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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-02-09

Bridget" I" said the mistress to her
servant, put a little nutmeg id the
custard this afternoon,,'r and Bridget
picked ont the smallest nutmeg she could
find and threw it in the custard, where
it was found entire at the evening meal.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-02-09

: One evening, not long ago, q little ,yirl
rnf nine or ten entered place in which is
bakery, grocery and saloon in one.
and asked for five cents worth of tea.
Shows your .motherpn asked the bow
who came forward to wait on her. ..Aw-
ful sick, and amt had anything to eat
all day. The boy was just then called
toWalt upon some men who entered the
saloon, and the girl sat down. In five
minutes sheWas nodding, and in seven
she was sound asleep, and leaning her
head against q barrel, while she held the
poor old nickel in tight grip between
her thuinbEand finger. One of the men
saw her as he came from the bar, and
after asking who she was, saida s.Sav,
you drunkards, see here. Here we've
been poiiring down whisky when this
poor child and her. qmoaher want bread.
Here's two-dollar bill that saws I've
got some feeling left.' "And can add
2 dollar" obsery ed one. s'And I'll give
'another.''
They made up purse of an even five
dollars, and the spokesman carefully put
the bill between two of the sleeper's fin
gers. drew the nickel away, and whis-
pered to his comrades, "Jist look a-there
--thes gals ~dreamingp' So she. was.
A big tear had rolled out from her closed
eyelid, but the face. was covered with a
smile. Z The men tip-toed out, and the
clerk walked over and touched the
sleeping child. She awoke with laugh
and cried out. s.What beautiful dream!
J Ma a wasn't sick any more, and we had
lots to eat and to wear, and my hand
burns yet where an angel touched itr'
When she discovered that,h nickel had
been replaced by bill, dollar of which
loaded her down with all she could carry,
she innocently said, s'Well, now, but ma
won't hardly believe me that you sent
up to heaven and got an angel to come
down and clerk in your grocery San
Francisco Nesvs-Letter. f.a
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-02-09

The Germans of Connecticut are or.
ganizing to secure, il possible, moditi-
sation Of the Sunday laws. =
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VOLUME yXX. =
THE PRINTER.

8 H. THE PRINTER.
Hove the good compositors
Superb intelligence;
fsft bate him when he willfully ssi y
Makes nonsense out of sense.
Hove to have him follow close
The copy l indite;
; B.lt hate him, If make slip. sf
He does not set it right.
Hove to help him on to wealth
BY making copy ''fat;"
But when he s'breatks" a paragraph.
must object to that.
/, IIoye to have him use his brains
When working ON my 'sStuff:'' 'o@
nut when he guesses am wrong. Ht
And alters, then t is rough. lszs ~
love to have him always know
Just what l mean to write:
II right he gudsses, well and good:
If wrong, woe to the wight.
Ileve the good compositor
Who makes all smooth in type:
But for all errors that appear
HIS throat I d like to grippe. =
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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-02-09

Half century ago the average age
ola Minister in a French Cabinet was
sixty-fiye. twenty-five years ago it fe1l
to sixty. The new Cabinet is the young
est that has been known in France. Its
Oldest member is only sixty-two, its
youngest thiry-fve. NJ Gambetta, its
chief, is only forty-three. The twelve
Ministers count between them six hun.
dred and twelve and half years, giving
an average of little over ffty-one years
for each Minister.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-08-12
Nutritious Food

The present high price of meat COM
pels persons of limited incomes to study
every means whereby expense on that
score can be brought within some rea.
sonable amount. It is profitable to re-
member that there are articles which
supply precisely the same kind and
amount of nutriment to the human body
as the flesh of animals. The cheaper
cuts of beet and mutton are quite as ap.
petiz'ng and nutritious as the choice
parts. if little more attention and skill
be given to their preparation for the
table. Some of the most delicious plats
of the French cook are made of those
portions which the American housewife
would reject with scorn from her larder.
There are many households, too, where
oatmeal, fish, and the luguminous vege.
tables are scarcely known. Yet there
are whole races of men, sturdy and
long-lived men, too, who have been
reared on these articles OF food instead
of meat. The present prices, annoying
as they may be. will have their use il
they force the lavish, reckless American
consumer into learning these long me-
Slected lessons in domestic economy.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-08-12
A Legal Tender.

