The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-04-20

weighed at its birth eight pounds, and
never weighed more than that. For the
last year it weighed only six pounds.
THE sound portions of the old Elm of
Boston Common will be made into fur
niture for the City Hall of Boston, and
specimens will be sent to the various
historical societies of the country.
LTNCOLN's monument can hardly be
looked at in the light of an assured sue
cess any more than Washington's
The estimated cost is $500, 600, of which
but $50, 600 has been raised
NEW YORK fashionables are going to
introduce the practice of drinking" on
roller-skates from London. It was a
favorite amusement in this country
many years ago, and was introduced in
to England by Americans.
The Hartford City Government has
named park in that city Bushnell
Park, - in honor of the Rev. Dr. Bush
nell, who, 80 years ago, conceived the
project of making the park out of what
was then one of the most unsightly spots
in the city.
j. B. PHILLIPS, of Orwell, Ohio, is
making cheese which will not be COM
pleted until the Goth of May, when it is
: expected to weigh $4,000 pounds. 1t
is, perhaps, needless to say that it is
destined to astonish the natives as well
as the foreigners at the Centennial.
THE mammoth telescope just erected
: in Paris has occupied twenty years in
making and mounting. The tube is %
feet 5 inches long and weighs 1921
pounds, and the mirror is 49, 1854 inches
in diameter. For strength and nicely
the machinery and other appurtenances
are unrivaled.
WOOD is more durable than iron. In
1868 an auger was dropped in the bay
at Belfast, Victoria, by one of the work
men employed on the jetty. Last
Christmas the tool was picked up on the
beach near the mouth of the Moyne.
The iron auger was incrusted with rust,
sand, etc., and the iron partly destroyed,
but the wooden handle (blackwood) was
perfectly sound.
SOME youngla of Whitmore Lake,
Mich, undertook to get up a donation
for the Rev. T. E. Pierce by retailing
kisses, and succeeded in disposing Of
ninety, for which the aggregate receipts
were $3.50. But the investors complain
that the girls pinched up their lips and
.Skimped the measure to such q degree
that they made profit of 1000 per
cent.
In July last horse was sent by rail
from his former home to Avon Springs,
N. Y, arriving at II D. M, and the next
: day was sent twelve miles to pasture.
After three weeks he broke from the
pasture and returned to the Springs,
went to the freight depot, and attempt
: ed to get into a freight car, apparently
with the idea of visiting his old home!
This statement is vouched for.
BRooKLYN is great place for novel;
ties. Its latest is breach Of promise
suit, in which the defendant pleaded
that he was under age at the time the
promise was made and could not, there
fore, make q valid contract. As he had
made valid contract shortly thereaf-
ter with another girl, the court decided
that the plea was not q good one, and
the jury made it 81, 500, throwing of
$500 from the plaintiff s claim.
In Ceylon large apes are regularly
employed to pull cocoanuts. These an
finals are imported from Acheen IN
patches, and let out on hire. A line is
first attached to each of these peculiar
laborers, and he is then sent up q tree,
where he is said to select suitable fruit
with great discrimination, and to twist
the nut round and round until it falls to
the ground. Each successive fall of a
nut is hailed by the hairy worker above
! with jump and achuckle Of satisfac-
/ ton.
The Paris police, while searching
lately very old house in the Rue Saint
Honore for some stolen property, came
upon door which apparently had not
been opened for many years. The door
opened on to staircase, at the foot of
which was found an empty coffin,
: which had almost crumbled to dust.
From inquiries which have since been
! made, it has been ascertained that this
secret chamber was hiding place for
several Huguenots during the massacre
. of St. Bartholomew, and that Henry
w. took refuge during that terrible
night in the house, which is close to the
entrance to the old Louvre.
TRAMPs have their own jokes, as well
as other people. Two of them recent
" went from New Britain to White
Cakes, Ct, at every house getting some
thing to eat, which they threw away as
soon as well out of the yard. Another,
who pretended to sell spectacles, went
to the house of Isaac Epson, in Ken
@sington, and told Mrs. Epson that he
was DIR. Clark, OF Hartford, and that
her husband, who was in Hartford, had
sent him out to see her. She happened
to be i'll, and he prescribed for her, de-
, manding and receiving $40. He was