The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-11-08
MISCELLANEOUS.

marriages TO German noblemen nave
resulted in various troubles and much
unhappiness.
A mastodon buck deer, known to
the nilnrods of Madison, Fla, and vi
entity as 'Jesse James" was killed re-
Gently by Lucius Henderson and Hen
ry Pappell, of Madison. This buck had
been hunted and chased for the last
four years, but none ever succeeded in
downing him.
Miners prospecting near Concord,
n. c., discovered at the mouth of q
long-deserted shaft of gold mine the
skeleton of woman. The clothing
and shoes were still on the bones, and
from the fine quality of the cloth and
the presence of a diamond ring of some
value it is thought that the bones were
those of some lady of position and
means.
Laredo, Texas, is protesting against
the Mexican nickel five-cent coin. A
writer says: at is all very well as small
change; but when man calls with two
or three donkeys loaded with it to pay
a debt, and all hands in the store lose
their much-needed siesta and consume
a day in counting the stuff, even the
patriotism of Mexicans-who do not
highly value time-wanes in the op-
Grafton"
Jack has gone off and got himself
lost, and he has also found himself and
walked home. ''Are you not sorry
that you ran away and got lost?" asked
the paternal ancestor with tone of
IS nd 1r,,4
''But nobody knewwhere you was" 81
know where / was myself" That set
tied it. A boy that knows where he is
himself can never get lost.-Hartford
Post.
AT recent family gathering in
Palermo, Oswego County, N. Y, there
were found to be two grandfathers, two
grandmothers, six children, one
brother, three sisters, one uncle, two
aunts, five cousins, three neices, one
son, four daughters, three fathers, three
mothers, two fathers-in-law, three
mothers-in-law; and yet the entire
gathering only comprised ten persons.
Buffalo Express.
The new occupation of writing
their names on hat-bands has been
adopted by the girlsin the hat factories
in Danbury, Conn, and it is said they
employ most of their time in so doing.
The habit has recently been given fresh
life by the marriage of Miss Beach, a
former employee of the factories, and
Mr.. Segur. of New Orleans, owing to
the fact that their match originated
from Miss Beach putting her name in
a hat that was afterward bought by
Mr.. Segur, who discovered the name
and opened a correspondence with the
young lady which eliminated as above
stated.-Nea0 HaUes Register.
About fifteen miles south of Lun-
ing, in the Silver Star district, is one
of the largest bodies of copper in the
world. Parties who have visited the
ledge say that it is simply indescrib-
able. There are two parallel veins
running easterly and westerly that
crop out in places over 100 feet deep.
Burrows have been cut down through
the exposed ledge by the action of the
elements, and all through as far as ex-
posed it is one mass of copper ore.
Several hundred tons of ore have been
taken out OF prospects dug in various
parts of the lode that runs from ten per
cent. to sixty per cent. per ton.-ES-
naerGldo (NeU.) Herald.
DIR. S. P. Chalfant, the murderer
who recently escaped from San QUEEN
tin Prison, but who was captured be-
fore he had got out of California, said
on his return: GA man who goes to
San Quentin, no matter how much
pluck and stamina he may have on 60
ing in, serving year after year, loses
whatever manhood he has and becomes
a worthless being; and knew I should
become utterly worthless if I remained
there any longer. A man locked in
cell thirteen hours out of the twenty
four is bound to wear himself out. A
man of my temperament could never
sleep that length of time, and all |
could do was to pace the floor and
think San Francisco Chronicle.
There was wholesale incarcera-
ton in the city of Raleigh, N. c., few
nights ago, which was very ludicrous to
all but the persons who were shut up.
There was fire in the penitentiarv
grounds and an old building was de-
stroyed. The fremen and citizens
turned out and did good work When
they had finished it they were ready to
retire, but that they found no easy task.
Seventy-two guards, with Winchester
rifles, we've on duty, and no man was
let out except reporter and two press
men. -Four hundred others were kept
in the main building and not released
until six o'clock in the morning. They
were, however, treated to refreshments.
-Cbicago Times.
st. Louis is not able to compete
with Chicago in the glory of its candy
store windows, in the size of its eleva-
tors and feet, or in the muscle of its
politicians. But st. Louis is the head
center of philosophy in this country.
A St. Louis journalist this week begins
a report thus: "The work of icono-
clasm is not endemic but universal, and
the breaker of our images presents
himself most inopportunely as to place
and season, proving that our idols are
of clay, our ideals friable, and that our
worship is wasted on thin substance. y
This rendered into Chicagoese means:
Johnny Mulligan, the statesman,
went into Mulhoo1vic colaon ond nc NO