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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-04-09
MISCELLANEOUS.

There have been 78, SIC, 724 acres ot
land granted in the interest of educa-
ton Washington Post.
They charge a quarter to witness a
marriage ceremony at Larned. Nearly
S25 in money was taken in at the door
at a recent marriage at that place for
the benefit of the groom.-Atchison
(Kas.) Champion.
If this issue is day late you may
blame the weather The editor man.
aged to get to the office Monday and
Tuesday by walking the fences, and,
the remainder of the crew being female
help, we have been chasing type about
their respective boxes, with no help
except sore finger But here's the
Telephone; take it for what it is worth.
Canton Me- Telephone.
When a Michigan girl makes up her
mind to get married she's going to get
there, no matter who opposes. Recent
ly one of these ladies grew tired of the
monotony of single life and she went
unattended to the most dismal part of
dismal Dakota, there met and loved a
man and married him before he discov
cred his danger.-Detrot Journal.
BY method of spectroscopic OBJ
servation Mr.. w. N. Hartley has reached
the conclusian that ozone is constant
constituent of the upper atmosphere
that it is present there in larger quaint
ty than nearer the earth's surface, and
that it is the cause of the blue color of
the sky. Either in its gaseous form or
condensed into liquid, ozone appears of
a deep blue.-Boston Budget.
"A remarkable case of longevity
exists in a Stonington family. Ten
brothers and sisters, all born here, are
still living, though scattered over the
entire country from ocean, to ocean.
Not one of them is less than sixty years
Of age. Among the number are men
prominent in their adopted State Those
remaining here fill high positions in So
ciety.-Norwich Conn Bulletin.
ALI Prater, OF Gainesville, Ga, has
constructed model of the Brooklyn
Bridge. 1t is four feet wide, thirty feet
long, and weighs $50 pounds. Three
hundred and fifty figures are kept NOV
ing on it, representing men, women,
drays, carriages, cars, etc., and under
the bridge are boats in real water,
making the scene wonderfully like the
real bridge.
1t has generally been said that when
a newly-married couple live together
without quarreling they were as glowing
as turtle doves" This should no longer
be used as a smile; a gentleman said
this morning that he had q baout;
full pair of turtle doves which for the
past three months have fought contin-
ually, and now the male will not allow
his consort to eat at the same time with
Enthusiastically IN Y Star.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-04-09
FARM AND FlREsIDE.

Blood on young trees is said to keep
RABBITS from barking them.
The noon meal for working horses
should be principally grain. It can be
quickly eaten, and will not disturb the
stomach.-Troy Times.
1t is said that Gin new combs the
thickness of the sides of the cells con-
tanning honey is but the one hundred
and eightieth part of an inch.
To remove rust from saws, chisels,
and so forth, scour with emory moistened
with sulphuric acid, diluted with six
volumes of water, rinse, dry and finish
with oil and emory four.-.ALbany
Journal.
--Cocoanut Cake: Make cake as
you would for jelly cake, using jelly be-
tween the layers, One good, fresh
cocoanut; break it, and having peeled
it, CRATE carefully and sprinkle over the
top and over the sides thickly. Be sure
and make it stick. Also, mix it with
sugar before putting it on.-The House
hold.
1t is now asserted that the common
parasite in chicks. In examining earth
warns from gape-infected district the
cape parasite was found to be coiled up
in the structure of the earth worm, and
upon feeding the chicks with such
earth worms the disease was produced
among the brood.-Bosto1, Globe.
"A good sauce to go with plain fruit
buildings is made by mixing one cup of
brown sugar, one cup of best molasses,
half cup of butter, one large teaspoon
full of flour; add the juice and grated
rind of one lemon, half a nutmeg
grated, half teaspoonful of cloves and
cinnamon. When these are all stirred
together, add teacup Of boiling water;
stir it constantly, put it into saucepan
and let it boil until clear.-M. 7. Post.
AS regards the keeping qualities of
washed butter, Henry Stewart, the we'll
known authority on dairying. tells US
he kept fffty-pound pail Of washed
butter year; it then brought three
cents a pound above the price of fresh
butter sent to the New York market
with it from an ordinary commission
man. 1t was washed in the churn with
very weak brine after the buttermilk
had been drawn off and was sailed. -
Rural NeW Yorker.
The american CuItiUator tells of a
dairyman who undertook to churn his
cream sweet, instead of allowing it to
ripen before churning; the result was
that the ''choice, aromatic, nutty favored
product, " which had previously distin-
guished his dairy, was replaced with
butter ''devoid of flavor or fragrance,
having dead, neutral TASTE" and the
weeks product sold at thirty-five cents
per pound, instead of at seventy cents,
the usual price for previous consign-
lments.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-04-09

JERSEYS STILL IN FAVOR.

