The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-07-20
MISCELLANEOUS.

ouIAHS d tcTIiHC StOTm near w eSG-
field, Texas, recently, James Morse
worthy was beaten to death by hail
stones-some as large as hens eggs.
Over forty thousand more emigrants
have landed in this country since new
year than came altogether in '81. This
will be foreign country first thing you
know.-Nes0 Haueaa Register.
The family of Morgan Strickland.
living near Adams, Jefferson County.
n. Y, consisting of his wife, an eighteen
year-old son, and a daughter aged six
teen, have died within a month from
malignant diphtheria.
Mrs. Emmett was killed near
Poughkeepsie, the other day, by being
thrown from a wagon. She had bas-
ket OF turkey eggs on her lap, and al
though her head was crushed on pile
OF stones not an egg was broken.
"A sensation has been caused in a
provincial town ON the Pacific coast.
The facts of the case are these: A fam
lily by the name of Harris rented dwell
ing house in Wheatland, and then mys-
teriously proceeded to-mind their own
business.
Three hundred pies day are sold
to the newly-arrived immigrants at
Castle Garden, New York. This is as
it should be. If we have to assimilate
the newcomers into our national life,
they should assimilate our national dish
as soon as they can.-Boston Advertiser.
j. w. G. Badger, of Greene, Che
mango County, N. T., in feeble health
and depressed spirits, hung himself
few days ago, and the dead body was
cut down by his son. Fifteen years ago
the son found his mother hanging dead
in the house and cut the rope which
suspended her.
The Dublin police still insist that the
Cayendish assassins have escaped to the
United States. This delightful theory
enables them to sleep better than they
otherwise would.--St. Louis POST Dis
patch. There is no danger of the St.
Louis police waking up if the assassins
enter that sleepy old town. Chicago
NeaOs.
The New York Observer, religious
paper. says there is no more sense in
having bell on church than one on a
theater. And the editor might have
added that there is no more sense in
young man going out of theater be-
tween the acts than there is in going out
OF church between the singing, preach
ing, and praying-Noryistowa Herald.
i George Augustus Sala writes:
"There is one perfectly comfortable.
clean and elegant hackney carriage to
be found in Europe. Its tariff of fares
is very moderate. The driver is always
polite, and the carriage will convey any
quantity Of luggage. This perfect We.
hicle is called a gondola.
The Tobacco Journal reports the
Rev. Robert Collyer to have recently adj
mitted that he smoked cigars because
tobacco is soothing and that he smok-
ed his first to celebrate the fall of Rich
mond, when ''we all felt in duty bound
to do something tremendous on recent
of the news from the seat of war"
The custom of decorating the graves
OF the dead on certain day with flow
ers. comes down to us from the Catholic
ages. AS long ago as in the tenth century.
on All Souls day, the burial vaults used
to be lighted up and decked with flowers
in Italy, and to this day the same ami.
yersary is kept in Paris and other conti-
mental cities in somewhat similar man.
ner.
"A lady writer in a Boston paper has
noticed That the man who marries late
in life does WELL That the man who
marries young does better. That men
love women because they can't help it.
That the husband loves his wife so well
that he loves all women for her sake.
That the wife loves her husband SO well
that she has no thoughts of other men.
That homely wives are the truest. They
know how to make the most of what they
have.
"A Salzburg wine merchant was re-
Gently fined $125 and imprisoned for two
months for adulteration. He had pur-
chased 5000 small casks of wine, which
by additions of water, alcohol, potato
sugar, wine dregs and salt in enormous
quantities, he had increased to $4,000
casks. This mixture, which was sold |
at flve times its value, recalls the dying |
winners advice to his son: ALWAYS |
remember that you can make wine aut
of anything-even wine.''
Among the recent tramps who have
passed through Norwich. Conn, was an |
artist who had with him studies of Long |
fellow. the elder Darwin, and other emf
nent personages. He visited several
professional men, appeared to thorough
ly understand medicine, microscopy |
and surgery, and exhibited superior tai
ents as a portrait-maker. He was also
a inguist, and could read French as
readily as English. He had travelled /
abroad, but is now travelling on foot,
boring men for pennies enough to buy
drink of grog and offering to make por-
traits for two dollars each. Chicago
Times.
Late one afternoon Mr.. Wash. Al
len was standing in the door of store
in Edgefeld, S. G. One Mr.. Julian
Mobley passed him, and with a keen
knife slashed the inner side of his right
arm from the elbow to the wrist. Nota I
word had passed between the parties,
says the Edgefeld Aduertiser. And
that paper adds: Julian Mobley has be-
come an absolute terror to the human
race, and ought to be at once and for
ever restrained. The day of magnan-