The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-05-27
MISCELLANEOUS.


climb high enough to see beyond it.
Justice consists in doing no injur
to men; decency, in giving them no O
Tense.
Pleasure is the mere accident of GU
being, and work its natural and mos
holy necessity.
-Seventy-six towns in Connecticu
.(about one-half the State) have vote
against licensing the sale of liquor.
Alexander H. Stephens is CROWN
fat. At the end of the war he weighe
seventy-one pounds; now he weigh
ninety three.
The Japanese doctors cure wit
herbs and roots altogether, and thei
charges are so low that it is cheaper t.
be sick than well in that country.
-Horse-shoes of artificial flowers ar
now used to ornament tables or brackets
They are so perfect as to deceive the eve
and have the advantage of being unfad
ing.
"A centennial birthday party in Ma,
is to be given to Mrs. Sallie Pressier b.
the citizens of Plattekill, N. Y. Sh,
employs her time knitting stockings, ant
every day performs some homework il
the home of her son. She is in excellen
health and spirits.
A remarkable feature in the history
OF William Smoak, of Charleston, S. c.,
is that he has lived to see his Youngest
and thirteenth child a grandmother. He
has Just entered his ninety-seyenth year,
has one hundred and four grandchildren,
three hundred and ninety one great
grandchildren and seventy great-great
grandchildren.
The widest dream never surpassed
the romance of the widow of the third
Napoleon sailing from England to touch
at st. Helena on her way to look upon
the spot in Zululand where fell the fourth
and last Napoleon. The Empress is
said, as she left, to have looked sadly
broken, and her hair has turned gray.
General Kaufman has just presented
to the Geological Garden at Moscow a
hairless horse from Central Asia. The
animal belongs to a hybrid species, and
is considered great rarity; it is well
formed, but its skin is red and without
the slightest trace of hair, and in cold
Moscow it has to be kept covered with
blankets.
Partisan toy dealers are in trouble.
There have been several cases of poison
ing of children who have played with.
and doubtless sucked, colored TOYS. and
now the Project of Police has ordered
that all colored toys offered for sale and
supposed to contain poisonous matter
shall be seized and sent to the municipal
laboratory for examination.
"A new and curious case of death from
poisoning has occurred in Philadelphia.
A young woman who wore colored stock
ings and shoes with copper nails, had her
heel punctured by one of the latter. In
dammation Immediately set in, and in a
few days she died. Physicians do not
know whether to attribute the poisoning
to the stocking or to the nail, or to both.
Nathan Orlando Greenfield. who is
under sentence to be hanged at Syracuse,
N. T., busies himself with building card
houses. The largest of these structures,
which he hopes to complete before he
goes to the gallows, is composed of 2, 800
bits of colored cardboard, and is COM
plete model of his father residence. This
employment, he says, enables him for
The time to forget his doom, and makes
The time pass pleasantly.
The " dark day. in America COM
nenced at about 0a. m. May 10, 1870,
and continued until the middle of the
next day. The Arizono Miner saws that
woman living on the Little Colorado
vas twenty-eight years of age at that
lime, and remembers the circumstance.
She is now 1913 years of age. The dark
hess created great CONSERVATION among
her people, the Spanish and the Indians.
The Spaniards buried their saints and the
indians took to feasting.
An account of recent affray in
russia shows that the old brutal spirit
II Junkerdom has lost little or nothing
II its ferocity of late years. 1t seems
hat party of German officers took Of
ense because their salute was not re-
urned by the civilians in an inn at
ieorgenburg which they entered. There
lpon one OF the former drew his sabre
md ran one of the refractory civilians
through the body, by way of giving him
iCoooII III SOOu uiduHerS.
The railway system is extending rap
dly In Japan, two lines have been re-
emily completed in the island of Niphon.
nd third in the island of Yesso, the |
most northerly of the Japanese group. |
he rails are of English make, but the
olling stock and engines have been or
cred in America. The two first en-
ines are to be named Benkei and Yosh-
see, after two celebrated early Japan
Sc heroes. 1t is the first order of the
ind that has been given by Japan to
american houses.
While a travelling menagerie was on
Jew at Bath, England, and a number of
ersons were present to witness snake
erformance, one of the reptiles coiled
self around the exhibitors throat. Aft
some struggling he fell from exhaus-
on. There was much CONSERVATION
mong the crowd, and the ladies
,reamed loudly. Ultimately the snake.
'hich was about seven feet in length.
as detached by fellow employee.
"A serious illustration of the risk at
'nding electric shocks, even when ap-
arently slight, occurred recently in New
aven, Conn. A gentleman was induced
try shock ''just for fun,'' from the
aphina of an itinarart ,,oJJlo, IS l..