The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-12-16
MISCELLANEOUS.
There are 100000 Scotch people

There are 400, 900 Scotch people in
London.
"A Bucks County, Pennsylvania,
man has just ended a lawsuit of forty
two years standing and recovered six
cents damages.
"A gentleman writes to the London
Standard that cats can be trained to re-
trieve game as dogs do. When he
takes his gun in his hand his three cats
are in ecstacies in anticipation of sport.
That gigantic floating palace, the
Livadia, made, in passing from Cork to
Gibraltar, upward of seventeen miles an
hour, while there was total absence of
any disagreeable motion, her "pitch''
being but one degree. This may lead
to a great change in ship building.
"A piece of snobbery which would
disgrace the smallest potato court in
Europe has just been perpetrated at
Arlington. N. j. 1t consisted in the
ousting of two respectable young girls
from literary and musical society with
big name because they worked for a
living and did domestic drudgery.
MIR. Riley Kittridge, of Belfast, Me-,
has postal card upon one side of which
he has written clearly 4,008 words, COM
prising the entire books of Jonah and
Malachi and the fifth, sixth and part of
the seventh Psalm. Mr.. Kittridge re-
Gently sent a postal card to each candi-
date for President and Vice-President,
the six cards containing almost $4,000
words.
So many tenants on the Duke of
Marlboroughs Oxfordshire property
have given up their farms that he has
over 5000 acres unoccupied and thrown
on his own hands. Many other large
landlords in the country are in similar
predicament and in Warwickshire, Glou-
cestershire and Wiltshire things are even
worse. In fact, the number of acres
now unoccupied in England is almost
incredible.
-" Wiener wurst" is a common
street cry in Cincinnati, being used by
vendors of Vienna sausage. These men
have little stands at the street corners,
provided with vessel for keeping the
sausage hot by means of steam, box
for German rye bread and jar for
horseradish. For five cents they sell a
steaming link of sausage, resting Oh a
slice of bread, with horseradish sprin-
kled over it. The sausage is made of
three parts of beef to one of pork.
Few persons outside of England,
where coursing is one of the national
sports, have any idea of the value of
greyhounds. At a recent sale ten
dogs brought I'll guineas, the
highest being sold for 400 guineas and
the lowest for ten guineas. This is not
in excess of former sales. Bedlamite
and Peasant Boy, two well-known
hounds each having brought 500 guineas
and for Master McGrath, probably the
most famous dog ever bred in England
his owne-, Lord Lurgon, was offered
the sum of 1000.
'.& I'm the city of Dublin there are a.
600 families, averaging five members,
who are each living in single room.
The death rate of the city is forty per
1000, which is equivalent to sixty per
1000 in the tenement-house districts.
These two facts, the enormous number
of families living in a single room and
the high death rate, prove that the
horrors and dangers of Irish distress
have not been exaggerated. These
families of five shut up each in single
room depend for support on wages of
from ten to seventeen English shillings
week.
"A Washington letter writer says:
How some of the poor Government
clerks are overworked is illustrated in
an order just issued by Commissioner
Bentley, prohibiting clerks whose Win
dows open on the north from shooting
rubber bands at the chickens in a yard
adjacent to the Pension Office. The
clerks have been in the habit of amusing
themselves by making targets of the
chickens. They got up quite a rivalry
as to who was the best marksman. The
chickens didn't complain; ON the con-
trary, they took the bands for worms
and ate them. Several of them died.
The owner could not account for their
demise. In spirit of investigation he
cut them open and found them stuffed
with rubber bands. He soon learned
where the rubber came from, and made
complaint to Commissioner Bentley.
Curi0Sities Of the Voice.