The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-11-09
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A street loafer who not long ago in
suited Philadelphia lady, was rather
astonished when she borrowed a horse
whip from q neighboring carriage and
soundly thrashed him. -Erchange.
An Alabama gunsmith has adver-
tised "gunns and ravolvirs'' for the last
two years, and he says his sales have been
just as good as if he had broken his neck
to spell more correctly.-DetroH Free
Press.
William H. Vanderbilt intends to
build, at the corner of Park Avenue and
Forty-second Street. New York, man.
moth hotel, similar in design to the
Charing Cross Hotel, London.-N Y.
San.
-''Baker SAM" wood-hauler of
Eureka, New, had put away, buried in a
stall, the sum of $4,000 in twenty dollar
gold pieces. and when he went to gaze
upon his treasure two weeks ago he
found to his utter dismay that all was
gone.
At Moore's chapel, Bedford County,
Tenn, few days ago, during divine
service, stray swarm of bees made an
attack on the horses, and caused a COM
plete stampede, singing some of them
most to death. The meeting was broken
up for the time.
A Springfield Qll.) genius stole a
neighbours mangel wurtzel beets, ex-
hibited them at the State Fair and took
the first premium. The neighbor afore-
said discovered the fraud, caused the
arrest of the genius and the transfer of
the premium. Chicago Herald.
Montgomery. Ala, is the scene of
many rem arkable occurrences, not the
least Of which is the odd birth of a dozen
chickens. A child upset a basket in
which was hen setting upon dozen
eggs. The accident broke the shells and
so alarmed the child that the little ones
father patched up the eggs with linen
and paste and set them. In due time
they all Matched, and the chicks are not
''cracked'' either.--N. Y Herald.
The sewing machine shark is not an
exclusively American excrescence. At
Burnley, England, recently, a sewing
machine company sued a poor woman
upon an agreement to deliver up asewing
machine if default were made in paying
any of the installments. AS matter of
fact all the installments of half a crown
weekly had been paid, except the last,
and yet the plaintiffs came into court to
demand the sewing machine, at the
same time refusing to refund any of the
money paid on account, and relying on
the terms of the agreement The Judge
denounced the document as ''most in
famous one, and non-suited the plain
titfs, refusing to grant case for ST.
perior court.-Chicago Times.
"A St. Louis observer has discovered
that the cause of mans death, as re-
ported by his physician, will indicate
the financial standing of the man when
living. When poor man dies on &C
count OF having drank too much whisky
the physician registers it as ''drunken-
ness or ''alcoholism;" but if the de-
ceased was a rich man the doctor puts it
as nervous prostration," ''pneumo-
nitis," general debility .mania a
temultentia,' ''methysia'' or ''ivrog-
nerie.'' If he is only moderately wealthy,
a man is likely to get .delirium ire
mems or ''mania potu." The moral
is that it is better for man to die rich.
Chicago News.
The shocking destruction of school
house, together with its inmates, includ-
ing both grown persons and children, is
reported from the town of Grodno, the
capital of one of the Government de-
partments of Russia. A hardware dealer
used the cellar of the house for storing
powder, in which he secretly conducted
contraband traffic. While he was
moving about incautiously in this place
with light, the powder was ignted, and
the whole building was blown into the
air. The number Of persons killed was
not, at latest accounts accurately known,
but many disfgured corpses and mangled
limbs and fragments of bodies have been
taken from the ruins.