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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-08-19

The covers of the ball Just described
are stitched by men. The cover is first |
tackled by four stitches so placed as to
hold it in shape. While being stitched |
it is firmly held in the jaws of an ordi- |
nary harness-maker' horse. Holes are |
made in the cover with an awl and the |
thread carried through by large |
needle. The stitch is exactly the same |
as that which one end of the lace of a !
shoe makes. After the cover is sewed
on the ball is rolled between two slabs
of evenly polished wood or marble. for
the purpose of smoothing it and taking
the rough stitches out. 1t is then ready
for the packing room.
The process of making the cheaper
balls is altogether different from that
of the one described 1t varies slightly
according to the grade of the ball, but
is in each case essentially the same.
The body of these balls is not
made of yarn, but of leather scraps.
The greater part of this scrap
leather, an enormous quantity of which
is used, is furnished by pocket-book
makers and glovers. The balls are
made in this way: The scrap is damp
ened, which makes it hold together
better and is thus more easily handled.
1t is first weighed and then started into
a ball by being held in one hand and
wrapped with stout twine by the
other. AS the mass gathers shape it is
pounded solid by heavy mallet. When
the leather has been sufficiently en-
twined to make it hold together it is
sent to the pressing machine. This
machine is nothing more than die,
the required size of the ball being made,
and is operated by hand. The rough
circular mass is placed in a cup-like re-
ceptacle, down upon which semi
spherical cover is brought with about a
ton force. This congresses the mass
almost solid and shapes it into perfect
sphere. It is then placed in an oven
and dried, after which it is "tilled out"
like the professional ball and covered.
The covers of these balls are cut like
those of the professional, but they are
sewed by women and girls. The stitch
is also the same, but no awl is used and
the ball is held in the hand while being
sewed.
But few of the very cheap balls are
made, as in former days. of sawdust.
} The packing of the sawdust takes too
long, and they are now made on the
pressing machine of leather in the
manner just described, except that the
scrap, after being weighed, instead OF
being wrapped first, is crowded into
the lower receptacle while loose and
pressed into ball. tits then wrapped
with just enough twine to hold it to-
gether. After covering, the balls are
sent to the packing room, where they
are assorted and stamped The max
, er's name, brand and, in some in.
! stances, the size are stamped on the
/ ball. They are then packed in paste
board boxes ready to be cased for ship
r ping. The finest balls are eacf
wrapped in silver foil and packed in :
separate box, which is sealed. Phita
1elplliG Times.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-08-19
EsEk's WISDOM.
Nine Precious Lessons Taught by Strug-
giles With the World.

Nine Precious Lessons Taught by Strug-
giles With the World.
The great beauty of charity is priva-
cy; there is sweet force even in an
anonymous penny.
Men of great genius should not for
get that their failings, or vices, are
more apt to be noticed, and even adj
mired, than their virtues.
My friend, if you must keep pet, let
it be one of the serene kind Ga rattle
snake or swapping turtle, for instance) /;
this will exercise your caution and
strengthen your genius.
My dear boy, if you must part your
hair in the middle, get it even, if you
have to split hair to do it.
Independence is name for what no
man possesses; nothing, in the animate
or inanimate world, is more dependent
than man.
1t isn't so much what man has that
makes him happy, as it is what he
doesn't want.
There are many comfortable people
in the world, but to call any man per.
fectly happy is an insult.
There is nothing so valuable, ant
yet so cheap. as civility; you can al
most buy land with it.
The great mass of mankind can only
gaze and wonder; if they undertake t.
think they grow listless, and soon tir'
| out, Centatru
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-08-19
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

