The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-11-30
MISCELLANEOUS,

- HAN III moore county, N. o.,
whose first wife>was his fathers second
wife's sister, has capped the climax and
further mixed the genealogical tree by
wedding his sons wife's sister.
During the past year sixteen muir
ders have been committed in Pennsylva-
MIA for plumber where the sums Welded
were less than six dollars. However, it
is no great trouble to kill man. Detroit
Free Press.
An eccentric man in New York
restaurant ordered beefsteak and ice
cream and covering the former with the
latter, ate them with evident relish. The
elegant walters knew not whether to
laugh or to call the police.
The Macon Telegraph is protesting
against the modern practice of some
Georgia papers of talking about 'corn-
huskings." 1t says that the North 8
victory did not impose that word upon
them, and that nothing but corn
shucking" is ever done in Georgia.
The block of stone to be sent by Ne
braska for a position in the Washington
monument has been completed. 1t
measures four by six feet, bearing the
States coat-of-arms carved in ento-re-
lief, two feet in diameter, and Nebras-
ka's motto, Equality Before the Law"
in letters of solid silver. Surrounding
this is wreath, ornamented at the an.
giles with enriched rosettes.
In the current number of the Penn
Magazine of History and Biography, Mr..
Townsend Ward says that the firm of
Baynton, Wharton & Morgan, whose
head, John Baynton, merchant of en-
inence, died in 1878, lost so much bv
Indian dcpredations that, it is said, thew
had assigned to them in compensation
what now forms the State of Indiana.
Whether they felt satisfactorily compen-
stated is doubtful, but probably their de-
scendants to-day would, could those be-
fore them have held on to it.
Frank Hanson, a hunchback, com.
mitted suicide in San Francisco after
such deed for twenty-seven
years. He used to say that his deformitv
came from blow given him on farm
In Central New York, where he worked
when boy; but it is thought he was mis-
taken, and that the chastisement had
to do with the spinal disease,
which gradually twisted him into
frightful shape. He discussed suicide
great deal with his acquaintance, and
at last committed it.
"A Philadelphia jury was called upon
70 decide IN customs case, whether a
jew sharp is toy Or musical instru-
ment. The question put to the expert
witnesses was: "Is the jews-harp capable
OF producing succession of harmonious
sounds?" One witness played to the
jury The heart bowed down" and
"Ihe Skids are out to-day" and the re-
porter says that the jury seemed restless
and depressed Their verdict was that
the jew sharp is a musical instrument.
Great excitement was caused at
Reading. in England, the other day, by
the grand open-air demonstration of the
Salvation Army. The procession was
headed by eleven girls dressed in the
style OF Italian peasants, carrying tam
bourines, with which they accompanied
the singing; one of them, who had been
lately turned out of doors because she
Joined the Army" caused a great deal
Of notice by wearing large white pima
NfSAA 'hASh w eto "lIlUCu d text Oh
Scripture. The feeling shown through
out the service was intense. The sing
ng was accompanied by piano, harps.
comets, trombones, drums and flies, the
naldens occasionally executing a war
lance.
Medical men have ALWAYS differed
Is to whether the best medical treatment |
II frozen persons was by a gradual or a |
'apid application of heat. "To settle
he matter" says knowledge, "Lapt-
'hinkski has made series of very careful
upon dogs, with the follow
ng results: Oftwenty animals treated
" the method of gradual resuscitation
n cold room, fourteen persisted; of
wenty placed at once in warm apart
nent, eight died; while of twenty imme-
lately put into a hot bath, ali recoy-
red" These experiments will probably
influence the practice of medical men in
russia and northern Europe, where the
question of restoring animation in per-
ons suffering from excessive cold is of
requent occurrence every winter.