The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21
Miscellaneous.

The engineer of the Washington
monument says it will stand 100, GOO
years. and children need be in no hurry
to mb-it.-Detroit Free Press.
In British India the large rivers
Sutlei, which has descent of $4,000
feet in 1870 miles, or nearly sixty-seven
feet per mile, is said to be the fastest
flowing river in the world. -
The love of draw-poker passeth all
understanding. If a player is constant
winner he is a gambler, and should
quit. If he is a steady loser he is
fool, and should play no more. Ii it is
see-saw arrangement, the players eat
up and drink up the profits, and should
be in better business.-N D. Pcdyune.
The new paper bottles are said to
withstand the action of water, wine
and alcohol. 1t is thought that drug
gists will be able to furnish them free
of charge, just as they provide wrapping
paper for dry drugs. The cementing
material of the bottles is mixture OF
blood, albumen, alum and lime.-N. T.
Sum- W5 STA
There are about a dozen, more OF
less, breweries in and around Boston,
and the number of barrels of beer manu-
featured may be counted by the hum
dreds of thousands. In 1888 there were
drunk in Boston 756, $40 barrels, and in
1884, 78S, 1872 barrels, an increase OF
SO, 742 barrels. Besides this, there are
large importations of ale and porter
from Europe. = Boston Globe.
What children want, within the
bounds of right, they should, if possible.
have. Their wishes should be respected.
The small desires of child are, to him,
as important as the great desires of
man, and should as carefully be con-
,sidered. The wet blanket, on can't
have that often causes keener pain. to
boy than the loss of thousands OF
dollars in after ife.s--Schoot Journal. .
Dan Rice, the circus clown, is rum,
ming a ten cont circus in the French
quarter of New Orleans. He talks sadly oil
the good old days when his Floating Pal
ace was the sensation on the Father oil
Waters. and thousands upon thousands
of people swarmed from far and near to
see him. He gave an entertainment
few nights ago when not 300 persons
were present, and aabout sone-third OF
those wereprofessiohal and other dead.
heads"
Those people who argue that Grant
is a great smoker, Grant is afilictedwith
cancer. therefore all smokers are af.
flicted with cancer, are very much like
the English tourist who rode upon the
box of an American omnibus He no.
ticed that the driver carried his whip.in
his left hand. Asking the reason, the
driver replied. Il am left-handed. =
Straightway into The notebook went
this astounding bit of information:
stage drivers IN America are left
handed. ) 49, @.afs sakfy~fs.
"A safety paper manufactured by a
Massachusetts mill will make it difficult
for anyone TO tamper with, bank notes OF
checks printed upon it. The coloring
matter of the paper is so prepared that
the application of any chemical to re-
move the ink will permanently change
the color of the paper, andsaningenious
device is added which betrays at once
any attempt to make an erasure. Be.
tween the two the enterprising forger
viii be sure to come to grief.-Bostoa
Journal @3
Pete Osterhout is one of the most
rasca1ly negroes in Galveston. He was
caught stealing poultry and brought be-
fore The Justice 1.-THE evidence said
the Judge, ssshows that you stole the
chickens from Colonel Jones' hen-coop,
and the fine should be five dollars: but
Illlet You off this time ''z'siW no wants to
be let OFF" exclaimed the prisoner; q
steals my chickens and pays my fine
and don't ask muffin OBJ nobody. Dis
heah mixing up sentiment and biznes:
am what's ruinin' de kentry." ~ Teras
Siftings.
@ DIR. Heber Newton SAYS: tTakine
the average human life, he would be d
bold man who, rightly weighing the
manifold daily blessings which come
like the sunshine and the dew, would
venture to pronounce the lot of mar
rather of pain than of pleasure. Much
OF pain of man is, moreover, to BIZ
subtracted from the charges against
Providence and to be credited to oul
human responsibility. The thriftless
nessot the poor, the greed of the rich
and the common ignorance of socia
laws cause most OF our poverty
Successful experiments nave beer
recently made at Cincinnati with the
new electric railway brake. The tria
was made with heavy coal train of ter
cars, each car weighing empty about
eleven tons and having tonnage ca
pacity of 10000 pounds. The Ioadet
train, with full steam on, was put to ;
speed of forty-eight miles per hour Oh
a down grade of sixty-eight feet to Til,
mile, and brought to dead stop in 37]
seconds after putting on the brake, The
distance run in that time being AL
yards, exact measurement. Csncsn,,at
Times. ss
DIR. Dallinger. the eminent micro
scopist, holds that the development O
living organisms in piece of fish
muscle, previously subjected TO a tenn
perature Of boiling water, does not in
dictate spontaneous generation, despite
the belief that such temperature il
absolutely destructive of life. He hope,
the microscope may yet reveal NOR,
about the details of the life of minut,
creatures, but, in the meantime. h,
says, philosophy must take it fol
granted that the principle of life i.
something wholly distinct from III.