The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-04-28
MISCELLANEOUS.

tdHueIUllG new mouse costs tort
thousand dollars.
A New York store is occupied b.
two firms; on one window is the wor.
"Dyeing," and on the other Z" Under
taker."
Mary Anderson travels in a specia
palace car, in which she has an uprigh
piano, small library, file of paper
and swinging hammock.
Mrs. Mary B. Post has been re
elected Town Clerk and Treasurer O
Georgia, Vt. Her husband held these
offices nearly thirty years. He died il
1878, and Mrs. Post has acceptably fillee
them since.
Six members of the Senate are for
eign born. Mcssrs. Farley, of California
Fair, of Nevada; Jones, of Florida, and
SeWell, OF New Jersey, are Irishmen.
Senator Jones, of Nevada, was born in
England, and Senator Beck, of Ken.
lucky, in Scotland.
"A young lady of Gait, Canada,
having for some time been afflicted witt,
the receipt OF anonymous poetic effu-
slons OF most amatory complexion, at
length resolved to submit them to an
intimate married friend, who at once
recognized the handwriting as her dar.
ling husbands.
DIR. Herman Wendell died at Hazel
wooden the-Hudson, New York, re-
Gently, aged seventy years. He devoted
the last thirty years to the cultivation
OF what is now one of the most com.
plete orchards in the country, contain
ing 5000 to 10000 fruit trees, every
one OF which he planted himself.
"A woman fell on an icy sidewalk
in Hartford, Conn, and broke her leo.
She recovered $500 damages from the
city. The owner of the premises in
front OF which she was hurt was then
sued by the city, on the ground that he
had violated an ordinance by not clear
ing the walk of ice. The Supreme
Court has decided in this case that the
city and not the property owner is liable
Tor injury to person falling on an icy
sidewalk.
Mr.. Lancaster, near London, has
forty six acres of celery and his celery
commands the highest prices in market.
His plantation, at 10000 plants Der
acre, requires 100000 plants. They are
set in trenches, and vast quantities OF
manure are used. Seven horses are
used IN his eighty-acre vegetable gar.
den. Radishes between the celery bring
about $40 per acre and the celery $3.50
per acre. The labor comes to $3.50 per
week in summer and autumn.
The official head of all the der
wishes in Egypt has issued an order for
bidding deVotees to cut and slash them |
selves with swords and knives, to beat |
themselves with great balls of iron, and.
lnally. to howl themselves into epilep.
TIC Tits ON fete days. He also commands
them not to eat snakes, swallow burn
ing Goals and crunch glass. He saws
that all such rites are Inconsistent with
The purity and simplicity of the NOLAN.
nedan faith.
"A robin with broken wing fell in
@ the hands of twelve-year-old New
hampshire boy. He took it home and
'ared Tor 1t IN vacant attic till it was
lble to fly, when he took it out in
basket mile away in the woods and
et it free. The next spring the same
'lrd with little lop in its wing came
md pecked at the window of the bows
louse. The boy made shelf for it ONT
lde, IN the middle of the window A
est was soon built by the bird on this
helf, and a brood of birds was success
ully reared thereon.
-Ihe culture of bees in North italy
as given rise to an industry which an
ears likely to increase in Importance.
ameiy, the supplying queen bees and !.
warns to various countries in Europe
nd to America. The queen bees travel
wooden boxes, accompanied by 200
'orklng bees. The boxes have four
its for air; inside are two small frames !.
ne containing full, the other an emp-
honey comb; they vary in size ac-
3rding to the distance they are sent.
ne Italian bees have the reputation of y
eng more docile and productive than :
~ other kind of bees, hence their value. .
Miss Allison, the feminine CORE 9
'ondent who brought suit for SO. 900 a
5alnst the proprietor of San Francis
garden because he sent her up in a ;,
tIloon with an unskillful aeronaut +
lied to recover anything. Her adyen- Z
re IN the balloon was frightful, the 4
ronaut having completely lost his =
nses. The balloon, after perilons >,
scent, plunged into the BAY, drench- :;
g both occupants, and finally drifting =,
,ainst the wharf, where the aeronaut a q
aped to safe place, leaving his femi- =;
ne companion cut and bruised. to save u
rseif as best she could. n
"A certain New England farmer If te
1-tlme ideas, but sound ones. is noted b.
his success in raising and KEEPING 81
Get potatoes. They are found on his is
Die the year round. A visitor to his
tatoe cellar noticed two turtles crawl u,
around and, asking the reason for ps
elr presence. was told that when a in
rite would crawl around the floor the is
'ather was not too cold for potatoes &C
Keep well, but when the snapners st
sW In their heads and became dor w
mt then artificial heat was necessary
the potatoes. When the turtles I'll
re found quiet the old gentleman ba
uld sing out: "Boys, we must have So
ne ire or the potatoes will not do hi
"A burglar was recently caught in q We
st interesting style in England at sW
nrnemouth. He terrified LADY Fayer- do
I'M and her young daughter bv com. so,