The Bossier banner., 1892-04-14
MISCELLANEOUS.

souri, two unusually fat babies were
proudly exhibited by their fond parents.
The oldest, aged 5 years, weighs 1o1
pounds, and the youngest, aged "a
years, weighs 93 pounds
= --Adah Isaacs Menken, the dazzling
footlight favorite of generation ago.
sleeps in a weed-grown grave IN tue
Paris cemetery of Pere-la-Chaise. Out
side of an occasional curious tourist few
people visit her last resting place, ont
her fate in this respect is hardly diner-
ent from that of many others OF ner
kind who people that wonderful city OF
the dead.
"A man weighs less when the bar
ometer is high, notwithstanding the
fact that the atmospheric pressure on
him is more than when the barometer
is ow. AS the pressure OF air on an
| ordinary sized man is about fifteen tons,
e rise of the mercury from twenty
nine to thirty-one inches adds about one
| ton to the load he has to carry.
| Boards were at various times taxed
in England, and the sheriff OF Canter-
bury paid three shillings and four
pence for wearing beard. In the
first year of Elizabeth's reign every
beard of above a fortnights growth
was taxed three shirlings and six pence,
but the law was too absurd to be en-
forced. Peter the Great imposed tax
of a rouble upon boards, but it was
soon cancelled.
I'm May, June and July the weather
on the Neva is as hot as 1T is in sum
mer time in Queensland, and the chief
!. delights of the people whose othclal
duties detain them in the capital is TO
be rowed about the Neva in the soft and
mellow cleaning and to experience the
. pleasurable sensation of being able to
read the newspaper without the ald OF
{ artificial light at IL p m
The number. of water works In op-
e Grafton or under construction in the
e United States is 2O37, and the number
= OF towns and cities supplied is 2,1S7
4 PENNSYLVANIA has 216 works for sup
e plving 245 towns, while New York has
L 199 works for 21S towns. Massachusetts,
e has 1913, Michigan 113. California 1OS,
:. and Illinois 102 works Twenty-Five
s. cities have duplicate or triplicate plants.
In it's old use as ribs for umbrellas
% whalebone has been superseded by the
a lighter and more durable steel. Al
= though the demand on the importers
% each year has been growing steadily
less it's value has increased. In 1873
r there were 3,544 hundred weight OF q
"a value of 1888, $50; while in 1877, though
to the quantity was only 1869 hundred
" weight, the value was $414,9S5,
70 The second book printed in the En-
glish language was ''The Game ant
Playe of the Chesse," which the titl'
III page saws was "Fynshid the last day o
III Marche, the yer of our lord god a thou
re sande foure hondred and LXAltj
he Only twelve copies of the work are nov
n0 known to exist. In 1918 an Englishma
y bv the name of Alchorne sold his cop
ia' for a sum equal to S27O of United State
IA currency. Fifty-six years later, in 1867
es tie same volume ian imperfect copy
II was sold for 81, 150 The British M
ST. scum has refused an offer of $4,000 fo
d.. it's COPY, which is imperfect to the e.
tent of having seven leaves missing
King Lobengula of Matabeleland Ina
ne recently proclaimed that he will sen
Ism his regiments on raids no more, bs
ay that he will develop his country wit
90 the aid of the white man. Four yea
IN ago no white man was permitted to ei
lu- ter Matabeleland without special pc
tn init from the king, and missionari'
IN were advised not to attempt to settle
OF his country if they valued their lives. l.
mo bengula has just made new treaty Wi
nes the British South Africa Company,
Inc which he cedes to them large tract
,rs, country in addition to Mashonaland, al
ha' gives them all the powers and privlleg
mi they require. The company now co
lgh trolls 400 600 square miles in Mantaoe.
ere land and Mashonaland
s II 1t is reported that post marte
examination of Daniel Mummert, W
recently died in Adams county, Pen
-. svlvania, found his stomach literal
alive with lizards. He has been sun
LII ing for some time with what the d'
'ory tors called pulmonary consumption.
un- lort time ago he was seized with q
evi- lent fit of vomiting and threw up
nat small lizards. He gradually sank and
per- his death an examination was held w
the the aforesaid results. 1t is said that
: i travelled about good deal, frequen
drinking from. roadside springs. ant
ns, nrie is thought that he swallowed the liza
Inc in the water, though no theory IS
pos vanced as to how the lizards manal
the to resist the action of the gastric Jul
ank- and 70 escapa smotherinp.
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