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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-06-19

"A milkman's wagon was standing on
the street with the horse united, as is
customary while the owner is delivering
his milk. A farmer came along leading
a COW by halter on his way to market.
The sight of the COW so terrified the
horse that he ran away at furious
speed down the street That milkman's
customers are now wondering how long
It is since his horse saw a coW.-Buffalo
Courier
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-06-19

"A writer in the Journal Of Medi-
cine, Paris, warmly advocates the adop-
ton OF the international language.
VOlap0k: for medical purposes
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-12-31
A Cure For Seasickness.

Many people hold the opinion that
sea-sickness as well as dizziness on land
is caused by the sight first. This idea
has evidently obtained favor in Vienna,
where learned German has invented 81
pair OF glasses which he thinks will OBJ
viate these troubles. According to the
description recently given Of them in q
German paper they resemble opera
glasses in appearance, but are to be
made of pa pier mache or some very
light substance, and bound about the
head Of the victim to nausea or dizziness
with an elastic strap. The under of
these glasses is much stronger than the
upper, and they are darkened in such
way that no disturbing rays can reach
the wearers vision. The inventor does
not claim for these articles that they are
beautiful, and indeed it seems doubtful
whether the sight of them worn by a
number of fellow passengers would not
have most depressing effect on such
uniortunates as did not possess them.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-12-31

has always given the percentage of mag
nesia present whenever he has had oc-
casion to publish the analysis of soil or
plant, and the importance of this ele-
ment, especially Tor the production of
grain, cannot be unknown to any one.
This is, therefore, sufficient reason for
! agriculturalists to go to the expense of
adding magnesia to the SOIL and includ-
ing 1t In the composition of fertilizers,
whenever the land in question is suffi-
GENTLY supplied with it.
M. Joulie is not quite decided as to
the exact proportion of magnesia which
fertile soil ought to contain, but he
does not hesitate to advise the use of a
maenesa fertilizer whenever the soil
contains less than 0.05 per cent. say 1000
kilos. per hectare (23 acres) in layer
20 centimeters thick. In any case he
would seldom have to give such advice.
for soils which are as poor as this are
rare.
The determination of magnesia in soils
is somewhat difficult, and the processes
given in works on the subject do not
usually give exact results. Many soils
are therefore set down as deficient in
this ingredient which are actually we'll
supplied with it. Speaking generally,
magnesia fertilizers are, according to NJ
Joulle, quite useless. In cases where
magnesia is actually deficient, on the
other hand, they are of the greatest
value. Very remarkable results can
then be obtained by putting down
200 kilos. of sulphate Of magnesia to the
hectare, the cost of this being Ii to II
francs per 100 kios. The same object
may also be attained by using the resi-
due from the manufacture of chloride of
potassium, which comes into the mar
ket under the name OF kainite, and con-
sists of mixture of potassium sulphate,
magnesium sulphate, and sodium chlor-
ide. This material contains 10 to II per
cent. of potash and about as much mag
nesia. The good results obtained by its
use (for any soiD do not establish the
utility OF the magnesia, because it is al
ways possible that they may be due TO
the potassium. The efficacy of mag
nesium anlphate when used alone, how
ever, settles the question even more de-
cisvely than would a chemical analysis.
r. En0rOie
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-12-31
The Dozen Must Go.

"Away with the dozen,' cries the
usually sedate and decorous Boston
Transcript But it is not demanding
that the city fathers shall be sent to the
gullotine but that the custom Of selling
articles by the dozen shall be abolished
and the practice of selling by the score
encouraged in its place.
Any person who will be at the trouble
of little observation can hardly TAIL
of being surprised at the amount of de-
lay, and cften of positive Inconvenience,
arising from this adherence to the use
Of the dozen and the halt dozen in small
transactions; as though people were
restrained by high and occult reasons
from buying four, five, eight or ten
of anything. Plainly, therefore, the
dozen should have taken its departure
lang ago with the old shill1ng-and-pence
system of which it was a constituent
part, and of which at present it is only a
relic. Now proper unit of count is a
convenience in some kinds of retail
trade; and fortunately, we have such a
unit in the score of twenty, a measure
which is as old as the English language.
The score possesses for us Americans
certain obvious advantages over the
dozen for easy reckoning, because, like
the dollar it has half, a quarter, a fifth,
and tenth, in whole numbers.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-12-31
Influence of the Imagination.

