The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-03-30
Fresh Gleanings.

- Crinoline and Keno were the
rocks upon which St. Louis merchant,
was wrecked.
- A butcher in Wheeling during
the past thirty-three years has made
625 miles of sausage.
A wife in Chicago divorced by
fraud, married the only witness in the
case. $50
- The police of Philadelphia cap
.tured dry goods store ON wheels.
- The Virginia Legislature is
asked to enact law making produce
a legal tender.
One hundred aud twenty four
Thousand persons have been inferred
in Greenwood Cemetery.
- Travelling on the Mississippi is
about as safe as running blacksmith
shop in powder magazine. So
"A legal inquiry in Milwaukee
Is, "has barber mechanics lien on
the face of his customer for the labor
performed p H
- The chaplain of the New York
Assembly perpetrated the following
pun in prayer: May men of prin
ciple be our principal men,"
J - The Home Journal circulates
the rumor that the poet Whittier is
about tomarry a Philadelphia lady. A
whittier thing he could not do.
- The editor of Mississippi pa
per says he saw two or three white
boys the other day chopping wood,
and thereupon he hopes for the rising
: generation
- A man has invented a new and
cheap plan for boarding. One of his
boarders mesmerizes the rest. and then
eats a hearty meal-the mesmerized
body is satisfied from sympathy.
-A Texas paper in illustrating
the advantages of advertising states
that gentleman advertised the. loss
of a $50 note and found it in his pocket
before he reached home.
! - A poor woman at Indianapolis
in order to save herself and children
from starvation, sold her head of hail
to an aristocratic belle of thar city for
j one dollar and fifty cents TT
- Boutwell, says the Supreme
Court exists but by the breath of Con.
gress. Bad breath.
- man in Indiana, who lost tive
/, wives by death, one by elopement ant
one by divorce, has just married again
|
- Phillips says he doesn't wan
the old Union restored. This is pre-
$ cisely the position of the dominan
S party in Congress.
The first gold coin called
''guineas," were struck in the reign O
$ Charles H., and received the name be
v cause they were coined from golG
y brought from Guinea.
- Some adventurous members @
:, the New York City Loyal Leagu
. Swimming Club, have determined t,
swim across the Atlantic on their wa,
to the Paris exhibition.
/ - A candidate for the mayoralit,
: Pensacola, is in favor of abolishing al
h taxes, and sustaining the city govern
= ment by voluntary contributions.
A bar of Montana gold wort
100000 is to be sent to the Pari
: exhibition, and Pennsylvania will hay
there pebble of coal weighing 81
tons.
III Common street, in Montgomery
- Alabama, was the scene of person,
! conflict last week. Two policeme
fred twelve shots at each other an
- wounded one-lamp- post.
ne A Peruvian surgeon in So
c. Francisco warrants very young ladi'
ct the tiniest and most graceful foot |
10 means of the amputation of the lit
e. toe of each foot
IL - A skillful workman in the 0
ar world making costly velvets or rit
rd silks, and laboring from twelve to ST
nd teen hours day, receives about twel
shillings per week. =
A. - A gay and festive preacher
: Richmond is now undergoing the sic
torment of a church trial on char