The Bossier banner., 1894-04-26
Of GENERAL INTEREST.


The coin is of brass and is in fair
state of preservation.
There are three theories of typhoid
fever: O The German theory that it
is caused by specific germ; (2) the
French theory that it is caused by
bacillus which only under certain con-
ditions is dangerous; and (3) that it
may be caused by any of number of
germs.-N. Y. Evening Post
On the Island of St. George, one of
the Pribylov group in Behring sea, the
breeding of blue foxes has become very
profitable. They generate very rapid
ly, and when an island of good size
once becomes well stocked it is impos-
sible to deplete it, as the law provides
that they must not be shot, but trapped,
the restriction being imposed mainly
to keep them tame.
1t is said that $4,000, 900 has been
made out of single brand of chewing
gum. 1t is not all used, by the way,
by children and foolish women. Dent
lists often recommend chewing gum for
| the teeth, and physicians prescribe it
| sometimes as an aid to digestion, be-
cause it excites the action of the sali-
vary glands. Large drug houses keep
| gum in answ r to this demand.
One of the sights of China is the
antique bridge of uen-Tchen- Fow,
$500 feet long and twenty feet wide. 1t
has upon each side fifty-two piers upon
which huge stones are laid. some of
them twenty feet long. Many thou
sand tons of stone were used in the
erection of this wonderful bridge,
which is regarded by engineers as in
dicating constructive talent as wonder
ful as that which raised the Egyptian
pyramids
Aluminium is gradually working it's
way into various products in the iron
line Experiment has proved that
aluminium mixed with iron makes the
latter metal pour smoothly, prevents
blow holes and liability of cracking
and benefits the iron in every way.
Such experiments have been made by
the Michigan Stove Co. at Chicago.
The success of the test will undoubted-
ly arouse interest in iron manufactur-
ing circles.
Congressman Blair, of New Hamp-
shire, spends more of his time in the
senate chamber than he does in the
house. He does not feel at home in
the busy atmosphere of the house, can
not accustom himself to its way, so he
goes over to his old senate haunts,
where he feels more at home. He wan
ders about the senate chamber hour
after hour, and talks to democratic
senators more than to those on the re-
publican side.
The Woman's Christian Temper
ance union was organized in New York
state twenty years ago, with twelve
hundred members It now has nine
hundred local unions, with a member
ship of twenty-five thousand, and four
hundred honorary members; the Loyal
Temperance Legions have member
ship of nineteen thousand; while thirty
thousand children have signed the
triple pledges against profanity, tobac-
co and liquor.
Women now have full suffrage
can vote for all elective officers
Wyoming, Colorado, New Zealand, Ice
land, Isle of Man, Jersey, and Pitcairn
Island. This includes an erea of 345,
723 square miles, an erea greater than
all the Atlantic states combined, or
than all the states on the Pacific. The
population of this great territory is 1, :
2S7, 1900, or more than that of New
Hampshire, Vermont, Oregon, and
Delaware combined.
in 1902 the women took SO long to
dress that Father Menot Franciscan
friar, loudly declared: "Oh. you won.
en-! beware of hell. What devil keeps
you dressing so long? Though you
have only to step across the gutter to
enter church, l am certain it would
take less time to clean out stable of
forty-four horses than to wait till all
your pins are fastened in the places.
Your pins are the invention of the
devil No one but Satan could have
devised such monstrosities"
The head-dresses of the reign OF
Louis XIV. were wonderfully made.
They were frameworks of wire, from
two to four feet high, divided into tiers
and covered with bands of muslin, rib
bons, chenille. pearls, flowers and
aigrettes. The lowest tier was called
the solitary one, the next the duke
then came the duchess, the capuchin
the cabbage, the asparagus, the cat
the organ pipe, the first sky, the sec
ond sky and the mouse, the last being
little bow of ribbon at the peak O
the remarkable structure.
China has at last one complete rail
| way. 1t is the short line connecting
: Tien-tsin with Shannai-kwan, a towI
| in the eastern part of the great Chimes
wall, where the latter runs down tn
l Gulf of Liau-tung. There is certain
| anachronism in the association of tn,
t 'iron horse" so emblematic of ou
, modern celebrity of communication
: with the Chinese wall, which stands a
I the personiication of obstruction t
: free intercourse. However, this ney
: Chinese railroad is itself an anomaly
+ it is not intended for traffic. IT vii
i carry neither merchandise nor passer
t gers, Having been built simply fo
4 strategic purposes, it will be strictl
t confined to military uses. The seda
s chair will continue to be the vehicl,
, for overland journeys in China, an