The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-04-29
MISCELLANEOUS.

The records of life 1sllrance com.
| panics as presented in the reports for
last year show that the death claims
were considerably greater than in pre-
v1ous years, which would seem to indi-
cate that last year was an unhealthy one.
In one of the private gardens of
Aiken, ). O., there are twenty-five tea
plants five years old. They are about
three. and a half feet high and, though
growing in a sandy soil and dry situa-
ton, they are healthy and vigorous. ."
The ancient Egyptians were the first
to emLal the dead. They believed that
the souls of the dead, after. many thou
sand years, would reinhabit their bodies
If they were preserved entire. Some of
the bodies buried 5000. years ago are
perfect to this day. s9 ~. ~
1t is stated that railroad accidents
are rare in France because the Govern
ment requires that two-thirds of all the
officers shall have been soldiers. The
military training of these men makes
them excellent Servants, and although
their minute and tedious discipline is
often exasperating to foreign travellers.
it undoubtedly effects great saving of
human life ff.s 49,.
The house of Mr.. Walter, the pro-
prietor of the London Times, is adioin-
ing and runs into the Times building. in
fact is substantially part of it, although
far away from the social life and rest Of
London. The dwelling of Mr.. Delane.
the late editor, stands quite near the
office. The leading men Of the paper
attend very closely to its business. and
work as hard as if it We're new enter
prise. 's''''o st'i8 s'o iilH
There is little doubt but that the inn
migration from Ireland during the pres
ent year will be greater than in any
twelvemonth since the famine of '47-8
sent the tide OF Celtic immigration with
uneXampled force across the Atlantic.
Already the inpour has begun, an unn-
sually large number of Irish immigrants
having landed at New York during the
past few weeks 'i5 izl a5slaaiot37 .fa
The Constellation, the American
frigate, which, under a resolution of
Congress, goes to Ireland provision.
laden, has history in the navy of. the
United States. She is of wood and was
the second vessel built for the navy She
was launched at Baltimore in 1797, and
was attached to Decatur's squadron in
the Mediterranean in 1908. She was re-
constructed for the war of II, rebuilt i'm
"a, and has been in active service one
way or another ever since. bg sI 9o d
1t has often been noticed that an,
Englishmap travelling in America finds
few things so strange and foreign to all
i,.is habits Of thought as Indian corn. His
doubts and difficulties at the dinner,
table as to how to proceed when he first
meets a boiled ear of corn, are apt to be
comical, to say the least; while his ex-
pressed opinion upon the flavor Of corn
cake is not infrequently the reverse of
complimentary. f.,s ,l, ~ .....a.,.ti
The rules OF Buddha interdicted to
the Lamas the use Of garlic, brandy and |,
tobacco; garlic being prohibited because.
it is unbecoming to present ones self be-
fore the image of Baddha with bad
breath, offensive in itself and capable of
injecting the perfume Of incense; brandy,
because the fatal Hquor disturbs the lea- !
son and excites the passions; tobacco,
because it engenders idleness and ab-
serbs precious hours that ought to be de-
voted to the study OF prayers and Of doc
trine. :
The law in New York recently per-
fected, rendering women eligible to Office
and electors in all matters relating to the
public schools OF the State, proves to be
SO circunseIibed in its action, that its en-
thusiastic advocates viii experience a re-
vulsion Of feeling The Attorney Gem
eral of the State gives it as his opinion
that while women, under the provisions
of the law, may be elected to any school
Office, from the highest to the lowest,
they can vote only in the rural districts,
and in three cities, where school officers
are elected at district meetings. The
suffrage Is limited, also, to women own
ing or hiring real estate. 0 t
The saddest story which has vet
come from Ireland is that detailed by a
member of the New York Herald com
mittee in cable dispatch to that paper.
Large numbers Of children are unable to
attend school in consequence of the de-
bility resulting from Insufficient food.
Starvation has so reduced them that thev
are unable to undergo the slight labor
involved in school attendance. The
School Commission reports 10000 alb
sentees from this cause, combined with
insufficient clothing. The plan has been
adopted, in some instances, Of furnish
ing breakfasts to children at the school
rooms, and the famished little ones,
many of them almost naked, repair tfith-
er with alacrity.
"A strange and nearly fatal fight be-
tween child and an eagle took place in
Pearson County, N. c. The three-year-
old child of Mr.. VIM. Murray was sitting
on stile feeding chickens when large
eagle swooped down at the chickens,
scattering them in all directions. As the
child was moving off the eagle made q
second swoop, catching the child in its
talons. With its prey it rose in the air,
but the child was too heavy, and the
eagle managed to flutter a short distance
to the limb of decayed oak. It's talons
were 50 entangled in the clothing of the
child that it could not get loose, and the
weight soon made it come down to the
ground. The frightened father of the
child came up and killed the eagle. The
child, save some deep" scratches, was
uniniured.