The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-11-16
GENERAL BREVITIES.

e Mr.. BAYARD TAYLOR has seen every
Worlds Fair vet held, and CONSIDERS
the Centennial Exhibition the most IN
teresting and complete OF them all.
"WHAr do you propose to take Tor
your cold?" said lady to sneezlng
gentleman. "Oh, I'll sell it very
Cheap; l won't higgle about the price
at all.'
THE Boston Transcript has heard Of
a servant girl who inquired on the first
morning after her arrival: And does
girls that lives out have to make their
pwn beds, mum?"
WHEN you see a young lady with
diamond ear rings and trail gong
along the street, with pound OF cheese
neatly done up in brown paper under
her arm, there's something wrong
somewhere, depend upon it.
The Vienna Exhibition was open 1876
days, and the admission Zee Tor tne
whole term amounted to $1,O32,39O.
When the Centennial Exhibition had
been open three months and four days,
the amount received was 1891 ,O73.25.
Poor old Uncle Daniel Drew hadn't
the faintest intention of joking when,
in response to reporters query as to
his opinion of Vanderbilt's chances OF
life, he replied: 81 have no hope of his
recovery. I know his physician very
WELL"
81 DON'T see how you can have been
working all day like horse," exclaim-
ed the wife of lawyer, her husband
having declared that he had been thus
working. "Well, my DEAR" he replied,
"I've been drawing a conveyance all
day, anyhow"
MANY times cold exterior covers
warm heart, and it often happens that
a formal and frigid husband will BIOS
som out into the most devoted of men
when his wife goes off to camp-meeting
and leaves the hired girl to keep house
for him.
ONLY about two thirds of the Russian
serfs have accepted the terms of the
ukase of freedom. Many are so wretch
eddy poor that the Government has to
aid them with money and food to ena-
BILE them to till the land which has been
given them.
DoNA MARGARITA, wife of Don
Carlos, has left Biarritz, in order to take
up her residence at Passy, in the estab-
lishment formerly occupied by the
Dowager Queen Christina. Don Carlos
is expected to join her there at the end
of this month. co .3asz
Mrs. WILHELMINA GILES, one of the
few women who were present at Water
loo, has Just died in England, aged 81
She was there with her husband, q
auartermaster, and had been through
the siege of Dantzic, when the French
bombarded it in 1907.
SOME villain sent a neatly done up
paper box full of wasps to the editor oil
the Milton IN. CO. Chronicle, and the
little pests actually cleaned out the en-
tire establishment, and delayed the
paper a whole day. When it did ap
N pear, there was q singing editoria
in it.
LEOPOLD LICHTENBURG, San Fran
cisco boy, who went to Europe some
time ago to pursue his studies on thu
violin, has taken the first prize, witt
distinction, at the St. Petersburg Con
servatoire. He played the seventeenth
concerto of Viotti and the third con
certo of Vieuxtemps. III
1T is said that the Servian officer!
are so deeply impressed with the re
ports they have heard of the Turkisl
atrocities that they always endeavor Il
reserve one ball in their revolver so a
to blow their own brains out as soon a
they fall into the hands of the enemy
HERE is hint to careless letter writ
ers to invariably put at least the address
of the party addressed in the body Q
the letter as well as on the envelope
Six thousand persons are daily writin
letters which do not reach their destina
ton because they fail to observe certai
simple rules
RAILROAD investment in the Unite
States is not peculiarly profitable il
vestment just now. OF the 666 roads
the country only 166 pay dividend
the stockholders. No less than 81
roads, representing a capital of 81, $50
773,449, do not pay a dividend.
THAT Iowa man who courted his Wi
80 years before he married her was
prudent fellow. Fifty years takes tt
strength out of almost any arm, an
makes it inconvenient for woman
get down on her knees to urge the hea
Of the house to come out from undo
the bed and talk the matter over.
THIS year at Sorbonne, France,
young fellow named Reinach carrie
off eight prizes. Among these was OF
for rhetoric, and it was the boys fir
year of rhetoric. But he beat all Il
other old ones. AS the last prize W;
named with the boys name attached
it, the whole assembly arose and a.
plauded, as if favorite actor had a
nearad His music master declares