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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-09-18
PUNGENT. PARAGRAPHS.

"A bachelor, upon reading that two b
lovers will sit up all night with one
chair in the room, Y said it could not fa
be done unless one of them sat on the :
floor. Such ignorance is painful-Bur-
k1agton HGo0beye. 1es !iia
Yes baby is the most dependent
of the animal creation. He is unable
to help himself; but he soon gets over -
that, and helps himself to everything ra
he can lay hands to. Sometimes he
wants the earth, and tries very hard to
get it.--Bost0s Transcript fs \.
Every dog has his day, the cats y
take the nights, the icenen and The y Y
.milkmen the early morning hours. and ntf
the scissors grinder with his bell and
the fruitman With his yawp take the
rest of lifetime that is worth living. ---i.ss,
Detroit Free Press.
Some one claims to have discovered 9FA
that chloroform will cure cholera. We As
should think it might. 1t has been
known to cure poverty and disappoint-
ment in love, and these are more stub
born maladies than cholera. Norris
toWn Herald. $500 N ealss
"A shrewd old lady cautioned her II
married daughter against worrying her
husband too much and concluded by
saying, 'sMy child, man is like an
egg. Kept in hot water q little while,
he may boil soft; but keep him there 3gia
too long, and he hardens.n f eli Bs5
An Eastern family received a. tele.
gram from the West, announcing the
sudden demise of relative, and tlieyvat
replied: "Send on the remains, at
once No telegram was received in
answer, but ina few days letter came, sf
saving simply: "There Amino remanes.
He war kfcd by mul. ~ Burlington 81
Free Press. .8na Als sa gd n4u
"A very popular young lady, visiting
friends in not very distant city, re-
ceived a telegram a few days since
without showing the least signs of ex-
citement or fright usually manifested
| by ladies at the receipt of such. After
opening and reading it she merely rezf q
marked: II thought recognized the
handwriting. This explained her
| composure to surrounding friends
Macon Ca ] Telegraph. -.
allow glorious it is to be engaged
| in purely intellectual occupation
murmured a Boston maiden gazing
rapturously into the admiring eyes of q
| country editor; tsyour own mental fac
ulties for tools, and the whole universe
for workshop. Now tell me-" she
/ added, ''what do you find the most d
difficult thing. connected with your po-
BILE profession ?'' Paying the hands,
said the editor. Philadelphia 0aN.G ias
Ioe,-Robert. bashful young student Of ~.
Cupid, recently summoned up enough
courage to escort a young lady home At
the breakfast table next morning his
father said: well, my son. did you 60
home with any of the girls last nigh? ?7'ass
'sYes, said Bob. ''Who was she?"
Robert hesitated, but finally blurted
out: 81 thought it was Annie Warren, q
but when we got to the turn Of theroad :.
she went into Ella Ham s house. "But
should think you might have told by
the sound of her voice, said his father.
stNeither of US said Q word, = said Bob, Y
blushing and stammering. -ziE6a'sq
Journal.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-09-18

Having regard TO the Iaet tnaG the
vast majority of fast travel must be
made second-class, it will be seen that
three cents per nile is the average rate
comparable with the ordinary accom-
mediation afforded by American rail-
roads. Return tickets. good for week,
are generally to be had ut considerably
reduced rates. Water closets are now
often found on first and second-class
carriages, and dining cars are run on
courier trains on various lines. a.
In the matter of locomotives, the or
binary type at present for passenger
service is four-coupled engine with
single pair of leading wheels, inside &C.
centric gear andcylinders overhanging,
entirely in front of the front axle.
There are very few inside cylinders
used on North German railways. Out
side valve gear of various kinds seems
to be gaining ground. Six-coupled en-
gines without leading wheels are the
| favorite freight engines, and on noun
| tain sections eight-coupled machines.
| noticed on the Saal Railroad, west of
Saxony. a peculiar type of machine, of
which the leading features are carriage
Vi 6nS1Ho ol1lL0ly OH Aoul-OOuPAOu
drivers; outside valve gear, and the
tank carried down between the tender
wheels. The tender and engine are
united, in addition to the regular coup
ling, by tolerably elose-fitting shoot
bolts, one on each side, with the inten-
tion, presumably of using the tender to
4 prevent rocking of the engine on its
four-coupled wheels The addition to
the tank between the wheels struck me
as q possibly practical novelty in our
practice; the center of gravity being
carried thereby very low and consider
able water space gained. Driving-wheel
tires are generally secured with sci
| screws in addition to being shrunk on,
but the springring fastening is also
used, particularly in Saxony.=-I'9r'
RaitroGd Gazette.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-09-18
Jewish and English History Compared.


