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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-11-09
Newfoundland FOgs.

| Next toits dogs, Newfoundland's fans
rests ON its fogs. The Arctic current.
driving southwark and along the coast,
meets the Gulf Stream and condenses
the warmer vapors, just as a glass of ice
water gathers drops. The mists COM
paratively seldom penetrate inland. bat
in one direction or another thev hano
around the island with a weird darkness
IKE that of smoke, and closing ina
sea turn they call it here-make navi-
gation on the cruel coast as dangerous
as on any waters of the globe Hundreds
OF stout ships have steered to wreck in
| the mlsts on the rock-ribbed shores, and
winters journey to St. Johns is more
| peflious than trip to Europe, the Allan
| steamships sometimes using eleven davs
Tor the $40 miles from Halifax to St.
John $. A spot traditional with disaster
is Mistaken Point" little west of Cape
Race, SO called because of the difficulty
OF distinguishing it in the fog from the
cape itself. Here, within few DAYS of
each other, the steamships Washington
and Cromwell, in 1877, ran ashore and
were lost, with some seventy lives, not a
soul escaping From the heights above
The fishermen saw corpses and wreckage
chllrning against the lower cliffs, but
only two bodies were secured sby. an
adventurous seaman, who went down
the face of the rocks by a rope.
internally and as whole-except, per-
hapss, IN the track yet to be penetra-
ted by the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. is an
1mpromlsing region-a land of eontinu-
Gus rock, here and there covered with
boggy wastes, and with vast areas where
old frs, killing the low frs, have left
wastes OF dead trees that tire the eve
with their monotony and expanse The
summers are brief and moderately warm,
the springs marked by a marvellously
sudden burst of vegetation. the winters
about as cold as those of New England,
and attended by. deep snowfalls. Along
some of the roads are seen now lines of
stakes as tall as small telegraph poles,
placed at short Intervals, to make out
the winter path. The Vermont toll,
house keeper who, after the big snowfall,
put out the notice. Toll taken at the
second story window: after. the next
storm please drop the change down the
Chimney" would have found rare field
for his drolleryE on these semi-Arctic.
winter roads. Newfoundland has lakes
without number, some of them sixty
miles long, and teeming with trout.
She has wilderness where game are
abundant she raises fine vegetables, and
she, late in August, placed fresh straw
berries on our table. But as yet she
yields to commerce little except copper.
ore. seals and Goldfish. Her people, asa
rule, are SO, backward as almost to- be
archaic, and here, at ST. Johns, the
watchnlen from ten o'clocl1 to daylight
call the hours. Excluding the Weather
classes, and decidedly Including the al
legged hotels of st. Johns, the country
still lacks essentially those prime ele-.
ments of civilization, clean bed and
''square" eals.-Cor. N, x. Posi-. .zs}
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SCHOOL, AND CHURCH.

| The first colored Baptist Church IN
tNVestern Pennsylvania has just been a
i dedicated, +. 1t is located in Pittsburgh.
Language. lessons have been intro 2
duced in the st. louis public schools
with the intention to cultivate in the
public schools scientific precision of
statement.-St. Louis Globe. q ESQ ssgafss
The School Board of Liverpool, ,
Eng.,l after full discussion, have decided
to to use novels occasionally instead Of Or
alnafy reading books Ein the public =,
schools: A beginning will be made with
some OF SCOTS works.-N. z Sun. asls g
u-The State Of Michigan has now 2S9 ",
congregational churches. & During the
past year ten new churches were organ
lzed. and the total Membership is l6, -rs
957.-DetrOats Post. ... a.. :
l. An exchange remarks: !. Eatonton, B
Ga, has population sof Il, ,4O0. and by,
actual count they are only sixty-six per- I,
sons that have attained the age of dis
eretionwho are not Inembers of sonei /,
church. - -. q
There is a marked increase Of as5 2
tendance at religious services in Edin-
burgh, Scotland, since a Leading Pres
|byterian preacher induced many en- y
ployers OF labor TO give mechanics q
half-holiday on Saturday -
/. The abolition of recess in the AL
bany public schools. and the change of
school hours to sessions of from nine to
half-past eleven in the morning, and
from quarter past netoshalf f-pastthree =
IN the afternoon, have proyedso success
Iul an experiment that the board has
made them permanents Physical, moral 4
and social results have all been excel !
.5Al6any IN. ~ Journal. - y $50
q The good olds abireh' times sare.sss
coming back again. AT q late meeting
OF the trustees of the college at MILF
edgeville, n C.,, it was resolved that
whipping was o proper means to enforce
dlsclpllne when necessary in the primary
and preparatorya departments. The
strustees believe that children are like
postage stamps--you must lick 'em we'll
TO make 'em stick TO their letters. Is ssns
The two largest dioceses. of tho ~
Roman Catholic Church are presided
over by two Bishops whose names are
~ Connor. One isSheRight Rev. Mich
ael 0Connor, Bishepm Australia, the
other is the Right Rev. James o. Connor,
Bishop of Omaha. These two clergy-h
men met recently by accident in Salt
Lake City and passed several hours, to-.
gether.-C Chicago Herald. S'@ w sssssFF88
"A wealthy person died lin Union
;Springs, Cayuga CouptysN-Y Y. the other
day, and in her will left 81, 900 to be
used N buildinga Baptist Church, the
church tosbe built within a certain time,
or the money turned over to the Baptist
State Convention. The church is now ss
being built, although it has butone male
member and several females. This win
make The eighth church in the .village,T
which has population of but. 1,2OO.-
NJ ?. Herald. 'asA s'ssS ssz@ s35B
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'7sss7ns- aaEsae aSf ~
: PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
Girls of the Sunnvclir

