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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-11-20
FARM AND PRESIDE.

Grape Pickles: Fill jar with al.
ternate layers of grapes and sugar, and
cover with cold vinegar Inc House
hold.
-Graham flour is sometimes used
with good effect to thicken the juice of
stewed tomatoes instead of using bread
or cracker crumbs.
When frying cakes, instead of lay
ing the hot cakes on a plate, lay them
on a colander; set that on plate, so
that any fat which drips from them
will drop through the holes in the coll
ander, and not be soaked up into the
cakes to render them unfit for USE
Boston Globe.
Give the pasture fields and mead
ows Il fair chance, treat them to an oc-
casional top-dressing, spare them from
oVertaxing, and they will pay, as they
go, better dividends in beef, mutton
and pork, with less expense and greater
regularity, than will any of the grain
or fruit crops, and will leave the soil
richer year by year.-I'roy Times.
The Germantown Telegraph says:
EtFresh. clean lard rubbed on any kind
of warts on horses or cattle will re-
move them on three or four applica-
tons. | have removed such warts
Tina after time, and have never been
able to find the wart for the fourth APP
plication. :"
Tomato Soup: To one pint of
canned tomatoes or four large raw ones
cut up fine, add one quart of boiling
water and let them boil till done; then
add nearly teaspoonful of soda; when
it foams up add one pint of sweet milk,
pepper and butter or one cup of sweet
cream instead of butter, few crack
ers rolled fine, and serYe.-BoSt0D
Budget.
Natural vegetable acids do not
harm milk, but the artificial acid of
fermenting food introduces an element
into the consumption that is not posi-
BILE for nature to neutralize, and hence
affects the milk. The amount of fer
ment may be small and do little injury,
but if carried beyond a certain point
will have a deleterious effect, which ex-
pertinent time and again has demon
strated. albany Journal.
"A row of fine trees along the road
side forms an attraction to any farm,
says the Tribune and Farmer, but it is
not always desirable in every view. If
the trees are close to the side of the
field their roots will often exhaust the
soil for rod or more inside the fence.
and this, to farmers who pride them
selves on having crops even over the
whole field, makes the trees almost as
much of a nuisance as they would be if
not beautiful. It is the water that these
take up that makes the crops poor I'M
der them, so that even heavy manrring
does not entirely remoYe the difficulty.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-11-20
The Signal Service and Meteorology.

The Signal Service in its present
form for making observations and re-
ports on the weather and publishing
probabilities of changes in advance was
instituted about twelve years ago. II
is branch of the United States army
service, and the officers are either Of
ticers of the regular army or are liable
to be drafted into the service in case of
war as part of the army signal corps, of
which this is really part and an extern
sion. The work is performed atwidely
separated stations in such parts of the
country as offer especial advantages
for observing the various changes in
temperature, atmospheric pressure,
moisture, rainfall, and direction and
velocity of wind and air currents.
These reports of themselves are of very
little service, but when they are tele-
graphed to the central office at Wash
ington and marked down upon large
map there, the Chief Officer has before
him a very plain and full view of the
state of the weather all over the coun-
try from points reaching 5000 miles or
more from the Office. Every detail is
thus placed directly under the eve of
an experienced meteorologist, who can
then prognosticate with considerable
certainty what changes will take place
at any particular locality, and how soon
these changes may be expected. Thus.
the course of a storm beginning in
Manitoba or in the Gulf of Mexico can
be marked out in advance and almost
the precise hour fixed when it will
reach any place in its course. This
knowledge is of the greatest value to
sailors and also to farmers, who can be
forewarned twenty-four or even forty
eight hours in advance of it and so be
prepared for it. Meteorology is the
science of the atmosphere and its physi-
cal changes, or in other words. the
of the weather.-N. z. Times,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-11-20

