The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1875-09-16
GENERAL BREyrT1Es.

HOOP-SKIRTS again next season.
They are tired of being attired in pin
backs already.
WAGON immigration across the Plains
to Oregon this season is unusually
large.
In Great Britain there are $685. ,000,-
900 invested in the production of alco-
hol.
THE army-worm is making terrible
havoc in the province of New Bruins
wick.
The present outlook is favorable for
n larger corn and potato crop than was
ever grown in the United States.
AN Iowa farmer has eighty acres of
corn that stands 16 feet high, and will
average 100 bushels to the acre.
REPORTS from all the large cities still
show a serious mortality among infants.
The prevailing disease is cholera infan-
tum, which is on the increase.
TWENTY years ago there entered and
left one of the depots in Jersey City 40
passenger trains day. Now to accom-
nodate the increased traffic 800 trains
are necessary.
THERE is one town in New England
that claims to be entirely happy and
good. 1t is Eaton, in New Hampshire.
There is not physician, doctor, law
yer, drinking-saloon or pauper in the
place.
PROF. LOOMS, of Yale College, has
been perfecting the genealogy of his
family; and he has already collected
5000 names of persons all descended
from one man, who emigrated to this
country 800 years ago.
A NEW arrangement of musical
glasses, thirty-two in number, has been
invented by Portuguese gentleman, on
which very elaborate music can be
played, and which is said to initiate
closely the human voice. He calls it
the ''copophone. -
LUTHER BRYANT, the old New York
coin dealer who was robbed of SIC, 900
in gold coin last year, has had an offset
to his bad luck. His aunt, who lived
in Massachusetts, died lately, leaving
him farm of 200 acres and s. 200 be-
sides.
MADAME IMAGINATION is proving very
successful in collecting subscriptions for
the sufferers by the French foundations.
She has received already about 81 $780,
600. The Viceroy of Egypt sent 49,
600, and Prince Henry, brother of the
King of Holland, $500.
A FARMER, whose cows stepped over
the bounds of his brush fence and wan
dered off, sought to keep them home
by placing over each of their eyes a
handful of damp plaster of Paris, which,
when hardened, rendered them blind.
They were discovered by some parties
fishing, and a complaint was entered
against their inhuman owner.
A CRAZY man who threw stones at
train on the Boston Railroad, has ex-
planned his motive. s'All the trains, -
he said, tcarry the globes. These
globes are of glass, and inside painted
red; their use is, in the hands of vii
lains, to discover the thoughts of those
who may happen to get within the circle
of their influence -
PENNIES are scarce at the South, and
the Atlanta Herald thinks the fact is sig
nificant Of shiftless habits. In coun-
try where nothing is sold for less than a
nickel there can be little saving of the
pennies. Now, the philosopher says if
we take care of them they will some
time take care of us.
A MEETING was recently held in Lon
don, to take measures for erecting a
memorial of some kind over the grave
OF Byron, the poet, in the church of
Hucknal-Torchard where he is buried
Mr.. Disraei presided at the meeting and
Trelawney, author of the Memorials
of Byron and Shelley" attended.
The Empress Josephine was exceed
ingly fond of perfumes, particularly of
musk. Although so many years have
elapsed since her death, the present
owner of Malmaison can not remove the
scent of musk from the dressing room
occupied by the empress. The walls
have been repeatedly washed and paint
ed, but no treatment is able to remove
the odor of musk from the room.
JOHN GUY VAssAR, nephew of the
founder of Vassar College, is unques-
tionably the greatest traveller the world
has ever known. He first crossed the
ocean in the British Queen in 1910, and
has been almost constantly ON the 60
during the intervening IS years, re-
turning home every year or two, only
to remain few months and then take a
new start for tour round the world,
or to some remote quarter of the globe
almost every inhabitable part of
which he has visited once or oftener.
A KNOWLEDGE of the works of Chau-
Ger is recommended as part of the
English education of young men who
desire to become officers of the British
army. This recommendation was dis
eussed the other night by the House of