The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-02-18
l. GENERAL BREvITIES.

MUSHROOMS weighing from six ounces |
N TWO pounds each are q staple article |
IN the BAKERSFIELD (Cal.) market.
Itlthe feet are found cold after get
tine intorb bed, rub them with the hands,
and wrap up each one well in a news
paper.-Dr. W. w. Hall.
How many business men are there in
the world-earnest, plodding, but un-
fortunate fellow-creatures- go
about their work day after day, without
ever seeming to know that the Bible
contains the word advertise"
there, is q man sentenced to the
county jail at Lexington, Kentucky, for
year, for stealing cotton umbrella.
Hisboard costs sixty cents day, or
s2l9 for the year. The Lexington peo-
ple could better have afforded to buy
the man his umbrella.
The New Workers propose to inau-
grate the Centennial entertainments
with Martha Washington reception on
the 22d of February, for the benefit of
the local poor, the attraction to consist
Of an exhibition of relics of the revolu-
tiohary war time.
NEXT year will be a great year for
this American nation. It is leap year,
Presidential election year and the CEN
tennial anniversary of our independence,
and for the purpose of giving us rest
during SO much excitement there will
be one extra Sunday; or fifty-three in
aIl e 1855 f5i1 .Hsi sft sea- fai
In the following lines the word s'that''
isused to exemplify its various signifi-
cations M ift-#s .g !.
Now that is word which may often be Joined,
For that that may be doubled is clear to the mind
Ard that that that is right is as plain to the view
As that that that that we use is rightly used too;
And thatthat that that that line has is right,
In accordance with grammar, is plain in our
JOSHUA MONTGOMERY SEARS, stu
dent in Yale College, attained his ma
jority on Christmas Day, and with it
stepped into the possession of neat lit
tie property estimated at $4,000, 600.
His parents died in his infancy, and the
property has been held in trust by three
trustees. About one-haf of the proper.
ty consists of real estate in Boston
Fortunate (or unfortunateD youth.
A ALovERs FANCY.
Do you know to what kingdom my true love be
To the earth, or the sky, or the sea?.
!. She belongs to them allEaye, every one,
For she's all of the world to me.
there are flashes or gold isher hair,
And her teeth are the pearls Of the sea;
There is heavens own blue in her eye
So she's all of the world to me.
F ss z-Boston Advertiser.
ONE Of the most injurious dieteti,
habits Of Americans is that of eating: no
bread, cake and biscuit. The Prussial
Government compels bakers to keel
their bread at least one day before sell
ing. If Americans would follow thei
example, there would be fewer dyspep
tics than at present. There is not on
dyspeptic German where there are
dozen dyspeptic Americans. This
however, is but one of the many cause
for this marked difference The onl
fresh, hot bread that is wholly unob
jectionable, is the unleavened bread an,
crackers 81. G~ 8{t'
"A CORRESPONDENT ofithe New Yor
Tribune, who lately saw the Sultan 9
Turkey riding out, says: He rode in
carriage drawn by four fine horses, an
the authorities had, as is the custom
covered up the pitfalls of the pavemen
along his route with six inches of sand
Wen watered and rolled: His Maiest
enjoyeda comfortable ride over we
made roads; but AFTER he had passed
the sand was all swept up and move
in carts for use next time, and the pit
falls returned. -
b The adage that affiictiens are ofte
blessings in disguise receives verifics
ton in the case of a poor Connecticr
man, whose wife, during the first yea
Of their marriage, yanked at his hal
until he became entirely bald. Th
misfortune set his inventive faculties Z
work, and the result was a hair invie
orator, the sale of which has made tn
family rich. He often says to his wifi,
as they roll along in their carriage
"The most devoted love could not d
more for me than you have DONE"
THE Manchester Guardians Londo
correspondent writes that Russia is col
templating the abolition of passports
"A proposal has. been submitted for
very COMPROMISING alteration, if NJ
the entire abolition, of the present pas
port provisions, and the Minister ef F
nance has already declared his read
ness to dispense with the 2,500, 900 r,
bles which the passport fees annual
bring into the Imperial exchequer. III
IRdssian Government is reported I
have satisfied itself of the futility, as
police measure, of the passport system
THERE is scarcely a study in whic
more fresh, apt and delightful instru
tion can be given than in geograph,
and there is scarcely'a study which
made moro rrintaresfinn u To nl1a,ils -