The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-03-17
MISCELLANEOUS.

The oldest Postmaster in Maine is
Captain Johnson of North Harpswell,
who is eighty-seven years of age.
Ears are worth 81, 800 apiece in Yer
mont. At least that is the amount re-
covered by man whose ear was cut of
in railroad accident.
The names of towns and settle.
ments in Arizona possess the merit OF
originality. Here are some of them:
Tombstone, Good Enough, Tough Nut,
Contention, Family Fuss and Discipline
Ten years ago the center of pop
ulation in the United States was near
the City of Columbus, O. 1t is now lust
over the Indiana border on bee line
drawn between Cincinnati and Indian
apolis The movement has, therefore,
been little south as well as west.
Nothing more forcibly illustrates
the value of an incessant supervision of
every mile of railroad track in time of
extreme cold than the report of track
walker on the Chicago & Grand Trunk
Railway, who found nine broken rails
on his beat. 49,.
Charles Dudley Warner, in recent
lecture upon the character of English
people, said: ''To speak the truth in
word and deed is an English trait, and
can be clearly traced in the character of
the people. To lie is unbeconling an
Englishman, not to lie is proverbial of
the people, ..
Miss Marianne North, pretty En-
glish artist, is making tour of the
world with very high credentials, for
the purpose of painting the distinctive
flowers that grow wild. Sir Joseph
Hooker, director of the Botanical Gar
dens at Kew, vouches for her artistic
powers, her botanical knowledge and
her intrepidity as an explorer. ~ ...-
William Lunger died recently at
Johannesburg, N. Y. His widow died
on the day of his funeral. his two sisters
died few days afterwards, and lady
who attended the latter during their
| illness died also. The victims were at
tackled by chills, the nature of which is
not fully understood. Five other per-
sons of the same family were also at.
tackled, but they have recovered.
Among the rich men in Russia
Baron Stieglitz is said TO be the first.
with fortune of eighty millions OF
| roub.es. After him comes Prince Yus.
supotf, who owns estates in sixteen
| provinces, yielding revenue of two
and half millions, and the third on the
by no means short list is Count Strog-
anof, the owner of nearly one quarter
of the province of Perrin, with an an
nual income of one and half millions.
Says the Altoona (Pa.) Daily Neaos:
When Mr.. William G. Waring. of Tyrone,
went to Colorado something over q
year ago for the purpose of accepting
the position of stenographer in the
courts of Denver, a daughter of Mr..
George Hull accompanied him, who
was also skilled in the same vocation.
Miss Hull had in her possession $500,
which she invested in a mining claim.
Fortune favored her and recently she
was offered $4,000 for her investment.
"A singular circumstance is reported
from a hot, dry valley in New South
Wales. Last year the drought was of
long duration and the denizens of the
apiaries suffered much from it. This
year the bees have made provision
against similar emergency. They
have filled large number OF the exter.
nal cells in every hive with pure water
instead of honey. 1t is thought that
the instinct of the little creatures leads
them to anticipate hot summer
In the winter swallows collect BY
millions in Louisiana swamps and feed
on what the French call swallow trees.
species of willow. They will settle on
the trees in such myriads as to break
limbs as thick as a mans leg, and a
heavy load of mustard-seed shot from a
double gun will sometimes kill thirty or
forty dozen at once. They are dressed
and sold in the market for fifteen cents
dozen, and are used by French and
Creoles in making "jumbles," prepa-
ration of rice and meat, fish or game.
AT the Westminster Police Court,
in England, the other day, among the
applications for assistance was one by
an old non-commissioped officer of the
Eleventh Hussars, who was one of the
immortal Six Hundred" at Balaklaya.
was wounded in the charge in five
places and fell into the hands of the
Russians. He left the army at the COM
pletion of his first term of service, and
afterward he sought employment at the
Cape and served in the police as Ser!
geant. Consumption, however, carried
off the whole of his family, and he came
back to England. He was at present
out of work and destitute.
1t is generally imagined that slave
trading is now almost thing of the
past, but that it still is carried on to a
considerable extent in the Portuguese
Indian possessions of Timor and the
adjoining islands is pretty we'll estab-
lished. The regular price of a male
slave from twelve to fifteen years of aee
is fifty rupees. A female slave of the
same age fetches from eighty to a
hundred rupees. The natives of the
Island of Macassar are the principal
dealers in this traffic Even some of
the authorities have kept slaves. The
missionaries have rendered valuable
services in suppressing the traffic, but
organized force is required to effectu-
ally put at end to it. s
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