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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-09-03
REBUKlNG CURIOSITY.
How q Stranger in a California Town Baf.
fed Impertinent Inquiries.

How q Stranger in a California Town Baf.
fed Impertinent Inquiries.
The other day mysterious-looking
stranger appeared in Petaluma and re-
manned five whole days without the in
habitants finding out his name, where
he came from, or his business. Even
the bar-room loafers were baffied in
their attempts to extract some definite
information, and the entire town lay
awake O. nights worrying over the mat
ter. At last the general agitation grew
to such pitch that the Sheriff volun-
teered to interview the stranger in be-
half of the public veal. Approaching
the taciturn visitor, as he sat in the
office of the hotel, the functionary re-
marked:
Fine day, SIR"
SIS, eh?'' said the stranger, dubi-
ously.
''Going to stay long in these parts?"
"Just four days, two hours, and
thirty-one minutes longer" replied the
other, consulting his watch and a time
table
'Then!-may I-er ahem! may I ask
what your business Isl? persisted the
Sheriff, as the crowd gathered up closer.
"Well, l don't wish it generally
known, replied the stranger, confident
tally; "but I'm Russian Nihilist."
"You don't mean it?" gasped the
official.
Fact" replied the man, mournfully.
"But-er-what brings you herep asked
the inquisitive Sheriff.
"Well, you see, was captured in St.
Petersburg last month, and-you know
how severe that Government is on Mill
lists, don't you?"
"O!-yes-of course; 60 on!'
"Well, they sentenced me to twenty
years in Siberia, or week in Petaluma,
and was fool enough to choose Peta
luna"
And with a'heavy sigh the condemned
man drifted in to dinner. er.-PetaIumo
Times.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-09-03
A New TeIegraphic Device.

An ingenious Philadelphian has in
vented device for telegraphing passen-
gers and goods through the air. The
field it purposes to occupy is eompar-
atively modest one, as it does not seek
to rival the locomotive, but is satisfied
with the prospect of operating in dis
tricts incapable of furnishing traffic ade-
puate to the support of a railway. Sturdy
posts support its two cables. one of
which is about eight feet higher than
the other, additional cables being sup
piled to insure absolute safety. The cars
are suspended from the upper and sup
ported by the lower cables. Steam en-
gines and dynamos at each end of the
line supply the driving power, and by
means of the car-wheel axles and in
tervening wires the current is passed
through an electrical motor working
under or by the side of the car. The
carrying capacity of the cables varies.
inclusive of cars. from several hundred
weight up to ton. and repeated tests
have demonstrated that smooth and
swift motion can be obtained, IN. Y
Post.
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SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Three of the six star graduates at the
United States Naval Academy recently
are Pennsylvanians.
-Bowdoin College will expend 800, 900
on her gymnasium, aud the University
of Pennsylvania $1,000 on her new ath-
letic field.
Protestant meetings at Gratz, Aus
tria. are tolerated by the police and are
we'll attended, but no children under
fourteen years of age are allowed to be
present.
Sixteen years ago there were in the
State of Kansas fortY-three Presbyterian
churches and 1.453 members. Now
thre are in that State 321 churches and
4,289 members. Chicago Times.
The total receipts of the Board of
Foreign Missions of the Southern Bap-
tist Church the past year were $751;
299.59, of which the women raised about
$4,000. The year closed with bal
ance of 1000 in the treasury.-M. Y
Tribune.
The cities of Boston and New York
pay more for school education, in pro-
portion to population, than any other
cities in the country. In the former the
schools receive twelve and one half per
cent. of the city's annual expenditure.
Chicago Current
in Teheran, Persia, the tea houses
are all open to the public, and even the
schools are exposed like the shops,
often having shops on each side. The
boys sit on their heels in rows and re-
| peat the lesson after the master, ap-
parently undisturbed by the continual
| hubbub going on around them.
The entire missionary debt of the
Presbyterian Societies is $196,000. OF
this amount the Home Board, with the
Woman's Executive Committee. owes
| $139,000, the Foreign Board $57, ,000.
The General Assembly adopted reso-
luton recommending that every church
take special collection, or adopt
such other measures as shall seem best
in each case to cancel the debts. IN.
Y. Eraniner.
The spirit of conservatism which is
supposed to obtain so firmly in Euro
pean educational institutions has
| yielded to the popular demand for the
education of women to such a degree
that they are now admitted to many OF
the leading universities of Russia, Ger
many, France and Belgium. The influ-
ence of these examples will certainly
have great weight in America. Car'
rent.
The organ in the Stewart Cathedra
at Garden City is, it is said, the largest
in, the world, being in fact five organ;
in one-the great, the swell. the choir
the solo. the echo and the pedal organs
There are four manuals, 115 speak ne
stops, 1852 pipes, and 43 couplers, me
chanical accessories and pedals, with :
switch connecting the chimes with The
organ, so that both may be operated
from one key-board.-M Y. Sun.
The Scotch Presbyterian Church o
Jersey City has recently been relieved
of burdedsome debt which threat
ened the loss of their house of worship
Mr.. George r. Mckenzie, who paid OF
the indebtedness, in a modest commu
nication to the church declaring his in
tention, simply asked in return that i
should continue to be called by its olC
name, s'the Scotch Presbyterian
Church." and that the music should b
that of the human voice alone.-N. Y
, | Times
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A New Iron-Clad.

