The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-03-24
MISCELLANEOUS.
Louise skates charmingly

flew into mans hair and beard, tn,
dye ignited, and now he is bald an(
beardless.
-Cassius M. Clay in recent letter
said: 81 am in my seventy-irst year
and enjoy health, and take interest il
political affairs and in agriculture"
Between the 18th of November anc
the 3lst of December last, forty nine
London children of very tender years
were reported as ''suffocated in bed
The girls of the high school al
Springfield. Mass, have been told that
they will be suspended if they sex
change significant glances' with the
boys. a. ytt5
The richest mine in New Mexico.
now worth S3,000,0OO, was originally
sold for three dollars in silver, a little
| gold dust and an old revolver. But they
don't all turn out so well.
Though blind for forty years, Add
son Gould, of Woodstock, Vermont, who
recently dted in his seventy-tirst year,
supported himself by playing the violin,
and had thus travelled all over New
England. saog .:'r I.,.- .-r
| MIR. and Mrs William E. Cook, OF
Portsmouth, r. L., now each over eighty
years OF age, have one daughter, nine
grandchildren and fifteen great-grand-
children, and no death has ever occur
red among their children, grand chill
dren or great grandchildren.
"A burglar entered a miser's resi-
dence at Corpus Christi, Texas, stole a
trunk supposed to contain money, car
RED 1T a mile away, opened it, and
found nothing of value. Then he re-
| turned to the house in anger, demanded
the miser's money or life, and received
| a bullet.
The Oregon system of liquor licenses
is being urged for trial in Boston.
Under it the buyer, not the seller, is
obliged to procure license Objection
is made to the plan on account of the
great number of licenses that would
have to be issued and looked after,
while friends of the measure think it
will debar from the saloons many chron-
ic drinkers who have not the money and
responsibility to secure license
Children are comforts and not
causes of worry, as statistics recently
collected by London Truth show: This
was the matrimonial status of given
number of persons who committed sui
eide throughout Europe during 1880
married men with children, 203; with
out children, 40. Widowers with chill
dren, 526; without children, SOL Mar
RED women with children, As; without
children, 1873. Widows with children,
lO4; without children, 23S."
The Reno (Nev.) Gazette is respon-
sible for the following statement: 1.-THE
earth has cracked open near Murphy,s
salt marsh. making a long assure four
feet wide and of depth unknown. With
view to exploration a man was the
other day lowered into it by a rope a
distance of fifty feet perpendicular,
where the crevice began to dip at an
angle of about forty degrees. The man
could see no bottom and thought he had
gone far enough, and was hauled back
to the surface .-zeE
"A return of offenses other than
agrarian in Ireland in 1880, presented
to the House of Commons, shows that
the total number of such offenses was
3,O84. Of these nineteen were murder
and forty-four manslaughter. The total
number of cases in all Ireland in which
offenders were convicted was 694; the
number of cases in which offenders
We're made amenable but not convicted,
420; the number of offenders awaiting
trial is 155; the number of cases in which
offenders were neither convicted nor
made amenable, 1915. o3
Many years ago the tract OF land
now comprising the village of Farming
dale, N. D., was sold by the Goodenough
family to Gordon Bond, the Good
enoughs retaining a mortgage upon
the property. Bond then divided the
land into building lots and sold them,
the purchasers remaining in ignorance
OF the Goodenough claim. A thrifty
village soon sprang up. The Good
enoughs all being dead, Samuel John
son, who held the claim, recently moved
a foreclosure. The village at first dis
puted the validity of the mortgage, but
the courts decided that it was a lust
claim. The other day the mortgage
was foreclosed. 5e = '-t
A terrible experience. almost unique
in military annals, is recorded by cor
respondent at the Cape of Good Hope
in connection with the march of the
Diamond-Field Horse to the scene of
operations in Basutoland toward the end
OF last year. During a terrific thunder
storm flash struck'th troop, bringing
seventeen horses with their riders to the
ground and killing ten men and five
horses on the spot. Those who were
not killed were all seriously injured.
and it was long before animation could |
be restored in the case of seven of the
men: The bits and stirrup irons of the |
whole number were blackened, and
many of the men, though personally
uninjured, had their clothes rent bv the
force of the electric discharge. The
greatest difficulty was naturally expe-
in preventing a general STAN
pede among the frightened horses.
There are four furnaces in the First
Baptist Church at Binghampton, N. Y,
and these were utilized in a novel way
few evenings ago. A special service
was held for the purpose of having a
pleasant time over some 50 burnt offer
lngs." The church had owed forty
thousand dollars, which Indebtedness
had been represented by forty bonds
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