The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-04-05
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

nearly 800 letters from persons begging
to be put on juries that they may give
their families bread.
GERMANY is now spending $50, 100000
year on her army, and France $685.
000,0C0. The new German Parliament
is face to face, for the first time, with
an imperial deficit.
THE San Francisco Common Council
has passed special bill permitting q
certain Chinaman to carry a pistol
three months, because his life is threat
ened by persons against whom he has
testified.
A CoLoRED servant girl in Baltimore
got "mad" because she was scolded
by her mistress, and proceeded to mix
some phosphorus in the bread. The
family is doing as well as could be ex-
pected under the circumstances.
THERE is a physician at Fredericks-
burg, Va, who is also a minister. Re-
Gently he attended woman in her con-
finement, married the parents and bap-
tized the newly born child before leav-
ing the house.
In Newfoundland there is not snake,
toad, frog or reptile of any sort; not
squirrel, not porcupine, moose or
mink. The Arctic hare is found in
Newfoundland, but not in Cape Breton
nor in Nova Scotia, and yet the island
is full of boys and swamps.
Young Mr.. Sears, of Boston, who
recently came into the largest estate
ever inherited in New England-some
$3,0O0,0 00-was charged by his lawyers
$4,000 for their legal services in refer
ence to his fathers will. The bill was
compromised at $4,000.
AMONG DR.. Schliemann's latest dis
coveries is small scrap of parchment,
which proves to be letter to Agamem-
non from his mother-in-iaw. She
warns him that the next time ne stays
out late at night she'll lock the front
door on him, without fail.
LONGFELLOw looks upon Sunday as
"the golden clasp that holds together
the volumes of the week." but to one
who never induldges in romantic flights
OF imagination, it is simply an ecstatic
season when you can lie in bed late in
the morning and have something extra
for dinner.
Two Baltimore men bet $1,000 on
the result OF the Presidential election,
and being unable to amicably agree
which had won, the case was taken into
court. Then the District Attorney,
under law of the State, took posses.
sion of the stakes and turned the money
over to the city treasury.
AN East Bridgeport Conn. mother
has sued young MIN from Newport to
recover $50 for food and lights wasted,
as she evidently considers, during the
courtship of her daughter, said courtship
having been brought to an untimely
close by the stony-hearted swain, in
spite OF the protestations of the young
lady and her practical mother.
SANKEY'S songs and solos, to the
number OF twenty, have been translated
into Chinese, and the heather Celestials
are howling them in the mission at
Tientsin. The Chinese are not felici-
tous in their handling of revival music.
When they put musical force into their
singing it sounds like dinner gong at
railroad eating house.
AT the recent baby-show at Chicago.
the boys numbered 100 and the GIRLS
~. One girl of 16 months weighed As
pounds, and another, just q year old.
weighed 40 pounds. Were the babies
prettyP Well, says Chicago reporter,
they didn't look like Jumps of putty, as
envious bachelors say all babies do but
some OF them were uncommonly putty
faced, while others were beautiful as
ones dream of the angels. No triplets
were entered, but there were - pairs
of twins.
HARRISON PHELPS, a farmer near
Antioch, Cal, quarreled with his wife
because she was too intimate with a
man named Taylor, her "fellow" in
her girlish days in the East. Mrs.
Phelps left the ranch, but her husband
soon sent for her, promising to deed
her half of his 800 acres. She de-
manded 80 more, and got them. For
time, every thing was serene, but. one
day, Phelps learned that his wife had
actually decided the extra 80 acres to
the man, Taylor. Taylor then became
the victim of Phelps's shotgun.
FAvERoLLEs, French lieutenant of
Zouaves, left on the field for dead after !
a skirmish with Arabs, was found to be
still alive by a retreating party of the {
enemy, and carried prisoner by them 1
among the Atlas Mountains. A daugh- S
ter OF their chief saved him from execu- {
ton, and, although he had wife in s
France, he married the young girl upon
condition of receiving his liberty. Two I
months ago, Faverolles, having lost his s
second wife, reappeared in France be-
Tore his first wife. She, hearing of mis-