The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-06-04
MISCELLANE

1t is reported that there are 2, 400
stables of cows in New York, the milk
of which is sold in the city, and these
cows, from the time they enter the
stables until no longer able to give milk,
never see grass.
Anything that weakens ever so little
the marriage tie, anything that desc
crates that relation, anything that sub
stitntes selishness or passion for the
higher feeling of duty. Injuries every
woman. --LoutSriie CoHyier-JOurnaL.
A train of cars near Pittston, Pa,
the other day struck a two-horse de-
livery wagon containing only the driver,
who chung to the engine pilot and was
saved from injury. The wagon was
: knocked to splinters, and the harnesses,
including both collars, were torn from
the horses, but strange to say, neither
man nor horses were at all hurt.
Paralysis, collie, govt, rheumatism,
kidney disease, blindness and insanity
may all come, it seems, from drinking
water with lead in it. Under these cir
cumstances, simple test for discover
ing the presence of lead in water may
well be useful 1t consists of adding a
little tincture of cochineal, which, if
there be the least trace of lead in the
water, will color it blue instead of rose.
1t is asserted of a woman who died
in Cape Breton that she was 10 years
old, and up to the day of her death
could relate with perfect accuracy
events which happened 100 years ago.
The last statement is oddly taken as
proof of the other. Almost any school
boy can do the same thing, but that
does not prove him to be 100 years old.
IN. 7. Herald.
"A resident of Statesborough heard
a noise out at his barn the other night.
and he took his gun and slipped out.
He saw man standing in the door of
his barn., and, as the moon was shining,
he took good aim and fired, but the OBJ
ject never moved, so he fired the other
: barrel and called for his wife, and
when she came they went and found he
had shot twice at his own shadow
SGUGnnah fGa.l News.
Near Bombay. on the island of Goa,
there is singular vegetable termed
the ''sorrowful tree" because it only
uOuilouCS III tAic u1SIb' Az Suu6eL 10
flowers are to be seen, and yet after an
hour it is full of them. They yield a
sweet SMELL but the sun no. sooner be-
gins to shine upon them than some of
them fall off, and thus it continues
Towering in the night during the whole
year. f
The great feature of a Philadelphia
book exhibit at New Orleans is 'sOur
Big Book" said to be the largest ia the
world. 1t is 20 inches long, PSI inches
wide, and 16 inches thick, containing
SAG pages of linen record paper, suffi-
Gent for the registration of 10, 809
names. Notwithstanding its immense
size and its leather covering four inches
thick, it looks like a book one might
handle easily.-Phitadeiphta Press.
The election of the Governor OF
Rhode Island is proclaimed by the
Sheriff. from. the balcony of the State
House in Newport to the citizens assem-
bled in the square below; evening bells
are tolled throughout the State to an
nounce the event, and there remain
other yestiges of the ways of the old
English settlers. Rhode Island is the
only State in the Union which makes
the ownership of property a condition
for voting. Journal.