The Bossier banner., 1881-12-22
MISCELLANEOUS.
Baron Rothschild left 800, 600. 600.

Baron Rothschild left 800, 900, GOO.
LIN England they are just beginning
10 use the word ''caucus," imported
from America.
General Burnside's estate was SO
heavily encountered that his heirs will
will get nothing.
Prof. Ring is building another large
balloon on novel principal, with which
further to test the easterly current.
"A man was made in an instant bald
headed forever. in Mobile, by the ex-
plosion of a firecracker in his hat. II
was the work of his playful son.
The Canadians have a very big
scheme on hand. 1t is no less than the
construction of a railway to Hudson's g
Bay from Winnipeg, and utilizing the
bay as an outlet for shipments to Eu-
rope.
\ An account of Chicago funeral
says that the burial casket sswas made
to conform as far as possible with the
comforts the occupant was won't to sur
round himself with in the house he has
left"
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"A Nashville paper is responsible for
the statement that the people of Ten
nessee pay Sl,000,0O0 per annum for
snuff, an article which is used by all
classes of society in the South. Our
Nashville merchant sold $500, 900 worth
Dt snuff last year.
The Cape Ann (Mass.) Advertiser
understands that Gloucester lady who,
while in Boston some years ago, found
and restored to its owner pocketbook
containing valuable papers, has Just
been left 800. 900 by the will of the gen.
tleman in question.
The will of Gerhart Bechtel, of
Berks County, Pa, just filed, contained
this remarkable provision: THAT 1 fur
ther disinherit and prohibit from par
ticipation in the distribution of my es-
tate such OF my male descendants as
persist in wearing moustaches."
Lionel S. Sackville- West, the new
ly appointed Minister Plenipotentiary of
Great Britain, is described by the Phila-
delphia Times ''as medium sized, En-
glish looking gentleman, with partial
ly bald head and full beard and whis-
kers already quite gray"
"A veteran matchmaker at vouvry.
Switzerland, claims to have invented q
process by which watches will run for
years without winding up. A sealed
Dox containing two watches intrusted to
the municipal authorities on January
l9, 1879, has Just been opened and the
watches were found going.
"A number of Governors were
weighed the other day at Atlanta, Ca.
Governor Hoyt, of Pennsylvania.
weighed 24S pounds: Governor Bige-
low, OF Connecticut, 1861; Governor
Colquitt, of Georgia, 176; Governor
Blackburn. of Kentucky. 2231 and Gov
ernor Vance, of North Carolina, 203.
"A Philadelphian's scheme for en-.
riching himself was to secretly marry
IN heiress who was almost idiotic.
charge her to tell nobody of the occur
'ence, and wait until she should die,
when he would claim q share of her
estate. She told her mother of the
marriage, however, and, by means of
legally appointed commission. the
contract. has been declared void by
'eason OF her mental disability.
The st. James Gazette, in an article
N Scotch shooting, asserts that "Mr. |
Ainans, an American sportsman who
daughters deer on scientific principles.
'ays Lord Lovat $25, 600 for the forests
i Glenstrathferan and Culegrain, in
.ddition to. which he hires eight neigh
'ering shootings in this and the ada
ent county (which makes the largest I
anne preserve in the country, and
'rings his annual rent up to $50, O0o."
The famous spring of boiling water
the middle basin of Hells' Halt Acre.
the Yellowstone region, has lately
ecome still more wonderful as a gev.
er. -Four or five times every twenty
our hours it discharges great column
water, freighted with stones and OBJ
cured by dense volume of steam.
he hollow formation for hundreds of
ards around the orifice trembles under
ae upheaval, and the water is thrown
q height of a hundred feet.
"A man had curious race for life
ear Meriden. Conn. He swallowed a
!rge dose of morphine, intending sui
lde, but quickly changed his mind and
'arted for the nearest physician, who
as two miles away. He felt the dan
erous drowsiness stealing over him,
nd ran with all his might. The exer-
se kept him awake, but his mouth be.
anne parched, his eyes flmy and his
'rength less. He stopped to pray, but
instant OF delay warned him that.
Mess he depended on miraculous help.
iere was, no time to be lost on his
nees. He at length stumbled into the
octor's Office and fell senseless ON the
DOR, but was saved by energetic treat
ent.
A project for establishing a coffee-
ouse IN Boston, long discussed, has at
st taken form, and such men as Gov ,
NOR Long, James Freeman Clark.
lshop Paddock, Philip Brooks and Ed
ard Everett Hale have united with a
amber OF prominent and wealthy bust i
sss men to establish the enterprise I
,on asecure basis. It is the intention 4
the projectors to make the coffee 6
'use more attractive than any grog {
op in the city by means of handsome r
rniture, reading. smoking and billiard i
oms. and thus to fight the enemy on a
own ground, hand to hand, with the 3
aaDons which ba ,,eoo ,,,n.< 49,