The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-03-10
GENERAL BREVITIES.

8Jl IL II
A YOUNG woman in Chicago put her
false teeth in a glass Of water at night,
and in the morning found them imbed-
ded in chunk of solid ice. She was
late at breakfast, the process of thaw-
ing out the teeth with bonfire of
matches having been slow.
BRIGHAM YOUNG has prohibited his
wives and daughters from taking part
in round dancing. He thinks it Is not
the square thing. The prophet has also
decreed that all balls and parties given
in the ward school-houses shall begin at
o'clock in the afternoon and close at
10 in the evening.
IT appears from evidence in New
York divorce suit, in which DIR. Joseph
Walker, of Vinegar Bitters" fame, is
the plaintiff, that Walker was laborer
for the corporation in New York city at
SLIP per day in 1924, and that in 1874
rs he had annual income of more than
$4,000. Advertising did it.
JOSEPH LIPPMAN, a wealthy citizen
of Savannah, Ca, aged 68 years, died
recently and left a will, in the fourth
clause Of which he takes a retrospect of
his long life, in which he states that,
with full knowledge that his earthly
career is about closing, he can recollect
no act of his life to be atoned for or re-
GREETED by himself or family.
Nor long ago.. Frederick Holmes was
expelled from the Methodist Church in
Reading, Mass, after many years of
undoubted piety, upon the evidence of
his niece. The girl has confessed that
her story was lie, and that her motive
in telling it was revenge, her uncle hav-
ing said that she was too wicked to join
the church. s.,
AT the burning of storehouse at Sea-
ford, Delaware, one night recently, a
young man named Starkey dashed
through the flames into the building,
seized keg Of powder and bore it sue
cessfully through the fire, although the
sparks were falling all about him, and
when he set the key down, outside the
building, burning cinders rolled from it.
The following inscription is on clock
about $50 years old:
I'm old and worn as my face appears,
For I've walked on time for a hundred years;
Many have fallen since began,
I've buried the world with its hopes and fears
In my long, long march Of q hundred years.
The strictness of Church government
in old Puritan times seems like down
right tyranny in these days of religious
liberty. In the record book of an old
Connecticut church (1702) appears the
following: ssFor making q noise in
church, Ann Bolton, spinster, is to sit
three Sundays in the poor-pew and pay
q fine of five shillings."
AN application, Endorsed by ministers
of various Hebrew congregations, has
been made for the erection on the Gem
tennial grounds of Jewish restaurant,
to accommodate the $4,000 Israelites
who are expected to visit the Centennial
grounds, and who win observe the dieta-
ry laws Of their religion. At the expo
sitipns Of Paris, London and Vienna the
Jews had q similar accommodation.
JAMES SMITH, an old man Of "a, lived
in one of the poorest houses in the
poorest part of Manchester, England.
He was found dead the other day, alone
and surrounded by every indication of
extreme poverty. But when the police
searched his house they found q safe
containing deeds and mortgage bonds
worth Els, 600 and $4,000 in gold.
Mrs. HORACE EVERETT, of Angelica,
New York, whose husband served for
several terms as a Representative in
Congress from Vermont, has the orig
inal commission given by General Bur
goyne to Colonel Baum in 1777, order
ing him to proceed to Bennington, Yer
mont, to take charge of the stores of
goods there; strategic movement
which led to the battle at that place.
MISS FANNIE SNoDaRAss, of Scots
borO', Ala, paddles her own canoe, of
which she is both captain and crew.
Her father, Senator Snodgrass, having
gone to Montgomery to 1egislate, she
edits his paper and sets the type all
alone by herself. A young editor down
that way wrote (heaving a sigh as he
penned the worlds, she will bea jewel
of q wife for some poor forlorn editor. .
1t is too bad for her to set up alone"
any longer. She ought certainly to have
some one to help in the press-work. Let
the young editor take heart and after
he has taken it offer it to her.
TIE Elkton kentucky Witness says:
Mr.. James Wilkins, of this county, is
the father Of q daughter who is only
three years old and weighs 1O4 pounds.
For several weeks after her birth she
weighed only seven pounds, and for
three months or more was very sickly
and generally unhealthy. About that
time her health underwent radical
change, and she has never known a day s
sickness since. She is now stout and
healthy and continues growing at rate
which justifes US in predicting that she