The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-08-20
MISCELLANEOUS.

young as she IS charming, being only
twenty-six years of age. She was borr
in Pachuca. = Chicago Times.
Chief Chemist Bradley, of the
Brooklyn Health Department, has dis
covered pickle manufacturers who use
copper sui phate, or blue vitriol, in color
ing pickles. Three small pickles are
equivalent to a dose of sulphate oil
copper. brooklyn Eagle.
In the city of Trinidad, Mex, hen
has died which, according to her owners
statement, first saw the light in 1857.
1 Maria Francisco, her owner, has re-
ceived from her since then 6,371
chickens, of which 2,427 grew up to
be hens.
Pacific coast. The Port Townsend
Arg1s says that halbut was recently
caught in Scow Bay by an Indian which
weighed 202 pounds and was six feet
eight inches long, three feet ten inches
wide and fourteen inches thick.
The total annual catch of menhaden
in the United States is about 700, OO0,-
900. This seems to be a great num-
| Der, but blue fish alone are said to
consume about 5000, 600 menhaden
every day of the summer months on the
coast of New England alone. As a
matter of fact, menhaden are so prolific
that they are practically inexhaustible.
Can one man be a mob? A Yonk.
ers, IN. Y man was ordered to ''dis-
perse," and upon refusing to do so was
arrested. The legal experts decide
that the law applying to a mob or riot.
Gus gathering does not apply to this in.
dividual, who seems to have been jus.
titled, therefore, in not dispensing.
| Y. Herald.
| The Chinese regard an attack OF
epilepsy as the occupancy of mans
body by the spirit of an animal, usually
a pig or a sheep. They try to keep
such spirit by stuffing the patients
mouth with grass, for if it leaves before
the return of the mans own spirit
which must be absent during the fit
the man will die.-Sdn francisco
| Chronicle.
| There are more subscribers to the
telephone system in New York and its
neighborhood than in the whole Of
Great Britain, Notwithstanding that the
| charge in New York is about double
what it is there. The number of trans
missions by telephone in Great Britain
last year was about Al, 100000, and the
average cost per message little over
one cent.-N. T. Tribune.
Little ive-year-old had been watch
ing the flag for celebration. Toward
evening, as he looked at the sun, he
said: "How does the sun set, anyhow,
Grandma" when you are older YOU
will understand, y was the reply. 10,
l know" said the irrepressible, after g
moments pause, "God pulls the string
and the sun goes down. Boston
| Transcript
Harrison Hahn, of Wind Gap, Pa,
has two-yearold daughter whose ears
are bent forward and grown fast to the
face. The girl was deformed when
| born. When she became two months
old two doctors separated the ears from
the face, and tied them back to their
| proper place. but they returned to their
former position and are there to remain
undisturbed. Both ears are without
the oriiice, but deafness is prevented BY
| the girl hearing every sound, no matter
how light, through her nose and mouth.
philadelphia Times.
The two new craters in Mt. Vesu
vius, from which lava has issued abund
antly, were opened on the southern side
at height of about two hundred me-
tiers above the upper station of the flu
n'cular railway. The lava flowed in the
direction of Pompeii and Tore del Gre.
co. The stream descends in a straight
line for about half a kilometer, and
then, turning sidewise, is directed to-
ward the crater of 1872. The new
craters present the appearance of a
great cleft. The lava has not spread
beyond the side of the mountain.
Among librarians and book-pub-
fishers no word is more often used than
the term, "Cataloguer John Winter
Jones, librarian of the London Muse,
UNI, uses this word four times on one
page. 1t occurs frequently in the re-
ports OF the proceedings of the In
ternational Conference of Librarians
at London, and yet it is not
given in Webster's or Worcester's or
the Imperial Dictionary. 1t has GER
tainly been in use for thirty years among
well-educated men, yet every one of the
dictionary makers have either missed or
ignored it.-B0Ston Journal
The Pembina Cd. T.) Erpres,
observes this incident, which can best
be understood by one who has seen the
half-breeds and their primitive teams:
"a novel sight was witnessed here last
week. A half-breed living on the mount
aims came to town for hog, with his
pony and Red River cart He found his
two brothers in town, both rather full
of profanity, whisky, and combative-
ness. After considerable difficulty he
loaded the two into the cart, in which
they soon fell asleep. He then got the
hog and placed it carefully between the
other two, and began his journey for
home.
Rhode Island is the smallest State
in the Union, but she boasts of being
first in respect of manufactured prod
ucts according to population. Rhode
Island makes S373.07 worth of manu-
features for every one of her illhabi-
tants, while Mississippi makes only
S6.64, or in the ratio of 81 to $50. Is.
Taking the area instead of the popula-
ton, the contrast is even greater.