The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-10-23
.,.,p AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

4 THERE ,h;to gpo0n 5Stp - TN ~
lh .s Ky., a ripe watermelon three
sa.'l, ~ long, an inch and half in diam
s,pss 4. and containing five seeds. a5I
c,np.sHARPER in the wake OF
. sw;ndled Mr.. Baylis out of $40, at
Tes Civ Ohio. Mr.. Baylis drew a
naht tuife u from under his blouse and in
s'ntIy ,s'rbI killed the gambler. ...f
',a :, ;noenious chap has invented an
Mis.aI a. honeycomb which relieves the
al'f q much work. He hopes to pro-
t = them with neckyokes and buckets
~ ~ u.,rrying home honey. II SEfF
ND r,eHf masked robbers stopped q raiE
ID train in, the West the other day.
= ~ tbe train contained an excursion of
,s,ors, m the only loss was a loss OF the
jme Sa to the robbers. 80 @1''.- !
p,uwAY accidents, strictly so called,
j I Mt appear to have caused the death
j. iucle passenger on the lines of The
Fitted Fitted Kingdom during the six months
,aling with June last, 5s0R - -
goRsEY's Progress says there are
ramen who make a business of going
hm T watering place to waterinS-place,a lat
h close of the season, and buying at
~ Than half-cost the cast off clothing
Sthe bellies of society. This they take
stbe great cities and easilyseiliata o
ypd profit. sIss1, 3 .t' y,3a~e
TuE Germans have very simple test
tr wstered milk-dip well polished
tri,iiup-needle into a deep vessel of al
aeed milk and withdraw it Immediately
IN m upright position. t1fthe fiaid ispiire
sue will hang to the needle; not so if
te slightest quantity of water has been
yded. , - = y
AGERMAN medical writer, in a work
mbished in 1877, says there are but
no authentic cases known of five chill
lru being born at one birth. A third
sw is now reported from Ketting on
ne Rhine. The children were, well
brmed, though very small but they
Ered only one hour. ''''
A wELL-DREsSED woman drew a
crowd together in Cincinnati street by
srking man across the face several
times with whip, and then. finishing
he punishment with her fists She
ooIy explained that he was her runa-
vay husband, whom she had laboriously
raced for the sole purpose of whipping
him.
A GERMAN family named Herbold,
md living in Louisville, have just been
hiornled that by the death of an nncle
Austria they are sole heirs to S2,000,-
l0 There are seven Herbolds, six
bothers and one sister, one of the
irner being barber, and the five
others bakers. One of them, a few
months ago, attempted suicide on ac-
count Of poverty.
The California Theater has q live
English aristocrat as its leading actress,
Adelaide Stanhope, only daughter of
ihe late Rev. Henry Stanhope, and
granddaughter of the Earl of Harring-
lon, her father being the third son of
thst nObleman. She is, therefore, the
inst cousin to the present Earl. One of
her aunts was married to the Duke OF
BEDFORD, and another was married to
the Duke of Leinster. sg
GEORGE 1BER, a brakeman on the
tolinsyille branch of the Canal Rail
mad, in Connecticut, is regarded as the
strongest man in that State. He can
Int q heavy freighting truck simply by
iaking hold of the handles, and is said
. have lifted twelve hundred pounds.
Since he has been on the road he has
ofoken three brake-chains, and when he
pus on brake two men can with diff
Guilty loosen it. r- 4-tts4
eEEING a servant rushing out of a
London house for medical aid, a rascal
ssst: I Lam a doctor, 2 and sobtained
access to the room of sick child. He
llgaed to minister to him for hours,
isad prayers by his bedside, and then,
.ae,scending into the dining room and
aking advantage of the carelessness
wrought by the approach of death, teok
good meal, and decamped with all the
lSf'aole = property he could lay his hands
On
AT large public funeral of a, promi-
Sent = citizen of Delhi, N. Y, the other
sunday, the mourners were dressed in
W. ral'e, instead of the customary black.
!. rals !, was done in approval of the wishes
y 1he deceased, who, while living.
sfensly opposed the inevitable heavy
ala expensive ''mourning,l' sand re-
" Sses'eo them to dress in simple white al
~ ~ funeral, especially if they believed
nun 70 have. entered happier world.
lHE wlle of banished French Com
a munlst was overjoyed 1.-THE news of his
|; fsI'on, and went to the railroad sta
~ sOa' with her children, at the proper
s'le, 70 welcome him. But he had beer
icy III for years, and was SO much al
s'ed m appearance that she did mo-
! iaIeesnlze him. She went home in /;
e mood, while he hunted il
;ss ian HOT her in the crowd. LAT last h.
a:.. ,ua,ld her residence; but she had com
ina ;,..ea ~. suicide, after writing a despair
'''ecf. ss Ha sFJ
s,. an instance of heredity in crime i
MN by Elias Phillips Of Freetown
. nag who recently appeared as a wit
Stss,, tss IN a burglary trial, having turne'
~ U evidence. He is great-grand
ey;n; epa q Malbone Briggs, a notoriou
ssra aluai, who was in State prison wit
,s.eu -. of his sons at one time ~ Briggs
;;;,'seestry i y is traced back to a noted ,pirat
Il h,s m ume OF Earl Bellamont, and hi
,nr,s r,'sn y OF the family has for over a cer
a,s ~. furnished noted criminals in ever