The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-12-05
MISCELLANEOUS

The Bible has been printed IL
twenty-nine different languages to sup
ply the people living in Pennsylvania
The largely varied industries of Penn
sylvania attract within its limits 6
more cosmopolitan population than any
other State in the Union.
Mr.. George KEENAN, writing in the
Century Magazine tells of valley in
Siberia where the heat was as intense
as that of an African desert; where he
had to protect himself from the fierce
sunshine by four thicknesses of blanket,
and yet had the premonitory symptoms
of sunstroke in the strange feeling OF
faintness, nausea and suffocation.
In village in Somerset the follow
ing superstitious belief is prevalent:
During service in the church, if the
church clock strikes while a hymn is
being sung, the belief is that some
parishioner will die within week. So
strong is this belief that the striking
mechanism of the clock is always
stopped during services in which hymns
are sung.
Washington, d. c., has a police
man of an original turn of mind. Being
detailed to watch a dwelling from which
the milk can had been stolen early
every morning for more than week,
he hid in the limb of large tree in
front of the house, and, when the thief
appeared, lowered himself suddenly
and took the rascal into custody.
"A San Francisco newspaper thinks
that $12, 100000 is yearly drained" by
the Chinese through various channels
from city of 100000 inhabitants. 1t
figures this way: There are 10000
Chinese in San Francisco. These per-
sons earn at least 81 day each over
and above their board. That is $40, 900.
a day, 81, 040,000 a month of twenty.
six days, and over $12,000,OO0 year.
Most of this money, it thinks, goes di-
rectly or indirectly to China, never to
return.
IA great many people still firmly
believe the old notion that friction on
the head stimulates the intellect, said
a barber the other day, as he stropped
his razor with a contemplative air II
know several lawyers who just before
they are to make a plea invariably
have their crowns rubbed. They say
that it not only brightens up their
ideas, but gives greater power of con-
centration upon single thought"
Some of the earnest attention the
Briton gives to the slaughter of grouse
when the season begins may be gath
cred from the circumstance that one
day lately Mr.. Wilson, with party
of four. in Lochaber district, shot 27O
brace, and Sir Richard Dutton and a
friend 80 brace. Sir John Miller and
his two sons on the same day shot over
Murthly Moss, Perthshire and bagged
p grouse, % wild duck, % teal. and
"a snipe, and Mr.. Tenant, on Dunolster
Moors, Perthshire, bagged % brace by
himself on Monday and Tuesday.
In these days of the prevalent
abuse of tobacco it is well to know that
many habitual tobacco users have been
cured by the following plan: Those
who smoke their first cigarette, say. at
seven o clock in the morning, begin
putting it off just ten minutes past the
hour for few days, then make it ff-
teen or twenty minutes, and so on un-
til it will be noon and then night be-
fore the first one is smoked. It is a
slow but sure way of tapering off if
faithfully followed, and can be applied
by the abusers of stimulants as we'll as
of tobacco.