man who is given to thinking about
things has recently struck an illustra-
ton of the influence of the imagination
over the mind and the body as we'll,
says the New York Evening Sun. This
illustration came about through the be-
Gavior of his shoe interpreted by his
mind, or OF his mind interpreted bv his
shoot would be hard TO tell which
This is the story: Some days ago he
returned to the city ter hunting trip
When his luggage was unpacked his
valet told him that one of his shoes was
missing. He sent back for it. In day
or two it came. The next morning the
valet, in setting out his wardrobe, in
formed the young man that the shoe re-
turned was not his own, yet it was curl
ousiy like the other shoe III size,
shape, and quality. The young man
slipped on the shoe in question. Clear
ly it was not his own. 1t didn't fit any
where and hurt him cruelty. He
kicked it off, 'Send it back and get
the right one" he said. The valet
picked it up and as he did so mechanical
~ turned back the flap. There was the
name of the London bootmaker, and
not only that, the name of the young
man himself. 1t was his own shoe and
no mistake. So then the valet, without
saying word, replaced the identical
pair of shoes. The young man slipped
them on. care they easy, sir ?" he
asked, after a bit. Perfectly" an
swered the young man. And it was
frnn
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-12-31
An Antarctic Expedition.

A generous Australian, who has al
ready done much to promote the ex-
ploration of the Southern Continent,
says the Pail Mall Budget, has offered
to contribute $4,000 toward the pro-
posed Antarctic expedition, provided it
is got up and equipped on an adequate
scale. He has strong hope that the
various Australian governments will
come forward and share in the enter
prise, and he does not think it would
be expecting too nlu,;h that
the home government should al
80 vote a sum for the very de-
sirable object. The gentleman in Ques-
ton is confident that little can be ac-
complished with so small a sum as E10,-
900, and ne quite disapproves of the
proposal to combine commercial in
quiries with scientific investigation. He
is confident that in this, as in so many
other cases, the interests of commerce
will best be served by giving at first ex-
elusive attention to the collection OF
data which will be useful to science.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-12-31
just Escaped BOttomIess Pit.
From the Macon Telegraph.

From the Macon Telegraph.
Harry Burns, the passenger agent
of the Georgia Southern and
Florida Railroad, had Just returned
from Il trip to the land of flowers Mr.
Burns saws that on last Saturday
afternoon some young ladies' of Jasper,
which is on the line of the Georgia
Southern in Hamilton County, Florida,
went out to visit cave mile or SO from
town. The cave was a small one, of but
little length, but it was an interesting
place, and was much visited by people
living in the locality.
1t was thought to be an old lime sink,
such as abound in many parts OF Florida,
and the floor Of the cave resounded to
the tread as though there were
great cavity underneath The young
girls noticed that Jumps of earth
would occasionally loosen themselves
from the roof and walls OF the cave and
fall to the floor, but eythought nothing
OF it, and, when It began to grow dark,
they left the cavern and started home
Be ore they had gone bal mile they
heard a deep rumbling noise in the
direction Of the cave, but thought it was
distant thunder, and paid no further
attention to it.
Tie next day Sunday morning) the
y
learn from visiting neighbor that the
big lime sink had fallen in the evening
before, leaving a chasm Of unknown
depth. All day they We're nervous
from thinking how narrowly. they
had escaped an appalling death.
Mr.. Burns says that the term "bot-
tomless pitt graphically describes the
appearance of the Jasper lime sink
according to what was told him by man
to see it on Sunday. The man who went
said that hole, BIZ enough to swallow
a ten-room house, had fallen in, leav-
ing walls as straight as those of well.
except that they slanted to one side.
AS far down as he could see, the chasm
ended in darkness but there was no
bottom in sight. Away down there, in
the midnight blackness, there was rum
ming water, for the faint rushing, as of
swollen river in the distance, came up
from the pit
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-12-31
A Railroad as a CiyiIiZer,
From the New York Sun.

