The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-10-19
GENERAL BREvlTlES.
oGs live from II to Is years.

FROGS live from II to Is years.
THERE are about 25O,00O species of
living animals in all.
A GOLDFISH has been found to produce
s,6O0,0OO eggs at spawn.
The Australian dog and the shepherd
dog Of Egypt never bark.
RocKPoRr, Mass, appropriates the
proceeds Of her tax on dogs to the pur-
chase Of books for her public library.
ANOTHER mammoth hotel is to be
erected at Saratoga for the entertain
,aent Of guests of moderate means.
In 1852 the English Parliament voted
for education, art and science an appro-
priation of $2.353,810. This year the
amount was $16, $3.50, 1876.
One of the best velocipedists in the
world is Chicago letter-carrier. He
does all his travelling on the back of a
bicycle s'just as easy"
MASSACHUSETTS is paying about
three-quarters of million annually for
interest on the debt incurred in the
construction of the Hoosaic tunnel.
THE King of the Belgians has invited
all the Governments to send delegates
TO an International Congress of Geog-
raphy, to be held at Brussels, Sept. II.
THE wings of some insects are so
thin that $4,000 placed one upon
another would not form heap of more
than quarter Of an inch in height.
A HoLfoKE (Mass.) boy, whose
spine has been weakened by illness,
runs on all fours like dog. His health
is good, and he hops over the ground
at lively rate.
THERE is one committee at the Gen.
tennial Exposition that has not had
vacancy since that opening. 1t is the
Jurors on wines, and they have SAM
pied over 800 different varieties.
THE round, smooth-faced, fat, pig
tailed Chinaman that sits in the Chinese
department of the Exhibition has cap
tured the affections of young and
handsome American girl Of romantic
turn Of mind, and the wedding is to
come off this winter.
THREE thousand stars only are viA-
bic to the naked eye. Countless mil
lions are revealed by the telescope
some SO remote that their light, travel
ing at the rate of 100000 miles Sec
ond, can not ARRIVE at our little planet
in less than 14,0cO years.
A VERY mean storekeeper of Eddy
stone, Ont, recently charged one of his
female clerks, who had ridden into Co
bourg with him, so cents for the use of
bis buggy and SO cents for lost time,
but the young lady had him fined 800
and costs for carrying passengers with
out license.
SUsANA. KING, who came from the
same town in Maine that Annie Louise
Cary did, is now one of the most sue
ceesful real-estate operators in New
York City. She boasts that when she
first came to New York she often had
not s much money as would pay her
stTeet-car fare.
MARY CLEMMER says of Senator
Booth OF California: "No man shall
display within sight Of the gallery every
day such exquisite silken hose without
my doing them ample justice. The
world shall know what lovely stockings
ne wears. No Senator. shall sit in the
middle aisle with one foot aloft, dis.
playing faultless ankle, faultlessly at
ured In hose with cerulean stripes, and
lnotsay there is such a Senator, If but
0ne.n .3s
HE Greenup Ky.) Independent re-
iates the following almost incredible
story. Alter telling of the burial of an
old man it says: "But hardly had the
crowd dispersed and left alone the last
nsung place of old age, when son of
the deceased appeared on the ground,
armed with shovel and mattock, and
y once set to work opening the grave.
ne got down to the coffin, opened it,
Mo then stripped his dead father of his
new Clothes, again shut the coffin, filed
u tne earth and left, dressed in his
lss1ers funeral clothes. Though posi-
lively informed of the truthfulness of
nS horrible feat, we would hardly be-
Aeve u, were it not stated as fact that
une son of the deceased still wears the
same . =, suit, and even brags on his doing
uuR civilization is full of such stories
= als, which is from Oshkosh: sA
msu 10 the town of Rushford killed an
usaer mans dog. The son of the man
anose oog was killed, therefore, pro-
SS.soso 70 whip the man who killed the
aog q the man he was son of. The
lan wao was son of the man whose dog
wss nlled was arrested by the man who
~ assaulted by the son of the man
NJ ruose dcg the man assaulted and killed.
saoI. ao man who was arrested by the man
muo Kllied the dog of the man whom the
Iaa slfested was son of, for assaulting
.,"s .as man who killed the dog, finally set
.aea 4ee case up with the man who had