The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-09-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A negro escaped from chain-gans
near Macon, Ga, and ran SO hard tina
he fell dead.
An immigrant has landed at New
York for every minute since last New
Years day. sss'
Philadelphia and New York art
connected By more telegraph wires thar
any two other cities in the world.
The French learned something at oul
Centennial, and now over one hundred
| French daily papers are printed on
American newspaper printing presses.
Twenty years ago, Mrs. Mary A.
Livermore says, there were but eleven
emplOyments open to women, and now
there are no less than two hundred and
eighty-seven. 5es
Jimmy Hope, lately sent to prison
in California, lays claim to the title oil
boss bank burglar of the world. He
has cracked seventeen different banks
in the last twenty years. and he wants
some rival to show abetter record than
that. =
Charles Harris, of Hardwick, N. j.,
left his horse standing for a few mo-
ments In the potato patch that he was
blowing, and the animal bit off some
tops upon which Paris green had been
sprinkled. On the following morning
the horse was found dead in his stall. :
The New York papers contain some
queer advertisements. One landlady,
innocent of grammatical knowledge, adj
vertises that she has "a fine, airy, we'll
furnished bedroom for a gentleman
twelve feet square;'' another ahas a
cheap and desirable suite of rooms for a
family in good repair;'' still another
has "a small bedroom fora single wom-
an 8x12." A s4H vs.
"A letter addressed to s.The Hon.
William NJ. Evarts, United States Com
missioner, Paris, France" has been re-
turned by the postal authorities of France
to the New York Office, because the adj
dress was incomplete. An official of
the Postoffice remarked that it was evil
dent that the necessity for civil service
reform is not confined to the United
States.
DIR. Lucius Maddox, of Clinch
County. Ca, recently sold to the pro-
prletor OF Cincinnati pleasure garden
for $500 and the expenses of his journey
to and fro acentury plant which had
been in his possession. forty years.
Three weeks after its sale the plant
doomed, producing more than. six
thousand flowers, and in one night the
new proprietor made about $4,000 by
exhibiting it to a multitude of curious
visitors.
Mr.. Worth, the famous Paris dress
maker, is said to have large aviary
filled with beautiful birds of every hue
from all parts of the world, and he
spends hours in studying them. From
these, and the strange harmonies
brought out OF discord by one magical
bit OF perfectly unexpected coloring
which combines and reconciles all. it Is
asserted that he derives his inspiration
for his most charming but somewhat ex-
pensive dresses.
The late Duke of Richmond, who
was alde-de-camp to the Duke of We'll
llngton all through the Peninsular war,
was shot down at Salamanca. The ball
was never removed, and he caf.ied it to
his death. A few months after he re-
ceived it he was able to resume his du-
Ties, and was present at the after battles
OF the campaign and at Waterloo. Sir
Richard England, then Captain in the
IWenty-third Fusileers, was shot down
at the siege OF Badajos, and carried the
ball to his death at the age of eighty
three. He leda division in the Crimea.
1T is not every man who knows how
to bate his business hook in an attract
i've fashion. A clever photographer.
whose patrons are mostly from the.class
who struggle to be genteel, owns a re-
markabiy successful business to the fact
that he keeps a sealskin sacque for the
use OF his lady sitters. Every girl in
America wants sealskin. If she can't
have 1t she can at least go to this know
ing artist and have cabinet,' taken
In all the glory of two-hundred dollar |
sacque, and kill her friends with envy. |
"A significant movement is GONG on
u England to promote the emigration
Of young women whose chances for
happy and useful lives at home are |
small. The excess of the female popu-
alton, on an average of decennial CEN
'uses, has been computed at half mill
on, and large proportion of this ex-
Jess would be welcomed in the English
colonies. The Echo points out that the
chief obstacle to such deportation ex-
SITS in the disinclination of English
women to emigrate. Their home ties /
IRE stronger than those of men, thew
ire not SO animated by the spirit Of adj
Venture. and they do not so easily weld
o the Inspiration of new fortunes and T
lew surroundings. i
Perkins was sharp San Francisco
took SPECTATOR, and Montgomery was
dull one. Perkins said to Monfgom-
ny: have just bet $1,000 that
own $4,000 shares of Tombstone.
Now. / haven't share, but Won have.
md If you'll transfer them to me for n
ingle hour I can win the wager
montgomery obligingly transferred the
took. the market value of which was
'l25, 900. and was disappointed when,
{ the end of the hour, it was not re-
urned. When he found Perkins, that
old operator announced himself the