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

The town of Addison, in Maine, has
seventeen couples who have been
married fifty years and over.
One of the suggestions for the Chi.
cage worlds fail is a gigantic iron tent
covering 200 acres, with an iron tower
in the center 1900 feet high, CORES
ponding to the tent pole.
1t is estimated that from $4,000 to
500, coo worth of nitrate of silver and
gold is used every year by the photo
graphers of the United States in making
the millions of photographs.
"A Canton, China, paper estimates
that $50, 900 people die every year in
China by fire and flood, but it is not salts
fed 1.-THE fact is" it remarks with cold
blooded cynicism, 1.-THE great need Of
China is the sudden removal of 2,0O0,-
coo or 5000, 900 inhabitants to make
elbow-room for those who are left.
1t is said that Cinnamon on the Pa
ciic coast lease property for twelve
months, and then lease it to Cinnamon
for thirteen months, that being tho
number of months in the Chinese year.
The Chinaman is rapidly learning to bo
good American business man.
1t has been estimated that more
than 400, 900, 900 human mummies were
made in Egypt from the beginning OF
the art of embalming until its discon-
tinuance in the seventh century. Hero
dotus and Diodorus agree in the state
| ment that there were three grades OF
embalming The first cost about S1,225,
the second about 1915 and the third was
very cheap.
funny thing at one of the hospi-
tails last month"; said an undertaken.
''What was it?" so, doctor who loves
to see his name in print had long &C
count of a delicate surgical operation he
had misunderstanding tumor, be
lieve. The whole thing was infinitely
described. and the doctor was praised
highly. Bat no mention was made O
the fact that my services were required
for the patient died the next day. ANY
one reading the item would have sup
posed that the sufferer had been re
stored to perfect health. "--Cincinnat
Times-Star.
"A young hunter and guide of the up
per Aroostook region in Maine, gets hi
living wholly in the forests. In summe
he acts as guide for certain New Yorl
sportsmen who spend the summer regu
larly in the forests about the head
waters of the Aroostook. During tn
winter he carries on all alone through
out the season the business of trapping
He is most of the time fifty to sevent
miles from the nearest settlement. Hi
traps, about two hundred in number, ar
stretched from the headwaters of the ST
John to the headwaters of the Pencil
scot southwark.
in a recent report on the prevalent
of diphtheria at Enfield, England, d
Bruce Low, of the Medical Departmer
of the local government board, gay
some striking instances of the long-su
pected fact that infectious diseases ma
be spread by domestic animals. Cat
being the most common household pc
are especially liable to carry disease
children. DIR. Low mentions numbf
of cases where these domestic ANNA
were afflicted with diphtheria duriT
, the epidemic in Enfield, and were CIV
IDENTIFY the agents for conveying it
, children who fondled them. Und
, these circumstances Miss Pussy CO
hardly be considered harmless" ho7
ever necessary she may be in other r
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