OF 3,144 churches and chapels In
forty-two Episcopal dioceses in this
country, 2,182 have free seats. Chicago
Mail.
Right Rev. Daniel Sylvester Tuttle,
Missionary Bishop of Idaho and Utah.
has been elected Bishop of the Diocese
Of Missouri.
According to the Baptist Year Book
there are one thousand five hundred
students preparing tor the ministry in
the various schools of the denomination.
The Corean Government has issued
an educational law which requires all
children between eight and thirteen
years of age to attend school.
A Roman Catholic Church is to be
built at Jerusalem, in which masses
will be said daily for the dead and dy-
ing throughout Christendom. 1t is to
be called the "Chapel Of the Dead"
Permission has been granted by
the Government to establish a Young
Mems Christian Association in Bo-
hemia, with the parent society at
Prague, and branches wherever there
are ten members.
Probably the youngest State Su
perintendent of Public Instruction is
Oscar II. Cooper, of Texas. He is
twenty-three years old, and graduate
of Yale. He will have partial control
of an immense school fund.
The Rescue and Evangelization
| Mission, branch of the Salvation
Army which has split off from the par
ent stem, has prohibited the use OF
| military titles by its members, and the
| wearing of uniforms Al6Gpy journal.
The treasurer of the Northwester
University, at the annual meeting at
Evanston, ILL.,, recently, reported the
ownership of real estate valued at
| SI,726, 802, and liabilities of only $780,
4O9. The students number 943.- CHI
cago Times.
| Two Dartmouth Sophomores were
recently expelled for sending in false
excuses to the faculty. The day has
passed when the artful Sophomore can
attend the funeral of his grandmother
four times every term Burlington
Free Press.
The statistical report of the Pres
bytery of Chicago for the year 1886,
shows an addition to the churches
during the past year of 1,0SS on exam
ination and 1,068 by certificate-an in
crease over the preceding year OF 4SS.
The contributions for various objects
amounted to $347, ia, a large advance
on the preceding year. The tota!
number of members in the churches.
12,489; Sabbath-school membership,
Is, $40. Chicago Tribune.
1t is refreshing after reading a
long article by some college professor
to hear the following laconic address
delivered to the graduating class of the
University of the Pacific by President
Stratton. Approaching them with
that characteristic blending of fatherly
dignity and brotherly warmth which
has made his presidency such a signal
success, he said, only: Young ladies
and gentlemen of the graduating class
. be true-true to your instructors, true
to your alma mater, true to yourselves,
I true to your God, and, as your pas
has been honorable your future shal
be assured" Every auditor applauded
, with delight; every graduate will re
J member it for life.-San Francisco
| (trU
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-08-19
DAKOTA MOSQUITOES.
How One of the Busy Insects Surprised
Man from Chicago.

How One of the Busy Insects Surprised
Man from Chicago.
The large iron-gray mosquito indig-
,nous to the tall grass in Dakota is
beginning to be felt. This brand to the
mosquito botanist is known as the
billibus bitem, though the Minnesota
Academy of Natural Sciences is in
clined to think it is more properly the
boredeep buzzibus. We rather favor
this view of the critter ourself. We
neighboring scientists must stand to.
gether. !.
The Dakota mosquito comes out of
she tall grass. The tall timber may be
the natural stamping ground of big
game and candidates for the Legislature,
but the large, two-story mosquito tlocks
in the high grass. The Dakota mos
quito has from six to eight legs
according to the season. They
first start up and then turn and
90 back down. This leaves plenty of
Slack and enables the mosquito to
rise up out of the grass and bite a
man on horseback without taking its
feet off the ground. This statement
| was for long time stubbornly disputed
by some people till at last our Minnie
sofa scientific friends sent special
geologist with a brow like a ten-acre
field out here to investigate it, and he
spent q whole summer in running
around in the lengthy grass and as.
sociating with all grades and sizes Of
mosquitoes. They now direct the Bell
as their official organ, to announce that
the horseback story is scientific fact
The mosquito at this season makes
life burden if you go out on his range
He bites and then gets acquainted witt
YOU afterwards. Tobacco smoke doe
not discourage him as much as !
should. A man from Chicago was ou
here few years ago and said he wasn'
afraid of mosquitoes. He explained
how he would smoke and it would driv'
them away. He lit cigar and sa
down outside of the house one evening
in June. He was just congratulatinl
himself over his victory when large
angular mosquito with severe cast 9
countenance waded out of the gras
| from little hollow near by and aske.
him for light, -EstssEsns %. n Rss'
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-08-19
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

1t is suggested that the appearance
Of cholera in Venice is due to the
defective drainage of her streets. =;
Philadelphia Call.
When you hear anybody declaring
that certain newspaper article Is
scandalous, you can make up your
mind that he has read every word OF
that article. Troy Times.
-Beecher says: "I hold that a man
should be round and perfect man."
Herein Henry Ward differs from the
generality of people. Most folks like
q man who is square.-LosceU Citizen.
81 see they are trying to put stop
to all betting in New York" I'm
glad of it. Betting is a pernicious
practice; hope they will stop it."
..But they can't do it. "Can't do it!
.I'll bet you fifty dollars they CAM
Chicago Nesos.
-Contributor-"Here is q manu-
script wish to submit" Editor
(waving his hand 81 am sorry. We
are all full lust now" Contributor
"Very well; will call again when
some of you are sober. Boston
| Courier.
A Kentucky woman has nearly re-
formed her husband by persuading him
to use bottles of whisky as weights for
the clock. The oftener he drinks the
slower the clock goes, and the longer
he has to wait for his meals. Chicago
Ledger.
"A dog in Harrisburg was run over
and killed by the steam calliope in a
circus parade. The music evolved by
the diabolical instrument would have
killed the dog anyhow, but its death
would have been more lingering
NorristoUn Herald.
Only question of time: doctor,
how is Banker Jonesp heard that ne
was very sick" He has joined the
innumerable caravan" said the physi.
clan, solemnly. what! You dom
mean to say that Jones has skipped te
Canada? Well! wellr'--N. Y. Sun.
-Gray-"And you claim that Blacl
is a total abstainer." Green-"Certainl..
he is Gray-"Come, now, doesn't b
keep a drop in the house on the slyp'
. Green-"No, sir, not drop. H
. couldn't do it without my knowledge.
Gray-"Why note'' Green-"Becaus
my hired man is counting his hired CIR
and neither of our families can kee
the smallest secret from the other, -
Albgag Journal
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-08-19
An Extenuating Circumstance.