1t is proposed to construct new iron
clad (the fourth) at Nicolaieff, Russia,
destined for the defence of the Black
Sea coasts. 1t is to be of steel and iron,
the under portion being cased in wood.
The center portion will be armored; for
the defense of the engines and machin-
cry portion of the deck will be covered
with armor-plates two inches thick.
With engines of 5000 horsepower in
dicated, the speed of this new iron-clad
will reach, it is hoped, sixteen knots.
The armament is to be 12-inch guns,
firing en- barbette from couple of tur-
rets on the upper deck. The estimated
cost is 4,000,0 900 rubles, or in round
numbers 100000. The machinery.
etc. will be furnished by the Baltic
factory.-M ]. Post
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a SUMMER SONG.

= ,ove,v sunbeams, through the meadows
I'm Golden pinions, all the livelong day,
kissing young leaves, on crystal streamlets
changing to living gold their silver spray.
Woe aInorous elves, coquetting with the
woning the daisy in her grassy bed,
rs,I tbe Shy flower unconsciously uncloses
Her dew-gemmed leaves, and bushes rosy
red
Gliding gray rocks, on rugged mountains
streaming,
awake,
wating the laughter of the dimpling lake!
pIayiug "Bo-peep" amid the white buds
7, nearly Clusters on the hawthorn tree,
IN - The round eyes of wondering childhood
The rapid journeyings of the wandering
bee.
Shedding halo bright on youthful tresses,
Kidding young hearts for very rapture sing,
Touching the brow of care with kind caresses,
Tr olinting lightly on the skylarks wing!
An merry sunbeamS, like sly cupids straying
= In the glad footsteps of the rustic lass,
I'm sun-tanned cheeks and snow white ker-
Twinkling like fireflies in the emerald grass
n. lovely sunbeams, like blest angels gliding
Through courts of squalor, sickness, want
and gloom,
TELLING of clouds like golden chariots riding
Proudly majestic DER world of bloom;
of winding lanes, and milk-white homesteads
peeping
Like modest virgins from secluded bowers;
of shallow pools, and baby streamlets leaping
In giddy gladness meath down-drooping
flowers.
Dance, lovely sunbeams, through fair coun-
try meadows,
Bathe hill and cottage in your holy light.
From city slums go chase the mournfui
shadows
That fill poor homesteads with eternal
night.
To those who pine in ignorance and sorrow
May all your tenderest, hottest gifts be
given,
That sorrowing hearts one ray of hope may
may borrow
In the sweet knowledge that ye come from
Heaven!
Fanny Forester in ATgosy.
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PUNGENT PARAGRAPHR.

