The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-08-12
MISCELLANEOUS.


The Boston Courier discovers that
the man who is appointed to make an
after-dinner speech is nervous and alb
sent minded and that he does not enjoy
his dinner.
Letter found on a California sui
eide: In this sheltered nook ! lay me
down to die. When man outlives his
usefulness think he ought to retire.
have done so. Adieu."
The dealers in Italy say that the
competition of American cereals is
crushing to their own producers, Amer
can grain being better than their best,
cheaper, and unlimited in respect of
supply.
Policeman Max shot and killed two
rowdies in Philadelphia and a Coroner's
jury decided that the act was justifiable;
but he was not acquitted by his own
conscience and remorse has driven him
insane.
In the hardware stores at Naples,
Italy, large assortment of dirks and
Stilettos is always kept on hand,
and when customer inquiries for a
knife, the shopkeeper invariably asks if
lone that is sure to kill be desired"
The strip of earth between the
Mississippi River and Lake Concordia,
above Natchez, is fast caving and it
now appears to be a matter of very
itself into the river.
Mrs. Katherine Kahley, bride of
seventeen, ended her honeymoon Jour-
ney very sorrowfully at Cincinnati,
where her husband stole her fortune of
81, 800, for which he had married her
in Germany and absconded. He even
took away most of her trousseau.
The announcement that the EN-
press of Russia died alone, unattended
by any member of her family and dur
ing even the absence of the one servant
who was in her room during the night,
has given rise to much comment in
England.
The housemaids of Hamburg, who
seemed to be always in the streets, are
very pretty. They wear the tiniest of
lace caps ON the backs of their heads
aud their dresses are made with short,
pulled sleeves, leaving the arms bare
almost from the shoulder.
-Lightning-rod did not save the
First Methodist Church at Altoona, Pa,
tor thunderbolt doubled them up like
reeds, knocked hole eighteen inches
in diameter in the first knee of the bell
tower, and broke off one corner of the
brick walls Of the church.
Some ten miles to the northward
of Grantsville, New, is mountain that
is covered and filled with agates. The
rough agates are in the form of geodes
and generally hemispherical in shape.
When these goodies are broken MANY
OF them show beautiful forms resem.
bling photographs Of pine trees, ferns,
ranges OF mountains and the like.
The public whipping post in Raj.
eigh, N. c., has disappeared Until a
few days ago it stood next the Court
House, and has been used of late as a
hitching post for country roadsters
whose masters had law business on
hand. Before 1868 it was the county
whipping post. The stocks and the
pillory which stood beside it were re-
moved long ago, but the old post re-
manned
coAiA DOShOl was d SuuGIcSS S1Q
Francisco shoemaker. The family larder
became entirely empty and his wife
said: i" believe you could get work if
you wanted to, and if you don't do it
will commit suicide. Go out and if YOU
don't come back by six o'clock to tell
me you've got a job you'll find me dead
when you do come" He returned at
seven and she was dead.
Some of the French journals give
very flattering accounts of the progress
OF the preliminary work on the tsnnel
winch Is toconnect France and England.
1t is stated that the shaft is sunk to the
stratum in which the tunnel is to be cut
and that those engaged in the work are
about to sink another shaft and to low
er the machinery for boring under the
channel. The work on the tunnel is ex-
pected to be finished in two or three
years.