The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1891-02-26

floor which forms the bottom of the de-
ceptive cage.
Tho rat walks boldly up to the
cheese and says: Il have been lodging
cat all morning, and. CAD, cooks, but
I'm hungry. l guess I'll try little of
the cheese. !"
The rat, who was fat and jolly, took
the cheese in his month. His teeth
touched tho wire. The moment ne did
so he completed the circuit between the
wire and the zinc floor. Fifty volts of
continuous current went dancing
through him at the rate of a thousand
miles a second.
His toes turned up. His tail waved in
| the air and twisted itself into forty
seven inexplicable knots. He dropped
down as dead as door nail-and the
| cheese still hung on the nail The res
taurant was still open for business as
usual.
A rat who had come along like dep
uty coroner, just in time to see the
close of the tragedy, said: tWhat a
hebetudinous crank that rat was! The
old restaurant is good enough for me.
/ don't believe in the Kemmler sort of
| execution"
| 1t is averred by an amateur natural
| ist that the rats of New York have re-
Gently held a large convention and pro-
| tested against electrical execution. All
declared that if they must die they pre-
ferred to be killed in the good old
fashioned way by cats.
The new Omaha rat-trap is merely
| the electrical mooe of execution applied
to rats. Each rat that wanders in and
nibbles the cheese becomes link IN
| the electric circuit and dies in the
same way that Kemmler died.
The principle being simple one and
easy of application, it may ultimately
be applied in the killing of cattle and
pigs in the stock yards. A four hum
dred-pound pig may walk into zinc
pen, start to eat an ear of corn which
hides an electric wire, drop down, curl
up his tail and die
Another useful invention is the cleo
trio cane. Young men who have gone
home in an exhilarated condition and
found the key-hole missing, or so elusive
] that man couldn't have hunted it
down with forty night keys, will highly
appreciate the new invention. 1t is a
stylish cane which would give distinc-
tion to young clerk taking his usual
Sunday walk on Fifth avenue. There
is miniature electric battery hidden
n the end of the cane, and an electric
light concealed under the top of the
cane.
| When, after pursuing a azig-zag course,
| the lucky owner of one of these canes
arrives at his lodgings and finds that
the xey-holo has gone around the block,
he unscrews the top of the cane Then
he touches little button in the cane
and Instantly an electric flame glows
and throws flood of light on the key
hole. The young man walks upstairs
and goes to bed by the light of his cleo
trio cane It is pleasanter than falling
over the porch, ringing up the house
and carrying the stairs up to bed with
you.
If the young man drops his last one
cent piece at the Bridge entrance, he
may light his electric cane and look for
it. If he drops his pocket book he may
find it by the aid of this ingenious in
vention. He may pick his way through
the little side streets on dark night
by following this luminous cane. If he
should encounter q highwayman, the
terrified footpad would throw up his
hands and run as soon as he saw the
electric light glittering and flashing
from the head of the electric walking
stick. The modern Dick Turpins would
suppose that it was an enchanted cane,
and that the fortunate possessor of il
was not real person. but some weird
avenging spirit.
j Every one knows that enc os The