The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-12-23
MISCELLANEOUS.

/ MISCELLANEOUS.
The old-time amusement. of =" cha
rades'' will be revived this winter, and
all of our witty oneswho can play upon
words will be in demand.
The Macon (Ga.) Herald records
killing by bulldogs-terribly lacerated
but expected to recOver-of a wild boar
weighing, after dressing, 800 pounds,
with tusks eight inches long. For years
past he has been fattening on the crops
Of an island near Bly,. ...t.-.r
"A Monsieur Toilet has been recent
ly dredgmgin the Sea of Galilee. 1t
has a depth of 250 metres and contains
twelve species of fish, The majority Of
these species have the singular habit OF
Matching their eggs and sheltering their
young in their mouths.
The Georgia Railroad is probably
the only one which makes a complete
daily balance sheet, like a bank and on
the first day of the month can show the
exact business of the preceding month,
instead of giving an approximation to
be afterwards corrected. -
The will of the late George Wynn
berly Louis De Renne, who died last
August in Georgia, provides that if his
children die without issue his entire es-
tate, valued at $577, 1866. shall 60 to-
wards the establishment in Philadelphia
of an institution to be called 1.-THE De
Renne Hospital for Incurables.' -
-Ex-President Willard Fillmore s
widow has been rTarly deprived oil
speech and one side of her body made
powerless by stroke of paralysis at
Widow Ezekiel Mcintosh, of Albany,
N. ", when Mr.. Fillmore welded her
in the old Schuyler mansion in the south
part of the city.
James Watt and his partner, Boul-
ton, spent seven years of litigation and
nearly 100000 before securing the ben
etits of the invention of the steam en-
CINE. Notwithstanding his early weak
ness and his protracted mental labor,
Watt lived to be eighty-two. To test
his faculties he learned the Anglo-Saxon
language at the age of seventy.
The establishment of new Carmel
lite convent at Fulham, near London,
has awakened some opposition on the
part OF the country magistrates, who
had been informed that the nuns would
be imprisoned for the rest of their lives,
and that although their friends might
see them, conversation must be through
the thick gauze wire that covers the
opening in the doors of the cells. E.it,
Professor Tyndall in the course OF
his inaugural address before, the Glass
gov Sunday Society, took. the ground
that the society, by opening museums,
picture galleries, libraries and public
gardens on Sunday, would be acting as
competitors with the, public houses and
if they were establishing -tramways
from the slums of London to the near
est green fields they would also be do
ing great benefit to the community,
and even preaching q true gospel to
{ them. Resolutions were adopted ap-
proving of the action of the Sunday So
ciety and declaring that the time had
arrived for the opening of the National
Museum and picture galleries.
One of the eccentricities of Paris is
Able Moigne, aged eighty years, who
started newspaper, Les ,Mondes, with
capital of $50, 900 francs, to harmonize
the Bible and science. In sorder to
prove the Exodus the worthy Able
strove to organize a stock company to
dry. the Red Sea and find at the bottom
the remnants of Pharaoh and his army.
As dividends he promised the treasures
which were to be found. But when it
became known that the Israelites had
all the treasures of the Egyptians and
the latter were pursuers after their
wealth, the company suddenly dissolved
and the Able is disconsolate.
r Regarding it as pretty certain that
tariff questions will now be discussed,
the New Haven Palladium suggests the
revival of the old lyceum system. say
ing: !" Middle-aged citizens recall with
pleasure the delights of those long win
ter evenings when they met in the old
hall in Streets building to listen to de.
bates on the tariff and other questions
of national moment, debates open to all
corners, in which mechanics and pro-
fessional men met as combatants on a
common level and discussed the SUBJ
jects under consideration with great
warmth and freedom. The old Iyceum
system has died out and nothing has
taken its place. 1t was school in
which many of our foremost citizens ac-
quired the intellectual vigor which gave
them their after success"
A Dying Child's Last Wish.