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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-05-30
INCONSISTENT woMEN.
Two Remarkable Instances of Narrownesa
and WhimsicaIity.

and WhimsicaIity.
''The inconsistencies of human ma
ture are often a great puzzle to me,''
remarked friend as we walked down
street the other day. "Do you see that
woman crossing the street, Well, she
wakes eloquent on the subject of cruel
ty to animals, raises a great hue and
cry against the teamster who whips his
horse or the boy who beats his dog,
and yet she seeems to be entirely Lack
ing in sympathy for the two-legged
animals who serve her. She rules her
servants with rod of iron and is ex-
acting and unreasonable in her de-
mands of hotel employees and quick to
complain of the least inattention, fan
cied or real, on their part. At the
stores where she is well known the
clerks vie with each other in their
readiness to let somebody else have
her check and they give a sigh of re-
lief when she finally collars one to wait
on her." Speaking Of inconsist-
encies,n I replied, reminds me Of a
young lady know. intelligent. educated
and interesting, who in most things
/ is considered rather strong-minded,
reads Carlyle, Emerson, George Eliot,
and so forth, but in little things is SO
narrow and whimsical that she makes
herself ridiculous. She discarded a
splendid young man not long since be-
cause he wore mittens instead of gloves
ORe evening when he escorted her to
tho theater. All her philosophy counted
for nothing against such an offense ii
/ that. "--C Chicago Journal
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-05-30
Velocity of Elevators.

Few persons have any idea et the
speed OF an elevator. An ordinary
guess wouldn't probably come within
half mile minute of being right.
Some elevators run as slowly as eighty
feet minute. You always ask the con-
ductor about elevators OF this kind, and
he tells you apologetically that the old
thing is worn out, and that they re
soon going to get in a new one that
will take the cake. The average speed
of elevators is about 225 feet minute.
This includes ordinary stoppages. The
elevators in the Equitable building
have a run of 135 feet from basement
to top OF building, and it takes twenty
seconds to make that run without
stops. In day of nine hours these
elevators run over ten miles. The ele-
vators in the Western Union Telegraph
Building and in Aldrich court are ex-
ceedingly lively. They have developed
speed Of 500 feet minute. That is
going pretty fast. A person with a
weak stomach would be unwise to ride
down in an elevator making that speed.
It would upset his calculation.--N. Z.
Press.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-05-30
How 1t Feels to Be Hanged.

When the rope first squeezes mans
neck it hurts the skin somewhat. Ny
throat and neck were sore and swelled
for week after / was robbed. But
soon as the pressure is on he knows no
more about it. just went to sleep
and that was the end of it until I be-
gan to come to. They strung me up
three times but l just said | had no
dust. The last time, l judge I was a
long time coming to; l guess they
thought was dead. When Iwo4ze up,
kind O. dazed like, l was sitting in the
chair. and they were hunting around
the place. Then they threw the rope
over the beam again and pointed to a
stone in the hearth; they dug there and
got a tomato can full of dust-about
$4,000. It was getting daylight then
and they went of. sat quiet and stu
pid till the neighbors came and put me
to bed.-Joseph Krickland, in Amer
lea.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-05-30
BELLEVUE, La, THURSDAY, MAY 80, 1889.