Each series was duplicated, and the
above is the average result. The crop
with no manure was taken as one hun
dred. Nitrogen, as nitrate of soda, was
added in each case at the rate of thirty
five pounds per acre; potash as chlo-
ride. seventy pounds. and phosphoric
acid as superphosphate, eighty-seven
and one-half pounds per acre. BY COM
pairing the cans having nitrogen with
the others. it is evident that nitragen
had very little effect upon the peas,
while with the barley the results are
remarkably beneficial, ranging from
thirteen per cent. when the nitrogen
only was added to fifty-five per cent.
when applied in combination with pot
ash and phosphoric acid. Manuring
with potash and phosphoric acid
brought a gain of forty-seven per cent.
to the pea crop, only little less than
when the nitrogen was added (No. 81
The soil nitrogen was sufficient for the
growth of the peas, while it did not
supply the needs of the barley plants.
Stated in another way, the facts are
still more striking: The potash and
phosphoric acid brought twenty-six per
cent. more dry matter, and this gain
contained .06 grain of nitrogen. The
addition of 2 grain of nitrogen in the
soda salt gave an increase of eighty-one
per cent of dry matter and .18grain of
nitrogen. 1t is seen that nearly all the
nitrogen was recovered in the crop.
These experiments show that peas
are much better able than barley to as
simulate the nitrogen of the soil The
pea crop in the experiments contained
between three and four times as much
nitrogen as the barley plants, but this
does not indicate that peas should have
more heterogeneous manure than barley.
Peas can obtain their supply of nitrogen
from ordinary soil, and respond freely
applications of potash and phosphoric
acid. Barley, on the other hand, though
needing comparatively little nitrogen,
obtains it with difficulty, and is greatly
benefited by nitrogenous manures.
These experiments do not agree with
the idea that crops should be MANFRED
with those elements of plant food
abundantly found in them by analyses.
Peas are closely related to clover,
both belonging to the legumes, and
barley is first cousin to wheat. The
facts here presented accord with those
determined by experience, experiment,
and analyses regarding clover and
wheat. Clover does not respond quickly
to heterogeneous manures, though con-
tanning comparatively high per cent
of nitrogen in its composition. Wheat,
requiring only little nitrogen, is not
able to obtain that little easily, and is
much benefited BY the applications Of
soluble compounds of nitrogen. 1t is
easy for clover to get its large amount
Of nitrogen, while it is difficult for the
wheat to obtain its small per cent OF
the same element. The conclusion here
obtained is opposed to the use of the So
called special nlanures made for any
particular CROP, --Amsrlcaa AgricuEtstTs
llk
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-11-20
A Delicate Instrument.


The Post Office Department at Wash
iRgton recently cancelled contract with
an envelope manufacturing firm for not
furnishing the precise article in matter
OF weight contracted for and, according
to one of our contemporaries curious
little machine in the Office of the Chief
of the Stamp Bureau was the cause Of
the cancellation of the contract It is
queer looking continuance, a cross be-
tween set of butchers scales and
ordinary grocer's scales, or rather
combination OF the two. There is a
large dial, like the face of dock, with
little hand that flies around the face
pointing to the figures at the side
which are arranged like the figures on
the clock face, with little dots between
them. ''You see three dots, said The
gentleman in charge, inquiringly.
We'll the space between those indicates
one sixteen-thousandth of an inch.
Getting it down pretty fine, ism itp
You see this movable piece OF iron here,
which comes down with a smooth
surface upon this other solid surface2
Well, the raising or lowering of that
moves the pointer which runs around
the dial. To test the thickness Of 3
sheet of paper we simply place 1t be-
tween the movable piece and the solid
surface below, and when the movable
piece of iron comes down upon the
paper the hand registers the true thick
ness of the paper. Delicate Instrument
Well, / should think so. just give
me hair from your head, win ,Yan?
Then he took a~hair and slipped is
deity between the movable pieces.
The hand on the dial followed the
motions of the screw until it stopped
at the figure twenty. ''Jnst twenty
sixteen-thousandths of an inch in diam
eter," he said. snow let me try
hair from your mustache? They are
generally much larger, especially if you
have been in the habit of shaving.
He took up pair of scissors, aud
clipped off hair from the mustaehe
aud placed it In position. The hsnd
stopped at fifty. FIFTY sixteen-thouT
sandths Of an inch thick, he said.
That shows the effect of shaving.
measured a hair from the hand Of
gentleman few minutes ago which
was forty sixteen-thousandths thick,
but those in. his mustache were pre-
cisely the same thickness the reason
being that ne had never shaved. Yes.
that is the machine that proved that
the firm making our envelopes was NOS
fulfilling its contract. He said. AZ ha
fell back admiringly. Scientific Anlefs
tcGD.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-11-20
Recent Experiments in Crop-Feedlng.

