The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-11-12
MISCELLANEOUS.


The past has been the greenes
summer within the memory of the old
est inhabitant.-Bosto Budget.
The total number of self-support
ing women and girls over ten years Of
age, in New York is 2,647. 157.-M =
Post.
England has 123. 995 women teach.
ers. many of whom occupy positions as
professors and instructors in the higher
branches of learning.
When Philadelphia society girls
want to indicate that one of their mum.
Der is rather rapid they say: 10, she's
regular bird. "-New York Journal.
"A Massachusetts cow got hung ii
the woods by her tail and was held fas
thirty-six hours before she was found
All this time she had nothing to say
she could not tale unfold.
Five gypsies were lately fumigated
in Spanish town so thoroughly as tt
forever prevent the cholera from at
lacking them. They were all killed in
the process.
"A man at Lewiston, Me-, drives ,
spirited horse without breeching, the
animal having been educated to s'holc
back by his launches in contact with
the crossbar. Boston Journal.
The Waterbury Comm Watcl
Factory makes about three thousand
watches in one year Most of the work
which requires the finest touch and the
most delicate manipulation is done b5
women. Their wages average about
$l.5O day.-Hargord Courant.
A shocking case of cruelty to ami
mails has come to light in an up-country
village. An able-bodied man appeared
at the village store and told the doleful
tale that MARY had went off to work
IN the mill this mornin' an hadn't lefi
me a bite to eat or any money either. !"
Boston Post.
1t is estimated that every veal
about $4,000, 100000 letters are posted
IN the world. America leads, with
about 2,500,000,000 and England fol
lows, with 700,000,00O. Japan, which
established postal service only ter
years ago, now mails annually 5,000,.
600 letters. Chicago Tribune.
The JeWisb Messenger. appeals tt
the young men and women of the ole
faith to abstain from publishing in the
newspapers their matrimonial engage.
ments. No one is interested in such
announcements, it says, except few
near relations, and they can be reached
by mail.
Beet sugar has overtaken ano
passed its only riYal-cane sugar. The
estimated supply for the coming cror
year IS 2,505, 900 tons, while of cane the
yield is estimated at 100000 tons. Oh
the total amount-4, COS, 900 tons-the
United States will probably consume
about one-fourth. IN. e. Farmer.
If every soul, saint and sinner il
the Union were to 60 to the ports of the
Great Lakes each could get to carry
home half bushel of grain. To put Il
in cold figures, there are $4,000, 00e
people IN America and stored for ship
ment 'twixt Duluth and Toledo are
25,O00,000 bushels of wheat, corn and
oats. Philadelphia Press.
Rather fine bean-poles, those
said tourist to a suburban trucker who
was engaged setting out his winter
crop. "Bean-poles, thunder! Why
stranger, them's handles-hoe-handl
Our crop of hoes will be ten bushels
more to the acre this fall than last. y
And the stranger went on Illuminating
On the remarkable fertility of land in
Colorado. -Depauer Opinion
The chemical reactions daily tax,
Ing place in tho laboratory of nature
are immensely interesting, both from
their magnitude and their direct in
fuence upon human affairs. The
waters of the SchuylkiI undergo
number of chemical changes. Above
Reading they are so impregnated with
sulphuric acid from the, drainage OF
mines as to be unfit for use in boilers,
and have but few fish living in them.
at Reading, however, the acid is neu-
by being brought in contact
With lime water flowing in from rulpo-
1ocken Creek, and the resulting insolu.
ole sulphate of lime is urecipitated,
,orming bed of gypsum. Philadelphia
Press.