The Bossier banner., 1893-10-05
NUMBER 81.
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

slphon tube, drawing water from the
earth by mechanical means. In parts
of Russia, in the Don country, and also
in Moscow and vicinity, it is known by
a name which is equivalent to 'the
bent water-pipe."
The great cave in the Black Hills
region is said to be 50 miles long, and
contains nearly 1900 rooms, some of
them 200 feet high having been opened.
There are streams, waterfalls and
81 lakes, one of which is an acre in ex-
tent The cave is 5000 feet above sea
level and 400 feet below the earth's sur
face.
An ingenious contrivance for record
ing sunshine is the recent invention of
Prof. Marvin. The professor describes
the instrument as consisting in princi-
pie of Leslie differential air thermom-
eter-mercury, however, being used to
separate the air in the two bulbs, and
the whole thermometer is designed in
the form of straight tube, having a
bulb at each end.
"A fat car costs about $3.50, fat
bottom coal car $475, gondola drop
bottom $500, double hopper bottom
coke car $780, box car 5000, stock
car $3.50, a fruit car (ventilated) s700
and refrigerator car $780, A four
wheeled caboose costs $3.50, and an
eight-wheeled one $7OO. The prices
given on the above cars include power
brakes and vertical plane couplers.
Although the camel proved unsat-
isfactory for use as beast of burden in
the mining regions of Nevada and Ari.
zona, the animal is rapidly coming into
favor and profitable use in mining
countries in other parts of the world.
1t seems probable that in the mining
industry in South Africa the camel will
take the place of the horse and the bull
lock, nor is it attacked by the diseases
that destroy other beasts of burden.
Germany has 5000, 900 depositors in
savings banks; France, 4,150,0 900; Great
Britain, $3.50, 900; Italy, 1870, 900; Aus
tria, 1,S50,0O0; Switzerland, 100000;
Sweden and Norway, 100000. The
amount of savings deposits in Austria
is 1913, 900, 600; in France, $3.50, 600, 900;
in Great Britain, 1886, 900, 900; in Prus-
sia, s720, 600, 600; in Italy, SS46, 100000;
in Sweden and Norway, 1920, 900, 900; in
Switzerland, S11s,0OO, ,000.-St Louis
obe-Democrat
The first state legislature of New
Jersey, under the new constitution, as
sembled at Princeton, late in August,
1776, and chose WilliamLivingston gov
ernor. Like the New York convention,
the legislature was, on account of mill
tary movements, compelled to meet at
different places, at Burlington, Pittston
and Haddonfeld. At the latter place
it was dissolved, leaving behind it only
a small remnant of the legislature first
assembled. 1t was soon afterwards re-
established.
The word Adirondack" is derived
from the Indian Ha-de-ron-dack (mean-
ing wood eaters), and applied in de-
rision to the remnant of a once-power-
full tribe of Algonquins, who were de-
feated in war by the Iroquois and forced
to seek refuge in the New York wilder
ness, living for weeks upon the bark
and roots of trees, and finally ending
their existence here. The name was
first given to the several ranges and
mountains and finally adopted for the
wilderness as well.
-Paulus Poaius gives the following
description of the unicorn, an animal
now generally admitted by all zoolog-
lists to have only been a creature OF
fable: .IIe is beaste in shape like a
horse, ofa dusty colour, with mayned
necke. hayry bearde and a forheade
armed with horne of the quantity of
two cubits, being of spiral shape, and
of ivory of exceeding puritie and won-
derfull whiteness. 1t also has, the won
derfu1l power of expelling all venome
and poison whatsoever"
"A curious box was recently found
in the ruins of Pompeii. The box was
marble or alabaster, about two inches
square and closely sealed. When opened
II was found to be full of pomatum OF
grease, hard but very fragrant. The
smell resembled somewhat that of the
roses. but was much more fragrant
What the perfume was made of cannot
be conjectured now, but it is singular
that men in the nineteenth century
should be able to regale their noses
with perfumes prepared in the first.
"A customer bought half dozen ci'
pars in a New York store and, adding
ten cents to their cost, said: Take one
yourself. Sam mo, thank you,' said
the dealer, 'I'm not smoking" That's
a poor advertisement for your stock
when YOU won't use it yourself
Cant help that. In this business it''
pretty easy for man to smoke toC
much. and that's what I've been doing
NV stomach has been out of gear TO
three weeks, and l attribute it to that
The trouble I've had all my life, or a
long as I've been in this trade, has beel
to get tobacco that is light enough fo
my own use"
I'm 1776 the state of New Hampshir
made a public declaration of indeper
dence. and established temporar
government, to last during the wa
On June II, 1881, a convention framed
state constitution, which after hume
ous alterations went into force June
1884. The people had been very patti
otic and active during the revolutio
and furnished their full proportion