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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-03-25
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The American Bible Society has
elected for its President Judge Z. L.
Fancher, distinguished lawyer of New
York, and manager for over twenty
five years.
The city of Newton has the largest
number of Episcopal churches of any
place in Massachusetts, in proportion to
population. There are FIVE churches
for seventeen thousand people.
The Baptist Home Mission Society
have erected near Muscogee, Indian
Territory, a fine brick structure, cost
ing with furniture $25, 900, for the In
dian University. 1t is called Rockafel-
Ter Hall from the generous giver OF
that name, who gave $40, 900 towardsit.
james Russell Lowell said in his
recent address at Bryn Mawr College
that appeals in behalf of retaining
Greek in college curriculum come
from men who are ssold enough to have
forgotten their Greek and too old to
find any necessity for beginning to
study. boston Journal.
The circulation of the Scriptures in
the whole world since the beginning of
the present century is estimated at 20O,-
000, 900 copies, of which 120, 900, 900
are placed to the credit of the British,
5O,000,000 to the Americans and
80, 100000 to all the other Bible soci-
cites. During the past year these So
cieties together possessed over six and
one-haf million Bibles Chicago 1Tsb-
une.
There is school in London called
the Zenana and Medical School, from
which sixty women have been sent out
as missionaries to India in connection
with the Baptist, Episcopal and Wes-
ieyan churches. Lady Dufferin, wife of
the Vicerov of India, is said to be en-
! thusiastic in advocacy of sending more
well-trained women as missionaries to
that country.
A recent Yale graduate told story
at New York dinner of young man
who attended Michigan college, and
to exc out enough money to put him
through, gave lessons on the piano to
young ladies. The faculty heard of it,
and in the college prospectus printed
the names of the young women as stu
dents in the musical department OF the
college. He thought this plan might
| give Yale boom if that staid old
college could be induced to adopt it.
st. Paul's Cathedral, London, has a
precentor, the Rev. c. A. Belli, whose
salary is one thousand pounds year,
and who has held the Office for over
thirty years. He is reported to have
/ very strong objections to choral serv-
;ooc and onuspuuantlv fa kos very small
interest in the cathedral. His last ap-
pearance there was at the thanksgiving
for the recovery of the Prince of Wales,
several years ago, and the younger
| officials do not even know him by sight.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-03-25
A FIERCE STORM.
The Remarkable Phenonemons Witnessed
on the San Miguel River.


on the San Miguel River.
'sSome ten years ago" said a veteran
prospector, 81 was travelling on foot
from Ouray, in the San Juan, across
the country at the head of the San
Miguel river. The time was in the
forenoon of an autumn day, and dense
mass of threatened clouds were rolling
up in the west over the Western San
Phillipo Range. Twas in d hurry to
cross the Fish lakes, and concluded to
go up through Bear creek, stream
putting in the San Miguel from the
south. The stream headed in semi
circular basin bounded by immense
precipices of basaltic rock, at whose
base were vast quantities of broken
rock, varying in size from the bowlder
weighing a few pounds tc masses of
many tons in weight.
How these rocks came in that posi-
ton was a source of inquiry to me, but
I had an opportunity of solving the
mystery before reached the summit Of
the divide / intended to cross. The
clouds spoke of seeing jim the west
had in the meantime coms rolling up
and accumulating in size and density,
also becoming darker and more heavily
charged with electricity. Tnunder rolled
and lightning flashes played above and
| below, and it seemed as if all heavens
artillery was concentrated at this par
ticular point. Instead ct rising high
in mid-air the clouds sose just high
enough to clear the tops of the dense
forests that lined the approaches to
Mount Wilson.
1 feared to proceed, ana sought shell
ter beneath huge pile Of rocks about
the center of the area, and some half a
mile from the south enR of the semi
circular basin mentioned In less time
than / have been writing these notes
the clouds swept eastward with i'm
mense velocity The low altitude
which they maintained was not great
| enough to clear the precipice on the
east side of the basin, ;ssad they swept
| against it with terrifcs force. There
| was such a vast weightsof water con-
| tanned in them that Ehe conclusion
| when the clouds struck the precipice
was so great that immense quantities
of rock were broken off and fell with a
shock like an earthquake to the foot
of the cliff. Like bastering-ram the
body of clouds was thsown back and
| again advanced untils three distinct
blows were STRUCK at the cliff. By this
time the water was r1uring over the
mountain in a Niassara-like flood.
bringing down additioSal quantities oi
rock. The occurrents, lasted only g
few minutes, but in shis time it was
easy to perceive how tSe masses of de
bris were placed in the position they
occupied. The storm was over, the ali
cleared up, and / was. able to pursue
the projected journey. -Denver Nescs,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-03-25

GRATITUDE I'D A DOG.
An Invalid Lady's Mes,orial of Faith
full PeI.