The other day sharp.l cooking youth
walked up quickly to the counter of the
postoffice in a country town, and empty
ing bag of coppers thereon, asked the
clerk, who was attending to other GUS
toners, for dollars worth Of one cent
stamps.
"Oh, you be bothered % was the an
swer. "That is not legal tender; it il
all old copper"
"What is legal tender, then p asked
the boy.
"Why, one cent is legal tender fol
a one-cent stamp"
"Oh" exclaimed the youth, sis it
Come on, then" passing coin from the
heap. "a one-cent stamp, please"
The clerk gave him one.
"Another, please"
A second was given him.
"Ano-"
''Here, stop that" the clerk said
"Give me the money. 1t will be the
shortest way to get rid of you"
After counting the money, he gave
the value thereof in stamps to the lad
who was heard to mutter-
II thought I would tire him out |"
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-08-12

do not often occur in these modern
times, no matter how often or how fer.
vently we pray for them. Nothing Of
that sort can now rectify the evil done
at our creation. We were doomed
when the Creator made us girls.
Heaven help us to rise and help our
selves
Two-thirds of the foolish men actu.
ally wish they were women /; they'd
have such an easy time of it. Nothing
to do-absoiutely nothing but to Jump
up" order the servants around, receive
visitors and keep the gossip pot a-boil.
ing. Oh, such deluded creatures as
they are! Let some of them act the
part of good houaekeeper with half
dozen children, and wife coming for
regular little attentions with beard
odoriferous of tobacco. eyes dull and
appetite gone, after he has worked half
day trying to fix her up tempting
dish. Let some of them change off
with their wives just for week, and
see If there is not need for hard labor,
careful engineering and skilful general
ship. They would never get through
with it. They would get the house and
its contents upside down, and then into
utter confusion. In mental picture
see them now, a group of masculine
housewives, and-ha, ha Though my
mood is a gloomy one, cannot repress
smile as contemplate their ludicrous
ness.
Yes, had i! only been boy in years
past that might have run here, til. re
and everywhere that I might have
played ball, flown kites, climbed trees,
romped to my hearts content with
Waggletail Newfoundland dog
shouted to make the woods ring, sang
Justify for the expansion Of my lungs.
Had 1 but ate, drank and frolicked,
and grown fat wading with the boys in
the rural brook; had I only known the
bliss Of comfortable shirt. pantaloons
and freedom to roam at will in my
early teens, then the world might wag
now as it would. 1 should rejoice to
know that I had had my day-the
memory of it would lend charm to
the present hour. But no. We are all
subject to circumstances, be they favor
able or the reverse, and that coveted
memory falls not to my lot Waverly
Magazine.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-08-12
Matrimonial Chances.

