The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-09-22
MISCELLANEOUS.

oh@inCu gangs Va olbftS III mdhlug
road in Africa. -
Boston merchants hang up cards
which say: "No petition for Office
signed by any member of this firm
"A Philadelphia drug clerk blum
dered in compromising dose for his
own taking, and lost his life thereby.
-Jerusha Revell, of Wakully Coun-
ty, Fla, has 262 descendants. Eight
of them are ministers of the Gospel
She is cighty-five years old, and for ten
years has been blind.
-Ex-Representative Burleigh has a
scheme to domesticate the buffalo,
which, as he argues, is q much better
beef animal for the cold Northwest than
the OK. He wants Congress to help
him.
That a human bite is as as danger
Gus as that OF any animal is shown by
an occurrence in the German city of
Munster, where man who was bitten
in one of his fingers during fight has
had the alternative of losing his arm or
his life. Blood poisoning set in, and
speedy amputation at the shoulder be-
came necessary.
The elaborate bronze balcony rail.
ing made for the house of William III.
Vanderbilt, on Fifth Avenue, New York,
is now on exhibition in Philadelphia
1t is a wonderful piece of hand beaten
work, and, with other bronze railing
ordered for the house, will cost $780,.
600. Each section is seventeen feet long
and two and a quarter feet high.
Two children. born a few weeks
ago in the Canton Vaud, Switzerland,
were joined together in the same man.
ner as the famous Siamese twins. II
was believed that, as infants, the Hoa.
ment which joined them might, with
success, he severed, and the operation
was accordingly performed. Noappar-
emit permanent injury was caused by it,
and several days afterward the twins
were reported to be doing well.
With the expressed purpose OF
keeping dogs out of the Stockton House.
at Cape May, during the present season,
the Directors issued an announcement
that they would be charged for board at
the rate of ten dollars week apiece.
That this scheme for carrying out
praiseworthy purpose is an utter failure
is proved by the fact that six. dogs are
now registered at the Stockton House.
that is to say, three Skye terriers, two
lap-dogs and one pug.
"A large natural cave has been dis
covered at the head of Williams Greek.
in Josephine County, Oregon. It con-
slsts of series of subterranean caverns,
or chambers. through which a person
can walk for some four or five hundred
yards from the entrance, and there are
still other chambers beyond the en-
frances which are too small to admit
a person, but could be enlarged suffi.
GENTLY, it is thought, by little labor
with pick and hammer
-Four disappointed Arabs are in
Boston. They were Sheiks of distinc-
ton in their own country, and one
claims to be the head of Moabite tribe
descended directly from the Mohabites
spoken of in the Bible. They were
brought here for exhibition, and were |
told that they would become objects of |
social honor here. On the contrary. |
they proved unattractive as a show. |
and. being abandoned by their mana
gers, are paupers, without much pros. |
pect OF getting back home.
Three women were standing side
oy side In dry goods store of London,
Ontario. One hung her umbrella by |
the handle on the edge of the counter
md moved away. Another laid down /
her pocket-book where it fell into the
unseen, and when it was
missed the third woman was accused of
stealing it, searched by an officer and
lnally released without being able to
'elieve herself from suspicion. The
was rolled up, with the lost
money still in it, and only after a
apse of week was the truth revealed.
"A " striking" instance of mnemo.
lics is communicated to Notes and
queries by one of its correspondents:
illlles de Retz, Marshal of France (said
o be the veritable Blue Beard. was
entenced to be led in chains to the
,lace of execution and TO be burnt alive
It the stake. The day appointed was
october %, 1880, ssa date,n SAYS the
historian, s.about which there can he
10 doubt, for all the people of Anjou
md Maine, by common consent.
their children on that morn
ne, so as to impress the precise day
lpon their memory" This strange
nnemonic process is still favorife
nth the peasants of Anjou and Brittany.
A recent writer describes the float
ng vegetable gardens of Lake Grina-
ar. in Cashmere: They are made by
rst planting poplar poles. twenty-five
T twenty-eight feet long, in two or
hree rows, twelve or fifteen feet apart.
hen the gardener gathers from the
AXE lot of aquatic plants and inter-
Teaves them between his poles. This
Drms the support of the garden. Then
1ore plants are collected from the lake
nd piled up to the height of three or
our inches. These soon rot, and form
ne soil, and the garden plants first
prouted on the land are then trans.
lanted to the garden. At first thev are | ,
vatered, but it does not take long for
ne rootlets to find their way to the
rater underneath. The vegetables
aised are said to be very fine, and are i
Did at very low prices. !
"A recent traveller in equatorial Al {
ca says: :" Lions are one of the dan
ers between Zanzibar and the great I
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