Some New Patterns-The Fantail Fedora
Notes of Novelties In Dress.
The latest novelties in jerseys pre-
sent some patterns that are note
worthy. These are the fantail, the
Fedora front, the evening dress coat
which is very similar in cut to a
gentleman's full-dress coat, the COM
bination coat and vest, the latter either
to match or of different color, aud q
few others. The trimming used for
these useful articles is broad and mar
row braid or gold and silver cerd, pus
on in military style and giving Q DASH
ing appearance to the garment
Jerseys are made not alone Of wool,
but also of q new material known asI
" isle thread jersey cloth, which,
is of wonderful strength and has
finish and tineness approaching silkeRs
fabrics. This new material is likely to
be very popular.
The upper part of dress-skirts Is ta
be pulled, the single puff sometimes
reaching from the waist nearly to the
knee. Some of the dresses have the
puff beginning at the side and con-
tinuing diagonally across the front.
In others the puff is like the deep
acket-basque, shorter in the back than
in the front.
Crepe lisse with fine plaits, edged
with gilt, crystal or pearl beads, y
worn at the neck and sleeves OF six
dresses.
Paris still DEGREES that the trimming
Of the two sides of the dress, bodice al
we'll as skirt, must not be alike.
The most popular wooden suits con-
sist of draped skirt basque bodice
and a Jacket for outdoor wear. 81
Frise veIvets are combined with tIne
black cashmere. They form the Yess
and the underskirt.-M 7. Commercial
AdUertiser.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-04-09

Now. II Billy had had 8. lony,r So.
ne would probably have understo $3.50 s
now many ways each particular brans Il
OF ms studies could be useful to him :.
a man, But there was no real necas . =
for 1t, SO far as his reformation S MY
concerned, for from that time forth !" = =
was one of the most studious If h =
class. VI nus
Ii every boy who thinks his tima :.
wasted in school will but carry BilIvi !
dream out in detail, imagining evs,,.
possible situation, asking himself No.
ne could get along in any branch - -
business without an education, If Is sea- =
to say that he will study quite AS b S,ss
as Billy did after the water-sprite sat ~
his eye.-James OTIS, IN Conorsgat ti ~
aliSt. y ~S'"t''
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-04-09

Another aged tree-the "big apple
tree,n as it was known-passed away a
few years ago, after an existence of over
century and half, at Peekskill. Its
trunk near the ground was over thirteen
feet in circumference.
The apple tree seldom reaches a
greater height than thirty feet, but its
large round head makes up for the want
of height. 1t is grand and noble
looking tree, especially when in full
blossom, and care and study should be
given to its successful cultivation
James W. BoWditch, IN Troy IN. ~
Times.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-04-09
FOB OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
WHERE THEY GO.

Where do they go, wonder,
The clouds on a cloudy day,
When the shining sun comes peeping out
And scatters them all away?
knowl-They keep them and cut them dow
For cross little girls who want a frown.
Frowns and wrinkles and pouts-eh, my!
How many twould make-one cloudy skyi
l think should like it better
A sunshiny day to take
And cut it down for dimples and smiles
What beautiful ones 'twould make!
Enough for all the dear little girls
With pretty bright eyes and waving curls,
10 drive the scowls and frowns away,
Just like the sun on a cloudy day.
Sydney DGgre, in ST. Nicholas.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-04-09
A GOOD WATCHDOG
How He Barked an Alarm OF Fire -,
Saved the Woodshed.

