The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-04-07
GENERAL BREvITIEs.

IN IOWuS OU buC 1b2AiiACS "AsSAO ~>-
girls are often sent to school, they en-
Joy among their German companions
special reputation for beauty.
A RECENTLY published English book
is said to have cost f20, 900. There are
only $50 copies, at Is apiece, printed.
The author is getting rich slowly, slow
For Just "a hours New Orleans gasp
ed and trembled and hurrahed and
strutted over chicken with four legs
and five wings. Then it died-the
chicken died.
ANEW YORK rowdy was shot through
both cavities of the heart and lived 80
hours after the wound had been in
flicted. The case is without precedent.
THEY have new barrel-making ma
chine at Wells, Mimi, that makes
barrel with but single stave, and
heads and hoops it.
THE Cahawba River, Alabama, runs
for miles through bed of rich coal
from eleven to thirteen feet in thick
ness, which of itself forms the river
banks.
AGLAss cylindrical shade or cover
for statue, which is to be exhibited at
the Centennial, was recently made at
Somerville, Mass. 1t measures five feet
in length and seventy-four inches in
diameter.
JOHN G. COVERT, in a lecture deliv-
cred at St. Louis upon his travels in
France, stated that upon fifty cents
day a man can live comfortably in that
country, and that there are districts in
the south of France where men can live
upon fifteen to twenty.
NEAR Export, on Turkey River,
Iowa, walnut tree has recently been
cut down for lumber, which measured
seven feet in diameter at the cut and
seventy-eight feet 10 the first limbs.
The owner has refused $4,000 for the
tree as it lies in the woods.
The Sanitary Record says that the
duration of life in this country is longer
than in England, and that the immense
profits of the life insurance business
here are explained by the fact that the
rates of insurance are chiefly based upon
English tabular estimates of life.
The Medical Superintendent of a
Montreal Insane Asylum, one DR.. How
ard, says it is impossible to cure luna
tics without spirituous liquor, and, as q
proof that it is possible to effect cure
Herewith, shows that of 157 patients
treated at the Asylum during the six
weeks it has been open, thirty-two have
been discharged cured.
YEARS ago Reverdy johnson lost the
sight of one of his eyes while training
Edward Stanley to fight Henry A. Wise,
after row ABOUT racing. Stanley was
practicing for the duel when his bullet,
striking tree, glanced back and lodged
in his Instructors eye. The meeting
was, thereupon, prevented, and nothing
but Johnson's iron frame saved his life.
TAEY tell a remarkable story of Geo
Lord, of Massachusetts, who died few
days ago. He got a piece of meat in
his throat, and was in fair way te
choke to death, when a doctor pulled il
out with his finger. Then current Of
air began to circulate between the Skin
and flesh, putting the man up even to
his fingers and toes, and causing him
intense pain. He soon died, after which
the body resumed its normal size.
A SAD illustration of Carleton's beau
tiful poem, "Over the Hills to the Poor.
house," occurred the other evening il
Brooklyn. A poor old woman named
Margaret Howard, upwards of 80 years
of age, was found dying in the hallway
of a tenement house. She had beer
turned out of doors BY family named
Mclean, and had several married
daughters in comfortable circumstances
none ofwhom were willing to provide
for their mothers support.
The Post-office Department has Sc
lected the design for three-cent stamp
ed envelope, to be.used during the Cen
tennial Exhibition. The stamp will b.
in the form Of a shield, having at tn
top and bottom the dates l776 and 1876
Beneath the upper figure will be tn
words, s'U. S. Postage" and at the bot
tom of the shield will be the words
'Three Cents" Upon the face of tn
shield will be post boy and net worl
of telegraph poles and wires, and be
meath. an engine and postal car.
The procurator or abbot of the ia
nous monastery of La Grande Char
treuse, in France, died recently. From
business point of view, the name of Gar
nier was worldwide known trad
mark. Without his autograph no bottl
OF the renowned iqueur known as Char
treuse-green, white, or yellow-coul
be deemed genuine; and by the sale q
this same cordial the brotherhood o
La Grande Chartreuse have con
trived, it is said, to realize for a lon
time past anet income of ESQ, 900 yeai
ONE OF Brigham Young's grand
daughters has been getting up a re
nance Of her own. She clandestinel
married Mr.. Charles R. Hopkins, an ur