The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1875-09-30
GENERAL BREVITIES.


A FARMER in Spencer, Md. set out
an acre of MULLEN by mistake, thinking
it to be tobacco.
FOREIGN fruit is rapidly disappearing
from the United State markets, and
fruit of domestic growth is taking its
place.
AN Ohio paper says that a baby in
Findlay, that State whose mother was
a great croquet player, has perfectly
shaped mallet on its arm.
The indianapolis Journal deems it a
singular fact that few Americans know
the words of our national songs. 1t
particularizes thus: sit is safe to say
that score of parties in this vicinity
tried, on July 5, to sing The Star
Spangled Banner, and failed because
no one knew the words. All knew the
tune, but nobody the text
The penalty of the law against pro-
fame swearing-$2 fine-was enforced
in Richmond Va. twice on Saturday,
and the Wing thinks that if every po-
hceman and constable in the State
would use ordinary vigilance, in the
course of a year or two sufficient sum
could thus be realized to pay off the
State debt.
The other day, at Vicksburg, small
colored boy fell into the river and was
rescued in a half drowned condition.
He could easily have been pulled out by
a negro floating along in skiff, and
when some one swore at the darky for
his lethargy, he replied, 'Dis yere is
my last paper collar, and de boy was
kicking water like an alligator -
A BALTIMORE doctor in using cam
els hair brush to cleanse the throat of
little scarlatina patient dropped it into
the child's windpipe, causing death by
suifocation. In making out a certifi-
cate of death he gave scarlatina as the
cause. The affair has just leaked out,
and now the authorities and the Doctors
brother-practitioners are making pain
full inquiries.
AN English boy was fatally injured
through an act of carelessness not at all
infrequent among farmers and their
boys in this country. He was sliding
down the side of a haystack, when he
struck upon the prongs of a pitchfork
leaning against the stack. One prong
entered his back and broke off leaving
six inches of steel imbedded in his
body.
THERE is in Dallas, Texas, chain
l4a feet long, and consisting of $50 diff
ferent silver coins, no two of which are
alike. The coin of almost every coun-
try on the globe is represented in the
chain, which is linked together with
small silver wires. 1t was found in the
Indian Territory, recently, and at one
time was, doubtless, the talisman of
some mighty monarch among the red
men.
NEAR Knoxville, the other night a
young girl, who was unexpectedly in
terviewed by the family as she was
about clipping with the object of her
virgin affections, knocked the old man
down, laid out two brothers with a els
tern pole, kicked the hired man in the
stomach, and got away with her lover.
and ''made the riffie.'' We wish that
heaven had sent us such a woman AS
that.
The death of Rear Admiral Collins
Y-AAOeSo SoAAAAOOOIC Stephen u.
Trenchard to the grade of Rear Admit
raj, but does not affect any officers be-
low the grade of Commodore. The law
allows 20 officers of that grade, and the
act OF the last session of Congress rein
stating Commodore j. c.. Beaumont
made an excess of one in the list. The
promotion Of Commodore Trenchard
leaves % Commodores yet on the list.
the number authorized by law.-Wash-
,fngton Star.
A HANDSOME Arabic Bible. bound in
Fed velvet and gold, was presented to
the Sultan of Zanzibar while in London
by the Earl of Shaftesbury, who be-
sought him to circulate the Christian
Scriptures throughout his dominions.
The Sultan said that he knew perfectly
well what the Scriptures were, and that
he recognized the book the moment he
opened it, having had one previously in
Zanzibar. He added, ssThe words of
Jesus-upon whom be peace-are al
ways acceptable to us. The Koran
mentions the Bible and the New Tesla
ment, and we only wish that all people
would walk according thereto. !"
COur00NOna Woman