A tale of marriage probabilities
gives some interesting facts and deduc-
lions: In q Thousand cases no one is
married before the age of fifteen. The
marriage Of women at that age is not
unknown, but it is rare. Men do not
begin to narry, as rule, until they are
eighteen years old. At the age of nine
teen, when young men are just begin
ming to think seriously Of the subject
young women are at their most favor
BILE time, more of them marrying at
at that age than any other. The years
Of greatest probability with woman
are from eighteen to twenty five, Gull
minating at twenty-five. At twenty
and twenty one the chances are even,
being better at nineteen and twenty-five
than at either of the intervening years.
At twpnty-three begins steady decline,
but not until the age OF thirty-three do
the chances fall below onein hundred;
after that age they do, and in the rest
of her life the chances are but seventy
six in thousand. At the age Of fifty
three the vanishing point appears in
sight, no marriages occurring at that
age, and OF the age of fifty.four. At
fifty five md fifty. six occurs ore mar
rage each, at fifty-seven none, at fifty.
eight one, and after that woman has
literally not zone chance in thousand"
of wedding. Her best years are four
in number, being from nineteen to
twenty two inclusive. With man it is
different; his chances for marriage are
tolerably good to the last. His best
years are ten in number, from twenty
one to thirty inclusive. 1t is at the age
of twenty one that he evidently turns
his attention wifeward, and it may be
that legislators were entirely right in
fixing that as the year when he shall
attain his majority. His very best years
are at twenty-three and twenty five,
as girls are at nineteen and twenty
two. From twenty one there is pretty
steady increase till he is twenty-five,
and then his chances slowly decline. 1t
is worthy of note that the sudden drop
in the chances OF both men and women
occurs the year after they become "old
bachelors" vr "old maids Men do
not begin to marry till about three years
later than women, but they keep it up
more or less st eadily five years later.
With men the chances do not fall be-
low one in hundred until the 20 of
forty is reached. Then it is one in fifty,
and after that but one in two hundred.
Marriages occur, however. every year
until fifty six is reached, then on alter
nate years to sixty-two, and after that
comes but one, which is at the age of
seventy.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-08-12
AGRICULTURAL.

The uperintendent Of model farm
at Guelph, Canadi, says chat there is nc
loss in feeding cattle we'll upon variety
of materials for the sake of manure
alone farm yard manure from well. fed
cattle, three years old, is worth on an
average 50 80 per ton a three. year. old
beast, well fed, will make at least one
ton of manure every winter month.
Cultivate frogs, tosds and lizards.
Put them in your gardens, and as the
evening approaches they will hop from
their hiding places and snuggle down
in some convenient spot near the gutter,
or where they know there will be plenty
of food. The aunts. reaches. mosqui.
toes, etc., they consume in the night is
marvellous, and thus they keep down the
insect pests.
A French journal recommends fire
test for determining the quality of
seeds. Samples are placed, one at a
time, upon live Goals. If the combus-
ton is slow and quiet, it may be safely
decided that the seed contained dis
eased germ but if the seed turns and
leaps about producing dry sound, it
may be inferred to have good germina-
tive qualities.
It is said, and we see no reason to
doubt it, that if o cucumber vine trained
to run up stake on which few stubs
of limbs have been left along its whole
length, the crop will be enormous. BY
this plan the vines not only occupy less
spacs but are afforded opportunity to
follow their natural habit of climbing
up, instead of running on the ground
The most profitable way to raise beef
cattle is to keep them constantly in q
thrifty and improving condition. 1t is
not necessary to keep very young stock
rolling in fat, but there should always
be an abundance of nutritious food to
help nature in it's development. To
allow stock to run down in flesh and be-
come ill-conditioned simply because it
is not designed for market for some
time, is the height of folly.
Vermin Oh fowls and about hen roosts
will leave headquarters by injecting
from a syringe weak steep in water of
pennyroyal herb tea. Drive this weak
steep thoroughly over the roosts and
the poultry, and it will cleanse them
from lice. Several varieties of flies an
noy and suck blood from horses and
other animals. Pennyroyal steep will
drive them away if the animal is washed
with it.
The best roads are made where the
soil consists largely of gravel without
great admixture of clay, and with q
porous or gravelly subsoil aud perfect
natural drainage. On such soils, the
convex road bed may be made by sue
cessively throwing burrows with pillow
toward the centre then narrowing we'll
the surface to make it even, and care
fully picking out all stones larger than
hens egg. Pass heavy roller over
it, and it is ready for business. Some
will say: "Let the passing waQ ons do
the rolling )" but they do the work less
perfectly and evenly.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-08-12
Fifty Years in Chicago.

