The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-05-04
GENERAL BREvITIEs.

fOSSlDlIltleS.
THE recent census gives: New York,
LOGO, 900; Philadelphia, 100000;
Brooklyn, 507 900; st. Louis, 10000;
Chicago, 41O, 700; Boston, 340,0 600; San
Francisco, 100000.
THE Chinese of the Pacific slope have
mounted another round in the ladder
of civilization. Two of them recently
forged notes to the amount of $3.50 on
the jacksonville Bank, and got the
money, too.
; THE British Medical Journal says that
persons with light-colored eyes make
the most successful shots, both with the
billiard cue and the rifle. But you
couldn't expect man to do well with
black eye.
NOTHING like being a good doctor,
and having monarch for patient.
The Sultan has just made the physician
who cured him of his carbuncle Gen.
eral of Division, and the recipient of
$4,000 in gold.
BISHOP BEDELL, who is now travel
ing in Egypt, has sent cinerary urn,
taken from Greek tomb near Alexan-
dria, to Kenyon College at Gambler,
Ohio. 1t contains some of the ashes
found in it when disentombed.
If your geraniums' don't flourish, just
graft them upon tomato vines and see
how that works. A Los Angeles man
man tried it, and his geranium, or to-
mato-it's hard to tell which-is grow
ing thriftily, and blossoming beautifully.
AN idea of what it costs to lead fash
ionable life in Washington may be
formed from the fact stated by Cabin
ct lady that for the short season of 1875,
two weeks shorter than that just con-
Guided, her visiting cards cost her $40.
A CONVICT in the Chester (Pa.) Jail,
has educated a mouse. 1t leaps over
bars, climbs poles, walks backward, and
climbs little ladder Its owner cur
tailed it to subdue its spirit and ducked
it in pail of cold water when it was
disobedient, with the above result.
In Waco, Texas, recently mule at
tackled yearling calf very savagely.
The calf tried to get away but could not,
and at last turned on the mule, which
was biting and kicking it, and butted
him squarely in the forehead. The mule
staggered and fell dead; the calf was
unhurt.
The town of Sherbrook, Mass, has
had three successive principals of the
same school: the first was named Hig-
gin, the second Higginbottom, and the
third Bottom. Does such a grOtesque
coincidence come within the range of
the much-mooted s'doctrine of proba-
bilitiesP''
In the center of a sea marsh on the
river Teche, in Louisiana, is beautiful
and fertile island of over 300 acres, and
on this island is a mass of pure, solid
rock salt, estimated at $4,000, 600 tons.
Scientific men are trying to find out how
the island came in the marsh, and how
the salt came ON the island.
LIEBIG says: 1.-THE animal is, in or
ganic nature, the iron; the plant is the
water, for nature begins with the rela-
tive separation of the sexes and then
ends in this separation. The animal de-
composes the iron, the plant decomposes
the water. The female and male sex of
the plant is the carbon and the nitro
gen of the water.''
The following printed notice sent
through Western town and voucbed
for by the minister who attended the
service illustrates the business-like hab-
its OF the West: G.. Yourself and
family are respectfully invited to attend
the funeral Of -, at the Baptist
Church, at 2 o'clock p. M, sharp,
A BALLoT-Box invented by DR.. Camp
of Great Darlington, Mass, is thus de.
scribed: "A thanksgiving opens slit
in the top of the box for the depositing
OF the ballot, and on the front are two
dials, one registering every ballot and
the other every hundredth. The ends
are OF plate glass, SO that the inquisitiye
citizen can watch the accumulation of
votes"
CHINESE girls brought to this country
are generally depraved, but there are
many exceptions. Recently one of them
went into the Courthouse at Winnie
mucca, New, and offered to go to jal
for five years upon the condition that
she be freed from her owner at the ex-
piration of that time. She wanted to be
a good woman, she said.
APUZzLE for the curious: Some fifty
years since "Elder Anderson, a well
known Baptist preacher in Connecticut,
married widow named Douglas, with
two children, a boy and girl. When
she died he married the daughter, by
whom he had son, whose father was
his grandfather, and whose mother was
his sister. What relation was he to
HIMSELF
In view of the recent meat shower in
Kentucky, the New York Ereninq Post
contemplates the possibility of soon hav-
ing to print some such weather an