The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-04-03
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.
HE debt of New York City, on Jan
nary 81, amounted to S114, 3O2, 291S7
A MAN living in Battle Greek, Mich,
iDy smoking 20 or 80 cigars day has
become victim of delirium tremens.
ONE night recently at Andover, Mass
woman gave birth to triplets, and one
DAY after, in the same house, her mar.
rled daughter followed with twins.
MRS. DIR. AMEs, of Minneapolis, has
lemon tree planted in 1857, in full
bloom, and bearing 80 full grown lem
ons OF fine quality pendent from its
Miss MARY j. WADLEIGH, of Sutton.
Mass, has no fewer than 100 pet cats,
and when one of them dies She has it
buried, and its grave marked by neat
monument.
A LADY in Hungary has the distaff
used by Marie Antoinette in spinning
during her imprisonment. 1t is of wood
and ivory, inlaid with silver and still
bears the hemp left upon it by the ILL
lated queen on the eve of her execution.
IT is curious fact that no attempts
have been made to tame and utilize the
African elephant for draft purposes. 1t
is now proposed to import trained In
dian elephants and experiment with a
herd OF wild elephants which are now in
the neighborhood of Port Natal. "a
A BUcKsKIN pony, which. it is said,
Ten. Gushing rode in Mexico and
brought back with him to Newburyport,
IS now owned by resident of Ipswich,
Mass. He is represented to be ii years
old, and still ready for his share of work
when called upon. -
The Worlds Fair at Sydney, Austria
liza, to be opeAed on the 1st of next
August, will be chiefly contributed to by
the mother country and the United
States. Two ship-loads of American
machinery and products are to be ex-
MISS CHLOE LANKroN, of New Hart
ford, Conn.,, has just completed the col
lection OF one million cancelled postage
stamps. She began in October last. a
gentleman in Philadelphia having offer
cd her $500 if she would get the stamps
tor him, the money to be used in getting
for her life residence in home Tor the
friendless.
The Sultan's private palace is the onlv
part of the Turkish domains in Cvnrns
which the English have not purchased :.
! ms Will be good place of refuge for
the owner when Constantinople becomes
too hot for him, as is likely to be the
case Il the recent reports of conspira-
cies be true. 80 = = -, 'f'''
NEW ORLEANS is happy over the es-
taoiisnment of line Of fruit steamers
70 the Mediterranean. There will be
Tour steamers, which will land their car.
goes IN month after leaving Messina
ana Palermo, and will restore to New
Orleans her old supremacy in supplying
the West and South with fruit and Med.
lterranean produce.
The Society of Adventists at Rattle
creek, Mich, purpose to set up an indie
pendent kingdom. They are BUILDING
q paper. nill, and already possess a san.
1tarium costing 1925, 900, q tabernacle
worm 100000, college worth $40, 900.
ana printing office and binderv worth
Szo'oOO. Hard work and freedom from
Iasnlonable expense have made them
AAou' iFFst Il = i
TEE ladies OF Virginia are to erect at
winchester, June 6, shaft memorial
TO the Confederate dead It will be in
height ~ feet, the base four feet broad
The column will be made of the finest
Italian marble, and surmounted by a
funeral urn and drapery, and the base
OF Richmond granite. On its front will
De the coat-of-arms of the State, and on
the different panels will be appropriate
inscriptions. '0
ONE OF the merchants of Barlow. Ga.
recently contracted with the son of q
farmer to deliver him an unlimited sup-
ply OF 'possums at SO cents head. He
thought the boy could not capture more
IMAM TWO or three at the outside, but
what was his surprise when four DAYS
afterwards the young man drove 1p
with ~, and excused himself bv saving
that he had only hunted two nights. and
tney were not good nights for catching
'possums, either. The contract was
forthwith rescinded on the ground that
tne market was already overstocked.
MRS. ELIZABETH LEONARD. widow of
Thomas Leonard, lately died at Granite
vile, >. e., at the great age of 1O7 years.
AT ner funeral was her only surviving
SOB, over ~ years of age, and there al.
SO stood around the grave grandchild
90 years old, several great-grandchil-
oren over 40 years of age, great-great-
grandchildren Is years old and a num-
Der OF great-great- great grandchildren
1--WE generations in all. There are liv.
ing at present 80 of her descendants and
210 have died. ~ - ''-4'
Gov. JARVIS, of North Carolina, thus
Describes himself: "In nv Childhood
: reaa about the Governor of North
Carollna, and invested him with the
nlgnest donors that befall mankind. AS
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