The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-05-12
MISCELLANEOUS.

Princess Louise is expected to re.
turn to Canada on May 26.
"A Californian spent S4S, 900 in vain
attempts to perfect steam machinery fol-
shearing sheep.
Mr.. f. Bowers, a daring huntsman
of Wales, died from blood poisoninS Z,
caused by his horse biting him.
james Gordon Bennett has ordered
yacht in which he can cross the ocean.
1t will be 225feet long and As feet beam.
"A farm has recently been sold in
Castleton, VT, for 1900, which the
owner refused $4,000 for TWENTY-FIVE
years ago.
DR.. Charles Osgood, of Norwich,
Conn. left an estate of 81 200, 900, much
OF which he made out of well-adver-
tised patent medicine for fever and
ague. .a.te.=-. at
"A Rochester IN. " Coroners
jury held that corporation which en-
ployed an incompetent engineer,
through whose incompetency boiler
explosion occurred which resulted in
the death of an employee, was grossly
and criminally negligent.
Contractors and agents of the vari-
Gus railway companies in the West and
Southwest that are making extensions
are securing the country for laborers.
Some of the roads are offering from
S1.50 to S1.75 per day, and Others give
81 and board, and all furnish free trans
portation. -sst
Even China is catching the rail-
way fever, as it is reported that Prince
Ii and the Marquis Tseng have advised
the construction of railway, which
will probably be built between Tientsin
and Pekin for the rapid transit of troops.
Another line is proposed between TENT
SIN and Shanghai. A telegraph line is
to be put up between Pekin and Shane-
hal.
= The old trees are being ruthlessly
cut down in New England. ssThe Par
sons Elm, +" the largest and handsomest
tree in Enfield, Conn, dating beyond
the memory of living man, was laid low
ey its owner, to get thirty-fve cords of
firewood out of it. The Springfield Re-
publican declares such acts to be " the
murder of our oldest inhabitants
"A bill has been introduced in the
French Legislature providing that any
citizen who loses his life while saying
life or property at fire; any physician
who dies while laboring in the hopitals
in time of epidemic and any one who
dies while endeavoring to save a fellow
being shall be regarded as a soldier
slain on the battlefield and insure a
double pension to his family.
The plan which Ex-Governor Hub
bard, OF Connecticut, instituted, of re-
questing the Legislature to adjourn for
one week just before it's final adjourn
ment, in order that he might have time
thoroughly to examine the great num-
Der of bills passed in the closing hours
OF the session, met with much favor in
that State, and it is said that Governor
blgelow will make similar request of
the present Legislature.
Five distinct exhibitions of lmport.
ance are to be held the coming summer
at Misunderstanding, the financial
and railroad centre Of Southwestern
Germany. These will include local in
dustries. patterns and patents, horti-
culture, leather and leather goods. But
The greatest novelty and interest will
attach to the archaeological exhibition.
every known appliance for
public, private and medicinal bathing.
Up to the present time Yakutsk, in
Northeast Siberia, has ofteen cited as
,he place of our earth where the winter
S coolest, while the minima observed
during Arctic expeditions are believed
70 be the lowest known. A correspond
ent of Nature disputes this, and claims |
hat to Werkhojansk, in Northeast ST. |
oeria, in longitude 1874 degrees east from |
greenwich, and latitude 675 DEGREES
north, belongs that honor. The lowest
winter recorded at Yakutsk is 77.3 Fair.
below zero. and at Werkhojansk, $40 |
below zero.
-Iwenty-miles south of Wlckenburp.
IN the road to Phoenix, says the Pres
,oH (Arizona) Miner, there is buried a
.ortuguese in a grave $50 feet deep. |
eleven years ago the subject of these |
'emarks conceived the idea of Digging
well and starting station at the point
ibove mentioned. When the we'll |
vas down $50 feet, and while digging
way with vigorous will, his assistant
Mexican, in lowering some poles with
which to timber the well, let one piece
all, killing him instantly. His body
vas never removed but allowed to sleep
n peace far beneath the surface of the
arth, in the sepulchre he had built.
lime has caused the well to- cave in.
Until now the remains are covered to a
lepth of forty yards, and the Portu-
'uese IS probablytt the best buried man
q Arizona.
On a postcard on view at an exhi-
ltlon In Germany there had been writ
en- in German system of shorthand
ne large number of 5000 words. Sub
equently Mr.. Hurst, of Sheffield in
ingland, the publisher of the Phono-
raph, short hand magazine, offered
rizes for miniature shorthand. The
ystem was to be Pitman's, the writing
7as to be legible to the naked eve. and
be on one side of an English post
ard, which is considerable smaller than
German card; $4,000 words on the
primer being reckoned equivalent to
). 600 on the latter The first prize in
his competition was awarded to G. Fl.
davidson whose most oo,J