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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-09-30
BOHEMIAN GLASS.
How the Most Beautiful Effects in Color
ing Are Obtained.

How the Most Beautiful Effects in Color
ing Are Obtained.
The ornamentation of the glass is
done partly in connection with the ex-
posure in the furnace and partly in the
finishing shops, where the work is COM
pleted by cutting, polishing, tarnish-
ing, etching, painting and mounting
in metal. The glass-houses have at
their command a very complete color
scale for transparent, opaque and
clouded glasses. But it must not be
supposed that erucible is placed in
the furnace for each color, from which
glass colored for each ornament is to
be made, The colors are worked out
by means of what are called pastes,
which are kept on hand in sticks or
cakes. From pieces of these pastes,
previously warmed till they are soft,
suitable quantities are cut off, laid upon
glass, and then spread out by drawing
or blowing. By this means only is an
economical use of such costly materials
as gold and silver compositions posi-.
BILE. Some of the glasses thus treated
gold, copper and silver glasses -re-
main still little, or not at all, colored
after the melting, shaping and quick
cooling, and do not take on their bright
hues until they are reheated. This is
the case with the new yellow-silver
glass, which continues uncolored after
the melting of the silver salt un-
til it is exposed in the furnace again.
Very fine effects are produced by blend
ing or overrunning of paste-colors,
provided proper attention is given to
the laws of harmony. A blue glass
cup is, for example, overlaid with silver
glass at its upper edge, and this is
drawn down in gradually thinner
tones till it fades away at the foot Of
the vase. Gold and copper ruby-colors
are thus combined with green glasses,
ETC. Another brilliant effect is pro.
duced when still hot bulb of glass il
rolled in finely pulverized aventurine
glass, and after this is melted, and
previous to the shaping of the vessel
is overlaid with a coating of either
colored or colorless glass. .-Popula,
Science Monthly.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-09-30
EMPRESS OF LOTA.
A Rich Woman Who Is q Potentate In thS
Heart of a Free Republic.

/ notice an interesting paragraph in
an English journal which informs US
that Leith firm has just completed a
handsome screw steam launch. which
has been built to the order of Mrs.
Couteno, South American lady, who
is reported to be the richest woman in
the world The launch, which is built
of steel, is twenty-five feet in length,
and is to be employed as a tender to
her large yacht. (The large yacht is
engaged at present in the unpretend-
ing but profitable trade of carrying
coal from Lota to Valparaiso.) 1t is
elaborately fitted up in polished ma
hogany and is to be dispatched forthwith
by one of the mail steamers from Liv.
erpool for conveyance to Chill.
Besides being the richest lady in the
world, she also enjoys the singular
privilege of being Empress over tract
of territory called Lota, which lies
some two or three hundred miles south
of the port. 1t may appear strange to
speak of an Empress in the heart of a
free republic, but nevertheless the
fact exists, and so absolute are her
Majesty's powers that there are few
of her subjects who would be
resolute and courageous enough to
claim the possession of their own Inn
mortal souls, or who would not be pre-.
pared to deny that on the making OF
the place special arrangement was
made with reference to coal deposits
between the Divinity and the reigning
monarch.
During her absence the Government
is carried on, much as it is in Ireland,
by means of Viceroy, with this excep-
tion, that while the Irish are not in
frequently rebellious and troublesome
and actually lay claim to the the right
of having slight say in their destinies
either in this world or in that which is
to come, such a supernatural effort
never enters the simple and uncom-
planning minds of the population OF
this remarkable portion of Gods foot
stool. And why should it be other
wise? The Viceroy, or boss Pasha,
and his court have been so long accus.
toned to licking and cleaning the boots
of their sovereign mistress, and passing
along their own in return to theil
subordinates. who perform similar
but humber task, and keep the bal
rolling always downward, that it woult
be at once dangerous and unkindly
action to persuade them that they are
featherless bipeds and not officiating
tIltOmatOnS Panama Star
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-09-30
THE GREAT EASTERN.
Fate of the Most Gigantic Specimen Of
Modern Shipbuilding.