All through the history of the Jewish
people the haunting sense of great
idea-of the divine mission of the
Nation-is never absent from their
records. In the Genesis, the Exodus,
Deuteronomy, in the Chronicles of their
Judges, Kings and prophets, continual
ly we may hear the echo of the words
the refrain, as it were, of q great na-
tional anthem" "We are Thy people, 0
God!' But England has had also her
sacred mission in I the world. Our
country has had her divine Genesis and
Exodus, her Chronicles. of Kings and
prophets. And surely some of us. at
any rate. as we have lately read the
story anew in the pages of Mr.. Green's
'ssM taking of England and his Ellis
tory of the English People" can not
but have felt that we, too, as we'll as
the Jews of old, have been "a ''ehoser
people" that Milton was right after al
when he spoke of "God' j Englishmen,i
and that we, each one of rs, are only
worthy of our great national heritagei il
SO far as we show ourselves consciou;
Of the divine sanctions which lies be
hind it.-Good Words.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-09-18

i'm 1861 Trollope's book on America
gave the cost of Transporting bushel
of wheat from Chicago to Liverpool as
sixty-nine ce-ts. This year wheat has
been carried between the same cities
for fifteen cents.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-09-18

Electric headlights will soon be in
use on the passenger locomotives of
most railways. - CsicGa0 Herald
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-09-18

{ "A rising young businessman in
Nebraska recently eloped with a fine
span ofmules belonging TO his uncle, but
In order TO get them he had to take his
aunt and three children along too
Exchange.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-09-18
Operation Of German Railroads.

The passenger traffic on German rail-
ways is divided among three classes OF
trains-railway, express and ''courier.'
The former run at speed OF fifteen 60
twenty miles an hour, including stops.
the express makes from twenty to twen-
ty-five miles, and the courier trains
from twenty-five to thirty-fye miles.
The latter speed is not attained on long
stretches where there are important
stops, but is found between large cities
where the intermediate stops are rare
and unimportant. With these speeds
it is naturally easyto run on time. and
no serious irregularity in this respect
has ever occurred during my travelling
in Germany. think it may be said
that there is no practical difference in
the running time of ordinary and ex-
press trains as rule, the difference in
actual time being due to fewer stops.
Extra rates of fare are generally charged
on express and courier trains. The lat
ter, as rule, the former sometimes,
have only first and second class accom-
mediation, so that persons who would
If possible travel third-class including
the vast majority of middle-class trav-
elers-are obliged to pay nearly double
| when they travel over seventeen miles
per hour. ya,t yEir tg
The third-class accommodation in
Germany is not so good as that in En-
gland, whereas the second-class is at
least as good or better. The second
| class is so nearly equal to first that a
| still smaller number travel ''irst" than
in England. In the latter country, in
fact, the effort has been to do away
with the second-class travel, while in
Germany that branch is apparently
particularly favored by the manage
meht. In Germany there is a fourth
class, used almost exclusively by peas
ants and the poorer laboring class gec-
orally, and inferior in accommodation
to our emigraut cars. The rates in
North Germany are asfollows, in cents,
per mile: ~ s
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-09-18

