The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-05-27
MlSCELLANE

Scorpions, spiders and various IN
sects have been observed to lie notion
less if a person blows upon them in
vertical direction. Chicago Herald
"A Chicago girl struck pater fami-.
las for pair Of new shoes the other
dry. The old man drove up that even
ing with side of leather and told her
that his salary had been cut down this
year and he guessed She d have to get
the old ones patched.-St. Paul Herald.
The amount of coal in the Pitts
burgh region is estimated by Prof. Les
ley, of the Pennsylvania Geological
Survey, at 10000, 000,0 900 tons. About
100000 tons are now taken annually
from the bed, of which two-thirds are
bituminous coal and one-third anthra-
cite.-P Pittsburgh Chronicle.
The report of the United States
Indian Commissioner for last year
shows decrease in the Indian popula-
ton of nearly five thousand. If an
actual count could be made they would
be much less than estimated. The In
dams are superstitious about being
counted Chicago Journal. Z
"A Bangor newspaper says that 50
many fortunes were made by Bar Rar-
Dor mt. DeserD real estate spectators
that many of the adjoining islands and
parts of the sea coast are being bought
up by capitalists in the hope that some
day the spots will be in demand as
summer resorts. ae
j. F. Copeland's ''Old Bill'' is not
as famous as Stonewall Jackson's ''Old
Sorrel." just died, but he is older. He
carried Mr.. Copeland through the war,
received some flesh wounds, and now
passes a pleasant old age near Corinth,
Ga. He is forty-two years old and
quite bald as to neck and tail.-St.
| Louis Post.
-Theosophe, ga minister of the
Holes" and Ellora, '.a seeress of the
Sanctuary" have been looking into the
| future and have seen some wonderful
things. The time is rapidly coming,
they say, when man will be enabled to
live with great comfort at the bottom
| of the sea, and the cultivation of the
ocean bed will be matter of ease and
profit.
How often it is difficult to be wisely
charitable; to do good without multi
plying the sources of evil. To give
aims is nothing unless you give thought
also. 1t is written, not blessed is he
that feedeth the poor" but ..blessed is
he that considereth the poor" little
thought and little kindness are often
worth more than a great deal of money.
| -Rusktn.
The great rainfall in New England
in February is declared by meteorolo-
| gists who have studied it to have
been unprecedented since records
began to be kept. The total amount
of water which fell from the clouds,
chiefly during twenty-four hours, is
computed to have amounted to $780,
OO0, 00O,0 900 gallons. The fall was
| greatest between New London and
Proyidence.-Bostop Herald.
AT dinner given by Rogers, Peet
& Company to their employees in the
Metropolitan Hotel, Frank r. Cham
bers, one of the partners, announced
that the firm had determined to set
aside certain proportion of the profits
annually to be paid in dividends to the
persons in the employ of the house, in
addition to their present salaries.-N.
z. Post.
An electrical tree has been found
in New Guinea by two German ex-
plorers. When the explorers reached
aspot twelve days distant from the coast
they found their compass useless, owing
to the presence Of tree which so com.
pletely possessed the properties of q
high charged electric battery that one
of the travellers was knocked down
when he touched it. Analysis showed
the tree to consist of almost pure
amorphous carbon, and it has been
named CLASSIC electrical.
Minneapolis is to have a new
twelve-story hotel, The Palisades. The
main dining room and private banquet
ing rooms will be in the tenth story,
and will excel in finish any rooms useC
for similar purposes this side of New
York. The eleventh floor will be de
voted entirely to the kitchen and its
accessory departments and the twelfth
story contains the laundry and serv
ants quarters. 1t will have accommo
dations for 500 guests and will COS
| $3.50, 000.- Chicago Inter Ocean.
"A correspondent of the Springfield
| Mass.) Republican says that in Wales
suburb of that city, there are eleven
persons whose united ages amount t.
$50 years; the youngest is eighty ant
the eldest ninety-fve. One couple ha,
been married sixty-four years las
Christmas. There are twenty-nin
that are over seventy and under eighty
whose united ages are 2,175, maxim,
an average Of seventy-fve years
Among these are three couples tina
have celebrated their golden wedding
the past year.
| The New York County Medical So
ciety was recently treated to an abb
paper on effects of summer heat upol
the public health, by DR.. Stephen Smith
The remedy nearest at hand, he said
was tree-planting. Vegetation not onl
absorbs carbonic acid gas and malari
from the air, but gives back oxygen an
cooling moisture. An acre of gras
throws off 6,400 quarts of water i
twenty-four hours. but trees are eve
more effective. The great Washingto
elm at Cambridge produces crop G
1000, 900 leaves, equal to five acres {