The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-08-25
MISCELLANEOUS.

GARFIELD was visiting, is only short TO
E. i. Brown, who laid out the ground
and built the cottages. 2,..es1
Canadian women have been dom.
a thriving business in smuggling bab7
carriages at some point along the. lin,
Dy coming to the American side with al
infant In their arms and wheeling thu
child back in a carriage. ~ i5
-Cetawayo frets under imprison
ment more and more. He has becem,
respondent, longs to return to Zulu
land, and insists emphatically that Zu
luiand is his. An extended statement
OF his has been forwarded to England.
Senator Hoar has been visiting
Westminster, Mass, seeking inforna
ton concerning the former home of the
Garfield family. 1t was from this little
town that Solomon Garfield, GRANDPA.
Their of the President, departed to enter
the army of the Revolution.
"A good many of our citizens y
says San Francisco newspaper ssedate
account of an inebriate asylum, ssmenAoi
note and good standing. have passed q
week or so at this place, in order to re.
cover, under judicious treatment, the
command of their senses and use OF
their shattered nerves." a 81
"A hitherto unknown tribe. called
the Jarawas, has been discovered in che
Andaman Islands, occupying the for
ests between Port Blair and South An
daman. They speak a language quite
distinct from the Bogingigidi of the
friendly Andanianese. They are repre-
sented as very timid people.
Wonderfully rapid canal digging is
to be done in Florida, in connection
with the scheme for redeeming Che vast
area Of swamp land. Powerful ma
chimes on floats will scoop out the soft
soil to depth OF fifteen feet and a
width of forty-four. Nine million cubic
yards will be thus exeaYated in about
six months. - xgwaw~ns.,.
A curious coincidence is found in
the fact that the woman who attended
the President as nurse at the time of his
birth died about the hour the assassin
attempted his life. Her name was Mrs.
Stewart G. Gardner, and she died at
the residence of her son. A. j. Gardner.
in Mason Township, near Dowagiac,
Mich, at the age of eighty-seven years.
The Car, Alfonso, the Prince of
Wales and ex-Queen Isabella are cigar
cite smokers; the Pope and King Hum
bert smoke Cayour cigars; Emperors
William and Francis Joseph smoke, BIG
porcelain pipes; Grevy, Gambetta and
queen Victoria don'tsmoke ut all; Bis
marck and the Sultan indulge in a pipe
occasionally, and both perfer Turkish
tobacco stf
"A pretender to the Russian throne
has been giving the, police in the rural
districts of the empire much trouble,
He represents himself to be Nikolai
Alexandrowitch, who was reported to
have died at st. Petersburg; ard he has.
under that name, been stirring I'D the
peasantry. The police, though pursu-
ing him ostensibly with much vieor.
have not yet laid hands upon him.
"A Mohametan believes that if he
eats. pork he will be shut out from the
Joys of heaven, and that if he dies bald
he will also fail, because the Prophet
hauls all true believers into bliss bv the
hair OF their heads. Hence the Arab
who killed the French war correspond
emit in Tunis lately nearly starved him.
self to death, for fear of eating pork,
and was very happy when the authori.
ties permitted him to be shot instead of
beheading him, whereby the Prophet
would have lost his grip at the supreme
According to Colonel Gordon, the
King OF Abyssinia cuts off the noses of
hose who take snuff and the lips OF
hose who smoke. The King is hated
more than Theodore was, r. Cruel to
iegree. he does not, however, take life.
He cuts off the feet and hands of those |
who offend him; he puts out their ewes |
ind pours hot tallow in their ears. You
IAN buy nothing without the Kings or |
Ter, and no one will shelter you without |
lis order; in fact, no more complete /
lespotism could exist. It cannot last.
or the King will go on from one mad
less to another
The carlo Carnarvon, at n recent
public meeting in London, said that the /
questions of the education and the status
II women were dealt with by Plato in a.
'ery remarkable !. treatise which had
ome down to our. own times, and I
which laid down the proposition that
he faculties of men and of women
vere precisely alike. and thence drew
,arious differences which :. were,s well
worthy OF consideration at the present
ime. The education of women. must
dvance, and the only questions were
Vho was to give it and of what kind it
vas to be. Even religion itself would
ct justify any system of. education
which would lead to a surrender of
ome autles. rs hadafs d etgH
A Japanese newspaper, the Nichi
Vschs Sissmbata, gives. ansaccount of the 4
ADVERTISEMENTS of journalism in Japan.
IN the 26th of April last Mr.. Saionii.
x-elitor of The Togo. yiyass ss9.iaatat,a.
7as summoned to the Procurator's of.
ce in the Toxic Saibansho, and "A1r.
iatzuzawa, OF the editorial staff of the
anne journal, was arraigned there in
andcuffs and tied UP with a rope
Dund his loins.' The report adds:
1t is very sad to see journalists thus
'eated who have worked for the bene.
t of.tf1eir country.s'sg MrsMatzazawa :
Die offense is said to be that of pub.
shing statement that the afikado had .
lstrueted the Minister of the Imperial :
Of tho Hn., ea l<,ld 5000 !