"Now, Uncle Mose," said Judge
Smith, sit seems that you stole the only
pullet that the widow Daniels possessed
and there seems to be no extenuatina
circumstance. I have known you a
long time, and / never would have ex.
pected this of you. Do you think it
worth while to risk good character
for one Insignificant pulletP"
"Mos' certainly not. your Honah. !
agrees wild you, but how was L ter
know dat sich a 'spectable-appearin'
woman as de widow Daniels had only
one pulletp Dom think l should lose
nv character fur dat. / done tuck all
she had, an as I couldn't do more dan
dat, yourself should count dat 'stenu'
atm circumstance.-Te -TerGs Sifttngs.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-08-19
WALL STREETS LAMB.

wall street had little Lamb,
~ aeece was very thick;
At Ievery turn Y nas The snrs msraes ao step' tsok
:. followed up and followed down
With every rise and fall.
prsterr'ng to :, be led done IN siI quite brown
The eager brokers cleaned him out
Ant st II he fingered near.
And waited pat emily about
10 uet his margins clear.
The brokers got them, clear and clean,
Tor they were "out of meat"
put still he waited, starved and lean,
And hung about "the street."
What makes the Lamb love Wall street so?
The curious FOUNDERS cry.
why, Wall street loves the Lamb, you know
. And wool is scarce and high,
N Y World
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-08-19

A millionaire, who was looking at
a level tract of land which he had just
bought at an extravagant price, said to
the agent who had sold it to him: Il
do admire rich green fiat" $50 do
T." significantly replied the agent.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-08-19
The quests at the hotels in Sacra

The guests at the hotels in Sacras
mento, CAL, were literally besieged by
millions of beetles recently. The in
sects thronged the gardens and houses
in such numbers that the boarders were
compelled to make stampede for the
roads to escape them. No other houses
were visited by the interlopers.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-08-19

The Hebrews, who form such a
public-spirited and wealthy class in
every city, number less than 25O, 600 IN
the United States. Most people in
making guess would say million or
two.-N. Y I1ibnpe.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-08-19

School property IN the South is val
ued at $6,0O0,000 against S88, 100000
in the North.-M ]. Suza
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-08-19

An editor being challenged sent
word in reply: "When | want to die !
can shoot myself"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-04-23

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DEAFNESS Il GtRf, fASsGs by ose &Ro sRo
/ twas deaf twenty-eight years. Treated
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md since then hundreds OF others by same pro-
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RATEs OF ApvsST'sIxe.

Yearly advertisements payable quarterly. Tran
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serted except where parties have accounts.
Legal advertisements two dollars per inch for
three insertions, and at that rate for additlonal
insertions without reference 10 length.
tices three dollars.
Transient or Local notices ten cents line, reg
ulnr advertisements half rates.
Cards In the "Busness Directory" column, on
dollar year for each line.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-04-23
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carried by every traveller.
iriiei'e. apr o it.r.
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National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-06-09
EXECUTIVE INFORMATION.

