The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-06-21
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The parasol must match the dress this
year, or lady is not in the height of
fashion.
Mrs. KIMBERLY, of short-horn cattle
celebrity, in Iowa, gets a divorce and
$4,000, on account of her husbands
cruelty.
THURSDAY, June IA, will be the one
hundredth anniversary of the adoption
of the Stars and Stripes as a national
ensign.
A MILWAUKEE man who had been un-
able to get work fora long time was so
overcome with joy when he got situa-
ton that he died.
A PHENOMENON is reported from Ma
pies, Italy. 1t is that for three whole
days in one week there were no births
out of a population of 100000 souls.
w. D. BOONE, grandson of Daniel
Boone, is now living in Santa Clara VAL
ley, California. He was born in Ohio,
and went to California in 1849.
THE death of two centenarians Is an
nounced-Rose Brady in New York,
aged 103, and Henry johnson, a life
convict at Sing Sing, also 1o5.
| A GIRL in Dubuque granted her re-
jected lover parting kiss, and he,
availing himself of the opportunity, bit
her cheek in way that disfgures her
| for life.
THIRTY-THREE States have made laws
for the prevention of cruelty to animals.
| The States that have not are Florida,
Mississippi, Arkansas, Nebraska and
Colorado. e106
THE New Hampshire statistician has
been calling for show of hands in that
State, for the purpose of aseertaining
who has the largest. The palm has
been awarded to farmer in Green
land, who holds up % eggs in his hand.
PASSENGERS are not allowed the sweet
privilege of jumping off and on railway
trains in motion in England, as they are
in this blessed land of the free A young
man in London lately, who had to jump
or lose his train, was arrested for the Of
fense, fined and soundly reprimanded
by the Judge.
THE State of Georgia has sold the la
Dor of the convicts in its State prison for
S25, 900 year, which is at the rate of
about $11 year for each convict. The
State appears to have been badly swim
died, as the contractors are now success
fully sub-letting !" the convicts at $50
a year apiece.
THE rediscovery at Canquenes, Chill,
, of the once famous gold mine, "Los
Cristales,n has created somewhat of
sensation This mine, whose yield is
supposed to have been almost fabulous
/ in the old colonial times, has been lost
, for forty years. Having been abandon
ed at the breaking out of the revolution,
it filled with water, and then landslide
f removed all traces of it.
A YOUNG lady clerk in Philadelphia
dry-goods store tainted, and in the pres
ence of a plying circle of customers
: the sympathetic proprietor sent for a
l carriage and had her taken home. Her
: weekly wages were Sc, but that week
: the envelope contained only one. The
explanation given in reply to her ques-
!, ton was that the other five went to pay
for the carriage.
By late steamer from Japan there
q were received by the California State
q Fish Commissioners from the Japanese
! Government present of a lot of the
young carp of that country. Of the
number shipped, 88 passed the voyage
in fine condition, and were placed in the
tank with the gold fish at Woodward s
e Aquarium in San Francisco, to be nurs-
Is ed until old enough to spawn. An at
1t tempt will be made to introduce them
r. into all the lagoons of fresh water in
/: the southern and middle portions of the
3, State. A number of the King carp from
| Il Iaf E,ol1r -,
t, the ponds at Druid Hill, Baltimore.
y Lillian STEARNs, aged 16, of West.
ID field, VT, fell in love with her older sis
= ter's beau; but he stuck faithfully to his
le choice; Lillian threatened to drown her.
= self; and one night, while the couple
"a were riding, she jumped from bridge
= which they gwere just then crossing. The
a, stream into which she fell is not deep
a. and it is believed that she had no inten
e, ton of drowning herself, relying on be
e, ing rescued by the fellow whom sht
< meant to impress. He might easily have
Id saved her, if he had not been scared ou
n, of his wits. Instead, he drove off for as
y sistance, and left her to drown.
- . A TERRIBLE famine is raging in tn
80 Chilli and Shangtung districts of China
: In a village visited by Europeans th
- inhabitants were putting an end to thei
suferings by suicide, and in one famil,
the father and mother buried their chill
y, dren alive, that they might not witnes
he their agonies. The people have devoul
ed ed the grass and the foliage of the trees
le- and the efforts of the Government an
ed the priests have been insufficient t
Ter meet the needs of the famishing multi