The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-03-24
GENERAL BREVITIES.

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THE palace expenditure of the Sultan
of Turkey has been 100000 year
ever since his accession.
BONNER is called horse-collector,
and his atable horse-album. He has
a passion for buying great racers, and
shutting them up in luxurious retire
ment.
A CITIZEN of Somerville, Mass, was
surprised by the delivery of coffin at
his house and later hearse and eight
carriages came. 1t was the joke OF lu-
matte. ~
THE soap yielded by mine discover
ed in Elko County, Nevada, resembles
CASTLE soap in appearance, but does not
raise lather. 1t will remove grease and
dirt from cloth.
ANOTHER deadly explosive has been
discovered in thee shape OF barreled
saurkraut. A keg of it went off the
other dav making terrible noise, and
smashing things generally.
PROF. ToURY, Of Baltimore, bought
samples of the kerosene sold in the
stores, and found by experiment that
more than half of the stuff was very
dangerous, giving off infiammable va
por at very low temperature.
A SALT LAKE Mormon has written to
the Centennial Committee proposing to
exhibit his nine wives at Philadelphia,
<sto illustrate one of the social phases of
American life." He adds that his wives
are anxious to go.
A BURLY Briton, maddened by some
stage reflections on John Bull in a Mil
waukee theater, few nights ago,
charged upon the actors, revolver in
hand, and cleared the stage in a jiffy.
And yet they call this the glorious Cen
tennial year.
A LETTER from Fayal, one of the
Azore Islands, holds out this incentive
to immigration: Here you get a bottle
of wine for six cents, a meal for eight
cents, board by the day twenty-five
cents, while fifty cents will buy as much
as s. in the United States.
LOUISA HOsFoRD, of Clarendon, VT,
died a few days ago, after an illness of
60 years. caused by internal injuries
produced by a fall when she was nine
years old. During this time she suffered
intensely, and could never digest food
without the aid of medicine.
A Observation-Disclosures once said
that if his patients would make prac-
every morning before breakfast from
February till June, his practice would
be gone. The medicinal effect of pure
fruit acids is excellent upon the physi-
cal system.
A MAN at Des Moines, Iowa, is pre-
pairing box, to contain full informa-
ton concerning the past history and
present condition of that city, which
will be Theoretically sealed and address
ed to the Mayor of Des Moines, 1876.
Precautions will be taken to preserve it
carefully and insure its delivery.
IT is estimated that every time train
of cars of the average length stops, it
costs, in wear and tear of material and
loss of power, fully Is cents. This is
what makes conductor always look SO
cheerful when he hauls up at flag sta
ton, in the middle of a snow storm, to
take on a string of onions and man
with a dead-head pass.
A HOSPITAL surgeon writes that the
digestion is mainly governed by the
nervous system, and the nervous sys-
tenn is soon shattered by broker
rest. To deprive man of con
siderable portion of his sleep, and
then to expose him to cold, is simply to
exhaust his reserve of vital force, and tt
push him half way toward the goal of {
complete breakdown.
THE cold weather which has prevail
ed all over France to an unusual degre,
has driven a great number of wolves ou
of the woods. Some serious depreda
ton have recently occurred among flock
of sheep. The Minister of the Interio
calls attention to these attacks, and sug
!gests that regular wolf hunts would b
beneficial. Premiums are given for tn
destruction of these ravenOus animals
WHEN Lieutenant Bergman wa
sounding the Atlantic, preparatory t.
laying the ocean cable, the quill at tn
end of the sounding line brought u
mud, which, on being dried, became
powder so fine that on rubbing it be
tween the thumb and finger it disap
peared in the crevices of the skin. o
placing this dust under the microscop
it was discovered to consist of million
of shells, each of which had a Twin
animal.
THE Staked Plains of Texas have ius
been explored and found to abound
fertile lands and sparkling waters, whel
only a sterile waste was supposed to e.
list. Thus disappears from the map tt
Great American Desert. Invented /
some travelling rOmancer and adOnte