The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-04-26
MISCELLANEOUS.

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Mfrs. Eli Brown, of Macon, Ca,
while whipping one of her children, ac-
! cidentaily struck her husbands finger
The finger infiamed and Mr. Brown
recently died from the wound
IL. j. Jennings, the London core.
spondent of the New York World, writes
that the emigration from Great Britain
to the United States will be greater the
ensuing season than it has been any time
since the discovery of gold in Cali
| fornia.
"A great many artesian wells will be
sunk in Utah this year. The success of
| the wells in Tooele County, where many
farms are irrigated by arteSian well
water, has caused many to make expert
ments in other parts of the territory.
New England clings to its legends.
| Boston man who tried to convince a
| New Hampshire woman that Horace
| Greeley didn't write every line in each
daily Tribune when he was its editor
had a broom-handle broken over his
| head. Boston Herald.
Another young man is "nearly
frantic" He drew an ''empty'' pistol
''for the purpose of soaring some of the
| party assembled at theatrical party
at "a Long Island town and succeeded in
fatally shooting one of the young ladies
presently 7. Sun.
1T is worth noticing that regular
army recruiting officers say the poorest
class of men Offering to enlist are mill
operatives, who are of poor physique,
lack muscular development and have
their entire systems weakened by the
character of their work.
The young son of Melvin Batchelder.
of Piermont, N. H., aged two and
a-half years, came to his death few
days since by a very sad accident. At
| play with a screw it became lodged in
his throat and, though the mother could
touch it she had no means of removing
it and the child lived but few moments.
"A DanielsonYille Conn. man lost
his coach dog the other day, but it was
found and recognized by friends They
called him up the next day by telephone
and asked if he had lost dog.
| Receiving the reply: ayes, where Is he's,
they babe. him ''call him. Placing the
dog ear to the machine. The animal
at once began to yelp and lick the ma
chine most fondly, and his master, rec
ognlzng Unfamiliar bark OF. his pet, was
soon on hand to claim him. - ''s'"
E:g-t'No," says the Denver Inter- Ocean.
''in all this talk about Virgins, let us
not forget the Cincinnati man Sworn
! stedt. who, figuring from Scripture. pre-
dicted all manner of horrible things for
1888 and 1684-a financial panic,
whirlwind, seven great comets, one 80
tall INTO the sun, An earthquake. and
then-the millennium. The sun, by the
| way. is actually beltei by a row of sun
! spots, showing that great cyclones are
disturbing its gases. Let runr'
AN absurd superstition prevails that
the bites of all dogs should be either cut
out. or cauterized and the poor animal
destroyed. 1t is not necessary to adopt
either of these courses, provided the dog
Is healthy. In fact they are simply
ridiculous, and are calculated to produce
groundless fear in the person bitten. OF
course. in severe cases erysipelas NAV
supervene, but with ordinary care, the
wound being cleansed by disinfectino
lotion, no serious consequences will fol-
low. In all cases, however, a doctor
should be consulted. London Lancet.
An Irish laborer travelled a good
deal on one of the Philadelphia Street
railroad lines for week, talking with
the richest of brogues with drivers and
conductors who took quite kindly to his
sociahle advances. AT the end of the
week the lrishman, disappeared and the
|. President of the road having found out
while riding as such Irishman, a good
deal about his employees, discharged
twenty-three conductors and thirteen
drivers he had detected in stealing fares,
some of them taking as much as three
dollars aday.- philadelphia Press.
The swindle planned by Cincin-
matt Snowman consisted in advertising
for a treasurer for minstrel show. and
getting $500 from a candidate as pre-
tended security. A country grocer was
caught by the prospect of making a tour
OF the country on a salary of twenty-five
dollars a week, with all expenses paid.
and he supposed that he was safe against
fraud because a company was ready to
actually start out. But the performers
were amateurs, lured into the affair at
no cost to the manager. who fed with
all the money after the first perform
ance. The grocer committed suicide
- Cincinnati Times.
A PhilOs0phic Car Conductor.