The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-02-19
MISCELLANEOUS.

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friends by displaying on her parlor floor
n large rug of seal fur, relic of her
husbands Arctic life - Philadelphia
Press.
Girl grape-pickers in the California
vineyards are tempting Providence by
putting their names and addresses in
the boxes which are shipped East. Their
idea is doubtless to catch husband
San Francisco Chronicle.
Women in Paraguay have exactly
the same rights as men. They farm,
manufacture, buy, sell, and. in fact, dc
all the work. Paraguay has a popula-
tion of 100000, of which 10000 are
women and 1000 are men.
The Portland Oregonian says: s'The
vote of Washington Territory was about
$4,000, of which number the women
contributed perhaps one-third. it was
found a mistake to say that women
would not vote. Very few omitted to
do so.
"A lecturer said to a Boston audi
ence that he twas surprised to observe
that New Englanders were rapidly
rapidly growing obese" and he was
still more surprised the next morning to
find that the reporters made him say
that 'tNew Englanders were rapidly be-
coming old beasts.-N. Y. Ledger.
Hon. Frederick T. Frelinghuysen,
United States Secretary of State, has
been elected President of the American
Bible Society, in the place of the late S.
Wells Williams, LID. Mr.. Freling-
huysen is the nephew and adopted son
of former president of the society,
Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen. He is a
member of the Reformed Church.
I'm the year 1874 theatrical mana
gers were arbitrary. A theatrical pla-
card contained the decree: 1--WE hereby
command for the comfort of the public
that persons occupying the first row of
seats have to lie down. the second to
kneel, the third to sit and the fourth to
stand" More gdvice said: 1.-The public
is forbidden to laugh, because the play
is tragedy"
Colonization schemes are cropping
ont. As during the last industrial de-
preston, SO during the present will
large numbers be driven out from
manufacturing centers. A New Jersey
company has purchased 1900 acres of
land in Florida, and saw-mills are being
erected. The best machinery is being
contracted for. Laborers are wanted
who can put in few hundred dollars
IN. y. Sun.
Probably the largest real estate
transaction ever brought about by q
club was the purchase of their grounds
by the Boston Baseball Club, at a cost
of over 100000. They were obliged to
either purchase or allow the grounds to
be sold at auction in lots. It is gener-
ally considered to have been an excellent
investment. The Boston and Providence
Railroad desired to secure portion OF
the property for turn-outs, etc., but
were unsuccessful.
determination of the wolf motifs
considered possible on the continent of
Europe. Many neighborhoods have
been cleared at one time or another, but
after some years of quiet it is found that
the wolves have gathered from all
quarters. There is, in fact, steady
migration of the brute from Siberia upon
Europe. Asiatic species are constantly
identified in the Vosges and in the
Pyrenees. The eradication of this
plague must be begun in China.
"A scientific journal reports that
composition of sand cork and lime,
nodded into blocks, is now on trial in
Germany for building light partitions.
II is said to have the advantage of ex-
GLIDING sound better than ordinary
brickwork, while being light and good
non-conductor. But composition of
hardwood sawdust applied on lath like
common plaster, is cheaper than the
German method of constructing parti-
tons, is much lighter and has other
desirable qualities.
The aggregate length of submarine
cables in existence is no less than 60. 900
geographical miles, or nearly three
times as much as the circumference of
the earth. Each of these cables con-
sists on an average, of forty wires, core
and jacket together; therefore it NAV
be said that the length of iron and cop
per wire by which telegraph;e commu-
nieations are carried on at the bottom
of the sea is no less than $4,000, 900
miles, or ten times the distance of tho
earth from the moon.-ProgreSsire 4Age.
Last week DIR. johnson, who was
stopping in Vienna with drove of
mules, had a pistol stolen from his room
1T the hotel, and the evidence against
.he colored porter as being the thief
was so strong that he was forced to
acknowledge his guilt. He was given
the choice of standing trial or taking
hundred lashes on his barred back, put
on with a droyer's whip. He preferred
the whip and got it. The doctor being
nonresident of Dolly he did not be.
heye in imposing upon her people the
expense of trial.-Dooly fGal Fiadi-
Gator.
The new Schuylkill Valley Railroad
in Pennsylvania is remarkable for the
number and costliness of its bridges.
Besides thirteen large iron structures it
has many others which span small
streams and rayines. The largest bridge.
that at Manayunk, is 1,409 feet in length.
has five spans with plate girders and
stands eighty-five feet above the level of
the water. The bridge over the Union
canal at Reading is 700 feet in length.
with through truss. In addition to
the expense of the various BRIDGES is
that of the tunnel near phoan;xr;llo