The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-09-18
.evE AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

skill saw four feet long was recent
alsti aaa ''srbt in Charleston Harbor'
aea 80 m sergeant-at-Arms of the Britisl
a. u la' d Commons has held his offic,
m ksyears.
q nroposed to convert Manchester
!, % ~ pi.ud into seaport for the larges
'e1 ~srs at a cost of S16, 100000.
rss' rss sr writer estimates that Englisl
ess! ~ ssmep spend more than $50, 0,00O,0
,,i;as ssnnum in connection with hounds
N SryESTH-DAY Baptist at Newport
rmJ II has been sued twice for keeping
ma3 ! n market open on Sunday, and an.
der ,ares m that he intends to keep it open.
ucts = < said to be common practice in
con e'.ee to oniet an .' irritable or wicked .
l'.s with two ounces of laudanum in a
le 4 Of brandy before exposing for sale.
III lupYs maid at Saratoga showed
z Z rlsrerated fingers and said they were
'pd tm the cords with which she had to
is INV in her mistress.
y GOOD looking and apparently re-
estable girl frequently appears in the
sstts Of Windsor, Canada, with a light
I leigar between her cherry lips.
\ Mr. BEEcHER has taken to beer. He
comfy said that after 60 years of total
,tnence he had learned that glass of
ku beer was a good thing to take be-
NJ going to bed.
TUE Atlanta ga Post brags of hen
i hist place that has been laying every
h since June 5, and is still at it. Up
h, ,he date of the papers issue she had
nued out two hundred and sixteen
g.
The London newspapers tell of
bile who paid $25 to have the initials
dher lovers name tattooed on her arm.
md later, having quarreled with him,
ss Offering $500 for means of oblit-
Etion.
NEW HAMPSHIRE has a law against
aack doctors. No person can practice
adicine in the State without bona fide
dEpoma from medical college in good
ssnding. Several prosecutions are now
soing on under this law.
AGooD joke is told at the expense of |
sJamaica Plains (Mass.) sexton, who
Foeured the communion wine for his |
church, When he made his last pur-
chase he also bought some whisky for
hinself. The two demijohns got mixed,
nd on the following Sunday the com
annieants received whisky instead of
line, some of the sisters being consider
BY ehoked by the strong liquid.
MARTHA ROGERS, who died a few
ays ago at Middletown, Conn, for so
ears possessed a fortune; but she was
instantly dreading poverty, and regu-
rly spent part of her time gathering
g and other discarded things in the
reefs. A room in her house was filled
th such rubbish. Yet she gave money
orally for charitable and religious
rposes, while she lived, and bv her
I left S25, 900 to various institutions.
aR. NICHOLAS KISS, formerly mem
OF the Hungarian Reichstag, possess
Z hotel at Paris. At the foot of the
rease he has placed an elegant save
or trellre, surmounted by parrot. '
ZEN any one comes down or goes up '
staircase, the parrot screams out t
'egedln!" The visitor looks around i
sees the tirelire, and puts ,
'ethlng in it. The parrot has already
ected more than 5000 francs. {
FARM-LABORER at Ardleigh, Eng, Z
{ to the help of man who was being {
powered by a lunatic in his charge I
IN danger of being killed. He was |
mt from work an hour and a half, t
was prosecuted by his employer for G
amages on account of loss of serv- f
and the Court decided against him a
ot getting permission from his en- t
u before going to the rescue of C
VINO was liable to be killed at any e
ent. n
lnnocent-looking young man, trav- o
on train from st. Paul to Chica- a
'as observed suddenly to reach up l.
'ull the bell-rope. The train, of |;
e. came at once to standstill L
conductor and porter rushed iuto Is
u u TO ascertain the cause for the a
non. "Gentlemen,n exclaimed p
,ung man, "you must excuse me. G.
'ted the porter, who was in the G.
III end of the car, to make up my a
y ,ha thought that if / pulled the a
hat would fetch him. ii
IS MAGGIE MURRAY of Waterloo. g
was sitting near sewing machine r,
residence of her aunt, when she :, .
at her feet. She paid no n n
ION to 1t at first, but feeling it again, u :,
oked and saw a snake coiled upon u u
'or beside her. She didn't do what " "
Ut OF every ten would have done y =,
am and faint away-but she as y
her aunt to kill the intruder. On a.
nation, it was found to be a spot Is Is
axe about four feet in length. ttt
following record shows the mark -, o.
in the speed of trotting -, ~
within the last 60 years: In 1920 a. a.
.t mile time was 500; in 1880, - -
m II do4o, the best record by Dutch 10 10
20; IN 1850 Lady Suffolk made ~ -
IN 2:26; in 1860 Flora Temple 70 fo
record of 2:l9 3-4; in 1870 Dex- 70 70
'otted a mile in 2:17 IA; in ar
Maid completed mile n, M
: IN 1878 Rarus against time) M
mile in 2:13 IA; and quite re- IN IN
bonner's Edwin Forrest is said TO .h ~,
lade mile in the unparalleled dr. Ar
2:11 81. W W
hsrERN gentleman recently took tn
. gid into the highlands of the We
/, says the Christian Union, where, an
lirst time in her life, she saw dir
liils. They were sitting on the m,
VI the West Point Hotel. looking bo