/ --Ihe girls Of the Sunnyclime describe
this world as one of q hustle, toll and
; care. We agree with tlleni-tlle wom-g
enshave all the hustle, and the men have E.
the toll and care.-Cambridge. Tribune.
-" Modestus'' writes us: srThere Is 9
natatorium in the city, so where can I =
learn TO swim? In the water, mar
alive, in the water. You didn't think Of
, learning 10 swim in q hay NOW, did youp
-Burlington HACK Eye.
"A Chicago minister makes a note of
the TACT thatshe has newer seen aslady
reading 9 neWspaper in a street car.
We'll! He has never seen a lady smok-
ing on ear platform, either, has hsa ItfF
simply goes to show that a lady is not
gentleman Savannah tines. as~a4a ss'Ssaai
A woman forget 10 send home some
work on Saturday. On Sunday morning,
she told little girl who lived with her
to put on her things and take the bundle I.
under her shaWlto the ladies house.
..Nobody will see it, she said. "But
is it not Sunday under my shawl, 10
aunty p'' asked the child ,.ass -. -.
The Atlanta Constitution has never
yet found a farmer wise enougllato ex4s
plain how red ears Of corn can come
from white kernels What's the odds.
SO long as finding q red ear at huskinp
bee entities you to kiss the best looking
girl in the crowdp ass q vssassaa, us-ss
+ WHY do they call him q brake
man?'' asked the child, after that excel
lent official had lookedin at the, ear door
what does he break ps'B esHe breaks
the ssilenee,a = said the father, and the,
train. rolled on, laden with TRUTH
Burdette. = s'' 80 I" rAftzsas s.ssa@f8 J Bss3
-''How often does the ferry-boata
start?' asked the he1ady.s~..Ivery fifteen
minutes, mum. .',sssH How long isl since
the boat left herep,' Tin minutes.
num- Lady waits ten minutes and
then says: ''Didn't you say the boat
starts every fifteen minutes?'' II did,
num- "WelL have waited here ten
minutes since you said the boat had beelis
gone ten minutes. - Yes, num-,
''Then how do~you make out that it
starts every fifteen minutesa''s '.Why,
you see, mum, it starruts from this s0ide
wan fifteen minutes and from thesother
soide the next brooklyn Eagle
-"Why did you take that pair Of Law
ender-colored pants from the storeFof
Nose. Schaumburg? asked Justice
Gregg of colored culprit. sd amt to
blame. Jedge.p "Who is to blame?''
....My old mudder am to blame, .Jedge. !
took dem ar pants to Save her lifey't
"How SOP" ''She am mighty proud OBJ
me, Jedge, becase Pm her only son, an
she would hab worried herself plum to
def if she had seed me wild my old panS
on; 80 to keep her from worryiR herself
to def, jess bought desc heah pants On
credit Ninety days in the county
jail" interrupted the Justice, - Tsras
SJtings. '''','' af
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The SnOb Family.

