The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-01-19
MISCELLANEOUS.

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achs are too weak to hold any othel
kind of food.
Able to bear her bereavement
Delia-''How is Mrs. Grenadine lately!
is she perfectly reconciled to the los.
OF her husband2" Believes. think
90. Her mourning fits beautifully. -
lLoUeN Citizen.
Omaha Man-"How ridiculous this
faith cure craze Isl" Noted physician
"Well, don't know about that. I've
seen good many people cured by
faith" ''Eh ? Faith in the Lord?''
mo. Faith in me. - Omaha World.
-Fogg at the dinner table is OBJ.
served looking sadly at the infnitesimal
portion of chicken that has been dealt
out to him. Suddenly CLEAN OF
pleasure comes over his face, and he
exclaims, '.Never mind, in heaven
shall have two wings every day."
The government o; New South
Wales offers reward of $125,OOO to
any person who will make known and
demonstrate at his own expense any
method or process not previously
known in the colony for the effectual
determination of rabbits.
MIR. E. g. Ravenstein, the we'll
known map-maker. urges the substitu-
ton of the metre for the foot in taking
and stating geographical measure
ments. Denmark and Russia are the
only countries in continental Europe
that have not yet adopted the metre as
their standard of length. The English
foot. however, still holds its own in the
British and Russian empires, and in the
United States.-M 7. Ledger.
A North Carolinian, recently re-
turned from Japan, says that in a few
years the japanese will be the greatest
railroad builders in the world. He
bases his judgment on the fact that the
Japanese are great patrons of railroads.
Even whom they have no business to
transact they ride back and forth on
tho cars. until their money is gone.
even the beggars in the large towns
spending their money in this curious
way.
Idaho newspapers are calling at
tention to the fact that the Lemhi In
dians are slaughtering deer by whole
sale, just for their hides. They form a
circle covering miles of country, and
drive the deer toward common CEN
ter. generally deep ravine, and do
their work so thoroughly that almost
every animal started within the outer
circle is killed. The authorities are
asked to put stop to this slaughter.
Prof. Bolton expresses the opinion
that the browning glory of modern
chemistry is the power of producing,
in the laboratory, from inorganic mat
ter, substances identical with those ex-
listing in the vegetable and animal
kingdoms-it being known now that
the same chemical laws rule animate
and inanimate nature, and that any
definite compound produced in the
former can be prepared by synthesis as
soon as its chemical constitution has
been made out.
In San Francisco there are four
journals regularly published in Chinese
characters. These appear weekly, and
have circulation of $500 copies. Ac-
cording to the Chinese method a good
printer can print four hundred sheets
a day. Five days work are required
to get out any edition of one thousand
copies. The journals are printed with
ink upon single sheets of, white paper,
except on the Chinese New Year, when
the printing is done with red ink or
upon red paper.
~ see that old Rumblossom fell off
the ferry boat last night half mile
from shore and got to land all right.
How did that happen? He can't swim
stroke" mo; but when he fell in he
got mouthful of the stuff, and he
tasted it and knew it was water; it dis
gusted him so that he got right up and
walked along the bottom of the river
till he reached shore. He says you
couldn't have kept him in that stuff
five minutes if you had tied anchors to
both feet. "-Burdette.
An appearance as of being hol.
owed out has been remarked in the
surface of the hard, green sandstone
rocks, near Lima, Peru, and was
ascribed by Sir Charles Lyell to the re-
suit of water action on ancient and
subsequently elevated sea beaches.
Mr. Nation, of Lima, however, who has
been observing the rocks for twenty
five years, is satisfied that the hollows
are increasing in size and in number.
He believes that they are the work of a
cryptogamic plant, lichen, which is
in active vegetation during the foggy
season, the swelling of whose cells
causes scaling of the rock.
Toilet articles should now be
made of silver to be fashionable. The
pincushion is set in silver, with
enameled, repousse, or etched designs.
Sometimes it is set with rough pearls;
sometimes it is of antique silver, or
silver with raised work in gold. 1t has