The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1913-07-17
Items Of Interest.

States farms.
One Oldham (England) machine shop
employs 10000 men.
New York City has $50 hotels which can
care for $50, 900 guests.
Alaska's mineral production since 1889
is valued at S207 100000
The city of New York owns $500 parcels
of land, valued at ST 300 900.
Among the thirteen leading industries of
Montana brewing ranks third.
There are upwards of 100000 female
school teachers in this country.
The farmers of South Carolina have used
this year nearly 1000 900 tons of fertilizers.
Australia is irrigating more than 2,OOO,-
900 acres Of grazing lands with artesian
wells.
Treves, situated picturesquely on the
Moselle River, is probably the oldest town
in Germany.
The largest gold mines in the United
States east of the Black Hills are in North
Carolina.
Paris underground electric railroads are
now carrying more than 400, OOO, 900 pas
sengers year.
Electrical machinery worth more than
S23 100000 was exported from the United
States last year.
Taking the statistics of the world, one
person in every 100 born lives to be sixty
five years of age.
The employees of the treasury department
of the United States Government number
more than 1000.
Draining the Zuider Zee of Holland will
be undertaken in parts. The first dam will
reclaim 500, 900 acres.
The cotton spinning business has been
paying larger profit on investment than
any other Japanese industry.
), The total diamond production in the
Transvaal for 1912 amounted to 2, 131 ,4O5
carats, valued at S11 ,616,232.
). In British Arabia, a native laborer earns
from II to 16 cents day, on which he
supports himself and his family.
) A camel with an average load will travel
cum bered it will reach ninety miles a day
sometimes.
i British railway receipts for the first
twenty weeks of 1918, covering fifty
principal lines, increased nearly S3O,O00,-
600 over 1912.
The output of the gold mines of the
Transvaal increased from S17O, 500, 1897 in
1911 to S1S9, 1856, 635 in 1912, virtually all
of which was exported to England.
Gems of Thought.
} Milton: They also serve who also stand
and wait.
, Tennyson: Killed with unutterable un-
[ kindness.
Longfellow: AS silent as the pictures
on the wall
5 Latin Maxim: Anger manages every
> thing badly.
Carlyle: Literature is the thought of
thinking souls.
: Aristotle: Wicked men obey for fear,
; but the good for love.
Syrus: From the errors of others a wise
man corrects his own.
Lavater: Presumption of every kind
supposes folly at the bottom.
Gutherie: A sunny temper gilds the
edges Of life's blacklist clouds.
James K. Pauldng: Hope is the lead
! ing string of youth; memory, the staff of
age.
southey: AS surely as God is good, SO
surely there is no such thing as necessary
. evil.
Il Burton: A faithful friend is better than
gold-a medicine for misery, an only pos
session.
: Lavater: Just as you are pleased at
8 finding fault, you are displeased at finding
It perfection.
George Macdonald: Do the truth you
Q know, and you shall learn the truth you
O need to know.
n Seneca: The manner of saying or do
It ing anything goes great way in the value
of the thing done.
y Zimmerman: When ill news comes toe
: late to be serviceable to your neighbour
y keep it to yourself.
: Cotton: The seeds of repentance are
sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest
! is reaped in age by pain.
r Sir Walter Raleigh: Whoever com.
70 mands the sea commands the trade; who.
q soever commands the trade of the world
commands the riches of the world, anc
y consequently, the world itself.
n Babcock: To be alive only to appetite
: pleasure, pride, money making, and mo-
!, to goodness and kindness, purity and love
u history, poetry, music, flowers, stars, Goo
10 and eternal hopes, is to be all but dead.
Bishop Horne: The follies, vices anc
= consequent mseries of multitudes, dis.
, played in newspaper, are 80 many ad.
!, monitions and warnings, so many beacons
g continually burning, to turn others from
q the rocks on which they have been ship.
T. wrecked.