The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-11-27
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A cOlOreu IaDlliy III georgia are
handicapped by having six fingers TO
each hand.
Workers in bleacheries where
chlorine is largely used are singularly
exempt from all germ diseases, but
suffer from special ailments induced by
inhaling that gas.
The Boston Commonwealth SAYS
that there are now a larger number OF
young persons from all parts of the
country studying music in that city
than has ever been known before.
"A burglar who went into a house
in East St. Louis to do little business
complains that he was held up by the
owner and robbed of $35 and gold
watch. Things is workin' around
all right. Detroit Free Press.
The burrashuta, carniverous fly
heretofore confined to South America,
has made its appearance in Florida.
Its bite. though not poisonous, is pain
full, and the loss of blood comparatively
great.
in the province of San Pedro, Bra
I'll, the destruction of all eucalyptus
trees has been ordered. 1t appears that
the tree favors the generation of ter
ribly dangerous dragon fly, which at
taeks all living creatures, and whose
sting is fatal within few minutes.
That is fine social feeling which
causes the man to keep carriage who
can not keep his family, put up coats
of arms when he can hardly keep arms
TO his coats, and induces the cashier or
10 int
nership with his employer.-N. Y. Star
The alarmist views as to the in
crease of insanity, which have lately
been forced into prominence, are not
countenaneed by the Commissioners in
Lunacy of England. They state in
their report that the apparent increase
is due almost wholly TO accommodations
S in asylums of the chronic insane.
"A citizen of Burlington, Me-, many
years ago promised his sons that if they
would abstain from the use of liquor
and tobacco until they were twenty-one
years of age he would give them each
five hundred dollars on their twenty
first birthday. The elder son attained
his majority recently, and, having faith
fully carried out his part of the agree
ment. his father presented him with five
hundred dollars. Boston Journal.
Our scientific visitors will hardly be
able to recognize the Canadian snow
shoe idiot in his summer clothes, but he
is here all the same. We mean the indi-
vidual who has himself photographed
in fur cap, great-coat and snowshoes
whenever he wants to send picture to
his friends across the Atlantic. His
idiotic practice has had no little effect
in giving TO the Old World false i'm
pressions OF the Canadian climate and
the Canadlan people. -T'ronto Globe.
Subscriber asks for directions
for ebonizing wood. The following re-
ceipt is used by furniture manufac-
turer, and is said to be entirely satisfac-
tory: Logwood chips, eight ounces:
water, O. s.; copperas, half an ounce;
boil the logwood in one gallon of water
for half an hour, aud add the copperas.
Apply to the wood hot, giving two or
three coats. In vanishing ebonized
wood a little ''drop-black" must be
added, or the varnish is almost certain
to give brown shade.-N. T. Post.
"A funny incident recently occurred
IN the New York Opera House after tho
performance of the play 1.-THE Pulse OF
New York; The final curtain was
rung down, but the audience sat com.
placently and made no movement to
leave the house, being unaware that the
play was ended. In this embarrassing
situation, nothing was left the manager
but to announce that the play had come
to an end. He might have recited
Thaekeray's verses, beginning 1.-THE
play is done. ''-New York Sun.
DIR. George E. Post, medical mis-
sionary from America to Beirut, SYRIA.
has acquired on enviable reputation for
skill among the Turkish officers, and
would have large income if he was
willing to receive pay for his services.
But his work is almost wholly among the
very poor. His numerous text books OF
medicine and surgery are printedin Ar
able, and he is now preparing work
descriptive of the flora OF Palestine and
Syria, which is said to be the first work
OF the kind on this subject IN any Ian
guage.