The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-02-26
arr AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

!. moved that Gonzales, who sho
!, aluhonso, is a mere drunkard
sat political animus.
s.orTs marriage engagements ar
y ssl r,ce in fashionable New Yorl
scr woman at Westford, Wis, be
4 In she was bewitched by an old ha.
! s,sd M near by, and a number O
.s;tiols women were of the same
They took the supposed witcl
: inyalid's house, read the Bible te
.ad pounded her cruelty, one O
M uaug club. They are to be triet
air assault.
NM i the way they catch sea gulls
g,;ne. First catch a small fish, ther
sl ! hole through its tail, put a stick
IN. and leave it on the beach
4 q gull comes along and tries tc
Inn the fish head first. 1t swallows
4 srp to the cross stick, and then can
Esr complete the job nor disgorge.
b bird ssrangles and falls over.
I sutcr relieves it and takes it home
NELLIE JOHNSON of Fairgrove Town
\. Tuscola County, Mich, put seven
M Of powder, shot, and wadding
e,gun, intending to blow a certain
Ed this planet; but not finding the
Ehe load was not drawn. A few
khter bis brother Walter went hunt
Grfh it, and the explosion which en-
ahIled him.
IrHrP with a lash six feet long and
arh thick is used to drive hogs in
ago slaughter-houses. An expert
Il nan can take out a piece of a
slough hide every stroke. Another
lrment of torture is a plant strip Of
i With heavy knob at the end,
which the brutes' snouts are
Nted Awagon follows every drove
ik up the disabled hogs.
lpER ROUNDS, pastor of an Advent
rh at Portsmouth, N. H., has COM
d chart 260 feet long, on which is
Sult seven years of hard figuring.
DFes conclusiyely, he says, that
It will come in September, 1881,
remain q thousand years, during
! time "all nations will be con-
!, and at the end of that time the
Twill be destroyed and rebuilt, and
ign forever in Paradise
rhode ISLAND amateur sportsman
ia covey of partridges, missed
lrds and fatally wounded his horse.
be had hitched to a barn. A
fiman y near San Francisco fired
a be believed to be a wildcat,
itally wounded a little girl, and
sly wounded her elder sister-a
lady OF 18-who were standing
d clump of bushes. The anna. |
portsman is a dangerous man to
u.
ERE are 80 lakes in Iowa, estimat- |
cover about $1,000 acres of land. |
e lakes should dry up, the land, |
law now stands, would vest in the |
nment, and there is now a move |
% loot to try and induce Congress
2 law to have the title rest in the |
instead of the United States. |
y Of the States are rapidly be-
waterless, the Importance of the
can readily be imagined.
Sultan has 10 servants whose |
duty it is to unfold the carpets |
when he is going to pray: 10 to
sre Of his pipes and cigarettes;
aress his royal hair; and 20 to-
% ms most noble clean shirts. |
ale . multitude of ether attend
lsal o0ut tn the palace; indeed, it is
nat 800 families and about 1000 |
ilve at his Majesty's expense.
= extravagant housekeeper; the
expenditures of the palace are
1ed as nearly $14, 900, 600.
sG PELHAM of Manorville. Wis.
70 commit suicide. He swal- |
'oison in the presence of d Young
, N ner own parlor; but she said |
sandal would be the result if he
: ele, and he obligingly took the
mat she got for him. Soon af-
!. 9 drank poison in whisky at a
y J !ne proprietor complained that
J IN the place might lead to a
lon OF the license. So Pelham
60 4. to the use of a stomach
MS next and effectuaI effort
hang himself.
ne Chinese widow publicly an
mat she would hang herself
lan Yield to the wishes of her
ana marry again, and the sac
sas actually consummated in
ayhght. A crowd of the woman's
ana admirers assembled, and
J = ceremony was performed by a
! J u visitors on a platform erect
) occasion. After receiving the
applause and coincidence Of her
= .ne young creature mounted a
,.aced the rope around her neck
y aerset off in the presence of
a, y sircr to suppose that Chinese
'Sl1nler classes make their meals
alnost d: illimitable number of
tsnes s which we read of in
J. .layel, These dishes exist and
~ official banquets, which,
! ao not give a more correct
!, sIinese cooking than a public |
london or Paris would of the
esn.s which a good chef here
! 0,TPhsh rp for a small party of
! ! Ihe big dinners of the kind
es sse generally given at restau-
ena. Smna, which, contrary to the
w. sssom, have two, and even
ma ma me public room being on
] aad iloor, and private rooms