The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-10-12
rGGENrRAt BREyI1IEs.

boiled, taken every four hours, will
check the most violent diarrhGa, stom-
ach ache, incipient cholera and dysen-
terry.
Mr.. AND Mrs. GEORGE WASHINGTON
BAssETT, of Hanover County, Virginia,
celebrated their golden wedding last
week. Mr.. Bassett is. granddaughter
of Martha Washington, and Mrs. Bas-
sett grand-niece of Gen. Washington.
They are probably the Oldest living
relatives of the Father of his Country,
and are aged respectively rs and 60
years.
THE Glasgow Ry.) Times says that
Zero Chambers, q son of citizen OF
Barren County, who will be five years
old next month, weighs within few
pounds of 200. When less than two
years old he weighed 120 pounds. His
actual weight last Christmas was 1924
pounds. Should he continue to grow
at this rate a few years longer he will
be one of the wonders of the world.
A JUSTICE of the Peace at Underhill,
VT, was recently called on by an old
man in his last sickness to marry him
to the woman who, had been his COM
panion from his youth. He then d.
vulged the fact that at the time of his
ostensible marriage to her years ago he
had a young wife living in Canada. His
marriage was none too soon, IS it has
been followed by his death.
A FEMALE wildcat, accompanied by
six well grown kittens, recently attack
ed family consisting Of blind man,
a woman and five small children, in
their own house, in the middle of the
day, near Edna, Roscommon County,
Mich. By closing the doors and win
dows, and remaining for several hours
immured, the family escaped injury,
and her feline ladyship left for other
quarters. e5eif
LIEUT.. HEYL, of the 23d Infantry,
recently arrived In Omaha, having with
him a young Apache Indian, six years
old, who has an interesting history.
He was captured in Arizona about two
years ago. All his family were killed,
and the soldiers picked him up naked
and carried him with them. Lieut..
Heyl, who was in command, prevented
his being killed by the scouts, and is
now taking him East to have him edu-
Gated ct bis own expense. He is bright,
talks English fuently, and is neatly
dressed in army blue, sailor style.
Iris not the American alone who be-
comes the victim of the sharpers' wiles
and who incloses money to given ad-
dress in the expectation of receiving
requests from deceased relatives.
From a complaint recently made by the
Austrian Consul Resident at New York
to the police, it appears that there is an
organized gang of swindlers in that city
who operate upon " innocents" in Ger
many by writing them that relatives of
theirs have died in this country. leaving
lewelry and personal property, which
can be had on application to the writers,
with $50 topayexpenses. q The amopnt
realized in this way is said to be very
large. '43 st
A DETROIT sanitary officer, in max
ing his rounds through the city, called
at Chinese laundry. Two Celestials
were perspiring over fat-irons and
shining linen. A not unpleasant odor
of boiling tea pervaded the room. In
one corner was pile of unwashed
clothes; in another, rice, old shoes, and
pipes; while promiscuously scattered
about the room were dead rats, large
and small, fat and lean, all headless.
:" Do you use these for soupen asked
the officer. /" No, no,n cried Hop Sing,
"him vely good fol pie." Hop Sing
was requested to keep his fresh meat in
a less exposed location for the future.
s'MANY years ago." said Gen. Eli II.
Murray to a Louisville Ledger reporter,
''Judge Sites had Circuit Court down
an Southern Kentucky. Once little
country tavern was full to Overlooking,
so that four of five persons had to oc-
cupy the same room. The Judge and
four or five of the big lawyers INDUCED
In draw-poker until a late hour. Then
they went to bed, and left the candle
burning. The fire had gone out, the
weather was cold, the floor not clean,
and none of them liked to get out of his
warm place to blow oat. the candle.
After fruitless efforts to induce some
one to get up, the Judge proposed that
they should put it out by splitting at it.
Il can beat you, said one. money says
you can't answered the Judge. The
cold weather and the dirty floor were
forgotten, as the. rivals sprang from
their warm places. Money was, put up,
a mark made, and the contest was SO
exciting that the others were SO on
drawn, and there, in the chill, freless,
dreariness of the best room of coun-
try tavern, the Judge and four or five
of the highest lights Of the circuit stood
up in their shirts and spit at mark for
five dollars apiece. - Coz
The police of French town arrested