The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-06-22
BELLEVUE, BOSsIER PARISH, LOUISIANA.
BREvIrIEs.

BREvITIES.
AMERICAN oysters are exported to En-
gland. @
THE center of gravity-the lowest but.
ton on Quaker's vest.
THE yield of the Ohio coal mines last
year exceeded 5000, 900 tons.
THE New York Sun wants Governor
who will write message only six inches
long.
THE more a man or woman knows the
less he gossi2s about neighbors. Culture
kills CAB. ess4
HEAVY strata of anthracite coal have
been discovered in the Apennines, near
Genoa.
LONDON now eats Texas steers and Yer
mont potatoes, and finds American hair
in its hash.
A New York firm is manufacturing
battle field relics to sell to Centennial
greenhorns.
PROFANITY and plug tobacco are the
crutches on which many q boy walks to
lOafer's grave.
A FATHER at Reading, Pa, wants his
daughter arrested because she parades the
streets in male attire.
THE Alta California wants every man
who wears diamond on his shirt front
arrested on suspicion.
MR.. GEORGE SMITH, of the British
MusDum, has resumed his explorations of
the mounds in Assyria.
CENTENNIAL girls that will be in de.
mand this year-thOse with red cheeks,
white skin and blue eyes.
"WHY, Mary Ann. what in the world
are you doing with the scissors ~ Shure
yez tould me to scallop the oysters"
ACCORDING to recent statements ten
steamers and 1900 lives have been lost on
the Pacific coast within the past few years.
Why is it that butchers and grocers will
insist on putting Happy New Year" at
the foot OF an outrageously big bill,
The shortest will on record reads:
San Francisco, Oct. 25, 1875. All the
property that I have belongs to my wife,
Anna Scherp. This Is my will. Franz
Scherp. Witnesses: Peter Kerna, job.
Orths. T. B. Moorbrick."
THE California wool clip of 1875 is es-
timated at 30, 600 pounds; with good sea-
sons in two years it will amount to &C, ,00O,-
600 pounds annually, and in three years
to u, 900, 600. California is now the first
wool growing State in the Union.
A YOUNG British officer having got
drunk and behaved disgracefully, the
Duke of Cambridge, Commander Chief,
has sentenced him to wear his uniform
constantly for one year. The British Of
fcers affect never to wear their uniform
except when on duty.
THERE is no better, no safer way, no
easier way, no surer way of saving chill
dren from the debasing influences of the
street, from corrupting association and
from the acquisition Of vicious and hurt
full practices, than to make home attract
ive.-W. W. Hall.
A NEW industry has started into being
at the Halles Centrales, Paris. Large
wagons loaded with fresh vine leaves ar
rive early every morning. A crowd OF
old women dressed as peasants surround
them, purchase the leaves, wrap them
tastefully about Jumps of tallow, adroitly
colored, and then go from door to door
and sell the stuff as fresh butter.
HERR KAPP has announced that in the
next sitting of the German Parliament he
will ask the Government whether the ac-
cident which has befalIen the German
steamer Deutschland will be only inquired
into in England by English officers, and
whether the long expected bill providing
for the examination of German ship.
wrecked sailors will be soon introduced.
AN Englishman has squeezed 1900
copies of history of the world since the
flood into Ia, ,OOO bottles, and had them
buried in the ice somewhere in Greenland.
His theory is that history repeats itself,
and that the coming Capt. Noah will pick
up these floating waits and put them in
the ark library as something reliable for
future historians to start on.
THE water of the Thames is full Of i'm
purities, and the Pollution ofRivers Com.
missiOners have recommended that as
early as possible the river be abandoned
!" as source of water supply for domestic
use" and that the sanction Of the British
Government be in future withheld from
all schemes involving the expenditure of
more capital for the supply Of Thames
water to London. 1t is proposed to sup
ply the city with water from deep wells.
An innkeeper in one Of the towns Of
New Zealand, owing 70 . threatened
drought, lately had an artesian well bored
water was struck. It rose freely to the sur
AoCCs uCCOu pdulCu ny lodSc VOIumc Va
gas similar to that which has been found
IN many parts Of this country; 50 that the
innkeeper's enterprise has been rewarded
not only by an abundant supply Of good
water to Get before his guests, buta means
of lighting his house at night at alm0at
no pecuniary expense.
Two OF our School Commissioners
started out the other day to pay visit to
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