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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-12-15
gor Aon',g Beaders.
a VISION OF THANKyGJVfNG

There's the bell for ..recess over" time for
stupid books again:
hut how cdn fellow study with THANKSGIVING
When ! read Of Turks and Turkey. little heed
While my mind IS fun Of visions Of the near
thanksgiving Day. ~
can only hear the ''gobble'' OF aturkey, fat
Which, ny s's sfandpa writes. is waiting to be
Just as soon as Sis and and all the family are
To be oil ana spend Thanksrivsns round the
dear Old farmhouse table.
That's study. now, Of Turkey that 4 follow
But put i in geography, ana that I can't en-
It has diferent daavor. somehow, On the dear
And s'cranmians. then or .Stufins. never
does one any harm.
Now there's class in spelling: hobby white
has tripped on 'skates," - - :
ana that's something don't do. remember
And I went of together. with our skates upon
For race acfossthe mill-pond, and twas only
7 who beat
Oh. Tfh han. Day is jolly on the dear old
IT knocks study In the head for week before
And pity any fellow. be he black. Or white,
= or brown,
Whose erandpapa ana grandma are notifying,
s. out OF tolon. :, 49,
Well, I s'pose ought to study while nv hook
~ before me lies, II 80
But it's hard upon fellow now to have to
shut his eyes gT
Upon such charming visions. Did you speak,
Where Turkey Isl on yes, sir. 1 have learned
that lesson we'll
--Aasy D. Brine. IN Harper Young People.
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Something New in Steam Navigation.

ssF
Yesterday friend of mine from Tn
diana took me to see a wonderful shin
or steamboat on the Harlem River, big
enough to get on it and take a ride.
which 1 did. 1t is called the buoyant
propeller. and consists of 6, Steamboat
flfteen or twenty feet long, propelled
on globes of air. AS you draw near Won
see three large yellowish globes, made
OF sheet-iron, revolving on an axle
like any ether wheel. There are little
f1anges protruding from the globes.
which are also paddle-wheels. An en-.
CINE on the deck makes these two axles
revolve, the front axle having only one
globe wheel on it and the rear axle
having two. As. they revolye any leak
age into the wheel is discharged at the
axle. Consequently they can never eli.
The inventor, Mr.. Fryer, formerly an
engineer at Nashville, means to build 4
ship this winter for ocean service on
thus plan somewhere on the Hudson
River, which win be. 255 feet long and
have state-r0om accommodations for
225 people. The present ship moves
on globes only six feet in diameter Init
the new ship is to be built on enormous
globes. The theory is that such a YES
sci Will make from twenty to forty miles
an hour, an arc being presented at every
point there will be no slippaoe. T ann
pose the idea of this machine is taken
from the spheres on which we live that
go through the air quickly" Gath.,'
IN the Cincinnati Enquirer.
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Insects Of the Season.