Paul Wagner has compared the feed
ing capacities of peas and barley, by
growing these plants in zinc vessels and
under various conditions. The cans
were filled with thoroughly mixed,
sifted soil, and the contents differed
only in the manure supplied. There
were eight vessels in the series. The
manures added to each can is shown in
the subioined table:
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-11-20

"A perfect opal, with a movable
drop in the center, was found on the
fescadero beach, California, few days
ago. Several irregular pieces with
drops of water in them have been
picked up on the beach, but it is be-
lieyed this l. the first opal Of the kind
Rgeg found thefa
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-11-20

Steamers passing the site Of the
BarthoIdi statue have been requested
to salute il by giving three whistles ~ y
roninder OF the monuments sigpsgs
eanea, M II ssaA
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-11-20

The finest tobacco comes from the
province of Koumelia, in Southern.
Turkey, where tobacco cultivation Is
almost the sole resource of the inhahi7
tants, both TpHag and old. cfieags
The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-10-17
Down Goes the Majority.

The Associated Press sent out the
following last night: The official re-
turns from Tuesday S election are com.
ing in slowly at both State headquar-
ters and final estimates are made with
difficulty. On figures received, subject
to revision, the Democrats cOncede
the State ticket by 1918 majority,
while the Republicans estimate their
majority to he 1912. The Democrat
ic committee claims eleven of the
twenty one congressman while the
Republican committee still considers
the Eleventh district doubtful and say
it will require the official returns to
decide. No figures are given on this
district. " In the evening bulletin
was received here saying that Il private
message received in st. Paul placed
the actual republican majority in Ohio
at from 1000 to 6.00o. If it be true
that the democrats have elected Il ma
jority of their congressional candidates.
it may he expected that the republican
plurality will drop very low on the
official count-sO low that it will not
he majority at all. but only plural
ity over the democratic candidates.
In West Virginia the majority for
Wilson, democratic candidate for gov
ernor, is expected to reach 5,OOO-a
gain of 1000 over last election and of
nearly 5000 over. that Of four years
ago. Tuesday was a red letter day for
democrats.
The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-10-17

This campaign has been marked by
many great meetings and demonstrations
in New York City and elsewhere in the
country, but by none that equaled in en-
thusiasm, in spontaneous demonstration,
in representative character, in the massing
of great crowd, the reception given
Grover Cleveland in New York City on
Wednesday night. The programme was
simple; it was merely the attendance of
Mr. Cleveland at meeting of the bust
ness men of New York in the Academy
of Music His room was at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel. There he was waited up
on by delegation composed of members
of all the commercial exchanges in the
city In the corridor of the hotel the
demonstration began. Men crowded up
on each other to catch glimpse of the
man, to touch him, and then fell back
with true democratic spirit to give others
a chance. The crush was SO great that
lives were endangered, but fortunately no
accidents occurred. All along the route to
the Academy of Music the streets and
squares were obstructed by cheering, en-
rhusiastic crowd and he was followed by
political clubs and organizations making a
great procession. Henry Ward Beecher was
speaking at the Academy rs Cleveland
arrived, but his voice was drowned and
his speech brought to an untimely end by
the great audience rising to its feet and
keeping up a constant roar of cheers until
Cleveland stood upon the platform fully
five minutes. Then he made one of his
characterize addresses-tle maximum of
thought in the minimum of words. Every
sentence was cheered to the echo. A let
ter acknowledging an invitation to attend.
extended to some length, from Samuel J.
Tilden was read and applauded uproari-
ously. Then Cleveland returned to his
hotel, followed and surrounded by even
greater crowds than before Union Square
was estimated to have held crowd of
$4,000 people, At the hotel Gov. Cleve-
land was called upon by John Kelly, Gen.
Spinola and other Tammany leaders.
Kelly assured him of Tammany.s sincere
support.
The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-10-17
Romance OF q Poor Young uan.
lPittSburg DiSpatch.1

