The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-07-28
MISCELLANEOUS.

The Danes are said to be the most
expert linguists. and remarkably quick
and accurate telegraphists.
Walking parties are amongst the
summer diversions practiced at the
White and Green Mountains and at the
smaller seaside resorts.
Mrs. John B. Gibson, of Cincinnati.
has planned a home in that city FOR
German widows, and will assist in Sc
curing the $50, 900 necessary to make it
a success.
The Chinese Government has estab-
lished school of telegfaphy al Hart.
ford, Conn, where Gorham B Hubbell
will instruct forty young Celestials in
the construction and operation of lines.
The average yearly allowance OF
pins to each young lady in the United
States is 140. She uses more than that
in week, but the average is small be-
cause the squaws in the West don't use
any and yet must be counted i'm as
those who do.
The desire of two Florida Young
men to light a duel was taken advantage
of by their friends as an occasion for
some fun. After one discharge of
blank cartridges the pistols were loaded
with powder and corn, the jokers sup
posing that no serious harm would be
done, buta kernel put out an eye of one
of them.
A Mr.. Perkins, of England, has de-
signed an ocean steamship which, ne
says, on consumption OF fifty tons of
coal a day of twenty-four hours, will
cross from Queenstown to New York in
tour days, and on occasion can make
forty miles an hour The suggested
steamer has twin screws forward and
ait, the bow screws pulling and the
stern ones going ahead.
In the House of Commons when
member speaks while the ayes and NAYS
are taken he has to address the House
seated and with his hat on. This MIR.
Gladstone had to do recently; but he
had left his hat outside, so he borrowed
that of the Solicitor-General, who since
then has received two offers, one of two
guineas and the other of three guineas,
for this article of apparel.
Benjamin P. Benner delivered
rousing address at a Grand Army gath
ering in Philadelphia, and his oratory
astonished those among his hearers who
knew that he had never shown any abil-
lty IN that direction before. In the
evening of the same day, Gen. Louis
Wagner spoke at Scranton, and repeated
Benner's language exactly. An inves-
tigation showed that Benner had got
hold OF a printed slip of the Generals
speech, and committed it to memory.
There are at present, in the Old
World and the New World, more than
hundred thousand railway locomotives.
Their total force is equal to $4,000, 900
horse power, and all the other steam
engines on the globe are estimated at
5000, 900 horse power. The technical
horse power" however, is really equal
to three average horses, and each horse
TO about seven men; the aggregate
power, therefore of all the engines being
vastly more than the effective force OF
all the human workers living. Four
hfths of the steam engines now at work
have been made within quarter of a
century or SO.
The house of Hob enzollern is SIM
ply the result OF successful money lend |
ing. The Emperor Sigismund, who |
Hourished in the first half of the fifteenth |
century. being almost chronicallv hard |
up, borrowed repeatedly of Frederick of |
Hohenzollern, Burggraff of Numbers. |
one of the few Christians at that date |
who had much money to lend. AT
length, seeing no prospect of PAVING |
what he had borrowed, and wantino
yet more, the Emperor said, Advance /
me $4,000 gulden more, and take the |
mark OF Brandenburg in payment of
my whole debt to YOU" Thus the
Burggratf of Nurnberg came TO be the
ancestor of Emperors. Oaks from
acorns might well be the motto of the
family.
-Godin, a Paris irou-master, has COM
blned community of work and the CO.
operative store in Palais Social he
founded at Guise, near Compeigne in
1860. Godin makes his workmen asso-
clates In his business, giving them TWEEN
ty-hve per cent of the net profit, and
houses his whole community of twelve
hundred persons in large mansion of
three wings, each four stories high.
There are extensive grounds and gar
dens, hospital and store where ev-
erythlng OF the first quality can be had
at nearly cost prices The factory also
employs women. suiting the hours to
those caring for children; takes the bows
as apprentices when they leave school,
and boards and lodges the aged and in
capacitated for the good they have done.
Stopping at rancho on the San
Antonio river, in Texas, a correspond
ent OF the Chicago Tribune saw the
handsomest dogs and horses he had
come across in that region. 1.-The pro.
prletor, he says, .'came out dressed in
baggy, brown pantaloons, bed-tickino
suspcnders and Yankee chip hat
turned up behind like Joshua Whit /.
combs. He was very handsome ,
man-tall, muscular, with manly brow: .
features tit for model, and a rich, full )
voice, which spoke pure English. !
thought at once, what a handsome ,
man! How did you come down here on ,
ranchP My two men are sick, and :
am working like slave myself,' he /
said. Yesterday / dug out that irri- !
eating ditch, and I've drawn III loads !
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