The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-02-15
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

Two hundred dollars were paid for
American Girls shoes, and yet people
say these are hard times.
"A HindOOetan work on music says
that music is the painfully acquired art
Of speaking yer loudly in shrill voice"
During the last three months |, 40
horses, 81 donkeys, and five mules were
killed in Paris for public consumption.
-ASwedish school house, for exhibitio
at the Centennial, has been shipped fro
that country to Philadelphia.
Losses on vessels and cargoes by the
recent gales on the northwestern lakes up
to latest accounts will aggregate nearly
$500, 900.
"A gigantic ice-house in Brussels,
Belgium, covers an area Of 1900 square
metres, and has contained at one time
a million tons of ice.
"A large number of excursions from
England to America during the Centen-
nial have been arranged, some of which
will come by special steamers.
The Gar recently gave young He
brew commission in the Russian army.
This is the first instance in which Jew
has been made an officer in Russia.
The California trade with Australia
now employs more ships and more tom
mage than with any other portion of the
world, with the single exception of China.
TO such an extent have we become
the purveyors to foreign governments OF
arms for warfare that we export yearly
between 5OO, 900 land 6O0, 600 0stand ofarn1x.
Nearly all the fat cattle in Colorado
have changed hands recently or will do
so soon. Never in the history Of the
territory has the trade in cattle been 80
active.
The interest in fish culture is in
creasing rapidly, and there are more than
double the fisheries now established in
the country than there were couple OF
years ago.
ANGELS UNAwARES-
In this dim world Of clouding cares
We rarely know, till 'wildered eyes
See white wings lcss'n ming up the skies,
! The angels with us unawares.
| Gerald Massey.
1t is now asserted that the angels in
heaven are all men. We have to give
up our seats here, and walk off into the
mud, and submit to all sorts of vanities;
| it looks reasonable that there should be
change some day.
1T cannot be that the spirit Of poe
try is dead. As long as there are women
and flowers the divine affiatus can't be
exhausted, whatever may happen to the
/ H. Tl,su r,f = SS
called, from the Brooklyn Argus, is a
real heart reacher:
/ "A Norwegian paper reports that ono
Captain Gunnerson, recently returned
from an Arctic voyage, has discovered in
Nova Zembla diary written by Barent,
the Dutch Arctic explorer, in the year
1880. The manuscript is said to be in
perfect preservation, and its publication
is anxiously looked for by scientific anti
Iquaries.
i Hers was faoe
Whose occult charm no imner's art
Could steal; whose nameless grace
Elusive was, as light that falls
Where waters part.
So haunted with sweet mysteries,
1t seemd face astray from heavenly scenes,
And not Of one who e'er
Had breakfasted on buckwheat cakes,
I Or dined on beans.
i AN American writer, datinghis letter
! from Gibraltar, says: "The more zee
of Gibraltar, the less wonder at the
tenacity with which it is held by Eng
land, and the dislike the Spaniards have
|, for the English tenure of the place. The
ckpn,,S~<h <,f Tho ,,<,as<sr.r - So.