Vermont now has 1890 school dis
tricts and 2,250 schools, q decrease of
three schools since 1883. IpattLa1sd Her.
aid. T 8F ww ~ ~
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15

tudes, after the latest fashion. Yet your true
man of fashion is no dude. He is never p1o-
nounced, and never has Oh shining new clothes.
Its the general efect-the elegance that comes
only with long experience or a careful valet
that shows, and it's what the mere dude can
never catch on to. The dudes and all the noodles
who merely copy the most extravagant fashions,
While they are our best paying customers, don't
compel our admiration. It's the man who knows
his style and dresses up to it who is the true
dresser.
"Of course, even you can always recognize
the sporting man. He is d species with divers
classes. The racing man dresses differently from
the yachting man. The dog fancier has salient
pecuiiarities, unlike those of the horse fancier,
and the mere gambler, who looks on sports of
all sorts as simply opportunities for book-mak-
ing, has a style of his own. But they dilferenti-
ate in little ~things-trinkets, linen and the like.
They are all fond of high colors
and unique patterns. Their abundant
Jewelry is apt to be in the form of pugs
heads or racing insignia. Most have a weakness
for bell crowned hats, yellow stitched gloves and
pointed shoes. Their canes remind you of the
neck and head of a stork, with the long bill on
the top. They are a knowing crowd, mostly, but
about dress they're as innocent as babies.
CLOSELY allied to sporting men are actors
from a tailors point of view. But there's a wide
difference. essentially. The sporting man wants
to dazzle you; the actor to impress and overcome
you. Tn sporting man will distribute his mag
%nlficence all over him; the actor relies on some
sucn concentrated erect as u SealSkln coat or q
low-cut shirt collar and wide brimmed hat. He
wants his clothes cut, not to fit him, bat to drape
him, and he arranges himself in attitudes favor
able to classic folds. Actors are liberal Gus
toners when they have money. But politicians
stand high with us. They are the fellows for
new clothes! They want everything sleek and
shiny, spick,and-span and brand new. They are
the best tailors' blocks. too, and afford more
pleasure to a true artists eye than the merely
elegant fellow who abstracts attention from his
Clothes to himself"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15
Lotta's Queer Present.

Philadelphia Letter.
was talking with Lolita yesterday. She is worth
quite a million, and expects to make a hundred
Thousand more this season. Her health is superb
Just now. She tells me that she keeps herself in
good trim by vigorously observing al the by
gienic principles. She eats sparingly, and goes
in like a soldier for exercise. She never fails to
take a tramp of four or five miles ever fair day,
except Sunday. She usually walks in the most
fashionable streets, for the reason, as she says,
that the diversions TO be found in them occupy
her mind and relieve her from the consciousness
of going through a routine duty. However that
may be, she herself is an interesting diversion
10 the other promenaders on the fashionable
thoroughfares. Her face and figure are we'll
known to everybody. was amused a few days
ago by seeing her going down Chestnut street
with a light, swinging step. Nearly everybody
burned round to look at her, and after she had
gone a few blocks a crowd of admiring shop
boys to whom her face was familiar were
~trotting at her heels. She carries with her in
her travels a portable horizontal bar that
she has put up in her room on rainy
days. Long practice has made her wonderfully
clever on the bar. and she can vault and swing
with the best of the circus performers that !
have ever seen. She talks enthusiastically of
her success in England / confess that l thought
she had made a failure there, but of course l
stand corrected.
AS an evidence of the appreciation of her for
eign audiences she shows visitors a curious pres
ent that she received in London from a friend of
her family, an old British campaigner who had
spent many years in India. 1t is a sly
looking, tSained monkey. She says that when
1t was given to her with the officers com
pliments she was Mortified. She would not
touch the hairy creature, ard sent it to the
kitchen as a first step toward banishing it for
ever. Her feelings of repugnance changed by
degrees. however, and she has now grown to like
the little rogue SO much that she would not part
with 1t for a seAlskin sacque. 1t is an uncom-
monty intelligent and well-trained creature. It
bows its head in thanks for favors. dances the
glide, makes a sound that Lolita calls monkey
Fneng. and will take the cards of and accom-
pany visitors to the door when directed. Its
pame is Chin Chow. 1t sleeps in a little downy
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15
Choral and Bromide of Potassium.
London Lancet.

