The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-07-27
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GENERAL BREVITlES.

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THE camellia, which, considered the
most beautiful dollhouse plant, grows
wild in the hedges of Japan.
ORANGE culture in Georgia has been
tried with success, and the fruit is said
to rival that of Florida.
An Indiana man is slowly recovering
from blindness caused last August by
pressing piece of ice to his forehead
while warm from overwork.
The Scotch herring fisheries earn
$780, 900 yearly, and the English fish
cries do not fall much below that
figure.
SEEDS of the mahogany tree sown
three or four years ago on the Island OF
Mauritius have already produced trees
twenty feet high, and from three to SIX
inches through the trunk.
THE present style of elongated bus
ties worn by the ladies seems to require
a change in the shape of ladies umbrel-
las to correspond. The round article
leaves the whole sweeping hustle and
train exposed. What is needed is an
elongated umbrella.
INSTEAD of the six regular "resting
days +" in each month recognized from
time immemorial, the Japanese Gov
eminent has substituted four, CORE
spending to the Christian Sunday, and
they have also adopted the old New
England custom of considering the lat
ter part of Saturday as a time for rest
or recreation.
SOMEBODY, signing himself the
"Count de Bobo," cruelty victimized
all Chillicothe, O., the other day, by Il
dispatch from somewhere up the rail
road, saying, "Dom Pedro is on the
Cincinnati train, bound West. Have
band there to receive him. The band
was there sure enough, and the whole
population with it, but D. P. did not
arrive.
MUCH Indignation was aroused in
Stamford, Conn.,, recently, by the post
ers of a female minstrel company.
Such an outrage was unheard of in the
staid old town. The good young men
at once took action against it, and the
churches denounced the performance.
The company had, however, already
procured license, and their appear
ance could not be prevented. Not
withstanding the action of the good
young men, the hall was packed.
The Bavarian Government, with
view to putting stop to the practice
of dueling, has decided that when one
of the combatants is killed he shall be
considered to have committed suicide,
and therefore denied the privilege of
burial. In conformity with this deci-
sion, the body of a Ovarian Count, killed
in duel with an officer, has been turn
ed over to one of the Munich hospitals
for dissection.
THE Duke of Norfolk has the largest
rental in England, owning as he does
lands in the West Riding Of Yorkshire,
which return an income, in round num-
bers, of 81, 156, 500 per annum. The
Earl OF Derby has also an enormous
estate, receiving $783, 500 from lands in
Lancashire, and $32, 800 from Cheshire.
Sir John Ramsden, who said to own
the whole of Huddersfeld, has a rent
roll of $3.50, 900, which also comes from
Yorkshire land.
A VERMONT Court gave wholesome
little lecture, the other day, to a woman
who applied for divorce on the ground
that her husband was a drunkard, and
abused her. The Court asked her if
she knew that he was drinking man
when she married him, and she ad-
mitted that she did. The Judge said
that when woman marries such a
man, with her eyes open, she ought to
stand by the risk she has taken, and a
divorce should not be granted.
A PARIS correspondent writes: A
very popular, but blind, Count lives in
the Champs Elysees. Being witty and
musical his society is much sought after.
He left Paris three months ago, and ON
his return called on fashionable
Warehouses who was preparing to go
to a fancy ball. She begged to be ex-
cused, but as he had an Important mes
sage to deliver, he was shown in, and
being of course blind, he was asked to
take chair in her boudoir. Gossip en-
sued, and during the time the Marchion-
ess, assisted by her maid, executed the
mysteries of her toilet. Being ready to
descend to her carriage the Count stated
he had been absent in London, had un-
dergone q successful operation for
cataract and could now see as well as
the Marchioness. The latter shrieked
and jumped into her carriage without
even an ar reuoir to her unwelcome
visitor.
The following remarkable adventure
OF 2 5-year-old boy occurred at a paper
mill at Iowa City few days ago: The
little fellow was playing just above the
dam and near a pool from which the
water is drawn into an underground