The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-06-23
MISCELLANEOUS.

Laurel County, Kentucky.
The Russian Czarina is said to be
in terror for her children, and to sus.
! pect her maids of honor of completely
with the Nihilists.
-Ruskin says that "cheap dress
bought for cheapness' sake and costly
dress bought for costliness' sake are
both denominations. 2"s% s5ti3.ite
One hundred and fifty students in
New York are studying the Irish Ian
guage, and meet twice week to listen
to song and addresses in Irish.
Lord Beacons6eld insisted on din.
ing out five or six times week and at
tending all the very swell parties, old
as he was and caught the cold which
ended him coming home from one OF
them. Eg3t}7ss h I'd.
/ AT Ramapo, N. j., black snake
six feet long attacked farm hand and
he stood paralyzed with fear. The snake
crawled up on him and encircled his
neck and the man made no resistance.
A negro ran up and killed the snake. s.
Baltimore has quite large-sized
congregation of Mennonites, who meet
In hall over the Old Town Bank.
They practice the ceremony of feet
washing, the minister waiting on the
men, and the Oldest woman on the
women. 4
Frank w. Hammond, who died re-
Gently at Syracuse, NJ Y, had Pc
cullar curvature of the spine. AS a
precaution against the body being res
directed by unfeeling medical stu
dents, his mother authorized the under
taker to put two torpedoesi into the
grave, which he did.
| The German Emperor's health is
causing much uneasiness. B He has nat
urally been in the lowest spirits
since the murder of his nephew, and
has therefore been the less able to resist
an attack OF influenza, which he caught
some weeks ago. His family are very
anxious to get him away from Berlin. 4
The workmen in a Troy knitting
mil! are paid according to the weight OF
their completed work. Lately it was
found that the product of the concern
was much less than the aggre gate of
the amounts represented BY the pay
roll. An investigation explained ali.
The knitters had inserted iron weights
at weighing time. tafl f4,
Selma Ditzell, Chicago domestic
servant, being threatened with arrest
on charge of stealing seven dollars
from her mistress, declared herself
guilty. She was thereupon. forgiven and
retained in employment. That might
she took poison, and just before her
death solemnly protested that she was
innocent, having made false confess
sion to save herself from imprisonment.
The people of Damascus, Pa.
think they know of a woman up in New
Hampshire whose prayers for the sick,
are always answered. When q Damas-
Gus person falls i'll this miracle worker
is written to and a. certain hour ap-
pointed when she and the patients
friends shall pray for recovery. The
daughter of the postmaster and another
girl are said to have, been cured of
chronic diseases in a twinkling.
"A South Carolina plantation is II.
receive atC Chinese, laberers from San,
Francisco by. way of experiment. They
are tosbe sent there under the lwatchfnI
supervision of an overseer, who is to
see to 1t that none of them take advan-.
tage OF having their expenses paid to
the Atlantic States to Slip away. and
settle down among their countrymen in
one OF the larger cities. Ii they prove
desirable laborers others will probably
follow - afsF4i atitis. 81 II
"A fashion of illustrated insinuationsI
has been introduced into London So
clety by means of picture cards. a Der, per-
son having forgotten to return hor-
rowed book receives, with the owners
compliments and name a card repre-
senting an empty bookcase and a per-
son with face aghast staring at the
shelves. Another card is designed to
secure the return of borrowed umbrellas
and is said to be very telling and eff
fective, appeal.
-Gambetta, when presiding in the
French Chamber of Deputies, always
keeps glass of red wine on one side of
his desk and what appears to be glass
OF lemonade. He drinks from one or
the other every few minutes. Besides
this occupation, he is ringing a big bell
or rapping with heavy paper
cutter every minute or two to
keep the noisy Deputies in order. He
has an opera-glass On his desk, and now
and then takes a long and sweeping
look into the. crowded galleries. 4
SO seldom does the Queen of En-
gland appear in the capital now, that |
the sight of her the other day driving |
from the station to Buckingham Palace
created quite sensation. She kept
herself closely yelled as she drove
through the streets, but there still re.
mains one fibre of the Londoner's heart
to be touched at the sight of the royal |
carriage and the guards and the glitter
and the clatter, as the outriders trot |
along, always in the middle of the road |
and never crossed by any other vehicle.
An historical tree has lately been
destroyed in Greece-a cypress. de-
scribed by Pausanias 400 yearsIB. c..
and one of the two largest in the Pelo.
ponnesus. Some 100 feet high, the
tree had diameter at the base of ten
feet and circumference OF twenty-fiye
feet at mans height, and of 24o feet
where the branches were most devel- |
oped. Some careless gypsies camping
in its shade set fire to the tree, not a
vesGge surviving. Now the onIv o;ant7