lflCJSDurS DlSpaCcn.J
A good many years ago youngish man
kept a grocery store in Troy, n Y, and
built up a reputation in short time for
shrewdness, meanness and enterprise He
ran his store in very lively manner, and de-
vised many schemes to draw custom which
are common now, but were new and catching
then. A couple of squares away and around
a corner from the store lived pretty little
rosy-cheeked girl, with large gray eyes and
brown hair, g nimLle wit and saucy tongue,
and very independent spirit The grocery
man fell in love with the girl, and for sevs.al
years courted her diligently in spite OF snubs
and scolnful sayings. Ee declared that the
girl should marry him, and she said she would
Sc, the green grass and the little daisies
growing, over him before II h thing should
happen. Tie g!..l'S pr n5s si0ie more or less
with the grocer, and tod the girl her lover
would some day be very rich and a great
man. The result was tEat the girl finally
married 4 poor yo,in, clerk, wLo became
well-tO-do merchant IN New YORK, and he
and his wife lead the haop:est of lives in their
charming home out Harlem way. Some
times All oil haggard. weary looking man
drives through the par, and when he sees
the merchant and ,1is wife he firshcs and
bows stif1ly, and then leans back in his superb
carriage, looking more haggard and more
tired than before. IF somebody should
notice this meeting and should ask a New
Yorker who the people were he would say
that the old man in the splendid carriage was
Russell Sage, and would probably add that
the lady and gentleman were unknown to.
him.
The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-10-17
- THE
Chicago Milwaukee
& St. Paul

Railway is the short line from st. Paul
and Minneapolis, via La Crosse and Mil
waukee. to CHICAGO and all points in
uie eastern States and Canada.
IT IS THE ONLY LINE
Under one management between st. Paul
ahd Chicago, and is the finest equipped
railway in the Northwest
IT Is THE ONLY LINE
nnuhnmg Pullman Sleeping cars, Palace
smoking cars and the finest Dining cars in
ole world. via the famous
RIVER BANK ROUTE,
Along the shores Of Lake Pepln and the
'eaO'linl Mississippi river to Milwaukee
ana Chicago. Its trains connect with
u T0se OF the northern lines in the granc
'hion Depot at St. Paul.
NO CHANGE OF CARS
VI any class between st Paul and Chi
s"S', For through tickets, time tables,
% %'la 'ull information apply to any coupon
sVket agent in the northwest.
y . MERRILL, A. V. IL. CARPENTER,
! General Manager. Genl Pass. Agt
"l' CLARK, G. II. HEAFFORD.
1enl Supt. Asst Genl Pass. Agt
w Milwaukee. Wis.
'. II. DIXON, General Northwestern Pas
enger Agent. St. Paul. MINI.
The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-10-17
More HOrse-Stealing.

Chronicle: f. w. Van Allen re-
turned from j. r. Dilwolth's ranch
on the Clarke's Fork last week and
reports the loss Of fifteen head of
horses belonging to the former gentle
men. supposed to have been stolen by
white men and driven in the direction
of the British line.
The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-10-17
A .sFresh AIR, Child,s Retort.
TChicagO Herald

One Of the "fresh air" children at Bald.
~insyille, N. Y, on seeing the woman with
whom he was stopping making butter, wanted
to know il the butterflies made it. Another.
asking il little pigs were kittens, on being
laughed at quickly replied: II you were il
New York could show you things you
would not know.
The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-10-17
what Is q Garden Partys
IPuck.

What is garden partys Do you want to
know very muchs Yes? Well, will you
promise not to tell if we let you know! All
right: then we win tell you: Agarslen party
IS the old Shanghai that gets over the fSEcs
and rakes up Al the miGnonette and other
flowers
The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-10-17
Price, 10 Gents.
Among the Geysers.
TCOncluded from Yesterday

