The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-07-27
MISCELLANEOUS.

! -Workmen employed in nail manu-.
factories are liable to contract a disease
known as nailers' consumption, caused
by the deposit of iron particles in the
cells of the lungs.
Robert Bonner has paid $685., 900 fol
thirty-eight trotting horses in the last
thirty-four years. Fourteen of them are
by sires of Hambletonian blood, and
nearly one-quarter of the entire lot are
| descendants of Mambrino Chief.-St.
Louis Globe.
Papers of the City of Mexico have
recently reached New York, only twelve
days after publication. This is the short
est time ever known, and the increased
speed of transmission is due to the COM
pletion of the railroad from Mexico to
| Toluca.-Boston Post.
Although Sarah Bernhardt, or Ma.
dame Damale, has made large sum
since she left the Paris Francois, her
managers have had the lions share. In
the future her husband will be her bust.
ness man himself. 1t is said that there
is not sharper man in Paris. Chicago
Journal.
An English writer, in describing the
performances of Asiatics on the opium
pipe. says: g There can scarcely be a
more ethereal enjoyment than sucking
chandu smoke into the throat and blow
it out again through the nose, and some
times, by finished performers, through
the inner corners of their eyes,
"A Brooklyn alderman is almost as
dignified as a Detroit alderman; so when
a Brooklyn woman the other day spit in
an Alderman's face for interfering with
her while she was spanking her child,
was fined five dollars. In Detroit ii
would have cost her fifty cents more al
least.-Free Press.
A young lady, while passing up
Chapel Street, New Haven, Conn, the
| other afternoon, was startled by the out
cry: s'Your hat is all on fire." The young
lady quickly removed the hat and found
hole had been burned in it about twice
the size of a silver dollar. 1t is supposed
| that match dropped from an upper
window caused the mischief.
There are over five hundred summer
hotels and boarding houses in Greene
County, New York, by actual count, &C
commodating from ten to one thousand
guests each, at from five to TWENTY-FIVE
dollars week. The aggregate capacity
of these hotels and boardfng-hou is
between 10000 and 25, 900 persons--and
atthe height of the season they are pretty
much all filled.
A little child was cut in two by To-
connective on North Carolina railroad,
recently, in spite of the efforts of the en-
gineer, who, in trying to rescue her, was
thrown from the engine down an en-
bankment and himself seriously injured
When the two parts of the child were
picked up its head continued to utter
piercing cries for two minutes, and until
death ensued.-S. Louis Globe.
-Lucius Hubbard, of Cottage. Cat
taraugus County, N. Y, some time apo
was married for second time. His
daughter, who is fifty years of age, was
opposed to the marriage, and finally told
her father that either his wife must leave
the house or she would. The gentleman
concluded he could live better without
his wife than daughter, and SO parted
from her. Both were wealthy and re-.
spected.
-One danger with boilers is the tear.
ing away of seams, but a method of
which we are inclined to think, favor
ably. suggested by an English engineer,
would dispense with riveting. In max
ing this boiler, a ring of steel is cast and
heated; then it is placed upon a large
roller, and by the aid of smaller rollers
it is enlarged to the requisite dimensions.
Ihe ring is run from one end of the roll
Ter to the other, and is returned by re-
versing the machinery. The heads nee
essary for the completion of the boiler
are subsequently put ON with bolts. A
boiler OF this description has been exhib-
lted.-Gernaantoaon Telegraph.
A remnant of the once powerful
Pequot race still maintains a tribal or
ganization in Connecticut. Schaghti-
coke, the ancient seat of this people. is
situated in the town of Kent, under the
Schaghticoke Mountain, in the middle of
the valley of Housatonic. Schaghticoke
now consists of six, little brown, clap
boarded, one-story houses, tenanted by
some seventeen persons, and the whole
tribe number about fifty. The reserya-
ton OF three hundred acres comprises
Schaghticoke Mountain, valuable only
for timber. Winnie, the aged queen Of
the tribe, is nearly white, earns her liy-
ing by discriminating, and is q member
OF the nearest Congregational church.
~ 7. San.
AN Illinois girl lately called at
Coroner's Office, and addressing the soli-
tary occupant of the apartment, said
''Be you the Coronerp'' 81 guess you'd
think so if you ever see an under
taker shake hands with me,,' blandly |
answered the official ..You amt poing
anywhere in day or two, be youp8
" Not that | know ssWell, TIM clad |
to hear it, continued the maiden With |
an air of much encouragement. aJohn- |
ME Bowles has been keepin' company |
with me since Christmas, butt hear that |
he's going to take another girl to the |
circus tonight, and if he does I'll swal- |
Ter p ison. "-C Chicago Journal
Female Ferocity.
Female ferocity gave thrilling exhibi.
tlon OF itself at the contest between Jane