The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-11-02
GENERAL BREVITIES.

GENERAL BkEvlTlESs
THE Golos says that the Russian land
army can now be brought up to $780,
GOO men, without counting the Opolt-
chenie or national militia.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL, the Nestor of |
British statesmen, entered upon his
eighty-ffth year on Aug. Is. He has
been Member Of Parliament since |
1878.
ROBERT LUTON, Viceroy of India,
rolled the other day with his horse 100 |
feet down q precipice, at the top of
which the animal SHE'D. He was not |
hurt.
A SARATOGA correspondent wants to.
bet that there is more love made to the
square inch at Saratoga, during the
season, than at any other place in the
country.
GEORGE ADAMS, train wrecker, who
misplaced a rail on the Lake Shore
Road, has been held for the construct
i've murder of William E. Clemens, q
passenger.
AN old apple tree at York, Maine,
which was brought over from England
in tub in 1929, was cut down the other
day by its owner, because the people
trampled down his grass in going to
see it.
JOHN MILLER, of Boston, has some
tough children. One fell on his head,
% feet, the other day, without being
hurt, and now another falls from the
top of a four-story house, only break
ing an arm.
The opium habit is said to be fear
fully on the increase in New York.
The practice is chiefly INDUCED in by
the ladies for the purpose Of brighten
ing their eyes and giving q ruddy ap-
pearance to their cOuntenances.
The Fat Mems Association held their
tenth annual clam-bake at Norwalk the
other day, and got rid of III bushels of
CLANS and oysters, and other things in
proportion. Willard Perkins, of Water
bury, was the heaviest, weighing 1872
pounds, and 12-year-old boy weighed
POP pounds.
A NOTICEABLE feature of the Grand
Union Hotel at Saratoga is the paint
ing entitled, "The Genius of America"
by Adolph won, a German. It is an
allegorical picture, containing '12O
figures, many of which are life-size.
It is said that Stewart paid $4,000 for
it, and, when he received it, could find
no place to put it except the ball room
of his hotel.
A SINGULAR gun accident recently
occurred at Pains-hill- house, near Cob
ham, in England. The farm bailiff,
Mr.. Heal, laid loaded gun on the top
of a corn-bin in the stable, and to his
great surprise he heard it some time
afterward go off. The gun was fired
by fowl which got on the trigger, and
the contents entered the face of an aged
man named Coils, who had been en-
|ployed on the estate for upward of 80
years.
The proverbially long arm Of justice
was felt by merchant of Hull, Eng
land, who decamped with the pro-
ceeds of forged note. His descrip-
ten having been forwarded to all parts
of the world, and f1OO reward offered
for his capture, a Feejee Island detec-
tive nailed his man, but could not keep
him in prison for want of evidence
He lodged him from island to island,
however, till the Hull authorities could
send an officer who identified the officer
and took him to England.
Mr.. CHARLES JACKSON fell dead on
the steps of his residence in San Fran
cisco on the 28th ult. few minutes be-
fore the hour appointed for the wed
ding of his daughter. Invited guests
. to the number of 900 had gathered al
Grace Church, and were shocked by
, the sudden announcement Of Mr.. Jack
sons death and the consequent post
} ponement of the ceremony. The at.
/ flicted family were well known in fash
: ionable society. The intended bride.
groom, Mr.. Payne Shafter, is gentle.
, man of influence and standing in thai
J community.
) AT a meeting, of the London Aero
nautical Society on July 5th, severa
) schemes were propounded for the con
: struction of flying machines, and ont
gentleman, who expressed an opinion
that balloon sailing was game no
Q worth the candle, announced that h.
t had in preparation machine to b,
I worked by thirty-horse power steam
: engine, which should travel through
the air at the rate of 200 miles an houl
r as safely as railway train.
Iowa has been tickled nearly to dealt
l to think that an ear of Iowa corn hal
e been carried back to Brazil by Don
q Pedro, because the Empress, pretend
1 ing to be amazed and delighted will
d the remarkable size and appearance o
p Iowa corn, begged an ear at one Of the
q stations on the Burlington and Missouri