An Invalid Lady's Mess,orial of . Faith
full Pe;.
The Society for tAe Prevention OF
Cruelty to Animals recently received
the following letter ifrom an invalid
lady, who wishes to make her gratitude
of practical value:
Enclosed find caeck for one thou
sand dollars, which gum, through you,
1 offer to the acceptaslee of the Massa-
chusetts Society for She Prevention Of
Cruelty to Animals, gas grateful me-
mortal of my dog, who through four
teen years of seclusion and pain has
been my constant, faithful. devoted
friend and companicn. y
If all whose lives. had been made
happier by dumb creatures would inn
itate the example of sthis good lady, the
Massachusetts, sociey would have the
means not only of VASTLY increasing its
work in our own Estate, but also OF
reaching out helpilg hand to stop the
abuses BY which husdreds of thousands
of animals annualls die on our cattle
cars, and other hunxlreds of thousands
die in our extreme swestern and south
ern States and Territories of neglect and
starvation, and othsr hundreds of thou
sands die in slaughSer-houses with great
and unnecessary suffering. The sending
of checks, or the Calling at the rooms
OF the society and saaying without cost
legacy added to { will, or giving the
society the use of money on condition
that it shall be repaid, if ever needed
by the giver- thes.s are forms of prac
teal gratitude WHICH will give materia
aid to the men WHO without pecuniarJ
reward are now giving heart, brair
and energy to the protection OF dumb
animals. = Boston transcript.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-03-25
PuNeENT PARAGRAPHS.

A tobacconist has a sign in his
window: .'Our five cent cigars can't be
beat" We do not doubt it; we tried
one; twas cabbage.-N. 7. Herald.
Said dude: Il just love pigs feet.
could live upon pigs feet.' Said the
modest girl to whom the remark was
addressed: ''Are you right sure you
don't?''
1t IL dredful eazy tew mistake
what we think for what we EYsoc; this
il the way that most ov the lies git
born that are travelling around loose
Josh Billings.
"A Burlington girl stepped into
Jewellers and asked for pair of "con-
sistency bracelets" Somebody had
told her that consistency was jewel.
Burlington Free Press.
Father" said a newly-married
youth, 1--WE discovered that my wife
| is fool" s.Say nothing, my son; say
| nothing about it and everybody will
think you are happily matched. --Neso-
man Independent.
! feather, what is phenomenon
asked little Johnny McSwilligen, as he
was looking over his spelling lesson
| last night. "a phenomenon, Johnny.
is a man who never says chestnut
when you tell him a joke" was the
reply PAtsbargh Cbronscle.
Teacher Tin natural history
Tommy, where is the 'hippopotamus
to be found?" Tommy" Africa. "
Teacher-.Yes. And what is the chief
characteristic Of this wonderful ami
malp' Tommy (who has seen the cir
Gus pictures) He alters has his mouth
wide open. Il Harper's BGzdr.
| -Fogg ordered cup Of coffee.
..Have t weak" he cautioned the
waiter. After waiting for the bever-
age until his patience was exhausted,
Fopo opened his mouth to speak; but he
!. didn't bounce and splutter as some men
would under like circumstances. He
merely remarked in a compassionate
tone of voice: "Poor fellow! he un.
doubtedly thought Imeans next week. :
| Boston Transcript.
In leap years Japanese girls who
want husbands set out fiower-pots on
the front portico as an emblem. Its
{ lucky the custom hasn't been intro.
J duced into this country. Tho potte ~
: business would boom, Of course, but
i every house that shelters an unmarried
: girl would look so much like conser.
yatory that the cats couldn't find room
4 to stay.-S SopserUille journal.
"A weigh.
I she entered the store with o charming smile
: And said to the clerk, 20, Charlie. say
= Have YOU q moment to spare for me
And let me know how much weight"
4 sOne-thirty is what the figures say"
sHow heavy I ami Assist me. please,
And the grocer saw with his We4tner eye
The young man give her gentle squeeze
7, .who was the gfrl7'' asked the grocer-mar
,si For moment the youngster answered no'
" Then he softly said ii bashfuf voice.
y 20, that is the weigh long have sought
-LosceH Courier.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-03-25
VOICES OF PROPHECY.