The great railroad which Russia has
begun to build across Siberia to the Pa
cific Ocean will cost an appalling
amount of money, considering the pres
ent condition of that country's finances.
One of the arguments with which the
expenditure of such an enormous sum
is supported is very remarkable. Some
leading nen in Russia and infue entail
newspapers advocate this line as mil
itary necessity, in view of the POSSIBLE
ity that some day the enormous hordes
OF China may again attempt to swarm
far westward, and to even threaten Eu-
rope as the fierce warriors of Genghis
Khan did nearly seven centuries ago.
Western observers may be inclined to
regard such an influx of ORIGINALS as a
possibility SO remote as to be hardly
worth considering. But some Russian
statesmen look upon Russia as bull
wark which some day may save Europe
from an inundation of Eastern barba-
rIauS
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-12-31
Ancient Banking.
From the ST. Louis Republic.

The origin of banks is not accurately
known, but they are of great quantity.
They existed in China, Babylon, Greece,
Rome and in the cities of many other
ancient nations long before the opening
of the Christian era.
The oldest banknote of which we
have any record was issued as far back
as 2697 E. G.. The first OF this early Chi
nese paper money was issued by the
treasury, just as notes of to-day are is
sued, but it was not long until the en-
tire business was turned over to the
banking institutions, which were even
then under government inspection and
control. The popular name Tor the first
banknotes was "fying' or convenient
money! The form of this note was
similar to those of the present
time. They bore the name of the bank,
number of the note, value, place of is
sue, date and signature of the proper
bank officials. A specimen OF this note
issued in the year 1899 B. G. is now in
the Asiatic museum at st. Petersburg,
Russia. It is printed in blue ink on
the paper made from fiber of the leaves
of the mulberry tree.
In the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York, there are Babylonish tablets
of banking transactions dating back 10
the reign OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The
earliest of these tablets belongs to the
year B. c. COL. On it are the memo
randa of loans made in silver by GER
tain banker, Kukurru, as follows: II
nina to Beluepas, 5 shekels 10 Nabu-
basa-Napsati, shekels of silver As
Stunning that the value of the Babvlonish
talent was equal to So ,081.25, the "mina"
was worth about $3l.25
The earliest known banking house of
Babylon was that of Egbi q Co., a house
that seems to have acted as sort of im
perial banking institution from the
time of Sennacherib (about 700 B. c.
down to the reign of Darius, who be-
came king in 521 B. c., the life of the
concern having been traced through
five generations of the Egbis. Many of
the records Of this house on clay tablets,
found in an earthen jar at lillian, near
Babylon, may be seen in the British
museum.
The earliest records of European
banks now in existence are those
of the Bank of Venice, founded A. D.
I'LL; the Bank of Barcelona was
founded in 1401; Bank of Geneva in
14O7; Bank of Amsterdam in 1909; and
the great Bank of England in 1894.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-12-31
THE NEW YEARS LEGACY.

