The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1891-02-19
NUMBER 81.
o. eENERAL lNTEREsT.

-1ne microscope SHOWS human hAlk
to be like coarse, round rasp, with II
regular ragged teeth.
"A contract has been made at Salem.
Ore, to dig a ditch three miles long for
the drainage Of Lake Labish, by which
means 8. 500 acres of valuable land will
be reclaimed.
Judges ought to be more learned
than witty, more reverent than plausi-
BILE and more advised than confident
Above all things, integrity is their por-
tion and proper virtue
"A French doctor has recently been
collecting statistics with regard to those
of his patients who complain Of nervous
affections, with the result that he has
come to the conclusion that the prime
cause of all the trouble is the practice
of reading in the train.
An advertisement has been running
in a Bristol. England paper for the last
year offering fifty dollars reward for any
we'll authenticated case OF child be-
ing carried away by an eagle, no matter
in what country. No eagle ever did it.
The many alleged instances must 90 to
| join William Tell Detroit Free Press.
Edward Bellamy's notion Of pub
lie umbrella has been put into opera
tion in new street in one of London's
| suburbs, where the SIDEWALK is sheltered
| by glass roof ten feet wide, supported
| by slim. graceful pillars rising from the
curb. Everybody halls this innovation
with delight and there is q great
| clamor to have its use extended
throughout London.
The amount of celery sold in the
Boston markets is said to be nearly TEN
fold as much as ten years ago. We have
seen no estimate for New York, but
should Judge that the increase Is even
greater than in Boston. Well-blanched.
crisp, tender celery is a delicious and
wholesome vegetable, and deserves to
be more widely used than it is And
the parts that can not be eaten raw are
excellent whom cooked
AN elderly lady and her daughter
stood on the elevated station at
Twenty-third street awaiting an on
coming train, upward bound, says the
New York Tines Don't try to take
this one" the daughter urged its
jammed full !" The old lady cast re-
proachful look upon her younger COM
panion, and mournfully remarked;
There isn't doubt about it's being
full; but all the same don't see any
necessity for swearing aboutit." !"
Probably five hundred newspapers
recently chronicled the story that two
Kansas men few weeks ago found So. :
600 in gold in an iron pot in sgully near
a certain town Now, the papers, Of
course, acted in good faith in printing
the story, but as matter of fact they
were fooled by an unprincipled liar.
There were no such men, no such gully,
no such town, no iron pot and no So 000
Stories about the finding of buried
treasure, and about live snakes in peo-
ple's stomachs. as a rule, need not be
believed. IN. Y. Tribune.
One of the sights worth seeing in
New York City this fall was group Of
aquatic plants in the fountain basin in
Union Square. There were several
varieties OF water lily from India and
Japan, one of them of an exquisite
pink color, clump of Egyptian papy-
rus, an Egyptian floating plant and
other interesting growths from far oil
lands These were numbered, and the
names botanical and common1 corre-
spending to the numbers were given on
tablet beside the basin, so that the
spectators might at once crafty the
eye and inform the mind
Mr. Emile Berliner, OF Washington
City. according to the Washingto Post
has perfected his invention for repro
ducing sound A disk of polishea zinc
is covered with fatty film for an etch-
ing ground. 1t is placed on a turn-
table, and as one talks in tube the
disk is revolved and the vibrations
caused by the sound are traced in the
film by small PEN The etched plata
is put in chronic ac.d, and in fifteen
minutes is ready for use. It is put on
another turntab and revolyed by the
turning of q crank. A stf pen traces
the etched lines and reproduces the
vibrations on rubber or vulcanite dia'
phragm, by which the original sound Il
carried into the tube. The pitch Of tbs
reproduced voice can be made high d
low, according as the crank is turneI
rapidly or slowly