to be sign of cold weather when
they are seen to pile and store straws,
leaves, etc, and especially fortells
cold winter when seen in the fall. In
Texas, ''norther'' is expected when
they go about with sticks in their
mouths.
Another old work, ''The Cabinet of
Nature" (1657) tells us: "When hogs
run grunting home, a storm inpends. "
Cold is in this country predicted when
they are uneasy and huddled together.
If they rub the side of the pen in win
ter a thaw is coming. Some farmers
say the winter will be colder during
the first months if the forward end of
pigs melt is the thickest, but if the
other end is thickest the final months
will bring the most cold. In West
phalia, pigs are thought to see the
wind coming.
There are a number of sayings con-
nected with pigs, some of which are
well known, others more or less OBJ
Hodge in armor. 'Please the pigs" is
please pigW (Anglo-Saxon for the Vir-
gin). ''You have the wrong sow by
the earl is said to the picker or
''sousern when he takes the ear of the
wrong sow or tub. ITO buy a pig in a
poke is in French ''acbeter chateE
poche," the cat being let out of the bag
after the trick. To ''go the whole
hog" is to go full lengths. ''Some men
there are who love not gaping Pig
"a certain Marshal D'Albert is said to
have always tainted at the sight of a
pig. ''You can't make a whistle out
of pigs tail'' is no longer true. 1t
is sometimes said, if the youngest Of
two sisters or brothers gets married
first, the elder ''will dance in the pig
trough" To conclude, there is a say.
ing, 1.-The Latins call me 'porcus,' u
said in rebuke to boaster. A fable
says that wolf was about to devour
a pig when the latter animal reminded
him that it was Friday, and no good
Catholic would eat flesh. The vol
acquiesed in this, but as they trotted
along said: They seem to call you
by many names" Eyes, am called
swine, grunter, hog, and I know not
what besides. The Latins call me
porcas." "Porpus, ehr' said the
wolf, Intentionally misunderstanding
swell, porpoise is fish, and we may
eat fish on Friday" Whereupon ht
devoured the pig. T. Bassett, il
Chicago Journal.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-05-30
The RING MY MOTHER WORE.

IT is not set with precious gem,
'Tis but quaint and simple thing,
yet more than jeweled diadem
prize this dear old-fashioned ring.
She laid it in my trembling hand
And bade me wear it evermore;
There's magic in its narrow band,
The wedding ring my mother wore.
Two names in letters old and dim.
That time and use have worn away,
A craven on its narrow rim,
The records Of vanished day.
Those names are writ on marble now,
The parted twain have met once more,
This ring records each solemn VOW
The wedding ring my mother wore.
Dear patient hand that lies at rest
Dear ring that binds my soul to herl
Be this my future holy quest
To see in it Gods messenger,
Ny passport to the city fair,
When this fantastic scene is DER.
Dear emblem Of our circle there,
The wedding ring my mother wore.
.MrS NJ. L. Payne, in Detroit Free Press.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-05-30
Why He Felt pownhearted.

'Why this melancholy mienP'' said
the travelling man, as he strolled up to
the assistant book-keeper's desk.
Il proposed to my girl last night
''Did she ring bell?"
s.No."
Say rats?''
"NO."
Tell you she would be a sister to
youP"
NO"
.WelI, what on earth did she doP~
"She accepted me. "- Merchant
Traveller
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1889-05-29
. THE BISHOP HAD FORGOTTEN.

A local gossipe in the Bergen Coun-
" Democrat says:
We wonder whether Bishop Potter
realizes that hundred years ago many
of the churches were built with funds
raised by means of lottery, while drunk.
enness prevailed i'll all ranks, among the
clergy and people, to an almost iu-
credible extent.
The Episcopal Church in Virginia.
whose parsons were discredited, accord.
ing to DIR. Barrows, of Chicago on account
of Tory teachings, and who had become
SO dissolute that the Legislature found
it needful to pass special laws prohibit
ing them from drunkenness, are in M
such condition to day.
We have within reach manuscript
sketch of one of the most prominen
Dutch Reformed ministers, fifty years
ago, who, after preaching in the old
Tappan church, participated in a horse
race every Sunday when returning from
church. In those days they went to
church on horseback, and racing was as
regular an event as our Clifton and
Gutenberg races are now.
The temperance reform is one of the
brightest stages of this century Just
passed. If the same decrease in the
consumption of liquor takes place for
the next hundred years liquor drink
will be almost extinct.
No, no, Bishop, we don't believe with
you that the world is growing worse.
1t is getting better as it grows older,
like the rest of us.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1889-05-29

The daily newspapers, day or two
since, reported that coal was ''going to be
higher The agents of six big coal COM
panies had decided to advance the price.
Under the cover of law, the immense
coal fields have fallen into the hands of
combinations and trusts. Miners on a
small scale have been crowded out, and
the people are compelled to pay whatever
these robbers, the coal monopoly, decide
to demand.
The Almighty placed these large de-
posits of coal in the bowels of the earth
for the use of his creatures, and not that
few coal barons might grow immensely
wealthy off extravagant profits wrung
from the shivering masses. There ought to
be time coming, and that soon, when tho
people shall assert their rights, take pos
session of these coal fields and work them
for the public good and benefit.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1889-05-29
POINTS FOB. PROHIBITION,

