The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-05-13
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

-Exper1mentS were IcScutiy aAA"e1~ -
Toulon, France, for illuminating the
bottom of the sea with electric lamps.
The apparatus employed was sunk IN
six fathoms and it illuminated the bot
tom to a radius OF one hundred feet 1t
Is thought that the lamp will be OF the
greatest value for surveying wrecks or
for accommodating for concealed torpe-
does.
Numbers of experiments have been
made to test the speed and destination
of corked bottles thrown into the sea
in various parts of the world. The most
remarkable example was that in which
bottle travelled 5000 miles in about
two years and half-roughly. at the
rate of 81 miles Day. 1t travelled from
6S degrees south latitude and 90 de-
qrees west longitude to western Aus
tralia-
The packinghouses in Chicago arc
so arranged that the blood is all caught
in a great tank, and after it clots 1t Is
carried off to stampinghouse, where
numerous and powerful machines are
kept busy stamping it into buttons
The buttons are made at one stamp OF
the big dies, and they are said to wear
~e,nar i,.hlv we'll These buttons are
easily DISTINGUISHED bv their peculiar
aarL rcd color.
A collector of curios in New York
.;tv nr;des himself on piece of quartz
thst has two CRYSTALS on its face. These
,s.,1s f,r,,, a n..rfect cross. one inter-
..ot;rr the other at right angles, and a
| 1;,tle Follow behind them throws them
| inc h;oh relief 1t is the only known
srec;,nen Of the kind. and came from
H. ,v.s+ Tho Indians used to have q
noet;cal tradition that the small crys-
t.Is - +b;s mineral found on the upper
Hudson and about Lake George were
tbe tears of stricken deer solidified
h.nared and seven.
s;s.-a,t l,;rds ~ plants which
~. a..en and relished bv cows. Goats
eat four hundred and forty-nine differ
.r+ rIants ar vegetables. Sheep eat
three hundred and eighty-seven varie-
t;.s while the horse will taste of only
two hundred and sixty-two, and the
hoo rejects all but scventy-two differ
.nt l,;nds of food. Among the grains
ord grasses which are liked by all these
.n;r,als are. Timothy, clover, oats
h.rIev wheat rye. buckwheat, sorrel.
cowsi;ps. sourgrass and sweet thistle.
,:ss,.aa M.rv,arders recall
.u na.;,.sa,rh;o Wilmington &
.aa. ono - .rossea the Susnue
naie'n0o - A. Coo On the ice il
m nan" 1s.o In those DAYS the rive
,r.s Mt hr;doed at that point, and tn,
ia steamboat MARYLAND, burned no
Iorr s;rce in this harbor, carried tn
: tra;ns across ON her deck. The rive
; froze solidlv in February, however, S
+hat the boat could not cross, and o
Fsbruarv 10 the company finished ls,
;rr ito track across on the ice. Fo
some time trains crossed the river !
This fashion.
. All - ~. uembsrs of the Boot
~.o,1art fancers Int FL
FANNY VIZ e~ 49, Lrovn 70 lose hin
WIN nae 49, - $500 .onf,;ct as n
SCI, ~ W.. s.s =: - the tradition
+ Iatne. ulu' rs = .haot.r that II
y Q, onn Ill ,I.v;nr ..R;cba,
y 1 cir D,,oS he p;chrond unite ov,
IS H. Da.sI "a into tho bass drur
8 Iohn wilkes Booth once cautioned {
= actor n he well on his guard in a col
= hat th.t thew were to fight togethe
" hec.use he fBooth) sometimes forg
). himself The actor answered, IF y
:, = draw blood on me. sir, the fight will
:. n earnest" This was at the Bost,
= Museum. The actors name was Ric
= :; ard Whalley.
i ,a~ce notwithstanding
- ,,..n1as :, New work. c;tv in viii
= ss.a !. ssrarafed from the rep:
"A ~ ne ~ ~, : whole block. The two q
:. snop ~ hn svnat seems to be a te'
~ oo.,t that q i;nole bell work
:. tr str;no i substituted for era
n ~ conc Asa matter of fact there
~ an' dg5oatr;c;tv about this affair. T
- ~ conductor IS merely a piece
10 -4sorr Irvine. knotted at each e
!, me-: nae' 1;ttie sheenskin diaphragm til
Il. = :. etched like 3 drum head over
hv ,,1;adsr not So large as a mans q
in Tow .stelephones'' of similar descr
ne ton are sold in the streets, but this
perhaps the first instance OF tn
,rt adoption for practical business p
IN poses.
he "A renorter who was passing throt
M ora,;d district in the lower part
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