After many vicissitudes of fortune,
in the majority of which the evil has
certainly predominated over the good,
the Great Eastern has at length been
turned to use which is decidedly
pleasant, and which offers bright
promise of ultimately becoming very
profitable. For some weeks past the
great steamship has been lying in the
Mersey, and a kind of worlds fair has
been held on board every day and
evening, to the intense delight of the
Liverpudlians, great and small. The
humors of that "Folly ON the Thames"
of which Ainsworth discoursed SO pict-
uresquely in 1.-The Miser's Daughter,
seem to have been revived in the levi
athan argosy which was the crowning
work of the inventive genius of Brunei
and the constructive capacity of Scott
Russell; but the somewhat too exuber-
ant joviality which made of "The
Folly" kind of floating Vauxhall has,
in the case of the Great Eastern, been
toned down and modified so as to be in
Wl1u tHC oSIuPulodSif w
corous requirements of this extremely
moral nineteenth century. The success
of the venture has been so great that the
proprietors of the enormous galleon
propose to take her from port to port,
always from an exhibition point of
view; and there would not seem to 0e
any valid reason why in process of
time the Great Eastern should not turn
up in the Bay of Dublin and in the
Cove of Cork, in the Clyde or in the
Firth of Forth, in the Downs or at
Millwall, or in Plymouth sound; while.
if some little difficulties in the way of
coaling could be got overland what
obstacles are there which plenty of
ready money will not surmount?-she
might some day or other find the
heartiest of welcomes at Barcelona or
at Cronstadt, at Hamburg or at Rotter-
dam, to say nothing of a trip round the
world touching at Naples. Colombo,
Madras, Calcutta, Bombay, King George
sound, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney,
Brisbane and Auckland, and returning
by way of Cape Horn and the ports OF
the North Atlantic seaboard. If M. de
Lesseps could only get the Panama
canal finished, the Great Eastern might
solve the problem of perpetual motion,
and be necessarily circumnavigating
the globe.--Lomdo,s Telegraph.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-09-30
A Female M. D. of Nineteen.

The advance of the ladies is as mar
yelous as it is irresistible. Here is
Miss Dolores Lleonart-y -Casanovas. NJ.
D., who has just taken her doctors de-
gree at Barcelona. She began her
university studies at the age of eli ght;
when thirteen she became b. A., a nd
now. at the ripe age of nineteen, after
coming out first in all her examina-
tions, and taking numerous prizes she
is fully qualified physician and sur
geon. Fancy female B. A. of thir-
teen discoursing on hideous diseases
with six-syllable names, and correctly
diagnosing and prescribing for her
brothers and sisters! But it is what
we have got to expect, and the fair
ypaniard is to be congratulated on be-
ing the first of her sex to show what
can be done in the way of rapid devel-
opment. Miss Dolores, ETC., may be
fairly addressed, like her namesake
sung of by Mr.. Swinburne, as wise
among women and wisest, our Lady OF
Pain. Pail Nall Gazette.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-09-30
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The first college annual ever pub
lished in the South was recently issued
by the University of Georgia. -
The nobility of England give $780,.
900 a year for missions, the Sunday
schools $50O,O00 and the .spoorer
classes $4,000, 900. 3a7qa1 sat-
The Chautauqua University has a
nonresident School of Theology for
the benefit of young ministers and
others who wish to review their studies.
The little Chinese Presbyterian
Church in San Francisco gave forHome
Missions last year $50; for Foreign
Missions $158. The Chinese of Los
Angeles gave $36 to one Of the native
helpers in China to open mission
school. l.-San Francisco Chronicle. u
Some vandal has stolen the ivy
planted by the Yale class of Sc. ii
was the gift of Mrs. Gushing, who got
it herself from Mount .Helicon, in
Greece, from the face of o cliff where
the marble was quarried for the build
ings of the Acropolis of ancient
Athens. Hartford Post. lil
"A church in Morelia, Mex, has
been agitated by visit from the devil.
Nobody saw the gentleman in person.
but in single instant every movable
article in the church, except the reli-
quarry and statue of the virgin, fell to
the floor. 1t was plain that only the
devil could have caused the Disaster
N. Y. Times. ~ f,.o
There are fourteen Presbyterian
theological seminaries in this country,
with libraries aggregating 203.000 vol
umes; eighteen Catholic, with 1856. 900:
ten Congregational, with lis, 1856; four
teen Baptist, with 100000; twelve
Episcopal, with $4,000; thirteen Luz
theran, with 52,000; one Reformed
Dutch, with 1900, and six Methodist
with $4,000. Chicago Inter Ocean.
The country Is becoming rich in
schools and colleges. Public Opinion
Washington figures out that the dis
tinctively scientific schools number 90;
manual schools, 255; medical colleges,
145; Institutions for the higher educa-
ton of women, 236; law schools, 81.
There are $40 universities and colleges
in the United States, with 65,52s
students in attendance.
The Catholic RecteU announces q
new translation of the Bible into the
Slavonian language by a Slavonian
priest at Prague. 1t is to be published
at the expense of Slayonian dean and
priest, who has given 10000 forms for
the purpose in gratitude to God for
sparing him to celebrate his Jubilee of
| fifty wears in the priesthood. A COPY
is to be given to every Slayonian parish
and convent church. HmA ss SITS
The following advertisement re-
Gently appeared: "A father wants to
| find school for his son where q manly
and useful education will be given him,
and where the teachers do not fill the
heads of their pupils with humbug
stories about nations that died and
were buried thousands Of centuries ago,
not citizen of which could either COM
mand a steamboat or manage railway
station. IN. Y. Herald. t -.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-09-30
THE PRIZE ESSAY.

