The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-01-08
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A Connecticut woman sent feather
cushion to endow chair at Princeton
College.
The recent earthquake did good
thing at Rocky Glenn, Conn, where it
had before that been impossible to reach
water by digging wells. After the
shock the wells filled and the supply
has since been abundant.-HarJord
Post.
"A Bostonian writes: II cured my
self of an annoying habit of stammer-
ing by inhaling deep breath between
every few words, and by never allow
ing myself to speak unless the lungs
were fully inflated. A little careful at
tention soon made the practice habit,
and now | never stammer unless MUCK
excited"
Connecticut papers relate that in
two instances at least in that State,
during the recent campaign, young men
applied for marriage licenses to Town
Clerks whose heads were turned by poll
tics, and were given first naturalization
papers, the mistake not being discov-
cred until bride and groom had pre-
sented themselves to the clergyman.
"A man started to ride home re-
Gently from San Jose, Cal. His road
lay for miles through fields of pump
kins and squashes. The constant
pumpkin panorama finally dethroned
his reason, and he reached home ma
Mac, crying: "See the squashes! see
the squashes!' He had to be straight
jacketed and sent to the asylum.-San
Francisco Call.
Lace is layishly worn again, but in
this century the demand for it is con-
fined to woman, whereas in the seven
teenth and eighteenth centuries men,
too, expended huge sums on ruffies and
wristbands. In 1890 the expenditure OF
William Ill for lace was SS,015; in
1894, nearly $4,000; in 1895, $4,000.
Queen Anne also laYished money on
Meehlin and Brussels.
New York raises annually five
bushels of Indian corn for each of her
inhabitants, six and a half bushels of
potatoes, over two bushels of wheat, a
half bushcl of rye, seven and a half
bushels of oats and a ton of hay. She
supplies each person with nearly two
pounds of cheese and twenty-five pounds
of butter annually, and pint of milk
every day in the year from her dairy
herds.-N Y. Tribune.
The effect of cocoaine, the new
anesthetic, upon the eye is to produce
insensibility to pain. A drop is put on
the eye-ball, and within a short time
the surgeon is able to perform, without
hurting the patient, what would other
wise be the most agonizing operation.
The drug has been ''cornered," and the
small quantity in the country is held at
$4,000 per pound. Chicago journal.
The good people of Rochester, N.
Y, were awakened out of their dreams
one night recently by a sound which re-
sembled that of the firing of cannon.
Rushing to the spot from whence the
sound issued it was found that barrel
of cider had exploded, sending cider,
slaves and hoops in all directions and
actually undermining one of the brick
piers of the house under which the bar
rel of cider was situated.-BufaIo E1-
press.
1t is much easier to be polite and
Teighborly than to fly into passion
when things do not suit you. Take this
note as an instance, addressed by lady
to a neighbor:-'.D Madame-Your
children, who are numerous, and appear
to be disorderly, no doubt deserve the
frequent foggings you give them; but,
as my nerves are weak, write this to
ask you if you can't do something tc
'deaden' the sound-say strychnine!"-
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The territory of Russian Siberia
one and half times .as large as the
United States, has belonged to Russia
three centuries, yet of the 100000 in
habitants nearly one-haf are still pa
gans. Paganism is fostered by the home
Government The pagan priests are al
lowed to collect and burn the copies O
the Bible with which the misssionarie.
supply the converts, and no missionar,
may baptise without the authority of tn,
pagan civil authorities, who are allowed
to do almost anything to drive Christian
from the country.