Harry 9, Mclean, computer in the arch-
tecps ofhce, Treasury Department at $3.50 per
day, has been removed.
The comptroller OF the currency yesterday Au.
thorlzed the Union National Bank of Omaha
NeD 10 begin business with capital OF Sl00, 900.
Capt. r, 1; Hoxie,. OF the engineer corps has
been ordered nom Montgomery, Ala, to Pensa.
cola, Fla, 70 make an examination OF the forti.
fications In Pensacola harbor.
Acting Secretary Falrehild yesterday in.
stTucted the collector OF customs ut Chicago to
remit the forfeiture Of the Canadian steamer
ton OF customs laws.
-, The Secretary of State has been informed by
the consul ut Guaymas, Mexico OF the murder
Of three American citizens by Apaches near
Nogais, who were, on their way to the mines
owned by them. Noparticulars are furnished.
The following hook dealers are among the
successful bidders for furnishing stationery to
the War Department. VIM. Balantyne q SON
=. J. Chapman, y. Loring Wilmington, F. A.
sSSnmidt SIa =. p Rider. y, Morrison, John f.
Parel, Easton d Rupp, and Melville Lindsay
In the ease of Mr.. swlneford, of Alaska,
ComptIoller Durham has decided that he IS
not entitled TO pay during about two months
leaye OF absence granted him by the Secretary
ofthe Interior afer he had taken the oath OF
office, but before he had really commenced his
duties within the territory, as prescribed by
the act OF May l. 1876.
Patents have been issued TO citizens of tho
matte indicator; Chas. ". Bowen, traction ptT
cable systemi Jas. A, Maloney, two patents
telegraph bounder and convertible tele-
graph key; Edward Maynard, cartridge index
for magazine guns Jacob j. Souder, dumping
carr Marshal Wheeler, breech.loadng ords
nance. -
r., a letter has been addressed TO the United
States Judge of the northern district of Ohio
by Comptroller Durham, ineloslng a copy OF
the letter, Of the clerk Of the court to his
deputy, which came TO the Treasury Depart
ment by mistake, IN which the clerk direeted
his deputy tostring out the Journal entries from
day TO day, thus increasing his per diem. The
clerk stated In his letter that the Judge had so
instTueted him, The Treasury 'Department
wishes 70 hear from the judge on the subject.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-06-09

upon these voters with respect to the fed
eral government itself, including the Presi-
dent and both branches Of Congress.
Whether these colored male citizens vote,
or are prevented from voting freely, has
thus became an. urgent national inquiry,
and Maine and New York arc as much in
terested as Virginia and Texas, not only in
this inquiry, but in the further inquiry as to
how they vote II they do. vote. The people
OF every section feel o lively interest In
these questions, and they comprehend well
that, aside from an appeal again to force,
the best andreadiest solution Of these vexed
questions is to educate these rising colored
citizens into body Of men who shall know
their rights, and knowing, dare maintain.
Beyond considerations Of that kind the
people Of the United States called these
colored men to all the duties, responsible
ties, difficulties, and dangers Of citizenship.
The south did not do IL. Every southern
state did all she could to prevent It. Hence,
1t is prominently fitting task for the
federal government to aid in the education
and elevation Of these federal.made citi-
zens. II owes this aid 10 these citizens, to
the south, and to the Union; and the peo-
pie, we think, are resolved that this debt
shall be paid, though Mugwumpery aud
Bourbonism perish in resistance.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-06-09
THE SCIENTIFIC BUREAUS.
Tho Joint Committee of Congress Re-
ports Upon the Organization of the
Signal Service, Geological Survey,
Coast and Geodettc Survev. 40.

Tho Joint Committee of Congress Re-
ports Upon the Organization of the
Signal Service, Geological Survey,
Coast and Geodetic Survey, &c.
The reports Of the joint commission Of
Congress to consider the present organiza.
lion of the signal service, geological survey,
coast and geodetic survey, and photographic
office were submitted to Congress yesterday.
The majority report is signed by Messrs.
Allison, Hale, Lowry, and Waite, but the
last named does not concur In that portion
relating to the signal service. This report
recommends the continuance OF the
photographic office exactly as at present
organized. The report is quite lengthy,
and among Its recommendations are the fol-
lowing:
That the coast survey bo maintained as n
separate institution as at present until Il shall
complete its work. That specific approprl.
ntions be made hereafter for the printing OF
monographs and bulletins Of the geological
nn, Su,iey, aHu tn" none oi tnis work be done
proprlattnns made therefor That the siR nal
service school at Fort Myer, Va, be abolished
and the gradual substitution ofoivilian ON.
ployes for enlisted men OF the signal service
when the terms of the latter shall expire IL
also recommends the repeal OF the law pro-
xidlng for the appointment OF two second
hNuteh"htS hOm NhV helEtuntb VI luc slk0nl
corps,
The majority finds much to commend In
the work and orr lization Of each Of the
bureaus.
A minority report signed by Messrs Nor
gan, Herbert, and Waite, recommends the
passage of the Morgan bill to abolish the
signal service on July /, 1886, and the es-
tablishment in its stead Of weather bureau
as civil establishment.
Messrs. Herbert and Morgan ioin in
recommending the passage Of a bill proyid-
ing that after June 80 1886, the geological
survey shall not, except for the collection,
classification, and proper care of fossils and
other materials, expend any money for
paleontologic work or publications, nor
compose, compile, or prepare for publica-
tion any books except an annual report,
which shall embrace only the transactions
OF the bureau for the year and the result
thereof; that the collection OF minerals, fos-
slls, &C., now or hereafter, to be made by
the geological survey and not needed for
the current work, shall be deposited In the
National Museum, and that all printing,
engraving, &C., done for the several sci
entiilc bureaus shall be estimated for sep
aarately and appropriated in detail for each
bureau,