The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-08-31
GENERAL BREVITIES.

GENERAL BREVITIEs.
Turfoot-and disease hassbrok-
en- out with great violence among the
hogs at Outremont, Canada. Hundreds
are dead and dying. .4Lt -4~i 50.
AsPARIs paper says: ga prominent
American professor of botany is much
laughed at on account of his name DIR.
Mary Walker"
THE Chinese are the merchants in
Java, and where they number 3OO,OOo,
rank higher than the natives, and are
generally weather. than the Dutch col
onists.
A CALIFORNIAN has designed new
and gigantic seal for that State, four
feet and a half high, foot thick, and
made of Al varieties of wood, all grown
in California.
BRYANr's new history of the United
States proves Capt. John Smith pre-
yaricator, Pocohontas being only II
wears old when Powhattan failed to DO
his duty.
COMMoDoRE VANDERBILT is said to
be worth over $4,000, 900, and to have
more available resources than any
other man in America And yet he is
so years of age and in feeble health.
A FAMILY of eight negroes was pois-
oned to death in Lenoir, N. g., by
strychnine which farmer had put into
pork. He had lost meat several times,
and took that way of Furnishing the
thieves.
THE New Haven Palladium imposes
on a confding world the statement that
a Westport cat has Matched six chick
ems from eggs that hen had abandon
ed, and now goes about scratching up
worms for them in her humble way.
THE Chinese are opposing Christian
ity with Spiritualism. At Shanghai ma
tive mediums go about representing
the spirits of deceased converts as how
ering miserably around the earth, not
being able to get into heaven, and they
implore their friends to take warning
by their fate and turn deaf ear to the
missionary charmers.
CLARA HUBBARD, a young woman,
accompanied p. l.. Van Ness, the Chi
cage pedestrian, for 267 miles on his
recent walking match in Philadelphia.
She fell twice on the track, and was only
kept going towards the close by the use
of stimulants. Finally she was removed
from the hall, and is now lying in a
critical condition. She had more pluck
than physical power.
A SELFISH man counts up in the Gin
cinnati Commercial his expenditures for
forty five years, as follows Night lunch
es, $3.50; theatricals, S5,625; billiards,
$685. tobacco, 81, 1876; cigars, $3.50
bar bills, $7,875; champagne, $3.50;
carriage hire, S2,35O. And yet he met
the slightest request for little pleas
ure made by his family with the reply:
You must practice economy"
THE death of woman in Louisville,
really caused by heart disease, was at.
tributed. for while to poison, as she
died Immediately after drinking some
ale that her husband had bought, and
he had habitually ill-treated her. Ar
inquest made the truth clear, and hel
husband then said 81 amt no darHed
fool. A doctor told me that she had
the heart disease, and couldn't live
more than ayear-so I wouldn't run
mysneck into moose bysp'is'ning Ael
"uOA VIC yOdl was uOot up, WOulu L!
IAN extraordinary incident Of a coal.
oil accident is reported at Newport,
KY. "A young lady dropped lamp.
which exploded and burned her badly
The account says: "After Miss Jones
injuries had been dressed in oil, anG
cotton, and most of the persons had
left, Mr.. Ben Britton picked up what hi
supposed was her gloves. As they were
very stiff, they were examined and
found to be the skins of her hands an6
wrists, with the nails, which she hae
rubbed off in her frantic attempts tt
quench the flame''
WILLIAM w. WILCOX, who has JUS
returned to Middletown, Conn.,, from
California, brought from Sherman
Colorado, on the line Of the Rock,
Mountains-8,200 feet above the leve
of the sea-2,0 200 miles, in a tin pail
two fish of a species called by the boy
out there the walking fish. It has fou
legs, which it uses when on land, ant
its skin is as smooth as an cells. Whei
in the water the legs double up, and
ring of fins around the neck stands GU
like ruf1e, and is used by the fish il
swimming.
A Temptress Exposed.