
~. GO and So. 30. One dollar. was paid
for an tuncirculated half-cent of 1910,
while. haf-cents of 1874 to 1911 brought
prices ranging from fifty-fye cents to
seventy cents. AnlSO4 cent was eaoer.
ly taken at S11.75. e-t at.5i afiis q - /
~ "A convention of crows was wit
messed by james HiIlman, OF Orwigs-
burg, Pa As he entered the woods sey-
erai thousand crows were perched in the
trees. Soon sentinels took their places
on; the outskirts of the woods. The
crows seemed engaged, in, an earnest
debate, Some appeared to argue one
way and some another. They separated
in groups of a dozen or SO, cawed and
chartered for a while, and then met in
great tlocks. This continued for six
days. during which time none of the
corn in {, the neighborhoodT fields was
touched; On the sixth day they sud-
denly flew away 10 the northward. They
went in hocks of about 800 each, at in
'tervals OF five minutes and each Hook
had a leader TIA II ssHsE II ii ia
San Francisco has not vet been
cured Of its love of titled aristocrats.
and therefore continues to be a victim
OF pretenders. The latest of these was
q clever rogue who called himself Count
Won Schiller. He made acquaintances
in snobbish society and then pretended
to fall dangerously i'll. He dictated a
letter to his father. directing him how
to make a remittance of $4,000, and in
duced the young man who acted as his
amanuensis to lend him 81 900. until the
money came. Then he feigned belief
that he was about to die and made will
in which his San Francisco friends were
literally remembered. On the strength
of these requests he borrowed numerous
small amounts. He has at last been ex-
posed and arrested m ga rafgeua
sf--The Dubuque Times tells long and
romantic tale of howa young lady in
that city dreamed thrice that she visited
this city and met here in a big hotel
very attractive, gentleman, whom she
subsequently, married; of how six years
later she did visit this city and acct !,
dentally' met at the rooms of a
friend in one / of our hotels the
very man VINO had been the hero
and subject of her dreams; of how they
were indeed married, and lived happy
ever afterward. A Chicago girl, saws
the Tribune, had a somewhat similar
experience. She dreamed once that
she visited Dubuque, and married man
there. The next morning she resolved
never to eat mince-pie again before re-
ward. -ess,-,
. T71tlis said that pencil drawings may
be rendered inefaceable, by this simple
process: Slightly warm Sheet of ord;n-
airy drawing paper, then place it care
fully on the surface of a solution of
white rosin in alcohol. leaving it there
long enough to become thoroughly
Afterward dry it in a cur
rent of air, Paper prepared in this way
has very smooth surface. In order
to. fix the. drawing the paper
is to be warmed for a few minutes. !
This method may prove useful for the ]
preservationof plans or designs, when
the wantnof time or any other cause will
not allow of the, draughtsman repro
ducing them in ink. A simpler plan
than the above, however, is to brush over
the back of the paper containing the
charcoal or pencil sketch a weak soIu-
ton of white shellac. in acoHol so &
. 70 y girl of fifteen, convicted of un-
lawful begging within the city pre-
cincts, was cast into prison in Lugos,
Hungary. During the very first night
Of her incarceration, however, she not
only contrived to escape from her cell,
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