when / to the woodland was wont to repair.
IN the season of pleasure and mirth,
+. r,stled TO myriad f1OckS OF the air
And numberless tribes of the earth.
uav slender the sound that is echoed here
These bright, frozen arches to thrill
~ suap of twig or the creak of bOugh,
ar the sigh of the wind on the hill.
rho NEST of the warbler is empty and tossed !;
The partridge is lonely and shy;
md clad in livery white as the frost,
The rabbit slips silently by.
rbe suuirrel is hid in the heart of a tree,
sacnre from the sleet and the snow.
And who was so merry and saucy as hep
The iauntiest fellow 1 knowl
vat nnder the burden of ice at it's brink,
An shining and CLASSY and gray,
The sweet-throated stream where l lOitered
TO drink
Is murmurlng still on its way.
And bark! what note from the dusky re-
treat
The bird of the winter sends forth!
Who taught you defiance of tempest and
O. lover and loved of the North2
Though forest and hillside are heavy with
snow. 9 srz.
Yet hope is alive in the breast
The water, imprisoned, is calling below;
The chickadee chirps of her nest!
Dora Reed Goodalc. in st. Nicholas.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-03-25
RAPID TRANSPORTATION.
The Factor Which Has Produced an Era
of Cheapness.

The Factor Which Has Produced an Era
of Cheapness.
The economies brought about by
cheap and rapid transportation, as well
rs the inventions which add to the re-
suits of human labor, is working to the
disadvantage of the agriculturists of
the hitherto favored nations. Time was
when the .sbeef of old England would
command higher prices, but the killing
of cattle in distant regions, such as
South America, Australia and New Zea-
land-the freezing of the dead meat
and its transportation to western
Europe in swift steamships--has ruined
the markets of those who bred choice
cattle at home, and the consequence is
that the cattle of eastern United States
as well as western Europe, will not be
worth more intrinsically than the cattle
at the Antipodes. In other words, the
world hereafter will have all the beef,
mutton and hog flesh it can use at
steadily cheapening prices. What is
true of meat has been true some years
past of wheat. The old-time figures OF
two and three dollars bushel will
never again be quoted during this gen.
GRAFTON. The wheat fields of the entire
globe are at the command of the con-
sumers of western Europe. While these
facts are not cheering to agrieulturists,
they are very reassuring to the consum.
ing poor of all countries. There may
be distress, but fanines are at an end
so far as the civilized and semi-civilized
world are concerned. - Denlorest's
| No,.fbI,f N
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-03-25

Ben wrote. A postal came thre days
after / had mailed the second letter.
Over the postal was scrawled in blue
ink:
'There wasn't a solitary thing in that jar.
H was her old herb jar for her camomile,
pennyroyal, everlasting and such. Poor
souli How do you wish yours sent?"
The stately household legend was
ruined. Things are beautiful to MEM
ory only by fine association, and so I
was compelled to drop the jar out of
our poetic family mysteries. Youths
ConspGnion,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-03-25
-An exchange5ays: ..The San Fran,

An exchange lays: ..The San Fran.
cisco girl of 1885 5 principally remark
able for her abiliaes to express herself
with double-baok-action combination
Of conciseness alI yolubility." That
is rather surprising characteristic for
q ssgirl of 1885. ''s Some of the Norris
town girls of eigEseen are not SO highly
gifted in that sirection.--Norristow
HernZd.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-03-25

The late Bersnet Smith, of Halifx,
was the richest man in Nova Scotia
He cut off his soss Tom without a dol
lar, and left tweaty dollars a month to
support bis family.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-03-25

The Women's Union Missionary
Society celebrated its silver wedding
recently, it being twenty-five years
since it was incorporated. The North
e,w Christian AdUocate says: 1t was
the American mother society, and has
done good work itself and inspired
Others to do still greater work Z
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-03-25

z To beat the whites of eggs quickly
add pinch of salt. Salt cools and
cold eggs froth rapidly.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-03-25

An attempt to prosecute Portland
Chinese for saving wood on SUNDAY,
revealed the fact thar there is no law
in Oregon against manual laboron sun
day.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1886-11-14
MIN'ELI AM GUS.
C0STIVENESS

Affects seriously all the digestive ana
assimilatiye organs. including tho Kid
neys. When these organs are 50 affected,
they fall to extract from the blood the
uric acit, which, carried through the cir
culatlon. causes rheumatism and Neu-
ralgia.
The f,mctions of the Liver are also
affected by costivcncss. callsiE.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1886-11-14
Bilious Disorders.

