The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-11-24
MISCELLANEOUS.

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Victor Hugo has given 10000
francs to the Paris poor.
1t is said that women who travel il
Egypt return to civilization confirm &c
smokers.
! At his death Washington was the
richest President we ever had. He left
an estate worth $500, ZOO.
The sum of money spent on ships OF
abroad by Americans travelling out Of
their own country this year is es timated
at about two hundred millions oil
money.
Theodore Stockman died amid filth
and dirt and in absolute want in To-
ledo, O., recently. leaving $3.50, 900,
which he had accumulated by lifelong
misery habits.
DR.. Glenn the greatest wheat
grower in California, laments the fact
that this year his crop will amount to
only 100, 900 sacks, $1,000 of which will
be necessary for seed next year. His
farm has $4,000 acres and the average
crop is 100000 sacks.
"A laborer in a Nevada bayfield, re-
Gently threw his vest, in the pockets of
which were some matches, down by a
stack. A wagon was driven to the
stack, one of the wheels struck the vest,
ignited the matches and fire ensued
which destroyed three hundred tons of
hay.
The Emperor of Germany is not SO
strong as he was a year ago. He had
to leave the field early one day, and the
last day he did not mount his horse at
all. Still, it is wonderful what he goes
through, and the keen criticism which
he passes on every detail of the ma
neuvers.
The Romans hung coral beads on
the cradles and around the necks of in
fants to preserve their teeth and save
them from 1.-The falling disease 1t
was considered by soothsayers as a
charm against lightning, fire, etc. The
coral bells are a more modern addition,
the object being to brighten away the
evil spirits.
The late Cars apartments in the
Winter Palace remain in the same con-
dition as on the day he was killed. His
private papers which deal with bust
ness of the State are to be sent to the
archive office, where they will be kept
twenty years before being made public.
His wardrobe will be distributed among
the charitable institutions of which he
was patron.
No more decay after death now. A
Berlin experimenter has produced an
imitation stone coffin which is said to
be air and water tight, and but a triHe
heavier than the ordinary wooden arti-
Gle. 1t is claimed for the new collins
that they are durable, and can be fur
nished at cost not exceeding that of
wooden ones, and that the bodies
placed in them will become mummified.
General Henry A. Morrow, of the
United States Army, was the first Re-
corder OF Detroit, Mich, and day or
two ago he visited the Recorders Court
in that city and presented the present
incumbent with the silver badge he
wore on important occasions twenty
seven years ago, saying that in those
days he, had no commission, the badge
being his only certificate of the judicial
position he held.
There are two gay old printers in
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. One Of
them is seventy-nine and the other
eighty, and the most of their lives has
been spent at the s'case," in the art
preservative of all arts. A few DAYS
since they decided to go off on little
sociable excursion, and took drive in
company. the horse used on the occa-
sion being twenty-five years old, the
harness twenty years old and the
buggy forty years.
Indian railroad laborers,
Mexican letter to the Chicago Times
says that they toll increasingly, but &C.
complish little. On shoveling. it would
take six of them to equal one white man.
1t is new kind of work for the Indian,
and strains his weakest part. The mus
Giles OF the arms are not developed.
An Indian is strong in his back and
legs, and when it comes to carving a
heavy load a white competitor is no.
where. Difficulty has been experienced
in familiarizing the Indians with the
wheelbarrow. 81.
Smuggling on the Russian Polish
frontiers is evidently a paving bust
ness, judging from the elaborate and
expensive means resorted to. 1t was
recently learned at Alexandrovo that
the locomotive leaving that station for
Warsaw had been converted into
smuggling vehicle. The furnace and
boiler were emptied, and it was DELHI
erately dismembered bit by bit until a
secret compartment in its interior was
discovered containing cigars and silk.
The engineers wonder and consterna-
ton were SO obviously genuine that he
was speedily released and permitted to
return to his duties.
The unusual drought in Florida has
had the effect of drying up Sibley Lake
to such an extent as to leave only few
slush spots here and there, and in these
alligators sought refuge in large num-
bers, digging huge burrows into the
ground. This has furnished great sport
to the settlers in the neighborhood, who
have gone in crowds to these spots and
fished with fine success for the enor-
nous reptiles. The manner of catch
ing them has been to thrust long rods
with hooks at the end into one of the
cavernous burrows and stir up the oc-
cupants. One of the alligators would
snap at the rod, a jerk would fasten the
hook into the soft part Of the lower jaw.