The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-08-18
MISCELLANEOUS.

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--COckroaches are recommended as
good bait for black bass.
"A London paper hints that mos.
quitoes are taken to England in Ameri-
can trunks.
Five Japane Sc have established 9
factory at Newton, Conn, where they
will make Japanese articles.
The wife of Syracuse grocer who
could only pay two cents on the dollar,
had six pairs of silk stockings costing
thirty-five dollars per pair.
"A New Haven lady of wealth dresses
in working garb and visits poor fami-
lies in order to relieve their distress.
She does not wish that her friends
should know what she does.
The Tucson Star says that there is
a woman living at the Santa Rita Mount
ain, Arizona, who is over 100 years old.
Every day she takes her pan, pick and
shovel and goes to the placer diggings,
earning from twenty-five to fifty cents.
Among the articles on exhibition
in loan collection in Lynchburg, Va,
is mourning ring once worn by Gen.
Washington for his brother Lawrence,
who died in 1852 at the age of thirty
five, as an inscription of the ring shows
All clergymen who served as chap
lains during the war, as well as all who
labored with the Sanitary Commission
and the Christian Commission, are in
vited to a reunion, which is to be held
at Chautauqua on the 9th and 9th of
August.
james Finch, of Camden, N. j.,
| utilizes his dog as ameans of commune
cation with his daughter who lives more
than mile away. A letter is tied to
the dogs collar, and he is told to take
it to Emma. 1t is promptly delivered,
and the answer is as faithfully returned.
Edmond Lafayette, the only living
descendant of the Marquis LAFAYETTE,
and member of the French Senate,
can not visit America in October to be
present at the Yorktown centennial. on
account of the French elections, but the
family will be represented by his
nephew.
Miss Dog Bull is said to be the belle
OF the Indians at the Standing Rock
Agency, and several duels have been
fought by the young braves who are
rivals for her hand. As her father owns
500 ponies, she is considered a good
catch, aside from her superior personal
attractions.
--Ah Say. Superintendent of the Chi
nese laborers employed in constructing
the Union Pacific Railway at Evanston,
w. T., is said to be the possessor of the
agreeable annual income of $12, 900. He
is partner in one Of the great Chinese
companies that contract for the labor
of their countrymen. He has so far
adopted Caucasian customs as to take
out a life insurance policy for $4,000
in favor of Tiye Ulaye, his wife.
There is a gentleman living in
Rochester, n. T., whose parents given
names are the same spelled backward
as forward. Noticing this, the parents
decided to endow their children with
similar names, and as there are ten of
the latter some research and ingenuity
were necessary to get enough to 90
round. The given names of the family
are as follows: Asa, Aziza, Anna, Alta,
Alila, AKA, Emme, Hannah, Harrah.
Iri, Numun and Zerez. Harrah is the
name of the Rochester representative
of the family.
An int eresting contribution to the
literature of suicide is made in PAM
phlet recently published in Berlin. The
suicidal mania is spreading SO rapidly
In the German capital that the author
tiles are earnestly considering in what
manner it can best be checked. The
pamphlet above referred to states that
In the years from 1875 to 1878, $50 cases
OF suicide were registered per million
inhabitants in Berlin, 2S5 in Vienna,
450 in Leipsic, and only IS in London.
Paris, with 400 suicides, nearly APP
preached the startling figure of Leipsic.
DIR. Paterson writes from the
Bridge of Allan, Scotland: 81 always |
keep number of toads in nv orchid |
houses for the purpose of DESTROYING
vermin. The other morning, while
watching two males, l was highly
amused to see them have regular set
to tight. They went at each other in a
regular scientific manner, sparring and |
boxing with their forepaws, and butting
with their heads. After while they
seemed to get tired, coolly sat down.
and viewed each other with great COM
placency. From my earliest DAYS
have been in the habit of watching the
ways of toads, and never saw them
fight before
"A pet canary bird belonging to Mrs.
w. 5. Balch, says the Saratoga On. w
Eagle, escaped from the house Monday
and took refuge in the maple tree at the
south entrance of the Town Hall. It's
recapture was problem that for a time
batiied all efforts at solution. Janitor
Mlngay, however, who always s.comes
up to the scratch " in an exigency, util-
lied the hose. and. turning a stream of
water on the feathered fugitive, the lat
ter soon dropped and was eagerly
caught by boys who were watching the
sport. The new janitorial method of
birds is deemed equal to the
old-fashioned one of sprinkling salt on
their tails.
"A long legal contest at Tolland.
Conn. was ended in the breaking of a
will because the testator was a Spiritu-
alist. Calvin Hall was for the TWENTY
three years preceding his death a firm
believer in Spiritualism. He built two