London Lancet
Again we have to record with deep regret a
sad proof that those who give or take choral or
bromide of potassium for sleeplessness are guilty
of a deplorable error and do a g%rievious wrong.
The narcotics which poison sleep also deprave
the highest nerve c~enters, enfeeble the CONTROL
ing powers of the will and leave the mind a prey
to the depressing influence of a conscious loss of
self respect and self-confdence The cultured
mind feels the ignomy of the intellectual and
moral depreciation with great acuteness, and in
the end ~succumbs to the sense Of powerlessness
TO recover self control and do right. The de-
privation wrought is purely physical. The
baneful influence of the lethal-drug is, so
to say, organic. The essential elements
of the nerve tissues are blighted by the stupefy-
ing poison, as by alcohol in habitual drunkenness.
In short, the recourse to choral and bromide is
precisely the same thing as recourse to alcohol.
The man or woman sent to ''sleep"-the mock
ing semblance of physiological rest-by a dose
of either of these narcotizers is simply intoxi-
Gated. No wonder that habitual drunkenness of
this class first impairs and then destroys the vi
tality of the mind-organ, and places the subject
of a miserable arti6ce at the mercy of his emo
tional nature. and makes him the creature of his
passions. When will the public awake to the
recognition of facts with regard to these most
pernicious of stupefacients! Persistence in re-
course to them has no better excuse than I'M
willingness to search out the cause of the wake
fulness" which prevents natural sleep.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15

Leeds Mercury.

LEEDS mercury.
The old fashioned potpie was cooked by the
gentle heat Of a moderate fire in an oll-fashioned,
round-bottome dinnerpot. Line with suet
crust, and make the crust as follows: Remove
all skin and membrane from a pound of beef
suet, and chop it fine; add to it a pound
and a half of -four, two level teaspoon
fuls of salt, and q level salt spoonful of
pepper, and wet it with just enough
cold water to form a medium soft dough, which
can be rolled out about one inch thick. Handle
the crust as little as possible, and use it
as directed in the preceding recipe. This guam
tity of crust will inclose about four pounds of
meat, and make a pot-pie for five or six people.
The meat, if at all tough, is first partly cooked
in only water enough to prevent burning, all it's
gravy being carefully preserved. The dinner-pot
is creased and lined with an unDroken piece of
crust, the meat placed in it, with abundant sea-
soning and very little gravy. or a few spoonfuls
of cold water If the meat was uncooked; then the
upper edges of the crust were slightly wet with
cold water, and drawn together, and
pressed in such a way as to prevent
the escape of gravy. The cover of the
pot is creased on the inside, and put over the
pot-pie, and it is then cooked by "a moderately
hot fire three or four hours, or until the crust is
Drowned. Great care must be taken not to burn
the crust; and in dishing the pot pie all the gravy
is preserved. With our modern cooking appara-
tus it may be difficult to cook a pot pie of this
kind without danger Of burning. but it can be
done with care. 1t certainly is a very delicious
dish, and very nourishing, because all the good
ness of the meat is preserved. Usually no pota-
toes are added to it while cooking.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15
A Marvellous Stream.

Across the Pampas and the Andes"
At a distance of thirty miles south of the river
Diamante our route passed by q natural object
of considerable interest-a stream, or rather rll,
of yellowish white fluid like petroleum issuing
from the mountain side at a considerable height,
and trickling down the slope till lost in the por-
GUS soil of the valley below. The source from
which it flowed was at the junction, where a
hard metamorphic rock, interspersed with small
crystals of agnite, overlap "a stratum OF volcanic
tufa. 1t was formed like the crater of a volcano,
and full of black, bituminous matter, hot and
sticky, which could be stirred up to the depth OF
about eighteen inches.
F~loundering in it was q polecat or skunk Me
phitis variansl having been enticed 10 its fate
by the desire of securing a bird caught in the
natural bird lime, till a bullet from the revolver
of one Of the party terminated the skunks
struggles to eXtricate itself from the warm and
adhesive bath in which it was hopelessly captive.
The overflow from this fountain was, as de-
scribed, like a stream of petroleum two Or three
feet wide trickllng over a bed of pitch, or some
other substance, which extended to a
much greater width along the edge of the
running stream at its contact with it. Tins ma
terial was of a very sticky nature, becoming
gradually harder as it spread further ont, as
sumlng the appearance of asphalt when 1t be-
came mingled with the loose sand of the adjoln-
ing soil.
While engaged in examining this natural curl
osity, we came upon two small birds, caught in
the sticky substance at the edge of the stream;
UneE were SUN awe, puJ upon releasing tneul
both the feathers and the skin came off where
they had come in contact with the bituminous
matter, so that we had to kill them to put an
end to their sutferings. No doubt, they had
been taken in by the appearance of water which
the stream presented, and had alighted to drink,
when they discovered their mistake too late.
Their fate suggested the idea that in a district so
devoid of water others of the feathered tribes
must constantly become victims to the same de-
fusion in . similar manner, and upon a close in
spection of the margin of the stream the correct
ness of this inference was established by the dis
covery of numerous skeletons of birds imbedded
in it; nor we're those of small quadrupeds I'M
represented, among which we recognized the re-
mains of a fox.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15
Left-Han6ed Men Wanted.
Milwaukee Sentinel.