o"fOu eAo NOOuShe1s
One day Mary, the cook. went n ga
her mother, who was sick. The chill,
dren were all at school; so Mrs. Whit
locked up the house and went upstairs
She sat down by the front window
where she could see any one coming in
the gate. About an hour after sbn
heard the dog barking. She SAID.
"What can Dan be barking at? am
sure no one has come in the pate.
Some one must have climbed over TIA
back fence"
So she laid her work down and went
to the back window and looked out,
but could see no one. As soon as Dan
saw her looking out he stopped bark.
ing. He must have been barking at
the cat, " she said, and went back to her
work.
Hardly had she begun to sew, when
she heard him bark again.
Now, Dan was a good WATCHDOG,
and always barked when any one came
in the gate. If one of the family. or
one of their friends came in, Dan would
give little bark, as much as to say:t
''How-do you-do?" and would Jump
around them, and, in his way, show he
knew them. But if q tramp came.
he would bark loudly and keep it up
until he had gone out.
Some times he would bark at puss.
when be thought she was taking more
than her share of the dinner; but he
never kept it up very long.
Now, this day, he kept on barking
loudly, just as he did when tramp
came into the garden. So Mrs. White
again laid down her work and this time
went downstairs.
inst as soon as Dan saw her down.
stairs he stopped again. Thinking that
some one might have gotten into the,
cellar, Mrs. White went down to look.
but she could see no one, and the doors
and windows were safely locked.
Then she went upstairs and began
to work the third time, But again Dan,
began to bark, and louder than be-
fore.
Mrs. White kept on sewing at first;
but the dog made such noise that she.
soon saw she would have to quite him.
81 wonder what he wants." she said.
Il never knew him to act so before.
Something must be the matter"
So she went downstairs and opened
the door and called to him: dan!
Dan! what's the matterP" He seemed
to understand what she meant, for he
began to bark and run to the corner of
the yard, then back to her again, AS
much as to say: "Come with me and Il
will show you, for I can't talk
Mrs. White went with him, and she
soon saw what Dan had been trying to
tell her.
The cook had thrown some ashes I'M
the corner of the yard, next the wood
shed. Some hot Goals that had been
left in them had set fire to some dry
bushes, which were blazing away, and
the woodshed had just begun 10 burn.
Mrs. White ran quickly to the pump
and got pail of water to throw on the
fire. Dan followed her, barking all the
time. After she had put the fire out he
stopped barking.
Mrs. White was so much pleased with
Dan. for being so smart, that she gave
him some nice meat
Now that the fire was out, Dan was
happy, and did not bark again all day..
When Mr.. White and the children
heard how Dan had saved the wood
shed, they called him smart dog, and
were more fond of him than ever. And,
| think he was smart dog, don't youe
and Home.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-04-09

"A Texas paper wants law pro-
hibiting the making of pistol pockets III
pantaloons. 1t thinks If there wee No
pistol pockets men would not carr
pistols.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-04-09
An Accommodating Friend.

A desperate named Charlie Fee, who
had murdered a friend in cold blood at
Brackettsvllle, Texas, was pursued by
the Sheriff, overtaken, and captured
after desperate resistance. After his
arrest he became quite sociable, and
the Sheriff asked him why he murdered
his visitor in his sleep.
Il did it as a matter of accommoda-
ton, replied Fee calmly.
las matter of recommendation
Eyes; | had often heard the deceased
say when he was alive that he dreaded
lingering death, and that he wanted
to die unexpectedly" -Teras Stfttpqs.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-04-09

Figures can't lie. That is a truism.
however. which does not apply to young
ladies figures. They do prevaricate
occasionally.-SGn Francisco Examiner.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-08-22
How to Spoil Children.

Scene in library; gentleman writing;
child enters
"Father, give me penny.
Haven't any; don't bother me-
"But, father, l want it. Something
particular"
II tell you l haven't got one about me. "
"You must have one; you promised me
one."
II did no such thing. I won't give
you any more pennies; you spend too many.
| won't give it to you, so 60 away"
Child begins to whimper. II think you
might give me one
"No-go away won't do it, so there's
an end to it. y
Child cries, leases, cLaxes-father gets
out of patience, puts his hand in his pocket,
takes out penny, and throws it at the
child. 'There, take it, and don't come
back again to-day"
Child smiles, looks shy, goes out con-
queror-determines to renew the struggle
in the afternoon, with the certainty of like
results.
Scene in the street; two boys playing;
mother opens the door; calls one of them,
her own SON
"Joe, come into the house instantly"
Joe pays no attention.
"Joe, do you hear me? If you don't
come I'll give you good beating"
Joe smiles and continues his play. His
companion is alarmed for him and advises
him to obey.
"You'll catch it if you don't go, joe"
"Oh, no 1 won't; she always says so, but
never does I amt afraid"
Mother goes back into the house greatly
put out, and thinking herself martyr to
bad children
That's the way, parents. Show your
children by your example that you are
weak, undecided, untruthful, and they
learn aptly enough to despise your author
ity, and regard your word as nothing.
They soon graduate liars and Knockers, and
the reaping of your own sowing will not
fail.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-08-22
Piano Virtuosity from an Engineers
Point of View.

