The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-12-04
novr AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Of the people of Afghan are as
hAsr hAssrrnglishmen. The boys are noted
? ssing particularly handsome.
NJ WILHELM SCHMoELE,a a professor
r. poun University, says he has discov-
. DVI that human life can be vastly pro-
ssasd by eating lemons
p Russia, over q 100000 roubles are
pdnriated every year for pensions
qPivIb nIbsidies to retired officers, and to
ssmilies of deceased officers.
ryy thousand salmon fry from San
..aeisco have been put into the Meuse,
illgk Porick, Holland, and 10000 more
! r expected.
,~bers the name and face of every
a,i a.dant of the institution whose ac-
s as;utsnee he has made in the last 20
~ embarrassed actor bounded on the
4.re of San Francisco theater, in a
ss,e depicting robbery in a hotel Of
- and shouted, "Gag the safe, while
IbloW open the night clerk"
/ crrEwAYo says there were only 10 of
i 1, mon present when the Prince Impe-
Il was killed. A bold stand would
,.re = saved his life, if the Zulu King is
'he believed, and the fate of an EN-
ire might have been changed.
awoMAN inmate of an asylum for the
.ape. at Maysville, Cal, imagining
s,t she was imprisoned by enemies,a land
satpen and ink were denied her, made
satement of her case in needlework
ma niece of cloth and threw it out of
as window.
Iris becoming a fashion i'll Europe to
tarel in private railroad cars. The
amuess N. de Rothschild owns one
hit cost s2O, 900, and the Countess Po-
wsa has ordered one at $4,000.
Ibese vehicles are smaller than Ameri-
an cars, but are very elegant.
MoNTAUK POINT, the eastern extrem-
s iyd Long Islund, will probably be
made landing place for European
tamers, holding the same relation to
/ Sw York that Queenstown does to Liv-
spool. Six hours will thus be saved in
he transmission of mails, which is
pod deal in these days of hurry.
II might be supposed that deaf and
lamb man and wife would not quarrel;
but Mr.. and Mrs. Goodwin of Green
tug, Ind, deaf mutes, lived four years
anoiseless disagreement, and finally
bad desperate parting fight, in which
q kwas scalded and her skull was frac-
aed.
EIGHTEEN of the States have civil
lsmage liquor laws. Their provisions
ne Substantially the same, making deal
as responsible pecuniarily for all harm
tsalting from the sale of alcoholic
averages. New York, Maine, Massa
shusetts, and Illinois have statutes pre-
dsey alike.
THERE is a young man in Cadiz, Ky,
d such a susceptible and sympathetic
PHYSICAL composition that he was forced
stone time to abandon a position in a
dng-store for the novel reason that he
ould not handle any kind of medicine
Rihout being affected with all the con-
sequences it was calculated to produce
the party for whom it was intended.
Mrs. MIX, who has a Connecticut rep
alation for working miracles, travels
arough that State protesting to cure
diseases by the laying on of hands, and
efowds seek her wherever she goes. The
most wonderful stories are told of her
powers. She charges nothing for her
srvlces, and accepts only food, lodging,
aad conveyance from place to place.
SAe Is Of pure negro blood, and de-
Feut Methodist.
CoAL IN AMERICA.-The Territory Of
aonfana is estimated to contain 65, ,00O
qnare miles of coal of excellent quality,
sad extensive beds of bituminous coal
%He recently been prospected in Texas.
IN aae yield OF coal in Oregon, Utah and
Nyomlng is increasing, and reaches to
rafiy half II million tons, which are
nnped to San Francisco. The coal in
aliornia and Oregon is of the tertiary
ge' and occupies $4,000 square miles.
!, HE powers of a horses memory were
9lastrated at Rochester, N. Y, recently
l@ city sold team of horses that had
@en used for drawing hook-and-lad.
vt tr1ek, three and half years ago
A 'ne other day when the driver took
ae horses into the truck-house and
afned them loose, each went to his OWL
aal' and when II gong was sounded
aes ran out and took their accustomed
f's''ions at the tongue of the machine
HERE was a discussion among 6
n1y OF miners at Leadville as to the
9seai effects of hanging. Mr.. Ed
Sa,us declared that, on a wager of So
= would permit his companions to draw
aa up from the bottom of d shaft by ;
,vps ned around his neck. His belle
n, sss mat, by throwing his head far back
- pressure of the rope would be wholly
sa'ne back of his neck, and consequent
sne would not be choked at all. Hi
aNalation proved erroneous, for h,
-. sss nearly dead when he reached th'
A., ts.,'Ie' and it was with great difficult,
lal his life was saved.
i. aias. HOWE asked John Clancy wha
N iaa better do with 1000 in golt
a;a a de strongly advised her to bur,
s@ ~. aer cellar. She did so. Soon af
~ naafd, on looking to see if the treas
sal ~ was safe, she found that it had beel
aaa sJ'el Having intrusted the secret t.
pbs.y buy except Clancy, she naturall,
baag ba.gsea him with being the thief, bu
him ' was .;s no convieting proof agains
1.al. Ihls hannened at | lewiston. Me.