The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-02-11
GENERAL ,BREVITIES.

A NEGRO boy in Fairfield County, S.
c., was packed up in a bale of cotton
the other day. It was supposed that he
had entered the press box and gone to
sleep, and suffocated before his pres
ence was discovered.
DIR. w. P. HAMMOND, director Of the
prison of the Shoals, Martin County,
Ind, resembles Tweed so closely that
he has been arrested twice on suspicion
of being the fugitive, and is now afraid
to 60 out of his house.
GREAT BRITAIN has now five iron
clads under construction: the Inflexible,
to carry four guns of the heaviest cali
ber; the Shannon, a nine-gun screw ship;
the Nelson and Northampton, double-
screw ships of twelve guns each, and
the Temeraire, an eight-gun ship.
A BosToN clergyman has advanced
the idea in a sermon that striped stock
ings are destructive to female modesty.
''But a little while ago. said he,
''young ladies refused to go up stairs in
advance of gentlemen. Now they seem
anxious to do so!''4t 4it16T i'7@ a''<sAa
THE current number of Nature tells
of a deluded hen who Matched and
reared peacock. AS that mother-hen
gazed upon the budding tail of her in
FAINT offspring, it must have occurred to
her, in moments of depression and anx-
iety, that possibly she had the jim-jams.
MANY British manufacturers and 9TH
er employers have lately changed pay
day from Saturday to Monday for the
sake of the workmen, many of whom
have been in the habit of squandering
their wages in dissipation on Sunday.
A similar change is talked of in New
England. .@FA -idi
A RHYME for g month - is now in de-
nand. Here is one that is very old,
but the best we know Of: ".'
GIVE tried hundred times. guess 20 -
To find rhyme for month; ! ttf ts.z,5t
| I've failed a hundred times, know,
>, But succeeded in the hundred and one tn !"
An indianapolis wife caught her hus-
band kissing the family dressmaker,1 a
woman decidedly repulsive in form and
feature, and instead Of flying into a rage
or fainting away she simply remarked,
in touchingly sad tone of voice, ssJohn!
l must say that your taste is more to be
condemned than your morals y D''s
THERE is man now serving out a
years Imprisonment in the jail at Lex
ington, KY, who was convicted of steal
ing a cotton umbrella worth IS cents.
As his board costs 60 cents per diem,
the authorities will be out, S219 at the
time of his release. But then, he will
have been punished and the majesty Of
the law upheld.
JUDGE MYRICK, of San Francisco,
has admitted to probate will in pencil
on two pages of a memorandum book,
to which the testatrix had attached no
signature, holding that the fact Of its
being written in such a book was pre-
sumptive evidence of its being the draft
of a will intended to be executed in a
more regular form. ,s,.t.f.f.5 yifH3ags,
BASEBALL playing as a business is
something comparatively new, but that
it pays in some instances is shown by
the report Of the Treasurer of the Bos-.
ton Association. It shows d balance in
cash of $3,261, the profits of last sea-
sons business on a total expenditure of
S34,506. Of this expenditure the item
Of players salaries is S2O,685, an aver
age of S2,23O for each player. u
The remarkable discovery Of a boil
ing lake in the island of Dominica has
excited much scientific interest, and in
vestigations of the phenomenon are to
be made by geologists. 1t appears that
a company exploring the steep and for
est covered mountain behind the town
of Rosseau came upon the boiling lake,
about 2, 500 feet above the sea level, and
two miles in circumference. On the
wind clearing away for a moment the
clouds of sulphureus steam with which
the lake was covered, a mound of water
was seen ten feet higher than the gener-
al level of the surface, caused by ebulli-
ton. The margin of the lake consists
of beds of sulphur, and its overfowing
found exit by a waterfall of great
height. tfi3 80 90 ~ i''isasi7f.H 4
THE BALLAD OF GRuEsoME BUTCHER, AND
HIS sAgsAGE-MACHIsE,y AND THE DEAR LIT
1t was a grtesonae butcher, yf ,naiEll
\ With countenance saturnine; ,ts u.t.tri
: He stood at the door Of his little shop, '' AZ
1t was the hour Of nine. 9G-rii &tsE SGT
!. The children going by to school
Looked mat the open door; es 6tttSl
They loved to see the sausage maahine,< .sys \.
i And hear its awful roar. w
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The butcher he looked out and nd in. l;., o., ,,ie,
Next yawned, then, smiling, he licked his
Z chops; f -
Quoth he: ssLife's awful borei "k.a ~
y.'Now here's all these dear little children,
Some en- 'em might live to be sixty; fBfss Est
Why shouldn't save 'em the trouble to wunst
4. An chop 'en up slipperty iicksty:"
So he winked to the children and beckoned
Ne them in: --"s1~ 80
so, don't yes want some candy? fs. g Z
But ye see yen have to come in to the shop,
For out here it isn't handyI"st -3Aa87 Sz