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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-27

robin, the fussy, gay little wren, and above all
at this time of year, the grand, soaring,
heaven-inspired lark, whose song is fraught
with heart prayers of mortals. Every time 1
hear lark sing, and now the air is full of
their sweet, incessant trilling from g early
morn to dewy eve,'' am reminded of one
of the star papers by Americas great preach
er, in which he says he travelled day after
day, week in and week out through the whole
fair south of England, even to imperishable
Stratford, without seeing or hearing single
lark! Now, no one who has ever spent a day
in the green fields of this country would
demented when he wrote that, and they
would still more think so after reading his
assertion that the lark sings no
better than a little chippy. But
we all know the great preacher will say any
thing for sensation, and that he dares not
always stick to the truth was VIGOROUSLY
shown in the " nest hiding - business. But
perhaps the lark for which the sanity divine
was in search of was a bird of quite differ
ent plumage.
But, again, how outrageously am digress-
ing. have not told you yet of Esher There
are about 1900 people residing here scatter
ed about in quaint matched dwellings,, elc-
CANT villas and the modern cottage ornate
nestled in its lovely setting of shrubbery and
flowers. Claremont, where the prince lived,
is grand old mansion of the manorial type
1t was built by the great Give of Indian
fame and bought for the residence Of
Leopold, uncle to the queen anG godfather
of the late prince upon his marriage with
Princess Charlotte in 1916. There was
something ominous in young Leopold going
to fated Claremont to reside; so say old anc
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-12-18
SCHOOL, AND CHURCH.

The professor of anatomy at Edin-'
burgh University is paid $4,000 a
year.
No student in Tulane University is
permitted to pursue more than four
studies.
The Swedish Church has recently
adopted the revised version of the
Scriptures.
William H. Vanderbilt has given.
$500,000 as building fund to the Coll
lege of Physicians and Surgeons, New
York City.--N. Z. Sun.
Robert J. Burdette, the Hasckeye
humorist, has presented to the Baptist
Church of Lower Merton, Pa, a church
bell in memory of his wife.
The Salvation Army claims that its
colors are flying in nineteen different
countries, and that it prints eighteen
journals in six different languages.
1t is estimated that the South is
spending to-day twice as much as it did
five years ago for education, and four
times as much as it spent in 1870.
There is a Methodist preacher in
Phillipsport, Pa, who travels over forty-
five miles on his Sunday circuit, hold
ing four services. His salary is only
$500 year.-Pi Pittsburgh Post
The conductors of the Palestine
Survey Expedition think they have
identified the sepulcher of Joseph of
Arimathea, in which our Lord was laid
after the crucifixion.
Mr.. Aver, wealthy grocer Of Bos-
ton, has built on the Back Bay section
of that city q $780, 900 pile of granite,
the 'First Spiritual Temple to be used
by the Spiritualists.
The benevolent contributions of the
Presbytery of New York for the past
year foot up total of $74S, ,874.47. OF
this total there was for foreign missions,
$82, JAP; home missions, $s8, ,022; and
church erection, $31 1862.
Before the apostles of the New Edu-
cation proceed further they should de-
wise some policy whereby students, on
entering college, may be made to regard
their college-work as seriously as an app
prentice does his on entering shop
Current.
The journal of the Twelfth Annual
Council of the Episcopal Diocese OF
Arkansas gives the following figures:
Clergy, including the Bishop, IA;
parishes, Is; baptisms, 156; confirma-
tions, So; communicates, LII; Sunday
school scholars, Sol; contributions, $12..
SO5.
The Christian at Work says that
eight hundred thousand pupils have been
taught in the different Methodist schools
for the Freedmen during the past year.
The receipts of their Freedmen's Aid
society have been $450.000 invested in
permanent school E3operty; and the re-
ceipts of the year APE Sl1S, ,453.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-12-18
ORGANIZED SCIENCE,
The Old Royal Society of London, and It's
Hard Struggle.