"A Keep Street old maid who keeps
four cats finds a scuttleful of coal in her
backyard every morning BY strict
economy she only buys half ton of
coal a year. Brooklyn Times.
DIR. Hammond says that Glove and
poetry go hand in hand" Shouldn't
wonder bit. 1t is we'll known that the
course of true love never did run
smooth, and the same is true of anna
teur poetry.-Lo,0eU Cittzen.
al wish l had eyes in the back OF
my head" said a young lady the other
evening. "Why?" asked devoted ad-
mirer, breathlessly. $50 that could
see what was going on without the
trouble of turning my head. I" "You
can turn my head without any trouble, "
responded the youth with gloomy
sigh.
What one letter will do
There is a word of plural number,
A foe to peace and tranquil slumber.
Now any word you choose TO take,
BY adding So will plural make;
But if you add an IS" to this,
Strange is the metamorphosisl
Plural will plural be no more,
And sweet what bitter was befores
L
it will make it caress.
A little child was besieging her fa-
ther to take her to visit her grandmoth-
er, who lived at distance. To get rid
of her he said: ut costs ten dollars
every time we go to see grandma, Flor
ence, and ten dollars doesn't grow on
every BUSH" Neither do grandmas
grow on every bush, y answered the lit
tie girl promptly, and her logic was
convincing. They went. Il Chicago IN
terror.
lis there bird called .Riches?' !"
asked Jack of Jill. "No," said Jill.
"Whyr' Because have heard you
say, Riches have wings and thought
that if they have wings they must be
birds or ducks or geese. "You little
gooser' cried Jill. as Jack started to
run. The very next moment Jack fell
down, and Jill tumbled after him, as
the reader probably has heard once OF
twice before.-Gotdee Days.
Uncle Nose met very dandified
darkey, who said in a very dignified
manner: How do you enjoy dis balmy
wedder, sah?" II don't know yer, sab.
You has me at disadvantage" re-
sponded Nose. ''You cussed ole bow
legged, lantern-jawed gorilla, yer is de
same ole mutton-headed baboon yer
alters was NOW knows yer. As
soon as yer quit talkin' ike gemman
l knowed yer right Off" And they
embraced like Blucher and Wellington
on the field of Waterloo.-Teras Stft.
ingS.
I'll asked for strawberry cream. "said
the lady, ,eyeing the refreshment askanee
you've got it, num-" replied the wait.
er. "But what makes it look so pale?''
''CochineaIs riz. mum-way up; cam
afford to make 'em any pootier for the
money" 'Mercyr' exclaimed the lady,
.'you don't mean to say that you color
your strawberry cream with cochineali
At the fashionable places where an
used to going they never use anything
but aniline dye. It's expensive, o.
course, but then it is so loVelyp'-BoS
ton Transcript.
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TOURISTS BAGGAGE.

A New and Convenient Construction of
the Immediate transportation Act.
A recent circular issued by the Secre.
tary of the Treasury appears to have
put new construction upon the Imme-
diate Transportation act of 1880 relative
to the baggage of passengers arriving
in this country from foreign ports.
Heretofore passengers have been sub
jected to the delay and annoyance of
having their baggage examined at New
York, whereas, by this finding of the
Secretary of the Treasury, this baggage
is shipped through in bond direct to
forty -four cities named in the act as
inland ports of entry, which includes
Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit,
Kansas City, Denver. San Francisco,
and others. A bond of $1,000, 900, is
required, however, by the Government
from the express companies. and the
American Express Company is the only
one which has as yet given it. Tourists
and others who may come from Europe
to the United States will thoroughly ap-
preciate this new order of things, as it
will be the means of saving much time
and vexation heretofore occasioned by
the delay of baggage at the New York
barge office. Of course the baggage,
when shipped through to the interior
port of entry, is examined at the latter
place, for the Government rules as to this
are very rigid in order that nothing du-
table shall escape. Should it be the
desire of a passenger to have his bag
gage shipped to an interior point which
is not port of entry he can have it
directed to the port nearest his desti-
nation, and after examination by the
proper officers it will be forwarded by
the American Express Company. In
case apassenger resides too far from a
port where the bonding privilege ap-
plies, the company's agent, after the
usual examination in New York, will see
that it is shipped through to its destina-
ton in good order Chicago Tribune.
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ering him. Silently he prays to the
God he has always trusted in, to lead
him, with his precious burden, safely to
the ground. Life has just become OF
value to him; the future looks so redo
lent with hope and happiness. Hard,
indeed, it would be to die now.
Slowly, oh, SO slowly, he tolls down.
ward with his lovely burden. To the
anxious crowd below every second
seems an age. 0. he will soon reach
the ground. Only little space lies be-
tween him and safety. No sound is
heard save the roaring of the flames and
the hacking of the axes of the firemen
on the adjoining houses.
Merciful heaven! The wall against
which the ladder is resting shakes more
and more, and is bending outward. The
hushed, expectant multitude now real
ize that the descending couple are
doomed to death. A smothered cry
breaks the stiffness, followed by ire
mendous crash and the quaking walls
part and fall forward; cloud of dust
and dense black smoke fly upward, and
Luciene LIE Fevre and Celestine Borde-
| lon disappear forever from life.
Next morning two charred and black.
ened forms were taken from the ruins
of the theater building, and gently borne
by tender hands to the city's lovely
church-yard, and laid to rest in one COM
mon grave. The artist famous picture
was sold, and the proceeds used to pur-
chase a monument, which rises white
and grand at the head of the last rest
ing-place of the ill-starred pair, and
tells the tragic story of Celestine Bor.
delon, the famous opera-singer, and Lu-
ciene LIE Fevre, the True Hero. u
S. Wilson, In Louisville C0urier-Jour1aGl
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THE RoUEN CATHEDRAL.
Description of the Place Where Richard
Cnur de Lion is Buried.

