The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-07-26
MISCELLANEOUS.


South Carolina has ladies' society
with the restoration of Mount Vernon
to its former condition, for its mission.
The Bench Show having had its
| day in New York, it is now proposed to
get up Dude Circus, with prize of
| FIVE hundred corsets for the one with
the most parabolic back. IN. Z.
Graphic.
"A Delaware boy recently lost one
| of his feet in consequence of wearing
tight shoes. These produced assesses,
which gradually ate up the bones OF
the foot, so that surgeons were obliged
to amputate it.-N. \. Sun.
For the sake of variety try this 70,
breakfast: Buy some nice pork chops.
with q little fat about them; fry them
delicate brown, and pour hot tomato
sauce over them. Make gravy, using
| little of the fat fried out of the pork;
send to the table with baked potatoes,
warm corn bread and coffee. Country
Gentleman.
There were 982 fires in Paris last
year, and of these forty-seven broke out
in shops, thirty in places where
alcohol and chemicals were stored and
| fourteen in theaters. With less than
| fifty exceptions, all the buildings in
| which the fires occurred were insured,
and in more than 700 cases out of the
| 982 the furniture was insured as well.
The total amount Of damage done was
estimated at rather more than 81, $780,
600.
Among the patients treated at
| dispensary in Albany, N. Y, recently,
was girl afflicted with what is called a
tobacco heart. - The victim of the
disease isia stripper in cigar factory,
an employment which superinduces the
! cause of her trouble The affection
may result from constant life in an
atmosphere impregnated with tobacco,
or from excessive use of the weed. 1t
| is degeneraey of the vital organ.
The law of New Jersey requires
railroad companies to make return to
the State of all fatalities that occur On
| their lines. During the thirteen years
between 1869 and 1882 there were l.
902 1t is probable the fatal accidents
in other States reach no smaller pro-
| portions, so that the aggregate of sta
tistics would be appalling, though little
attention is paid to the factors as they
occur from time to time. philadelphia
| Press.
Near Rome, Ca, is about an acre
of the evergreen known as the Pente-
yerian, or Aqueous tree. It is pecu-
| liarity of the tree that whenever its
body is touched by the human hand Or
| body in the summer season or in warm
weather, simultaneously with that
touch shower of water falls from the
leaves, which continues to fall as long
as the human and vegetable contact
]! continues. atlanta Constitution.
When a western editor visits vii
lagos in his neighborhood, he is wise
enough to speak of each particular
town as '.the coming metropolis. The
inhabitants, of course, lay that fatter-
ing JUNCTION to their souls, and forth
with each citizen exclaims: ''Send me
a dozen copies of your valuable paper
OF such is the strategy of western
journalism 7. Commercial AdUer-
tiser. a
| Mr.. Gould, like every poor man,
can afford the luxury of joking. A
newspaper reporter went to him the 9TH
| er day and asked if the report was true
that lie had given Tiffany $500, 700
| contract to decorate the interior of his
residence, to which Mr.. Gould replied
| that the amount was incorrectly stated.
lit should have been So, ZOO. 200, y he
said. Then the reporter asked him as
to the truth Of some absurd rumors
! about what he was going to take with
him in his yacht cruise around the
world. Il have decided, y replied the
| great monopolist, % to take nothing
| with me but the Brooklyn bridget
The daughter of a German Baron
| committed suicide in New York, re-
Gently, driven to that course by destitu-
| ton. She had been cast off by her father
| for having married against his will.
After the death of her husband, which
occurred in few months, she fitted
herself as nurse and physician by TAX
| ing course CONSTRUCTION in the Royal
Medical College, of Saxony. She then
came to this country, but though she
was an unusually intelligent and accom-
| plished woman she failed to find enough
employment to keep her from want, and
at asttook her life in despair.--N. u,
/ Tribune.