From the old year to the new
Goes a message. flies a message
Like IL winged thought. TO you,
New Year; /, the old year, presage
Many gifts, can not tame them;
Rapturous joys, / would not name them;
Joys to you,
From the old year to the newt
/. the old, to the new.
Send you greeting, send you greeting;
Dying. | bequeath to you
Spiins's sweet tide With blossoms fleeting
Spring. with happy omens laden
Heart of lover, heart of maiden
Sent 10 you,
From the old year to the new.
|. the old year. to the nSw.
Send you summer, pa STONED summer;
Dying, L bequeath TO you
Ripening moons. and throbb1ng murmur
Of fair natures ltVi 81 bliSSes,
Gu ckened by the ho+ suns kisses
Sent to you
From the old year to the new.
I, the old year. to the new
Send you autumn, bounteous autumn;
Dying, | b queath to you
Golden forests, and tavorS brought from
The lar Orient aud the indies
And from all the world [ send these
jlfts to you
From the old year TO the new.
I. the old year, to the new,
Send you winter, hoary winter;
Diving, bequeath to you
Stored with all things Time has sent her
Winter hale, VIII sc glittering garment
Robes the ea1th, like some pure star, meant
To lig ht YOU
From the old life to the new.
From the old year to the new
Speeds carol, wings carol,
Heralding Christ to you
Song of love, who e notes shall bear all
All at love can weigh or treasure;
Christmas, with its heaven of pleasure,
Sung to YOU
BY the old year TO the new!
Friction Union
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-12-31
Swine Without Corn.

We notice that one swine breeder and
feeder writes to a contemporary that
his corn crop is an utter failure and that
he means to 1atten his hogs without
corn. Now if the shortness Of the corn
crop would only result IN teaching our
breeders that hogs could be prepared
for market without corn, or rather with
out so much corn, the failure would
not be an unmixed evil. Corn at the
proper time is unobjectionable, espe
cially il some bone and musce-forming
food is fed. But the reader knows how
much damage we believe has resulted to
our swine interests by a protligate use
of corn. This man proposes to feed old
process oil-meal freely. That is good.
Potatoes, if the farmer happens to have
any this season to pare, are good. In q
word, if the muscle is fully developed,
we think that almost any farmer can
manage to get all the fat that is profit
able to put on a hog from foods other
than corn. Usually corn is SO cheap
that we never stop to inqui for any
other available food for swine fattening.
But now it is wisdom to do it Western
RalrGI
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-12-31

Recalled to China.
From the Philadelphia Telegraph.


student of the Women's Medical
College of this city, is now on her way
to San Francisco. whence she
will sail on Saturday for Foo Chow,
her hative city Her sudden return
before the completion of her course in
medicine is due to dispatches she
received notifying her of the serious
illness of her father. an old military
mandarin, who, with his entire family,
were the first converts made under the
ministrations of the Rey. S. L. Baldwin
in China.
HUI King Eng, who is formally
addressed as Miss Hu, was the first
Chinese woman of rank to come to this
country. She arrived here in 1884, at
which tine she was Is years old, and
said that she had come 10 acquire an
English education. study medicine,
and return to practice among the
women of her own country She
accordingly took a four years course at
the Wesleyan University, Delaware,
O., and then came to Philadelphia,
where she has now about half completed
her course at the Woman's Medical
College.
While in this country HUI King Eng
ALWAYS wore her national costume. She
has made for herself many warm
friends, who will welcome her when
she returns 10 complete her studies, as
she hopes to do when her fathers health
iC roStoro6
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-12-31
Two Lives Saved by a Spike.
From the Chicago Herald.


BLOOMINGTON. H., Nov 26.-Mrs. Fred
Robinson, a farmers wife, was coming
to town to-day on the track of the Lake
Erie q Western, wheeling her baby
carriage. She was about half way
across the long and very high trestle
When she saw train coming round the
curve near the trestle at high speed.
Mrs. Robinson, clasping her arms, in
her fright, leaped from the treste, and
would have been crushed 20 death upon
the ground below had not her dress
caught upon a spike. She, with her
baby in her arms, hung suspended in
the air till the train was stopped, and
they were removed from their perilous
position.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-12-31
"Good Cheese"

