The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-08-14
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.


A RICH ornamented garter is one of
the regulation presents to German roy
al bride, and an illustrated German pa
per depicts such an article given to the
Empress fifty years ago.
BAMBOO shoots are used as an article
of diet in Japan. At certain stage of
their growth they are said to be so nour-
ishing as to rival even caulifower and
asparagus.
A WOMAN at Burlington, VT, was IA
tally poisoned while washing q pair of
trousers which man had worn while
applying Paris green to his potato vines,
the poison taking effect through a cut in
her hand.
IT is seldom that those arrested for
drunkenness have on them enough cash
to pay fine; 6,754 arrested in Provi-
dence, R. L., in 1877, had on them
$4,000, and 6,056 arrested in 1878 had
$4,000. Providence makes from &c.,
600 to $1,000 year out of drunkards.
MAI. ELLIS of Columbia County, Ca,
mustered up his battalion of children,
grandchildren and step-children one
day recently, to the number of 101,
present and accounted for at roll call,
including few sons and daughters-in-
law.
THE Zulus are said to have obtained
their notions of military tactics from
shipwrecked sailors of a Fir, nch man
of-war, which was lost on their coast
toward the close of the First Empire. In
return for the hospitality they received
they organized the forces of the Zulu
King.
In the Summer Garden of st. Peters
burg, and in some of the private gar
dens, Vablockhoff's electric candles
have been put in place of the gas here
tofore used. The public are delighted
with the novelty, which has proved TO
be success. The gardens are as
bright as under the shining of the clear
full northern moonlight.
THERE now stretches between Titus
vile and Bradford, Pa, what those
cities claim to be the longest telephone
in existence. 1t is 100 miles in length,
but passes perfectly audible sentences
up and down the line. In flct, the
voices of persons speaking at one point
were recognized by those at the other
II has been calculated that if single
grain Of wheat produces so grains in one
years growth, and these and succeed
ing crops be planted and yield proper
tioDately, the produce of II years would
suffice to supply all the inhabitants of
the earth for life time. In - years the
single grain will have multiplied itself
244, lac, 625, 900, 900 times.
A GANG of so tramps went to st. Ma.
rvs Academy, near South Bend, Ind,
the other day, and demanded supper.
They have always been leniently treated
at that place, but were 80 rude in their
demands this time they were refused.
They then threatened to burn the build
ings, and word was sent to the city for
assistance, which was speedily forth
coming, and the tramps were dispersed
A COUPLE of hot weather stories
The heat of the sun was 80 intense that
a tray of corn, set in Maj. Poole's yard,
at Tallahassee, Fla, to dry, popped
open as though fire was under it. As
Knoxville (Tenn.) reporter was passing
by "a grocery store he observed slight
commotion in basket of eggs, and sud
denly one of the eggs burst and vigor-
GUS little chick popped out.
SWITZERLAND, according to the Jour-
nal de Geneue, is invaded by the phyl-
loxera. The destructive insect has
made it's appearance in some VINEYARDS
OF Cranberry (Savoy) and committed
great raVages. The outbreak was very
sudden. and rapidly spread over more
than % acres. However, immediate
steps were taken to combat the scourge.
Great uneasiness is felt in the French
departments adjoining.
AN exchange most truthfully remarks
that newspapers are the merchants
best statesmen. They enter almost every
dwelling, and while imparting the latest
intelligence, foreign and domestic, local
and State, they silently, yet forcibly, So
licit patronage for the advertiser. With
thousands OF these. our home statesmen,
travelling through the country cvery
week, who can estimate their potent aid
to business prosperity"
AN ex-Mayor of Binghamton. N.
T., has been poisoned in hands and face
while handling the Government revenue
stamps used on cigar boxes. One hot
Saturday he stamped and cancelled the
stamps on large number of boxes.
Green dust flew from the stamps and
covered his hands and wrists, and
handkerchief used by him for wiping
his face and neck also became covered
with the dust. The result was a severe
and deep poisoning wherever the dust
touched his body.
OXFORD, Ca, has a young gentleman
who takes delight in catching snakes
and rats. After caught he places them
in box and watches the result of the
fight. So far the rats have come out
second-best. On recent Friday not a
rat out of Is could be found-all had
been devoured by the snakes. On the
next Monday he visited the box again
and found nine snakes choked to death.
and only live king in the box.
This king-snake was opened, and Is
rats and three large snakes taken from
its stomach.
MISS Brown, Pennsylvania heiress,
is spending the summer at Rye Beach,
N. II. Robert G. Miller, a sailor on the
hotel yacht, saw and loved her, but
didn't dare to tell her so. She got