g.. ,eft the crowded platform and
oi1T The air was filled with cheers,
,,nssav was so sweetly blent
hgn ~ mingled smiles and tears. IA
rs,b. .ect "Woman's Mission" was,
hsf sbe treated it with care,
a showed the line of noble names
An9 nf women wise and rare.
an do NOT think TO wed"' she said,
"A slave unto the ring!
,r.s better far in faney's flight
~ soar on freedoms wing!
,,roo proue we are to think" cried she,
..T,hat MARI age is the goal
~ whieh each maiden's pathway tends
And all Life's currents roll.
any voice is still for liberty,
n bonds of love for me!
ri show the world happy sight
spinster wisely free"
che trlpped away amid the flowers
mat flew from far and W de;
II inst four months she was of course,
4 proud and happy bride!
-CleUeldnd Sun and Voice.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-09-30
NOTHING BUT TALK.
Pretended classification of Wealth,
People with Their Riches.

People with Their Riches.
Nothing il more ridiculous and con-
temptible shan the pretended dissatis-
faction of wealthy people with their
riches. An instance Of this kind was
furnished by an Eastern paper the other
day. A millionaire was going up the
Tribune elevator, and, incidentally
hearing tSat one of the elevator men
had gone go see the baseball match.
delivered aimself of the following rot:
.sThat iss right. You are not rich and
can affora to enjoy yourselves. am
weighed Gown with wealth and must
work fronl morning till night to take
care of my interests. wish was boy
cotting somebody so that l might have
q rest"
This is affair sample of great deal OF
talk that is heard from wealthy men.
1t would be better left unsaid, because
nobody believes that it is honest or that
it is not Grant humbug and hypocrisy.
If these rich men are sincere they could
very easily lessen their burden. Hisnot
very difficult to get rid of ones money.
But they don't want to get rid of it.
They want to get more allthe time, and
thew wogk hard and decline recreation
solely fog this purpose. Instead of con-
tracing their business, they 60 on en-
larging It. They are SO wrapped up in
money getting that baseball has no at
fractions Cor them, and that is the real
reason they don't 60 to see the games.
No, yout average rich man has no de-
sire to he poor man, whatever he may
say to she contrary. He is very well
contentSd with his lot in life. Il Chicago
Journal
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-09-30
lPuNoENT PARAGRAPHS.

