The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-12-15
MISCELLANEOUS.

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Blue cranes-nine feet spread-ar
killed in Arizona and eaten as Colorad,
turkeys.
The expectation of live stock ant
fresh meat across the Atlantic was never
so active as at present.
President Grevy gave two Thousand
francs to the poor of Paris in honor o
his daughters marriage.
| According to the late French papers
q prodigy called Chicky is astonishing
the people by hanging to a trapeze will
his hands and playing violin solos will
his feet.
| Deer, squirrel and pheasants are
said to be abundant in the Shenandoah
| Valley of Virginia this fall Partridge.
are scarce, while wild turkeys are above
an average.
There are six turnips on exhibition
| at the office Of the Oregon Improvement
Company, Colfax, w. t., that weigh ir
the aggregate 102 pounds. The largest
OF the six weighs twenty-five pounds.
The second annual congress of Ger
man numismatists has just been held al
Dresden, under the Presidency of DR.,
Erbstein. AT the same time an exhibit
ton was opened of coins now in use
throughout the world, which is said to
have been the most complete collection
of the kind ever seen.
+ "A projection constructing a circu-
lar elevated railway for Vienna, which
for the last fifteen months has found
employment for a large staff of English
and Austrian engineers, is about to be
carried out. The proposal is that
wherever it may be possible it shall be
carried above ground on iron columns.
The chaparral cock of Arizona
(paisano) Is a very delicious bird, but
hard to kill. its motions are SO rapid.
These birds, it is said, are the natural
foes of the rattlesnake, and build a cor
raj of chollay (cactus) around him, and
irritate him until he lashes himself to
death against the thorns by which he
is surrounded.
Until she was fourteen years old,
Victoria did not know she was heir to
the throne. But on seeing a genealog.
icaa table one day, she discovered the
fact. and said to her governess: ls..There
is much splendor but much responsible
ity." Then with tears she exclaimed:
6 Baroness, will be good" She was
more sober and more dignified ever after.
The large pine tree on the site OF
old Fort Herkimer, New York, which
had escaped the ak of the woodman be-
cause it had given shelter to General
Washington and party while dining be-
meath its boughs, when on his way to
visit Fort Stanwix, was blown down in
a gale few days since. 1t was over
four feet in diameter at the butt and
over $50 feet in height.
AT Knoxville, Tenn, Mr.. A. Moore
was Instantly killed by the discharge OF
his gun while holding the barrel over
the fire to melt the bullet out. The ball
was tightly wedged in the barrel, and
he took this method to get it out, hav-
ing previously unbreached ,itand picked
the. powder all out, as he thought, but
enough remained to hurl the molten
mass into his abdomen.
The biggest thing yet in the way OF
plaster casts issthe cast OF whale taken
at Provincetown, Mass, by Mr. Palmer,
modeler for the Smithsonian at Wash
ington. A papier-mache fac smile is
to be nodded from the cast, the entire
skeleton of the same whale is to be in
serted, and the monster will be sus-
pended in the museum To show the
of the skeleton, one side
Of the whale will be left open.
Carrie Carr and J.sJ. Underwood
met casually in store at Bear Creek,
Tenn. A rumor that she was about to
be married was mentioned, and she
said, 80, no; nobody will have me.''
"Pl take you,n' he replied. An en-
gagement was made to meet at an an
pointed time to have the marriage GER
emony performed. Underwood saws it
vas all "a joke. neither party pretending
natrimony, and he did not make his |
But she claims that they
were both in sober earnest and has !
brought suit for $4,000 damages
"A Venetian gondolier descends gem
orally from a long line of ancestors.
Who were for centuries boatmen. A I
yondola costs about 5000. The father |
avs by week after week small sumin
order to buy his son one, and thus start
him in life. The gondola costs about
'ixty dollars per annum in repairs. The
,wner pays tax to the municipality,
according to the station, to which he Is
lllotted, and he is obliged to be there
lot only, every day, but every third
hight. During the summer months he
'arns dollar per diem; in winter al
nost nothing. III G3f
There is a good deal of difficulty
ound in familiarMing the Indian labor
rs employed on Mexican railways with
ne use OF the wheelbarrow. The same |
rouble was experienced by the first
aiiway contractors in Hindostan. The
aborers there had been in the habit OF |
arriving off the clay from the excava- +
ions in baskets on their heads. The +
METHOD proved picturesque, but slow.
finally, large supply of wheelbarrows
Tas obtained. The contractors emo
ions may be imagined when, on the
rst morning of their use. he beheld
is.laborers filing off in a long line. each
nth his wheelbarrow poised on his
cad.
The peculiar mining of Henry Jope,
richly indicated by Leadyille tele.