Description of the Place Where Richard
Ceur de Lion is Buried.
The Rouen Cathedral itself, though
iefaced by an elongated iron nutmeg
gra er which has the impudence to call
itself cupola, is magnificent as mass
when first seen from the corner, and
finer still when examined in detail from
the wonderful gallery of carvings
around its great gate to the long-nec
gargoyles that stretch their misshapen
heads like hungry giraffes from the
angles of its mighty tower.
The interior is somewhat disappoint-
ing after the grand outside, but beneath
its smooth white pavement lies buried
many an eventful chapter of history.
Here the 'lion heart of Richard Ceur
de Lion lies cold and still forever. Here
John of Bedford, the destroyer of Joan
of Arc, sleeps in the same earth that
hides his victim. Here Prince Henry
of England, cut off in the flower of his
youth, rests in the heart of the fair land
that England has lost forever. And
here. in the ground that his own right
hand wrested from the terrified King ot
France, molder the bones of grim old
Rolf, or Rollo, the first Duke of Nor
mandy, who, when King Charles the
Fat offered him his daughter and the
seaboard of Normandy on condition o
his becoming Christian, answered with
a business-like frankness and prompt
tude natural to the most eminent pirate
of the age:
81 take the maid, or foul or fair, bargain
with the coast,
And for thy creed a sea kings gods are thos'
that give the most"
NJ Y. Times.
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"How's THlNGsq"
A Senseless Question Which Excited tin
Ire of a Californian.

A Senseless Question Which Excited tin
Ire of Californian.
"You vos never shaved in de old
countryp" said the barber, as he lath-
cred away at customers chin. mo?
Veil dey hev way of shaving dere dot
few in dis country know enything about
They hev paste which is spread over
de face 1t rest dere ten minutes, and
then wooden spoon will tex off de
peard.
There were some in the shop who re-
membered this process, which, though
it sounds like yarn, is fact. The
paste if left too long on the face will
blister it, but if scraped off at the expi-
ration of ten or twelve minutes the haif
comes with it. At this stage of the sci
entitic discussion on boards and paste,
Citizen Bob Tiffany entered. Some
thing had occurred to ruffie the usual
equanimity of Citizen Tiffany's diSposi-
ton, and he pumped into chair with
an ominous and truculent thud.
''Halloo, Mr.. Tiffany" said peri
young dude, who was getting his hair
| clipped; 'how's thingsp" Citizen Tif-
tany glared at the too-fresh interlocutor.
eHow's whatP" he growled.
"How's thingsP" chirped the youth,
blithely. "YOu know what / mean;
how are you? how's thingsP"
20, mighty yet forbearing heavens.
hearken unto this idiet!n cried Mr.. Tif-
fany, dramatically ''How's things?
What things? Things! A gentleman
can not walk into barber-shop and sit
quietly down to wait for shave with
ont being asked by some lunatic How .
things?' What do you mean by this.
anyhow" and Citizen Tiffany marched
threateningly on the horror stricken and
now thoroughly-alarmed dude.
"Why. l only-you know" STAN.
mered the quivering victim of the citi-
zen's wrath. II only-well how
thingsPn
Now. by the ghost of him whose re
vered name bear" declaimed Mr.. Tif
fany. "Tll make haggis of you!, Yet
hold! How's things? It's too late, toC
late" and holding his cane before him
rapier fashion, Mr. Tiffany made an ex
it which Lawrence Barret in his bes
DAYS might have equaled, but meyer ez
celled. Alta California.
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"A Georgian lost society Oadge
some twenty years ago and the other
day saw it upon the straw bonnet of
negro woman who was passing along
the street. The woman said she had
been given it some months before by
another negro woman, and that it had
been worn as highly priced bonnet
armament, --AtlGDtQ Consultation.
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The average rainfall in this country
is twenty-nine inches. That's six inches
for vegetables and the rest for small
boys to splash around in.--Dstroit Free
Press.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-02-13

