The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-07-21
MISCELLANEOUS.
Astronomer Proctor says she world
will last $4,000, 600 years yet.


Astronomer Proctor says she world
will last 1000, 600 years yet.
A Boston gentleman paid 800 for
one cent of the year 1875 at Philadel-
phia the other day.
Chung. a Chinese coxswain, steered
Yale's eight oar last year, and will be
in the stern again this season.
"A Cana dian court has decided that
ball dress. not being :" ordinary and
necessary clothing" is not free from
seizure for debt under the Canadian re-
demption law.
Fort Benton, Montana, built over
thirty-tivc years ago, is almost COM
plete wreck. The winds and storms OF
nearly half a century have warped and
eaten into the adobes.
81 shall de-" said an old English
doctor the other day, ''under the firm
belief that human science will vet
lengthen the years of life from an av-
erage OF seventy to an average of 1907"
OF the famous Grenadier battalion
that accompanied Napoleon |. to Elba
AAoOh htS III St dUulCbblOH DIT TOutti1-
bleau, the last survivor, jacques Ray
mond, expired in Paris a few days ago
at the advanced age of ninety-six.
"A swarm of bees in the Sweetwater
Valley, CAL, settled on o rattlesnake
that was six feet in length, twelve inches
in girth and had TWENTY-FIVE rattles.
They stung him violently, so that he
hIinhnd and ha Isl ol
with a spade.
"A Washington girl has highly in
teresting hair. Its color used to be a
light blonde. DIR. ID. w. Prentiss re.
ports to the Smithsonian Institution that
he gave her jaborandi, Brazilian plant.
as cure for blood poisoning Her hair
soon began to darken, and in four
months was aim ost black.
"A Rational Dress Society," has
been formed in London, the object of
which is to promote the adoption. nc
cording to individual taste and conven.
fence, of style of dress based upon
considerations of health, comfort and
beauty. The annual subscription is only
half crown.
The London Economist estimates
the average immigrant, in capital OF
capital-producing force, at $1,000, an
estimate which agrees with the opinions
of political economists generally.
Looked at in this light the United
States is being enriched at present to
the amount of $4,000, ZOO to So, 1000, 600
daily.
The clock in the old church tower
at Newark, N. j., has been keeping bad
time. A thorough examination revealed
mass of hay, Irvine. cotton, grass and
feathers tangled in the wheels. A pair
OF birds had tried for weeks to build
nest in the machinery, which tore their
work TO pieces. They kept on, not
withstanding, until their persistence
stopped the wheels. They had so con-
pletely hidden their operation that they
were carrying it on in cog.
The widow of an Ambassador at
Berlin took an immense fancy to the
good looks and attractive manners of a
young medical man, and, there being
nothing the matter with her, demanded
his constant attendance, besides intro
ducing him to many of her friends. On
visiting her lately. however, he was
stopped in the hall. and presently her
ladyship's own maid came to say that,
unfortunately. my lady could not see
him. ''Going outp" s.No, doctor:
she's really unwell. and has had to send
for physician
Spanish history says that a ship
sent to South America in 1900 to collect
tribute from the colonies of Spain was
sunk near the mouth of the Rio de la
Plata, with $9,000.000 aboard. The
money is supposed to lie to-day at the
bottom of the ocean, in strong iron
safe. An expedition has just sailed from
Philadelphia to recover this treasure.
The leader is Captain Charles A. Jones.
who has already made fortune in the
South American wreeking business. He
goes in an iron steamship. supplied with
for removing the deep mud
supposed to cover the dollars.
smallpox, writes DIR. W. B. Car
penter to the London Times, is a dis.
ease over which general sanitary meas
ures have little or no control. With
ersoever contagion is conveyed. any
!" unprotected'' person is liable to be
attacked by it. The experience of the
lcelandic epidemic is most significant in
this respect. An Icelandic sailor went
to Denmark, there took the smallpox
and died. His clothes were sent back
to his family in Iceland; and that inn
portation of the poison, notwithstand-
ing the sparseness of the population.
was fatal to $4,000 persons in the course
OF SIX months it is expressly
stated, thus taking the disease who had
previously had it.
"A little Cincinnati boy has been
sio WY wasting away with some unex-
planned disease for several months.
The German women of the neiobbor.
hood concluded that he was victim of
and sent a committee to
inform the parents. who did not accent
the explanation, but permitted an ex-
animation of the bed. There is a Ger
man superstition that witches cause
feathers in a bed to weave themselves
into wreath, and that whoever sleeps
on it will become ill, dying when the
ends of the wreath come together.
Sure enough, the women found in the
boys bed what they declared was a |
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