AAC OIu 4AOyaA SOCleEy OF LONDON and Its
Hard Struggle.
There are said to be in this and other
lands over one thousand scientific bodies.
Many of these are devoted to special de
partments of investigation, while others
aim to foster all branches of learning.
Some few are very exclusive, being linn
tied to a few persons of ripe attainments,
while others are popular in their consti-
tuition, aiming to interest all intelligent
men in the advancement of science. tt
is now proposed to form one gigantic so
ciety of all the various scientific bodies
in Europe and America. Tt is held that
union of effort viii bring about mighty
results for the good of mankind. It is
evident that scientific men are held in
the highest esteem. They are the priests
of the new faith, for men believe in and
reverence them. When scientific bodies
were first organized they met with much
opposition. The Royal Society was or
ganized in London, in 1920, and very
hard time it had to live at all. Many of
its original members were so poor as to
be unable to pay the subscription rate of
one shilling per week. Among those
excused from the payment of this tax
because of poverty was Isaac Newton,
who subsequently, in 1856, laid before
the Royal Society the original manu-
script of his famous ''Principia' Sir
John Hill wrote quarto volume to set
forth the crimes, heresies and conspira-
cies of the Royal Society. and clergy
men, physicians and fellows Of the uni
versities joined in the hue and cry
against them. Although their studies
were confined to purely scientific topics,
such as mathematics, astronomy, phys
les, and the like, they were suspected of
designs against Church and State and the
morals of the eommunity.-Demorest's
M0nthIg.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-12-18
BELLEVUE, La. THURSDAY, DECEMBER IS. 1884.

they did not come here once year to
perform these ceremonies; that what
we had seen was all that we would be
likely TO see if we remained all night,
for the ceremonies were the same thing
over and over, all night, and all the time
of their stay.
That being the case we thought it
better to withdraw, and we did so after
the close of another dance. What the
meanings of the ceremonies are none of
the Indians seemed to know. | do not
suppose they cared to know. They
hold their powwows from force of habit
merely, and not from any religious con-
victions or education; for these poor,
spiritless fragments of the old tribes
have no religion, seemingly, and have
lost all the pride and ambition that
characterized their ancestors, and
which led them to keep alive the old
traditions and observe the old rites and
ceremonies. The Indian of to-day in
this State has given up all but the pow
WOW, and he would give that up if it were
not for a superstitious fear of what
might happen if he were to neglect this
mark of regard for the dead. I do not
think his superstition would be as
strong as his desire for whisky, for am
quite sure that he would forego pow
vows for all time to come if by SO doing
he could secure enough of the miserable
stuff to enable him to have what he
calls cheap good time. But we can
not blame the poor degenerate creature
for this, for we have men of intelligence
and ability among us who would do as
much as the Indian will for drink of
poison to soul and body.-Ebe,s b. Reg-
ford. inBoSto1a IrnfaScrialt
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-12-18
SMART YOUNG MEN.
A Glass of People Whom We Would Do
Well to Beware OF.

Glass of People Whom We Would Do
Well to Beware of.
Three panics have been caused by
three young men, two of whom were
less than thirty years of age; each was
the son of a minister, who had forgotten
the God of his father. One was a
banker, one was broker and one a
confidential clerk. Two died homeless
and penniless in self-exile and one is
now in jail. One of them was a finan-
cial prodigy. Atthe age of TWENTY-FIVE
he was a bank president. The bank was
a success. His personal speeulations
brought him large returns. The yenera-
bic directors encouraged him in his
career. He was esteemed wonder in
the financial world; but his aged father,
the retired clergyman, trembled for the
future of his son. When the Young
banker had accumulated 5000, 600, he
begged him to be content and stop. But
the son was sure he could make a mil
lion. Temptations multiplied Hon
esty was suspended, the golden bubble
burst, detection followed, the Young
banker fled from home and died pen
niless stranger in strange land. His
life story, with a few circumstantial
variations, is the story of the confident-
ial clerk. The final story of the third is
yet to be told. Let us be wary of the
smart young man. How consummate
are his personal attractions His adj
dress is pleasant His Imagination is
his faculty. He is the most persuasive
conversationalist. Listen to him and
the false seems true and fiction real.
Success attends his early ventures. He
is enyied, petted, courted, feasted,
trusted. He handles millions. His
methods are never questioned. Diyi-
dends are facts. Ask no questions for
conseience's sake. Now look at his
powerful temptations. He fancies that
fortune is his slave, but his black Fri
day comes at last. The sheriff arrests
him; the dungeon awaits him. His
days of extravaganza is ended Money
gone, jewels and fast horses sold, and
the banquet hall is forsaken.-Dr. j. P.
Ne3UDldn
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-12-18
PUNeENT PARAGRAPHS.