Prof. Cyrus Thomas, entomolocist q
the illinois State Department of Agri
culture, in notes on insects of. the sea
SON, IN recent report announces thai
the supposed new insect that iniuree
the sweet corn during July and August
IN the northern portions of Illinois and
Indiana is in fact the same pest as thai
which is known in the cotton States A.
the .'boH-worni, and in Kentucky
Missouri and Kansas as the .scorn.
worm" Prof Thomas thinks thai
this species has pushed itself north this
summer on account of the very hot and
dry weather that prevailed. 1T is a
Southern insect, and hence he believes
the farmers and sweet-corn prowars a
me northern section of Illinois need
have no fear Of its appearing in iniuri-
Gus numbers in that section next wear.
II the meteorological indications for
1882 prove as correct as those for 1881.
The Professors predictions in refer
9ence TO the appearance OF the chinch-
bug this year have been only too fi1Ilv
verified. While farmers have suffered
severely by; this verlfcation, it NAV
prove OF value to them in the future as
an additional evidence that chinch-b bugs.
generally speaking, appear in injurious
numbers only when two dry years come
in succession, the latter being above the
ordinary temperature. -
Prof. Thomas IS Of the opinion that
the year 1882 will be similar in charac-
ter to the years 1875, 1868 and 1851, in
which the rain fall, taking the thresto-
gether, was rather below the general
average and the temperature also rather
below the general mean. Judging from
various indications, he does not expect
the chinch-bugs will appear generally
next year in the State of Illinois in IN.
Jurlous numbers. Possibly they NAV
DO some injury in limited localities, and
II SO, most probably in the extreme
northern sections of Illinois, Iowa and
insSouthern Wisconsin and Minnesota.
The appearance of the army worm in
the northern section Of Illinois this sea-
son in the oat fields presents soma
rather new features "a its history. Az
9 rule this cereal hiss heretofore suf-
tered but little from its attacks. There
are still so many unsettled questions re-
garding the climatic conditions neces-
sary to the maximum development Of
this pest that Prof. Thomas hesitates TO
predict whether the army worm viii or
viii not appearGne season. AS very
general rule it does not appear two.
years In succession over the same area.
On the other hand the great chinch-bug
years OF 1871 and 1874 were followed
the next year by the appearance Of this
insect IN 7. World, ~
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s. San Francisco art criticism: Klein
is undoubtedly an artist Of some PR
tensions pretensiens is the w0rdrra'e
when he endeavors to work of On or
unsnspecting bonanzaites . picture &C. y,
titled = Casar's Family = lin vhiehlN
represents that Roman celebrity u
dressing gown and carpet slipper
rocking the cradle with one haad, WY
he hold meerschaun in the otneL
and whistles an accompaniment 70 y
wife's performance ON an sceordeous-
why, the time has come to hold ~! =
condition of this paintev's historical .
formation to the gaze of q hesfa''s
world. - Son krdgcisco Post A95if ~
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The bonnet like a bird may be perhaps
all OF feathers on the outer part, or it
may be all of pearls or jet, or have
plumes lifting and softly folding above
like forms of clouds, or sometimes its
soft folds of white MORE antique or
plush may be held by the body of a
frog or greenish lizard.-M Y. Graphic.
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"A Kentucky paper says: "We paw
nolning for the air we breathe, but we
are Taxed for the water we drink The
amount realized from this source in
Kentucky must be upwards of two dol
lars. IT the tax is honestly collected
Chicago Tribune.
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Sheep cheese is very popular z
Austria, and an enterprisiDg Aus!. -.
has started q sheep dairy near t1se
nooga with 1000 head.
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spiders and ysheir webs form y
designs embroidered on the hopgf
and waistcoats Of some Paris goa1s
Gold thread is the material usually 81 E
ployed for this work. butsometmes ~
Is used. &
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Rochester, N. Y, has a elaS y =
thirteen young ladies who are iae''A
lessons on the. violin. III
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The pawnbrokers of Great Bflls y.
4,372 in number, take in during ~
200. 900, 600 OF pledges.
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And she folded her arms about hi4
closely; Harry blushed q little, but ths
true answer came at last: sslslsiiss ~
lyon taught me the prayer rlann*
yon know. And so ]. did to Jack jug
what | would have wanted somebody e
do to me if Ilhad been poor and cold
and sad, and had no mother. do rniQ
others lit says, you know. and 80 -
only just did it, that's all. mamma BnI|
oh, hasn't it been Jolly Thanksgiving
Day Mary d. Brine, IN SlSsssi''zlta
Christian Weekly. -.s : .s.~-.ss
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the use of the wheelbarrow. The same
trouble was experienced by the first
railway contractors in Hindostan. The
iaborers there had been in the habit Of
carrying off the clay from the excava-
tons in baskets on their heads. The
method proved picturesque, but slow.
Finally, large supply of wheelbarrows
was obtained. The contractors emo.
tons may be imagined when, on the
first morning of their use. he beheld
his.laborers filing off in long line, each
with his wheelbarrow poised on his
head.
The peculiar mining of Henry Jope.
briefly indicated by a Leadville tele-
gram as swindling, yielded him $751;
quo before his system was exposed.
Most OF the ore taken out of the Lead
vile mines is sold to the reduction com.
panies, who extract the ore by means
OF improved machinery. The price is
determined by taking a barrow load of
fair samples from various parts of the
lot, running it through the mill, and
submitting some of the powder to two
assayers-one in the interest of the
seller. and the other an employee of the
buyer. Jope took q hundred tons Of
very low grade to a reduction factory,
was present at the assaying, and man
aged to drop some pulverized silver
into the sample powder. The ASSAY
was thus made to fix S18,O0 as the
worth Of the ore, and he was paid that
amount. Jope made haste to attempt
the same swindle in another establish
nent. but in this case he was suspected.
watched through peep-holes, and caught
dropping the silver from the bowl Of a
pipe, which he had been pretending to
smoke. He had planned to clear $780,
200 by this swindle. and then Quit
Leadville. IS
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-08-04