We are often told that the majority of
drinkers are moderate drinkers, and that
the number of those who snake beasts
Of themselves" by observation-disclosures is com
paratively small. Hence, it is argued,
the proper remedy for intempeTance is not
to prohibit the manufacture and sale of
intoxicants, but to teach men self control,
so that they will know when to drink and
when not to drink. Self control should
always be inculcated and cultivated but
those who propose it as sovereign RENE
dy for incompetence forget that all the
forces of the liquor traffic are in league to
break it down. The traffic. as represented
by the saloon, is an aggressive, soulless
business. The only principle itinculcates
or cultiva;es is "Drink drink !" 1t
teaches indulgence, not restraint. 1t has
no standard of moderation to propose, and
admits of none. 1t invites, it entreats, it
entraps customers. 1t tempts to indu-
gence and trains in observation-disclosures. Not
one of its patrons has an even chance to
preserve his self control. 1t is mockery
to speak of curing intemperance while
the saloon exists to produce it,
From the class of moderate drinkers
the ranks of immoderate drinkers are in
variabiy recruited. The whole tendency
OF drinking is toward intemperance. The
taste for intoxicants is not natural, but
an acquired or inherited TASTE 1t devel
Opes by indulgence, and is strengthened
by habit. 1t is never satisfied 1t awakens
rather then quenches thirst. 1t steadily
undermines the will power, and captures
the citadel of self-control. Tho day of
surrender may be long delayed in some
cases; it may never come in others: but il
Is safe to say that no moderate drinker,
though he may succeed always in main
tanning his self-control, is quite the same
he would DO if he were an abstainer. We
do not advocate prohibition to make men
sober, but to suppress a public business
organized to make them drunk. Prohibit
ton is not directed to the drinker, but to
the vender The State may not prevent
IA man from losing bis self.c0ntrol in
drinking; but it may prevent another
man from making it "a public business to
destroy that self coutrol.-,Nep York In.
DEPENDENT
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1889-05-29

Those sections of the Werts liquor
law which prevent n Wholesale dealer
from selling less than quart, and pre-
vent a retail dealer from selling in any
quantity unless it is drunk on the prem
ises, went into effect last Monday, and
there is good deal of tall swearing over
the situation III nearly all parts of the
State. 1t is deadly blow at the pocket
flask, tin pail aud pitcher business,
which has been very considerable part
of,the retail trade. In Hudson County,
which practically gives law to the whole
State in liquor matters, they are indis.
posed to pay any attention to these pro-
visions of the law, and the Liquor Deal
ers Association is reported to be anxious
to have test case made up which can
be carried to the Court of Appeals, in
the belief that they wiz be set aside as
unconstitutional. The Werts bill under
went such vast amount of tinkering in
the Democratic caucus and elsewhere
that its trainers and those who passed it
are alike completely dazed when they
understand the scope and character of its
provisions as the Jaldges of the Supreme
Court have Interpreted them. Norris
town Jerseyman, May "a.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1889-05-29

The Albany Evening Journal remarks {:
There is no matter OF greater importance
to the wage worker than the observance
of Sunday. Without reference either to
the particular form of religion in which
he may believe, or even apostolic lack
of belief in any form of religion, it is
something which affects him directly
and vitality. If you can regard Sunday
as day set apart for rest and religious
observance, he would be interested in it
as day of rest and innocent recreation.
His highest physical, mental and moral
good demands one day of rest in seven.
He finds large majority of the people
observing Sunday as day of rest and
religion. Then it is the day which should
receive above all others his endorsement
and support; not only should he protect
it for his own good, but he should also
endeavor to secure his privileges for
every man who is compelled to labor for
living. Wage earners in all lines of
activity, and especially organized hbor,
should remember that the moment the
bars are thrown down, private greed and
corporate selfishness will rush in and
exact seven days work in each week. If
such calamity should result, the exper-
fence will be dear one. The goddess
reVolutionists of Paris in 1889 tried the
experiment and were convinced of this
truth.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1889-05-29
PURE WATER FOR THE KIDNEYS.