The stated monthly meeting of the Ian
caster County Pharmaceutical association
was held on Thursday afternoon a fair at
tendance of the members was present and
an interesting session resulted. Two new
applications for membership were made
which were reported favorably and duly
elected. paragraph from one OF the daily
papers was read in which the writer criticises
clause in the policies of certain of the Fire
insurance companies which prohibits the
storage of alcohol, saltpetre and certain other
compounds usually kept by druggists The
matter received consideration, and the men,
bers were asked to note the terms in which
their policies were drawn up. trial of a
new method of preparing Bland's pills, and a
new trial for determining the purity of insect
powder were notod as very satisfactory. A
specimen OF a drug stated to have been pur-
chased for EPSON salt from a travelling
medicine wagon in the country, was submit
ted for identification, and was found TO be
salpetre, 4 specimen of tinct arnica pre-
pared by the hot process noted in one of the
trade journals was presented for examination
The new pharmacy bill now before the state
legislature, received share Of consideration,
and its application and bearings We're dis
cussed at somo length, as were several
matters OF local importance.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-02-13
DROCLAMATlON.
CITY ELECTION.


The qualified voters OF the CITY OF Lancasier
In the several wards at the usual places of hold
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY II, 1885,
between the hours OF "A. m and y. m, for ths
purpose Cf electing on II general ticket twelve
school directors and the qualified voters OF the
several wards shall at the same time ana place
elect other officers, ~ follows:
FIRST WARD.-four members OF common
council, one judge, two Inspectors, one consta
BILE aud one assessor.
SECOND wARD.-Three members Of common
council, one Judge two inspectors, one constable
und one assessor.
THIRD WARD.-Threo members OF common
council, one judge, two inspectors, one constn-
bic and one asSessof
FOURTH WARD.-One alderman three mem
hers of common council, one Judge, two mspec-
tors one constable and one assessor.
FIFTH WARD.-One member OF select cOun-
ell, two members OF common council, one Judge
two Inspectors, one constable and one assessor.
SIXTH wARD.--One alderman, three mem
bers of common council, one Judge, two inspec-
tors, one constable and one assessor
SEVENTH WARD,-One IN, mDer OF select
council, three members Of common council, one
judge, two inspectors, one constable ana one
assessor.
council, one judge, two inspectors, one consta-
BILE and one assessor.
NINTH WARD.-One alderman, one member
of select council, three members of common
council, one Judge, Two Inspectors one cohsthDle
The election officers In the several wards are
hereby required TO make the necessary Of
notify the persons elected within twenty-four
hours after such election shall have been closed
and the number of votes for each candidate or
person voted for, ascerthtned - 49,,
Given under my hand at Lancaster, this %th
DIP. RosENMILLER,
Jan2l4tds Mayor.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-02-13

"A Pdri0r Hdtch"-This evening Evans h
Hoey's troupe viii present d" ParlOr Match -
In the opera house They are highly praised by
the newspapers everywhere, and their reputa-
tiOn should be sufficient to draw them big
house.
Mss Davenport an " Fedora. This morning
the chart for Fanny Davenport, who appears
here in "Fedou " Tuesday evening, was
opened at the opera house and by noon at least
one hundred and fifty tickets had been sold
The indications are that this popular actress
will have one of the largest audiences of the sea
son.
Mdnie Fiekers COmin9.-Everybody who at.
tends amusements knows Matte Nickers, the
charming soubrettc, who will appear in Jac
quinc " In the opera house on Monday evening
OF her the Rochester Herald says During the
past season several actresses OF the same school
to which she belongs have visited this city, no
tably Lotta, Minnie Palmer. Nellie McHenry
and Miss ulmer, and IL H. safe to say that none
had created better impression than Miss NiCk-
crs. That she has II bright future before her
none can doubt who witnessed hor acting, and
she Is to be congratulated upon her decision to
assume leading instead of playing minor part"
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-02-13

8Jacob Felsgraver, residing in the Eighth
ward, met with an accident on Monday,
which might have cost him his life. He was
on the road TO Washington city, and was told
that the train had arrived at its des-
tinatlon. As 1t was running very slow,
ne attempted 20 get of the car. The
tram, however, was hundred yards from
u,e station, and Feisgrayer was dragged all
10 hold on to the iron rail at the step until
the train was stopped. His shoes were torn
from .ieet and limbs We're bruised.