The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-07-14
MISCELLANEOUS.

mlluneTS ueIS yoU,UUU year.
A new county in North Carolina
has been named after Senator Vance of
that State.
AT present a picture is considered
more char ming present than silver or
jewelry for bride.
"A veritable horned snake has been
seen by the Gainesville (Ga.) Eagle.
1t was striped, and the horn, which was
an inch long, was on the tail.
The first piano ever taken to Texas
was converted into feed-trough by
Mexican soldiers. The top of the in
strument is now used as dressing table
in Blanco City.
Two New York boys ran away from
school, found three horseshoes, sold
them for ten cents, hired skiff and got
drowned in North river. A short histo-
ry quickly told.
"A Maine jeweler has been made
seriously ill by inhaling the dust from an
old clock he was repairing The clock
had been used as repository for Paris
green, and it came near putting the
jeweler out of the world.
An attempt is being made to intro
duce English pheasants among the
Rocky Mountains, and Lord Morley has
lately despatched number of fine
healthy birds to a friend who is settled
in that quarter.
in the prefecture of Niigata, Japan,
small paper money and copper coins are
both so extraordinarily scarce that the
merchants are obliged to use postage
stamps, postcards, revenue stamps,
matches, envelopes, chopstieks, wooden
spoons, etc., as change.
"A special train of five Adams Ex-
press cars is soon to begin running be-
tween Boston and New York via Spring
field, the business of the company be-
tween these two cities having developed
such immense proportions as to make
such an enterprise profitable to both the
express and railroad companies.
-Jerving Fay, a Natick Mass
schoolmaster, is to be tried for cruelty
to Edward Goddard, twelve years old.
1t appears that because the boy threw
some chalk Fay beat him with a raw
hide three feet long until his back was
black and blue, the marks of fifty-two
strokes being plainly visible, and he
nearly unconscious.
"A Russian named Kebelkow was
born without legs or arms; yet he eats,
drinks, fires pistols, threads needles,
and can write SO well that for year
and half-he acted as copyist. All this
he acquired the ability to do with his
mouth, aided by stump dependent
from his right shoulder. He is happily
married and the father of two children
He lives in Hamburg.
Mrs. Elizabath Harden, a colored
woman who recently died at the home
OF her son in Troy, was 104 years of age
at the time of her death, Her father
was Paschall Passover, a powerful
chieftain in Africa. When Elizabeth
was about ten years old she was capt
ured by slave dealers and taken to
Charleston, S. c., where she was sold
as slave. In 1920 she came to the
North. She was the mother of sixteen
children. Twins were born to her on
two occasions and triplets once.
"A Columbus (Ga.) rural resident
AYERS that his wife had a hen and chick
ems that she permitted to occupy an I'M
used room in the house at night as
roosting quarters. In the room was an
old sofa which was so worn as to be UNI
fit for use. For several mornings the
lady had missed some of the chickens,
and they went one at time until they
were nearly all gone. An examination
of the old sofa by lifting the cushion re-
vealed snake seven feet in length and
twenty-seven inches around.
The claim is made for Australia of
having produced the largest photo
graphic pictures in the world. These
magnificent specimens of the art-n
only in point of size, but in respect also
OF quality-were taken by Herr Hotter
mann, of Sidney; they are mounted on
an endless band of paper, strengthened
by linen, and are nearly 100 feet in
length. Among the subjects are two
colossal panoramas of the cities of Sid
ney and Melbourne, each of about half
a dozen sheets joined together in one
harmonious tone and depth. One pict-
ure. printed from single negative,
was five by three feet.
There has been discovered in the
archives of the War Department a
cipher dispatch from General Burnside
to General Halleck, then Commander
in-Chief, dated September 80, 1868,
containing proposition to make a
march "by way of Atlanta to the sea,
to be undertaken without trains, and
the troops to subsist on the country
This proposition was made year or
more before General Sherman executed
his famous "march through Georgia.
and, consequently, it would appear,
General Burnside is entitled to consid-
cradle credit for suggesting the plan
which afterward proved so effectual.
A pleasing little story of caterpil-
lars comes from New Zealand, near
Turakena. A host of them was march
ing across the railway line, making tor
neighboring field of oats, when the
train came along. The wheels of the
engine crushed thousands of the Great
ures and the train came to a dead
standstill. The wheels of the engine
had become so greasy that they merely
revolved and could not advance for
want of grip upon the rails. Sand was
procured and strewn on the rails, and
the train made a fresh start, but during
the stoppage the caterpillars had
crawled all over the engine and the
carriage inside and outside, so that