u came to Chicago fifty years ago
today" said Mr.. Philo Carpenter yester-
day, "and no one ever drea med then
that it would ever be the Chicago of to-
day. 1t is almost as difficult for the
generation of to-day to realize that the
city which they see around them, with
its immense business blocks, it's score
OF railway connections, busy, rushing
life, and population of over 600, 900,
was only fifty. years ago the little trad.
ing village of two hundred inhabitants
to which Mr.. Carpenter came in canoe
around the head of the lake. Right in
the most ;hickly populated portion of
the West Division, between Halsted,
Kenzie, Madison and Ann streets, Mr..
Carpenter paid ten shillings an acre for
100 acres OF government land. That
block of land is to-day worth $4,000,
600 at most moderate estimate. About
the same time Mr.. Carpenter bought a
piece of land near his other purchase,
which he never expected to be of any
value for city property, "but thought
it would make desirable farm outside
the CITY," If Mr.. Carpenter still owned
the modest little farm through which
Ann, May and Ada streets run, he would
be the wealthiest farmer in the world.
In those days Chicago had to depend on
the corn fields of Ohio for it's Indian
bread, while now it's elevators feed the
world. 1t has generally been charged
that the continental observance of the
Sabbath in Chicago was brought hither
by our German citizens from the
fatherland, but, according to Mr.. Oar
penter, liberal Sunday grew up with
the city. He says that there was no
Sabbath out here fifty years ego. The
Flench and Indians, who constituted
the majority of the population at that
time, made it high day in trading and
frolic. But the youth of infant Chi
cago were not to be permitted to grow
up in ignorance of more worthy EN-
ployment of the Sabbath. In connection
with captain of the troops then sta
toned here and the captains family
a Sunday school was started at which
twelve or fourteen children were pres
emit. This ives the nucleus of the present
Presbyterian Sunday school system il
Chicago. The signs of progress wer.
evident then. Officers of the army
threw up their commissions to settle
here; traders came to drive bargains
with the Indians and stopped to estab
fish stores; tourists came to look on
and stayed to be absorbed in the whir
of enterprise which in half century
has transformed trading pest to tn,
third manufacturing city in America
The signs of progress are as eviden
and alert to-day as they were fifty year,
ago. Chicago Herald.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-08-12
ADyICE TO CONSERVATIVES.

On the appearance of the first symptoms
as general debility, loss of appetite, pallor.
chilly sensations, followed by night sweats and
cough, prompt measures of relief should be
taken Consumption is scrofulous disease Of
the lungs; therefore use the great anti-scrofu-
lous or blood purifier and strength-restorer.
DR.. Pierce's 'Golden Medical Discovery,
Snnerior to God liver oil as a nutritive, and
nnsurpassed as q pectoral For weak lungs,
splitting of blood, and kindred affections it has
no equal Sold by druggists. For DIR. Pierce'f
treatise on consumption, send two stamps
WORLDS DIspENsARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
Ruffalo NJ Y.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-08-12
ImmaterIal.

"Dor't you have any schools hereI
"Had kind of school here last chow.
der season, but the teacher was Toe
Wiling"
"How so2"
"Oh. some of the blue fishers asked
him if he taught that the world was
round or square, and he said SEEM he
was outen a job he'd teach her round
or square-just as the School Board
wanted it teached. Said it was i'm
material"
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-08-12

Albany, Ga, has almost succeeded,
after three weeks war, in exterminat.
ing her English sparrows. Give 'em
fitsl Five years hence they will be q
greater evil than visit from the locusts.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-08-12

PURE oop-LIvER OIL, from selected liyers, on
the seashore, by Caswell, Hazard & Co., N. Y.
Absolutely puro and sweet. Patients whs have
once taken It prefer it to all others. Physi-
clans declare it superior to all other oils.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-08-12

The superintendent of the Lachine
canal, Canada, discourages bathing in
that estuary by con6scating the Co.'S
tunes of the bathers. The other day
man was obliged to walk home wrapped
up in flour barrel.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-08-12
rs Cents VIII Buy

a Treatise upon the Horse and his Diseases.
Book of 100 pages. Valuable to every owner
of horses. Postage stamps taken. Sent post
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Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-08-12