among the GeySerS.
concluded from Yesterday.
One OF the party composed fe
geyser verses under the inspiration i I
the OCCASION. which were read at Il
camp fire i'll snorning. Their pn
licatiOn was called for and the auth,
permitted me to use them for til,
purpose:
SONG OF THE GEYsERs.
Rise, Faithful. rise! dispel the gloom;
Let doubling Thomas see thee rise,
Alive, triumphant from the tomb;
On rainbow clouds ascend the skies.
Gush, Faithful, gush! The Dipper fill;
Then mop the star-gemmed floor of heaven:
Drench flaming Mars on yon blue hill,
Let loves fair queen a bath be given
Spout, Faithful, spout. in silver streams
Those liquid steeples pierce the sky.
LOftier than our wilaest dreams,
Shoot! shoot! thy crystal waves on high
Climb, Faithful, climb the starry stairs,
And sprinkle all the Milky Way
I ouT JeWeIeu OTOpS on ORION 8 halr,
And lay the star dust with thy spray
Grey time, grim death their records keep
Mortal as men, the geysers are,
Near Faithful stands one half asleep:
so feebly puffs the Lone Cigar
The Lone Star Basin, weird and wild,
Mone forests green, where mists prevail,
Has on its bosom nursed one child,
The famed Lone Star, its reigning BELLE
Peerless she stands, Lone and alone!
Undine, child of food and fire:
Perfect in action and in cone,
Man can but wonder and admire.
-Four days the drowsy Giant sleeps.
Meanwhile Young Faithful has full play;
Most faithfully its vigil kee cps
Until the Giants spouting day.
His 'ruption makes the old earth quake;
His hot breath MAKES the basin dim.
This geyser doth torrent make,
That fills the Firehole to its brim
His broken cone the story tells
OF floods so great and vent too small
As outlet to the pent up hells
That lay beneath his castle walls.
Up through the straight ana polished cone
The Beehive swiftly cleayes the air;
As quickly, when the work is done,
She vanishes, vision fair.
The Gia ntess an ocean pours:
The Ingersoll rainbow's gleam;
The Lioness and Lion roars,
Their Cubs respond in puifs of steam.
The Sawmill turns its hidden wheel;
Grotto, a complex, peariy gem;
The laundering Castle makes earth reel;
Morning Glory, diadrm.
The Fan spreads like peacock's tail;
The Turban whirls and close at hand
The grandest geyser spreads her sail;
Wave on wave ascends the Grand.
The Splendid claims an equal praise
AS grandly, like an ocean wave,
She does atorrid, torrent raise.
Out of her subterranean grave.
The fithful, lawless Comet spreads
Her fleecy tail to ape the sky;
The Spiteful stones unwary heads,
Her water sources being dry.
But splendid though the Grand may be,
AS streams through streams alternate rise;
And grand the Splendid It's to see,
When her vast columns touch the skies.
More grandly splendid Faithful seems,
Than all the faithless, Iawless crew,
Whose spoutings are ike Rousseau's dreams,
Superbly grand, but seen by few.
Farewell We boiling fountains ALL
Farewell Old Faithful, geyser queen
Most WOndrOus Park on this round ball:
To understand, you must be seen.
LIBERTY CAP
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1884-10-23

1t is reported in New York that an
enormous failure had occurred in the
Liverpool cotton trade, the liabilities
being placed at over $l2, 100000. The
name of the house can not be ascer-
tanned. There is great excitement on
the cotton exchange. Values are fall
ing very rapidly.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1884-10-23
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

A dispatch from Albany states that
Henry A. Hogeboom, farm hand who
claims to have disco, cred the obstruc-
tion on the track which wrecked the
Boston & Albany train at Undertook,
Friday night, has been arrested ON sns-
picion. The theory is held that the act
was committed-no with malicious in
tent, but in the hope of tagging the
train when he intended to acquaint the
passengers with the fact that he had
saved their lives, in the expectation
that he would be handsomely remuner.
ated for gallantry.
At the confer renee between the New
York County Democracy and other or
CARNATIONS, the following ticket was
agreed upon: Mayor, William R.
Grace; Comptroller, Herman Oelrich;
President of the Board of Aldermen, K.
B. Mooney; District Attorney, Ran,
dolph r. MARITIME; Coroner, Genera
Franz Sigel; Judges of Court of Com
mon Pleas, Henry Wilde, Ellery
Anderson and VIM. A. Boyd. 1t is
rumored that Alderman Grant, the
Tammany nominee for Mayor will with
draw in favor of Mayor Edison.
The Chinese troops continue to pour
into Tonquiu, and great uneasiness is
felt in Paris on this account. The Cab
met are divided as to what measures
should be adopted to provide reinforce
ments. General Campenon, Minister
or War, declines to mobilize corps d
armie without the consent of the Cham
Der.
In relation to dispatch from London
that Secretary Frelnghuysen had de-
clared his inability to understand the
reluctance OF France to an amicable set.
Element of the difficulties with China,
Mr.. Frelinghuysen says he never ex-
pressed any opinion on the subject.
When the case OF ID. X. Mason,
charged with hypothecating false to-
bacco warehouse receipts, was called in
the Circuit Court at Louisville, KY, no
one responded, and it was found that
Mason had gone to Canada, leaving his
bondsmen in the lurch.
Miss Carrie Welton, whose death
upon Longs Peak, Colorado, attracted
much attention recently. has left her
fortune. amounting to between $500, 600
and $3.50, 900. to the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
In Hartford, Connecticut, Martin
Harrison killed his wife and was killed
himself in jealous quarrel. The man
who had been living with Harrison's
wife was cut during the row. but not
fatally.