From The Sanitary Era.
Natures safe cure for kidney diseases
and many others is strictly purified
water. SO importapt to health IS strict
purity in water, that it may be reasonably
presumed that one OF the causes of the
remarkable increase of kidney complaints
is in increasing impurity of water con-
sequent upon our multiplying popula-
ton, manufactures etc. Says Professor
Charles Mayr: OF the thousands of
chemical compounds and waste products
formed in the human system, many re-
quire pure water for their solution and
elimination; and water SO overloaded
with salts, etc, as average well water,
will not work satisfactorily
Those who have never drank pure
water do not realize what an effect such
water has upon the kidneys; its effect is
better than that of acetates, nitrates,
opiates or alcohol, and for people with
tendency to kidney disease or dropsy
there is no better drug than pure water.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1889-05-29


A Boston dispatch says Captain
Thurstan, of the fishing schooner Sisters,
reported that on Saturday week ago,
while he was fishing, about twenty miles
off Yarmouth. N. s., huge shark was
hooked by the nose with cod hook :
They got the monster to the surface
alongside the vessel. and tried to get a
stout new rope over its hea@, but it bit
the rope through again and again, as
though it were cut with sharp axe
Then they drove a sharp harpoon into the
back Of the sharks neck, and held tho
shark while they got into boatand at
tackled it with axes, killing it after a
sharp struggle. The shark proved to DO
too large to take on board, so they cut
his liver, which filed two and one-half
barrels, and took aboard the head and tail,
letting the body go. Tbs is one of the
largest of the species ever seen in those
waters, being 25 feet long aud weighing
over two tons. Its head was as large as
a hogshead, and weighed between 600 and
700 pounds. A good. sized boy conld
crawl inside its open mouth.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1889-05-29

1t has just leaked out that the Lehigh
Valley Railroad Company will soon
begin the erection of new railroad from
Bound Brook to Orange and from thence
to Hoboken, and that ferries to connect
with the new road will be run from
Fourteenth and Twenty third streets.
New York. The road will touch. Plain
field, Dunellen, and go close by Wash
ington Rock. The only delay at present
is the arrangement of terms with the
Morris and Essex road to run over its
tracks near Orange the right of way
having been obtained from alfthe private
owners of land.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1889-05-29

The Wholesale Liquor Dealers Asso..
citation of New York, in the annual
report of its trustees, ''claims credit"
for the defeat of Warner Miller last fall.
The Association doubtless deserves
whatever of 'credit" there is in that
fact, aud for that reason no practical
temperance measure of any sort will be
enacted into law in that State while Hill
- Governor.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1889-05-29

Owing to the lack of funds in the
State Treasury the various State officers
will have to take possession of the offices
in the rebuilt portion of the State House
without new furniture. 1t would take
about $50, 900 to secure furniture, and
the State has not the money to spare,
so the old shabby traps will be moved
and as good appearance made % the
circumstances will allow.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1889-05-29

The enormous electric motor in the
cellar of the Daft Electric Motor Works,
in Marion. was shattered into thousands
of pieces day or two ago. This motor
furnishes the power for the building.
1t was no sooner started than it flew
ipto fragments. Betting and machinery
were injured, but, almost tremendously
not man was hurt. An investigation
showed that the wires had been twisted
together so as to turn the strong current
back to the motor. 1t is suspected that
some discharged workman did the work.
Mr.. Daft has offered reward for the
discovery of the man. Several Thousand
dollars damage was DONE
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1889-05-29

Gen. DSake has been iudiGed at
Elizabeth on complaint of Amos Clark
aud Charles Halsey At the reception
parade to President Harrison these gou-
tlemen snubbed the Generals command
by refusing. to give them the post of
honor III the parade, and the complaint
of Clark and Halsey were based on n
cartoon published two weeks ago in the
paper, The picture represented a fool
and jackass walking arm in arm, and
overhead was the inscription, amos
and the Grand Marshall This, com.
plainants avery was intended to hold
them up to public ridicule.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1889-05-29

The Princeton College Glee aud Banjo
clubs have just completed arrangements
for the largest enterprise ever under
taken in this country for student Or
ganization. At the invitation of the
Princeton Alumni Association of the
Pacific Coast, the clubs this Summer
will visit and give series of concerts
in California, Oregon aud Washington
Territory.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1889-05-29

