The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-05-25
GENERAL BREVITIES.

HEREAFTER the police of Paris will
not allow any theatrical posters over
10 by 12 inches to be put up.
IT is claimed in New Orleans that so
cents worth of coal oil will last as long
as nine dollars worth OF gas.
Two large drapery firms in London
have private chaplains towhom they pay
a salary each of $1,000 for attending
every morning to offer prayer and give
addresses to the young men and women
in their employ.
LONDON society has adopted new
amusement. This is found in dancing
quadrilles without the accompaniment
of instrumental music--the dancers
themselves singing their own dance
music, which consists Of simple nursery
rhymes.
CONRAD HOFFMAN, of Bay St. Louis,
has the largest orange tree on the coast:
It measures three feet in diameter, and
the circle which compasses its boughs
is 60 feet in diameter. The yield of the
tree is said to be 5000 annually.
THE following advertisement, taken
from late London journal, illustrates
the change that is gradually taking
place in social ideas: "Three lady
helps wanted, as cook, house-maid, and
nurse; private family; no servants
kept.''
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: ill., tus;lue MThor - .ne jury ,,;h.ol !.
So ~. 4hnt neae - no' .ng n W'
are masters of the situation, however,
and if you choose to find the prisoner
not guilty, can not help it,
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confined ar w?l, not transm;t I;rb1 So.
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THE New York Postmaster received a
few days ago, as dead mail matter from
.ao ua 0an e1o pa.haSe nlng -
Poonus, con.alnns o4o ie,.efs, largely
~ Nun mouon nan Mg an aooresseo
80 Dyn oan'a ciapia ~, ~ Dialnai1tllla'
- mhss .ne 10y snlcu u.al,ona nercnant,
u. :. Tn au ~eaulng laouious s1ories were
s so.G aoouS year ago: ny some imagl-
na'lse ue"spapelr writer; Inc le,ters
e. 70 .ne Deaa Le.Ier Omce, ana tne
ueal! oovegous creatures VINO nave oeen
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AN illustration of the value of timber
on waste lands is afforded by q sale OF
wood which took place on the estate Of
the Earl of Cawdor in Nairnshire the
other day. In 1920, two hills, about SOC
acres in extent, were. planted with fiji
and other trees, and after successive
Trimmings, the sale of which realized
large sums, the remainder Of
the wood has lust been sold off for the