Among the warniE. symptoms OF Bilious
ness arc Nausea. Dizziness, Headache,
Weakness, Fever. Dinncss of Vision,
YelIowncss of Skin. Pains in the Side,
Pack and Shoulders. Foul Mouth Frrred
Iong,ie. Iire.ru!arity in the action OF the
Bowels. Vomiting. etc.
The Stomach Suffers when The bowels
are constipatcd, and Indigestion OF
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1886-11-14
srs.NamGS0
- aS.sl&Ss

{ !lows. Fetil Breath. Gastric Pains,
iicadachc, Acitiit5 OF the Stomach, Water
bga%h. Nervousness, and Depression, are all
evidences of the presence of this distress
Ing maIadv. A Sure Relief for irregu-
laritic. OF the Stomach and i'll consequent
diseases, VIII be found III he use of
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1886-11-14
MlSGELLANEO EOUS.
PIANOS and ORGANS
WE ARE NOW PeEPARED
to furnish the citizens or Carson
with tho
KNABE,
PEASE and
HARDMAN
K / "a N @ sS
AND THE
CnsCshO G01's'..,,nn,n. ND.,ntsll
SnsUihV JUs .aas. s3assN IL

At prices never before offered in
this city. For years past ina
high prices Of pi| nos nave heen
due to the enormous cpmmis-
sions of the local agents, In some
instances being as high as pei
cent of the cost of the instru-
nent. We are now in a posi-
tion to furnish the instruments
ct figures which will have the
effect of placing frst-class in
struments within the reach OF
people of small means.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-07-26
California Excursions.

Have carried thousands, giving satisfaction 70 W.
still 20 East and West every month.
Pamphlets descriptive Of California sent free. -.
Address. A. PHILLIPS CO., 26s WasninS~
st., Boston, Mass. june2sdkwih
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Our Indian War.
GERONIMO.
THE HOSTILE APACHE CHIEFTAIN WHOM
OUR SOLDIERS FAIL To CAPTURE.

A force OF United States soldiers has
been operating against Geronimo the
celebra ed Chiricahua Apoche chfeftain
since Nav Inns With odds .s IN nun,
beers and material terribly against hin,
the Indian has NOR, than managed tn
hold his own AGAINST hi. nov.rfnI .no,
mics. A few months 400 neootiatirna
were onened b.,wnen him nd C.nno,..,I
Crook and the hone was ipd,,ood =, ~
the Troublesome Ano,be would s7rren,tn,.
lie
n'.9o'' a,'' MS nv oaiu TO 'he united
oe"'e7 "''c'Is' 'ut ne ueN'e rons'y ma lie
on Gnu "coor"'h% 10 iateSt accounts Is
III heNl'o' Pt"p1oiy Two uldreu mics
n,9'p'U rom any American troops.
ie'e 10 report tnat General Mlie~,
VINO euceteued General crook IN com
,taiid oi me Arizona Department OF the
hi'i'tIy DIVISION Oh tle racine, mas sent
lriehuly Apaches win message 10 &c
I".'iiio- lroi'oS 'nS ms surrender on con-
u'uohs ItF"raoie 10 MN lhere IS not
hi''ch military glory IN chasing lndsis,
ana iu tin9 an emu To a wearlsome cam
paiSh III the way stated probably would
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POisOns for Breakfast.
SOME OF THE ApuLrERANrs THAT MAN
EATS WITH HIS Foop.


"Few articles of commerce at the present
day are exempt from fraudulent sdulteration.
and as the competition Of trade grows strong
| er The practice increases" said a prominent
physician a day or two ago, in reply to a
question as to whether there was much adul-
terstion of food. From the time one eats
the first meal of the day." continued the doc
tor, che takes more or less impurity into
his stomach. Take a simple breakfast menu
at any hotel You order cofiee-with it
cream (or milk and sugar are served; bread
and butter and couple of eggs. You pay
fair price, say Is cents for the coffee, milk
and sugar, and Is cents more for The eggs
You have ordered coffee Is that what YOU
get? BY no means. You get mixture
with coffee rs its base. The mixture NAV
contain chicory or Cocoa. or scorched, burnt
or roasted peas. beans or other vegetable sub
stances. Ii the mixture is chicory and cof-
fee il may be further adulterated. As soon
as there any great demand for chicory
as an adulterant, it began TO be sdulterated
With roasted corn, beans, lupin seeds, acorns.
horse chestnuts, peas, pulse (cslled Hambro
husks. and even spent
coffee hesidss various roots. as carrots. psrs-
nips, manselw urzel, beet root, dandelion;
often spent tan sno uried ouiiocks hser were
used.
.That these ad,slteIan,s are used, however,
is presupposing that they are sdded TO the
coffee before il ia ground and while it remains
in the bean. If the adulterants are used af
ter the beans have been ground they are OF .
very different kind aud the sduiteratlon 10
much easier. To get rio OF the earthly navor
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GRANDMOTHER SEES.

