The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1875-10-21
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

AN cAUcHblfc SHOW VI QOSS Will Dc
held in Chicago in January next.
The Norwegian settlement in Bosque
County, Texas, is said to look like the
most thifty part of the country.
IT is estimated that during the last
six months 81 ,103 persons in this coun-
try have been killed by violence.
The skull of Troy man, who was
killed by its fracture, was only a six
teenth of an inch thick at the base.
IT is said that the Governments of
Servia and Greece have formed an alli-
ance offensive and defensive against
Turkey.
A WALK of one thousand half-miles
in one thousand half-hours has been ac-
complished by Harry Brooks, a Pitts
burgh pedestrian.
A BOTTLE of whisky, among other ar
ticles, was deposited in the corner stone
of the new bank just being erected at
Kearney, Nebraska.
1T is too frequently the case for pa
pers of low order of intelligence to
ridicule the college graduate as help
less and useless individual. Mr.. Avery
of Yale, however, graduated only a
month ago, and already he has secured
a position of trust at salary of So 900
a year. 1t is as pitcher of professional
baseball club.-Nev York World.
81 FEEL very queer!'' was the re-
marks of a sscorpse" in Chicago, with
whom party of friends were sitting
up. This little deviation from the gen
eral conduct of corpses made the sitters-
up feel queer too, and they capered out
of there, leaving the 'sbody" to sit up
with itself. If dead bodies are going
to act in this manner, they will have
some trouble in getting people to sit up
with them.
Miss MINKLER, of Story County
New, deserves better fate. Both her
arms were taken off at once by the
sickle of reaper. Her father and
the hired man were paralyzed with hor-
rOr. Miss Minkler quietly called to
them each to seize the stumps above the
wound and compress them, which they
did. She then told them to walk her
to the road, and they obeyed. She was
taken home smiling, the wounds were
dressed, and the poor girl is going to
recover
THEY tell story in France about a
young deputy who, being drawn into a
duel and called upon to fight with the
pistol, was extremely nervous, and re-
peatedly said to his second: ssMy ad-
versary win hit me, know he will.
feel it in my bones" ssNonsense, -
said the second; "your adversary never
hit any thing in his life. He couldn't
hit the side of a house nor flock OF
gravestones ;" The duel came off, and
the young deputy was hit and pretty
badly wounded in the shoulder. While
he was down on the grass, with the
doctor binding up the wound he said to
the second pettishly: ssAnimal! ]
told you he would hit mel" 'sOh
well " said the second coolly, ssthat
was because you stirred!''
A YOUNG lady of engaging personal
ppearance, says the Burlington Hack.
we, who came here last week, from
Creston, recently announced that she
was going to open barber shop on
North Hill. The very next day, which
was yesterday, each married woman Oh
North Hill surprised her husband
whose many virtues she had long known
and admired, with neat little present
consisting OF razor, lather-brush and
strop. And now, as oft as North Hill
man comes home, the wife of his bosom
puts her arms around his neck and rubs
her downy cheek against his face, in al
apparent innocence and affection, but
II his cheek is smoother than when hi
went away from home in the morning
she fans him with the rolling-pin unit
he has to wear his hat on which eyel
lump it win fit best.
A TRIAL of eight students, soldiers
and workingmen for high treason ha.
just ended in St. Petersburg. Ths
tribunal which dealt with the case was
special one, consisting, besides thu
ordinary Judges, of several landown
ers, the representatives of the higher
nobility, the burgomaster of Odessa
and the chief of village community
The Indictment of the Crown Prosecu
tor states that the students, Diakoff anl
Siniakoff, had insinuated themselves
under assumed names into the conf
dence OF the soldiers in the barracks
had spread revolutionary ideas among
them by means Of pamphlets and lee
lures; and had repeatedly urged them
to make war upon the Car, the Gov.
eminent, and the wealthy classes gen
orally. The principal culprit (DiakofD
who IS only twenty-one years of age
has been sentenced to the loss of all hi
civil rights, and ten years. hard labor
in fortress; two others have been con
demned to nine years. hard labor; and
the remainder to minor punishments.
A Diplomatic Shoemaker.