Philadelphia has discovered that its
women folks live the longest. That's
because they have nothing else to do.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-08-12

Young and middle-aged men, suffering from
nervous debility and kindred affections, as
loss of memory and hypochondris, shonId in.
Dspensary Dime Series Of pamphlets. Adj,
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Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-08-12

Thousands OF persons VINO are bald to-day
might have full heads of hair if they would
only nse Carboline, deodorized extract of
petroleum, which ID the only preparation ever
isr.v.rad that will really do this.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-08-12

CHArrEp HANDS, face, pimples and rough
akin cured by using Juniper Tar Soap, made
by Caswell, Hazard q Co.. New York.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-08-12
The Frazer AxleGrease

Ia the best in the market. 1t is the mosi
economical and cheapest, one box lasting as
long as two of any other. One greasing will
last two weeks. 1t received first premium al
the Centennial and Paris Expeditions, also
medals at various State Fairs. Buy no other.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-08-12

Nervous Weakness, Dyspepsia, Impotence,
fexual Debi ity, cured by wells Health Re-
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bE. :. WELLS, Jersey City, N. j.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-08-12
TIE WEAKER SEX

are immensely strengthened by the use Of DR..
r. V. Pierce's "Favorite Prescription" which
cures all female arrangements, and gives tone
to the system. Sold by druggists.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-08-12

An idle man is like stgnant water; he cors
IN nts himself
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-08-12

We attract hearts by the qualities we dis
play; we retain them by the qualities we
DOsrees,
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-08-12

Envy turks at the bottom of the human
heart like a viper in it's hole.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-08-12

And what is termed puffery there is a wide
distinction. The first merely explains the
real merits Of The article sought to he sold
the second sssuredly exaggerates those merits
IL there be any, or invents them ii there are
not. What is eaid about Hostetter's Btters in
the public prints and is disseminated through
other channels, is the plain, unvsrnished
truth. 1t is real tonic and corrective, sub
duer and preventive of malarial ( yer and
rheumatism, and reliable and agreeable al
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promoter of a proper secretion and flow Of
bile. Naturally standard article of this kind
has not been exempt from imitation and un-
derhand competition, but this has not i'm
paired Its popularity or damaged its reputa-
ton in the slightest degree.
Shun idleness it is the rust that attaches
itself to the most brilliant metels.
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Cannot be Disputed.

nal hesh Try bottle.
As these cuts indicate, the Oil Il used success
fully for all diseases Of the human, foul and animal
fSsk Shake well before using.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-08-12
"Certai6ty OF Relief"

Shun ideuess it is the rust that attaches
itself to the most brilliant me tells.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-11-29
The SITUATION IN FRANCE.

The political situation in France is rep.
resented as menacing There are certainly
many causes of dissatisfaction there, and
there are many sources of disaffsction,
But for all this it does not follow that any.
thing serious is to be apprehended. The
great mass of the French people are be.
yond any doubt in favor of peace and
order. Paris is no longer the head of the
country. 1t is no longer possible for a
Revolution to be established there, and
thence to rule France. The fate of the
Commune shows what would be the end of
any rising of Anarchists, and there is no
other element at present prepared to at
tempt a violent overthrow of the Govern
Inent. The policy of the Grevy admins.
tr&tion has not been strong, but it may be
said TO have followed the feeling of the
country. The Egyptian policy was GER
tainly suggested, if not dictated, by the
country. II must be remembered that at
present it is no longer Paris which rules
France it is the country which governs
Paris. The financial blunders of the Ad.
minigtratiOn have hurt it seriously, no
doubt, and this with the conservative ele.
ments. Bat any menace of revolution
would bring all these elements to the sup
port of the Government, and tee army can
be relied upon to maintain the republic as
against any pretensions at all likely to be
set up by revolutionists.