The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-04-21
MISCELLANEOUS.

- The Smiths of New York City now
number 2, 430.
Jacques Seebo, a Frenchman, died
near Detroit recently at the age of 105.
Out in California an enterprislng
peddler has been selling small tin boxes
of axle-greese at ten cents box, assur-
ing the purchasers that it was new
kind of corn salve. Several neighbor-
hoods are now anxious to see him.
The wife of certain M. C. wore a
dress to the Inauguration Ball which cost
81 800. Its front. a breadth of satin,
was a garden of roses, violets, pansies
and pinks, while not to set aside fash
ions stern DEGREES, sunfowers turned
their constant faces to the light.
An English farmer who had emil
grated to Canada returned not long ago
taking with him as great curiosities
about twenty Colorado beetles. Some
of them escaped and the farmer was
fined Is for allowing them to get away
The matter has been made the subject
of an inquiry in the House of Commons
Early in February two German
women, Frau Schmidt and Frau Feustel.
living at Zeitz, in Prussian Saxony, and
in addition living in the same house and
on the same floor, were each on the
same day, delivered of three children,
and they were all boys. Probably such
a singular coincidence never before oc-
Cured.
MIR. +. o. c. Robinson, a former
English cotton manufacturer, who
bought mill site just south of San An
tonic. Texas, year ago, has returned
to England with the intention of Undue
ing number of well-to do masters and
operatives to form cooperative com
pany and engage in the manufacture of
cotton goods.
"A New Hampshire farmer recently
agreed to sell his farm for $4,000. but
when the day came he told the expect.
ant purchaser that his wife was in hys-
terics about the trade, and he guessed
he'd have to back out" The purchas.
er complained, and finally asked how
much more would induce him to SELL
" Well" replied the thrifty son of the
Granite State, "give me $3.50 more,
and we'll let her cry"
Women seem to be rapidly sup
planting men as travellers not travellers
for wholesale houses, but travellers into
dangerous and unknown lands. There
IS Lady Anna Blunt, who went among
the Bedouin Arabs; Mrs. Brassey, who
has been around the world in her Yacht:
Mrs. Bird, who dared to go into regions
of Japan where no European had ever
ventured before, and Lady Florence
Dixie, who went g through Patagonia
and who now has gone to Zululand.
The Duke of Edinburgh has Just
distributed prizes to swimming club.
making at the same time speech upon
the exercise. He declared that he was
glad to find that it is a general rule in
public schools that those BOYS who are
most proficient in healthful exercises,
cricket, football, etc., are not behind
the others, if not in advance of them in
school teaching, and he added that in
his opinion the more exercise which is
is INDUCED in the more
ready the mind will be to receive the
tuition which is given in the schools.
DIR. William Sharswood, of Philadel-
phia. in recent lecture on sound, gave
the vocal compass of number of the
artists in the Mapleson Opera Company,
now performing in this country. Mira
mons compass is from C to + in aft;
Gerster's from B to F sharp in alt.
Carey's from F to B flat. The present
principal soprano (boy) of Trinity
Church has compass from to 3.
with voice light and flexible; another
from B flat to G, full and strong, though
not flexible. A German boy of the
same choir seven years ago had COM
pass from c to G in alt, over two
octaves, fairly even throughout, and
strong. There is no difficulty in getting
a good high A from the chorus sopranos
of this choir
The passing passion of New York |
girls is for children just old enough to
walk. Pet dogs are discarded for the
time being, and the fashionable belle |
lead instead little fodder by the hand.
The object is to be regarded by stran-
gers as youthful and interesting moth.
er. 6 Lend me your baby this after
noon," is the common request to gem
alne mothers by maidens. "Goinga dis
lance of four blocks on Fifth Avenue
says correspondent. 81 met three
girls of not more than nineteen demure-
" leading tiny children and counter
letting maternal air. Sometimes the
attractive offspring of poor parents are
borrowed. dressed carefully and taken
out. The freak is new and wonderful
Rabbits are making their way again
n Victoria, Australia. One district is
to be completely overrun, and
The farmers who are open to their dep
relations have to make common cause
% keep them down. This they do, I'M
fortunately, with very little success, for
The rabbits breed conveniently in the
ow, impossible scrub and then come
'ut to feed on the farmers crops in the
leighborhood. The scrub, however.
belongs to the Government, which is
low called upon to put down this nuts.
Ince. Enthusiasts in acclmatization
'ught to be careful what tricks they
,lay in the matter of transportation.
That philosopher who originally brought
he rabbit into Australia will need no
monument.
"A discovery of much archaeological
interest has recently been made in the