Grsndmother's knitting has lost Its cAarm;
Undecided It lies in her ample lap,
While the lunset's crimson, soft and warm,
Touches the frills OF her snowy cap.
She 10 gazing on two beside the bars,
Under the msple.-who little care
For the growing dusk. or the rising stars.
Or the hint Of frost in the autumn air.
One IL a slender slip OF girl.
And one a man in the pride of youth
The maiden pure as the purest pearl.
The lover strong 10 his steadfast truth.
"5weet, my own, az a rose of june"
He Gays full low DER the golden head.
II would sound to her like dear old tune,
Could grandmother hear the soft ords said.
For II seems bat a little while ago
Since under the maple, beside the bars,
She stood girl while the sunsets glow
Mel ed away mid the evening stars.
And little you dream how fond Il prayer
Goes up to God through his silver stars,
From the aged woman gazing there.
For the two who finger beside the bars.
-Margdret Sangster.
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4 Great Medical Work on Manhood.


Exhausted Vitality, Nervous and PHYSICAL Depil
lty, Premature Decline in Nan, Errors of Youth ano
III. untold niseries resulting from discretion o.
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aged and old. IT cCnIars l25 prescriptions Ior all
acute aud chronic diseases, each of which s IN
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Tor % years is such as probably fell TO the lo
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to b inner work in every than any other work
sold in tbs country for 80. the money will be
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body. Send new Gpid medal awarded the author
by the National Medical Association. 20 tine presi
dent Of WATCH the Hon. r. 4 Bissell, and .sso
ciate ocers Of t,c Board. the ia respectfully
referred
This Science OF &c should be read BIZ the young
Tor INSTRUCT cn, aud ~ the afflicted for relief II
Will benen' sil.-London Lancet.
There is no member OF society TO whom the Sci
fence OF Lite viii not be useful, whether YOUTH
parent, guardian Instructor or clergyman-Ar
gon0M-
Address the Peabody Medical Institute, or Dr. "
ii. Parker. No. =, Bnlfnch ST., Boston, Mass, who
may be consulted all diseases requiring skill and
experience Chronic and obstinate diseases thst hav.
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such treated succes,fuiy without an instance o.
taiare.Aenuon this paper. apr1tfaviT
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PATENTS.
r. II. EDDY.


NO. 20 state ST., opposite KiIby. Boston
Secures fstentsin the United srsIes aise in t}rea,
Ri ain, France another foreign countries Cont
ihe claims OF any Patent furnished br rrr1t.,ns
oae dollar. Assignments recorded at Eashjprtnn
No Agencg nfhe United Strtes possess spero1 6r
ctlities Tor obtaining Patents or ascerteisiao 1f
pateat0btiit Of iarenfions.
Z. 81. EDDY, Solicitor of Patea.s
TESTIMONIALS.
"Iregsrd Mr.. Eddy one of the most cGyaSl. ane
ssccessrai practitioners with whom have had osI
eiai intercourse"
CRAS. MASON, Commissioner of Patents.
"Inventors cannot employ person more trustwer
thy or more capable of securing for them an early
and fsv orsble consideration at the Patent Ofhce
EDAUND BURKE late Commissioner of Patents
Boston. october 10, Is-c.
Z. 81. EDDY, Eso,-Dear Sir you procured .oe
me- In is4o. my drst patent. Since then you have az
Ted tor and advised me In hundreds of eases, and
procured many patents, reissues and extensions. I
nsys Occasionally employed the best agencies in New
fofk. Philadelphia and Washington, but still give
you almost the whole of my business, in your ine,
and advise others to employ yol.
Yours truly, GEORGEfDRAPER.
Bosom. JanuarS I. 1885 "