The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-08-17
GENERAL BREvlTES.

OF the $4,000 persons employed in
matchmaking in Switzerland, one-third
are women.
THE dignifed Christian Witness
speaks of burglary whose perpetrat-
ors sspried the deer open with James.
THE girl students all over the coun-
try who graduate this year are resolv-
ing to dress for that occasion in ordina- |
ry calico.
AND now comes a Boston woman
who, to Guido her fashionable sisters
with their 20-button gloves, has invent
ed and wears 40-button stockings.
THE displacement of the new British
man-of-war Infexible, when all her
weights are on board, will be no less
than II, 4O7 tons-exceeding that OF any
ship ever built.
PROFESSOR PARKER, of Iowa City,
has lost four out of five children by &C
cidents. One was thrown by horse,
one was burned to death, and two more
were recently drowned.
AN eminent Boston physician says:
One of the cheapest and most efficient
chest protectors, when unexpectedly
exposed to cold, raw winds, is folded
newspaper inside the vest.
A MINER on Indian Greek, Montana,
recently dug up chunk of gold which
he sold in Helena for the sum of 50 300.
Another had a $400 chunk from the
same locality.
THE West Point Cadets, about 300 in
number,.who are to visit Philadelphia,
will start on the 9th of June in a Gov
eminent steamer. They viii be accom-
panied by the Academy Band, and will
remain in Philadelphia 10 days.
ONE of the attractions of the Paris
Exhibition of 1878 is to be the largest
balloon ever made. 1t will contain
$4,000 cubic meters of gas, and is to
be % to "a meters in diameter. The
arwill hold 80 persons.
THE Duke of Devonshire has sold
from the Helker short-horn herd Grand
Duchess of Oxford Twenty ninth, to the
Hon. G. Brown, of Canada, for $500
guineas, the highest price ever yet paid
for female short-horn in England.
A FIFTH AVENUE, New York, lady,
on visit to Europe, has left two
poodles in charge of dog doctoress,
for the keeping of which she is to pay
5000 yearly and to provide carriage
once a month in which the pets are to
be aired.
AT recent fancy ball in Paris the
Duchess de Mouchy represented "the
fairy of diamonds,' and was literally
covered with precious stones. The
Princesse Troubetzkoi personified the
Poetry of the North, clothed in frost
and icicles, while her daughter bore on
her shoulders the wings of butterfly.
RIGHTLY saith the Boston Globe
"The descriptions of a genuine fash
ion-writer are almost as difficult to de-
cipher as a Chaldaic inscription, and
might furnish severe study for one
trained in the mysteries of Egyptology
Taking the matter and the method to.
gether, they are calculated to craze the
mind of man of only ordinary accom-
plishments.
A NOTICEABLE feature of the steam.
ship departures from New York is the
large number of passengers going out
especially in the Storage. The appli
cations for passage weeks ahead are sc
numerous at some of the company's
Offices that they may have to take into
consideration the expediency of putting
on the extra steamers which were with
drawn early in the season, in conse
quence of falling off in business.
FISHING for shad is done on a larg,
scale at Gloucester, on the Delaware
A net Ats fathoms in length and boa
rowed by thirty negroes are used, abou
five hundred shad being taken at eacl
haul. Some of the fish are sent to mar
ket, and some are served on the spot t,
excursion parties from Philadelphia
The latter are ''planked,n which mean
roasting them on cedar planks before
fire.
A NUMBER of gentlemen lately fror
the East were congregated on stree
corner in San Francisco the other day
when they saw two-horse dray -loade
down with what they took to be lea
bars, stalled on Montgomery Street
Great was their surprise when informe,
that the lead bars were silver brick
from the Bonanza mines, being taken t
Flood Il O'Brien's bank, and that owe
a hundred thousand dollars in value wa
intrusted to the custody of one man, an
hauled around the streets like any othe
merchandise.
The Massachusetts house is of til
greatest interests depository of relic
OF the Pilgrims. 1t is a genuine log
house, chinked with mud, a mud-anee
stick chimney, old-fashiened cookin
utensils, porringers and pewter platte
dressers set off with the quaint CROKER
of hundred years ago. The cradl