"THE Falls of Niagara were dry
for a whole day." eaid the Rev.
DR.. T. B. Fuller. of Hamilton, On
tario, In q recent lecture. The ac-
curacy of the story was questioned,
and now the clergyman publishes
the sworn statements of several
person that they saw the phenom-
enon. They say that it occurred
on March 81, lS4s. At O'Clock in
the morning SO little water was
dribbliDg over, that man and his
daughter walked half way across
from the Canadian shore, near the
| edge of the precipice. The girl
stuck q pole into a crevice of the
rock, and left u handkerchief flying
from the top. Not content with
this feat, they went half u mile
above the Fall, and rode part way
across the bed of the river in a
wagon. Others did similar things.
The jagged rocks at the bottom be.
low the Falls were exposed. This
strange condition lasted until
nightfall, when the stream began
rapidly to swell, and before morn
ing was "a large as usual. DIR. Full
ler's theory is as follows: "The
winds had been blowing down
Lake Erie, which is only about
thirty feet deep, aud rushing a
great deal Of the water from it over
the Falls; it then suddenly changed,
and blew this little water (compar-
atively speakipg) up to the western
portion of the lake; at this june.
ture the ice on Lake Erie, which
had been broken up by these high
winds, got jammed in the river be.
tween Buffalo and the Canada side.
and formed dam which kept back
the waters of Lake Erie"
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-08-04


horn or q feather within the nos
triIs occasionally, or sprinkle or
lightly dash cold water upon the
face and neck. The legs and feet
may be rubbed and wrapped in hot
blankets, if blue or cold, or If the
weather is cold.
When the patient begins to
breathe give brandy by the tea
spoonful. or hot sling two or three
times a minute, until the beating
of the pulse can be felt at the wrist,
but be careful not to give more of
the stimulant than Is necessary.
Warmth should be kept up in the
feet and legs, and, as soon as the
patient breathes naturally, let him
be carefully removed to house,
and be placed in bed under medical
care.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-08-04

A POLISH periodical gives inter-
esting statistics connected with the
merciless repression of the insur-
rection of 1S63-64 by the Czar's
lieutenants. From these data,
which appear to have been com.
piled very carefully and dispassion.
ately. 1t appears that within tbs
space of two years 83, 434 Poles were
condemned to perpetual expatria-
ton and transported to Siberia or
to other outlying provinces of the
Russian Empire. Above 10000
more contrived to effect their
escape to foreign countries, but the
greater number of these suffered
the loss of their entire property,
confiscated by the State, and have
abandoned all hope of ever return
Ing to their native land. Three
hundred and sixty patriots were
hanged in cold blood by their cap.
tors. Pecuniary mulcts to the
amount of s2,0O0,0OO roubles were
levied upon the "Vistula prov
inces," and 200 estates were Sc
questrsted, the majority of them
being subsequently conferred by
the Gear upon Russian noblemen
fortunate enough to merit his spe-
clal favor. Public libraries were
either destroyed by Muravieff's Or
ders, or deprived of the more valu-
able portions Of their contents,
which were conveyed out of the
country, and distributed among
the State libraries In st. Peters,
burg, Moscow, Kief, and other
great Russian cities. The outrages
committed upon defenceless women
and ecclessiastics are also tabulated
in these returns, and constitute one
Of the most revolving records Of
modern history.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-08-04
Life in High Attitudes.

The greatest height to which
men have ever mounted is about
five and half miles above the sea
level, and the balloonists who ven-
tured on that experiment were
very glad to come down. Short as
their stay in the upper regions was
they were almost frozen and. al.
M ost suffocated. The cold so be-
numbed their hands that, had they
not taken the preeaution to carry
with them chemicals for the pro-
duction of little artificial heat
they would have become helpless
and lost their lives from inability
to pull a rope aud let out the gas
of their air.ship. The air which
they breathed was too thin to sup
port life, and they felt all the sem
satioas of partial strangling or
drowning. OF course any labor at
such height was impossible.
The census shows that the eleva.
ton at which men can live and
work to advantage, and which
they therefore generally choose, is
a very low one. The average
height of the United States above
the sea level is about $500 feet,
but the mean elevation of the pop.
ulation is only about 700 feet. A
hight of 10000 feet is considerably
less than two miles, yet of all the
so, 900 600 of people in our country
only 26,400 live at that elevation.
Not only men, but other ami
mails and plants as well, find the
struggle for existence harder as
they rise higher. AS plants and
animals diminish in number, the
means OF supporting human life
rapidly decrease, so that the up
ward growth of the population, SO
to speak, is checked long before
the cold becomes too severe to be
endured or the air too thin for
breathing.
The bulk of the little band who
reach a height of ten thousand feet
are miners, and could be nothing
else. More than three.fourths of
the whole population choose to live
at less than one thousand feet, or
considerably less than one fifth
of mile above the sea, and only
three per cent. of the Inhabitants
make their homes at height of
two thousand feet. If it were pos.
sible to walk upward from the
earth as readily as upon its surface,
an ordinary pedestrian in half an
hour could pass the limit at which
human life can be permanently
maintained, and in little more than
an hour he would reach point
where it could not exist at all. If
the builders of Babel had ever
scaled the mountains beyond their
native plain no miracle would have
been required to convince them
that their impious enterprise was
waste of labor.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-08-04
Tue state Prison IuvesttgaslOn-
ssartssng Disclosures.


