The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1892-11-19
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

peculiar boycott Is in progress
Fargo, N. D. The business men of Il
Town have boycotted the Northern p,
- enc railroad because the company won
Dulo new station and hotel Their,
- iney have issued circular to all thej
= business connections asking them !
- snip their goods over other lines.
-Ata public sale in the armory
"estchester, Pa, on August 4, of tn
8 enects OF deceased old lady, the auc
uoneer held up an old collar box an,
! sa,d; Here is pint of human teeth
!, "nat IS bid for themY The teeth wer,
mementoes, gathered from the mouth,
Oh scores OF the old lady's relatives
They sold for one cent
man at Peaks Island. Me.
dropped nickel into the slot of j
, monograph one day last week, but the
nacnine failed to give out the promised
music. Thereupon the man became
enraged, for nickels are highly esteemed
: In the outlying peighborhoods of Port.
; land, and smashed the deceitfnl rhono-
graph into bits to recover his money.
i. The largest sample of gold quartz
ever mined in Montana was taken out of
the Mcintyre lode. Its weight is 1. 7S5
pounds 1T came from near the surface
mere are other large samples, which
came from the Shafer shaft at the dentb
OF ITO feet; one from the Musser shaft.
l0o Feet and another from the working
shaft, 200 feet All are destined for exbi-
oition at the worlds fair at Chicago.
The young and the old are smart in
the Pine Tree state Ida Gibbs, the ten
year-old daughter of John Gibbs. of
| Brooks, Me-, has driven a horse rake ali
| over one hundred acres of hav fields
this summer. raking the hay up clean.
ana has taken care of the horses he
SIDES. The town of Cooper, Me-, boasts
OF a lady OF seventy-three who rakes nm |
after moving machine as well as anv
of the men,
ALondonpaper, mentioning a recent |
anarchist meeting, says that speeches |
We're delivered in Yddish. This is a
term employed to designate the oueer
mixture of Hebrew, German and other
words that is called jargon in New
York. Jargon is SO extensively spolxen
and read that it is profitable to issue
several newspapers in that Language.
Inc expression ''our esteemed iargon
contemporary is found occasionally in
the Jewish papers of the higher class.
ana It's use does not imply any DISPOSE.
ton to speak slightingly.
-Marshalrs gold nugget will he
exhibited at the worlds fair by Califor. /
MA, and it is safe to say that thousands
VIII consider it one of the most inter. f
estlng OF the innumerable objects which b
VIII De displayed at the great cxposi- n
lion This is the identical NUGGET !,
which Marshall picked up in the Amer y
can river, February 10, 1s4s. when =
selecting site for Suffers mill. and :,
which constituted the first discovery ~ a,
!oid in California The nugget is about 5,
he size of lima bean, and. on acconnt !,
7 us associations and the almost in v,
alcuiable wealth and development q,
which have resulted from its finding. i 81
egarded as an almost priceless treas in
re.
Inc Hebrew intellect is displayed al
, great advantage not only in fiuance
ut In chess Mr.. Blaclburne, the rem su
English player, was recent. su
deieated by Herr Lasker, a Hebrew. on
nd IL Is said that large proportion. M
'rnaps one-half, OF the recognized ad
masters" OF chess in Europe are of 70,
ebrew extraction. Both in London de-
ID on the contineot Jewish PLAYERS ~ e0
lent are to be found in great nur,. mr.
rs. In the contest for trophy late sol
oifered by London newspaper Of int
four most successful players three fat
ere Jews The power of close and nu
curatc calculation, which is cbarae- flo,
'lstlc OF the race, makes them skillfnl sof
the game of chess. reo,
The streets and public grounds Of Bos
ashington are shaded by over seventy
'usand trees. including eight him.
"a varieties and species, some of Hos
lch are to be found nowhere else in
ierlca. These trees have becn a
nted by many industrious men. from . vi
nrst president to the present ono OF
ere are in the CITY 3sf large ara OF
Ill reservations, the latter he;nc viii
med by the intersection of the tabs
nues, which radiate from the capitol MS I
white house, with the regular Cant
'ets. In all, these cover an arpre- at u
OF 900 acres, all of which are COW oy
! with trees, the care of which tan,
= the nurseries and propagatinc tiorf
dens, costs $4,000 annually. man
A New Yorker taking 4 Sundav deor
II not far beyond the city limits 10
surprised at the conduct of two fren
OF sparrows that fiuttered in the The
foot or SO above bare rock in the ca IN
It OF an empty pasture. Now and . n
bird would light on the rock. good
most OF the time the grayish-brown DC q
poised uneasily just over the spot proae
oked at first as if the birds werc IN WI
hing insects, though none were at
le On the human Intruder 49, lengt
pproach the birds still in the air seven
hight, and almost as many more was Q
~ out Of the urnss ;,v,-.,:-.o, on st
the rock. At the same instant At tn
cad and rapidly moving tongue Of are al
&c blacksnake became visible inst medal
ID the rock, and he too made off pineal
8 apparently clear case Of birt, ABOUT
ming by the snake. eignel
Tho Newapapsrs OF Persia. uink'
ent travellers in Persia find the ~ Is =
papers OF that land q source az lccts 9
NAL amusement. There were none ses'e
e shan returned from Europe two ars, !
ago. While in Paris he saw the i I"n B
n with newspapers in their hands News