/ Z 4
Mr.. and Mrs. Snob and little Snob INNS
have fresh air and recreationout Of town.
1t is sometimes their pleasure to show
their fine clothes and diamonds at a
costly hotel. But there are times when
Mr. Snob wants to economize. He re-
fleets that if he goes with his family to a
lesser boarding house there is no law
preventing them from sitting on the
portico of the big hotel, airing their style
and picking their teeth as if, they regu-
larly paid their bill to the diamond
mounted hotel clerk. Topick their teeth
lnpublic is an uncouth and ungentle-
manly trick. but Snob does it in sight of
all men, and is deeply conscious of his
Importance while he does so. As he
walks the halls of the popalar hotel or
lounges in its office OF. bar room, he con-
graduates himself that he is putting on
considerable style at small expense;
When Mr.. Snob mingles with his fell
iow-boarders at the less pretentious hos
telry he carries with him the air of one
who belongs at much more stylish
place. Helooks down on the rest of the
company as of very little account. 1t is
for him and his party that the house is
managed and for their comfort and en-
joyment that The boats. the scroquet sets,
the best chairs and the choicest corners
of the portcoes are created. His family
assert their superiority over the others by
gathering themselves into a little group
and refusing to associate with ANYBODY
else. From behind the barricade of their
own sef-importance they shoot out the
envenomed tongue criticism against the
raiment, the habits and the genealogy of
those whom they dislike At table they
whisper severe remarks about others
and show by the upturned nose, the
winking eye or the poiting lip that they
are taking note of the sayings and doings
of those who, instead of being made like
themselves, or porcelain ares1nadesof or
dinaEy clay.
When Snob and his <family go home
there is a sense of relief at the boarding
house. The rest of the boarders CRATE
fully realize that they are no longer the
subjects of inspection or the victims of
unfavorable criticism. They can wear
what they please, without being annoyed
by having it intimated that the goods
with which Mr.. Snob has provided his
family are more costly or in better style
They can eat their meals in peace, with
out worrying over the probability that
the Snobs will take away their appetites
by saying or doing something unpleas-
ant The servants are glad, for the
Snobs are difficult people to wait on,
and are always complaining about some
thing or other. Yet the family will al
ways be more or less present at summer
resorts. Their presence must. be en-
dured, like that of the mosquitoes. :
Times.
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Society Note.

- V
A, GOODNESS has arisen between Kosius-
co Murphy and Mrs tHufnagel, one of
the most fashionable Ladies of Austin.
There was lawn party at the HufDagel
mansion. Mrs. Hufnagel showed Mr..
Murphy over the grounds, and asked
him what he thought Of their arrange
ment SFFAag TSeSTs fsssgfg afws% as8 r.
~ am delighted madam - was the re-
ply. wherever look I see the foot
prints OF your genius Ff0EsEs 5zEg1 Is
LAS Mrs Hufnagel has foot almost as
big as a wheelbarrow, she supposed
there was something personal in the re-
mark. She did not hint exactly that she
was not glad to have him stay to supper,
but she opened the gate, and pointed into
the street. and Murphy, who. is very sem
sitive, strolled away TeyHs Sijttiitgs.
That's a nice overcoat you have"
said swell to his friend. Think sop
he queried. "WelI, I'm glad you like
it, New style. isn't itP'i' s.No;I
that is, l don't know" "Anyhow.
where did you get it?'' so, say, look
here, now, you're asking too much: but.
I'll tell you if you won't give me away"
"All right ''Well, sis and / swapped
ulsters this season. That's what's the
matter, IN y. Graphic.
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"A young nun escaped from LoL don
convent by scaling the garden wall, a
daring and difficultfeat. Then she stole
dress and hat from house in the
neighbolhood. donned them in place of
the nuns clothes. and made her escape,
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CONTRARY MEN.

Some men do write when they do wrono -
And some do live who dye;
Ard some are short when they are long.
And sttnd when they do lie.
~ man is surly when he's late: .sr.rr :
Is round when he is square: s-... 3
He die early and dilate,
And may be foul when fair"
He may be "fast'' when he is slow
And 'loose" when he is s'tipht." o..
And high" when he is very low.
And heavy when he's ssight.'a
He may be wet when he is ''dry;" 't ?
fti Hemay be great when small. &
Nay purchase when he won't 60 by: = .,
Have naught when he has awl.
He may be sick when he Is ''swell."
And hot when he is -scold;. "a a.
He's skilled so he on earth NAV dwell.
And when he's young he's sold.
4sb.a. ..s.a -N0rristoUn Herald.
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What it Meant.