1t has been urged very frequently in
these columns that if good cheese is
made, people will buy and eat it. A
noted dairy writer says that the digesti-
bility Of cheese is an important item in
its production. In proportion as it is
indlgestible, it is generally unpalatable,
and for an unpalatable cheese there is
no market. Nobody wants to eat I'M
palatable food of any kind. J. b. Harris,
one of the Canada tiuctors in cheese
making, says that in testing fifty samples
of cheese he found five that were per-
fectly digestible. He says of these,
one twas an American cheddar: fine
favored, faky, ripe, and rich. Another
was French cheese of the Roquefort
make, also old and fine with very strong
and full flavor Of cheese. The third
was an American dairy cheese, old,
dry, and crumbly, but with
cheesy favor very full. The fourth was
an imitation English dairy. made from
new milk right from the cows, with all
the animal heat in that could be. re-
tanned. The cheese was fancy in quail
ity, and retailed in New York for 80
cents a pound. The fifth was an imita-
ton Muenster-a small German cheese,
a sweet curd cheese, and full of fine
holes" We wish to call attention to
the fact that one of these perfect
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-12-31
THE TURKEYS TERROR.

The turkey gobbler who centrived. in some sly,
subtle way
To dodge the executioner on last Thanksgiving
day,
and fast;
He won't show up until he knows the holidays
past.
Chicago Herald.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-12-31

cheeses was "dairy cheese, old, dry
and crumbly, but with a cheesy flavor
very full and another was an 'imita-
ton English dairy, made from new milk
right from the cows, With all the animal
heat in it that could be retained" In
other words, these two cneeses were
made from fresh milk, in it's most per-
feet state, and the latter, which brought
an extra price, most certainly was not
sripened."
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-12-31
Mapnesia as a Fertilizer.

The last number of the Bulletin des
Agriculteurs de France contains an
interesting communication by M. JouIie
on the subject which we reproduce here
because OF the importance attaching to
the opinion of this eminent chemist.
The utility Of magnesia for cereals and
vegetation in general has been long
known. To go no further back, Bous-
singault in 1851 gives in his Economic
Rurale table of analyses of the ashes
of various plants, in which the column
devoted to magnesia contains numbers
varying from ten per cent. for hemp
to seventeen per cent. for maize. The
ashes of wheat contain, according to the
same table, 1919 per cent magnesa. 1t
has been the custom for the last thirty
years in the most elementary lectures
to state that the ash of wheat is almost
exclusively made up fsphosphates, pot
ashes and magnesia. M. Joulie himself
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-12-31
The City and Country.
From the New York Sun.

The dweller in the city sees substan-
tally the same surroundings the year
through, but the man who has moved to
a suburban residence Is likely to be
surprised when the leaves have fallen
from the trees, for then be sees houses,
church steeples, and other objects, near
and far, of whose existence he had be-
fore had no knowledge.
Sometimes these revelations are
pleasant and sometimes unpleasant,
but usually they are agreeable, and if
he STAYS there it is likely that with
recurring years he will have rather a.
friendly feeling for certain distant
buildings which appear prominently
when the winter season comes and dis
appear again in the spring.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-12-31
IceliOuses.

Every farmer should be carpenter
enough to make frames for the hot
bed and to build also some place in
which he can store ice for the summer
use. 1t needs no elaborate or expensive
structure Any enclosure of rough
boards or slabs that Will hold III place
the packing of straw, tanbark or shay
ings foot thick around the ice and two
feet deep above it, roof that will pro-
tect it from rains and flooring that
allows the water that results from melt
ing to drain off quickly, but that will not
allow warm air to pass up beneath it..
Thorough ventilation between the upper
packing and the roof, and close storage
of the ice, will SO protect 1t that small
lot (say some ten tons) will furnish a
supply for family and dairy use upon
more than one farm all the summer
Even where there is other work for
the winter, or where iIl-health makes it
cheaper to buy than cut ice, it is cheap
er t. buy by the load upon the pond
and pack it away in the winter, rather
than to buy it at retail during the sum-
mer. Perhaps the saving in cost may
not be great, but there will be the adj
vantage of always having plenty, and
only those who have tried it know how
much better that is than having it SO
scanty as to furnish about half supply.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-12-31

PEOPLE who hunt gas leaks with match
es light out as soon as they strike alight.
-Pihsburg Dispatch.