The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-01-05
MISCELLANEOUS.

from 800 to 5000 for training setter
dogs.
There is an elk's head and horn
in the museum of the University O
Tennessee that weighs over zoo pounds
The law of Georgia makes it
crime to point a pistol or gun at an
other, either in fun or malice, whether
the gun or pistol be loaded or not.
/ Benjamin Franklin, who died in
1870, was grandson of a man born in
the sixteenth century, in the reign OF
Elizabeth. Three generations thus ex.
tending over two centuries.
There are more than twenty thou
sand people in America descendants OF
one Richard Lyman, who landed in
Boston two hundred and fifty years ago,
from High Cigar, near London.
The emblem of the Order of the
Garter is dark-blue ribbon edged with
gold, with the motto Hont soft az, NAL q,
pense worked in gold letters, and a
buckle and pendentof gold. It is worn
on the left leg below the knee.
lin order to stop a panic in his
church, a clergyman in Bradford, Pa,
led off in hymn at the top of his voice.
HIS singing was SO unmusical that the
congregation believed that he had be.
come terrified beyond control, and the
panic increased in violence.
The position of umpire is not al.
ways either safe or pleasant. A man
IN New York. to whom was referred a
dispute whether young woman's hair
was red or auburn, decided that it was
red. For this sanguine opinion the dis.
putant who took an auburn view of the
case stabbed the unhappy referee.
Ali the Russian prisoners are not
patriots suffering for the human race.
Lieutenant Landsberg, who murdered
Madame Vlasoff and her servant for
money to pay his debts of honor, en-
ploys his life sentence of penal servi.
tude In overseeing the construction OF
Qualifications by gang of rebellious
Mussulmans from the Caucasus.
Henry johnson, colored man ir
Sumter County. South Carolina, pro-
cured from sonjurer charmed bullet
and shot John Davis, with whose wifo
he was in love. He thought that he was
thus protected from punishment, but to
his surprise and that of the negro Spec
tators in the courtroom, he was found
guilty of murder and sentenced to be
hanged. de still expects to escape tho
gailows, however, and his belief ia
strengthened by the fact that while his
trial was going on two of the Jurors
were suddenly taken sick, and had to
be replaced by others, and that within
three hours after he was sentenced the
sheriff, a robust man in the prime OF
life, dropped dead.
The question whethernn4xs should
be sold by number or khtshas
been under discussion i'll az OF
the usual arguments in ia, 5ther
method have been put form. Men oil
and statistical proclivities |
have been at work on the problem. and
have learned that eggs laid by the |
more generous fowls, such as Black Span
ish, Houdans and Creve-Cmurs. aver. |
age seven to a pound, while Hamburps
and some other varieties Law egps 50 |
small that nine or ten are required to
tip the pound weight. 1t has not oc. |
Cured to any ingenious Frenehman,
that, in view of the varying thickness
OF the shells, a more equitable method
than either of those under discussion
would be to open the eggs, and sell
them at SO much quart for solid meats,
rs oysters are sold.
The Lynchburg Virginian describes
an ingenious trap devised by Virginia
farmer to capture sheep stealing dogs.
Having suffered severely from the dep
redafnp OF dogs upon his sheep fold, he
ouile4 FOUND a number of sheep that /
logs had killed an inclosure of rails
Twelve feet high and ten feet SQUARE at
'he ground, the sides of the trap slop-
ng inward until an opening was left
about five feet square. Any dog could
easily climb such 81 sloping fence and
enter the pen, but not even a grey
hound could jump out of it. In three
nights the farmer captured forty-six
logs. including fifteen or twenty that
lad never been seen before in that
1elghborhood. This after their had
been public slaughter of all dogs sus-
oected of sheep killing save one, whose
master could not be convinced OF his
guilt. The trap was built for his espe.
,ial benefit, and it caught him the first
light.
"A little girl only fourteen years of
lge, named Margaret Messenger, has
ust been convicted and sentenced to
leath at the Cumberland Assizes in
england for the murder of baby
whose nurse she was. The jury found
Ter guilty, and also although. be-
ng at the time under the age Of four
cen, she was, prima facie. incapable
i crlme-she was precocious enough
0 have criminal intent. There is on
ecord IN England an example of a boy
ged eight years being hanged for burn
ne a barn in Berkshire. A bov of
en-. convicted of numbering his bed.
elbow, was unanimously pronounced
y the Judges as proper subject of ,
apital punishment, and does not ap-
ear to have been reprieved. These
asses happened long before the Secre-
ary of State was in the habit of inter-
ering in cases of murder as he does at ,
resent; and it is probable that this
Dung girl may have her punishment
ommuted to Imprisonment for life.
"A report comes from physicians in J
'aitimore that case of genuine lepro- Z
has been brought to attention there. {
he patient is a lady, the mother of {