mllWduAeo ooDtluci.
'Is there a left-handed barber in this shopl"
asked a man as he walked into a tonsorial es-
Enlistment on Grand avenue early in the week.
I've have one Take a chair"
A reporter watched the strange customer as
the left-handed knight of the brush scraped his
chin. but could not discover anything different
from the manipulation of a right-handed man,
but there was, just the same, and here it is:
You see,p said the boss barber, "when a man
is shaved all the time by a right-handed barber
the beard is pushed over toward the right, and
when it grows out it looks like a lop-sided mop.
The left-handed barber counteractst this tendency
and the roots are directed IN the way they should
go. A left-handed barber is a new wrinkle, but
he is a good thing to have in the house"
Yesterday two blacksmiths were conversing
in a south side saloon on the relative abilities
of two helpers.
Jim is a good enough man, but he can't use
his left hand
'You see said the speaker, in response to the
reporters query, 'blacksmiths' helpers have to
stand on both sides of a forge, and while one
strikes right-handed the other hits with his left.
If a man can't hit straight with his left he's no
good"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15
Indenendenoe in Dress.

New York Evening Post.
The number of women who make, design. or
at least superintend the making of their own
dresses according to their own particular style
and taste-governed, of course. in a degree by
prevailing modes-is no doubt to-day much
larger than it ever was since fashion ruled the
world. This is certainly q token of wider chi
ture in the best sense of the term, and a sign of
n finer appreciation of what is fit and becoming
in individual cases, leaving current rules and set
DEGREES of fashion to be utilized or not, to be re
ceived or rejected, when and where it is deemed
best. The ridicule and opposition from those
who blindly follow wherever fashion leads seem
rather to stimulate than dampen the ardor of
women who in the matter of dress and its adorn-
ings dare to be Independent and free, and are in
hexibly bent on beng so. This is no new ex-
ample of a woman's will. During the reign of
the eoal-scuttle bonnet and the amplitude of
crinoline there were found scores of women who
wore head coverings of simple style, and fol
lowed modes of dress in which the natural and
graceful lines of beauty were preserved without
doing any violence to really good taste, while at
the same time serving as a decided protest
against the prevalent ungainly fashions of the
period.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15
The Decollete Dresses.
New York Herald.

New YORK Herald.
Before many days have passed the appearance
of the decollete dress will be conspicuous in the
interest of the buds who are being introduced into
society. There are many forcible objections to
this style of dress being worn by all women, and
there are also strong reasons why it should be
abolished altogether. However appropriate
it may seem in the ballroom, exceptions
to it have often been taken with good
effect. But as long as fashion favers a dress
which exhibits the neck and shoulders of women
without restraint and their backs nearly to
their waists, and while there are modistes to
make such gowns the dress will meet with popu-
lar favor until fashion prescribes some other
form of ballroom attire. 1t is only necessary
to look around a ballroom to see the many pitt
able sights that are presented there of women
with frail figures, bony necks and shoulders ard
unmistakable ''saltcellars" appearing in decollete
gowns, while exhibiting at the same time their
want of the necessary physical qualifications to
set off a dress of this character. Women follow
the dictates of fashion with too much zeal and
they sacrifice their personal appearance to the
fashion plate. How much prettier it would be
to see them dress as becomes them, than to so
strongly adhere to conventionalism.