When Billy Root was a little bov he
was OF philosophical and investigating
turn of mind, and wanted to know al
most everything. He also desired to
know it, immediately. He could not
wait for time to envelop his intellect, but
he crowded things and wore out the pa
.tience of his father, a learned savant, who
was president of a livery stable in Chica-
go. One day Billy ran across the grand
hailing sign which is generally represent
ed as tape worm in the beak of the
American eagle, on which is Inscribed
''E Pluribus Unum.n Billy, of course,
asked his father what .sE Pluribus
Unum" meant. He wanted to gatherin
all the knowledge he could, so that when
he came out west he could associate with
some of our best men. .'ss
81 admirei your strong Appetite for
knowledge, Billy said Mr.. Root .you
have a morbid craving for cold hunks of
ancient history and encyclopedias that does
my soul good, and Lam glad. too, that
you come to your father to get accurate
data for your collection. That is right.
Your father will always lay aside his
work at any time and gorge your young
mind with knowledge that will be as use
full to you as .afarrow COW. e Plllribus
Unum' is an old Greek. inscription that
has been handed down from generation
to generation, preserved in brine, and
signifies that 1.-THE tail goes with the
hide. "ANye's boomerang. seszsz aFTo.e
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Education is the only interest worthy
the deep, controlling anxiety of the
thoughtful Wendell Phillips.
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r An advertisement in the FreeDaan's s
Journal, Dublin, says: '.Mrs. c. Edge
has grown five sunfiowers from seed from
Utica, Oneida County, America, seven
feet four inches high, leaf one foot in
length and breadth, stem four and half
inches in circumference; blossom, outer
edge orange with pafu yellow centers,
circumference of the blossom of sun
flower eighteen inches; they are splen-
did specimen of the sunfiower, worthy
Of cultivation as curiosity,
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-10-05
DOUBLE COySCFOUSNESS.

A most remarkable case Of double
consciousness is recorded in the
Memorirs of the Society of Phys
ical and Natural Sciences Of Bor-
deaux. A seamstress, aged 16, while at
work, would suddenly fall into stupor,
which continued several minutes. Then
her eyes opened, her deountenance be-
came animated, and she entered ON q
condition Of existence entirely different
from her normal condition, and 80 re-
NAMED for few hours but the morbid
condition increased, until, after some
years, it greatly exceeded the normal.
In the normal intervals the young lady
had no remembrance Of anything she
had said or done during the morbid Pc
RODS; but when in these shs remem-
bered the series Of emotions and inci-
dents from one to the other, and came
in time 10 regard her morbid existence
q shperiorsto the other. And, yet more
remarkable, she could not recall what
had taken place in the intsrposed nor
NAL moments, or, - she termed them,
her " crises" Studied from . phyuio-
logical point Of view, this case has led
to the conclusion that the alienation
Of memory was due TO- an alteration in
the quantity or quality al the circulation
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-10-05
LIFE ON THE Sr.1GE.

Actors and actresses are proverbially
long lived and free from bodily intirmi-
ty. Performances are seldom changed
through the illness OF the performers. In
many tllcaters a season has passet. 'th-
out single alteration. even OF part,
from illness. ..... ..
This healthiness is attributed to the
necessarily active Life Of actors. and 70
the regular exercise, not only of the
limbs, but also OF the internal organs ol
the throat and lungs, thereby fortifyine
the weakest portion Of the system.
Actors Who have resisted the great
temptation Of their calling to intemper
ance have reached the very longest tern
of human life.
OF all classes they arc the freest from
crime. This is owing mainly to thei
constant occupation OF mind, TIME ane
body in their pursuit.. but it may he als.
attributed to their softncss OF feeling ahs
sympathy of character. They arc char
table almost to rccklessness in their ef
forts to relieve suffering.-Net0 Yorj
Nail.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-10-05
CLERIc.dL OR.ATORY.

