The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-07-16
MISCELLANEOUS.

should be taught trade, the Arch
duchess Maria Theresa. of Austria, is
learning to make iewelry in a Tyrolese
workshop.
The theory has been started that
since the usefulness of whales has largely
diminished through the discovery of
mineral oils for illuminating purposes,
the animals might be domesticated and
employed for towing ships.-NorriS.
town Herald.
We fail to see in the new eXtradi
ton treaty between the United States
and Italy any provision for the i'm
mediate return of organ grinders who.
having broken loose from their native
lar. threaten to devastate, destroy and
lay waste the nervous systems of the
hardly oppressed people of these United
States. Boston Transcript.
An old jug with war record is in
the possession of Mr.. Tharpe. gentle
man residing near Montezuma, Ga.
The jug was captured by him at the
first battle of Manassas, and, as it was
filled with fine brandy, no doubt left by
some Union officer, the gentleman APP
preciated its contents and carried the
vessel through the remainder of the war.
Whether or not one could catch a
ball thrown from the top of Washington
Monument led the catcher of a local
base ball club to make similar trial re-
Gently from the top of the water-works
standpipe in Erie, Pa. The height was
248 feet, and upon the seventh attempt
the deed was accomplished, but the
catcher declared the sphere weighed a
ton. The difficulty is not in the ball
veering to either side, but in its acceler-
ated velocity.-PiHSburgh Post.
The dominion of the Car of all the
Russias comprises one-seyenth part of
the land surface of the earth, or one
twentieth part of its whole area. More
than one hundred million people call
the Gar father, and are under his abso-
lutte government. A child is born in
Russia on an average every eight
seconds throughout the year, and a
death occurs every eleven seconds. The
population will double in about sixty
years at the present rate of increase
N. Y Tribune.
"A daring landlord in Berlin has IN
troduced paper plates. Bread and but
ter, cakes and similar articles were
served in pretty papier mache plate,
having border in relief, and resem-
bling porcelain. The landlord liked
them because they were so cheap they
could be thrown away after once using,
walters liked then for their hghtness
and because they were neither to be
washed nor broken, and guests were
delighted to take them away as souve
Mrs.
Life is full of compensations, "says
the Boston Transcript "a backward
April puts off the hateful spring clean
ing" So it does; but if April was so
backward that the spring cleaning could
not commence until the first of Septem-
Der, the fall house-cleaning would fol-
low in a couple of weeks. A woman is
not going to be chiseled out of her
spring housekeeping, no matter how
many months backward the season may
be.-NorriSto1,a Herald.
In speaking of minor ailments con-
nected with digestion, DR. Lander Brun-
ton said recently that headaches were
usually dependent either upon the pres
ence of decayed teeth or of some irregu-
larity in the eyes, more especially in the
difference of focal lengths between the
two. As persons who were subject to
headaches in their youth grew older.
bilious headache was very apt to be re-
placed by giddiness, and this change
came when people needed spectacles-
Boston Herald.
"A correspondent of the New York
Journal Of Commerce says the idea that
fortunes are to be made in Florida with
out sweat of the brow is the fiction of
land spectators. An orange grove in
Florida is not worth a cent more than
an apple orchard in New England until
its owner has put into it years of hard
work, much money and much impatient
waiting. He thinks it could be demon
strated that good apple orchard pays
larger interest than the best orange
grove in Florida.