The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-09-14
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


thority on the subject, says: Next
time, dear madam, that you are sea-
sick place a piece of ice in your mouth,
and keep it there. When it Is gone
take another piece. After that lie
down and go to sleep iii peace"
In round numbers the total amount
OF life insurance written by the differ
ent insurance companies of the world is
s12, 1000, 900, ,0OO Of this sum S5, 500, OO0,-
900 is placed in the United States. Be-
tween the years 1880 and 1890 there
was 50, 500, 0O0,O new life insurance
written in this country and but 81, ,O00,-
! 900, 900 in the whole of the British EN-.
| pire.
While riding in her buggy, near
Iron mountain, Cal; Mrs. Kamene saw
| what she thought to be three little
! dogs playing in the road. She stopped
| to admire their antics, when mount:
ain lioness sprang from the brush and
| planted two paws on the buggy. She
| Struck the animal on the head with her
| whip, lashed her horse and escaped.
The little dogs" were young lions.
| To see the worlds fair and walk
through the buildings the grand total
is something in excess of one hundred
| and eighteen thousand feet or nearly
twenty-three miles. This estimate does
not include state, government or priv
ate buildings; the plaisances is ignored,
and no account is taken of the long
! jumps from one building to another A
walk Of about forty miles is necessary
to do the whole thing up.
One of the curious inhabitants of
| the far east side tenement district in
New York is lamb, which disports it.
self upon the low roofs in the vicinity.
1t capers about apparently at home and
at ease, though there is nothing green
in sight save some of the distant streets
of Brooklyn. The lamb was apparent
ly once white, but is now dingy gray,
and east side associations promise to
transform 1t into d veritable black
sheep.
Meeting rooms and wedding rooms
to let," is sign met with in New York
The Hebrew custom of celebrating a
marriage in public hall peculiarly fits
the exigencies of east side life. tmust
be an exceedingly private wedding that
could be performed in the ordinary
tenement-house apartment, and there
are many saloon keepers who find it
profitable to provide an apartment
where friends of couples about to be
made happy may come and see the GER
emony.
I'm 1899 congress fixed the relative
value of silver and gold at to Is; this
was an over valuation as compared
with that of foreign countries and as a
result gold was exported: in 1884 the
standard Was altered 1 to Is, while
among other nations it was about to
| 1519, and an outflow of silver began
and continued until 1858, when a read
iustment was made to | to 14.SS and
silver was made legal tender for
sums under five dollars In 1878 the
Standard was again changed and fixed
at to 14.95.
One of the highest bridge structures
in America is the Kinzua creek viaduct,
situated on a branch of the New York
& Lake Erie railroad which runs
through the Bradford oil regions into
the Elk county coal fields. 1t is three
hundred and one feet high from the
top of the rail to the bottom of the
stream below, two thousand and fifty
two feet long, is single tracked and con-
tains exactly three million, five hun
dred thousand pounds of iron work.
The roadbed of the viaduct is two thou.
sand and five feet above the sea level
1t was built in 1882 and cost the COM
pany two hundred and seventy-five
thousand dollars.
"A book of "Household Elegancies,
published less than forty years ago in
this country, gives an idea of the rapid
changes in public taste in America in
the matter of what is esteemed to be
the beautiful. From this it appears
leather flowers and fruit vanished, ,anC
panes of glass painted and set in wood
en- frames were things of loveliness
Also, that boxes and baskets with sea
shells glued upon them, and glass vases
with colored pictures fastened on by
transparent paste, were appropriate fol
the parlor. There are hints for making
wreaths out of human hair, and mot
toes out of colored worsted and perfor
ated cardboard. Wax fruit and flow
ers NAV occasionally be found in board
ing house parlors, and notices and
samplers in country houses, but soundel
forms of art, less expensive and trouble
some, nevertheless, are seen in most
places.
Five states-Iowa, Vermont, Mich
igan, Wisconsin and Illinois-have NJ
interest bearing bebt, and there are
six or seven states whose bonded debt
are mere bagatelles. Among the mum
Der are New Jersey, Nebraska, Ken
tucky and California. To foreigner
or anyone else not familiar with the
facts, this would convey the impression
that the Americans bear an extremely
light burden of debt. Such an ide;
would be somewhat modified, however
by the knowledge that the Atchison
Topeka & Santa Fe pays interest ol
$500, 600, 900 or more, the annual inter
est charge exceeding $4,000, ,O00-al
most as much as the entire interes