The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-10-06
MISCELLANEOUS.

the departments aG w aSnlng6Ol
employ over 10, 900 clerks.
-Coney island takes in 125, 900 Wis
itors on fair Sundays, and disposes O
10000 dinners and 200, 600 schooners O
beer.
The desk of English oak, on which
George Mason wrote the Virginia Bill o
Rights, has been given by his great
grandson, Mr.. George Mason, of Alex
andria, to tie Virginia Historical So
ciety.
An irrepressible war is going OF
between the birds and squirrels of The
Sierras in Nevada. The latter arr
hardly out for an airing before the blue
birds and wrens pounce upon them and
drive them to their holes.
AT the meeting of photographer:
in Chicago one of them made the State.
ment that men should be taken with
their right side toward the camera and
ladies with their left, as their noses
generally point different ways.
"A gay and festive blonde young
man named Clarence III. Barrett, Of
Providence, R. l., has left for parts I'M
known, and eight young women in
that region claim that he is their hus.
band. just before his wholesale mat.
rimonial proclivities were exposed, he
was counting his ninth intended victim.
and she had narrow escape.
Acting on a theory that human be-
ings were made to stand upright, and
therefore ought never to lie down. a
Californian sleeps in an apparatus
which sustains him comfortably in a
perpendicular position. A Nebraska
physician is equally certain that the vi
tai organs are injuriously affected by
being jolted downward in walking, and
to counterfeit this he gravely stands on
his head five minutes every day.
There is to be new king in Eu-
rope. The German authorities will re-
quest the Grand Duke of Baden to as.
sumo the regal title on September %,
which is the twenty-fifth anniversary of
his marriage with the only daughter of
the German Emperor. III the Grand
Duke accepts the proAered gift, the
marriage of his daughter Victoria with
the crown Prince of Sweden and Nor
way will admit of being celebrated at
Carslruhe.
"A fish propagating company of
California is experimenting with a frog
pond. New Brunswick furnished the
material to start with, $50 frogs being
sent from there packed in fresh moss in
q box plentifully supplied with perfora-
tions for the admission of air. The moss
was frequently moistenel on the way.
On the arrival of the box at its destina-
ton only 112 frogs were found and of
these ten were dead. 1t is supposed
that the eighteen that were missing had
been eaten during the journey by their
companions in confinement.
The population of Canada. accord
ing to a census taken ON the 4th of last
April, is 1850. 933, or about that of our
single State of Pennsylvania. The in
crease during. the last ten years has
been S65, 173, or a little less than q
quarter. The proportionate gain,
therefore, was not equal to that made
IN the United States between 1870 and
1880, for we added to our population in
that decade something over thirty per
cent, and our increase alone was nearly
,hree times the total population of the
Dominion to the northward of us.
Thirty years ago Burr forbade Platt
% walk across his land, at PlattvilIe.
Conn.,; but Platt could save MANY steps
~ going that way to his milldam every
lay, and so did not heed the prohibit
ion. Recently, after Platt had worn
bath unmolested during the intervening
7ears, Burr told him he must stop. as
he trespass had lasted long enough;
hat ne had, after mature deliberation,
resolved to shoot him if he walked that
way again. platt did take. the usual
quite next morning and received a
charge OF buck-shot from Burr's gun.
"A cat belonging to John Pool, on
White Oak branch, SAYS the George.
own (Ky.) Times, had a litter of Kit
ems, which were taken from her and
irowned. The cat was determined to.
ave something to nurse, and went to
he woods and brought in five young
abbits, which she proceeded to care
or in a motherly manner. Getting
lred OF the rabbits, Mr.. Pool gathered
hem up, took them out into the bushes
nd gave them their liberty. A second
ime the cat went out and brought back
hree OF the rabbits, all she could find.
The Newburyport (Mass.) Hera1diE
elates this incident: "a little girl.
bout eight years old on Wednesday,
vent into the house and asked her
Mother for two cents. This request was
efused. whefeupon the girl picked up
revolver that was lying on the shelf.
nd, raising it, pulled the trigger. The
all went through a stove funnel.
hooking ii down, and the mother
ainted. The girl was thoroughly
frightened. and, rushing out of the /,
ouse, did not return for the NIGHT.
he very evidently was ignorant of the
erious nature of the act, and did not
now the revolver was loaded
The peculiar sickness that has pros
'ated number of persons in the Hun
arian city of Pesth, is the occasion of
n interesting letter to a journal of
nat city by prominent physician. i
,ating the cause of the disease to be
he fiavoring in some vanilla ice cream
lat the patients had been eating. The
anilla beans are often picked before
icy are ripe, and are then liable to get
ito state in which they are extremely ,
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