Why do not our preachers study ora
tory? AS preachers, not pastors. their
business is to work certain effect, and
all helps to its production it should be
part of education to learu. Ipresume I
shall not he misunderstood to mean the
effect Of displaying self, and winning ad-
miration Tor personal gifts. What the
true preacher seeks to do is to inform
the intellect with Christian truth to
stir the heart, an thercby influence the
will Of his hearers. half the sermons
annually preached are. SO far as human
insight goes. waste q labor and breath.
Two things partly acc1aat for this !: one
is that ma .ori.y Of the mcnset to preach
are out Of their real yocation-gool pas
tors they III y be. but fit preachers they
are not; another is that those with apti-
tude for preaching do not yet understand
the meaus to be employed to attain their
object.
Sometimes the preacherhas conception
of the needs Of human nature, and knows
that the truest truths fail to move when
put before men in dull, dry way per-
haps he does his best to acquire . good
style, and succeed in making an ably
written discourse. But when he comes
into his pulpit to give it TO his people,
whore il the impression it should pro.
duce9 What becomes Of his choice
words, his considered sentences2 There
they lie upon tho page he holds ; he pro
eesds 10 read them. Why do they fai
81 any yresultf Il isior want Of delivery
Of the oratorioal arsof making mere word
"tell." Hisfaithialsffart goesfor little
hsaseems to his hearers to be reading
something 70 them, e he is--not to b,
| speaking 10 them from the heart 4
ldNsttc
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-10-05
A QUESTION FuK .CiEs7I.TS.

II is 0 little remarkable that tho
"science" of pugili~m as developed in
the prize-ring has never received more
attention from the savants. 1t is ignored
in the encyclopedias, and the Darwin
ian, Spenceriun and scientific and phil
osophical systems. Delsarte mapped
out the whole human body INTO mental,
moral and passional sroas till it looked
like chess board, but pugilism does
not appear in any Of the squares as q
mental, moral or vital force bearing up
ON the art Of expression. Huxley, Dar-
win, Iyndail, Spencer, Comte and
others have analyzed all the springs Of
impulse, all the outcomes Of heredity,
all the mysteries Of being. all the evolu-
tions OF descent, but not one Of them has
touched upon this distinguishing char
scteristic that separates Anglo-Amer-
icans from al other nations. and links
them 90 closely with tho brute. How
much light they might have thrown up
ON this subject in solving this ethnolog-
icsl mystery why 1t is that prize-fght-
ing il confined to British and American
soili Ffenchmen fight duels with pistol
or sword, but never with Asts. Ger
naas fight duels with no intention Of
indicting moro than scratch. and ct the
Arst drop Of blood the encounter is over.
Italians and Spaniards steal up behind
IN adversary with stiletto. bat mover
uss hsts. Russians, Turks, Chinese.
Persians, Hindoos, Hottentots, Indians
know nothing Of the prixe.rins. II i
rooted in Irish and English soil, with
now and then vigorous oflshoots trans
planted IN our own. It recruits Its vio-
tins from the saalwart ranks of Hiber-
nian md Bdtcu LIE; It ands lis patrons
in The highest, and IN English Marquis
drew mp ons II The codss which govern
II peoosedingA What y there in En-
stah and Iiish blood that does not run
n ths blood a The rsst q the races and
lsad thsm % stand up II ring and
puasaG sach other 70 jelly Tor money
md : ehanpioab bait and without any
psasonAl hostility Whist = Y that
nAakas Ast-AoAtine, eoGk-aghtiDg ana
dog-ashtine ainsst sxclusivsly Anglo
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IflGS.

Figs have been used in She East us M
article Of food from time immemoriai.
The flowers of the fig, unlike those ui
most fruit tees, make no oVtwatd a;,-
pearalce, but are conceal, Il il the fruii.
Under favorable c;rcuIAs stances a tic or
two is formed along the shoots at the
base OF almost every leaf, ard the qtan-
tity that. sometimes attains maturity is
enormous. The drying is easily effected
in warm climates by exposure to the
suns rays, in the same way a. grapes
are dried, viii Ii are cailsd from that
circumstance rais;ls OF the sun. Liko
the grape, the substance of the fig
abouuds in what is ternea grape-suga.
In drying, some of this exudes, and
forms that soft and white powder which
We see on the imported figs. They are
thus preserved in their OWN sugar, and
rendered fit for storing up as an article
of food.
In warm climates two crops of fruit
are produced from the fig tree, cash
crop being produced on distinct sets Of
shoots. The second crop grows from
the eyes or buds of the shoots made in
early summer, and, if the season bc suf.
ficiently warm and long. the fruit will
ripen. In such climate it is the Sec
ond crop that is most prolific and valua-
bic, and that is used in drying for ex-
portation. In climates where the win
ters are severe the trees arc SO trained
that the branches can be tied in bundles
and laid along the ground, when they
are covered with litter and earth.