Jim Nelson, zone of the oldest locomo-
tive engineers running into New Orleans,
gives the following account in the Times
Democrat of how he heard French per-
former play piano solo: As soon as he
sat down on the stool knew by the way
he handled himself that he understood the
machine he was running. He tapped the
keys away up one end, just as if they were
guages and he wanted to see if he had
water enough. Then he looked up as if
he wanted to know how much steam he
was carrying, and the next moment he
pulled open the throttle and sailed out on
the main line as if he was half hour late.
You could hear her thunder over culverts
and bridges, and getting faster and faster,
until the fellow rocked about in his seat
like cradle Somehow | thought it was
old thirty-six pulling a passenger train
and getting out of the way of special.
The fellow worked his keys on the middle
division like lightning, and then he flew
along the north end of the line until the
drivers went around like buzz-saw, and |
got excited. About the time | was fixing
to tell him to cut her off little, he kicked
the dampers under the machine wide open,
pulled the throttle away back in the ten
der, and, Jerusalem jumpers how he did
run! l couldn't stand it any longer, and
yelled to him that she was pounding on
the left side, and if he wasn't careful he'd
drop his ashpan.
'IBut he didn't hear me- No one heard
me. Everything was flying and whizzing.
Telegraph poles on the side of the track
looked like row of cornstalks, the trees
appeared to be a mud bank, and all the
time the exhaust of the old machine
sounded like the hum of bumblebee, |
tried to yell out, but my tongue wogldn t
move. He went around the curved like
bullet, slipped an eccentric, blew out MS
soft plug, went down grades fifty feet to
the mile, and not confounied brake set.
She went by the meeting point at mile
and a half minute and called for more
steam. My hair stood up like cats tail,
because knew the game was up
aSure enough, dead ahead of us was the
headlight of the special. In daze L
heard the crash as they struck, and l saw
cars shivered into atoms, people mashed
and mangled, and bleeding, and gasplng
for water | heard another crash as the
French professor struck the deep keys
awav down on the lower end of the south
ern division, and then | came to my senses.
There he was. at dead standstill, with the
door of the fre-box of the machine open,
w;nino the perspiration off his face, and
having at the people before him. II l
I've n he thousand years old I'll never
forget the ride that Frenchman gave me
on a piano"
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-08-22
Persian Bill of Fare.

From the 81. James Gazette.
The food of the Persians is very varied
AS rule, the very poor do not get meat
more than once week, while villagers and
the nomadic tribes see it very rarely and
only on great occasions, as at marriage
feasts. The ordinary diet of a laboring
man is bread and cheese in winter, bread
and fruit in summer. But even the laborers
manage to obtain an occasional bowl of
strong soup; and they vary their diet with
conserves, dried fruits, basins of curds and
hard boiled eggs. The actual weight of
bread that muleteer or laborer can con-
sumo, and does consume daily, is very
great, seven pounds not being an extraor-
binary allowance. In the south of Persia,
dates are the staple food. They are very
cheap and satisfying. During the summer
lettuces, grapes, apricots, onions and Gu
cumbers form the dainties of the villager;
and these, with bread, cheese and curds,
are their only food In every large town
cook shops abound. Sheep are roasted
whole in ovens, and sold hot by the slice
The sheep's heads and feet are boiled sep
arately, and their preparation and sale is
trade in itself. But the edible most in
favor among all classes in Persia is the
kabab. There are two varieties of kabab
One is made from minced mutton, which is
chopped with few onions into paste fine
as sausage meat, carefully moulded over a
skewer, toasted over a fierce charcoal fire,
and sold and eaten hot This is the kabab
of the bazaar, the delicacy of the lower
classes. At the dinner hour (sunset) and
at the breakfast hour (noon) crowds sur
round the shops of the kabab sellers Each
man carries his bread, which is usually a
flexible loaf two feet long, one foot wide,
and one-half an inch thick. The customer
wraps his kababs, hot from the fire, in his
bread, and either sits down and eats it then
and there, or takes the meal home to his
family. In any case, hot dinner of roast
meat can be obtained for from Id. to Sd. a
head; for the price of single skewer of the
steaming delicacy is but Id. Jars contain
ing about half pint of hot, strong and
savory meat soup are sold for Id. These
form the invariable meal of the Persian
soldier, if he can afford it. The meat is
pounded and served with the soup or eaten
afterwards as separate plate. But in
Persia, as in the rest of the East, bread,
rice or dates are the real food-the meat
merely the sauce or bonne bouche. Per-
slams of all ages are very fond of confec-
tiOnery, and are constantly devouring
sweets. These are generally pure and
good, but there is little variety in color,
most of them being white, and nearly all
are favored with lemon juice
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-08-22
How to Get Trade in Summer.

