The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-02-02
MISCELLANEOUS.

Opium kills about 16o, 900 persons
annually in China.
The ..old pewter craze threatens to
rival the craze for old porcelain in New
England.
"A Judge in Morelia, in Mexico, who
gave bull fight recently, was fined fifty
dollars because his bulls were not brave.
AT Zwicken, Saxony, spectacles have
cured very shortsighted mare of Shy
ing. How many poor animals have
been beaten on account of a natural de-
feet in the eyes.
The Empress of Austria declines to
follow the French fashion of wearing
short hair. When she is not in the sad
die she allows her long chestnut tresses
to float loosely over her shoulders.
The murder of Mr.. Gold in a COM
partment carriage in England has at
last walked up the whole country to the
necessity of having railway carriages
open, with passage way through the
middle.
There is superstition among Penn
sylvania coal miners that if any person
whistles in mine some disaster is sure
to follow. The theory is that whistling
drives away the good luck spirit, leaving
the miners to the mercy of spirits of evil
A whistler was lately mobbed in Lack
awanna mine.
james j. Horsman, twenty years Of
age, while playing in football match at
Middleton, England, recently, lost his
life. The teams were Middleton Rangers
and Higher Crompton, and the Rugby
rules were observed. One of the Cromp-
ton men threw Horsman, and falling
heavily upon him, fractured his spine.
The Governor of Bombay has tele-
graphed to Lord Duferin that the cholera
has ceased in Surat. Owing, however,
to a habit among the Japanese of disin-
terring and bathing the dead on every
third year, the world is liable to fresh
irruption of that plague, as the dead
there OF three years ago were the victims
of a great cholera epidemic.
-TheWashington Capital says that Sec
rotary Frelinghuysen is far from being a
man with cold heart, and it tells how
on winter night, when the sleet was
driving and poor Irish woman was
struggling along the icy pavement with
a heavy bundle in her arms, he came out
of his house on his way to state dinner,
and with courtesy invited her to take
his carriage and tell the driver where to
take her.
"A hotel in the exact shape of an ele-
plant has been built at Atlantic City, N.
j. The idea, of course, is to draw ex-
cursionists by means of the novelty. The
structure is eighty-six feet long and sixty
five feet high. Stairways inside the legs
lead up to a big restaurant and other
rooms in the body, while on the back is
Q car forming good place OF outlook.
The exterior is painted and sanded SO as
to resemble an elephants skin, except
for the windows, The cost was 800, 900.
Citizens of Virginia City, New, were
for the moment attracted, few days
ago, by the sight of medium-sized In
dian squaw passing through the streets
carrying on her back stove weighing
fully $50 pounds. It was sustained only
by a narrow band passing over her fore.
head, and she had carried it thus nearly
two miles. The stalwart buck strobe
along before her with lordly step and
mien, feeling as if the whole earth was
his and nothing good enough for his
scalp-hunting mightiness.
Two telegraph poles were erected in
front OF Mr.. Gay s property, in ST. Louis,
despite his declaration that he would not
allow his place to be disfgured. He set
a gang of men to digging them up, and
the company had another gang there to
throw back the earth as fast as it was
shovelled out. Then cross-cutsaw was
manned, and the obstructionists held
stones against its teeth. Next, fight was
followed by general arrests. But the
poles were sawed off, an enthusiastic
crowd taking MIR. Gays side in the con-
troversy.
AN attendant at the telephone sta
ton in the Rue de BAG in Paris, recently
opened communication with another sta
ton, and was awaiting a reply, when a
volume of flame and smoke issued from
the tube containing the wires. The fire
quickly spread to the walls of the room,
and was not extinguished until consid-
cradle damage had been done, and
several sets of apparatus destroyed.
On the matter being investigated
it was found that workman in
sewer under the Boulevard ST. German
had accidentally burst open a gas pipe
and SO set fire to the infammabIe cover
ing of the telephone wires running along
side. The flames spread rapidly, and
thus reached the office in the Rue de BAG.
"A Mormon Bishop, who claims the
power of curing diseases by the laying on
of hands, has had great success among
of invalids who had not much the matter
with them, and to whom imagination
was much the same as medicine. When
he tried his ecclesiastical hands on a
balky horse, he made lamentably con-
spicuous failure. The man who owned
the horse had paid the Bishop three dol
lars, as the ecclesiastic would not make
the attempt unless paid that price in adj
vance. The laying Of hands on the
beasts head had the effect of frighten-
ing him and making him furious. So,
from baker, he suddenly changed to a |
kicker. Knocking the Bishop down, the
animal ran away, and, as he ran, kicked
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