There are travellers who can not
wait for railroad war of rates. They
are bound to go at any rate.
-"Why don't you literary men get
richPn asked lady of Bohemian II
don't know he replied, unless it is
that dollars and cents never 90 to-
gether. IN 7. Independent.
Many persons seem to imagine that
they are always in an amphitheatre
with the assembled world as spectators;
whereas, all the while, they are playing
to empty Enthusiastically Magazine.
--.'If you want to look for heroes in
our days. says a woman writer, ''you
must look for them in the kitchen" !"
That's where the policeman spends
most of his time while on duty.-Bur-
lingtoas Haa0kege.
"A favorite style: "Well, my daught-
er, your mother and I have been con-
sulting recently about the windows for
our new house. What kind would YOU
like in the parlorP" 80, thank You.
papa, for seeking my advice. / should
prefer beau windows by all means. -
Boston Budget.
Health Hints: Never go to bed
with your clothes on. Never sleep with
your eyes open. Never drink
cocktail after dinner. Don't look
down the barrels of a gun to see il
it is loaded. Never kindle the fire with
kerosene. Never fool with a buzz-saw.
Never try to conciliate a strange dog
with kind words. Chicago Tribune.
"A little girl was told that she must
not go to the currant bushes-that the
currants would make her sick. She
said she did not mean to, but Satan
tempted her. "Why didn't you pray:
Get thee behind me, Satanp' asked
her mother. .1 did, was the reply.
''and he got right behind me and
pushed me into the bushes"
Baby Mine with Twist:
I've letter from your sire,
Baby mine, baby NINE
And he says hen come and see us
IL he ever gets the time.
And he thinks far in the distance
He can see coming day
When his very busy business
VIII send him down this way.
And while the engine stops for water
Full six minutes and a half,
He will listen to the music
OF your Wfnsome baby laugh.
Twice already he has seen you,
Twice has kissed your dimpled cheek.
How you grow, you little beauty,
One year old last Wednesday week.
Inter Ocedn.
Darling" he whispered, as the
clock sadly struck two, and he still sat
there trying to impress her with his
love, ''there is one thing l 50 much de-
SIRE Would you let me take some
thing that would be eternally sweet to
my remembrance" II don't know
she coyly replied, making move as it
to fall on a thirty-cent shirt-front, sbuE
there is one thing you could take that
win fill my happy cup to oyerhowing. "
"What IS it, loved onep' ready to catch
her; but only cold answer came, that
sounded like the bottom of coal-bo<
in December. s'You might take yoaF
leave. Atlanta Constitution.
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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-12-18
HE KNEW HIS GAIT.
A Detroit Tramp Who was Well Posted on
the Forms of Law.