SAN FRANCISCO, August 3d.-At
the meeting this morning of the
State Prison Investigation Com
mission, William Nelson gave by
request his views on the prison
management. Before entering
upon the broad question of prison
management, he made some start
ling statements on Information fur
nished him and what he had him
self observed of the San Quentin
prison. He stated that gambling,
liquor drinking, and the vilest of
corrupt and immoral practices were
constantly going on and permitted
within the prison walls. The facts
were not known to the Warden,
but they were none the less In
dulged in. He invited The Com
mission to 60 with him to San
Quentin and verify the truth of
those statements. He then de.
nounced the present prison system
and contrasted it with that of
Great Britain, Australia and other
countries. He made several sug.
gestions which he submitted to the
Commission, strongly advising the
adoption of the "silentH system.
The afternoon was spent in execu-
tive session, wherein the verdict as
to certain specific charges was dis
cussed. The Commission will to-
morrow inspect the prison at San
Quentin and on Monday next in
spect the prison at Folsom. The
Com mission has divided certain
iabors and will act separately in
certain duties of inspection.
rruckse Destroyed by FIRE.
TRUCKEE, August 3d.--A fire
broke out last night in dance
house on Jibboom street, which
ragged throughout the night and is
still burning, though now under
control, having destroyed every
business house in town except
three and many residences. The
loss is estimated at $350,000.
Among the heaviest losers are P.
Sheridan, $4,000; N. +. Burck-
halter & Co., $4,000; j. J. Adolph,
$21, 200; F. Rsbel, $4,000; J. g.
Levison & Co., 500; Andy
Johnson, $12 600; H. Davis, $40, 900:
s. Mckay, $40, QUO; G. W. Harri.
son, $4,000; Odd Fellows Hall,
$4,000. The remainder of the
town was saved with great difficult
to, the water supply being short.
The losers show commendable
pluck and rebuilding has already
begun. The new town will be of
more substantial construction than
that destroyed. The insurance
will probably aggregate about one.
third of the loss. All the den7S
monde are houseless and the pre-
vailing opinion favors allowing
them to remain so, with the alter
native of seeking other localities.
TRUCKEE, August 3.-The char
red bones OF some person unknown
were found in the debris of the fire.
Besides this no loss of life is report
ed. Front street is filled with the
temporary buildings of those
burned out. Lumber is constantly
arriving for new buildings. Large
parties from Reno and neighboring
towns have come to labor and none
are turned away. Tramps have
flockod to the place in large mum.
bers. It was rumored that the
$780," which once gave Truckee
notoriety throughout the land, was
to be reorganized for the purpose of
keeping the demi.monde from To-
eating in their old quarters. Should
the society be formed, the fact will
only have to be known to produce
the desiI ed effect.
$3.50 P. M,-The fire has been
quenched about Odd Fellows Hall.
The interior of the building is in
good condition.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-08-04
RESUSCITATING THE DROWNED


