The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-02-08
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10000 arrests last year.
The Maine penitentiary Is full,
and the legislature is asked to have
the concern enlarged.
Senator Conkling is to be con-
graduated. He has earned the dis
approval of the New York Times.
Let Logan use the rest of the ses
sion to redeem his reputation. He'll
never have another chance.
The authorities of Louisville, KY,
have largely reduced the salary OF
city officials.
There are in Chicago 2,S71 licens.
ed establishments where liquor is
sold by the drink.
Women in politics! Sugar in
Stops! 1t may improve the slop;
but, oh! what waste of sugar.
Whenever you think you can
manage very much better than
your Deighbor does, try it.
Virginia has two ex,Governors
in her Legislature - Smith and
Letcher.
A little boy read that ''tte good
die young and at once began to go
to the bad for self-protectign.
1t is not good for a man to be
alone. He should buy dog
Franklin (Keutucky) Patriot.
A Worcester woman remarked to
her servant, "Mary, when you hang
out the clothes, be careful to put
the incest pieces nearest the street.
The way tue king of the Sand.
wich Islands carves a chicken is to
take hold of both legs, drow long
breath, and pulls for all lie is worth.
Robert Hall says if minister be
a deep thinker he can produce one
sermon a week; if an ordinary man,
two; if and ass, half a dozen.
There are thousands of bushels OF
corn in Wabash county not yet
gathered from the fields. So saws
the Indiana Farmer.
The number of hogs slaughtered
in Chicago from Nov. to January
p is 1865 Z, against 1,l22.O23 foI
the same period last season.
DR.. Holland says that culture
cures gossip. That may be, but il
is a deadly enemy of country stores
and sewing circles.
Many sheep are dying in San
Diego county, California, for want
OF feed. One farmer is said to have
lost 1000 within two weeks.
1t isn't Chinese cheap labor that,
going to ruin us; it's the disposition
to lean up against the sunny side O
the fence and let some other fellow
speed the plow.-[New York Bazaar
"How Much Can a Man Carryg
is the title of an article going til,
rounds of the papers. We shout,
say ten fingers ought to be enough
for any man.
1t was New Jersey wife VIII,
said: s'My dear, if you can't drinl
bad coffee without abusing me, hoy
is it that you can drink bad whiske,
without abusing the bar keeper.n
A young woman in Rochester
N. T., has sued for damages a ma
who kissed her. A man who can
KISS woman without damaein,
her, ought to pay for bis awkard
ness Boston Post.
Chinese babies never howl. On
OF them can be left alone for lively
hours and he never moves off hi
back. lie reasons that he is let
alone for good cause, and the situa
ton is humbly accepted.
1t is estimated that the freshes
and the gorges in the Ohio rive
and its tributaries, within the las
ten days, have occasioned the los
OF nearly four millions of dollar
worth OF property. The owners g
coal boats were the chief sufferers.
The opening address at the NEE,
ing OF the Vermont Sheep Breeder
association is said to have been
rambling sort of discourse.-N \
Com. Adv.-Yet the speaker CIV,
tilted his time, wether or no, an
numerically lampooned those VIII
disagreed with his conclusions
Boston ADV.
At Santa Barbara. tho w;nte