The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-01-27
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

THERE is talk of building an opera
house in Paris with seating capacity
LOT $4,000, admission to which is to be
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| A NEWSPAPER letter-wr1ter comments
upon the skill and popularity OF the
men milliners in Boston. That city. he
says, is also well supplied with men
ldressmakers. fR
REV. Mr.. CHANDLER, who has lust
returned from India, says the women
OF that country build all the railroads.
and carry the dirt from the grades and
to the hills in baskets on their heads.
A PLUcKY lady in Burlington, Iowa,
compelled three loafers, who insulted
her on the street, the other evening, to
beg for mercy at the muzzle of a reyol-
yer. The revolver was a.door-key.
Ex-Gov. CLIFFORD, President Of the
Boston and Providence Railroad Com
pany, has requested the Directors to
cut down his salary one-half rather than
reduce the pay Of the employees. 81 !,
SALLY WETHERBEE, who recently
died at Harvard, Mass, on the edge Of
100 years of age, passed the last two
years OF her life in knitting a pair Of
white stockings for each Of her living
descendants, who were more than fifty
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AT Moulton, Appanoose County, Iowa,
lives man named Singly, 1O4 years old,
healthy and strong,walking easily three
to tive miles at stretch. Last week he
married Widow Mclaughlin, 80 years.
ofage, and the twain are renewing their
youth.
A FIRE broke out n the school At Hol-
land, Michs, the other day., during
school-hours, About 80 scholars were
in the building at the time, but owing
to the presence of mind Of Miss Allen,
The teacher, they were dismissed with
out accident. 4
THE Oldest lady in California, proba-
bly,, is Dona Lulalie CULLEN, who Is now
supposed to be 14O years of age, who re-
Gently removed to the San Jose Valley, ),
near Pomona, for her, health. It Isl
thought that the Pomona climate will
enable her to live to a good old age.
{ HHERE is at Winston, Ala, an aged
couple, Buckner Walker and his wife
Seliva, the former being 104 and the lat
ter 1O3 years old. The man runs -four
mill and the wife does her own cooking.
They have 102 living descendants; 12d
children, go grandchildren and !, 2S
great1grand-children $500 p
MARSHALL COUNTY, Iowa, is defend
ant in an action brought in the name Of
Samuel Strickler, year old, by his
next friend, for damages sustained in
centre sa mere (before birth), by his
mother falling through broken bridge,
the result of which was scrotal hernia
a permanent disability
THE Farmers Union Road of Iowa is
now completed FIVE miles out from Lis
comb, and is laid with wooden rails
made of hard maple set into the ties,
which are notched to receive them, and |
made fast by wooden keys, The rails |
are about four by six inches, and are |
spliced with a lap joint, held fast by two
bolts.s
The West-End Passenger Railway
Company is making a circuit of the I
Centennial buildings and grounds with
a double narrow gauge railroad track, |
which already extends along Belmont |
Avenue for half'a mile, and upon which /
it is expected several dummies will be
kept busy drawing carloads of visitors
from building to building. s
WOMEN are beginning to obtain new
privileges in Minnesota. At the late.
election, large majority was given for
a constitutional amendment, providing /
that any woman Of twenty lone years Of
age and older may vote at any election
for officers of schools, or On any meas
ures relating to schools, or may be eli
gible to any office pertaining to the
of schools. ...gs af 4
The Mayor of New York City has al
salary of $4,000 per year; which is
more than the combined salaries Of the
of nine States, namely: Con-
necticut, $1,000; Delaware, 81, ,S33;
Illinois, 1890; Michigan, 81 500: Ne
braska, Loco J. New Hampshire, 81 900 II,
Oregon, $1,000; Rhode Island, $1,000 II
Vermont, 81, 900; total of nine States,
81, 1888. This is $4,000 a year more
shan is paid to the Governor OF New
York.
FEMALE members of the histriOnic
profession in Germany will hereafter
be compelled to curb their propensity
Eor low-necks, pull-backs, striped stock
Ings, and other extravagances of dress
On the stage. The Berlin critics, wholly
nsensible tothe value Of these adiuncts
p high art, and having,,it may be. sup |
posed, an intense antipafhy to GORGEOUS
millinery, have succeeded III procuring
IN order from the Government directed +
sgainst both the dry goods and the mo-
foods drama in Berlin. a391!
A CORRESPONDENT writing from Mex
co describes the condition Of affairs "a