The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-10-26
GENERAL BREYITWS.


ties.
The German Government in Alsace
has relaxed its rigor so far as to allow
the engagement of French company
for the Strasbourg Theater.
A HORSE that was being shod in
Poughkeepsie, reared suddenly, and
struck his head against q beam with
such force that his neck was broken.
Ex-MAYoR w. C. SMITH, of Bos-
ton. rather poetical person of an eccen-
trio turn, is building an open-front
tomb, with seats and q table, in the
beer garden style.
PROF. WEsrBRooK, a temperance
speaker well known throughout Ohio,
got drunk after delivering. q lecture at
and was killed.
THE statue of the Prince Consort, the
work of the late Mr.. Foley, has arrived
in Cambridge, England. It is Of white
marble, and represents the Prince in his
robes as Chancellor Of the University.
A MAN who tried to drown himself
by jumping from an excursion steamer
in Boston harbor, on Friday, was so fat
that he couldn't sink, and the boat sent
for him found him floating like cork.
THE society for the protection of life
from fire commenced its labors in Lon
don with only six. escapes forty years
ago. It has now 1856 escapes, and saved
TAI lives during the last ten years.
THE hair of q woman, nearly 80 years
of age, who died on Martha's Vine
yard, was wholly woven in with false
hair which had not been removed for
over 80 years, and was held in place
by 100 pins. One article of her dress
was held together by 3O8 pins, though
her bureaus contained SO new dress
patterns, of all kinds and qualities,
some Of them being bought GA years
ago, and one elegant brocade silk
could be traced back 200 years.
A CURIOUS case of hereditary
birth-marks " is reported in Kentucky.
For several generations the ancestors
of Mr.. Alfred Nc rocklin, OF Spencer
County, have marked their hogs with q
cross and a slit in the ear. The same
stock has remained in the family
through the lapse of all these years,
and now the ear marks appear at the
birth of the piglings belonging to Mr..
McCrocklin. This saves him the trou-
BILE of re-marking his hogs. H.
The man who has sisters, SAYS the
Edinburgh Ladies's Journal, has bet
ter opportunity of selecting a wife than
the man who has none, but he is in nine
cases out of ten much more difficult to
please. In daily contact with members
of the other sex, who display all their
little foibles before him, he is apt to
judge his sisters friends by the same
standard wherewith he daily judges his
sisters-not very logical method of
procedure, but I think not an unnat-
ural one.
A TOBACCoNIsr at Greenock, Eng
land, on arriving at his shop one morn
ing found a fine set of false teeth lying
ON the counter. He then, discovered
that thief had broken into the shop
during the night and carried OF cigars,
tobacco and pipes. The burglar had
evidently taken out his teeth while he
was packing up his plumber and in the
haste of departure had forgotten to re-
place them. The police ascertained
that the teeth fitted a gap in the gums
OF one Blake, and he is now in custody.
Mr.. RUsKIN, in recent number of
Fors ClauigerG, gives his young lady
readers some sensible advice respect
ing dress. Among other suggestions,
he says: "Yeur walking dress should
not touch the ground at ALL. / have
lost much of the faith once had in the
common-sense and even in the person.
al delicacy of the present race Of aver
age Englishwomen, by seeing how they
will allow their dresses to sweep the
streets, as it is the fashion to be scay-
engers."
MATTE STRICKLAND daughter of
ex-Congressman Strickland, 81 'Michi-
GAM and Leo Miller whose marriage
by an original rite attracted atten-
ton. q. year ago, send the following
communication to the Chicago news
papers: Edwin Miller Strickland is
the name given to a son born to Leo
Miller and Matte Strickland, at Castle
Rock, MINI. The new social order
proposes to compound the terminating
surnames of the parents in< their chill
dren, and perpetuate the name of the
mother instead of the father. Every
child would thus bear its fathers and
mothers name, but in the next genera
ton the fathers name would be
dropped. This arrangement is in har-
mony with nature, and far more Just
than the present system. ..
Pref. Huxley's Address to the Ameri.
can Scientific Association.