There is something particularly brutal
in the frankly cynical editorial remark
of the Charleston News and Courier that,
whether they vote or not, the Negroes
make good counters, aud give tue
Southern States voice in the Electoral
College which they could not enjoy if
the negroeS were DISTINGUISHED.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1889-05-29

An election of Directors of the United
Railroad and Canal Companies was held
yesterday. There were 1899 votes cast
for the.following VIM. Waldorf Astor,
John G. Barron, Joseph ID. Bedle, VIM.
Bucknell. Alfred l., Dennis, Charles L.
Green, F. Walcott jackson, Thoms Nc.
Kean, Thomas Cakes, Robert f. Stock
ton, Alfred Van Stantvoord, Samuel
Welsh.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1889-05-29

John L. Sullivan says if broken down
business men would diet themselves
their blood would soon get in good con-
dition and their health become robust.
He thinks the average business man
eats and drinks too much for the seden-
tary life he leads.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1889-05-29

Friends are scarce, bat if you are suffer
ing with that horrible disease scrofula,
you will find Sulphur Bitters will cure
you as it did me, after suffering eight
years, and paying out hundreds of dollars
to doctors and druggists. -JEANNETTE
HANsCOM. Troy. n. y
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1889-05-29

The Fast-Flying virgnian-New Facilities
tor the South and West.
The +. +. V. Vestibule Special or
Fast Flying Vireinian, is the title of the
new train which the joint enterprise of
the Pennsylvania and Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroads has placed in service be-
tween New York, Philadelphia, Balti-
more, Washington and the South and
West. The train leaves New York every
day at $3.50 p. NJ, Philadelphia eco p.
M, Baltimore 500 p. NJ, and arrives in
Washington at 9:25 p. NJ. 1t then pro-
ceeds south through the heart of Virginia
and delivers the passengers at the stations
for the Warm, Hot, Rock bridge, Alum,
Old Sweet, Red and Salt Sulphur, and
the Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs at
an early hour of the next morning. The
facilities it presents for rapid and COM
Portable travel to these celebrated health
resorts has never before been enjoyed,
and it brings them nearer than ever to
the people of the North and East. The
train also offers exceptional advantages
as through line to Cincinnati, where it
arrives at 5:l5 the next evening.
The equipment is all that could be de-
sired. Coaches and Pullman Sleeping
Cars run through to Cincinnati from
New York, and dining car, which is also
run through, adds greatly to the desira-
bility of the train.
1t runs over the Pennsylvania Railroad
to Washington, the Virginia Midland to
Charlottesville, Va, and thence over the
Chesapeake and Ohio to Cincinnati. The
Southern roads are in good condition, a
good rate of speed is maintained, and the
scenic attractions of the route are varied
and interesting.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1889-05-29

One of the laws just signed by Gov
ernor Green prohibits other than licensed
attorneys from practicing in the courts
of Justice of the Peace.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1889-05-29

Tulip Soap has rapidly gone to the
front rank among our stores. 1t sells be-
cause It gives satisfaction to the user.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1889-05-29

Better late than never. If you have
gone all these years without Tulip Soap,
buy some at once and be happy.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1889-05-29
sRf $AAssssfttts a$sSs.
j. *. zEIGLER. Proprietor.

The Oldest, Largest Best Furnished and Best
Arranged Hotel in the City.
proved.
travellers will find the Lambertville House frst-
class and with ample accommodations. Special
eonveniences for commercial travellers.
ANY House.
PARTICULAR NoTIoE.-I wish TO state that the
report industriously circulated bynterested par
ues that another hotel has control of part of my
yal9 ana stables is entirely untrue. The yard and
my hotel alone x ZEIGIER
Feb. 49, 'S9-6m
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1889-05-29

What is that which is an enemy to
dirt in any form, and friend to every.
thing aud everybody else Tulip Soap
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1889-05-29

The fees for liquor recently granted by
the Court at Freehold foot up $50, 775, an
excess of nearly $4,000 over last yea.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1889-05-29
DEATHS.

ROBINSoN-In Lambertyille. May %, 1889, Willie
Wayne Robinson, Jr., infant child of w. Wayne
and II. Bessie Robinson.