Entering the store of prosperous mer-
chant the other day, gentleman, stran-
ger in town, expressed surprise at the busy
scene that greeted him. He inquired of
the proprietor how it was that he was get
ting more than his share of business in these
dull, midsummer days. The merchant re-
Piled II attribute the excellent business l
do every summer to just two things First,
| advertise bargains and keep my store be-
fore the public; second, when the public
calls | satisfy it by keeping my advertised
promise. 1t cost me $4,000 to learn this
lesson, and it has paid me at least S25,000
During three successive summers during
the hard years that followed 1873 ran
behind in this store on an average $4,000
every year. | made up my mind that
there was business to do, and that | would
do it. In the middle of the worst and
dullest year that we had, when clerks were
absent on their vacations, and half of the
force in the store was idle, started in and
spent 81 200 in advertising midsummer
bargains, remnants, old stock and so on.
Within week my store was so full of
business that | had to send for every clerk
who was away, and 1 added two extra
clerks. That year, instead of a loss of
$4,000 in the summer, made $2,500, be-
sides what l paid for advertising. have
kept it up ever since. That was the most
expensive lesson ever learned, but it was
the most instructive and the most remu-
nerative. IF I had to start in business
again as poor as was when | started, 1
would make it rule to spend at least one
half of what my rent cost in advertising in
home papers. | would not waste it in
cheap methods, but would spend it judic-
iously in the best and high h-priced depart
ment and in the largest and best papers"
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-08-22
Preserving the Dead.

NJ. j. Kergovatz, chemist of Brest,
has discovered mode of disposing of the
mortal remains of humanity which he con-
siders preferable in every way both to in
humation and cremation. His system is
an antiseptic one, of simpler character
and much less expensive than the old pro-
cess of embalmment All that is necessary
is to rub the body over with solution of
plumbagine and then plunge it into a cop
per bath. But copper being rather an ex-
pensive material, zinc may be substituted
for it in the case of the poor. On the
other hand, persons of luxurious tastes
may use silver or gold if they please, the
effect being the same. The discoverer has
tried his system eleven times on the human
subject and on a hundred dead animals,
and he has never known it to fail, Among
the manifold advantages which would re-
suit from the adoption of this system, NJ.
Kergovatz mentions one which, if gener-
ally availed of, will strike death blow at
one of the fine arts. By simply prolonging
the duration of the bath the body is rem
dered as hard and as indestructible as
granite, and thus the country is provided
with 'ready-made statues of its great men,
and the State and the communes viii be
saved in future the considerable expense
which our present dependence on the stat
uary art for memorial purposes imposes on
them.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-08-22

A traveller describes a natural bridge,
almost as interesting as the Virginia curl
osity, spanning canon about twenty miles
north of the point where the Atlantic and
Pacific Railroad crosses the boundary be-
tween New Mexico and Arizona. This
bridge is sixty-fye feet long and fifteen
wide at the narrowest point 1t consists of
tough grit rock, underneath which the
softer sandstones have been worn away to
a depth of twenty-five to forty feet beneath
the arch Near by is a petrifed forest
The stone tree trunks lie just beneath the
soil, or half exposed, fallen in all directions
This point had never before been visited by
a white man.