The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-10-16
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIT.

faultinc Treasurer of the Massachusetts
Home Missionary Society. In each case
he had counted the money OF the society
us his own.
SOME three thousand pilgrims set out
the other day from Paris for Lourdes,
many of them being pauper invallds who
arc being taken to the miraculous grotto
by charitable persons.
A FRENCHMAN has invented tiny
gold lamp, small enough to be sus-
pended from a watch chain, which will
actually burn for 20 minutes, giving
sufficient light by which to 60 to bed. 1t
is carried more by gentlemen than Ia
dies.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Dundee do
eertiser SAYS in careful review of
Scotch farming that since 1872, when
farmers were to some extent forgetting
their losses by rinderpest, there has
been but one crop, 1874, which paid its
way.
WILLIAM BoULsTER of Oppenheim,
Fulton County, N. Y, was born Dec.
%, 1775, and is therefore nearly 104
years old. He has lived so years in Full
ton County, and is in good health, but
is beginning to lose his sight and hear
ing.
A LADY living near Little Britain, Pa,
received a piano rs q wedding present
several years ago. She has no taste for
music, but says it attracts the cows in to
be MIXED, and the children pound upon
the keys at the proper hour for that
purpose. 1t has, accordingly, been
placed in the spring house.
A NATIONAL pilgrimage of English
Catholics to St. Winefride's Well, at
Holywell, Flintshire, is to take place
early next year Pilgrims from all parts
of the United Kingdom visit it annually,
but the proposed pilgrimage will be on
grand scale, like those of Lourdes or
to the shrine of st. Anne, near Quebec.
In Heligoland, which is only mile
long and Il few hundred yards broad,
there is neither horse nor wheeled car
riage, barrows excepted. Society, con-
certs, the theater, and bathing, attract
at This season crowds from Berlin, Ham,
burg, etc. Gambling was abolished in
1871. Steamers run thrice a week from
Hamburg.
IT is rather novel, if not unprece-
dcnted, thing for grandmother to at
tend the school taught by her young Ia
dy granddaughter. Such is the case,
however, near Bellcfontc, Ala, for Mrs.
Daniel Martin, having arrived at the age
of is, having been married four years,
goes to school to her step-grand-daugh-
ter.
COMMANDER CAMERON of the British
Navy says that the Morse system of tel
cgraphy, as far us it depends ON the
length of sounds, has long been in use
in Africa. He has found tribes that, by
stationing drummers at intervals, carry
intelligence for miles with great rapid
ty, the beats of the drum being made in
accordance with Il previous arrangement
of signals.
Il. G.. CowLEY, an aged bachelor of
Wyoming, N. Y, advertised his desire
to correspond with lady of suitable
age, with a view to matrimony." Mar
garet Backus, 60 years old, maiden
inmate of the Rochester poor-house, re-
sponded with a letter, in which she en-
closed Il photograph of herself taken 10
years ago. The result was 4 meeting
followed by u wedding
Church property with his own in way
that, i'll law, left it all at his death as one
estate. The executors, who are Nor
mon dignitaries, undertook to separate
the two equitably, but the heirs, con-
sisting of the original and only lawful
Mrs. Young and her children, have had
receceiver appointed, and it looks as
though they would finally get the entire
amount.
In Central Africa lives king, who,
according to Commander Cameron, de-
mands divine praise for himself, and
proclaims the DEGREES of the deity or
deities which reach him from the mouth
of IN idol which he consults, and which
nobody but himself and single priestess
Is ever allowed to see. Like MANY an
other sovereign in Christian lands, he
ricllglously keeps matters pretty much in
his own hands.
TIE foolhardy performance of Can't.
James Swan, ." the man crocodile. y at
the Theater Comique in Providence, r.
L. came near resulting fatally, the other
evening. He was in a large plate-glass
tank OF water with an alligator six feet
long, and, after stirring up the reptile
till it was furious, he tore open its Jaws
aud placed his head between them.
Quick us II flash they closed and Swans
death seemed certain. With almost SUI
perhuman eNertion he freed himself,
however, and sprang out of the tank, his
checks being deeply gashed by the ALI
gators teeth. In Il moment he returned
TO the water, forced the reptile into
submission and went on with his exhibit
ton.
PRINCE BISMARCK is very fond of
farming. The soil round Varzin is nei
thervery good nor very bad; it produces
average harvests of rye, and the Baltic
sand, the bane of the husbandman.
shows itself only here and there. Such
pieces of ground have long lain fallow.
1t takes six hours to drive round the
estate. Chornitz, where there was for
merly a glass-house with Bohemian work
men, also belongs to Varzin. The Whip
per flows through part of the domain,
and forms its boundaries in other places.
1t adds to both its beauty and its value.
rs the rapid stream, which is well stocked |
with trout, is used to float the timber of
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