= AA@AAP NnO nUa wen OobC0 OA
the Forms of Law.
Saturday forenoon, as tramp was
about to enter yard on Sibley street,
the owner of the place came around the
corner of the house. The recognition
was mutual, and the owner observed:
'.No use coming in here"
''Why?"
Because we have nothing for tramps.
Better be off with you.
SIS that threatP'' asked the tramp.
''You can take it that way"
'eThen you are liable to the law. The
fifteenth Michigan reports, page 221,
makes threat Of bodily injury a pun
ishable ofiense. 1t was also held by the
Supreme Court in Baker vs.. Gray that a
threat could always be construed as
breach of the peace.
There's too many loafers of your
shape around
'I'm loafer, ehp Slandey is defined
as applying opprobious epithets, or cir
culating stories calculated to injure ones
character See Twentieth Mich, pages
%, "a and 25. Also decision in Black
VS.. Tallman.n
.'You come in here and I'll give you
all the law you want"
IAN assault may consist of bodily in
jury or simply of words. If John Doe
inveighs against Richard Roe in anger,
uttering covert threats of bodily injury
and leading Richard to suspect and fear
bodily harm, that is an assault. See
Michigan Statutes, pages II and II; also
Supreme Court decision in case of Fair
banks vs.. Shadwell. /"
fFWell, warn you to keep out.
Certainly. ANY person entering
upon the property of another when for
hidden SO to do is guilty of trespass.
Thirteenth Michigan, case of Jones VS..
Braintree.
The owner of the place looked at the
tramp for moment and then disap-
peared in the back yard. The stranger
stared after him for while, and then
started slowly up the street with the OBJ
servation:
'.Any person going about from place
to place without occupation or means
of subsistence, or any person asking for
food or aims upon the streets or public
highways, shall be considered vagrant.
That's me. See sixteenth Michigan,
page 90. Also, decision in case of De-
troit vs.. Warner Judgment of lower
court sustained, and plaintiff remanded
back to the work house. Detroit Free
Press.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-12-18
ExcLusIvENEss
A Quality Considered Highly Desirable tosi
New York Bellies.

A Quality Considered Highly Desirable to-
New York Bellies.
The quality of exclusiveness, by the
way, is considered highly desirable by
our wealthy bellies. 1 found this out in
talking with fhe foremost dressmaker in
town-a woman who holds about the
same relationship to the adornment OF
her sex here that Worth does to Par
isian femininity. ''You are doubtless
laboring under the delusion that one
fashionable lady wishes to wear the
same that other fashionable ladies do, :"
she said. 1T is true, of course, that
the outlines of fashion are fixed, season
by season, but within those limitations
the aesthetic, really artistic dresser aims
to be individual and peculiar. Only by
that method can she distinguish herself
from the common herd of expensively
clothed persons. / have customers who
don tcare rap for costume unless
some. if not all. of the materials are
not duplicated in New York / make a
trip to Europe twice year in quest
of novel and scarce fabrics, picking
them up with as much care and trouble
as the seeker after pictures for a critical
market. | visit manufacturers in sew
eral of the continental countries, and
especially / ransack the Oriental bazar,
since the rage for Eastern stuff set in.
Besides, there are makers of cloth who
produce only limited amount of GER
tain patterns, just as certain books and
engraVings are made rare by the de-
struetion of the plates. One German
concern will guarantee to an American
buyer Of stipulated quantity of goods
that no more of the same sort shall
come to this country. The purchaser
then divides her lot with dressmaker
in each of four or five of our widely sep
arated cities, and is thus prepared to
say to the buyer of her own portion
that it shall be unique to her so far as
New York is concerned 1t may be
that the article is originally of compar-
atiyely small cost, but the wearer, all
the same, has to pay right royalty for
the exclusive franchise. have patrons,
too, who make me promise that the
style Of the garments which | devise for
them shall not be repeated exactly.
This feature of American toilets has
lately become very marked, and seems
to be regarded as a proof of culture in
those who insist upon it."-N. Y. Cor.
Utica Observer.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-12-18
a Farm Necessity.

Every farmer should keep a can OF
the following mixture: Kerosene, two
quarts; linseed oil, one gill: rosin, one
ounce. Melt the rosin in the linseed
oil and add to the kerosene. Coat all
steel or iron tools, wherever bright, with
this, when they are to lie idle, if only
for few days. It viii not take half a
minute for half a teaspoonful of the
mixture to coat plow, when one has
finished using it, and it viii prevent all
rust and save half days time in clean
ing it when it is again needed. Coat
the iron-work of the mowers and reap
ers with it when they are put away.
A little rust is only little thing, but it
makes much difference in the aggregate.
--iSGa Francisco Chronicle.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-12-18
a CANARY AT THE FARM.

