The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-01-10
GENERAL BREvlTIES.

AhDANI Wv Si0A ~ AAAN r.
titioned the Common Council to pro-
hibit newspaper selling on Sunday.
ssCHAIRMANEss' is the latest devel-
opment of feminine grammar as applied
to the presiding ssoficeress' of the
Arkansas Women's Centennial Execu-
tive Committee.
ToJErrI, an artist, is said to have
fooled San Francisco into enthusiasm
over an oil-painted copy of drawing
by Dore, representing it as an original
picture.
ONE of the lady teachers in Detroit
school is named Mecca, but she has
pilgrim who worships at her shrine, and
is presently expected to Mecca change
her name.
THE 10th of September is fixed for
the next Adventist scare, but skeptics
think the earth is too wet to burn for six
months yet. The Adyentists had better
do what the earth viii not-dry up.
A RICHMOND (Va.) music dealer an
nounces that hewin receive Confederate
money in payment for goods, and only
a few days ago he sold piece of sheet
music to a lady customer for 90 ,612 in
that currency.
The butchers of Montreal are going
to start newspaper with $50 900 cap
ital, and have steaked their all upon the
venture. There is a great rush for posi-
tons as compositors, owing to the an
ticipated amount of ssfat.'
A JOKER at Rockport, Ind. recently
sowed some corn in mortar prepared
for plastering. 1t was put on, and the
corn has since sprouted and is doing
finely, thus verifying the old adage,
that "even the walls have ears
JEFFERSON Davis, Alexander II.
Stephens, and all the ex-officers and
soldiers and sailors of the Confederate
army and navy have been given gen.
eral invitation to attend a national re-
union of ex-Federal soldiers soon to be
held at Caldwell, Ohio.
THE Freemasons Of Iowa are very
much excited over recent decision of
the Grand Master that dancing in the
lodge rooms is inconsistent with the
good of the. craft. Two subordinate
officers have been deprived of their po-
sitions for acting in violation of this de-
cision.
Mr.. GwYNN of Virginia is dead. His
last memorandum provided that he
should be buried with his head eighteen
inches higher than his feet; that his
cane and sheepskin should be
placed in the coffin with him, and that
the coffin should be carefully wrapped
in a blanket.
THE Maharaja of Cashmere, India,
has ordered two state carriages to be
built in anticipation of the visit of the
Prince of Wales. The attentions and
courtesy paid him during his recent Wis
it to the Viceroy SO pleased him that he
proposes to spend portion Of the next
cold season in Calcutta.
GENERAL DIRE, of Mansfield, Ohio,
the Adjutant- General of the Khediye Of
Egypt, is now at his old place of resi-
dence on visit. He speaks in high
terms of the aims and purposes of the
Khedive in relation to the valley of the
Nile and its inhabitants. The troops
in that part of Africa are mostly com.
manded by Americans.
THE following advertisement appear
ed in an English newspaper: .sWanted
Immediately. for spring planting, TO-.
600 dock and 10, 900 thistle seeds, t.
enable me to leave my farm as would
wish, and according to the provisions Of
the new Tenant Right bill, as drawn ur
by the Chamber of Agriculture, to ena.
BILE tenant farmers to do justice to theil
landlords .
ssHER Majesty is dead-the Empress
has finally succumbed to old age, and
her carcass was last night in the hands
of the disarticulators. - This news
comes from Philadelphia. The Empire
OF this dead Empress was the Zoologi
cal Garden. She was IS years of age
and native of Ceylon; only an ele.
plant, to be sure, but whole city is
mourning for her.
SOME of the most beautiful phenome.
ma OF the ocean are caused by animals
belonging to the molluscous sub-king.
dom, which is nearly as prolific in light.
giving species as the radiator. An.
other highly phosphorescent species OF
mollusca belongs to the family of the
salpidaa, which abounds in the Medi.
terranean and the warmer parts of the
ocean. These individuals swim to-
gether in vast numbers, and produe the
effects OF long ribbons of fire, some.
times drawn straight in the direction Of
the currents, sometimes twisted and al.
most doubled by the action of the waves
In the Mediterranean their phosphor.
escence often resembles the light of the
moon, giving rise to what t he French
term ssu'le ner de Int. -
A CELEBRITY of the galleys, Martin
Foissemolle, died recently in France
he left fortune of over 200 900 francs.
On June Is, 1912, Foissemolle was con
demned to the galleys for life, for hav