The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-05-17
GENERAL BREVITIES.

larger than ever known. before in the
State, while the wheat. crop will be 10
per cent. less than last year.
A DISEASE has shown itself in India
and Ceylon among the leaves of coffee
plants. 1t does not actually destroy the
plant, but weakens it, and thus imperils
the crop. 1t is causing great anxiety
THE total emigration from the United
Kingdom during 1876 was 1922, and
the immigration, 81,647. This is
smaller excess of emigrants over immi-
grants than for any year since the Irish
exodus began.
A MAN who threw an egg at the Eng
lish Vice-Chancellor lately, and of
whom that functionary made an exam
pie by committing him for contempt,
proves to have been an American, and
is supposed to be as unsound as his egg.
THE Women's Christian Temperance
Union of Massachusetts has 102 auxiliary
organizations and 10000 members.
There is vice-President in every coun7
tv of the State. The reform clubs OF
men in Massachusetts, are 120, and en-
roll 30,000 members.
AT the close of last month the noun
| tains around Messina, Sicily, We're cov-
cred with snow, a very rare event in
! that country. The winter in Europe has
been mild, but the weather last month,
almost everywhere, was tempestuous
and severe.
/ A CIvIL-sERvICE college has been es-
tablished at Constantinople at the in
stance and under the patronage of the
/ Sultan Mussulmans and others will be
admitted without distinction. 1t is in
tended as training college for future
civil servants, including diplomatists.
THE new jury law of Florida pro-
vides that when in any case, civil or.
criminal, knowledge of reading, writ
ing, and arithmetic is necessary to en-
able juror to understand the evidence
to be offered, he may be challenged if
he does not possess such qualifications.
L AMONG the many objects of interest
at Hatfield House, the. seat of Lord Sal
isbury, is the bed occupied by Queen
Elizabeth when she visited his ancestor,
Lord Burleigh, her Prime. Minister.
The furniture of the room, including the
, carpet upon which she trod, is also pre-
served. E,G-st
i AT recent concert in Paris new
composition was on its first performance
, loudly Kissed. The conductor thereup-
on turned to the audience and said 81
am not at all surprised that you Missed
; that piece, for you do not understand it;
{ shall therefore repeat it at the next
? concert - -.ss..t
AN English gentleman travelling in
one of the petty States of Germany dur
t ing the days of the Electors, at a time
when nobody, was considered any body
unless decorated or titled, passed tri-
umphantly about the country by the
= happy thought of inscribing on his card:
, "Elector of Middlesex.'
l INAsMUCH as the cost of living in
England is estimated to have increased
) at least % per cent. since 1887 ,and Queen
Victoria's civil list remains what it was
{ then, it follows that she is more than
: 100000 year poorer, so far as that
J source of revenue goes, than when she
. came to the throne.
IT rarely happens that father and son
:, follow so closely in diplomatic career
:, as the present and the late Right Hon.
! Sir Edward Thornton. The late Sir
Edward graduated, as did his son, at
, Cambridge, and entering diplomatic
service, was for some time British rep
resentative in Brazil, sworn in 1916 a
Pnvy Councillor, and..nominated &C.
! B. in 1922. His son twas Minister at
. . Brazil before coming to Washington,
: and, like him, is a Priyy Councillor and
:, !, no doubt win before long be gazetted a
:, = G. G. A., being at present a X. G. B.
7 7 The transfer of the deposed Sultan
s Murad from Cheraghan to Topkapou,
p in whose. galleries fallen notabilities
a were formerly strangled, dispelled for a
; moment the unfortunate mans apathy.
\ He held fast to his seat when he was to
. be taken away to Cheraghan, and yield
e ed only to force. His mother now
+ anxiously watches over him. When
~ Murad was still prince it was related
% that he was having young and hand
) some Circassian named Blanche edd-
ss Gated quite as European with his ply
st sican's children, and destined her for
Il his harem. This was thought a caprice
N of the enlightened Oriental. Hardly,
ar however, had Murad succeeded to the
o throne than it was learned that Blanche
was his daughter, a European being
probably her mother. During few
weeks of splendor Blanche was loaded
ID with all the comfort and luxury ia.
40 theirs lavish tenderness could devise
en- Her two splendid rooms in Dolmabat
lis sche had Just been furnished at cost o.
is so, ,OOOf. when Murad was deposed. Hi
9. family accompanied him first to Chera
ne CHAN and now to Topkapou, and M
er member of it can feel the sudden changt
10. more acutely than the Young girl whoSt