Folks has been to town, and Sahry
Fetched ner home u pet canary
And of all the blamed, contrary,
Aggervatin' things alive!
I love musie-that's | love it
When it's free-and plenty of tt
But kinde git above it
at dollar eighty-tivel
It's Just as I'm a-sayin'-
The lady. now, o. layin'
Out yer money, and a-payfn'
For willer cage and bird,
When the medder-larks is wingin'
Round you, and the woods a-ringin'
With the beautifullest singin'
That a mortal ever heardi
Sahry's sot, tho'-so ! tell her
Hes purity little teller,
With his wings o. creamy-yeller,
And eyes keen as a cat;
And tho twitters O the critter
Seems to absolutely glitteri
Guess I'll have to go and git her
a better cage n thatl
-JdHles Whitconb Riteu
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-12-18

Alexander Graham Bell hopes to in
troduce generally into deaf and dumb
institutions the entire substitution of
articulate conversation for the present
system of sign language. Chicago IN
Ter Ocean.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-12-18

-Ouida says: "A girls love must
never be begged. but conquered"
That's all very well. but how to subdue
the thick-soled parent Of the period is
what's bothering our young men just
now.-SaR Francisco Post,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-12-18
Four Distinct Climates in Mexico.

The Republic Of Mexico contains an
area of 741, 600 square miles, or 474, ,624, :
600 square acres, and a population of
over 100000 souls, and enjoys four
distinct climates:
The tropical; from the coast to the
foothills.
The semi-tropical; from the foothills
to the wide, level plateau.
The temperate; from the plateau to
the higher plains, such as the plateaus
of Anahuac, Toluca, Durango and
Shichahua.
The cold; among the mountain val
leys of the States of the interior, whore
bailstorns are frequent. and where the
inhabitants require artificial warmth
during the night.-Detro1 Free Press.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-12-18

Old rats, it is said, lose their facul.
ties and are lead around BY the Younger
ones.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-12-18
-No more tonchinc Commitment conl

No more touching compliment could
be paid than that of the child who had
overheard a conversation at the table on
the qualities of a wife. As he stopped
over to kiss his mother he remarked:
Mamma, when get big I'm going to
marry a lady just 'xactly like you. -
LaadtanQpoLis Journal.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-10-01
Some Curious Things.

Gold-beaters, by hammering, can re-
luce gold leaves so thin that 2S2, 900
must be laid upon each other TO produce
,he thickness OF an inch, yet each leaf
Is so perfect and free from holes that
one Of them laid on any surface, as in
gliding, gives the appearance OF solid
gold. They are so thin that II formed
into book 1000 would only occupy
The space Of a single leaf Of common
paper; and an octave volume Of an
inch thick would have as many pages
Is the books Of well-stocked library of
l,j00 volumes, with 400 pages in each.
Still thinner than this is the coating Of
gold upon the silver wire of what is
called gold lace, and we are not sure
that such coating is not of only one
atom thick. Platinum and silver can
be drawn into wire much finer than hu-
man hair. A grain Of blue vitriol or
carmine will tinge gallon OF
water so that in every drop
the color may be perceived.
A grain of musk will scent a
room for twenty years, and will at the
end Of that period have lost little OF its
weight. The carrion crow smells its
.ood many miles of. A burning, taper
uncovered for single instant, during
which IL does not lose one thousandth
pf q grain, would fill with light sphere
lour miles in diameter, SO as to be Wis
ble in every part Of it. The thread Of
the silkworm is so small that many Of
them are twisted together to form our
inest sewing thread but that Of the
spider is smaller still, for two drachms
u 1t by weight would reach from Lon
Ion to Edinburgh, or four hundred
niles. In the milt Of Goldfish or in
water in which vegetables have been in
used the microscope discovers animal
,ules Of which many thousands to-
yether do not equal in bulk grain OF
,and; and vet nature with Singular
prodigalty, has supplied many of these
with organs as complete as those OF the
whale or the elephant, and their bodies
consist Of the same substance, or ulti-
mate atoms, as that Of man himself. In
/ single pound Of such matter there are
more living creatures than Of human
beings on the face Of the globe. Cas-
IelrS Saturday Journal