The recent volcanic outbreak in
New Zealand was followed by showers
of mud. How like q political cam
paign!-Ana California. 'i4 a'l3tts
"A donkey died of hydrophobia SAT
Houston, Tex, but no other citizen Of
the town has had an attack of the dis
ease yet. NeUasdn Independent.
-Marryin' man amt like settin5
alongside of him nights and hearin'
him talk pretty; that's the fust prayer.
There's lots an lots o'fmeetina after
that. Terry Cooke, ,:,-.,faq ..sr
10 if my creditors were only like
my sins!'' exclaimed Mr.. Brown to his
wife. why, my dearpp Because
my creditors call and catch. me every
day, but my sins always find me out. =
Springfield Homestead. ssagsa I'm
-ssWhat luck did you have fishing
Pennybunkerp'' asked an Austin gem
tleman of q well-known impecunious
character. who owes nearly everybody.
"Splendidi While L was ont, on the
wharf twenty men with bills called at
my house 10 collect oney."--1e1ds
Sylings. ssgp .qogl.grsas pi gs.ge
-Lulu's grandma, becoming i'm
patient with her noise, said to her:
ssLulu, you are mistake;, you should
| have been a boy" Lulu was very
thoughtful for few minutes, then
| grayelv answered: "Grandma,4 Col
don't make mistakes. r. Philadelphia
Call.
in his capacity of debtor Jones
pursues some queer methods. .'As for
me- said he, ..when a creditor takes
| it into his head to write to me, ! cross
him off my list. That settles it; no
money for him ~ ..And when he
doesn't writer 'sIn that case l wait
until he does. Judge.
DIR. Ginllet returns empty-handed
from days hunting. and in response
TO his wife's inquiries candidly CON
fessess that he killed nothing. '.Why,"
retorts Mrs. G. slowly. .'you could have
done better than that had you staid at
home and attended to your regular
business. ."--LoaceH Citizen.
The deacon's wife wanted to jot
down the text, and leaning over to her
scapegrace nephew she whispered:
Have you got card about your
.'You can't play in church, was his
solemn, reproving answer; and the
good woman was so flustered that she
forgot all about tie TEXT Boston Post
-Brown-..I saw that Nancy Bean
Just now; she is about as homely-look
ing woman as ever set eyes on
Fogg-"Nonsense, man! she's not 81
bad; she's great deal better lookin:
than her sister" Then yol
! know Nancy?" Fogg-"No; neve
saw her. But I've seen her sister. ''--
Rost9n Transcript. a-
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-09-30
The Nicest Nights Out.

20, isn't it lovely night, Adolf
plus? just fancy how delightful the
nights must be in the Orient! The
azure blue sky, the perfume of the
flowers, the soft tinkling -
81 tell you, Miranda dear, | prefer
the nights they have in Alaska. They're
Just immense.
Immense, Adolphus?'
"Yes; for counting. They're so long,
you know. 49, Phttddelphia Call.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-09-30

A clergyman at Lebanon, Pa,
when he began his sermon recently
announced that as soon as three of his
congregation fell asleep he would stop
preaching. The afternoon was rather
warm, and some heads became heavy.
After awhile the preacher observed
that three had gone to sleep, and
stopped his sermon. This made some
what of stir in the audience, and soon
raised all dropping heads. when tho
sermon was continued. - Pittsburgh
Post.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-09-30

-Tha night school at Sing Sing
prison t5r the benefit of the prisoners,
which was started by Warden Brush in
Januars, 1884. is said to have accom-
plished edexcellent results. IN. Y. Mail.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-09-30

.-.I do my best to bring mankind
higher" as the elevator man said,
'.but some will keen going down"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-10-07

The Democrats have not yet put
the negroes back into slavery, and it
is very generally agreed now that
they have no intention of doing so.
The fact is, the negroes are getting
along finely under Democratic auspi-
ces. The tax returns sent to the
Comptroller General in 1885 showed
that the negroes of Georgia owned
property to the value of S8,153, 800.
The returns for the sentyear show
gratifying increase. The total is
sS,656,298, making the increase
S50l, 008. The property owned by
the negroes consists mainly of real
estate. Many of them own homes in
in the towns and cities, and not few
Of them own farms.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-10-07
BIRTHSTONE AT A SEANCE.
From the New York Sun.