Rules Of the New York Board of Health.
Remember that the patient must
be treated instantly and on the
spot where rescued. He must be
freely exposed to the open air;
loosen the clothing so as to freely
expose the neck and chest. All
persons not needed for saving him
should avoid crowdiug about. Let
the throat and mouth be cleansed
by placing the patient gently face
downward, with one of his wrists
under his forehead. Quickly wipe
and cleanse the mouth, and if the
patient does not breathe, immedi-
ately begin the following move-
ments:
Place the patient on his back,
with shoulders raised and support
ed easily on folded coat or some
kind of pillow.
Let one person, at the patients
head, grasp the tongue gently and
firmly with his fingers, covered
with a bit of handkerchief, and
dra " it out beyond the lips; then
either hold it or press the under
jaw (chiD) up 80 as to retain the
tongue protruding from the mouth,
but 1t is better to hold it in that
position with the hand.
Raise the patients extended
arms upward to the sides of his
head. and then pull them steadily,
firmly, slowly, outward. Next
turn down the elbows by the pa
TENTS sides and bring the arms
closely and firmly across the pit of
the stomach, and press them and
the sides and front of the chest
gently but strongly for a moment,
then quickly begin to repeat the
first movement. Let these two
movements be made very deliber-
ately and without ceasing until
the patient breathes, and let the
two movements be repeated about
twelve or fifteen times, remember
ing that thoroughly to fill the
lungs with air is the ohjec of the
first or upward and outward move-
ment, and to expel as much air as
possible is the object of the second
or downward motion and pressure.
The artificial respiration should be
steadily kept up for forty minutes
or more when the patient appears
not to breathe; and, after the ma
tural breathing begins, let the
same motion be very gently con-
tinued, and let the proper stimu-
lants be given In the intervals.
If help and blankets are at hand
have the body stripped and wrapped
In blankets, but do not allow the
movements to be stopped. By
ISLANDERS can supply dry clothing.
The assistants should briskly rub
the feet and legs, pressing them
firmly and rubbing upward, while
the movements Of the arms and
chest are going en-. Apply harts-
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-08-04
Herald Steam Printing House,

rue facilities of the HERALD Steam
Printing House for doing job work are not
surpassed In California outside of San
trusted to us will be executed with neat
nsss aud dispatch at the lowest living
rates.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-08-04
Pnsseox ers south aud Eass

FRESNO, CAL, Aug. 3.-The fol-
lowing is the list of passengers for
the South and East on the train
which passed this place at 5 M:
G H Limkins, Los Angeles; I w
HeIlman, do; w G Furrey. do; G E
Huber, do; Mrs Frigue, do; Miss
Emma Cole, do; Miss l. Cole, do;
Miss Nellie Cole, do; G Lind, Ben
con; Miss Keyes, Pantano; Mrs d
7 GIasscock, Tucson; g L Center,
do; J 8 Wood, do; G o Brown, do;
John Prince, do; Pat McGovern,
do; Miss M Donohue, do; ] {
Blackard, Deming; G Brown, Mar.
icopa; Jos Bindel, Ell Paso.
the Miat Invessig alton.
SAN FRANCISCO, August 3d.-Iu
the Mint investigation to-day, q.
w. Bryant, melter and refiDer' OF
the Carson Mint, was the principal
witness. He had obtained some
bullion of the Carson Mint from
the Northern Belle by remittinR
the refining charges on it, buI
found he could not work 1t without
loss to the government. On noti-
flying Mr.. Low. of the Angle-Cali-
fornian Bank, that charges would
have to be imposed, the bullion
was taken away from the Carson
Mint. Bullion from the Northern
Belle went through Carson en- route
to San Francisco, but they could
not obtain 1t although they paid
the same price ~ the San Francis
GO Mint.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-08-04
Wanted.

Wanted to purchase business property
also, other real estate, improved or un-
improved, either in or close to the city
limits. Price must be reasonable. No
notice taken unless price and full partic-
ulaIs are stated. Agents need not re-
ply. Address g., Herald office, Los An
geles, Cal. j3i 1w
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-08-04
OPEN BOARD-4.30 M.

Mexican, 7ss s: Sierra Nevada, 81 S;
sSs SphF b soua B. oaf9S R9,Gs 80 b ssn.Se e.
a; Overman. I.05 b.: Alta, 3.75 b, $50 a;
Crown Point, l.85 b: Best q Belcher, 91S s;
Con Virginia, "a b, I.80 a; MT Diaplo. 61a
3: Jacket, 20 a; California. SOC b, $50 a;
des. 80 b; Albion. l. 40 b, l.45 a; Orc, SOC
b,.55 a; N Belle, 1874 b.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-08-04
ssEClAL NOTICE

HereafIer notices OF companies. socie-
ties, churches, etc., will only be inserted
In the HERALD as paid advertisem ents.
We reserve, tor Places OF W orship. graft
IL directory, which will appear every
sunday morning.