The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-09-14
GENERAL BREVITlES.

EXPOSITION SAYS tnaL glass VA We" 6
ter. a slice of brown bread and plate !
of baked beans-three dishes-cost one
dollar. .
THE Norwegian statuary at the Gen.
tenial Exhibition is so lifelike that a ,
man actually addressed one I
of the figures, but did not discover his
mistake in time to keep the fact from
being noticed. K
NORTH CAROLINA boasts the Oldest
Mr.. Cross, of Lincoln
County, is 12O years old; John Barnes,
of Caldwell County, is 126 years old
Mr.. johnson, of Mitchell County, is lO4
years old, and walks every Sunday tour
miles to church; Cherokee squaw died
lately aged 1876 years, and there Is an
Indian Of the tribe living aged l33.
DR.. GEORGE Cook, of Brigham Hall,
private insane asylum at Canandaigua,
N. Y, visited one of the patients, an
old man named Bruson. AS he entered
the room Bruson sprang at him with an
omen penknife and inflicted two wounds
in the face and neck, from which the
Doctor soon died. After his death Bru-
son asked an attendant, "Have | done |
my workP" eyes, you have killed the
Doctor,' was the answer. Bruson re-
piled, s'I'm glad of it,"
The annual report of the Registrar of
Births, Deaths, and Marriages devotes
an interesting chapter to the compare
tive duration of the lives of persons en-
gagged in various occupations. A high
rate of mortality is shown in the follow
ing professions and trades: Butchers,
publicans, lawyers, physicians, chem
lists, commercial clerks, railway en-
ployees, veterinary surgeons, diapers,
BARRIERS, hatters, tailors, and tobacco
nists.
A WOMAN in Suffolk, England, lately
made an extraordinary attempt to kill
herself. First she went into the back
yard, placed half pound of gunpowder
around her and set fire to it. As this
did her no harm, she got pound can
lister, put it in a bucket, and, holding
her head over it, set fire to the powder.
An clubhouse was blown to pieces, but
she was only burned about the face.
Then she stabbed herself with shoe
makers knife, but not fatally, and then
the neighbors came and took charge of
her.
A STRANGER DESTROYS of locating in
San Antonio endeavored to purchase a
residence from one of our leading citi-
zens, but thought the price too high.
"Too hight" yelled the owner, "too
high, with three saloons at regular in
tervals on the road to church, peach
orchard with fence easy to get over
close at hand, and there hasn't been a
policeman seen in the neighborhood fol
the last five years! Why, stranger, il
doesn't look to me like you was trying
to become one of us. San antonio
(Ter.) Herald
REV. JOHN O'REILLY writes to his
mother in Ireland an account of the
Fenian escape from Western Australia
Among the eight Fenians, one who acteG
as constable managed by delivering
pretended orders to get the party to
gether. Outside of Freemantle, two
men were in readiness with horses, ant
the prisoners made off in the direction
enter a boat. The Government char
tered the only steamer at the station
put on board a guard, and made chase
but darkness closed upon the favore,
flight, and the men got clear away t
sea.
COUNTERFEIT So bills are becomin
alarmingly common. The public ar
cautioned against the following:
bills an the First National Bank of CHI
cago; s. bills on the First Nations
Bank of Paxton, ILL.,; IS bills on tn
First National Bank of Canton, Ill.,; 8
bills on the First National Bank of Pee
ria, H.; SIS bills on the First Nations
Bank of Aurora, ILL.,; SIS bills on tn
First National Bank of Galena, ILL.,;
bills on the Hampden National Bank {
Westfeld, Mass. SIS bills on the NJ
chanics National Bank of New Bedfort
Mass. $5 bills on the Traders Nation
al Bank Of Chicago, III. ;$5 bills on Il
First National Bank of Louisville, KY
$40 bills on the National State Bank
Terre- Haute, Ind; $40 bills ON tt
Farmers and Manufacturers Bank
Poughkeepsie, N. Y; 500 bills on Il
National Bank of Utica, N. Y.
Mr.. and Mrs. Greutzer, of Cente
vile, Iowa, were walking near that eli
one day last week, when they were a
costed by a villainous looking rasca
who presented revolver at Mr.. Greu
ger and ordered him to ''git." Mr.. G
being of an accommodating disposition
gat with the greatest alacrity, and the
Mrs. Greutzer, finding herself deserte
went for the man with the revolve1
took his artillery away from him, b
off the end Of his nose, stuck her thun
into his eye and crooked it, and finall
twining her hands in his hair, warp'
him around sapling until he ach,
and smarfed for twelve feet in every {