Mrs. Wallace-B enkers, spiritual
istic medium, gives seances twice a
week in East Twenty eighth street.
They present genuine novelty in
naturalization. For the first hour
which the reporter spent the doings
were familiar enough, for they con
sisted Of the seeming enhancement
Of the medium, the arrangement of
the visitors in a hand-in-hand semi
circle in the darkened room, and
then the emergence Of what purport-
ed to be materialized spirit forms
from the cabinet. At length the
novelty came. Mrs. Wallace Ben
kers' son, husband, and two daugh
ters dolefully droned the air of cold
Hundred tor some verses recount
ing the awful doom of unrepentant
sinners. just after a stanza about
the tortuing fire of hades a blue light
shone forth from the apertures of the
cabinet, the enclosed medium made
an cutlery, the family gave startled
Explanations, and distinct odor of
burning birthstone was perceptible.
Then flashes of flame were emitted,
as the doors Of the cabinet were flung
open and figure sprang into the
room. The visitors were alarmed.
Don't be frightened, said the hus-
band; undoubtedly this is an unfor-
tunate spirit from hell, but am sure
he can do us no harm"
The escaped internal convict stay
ed only minute or two and return
ed into the cabinet, where display of
Gehenna fireworks closed the display.
1t was from such an exhibition that
a recent alarm of fire arose, and an
examination of the cabinet showed
the scorching of the paint from the
ignition, apparently, of some of the
light fabrics used by the medium in
costuming for her representations of
spirits. Moreover, one of her wrists
was wrapped in bandages, doubtless
from a burn received in the same ac-
cident. AS the incipient fire occur
ed at Z o'clock, an hour earlier than
the seance time, it is surmised that
it was caused during rehearsal of
the birthstone scene.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-10-07

There are some religious teachers
who are always preaching down en-
thusiasm, and preaching what they
call "a sober standard of feeling" in
matters of religion, by which, in nine
cases out Of ten, they mean precisely
such tepid condition as is describ-
ed in much less polite language when
the voice from heaven says, because
thou art neither cold nor hot, | will
spew thee out of my mouth" That
is the real meaning of the "sobriety''
that some people are always desiring
you to cultivate. We should have
thought the last piece OF furniture,
that any Christian church in the
nineteenth century needed, was a re-
frigerator. A poker and a pair Of
bellows would be much more needful
tor them.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-10-07

William Jobes of Bushville, Pa,
shot, and as he thought, killed a
woodchuck, but when he picked it
up the animal turned and seized him
by the hand. Jobes could not re-
lease his hand, but he killed the
woodchuck, and then walked three
miles with its teeth firmly locked in
his hand, which when freed was
found to be so mangled and swollen
that it will probably have to be am
putated.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-10-07

A Wall street man declares that if
Jay Gould lives ten years longer his
wealth will equal the Vanderbilt for
tune of two hundred million. He
estimates that the great Spectator is
now worth about half that sum, and
that his wealth has increased fully
ten million dollars during the past
year. Gould owns about 100000
shares Of Manhattan Elevated and
the same amount Of Missouri Pacific
stock, and in these two great proper
ties lies his hope Of greater wealth,
The elevated shares, which are sell.
ing at six times the price he paid fol
them, are just as sure to increase in
value as New York is to increase in
Population.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-10-07
THE GIRL OF THE PERIOD.
Cincinnati Enquirer

The girl of to-day is raised up in
the parlor to he an ornament and
nothing more, She knows nothing
of the kitchen the place is a death
trap to her. She knows nothing of
the art of cookery, and never propos-
es to learn the art except circum-
stances force her to it; as, tor in
stance, she marries some young blood,
who turns ont to be poorer than a
church mouse, and therefore she has
TO do without cook. Then she goes
into the kitchen, and with a good deal
of grunting and tinger-burning man
ages to scare up a meal barely fit for
a dog. The girls of to-day belong
to the parlor. You can always find
her there when she is not lying abed
or shooting through the principal
streets shopping. Her education
consists Of few lessons in grammar,
Latin, music and drawing. She com
pletes nothing. A year after she
grad yates she remembers nothing but
her school illrtations. As musician
she is nuisance. She studies mus
ic not as an art, but as an accomplish
ment. The result is that she not on
iy succeeds in numbering music, but
the poor victims who are often com
PEELED to listen to her are made suf-
fcrers, too. She can dance, she can
iiirt, she can make love as no other
girl i'll this wide world can, but when
We have said that we have said all
that can possibly be said in her favor.
She is beautiful, charming and al
most interesting, but she is a mere
ornament and nothing more. If you
can afford to build fine house, fur
nish it witt rich and costly furniture,
keep horses and carriages anda groom
to keep them in order, by all means
marry the girl to-day. She can spend
your money as the girl of no other
country can. She can play the
queen to perfection, and will not on
ly master your household affairs but
will master you: But if you are
poor, keep away from her. You can
not help falling in love with her, but
study well the expense you will be
forced into in case you make her
your wife. If you see you can't keep
her and the hired girl too, then take
our advice and marry the hired girl.