The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-07-06
GENERAL BREVITIES.


DIR. JOHN BUCHANAN, OF Philadel-
phia, is in Jail for issuing bogus medi-
cal diplomas.
PIrrsFIELD, Massachusetts,, boasts of
a girl who poisoned her two aunts in
neat and expeditions manner, and she
was young colored girl without style |
or education.
CHINESE hotels have raised their
rates and it costs % cents day to stop
around a .first-class hotel. OF course
commercial travellers are given the usu-
al discount.
A BOILING lake, two miles in clrcnn-
ference, has been found in the island OF
Dominica. 1t is on top OF wooded
mountain, and,is 1900 feet above the
level of the sea.
CALIFORNIA Cinnamon have dlscov-
ed way of drying and preserving oys-
tiers so that the bivalves taste better
than sweet cake and give more satistac-
ton than Saratoga fried potatoes.
HERBERT SPENCER says that the gold
ring now worn by married women is
the sign of the iron ring that was worn
about the neck or ankle in olden times,
and indicates the Submission of the
wearer.
Mrs. SARAH BoNNEY, of Sterling,
Mass, has shot and stuffed twenty-five
choice birds of all varieties, and will
send them to the Centennial mounted
on an imitation of a laurel branch.
A RUSSIAN paper announces that a
belief in the approaching end OF the
world has seized the Cossacks OF the
Don. Many, especially aged people, are
giving up worldly affairs, wearing a
shroud and ordering their coffins.
The Massachusetts man who was i'm
prisoned for eight years for crime he
never committed hasn't been able to get
a shilling's recompense. The Legisla-
ture decided that he was even owing
the State for board.
The New York ladies who are en-
deavoring to secure for shop-women
the privilege of sitting down when their
duties do not require them to stand,
propose to enforce their request by
patronizing only those shop-keepers who
comply with it.
THE ancient Egyptians never gave a
feast without placing skeleton in full
view of the guests. Let US not follow
their barbarous example. Every body
has troubles, but what is the use of al
ways holding them up to viewp Is it
not better to be cheerful, and show the
sunny side, not merely to visitors, but
within the family CIRCLE?
A RECENT French writer reasons that
the progress of civilization, if it dimin-
ishes the oppression of woman, will re-
suit in proportionate diminution of
her social influence. Civilization, he
claims, is steadily narrowing the do
main of sentiment to enlarge that Of in
terest. All that reason gains passion
must lose, and in proportion as the role
of science increases, that of love must
diminish.
THE French Agricultural and Horti-
cultural Society has taken advantage Of
the schoolboy desire to kill something,
by offering prizes for the destruction of
vermin of all sorts and for the preserva-
ton of useful birds. The method has
already begun to produce satisfactory
results. Eleven scholars in one school
destroyed each l $3.50 insects of various
sorts, beside ~ nests of caterpillars
and they protected ~ nests of useful
birds, sheltering 14S young.
A DEED of unparalleled audacity has
been committed by young woman in
Dresden. On night when she knew
the aged proprietor of fancy store
would be alone, she asked for pair Of
cuffs. As the old man turned to look
for them, she took a hatchet from un
der her apron, and dealt him terrible
blow on the head. The wounded mar
was, however, able to cry for help.
which speedily came. The girl tries te
palliate her crime by saying she wanted
money for her wedding.
The Supreme Court of Ohio has de
cided that where railroad compan,
sold a communication ticket, which emit
tied the purchaser to ride upon its car
a certain number of times within givel
period, for price below the usual rat.
of fare, which ticket specified upon it
face that it was only good during sucl
period, the purchaser, having failed t
ride the specified number of times with
in the period named, is not entitled t,
ride upon such ticket after the expira
ton Of the period.
THEY have a pleasant practice o
planting birthday trees in England
There is now on the grounds of Osborn
House, on the Isle Of Wight, a Pice
pinsapo spruce, IS feet high, that wa
planted by Queen Victoria on May "a
1849, when sha was thirty years old
Some Of our young girls might hesitat
to do this, as it might lead to the dis
covery of their ages, but there can b
no reason why the boys should not d
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