The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-03-15
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Vania a tombstone inscribed: "Mathuse-
lah Smith, aged one year."
| Warren Leland, the great hotel man
of New York, says competent, sober
watchmen are the best protection any
building can have.
England in 1880 and 1881, under an
adtllteration act, refused to permit $4,000
packages of tea to be landed. Most of it
was shipped to this country, hence gift
tea stores. Chicago Times. E3
IRA. Cincinnati man got some beer
froth into sore on his finger, and was
compelled to have the digit amputated.
1t is fortunate that he did not get any
into cut on his face--M Y. AdUertiser
The inaugural address of Gov
| ONeal, Of Alabama, contained SEN
tence of 200 words. In it was compre-
hensive geographical description of the
State. and prophecy of future CONNER
cial greatness.
| DIR. DE Chaumont reports a case
where coal gas entered house and suffo-
Gated two persons, although the main,
which leaked, was twelve feet from the
walls of the house, and beneath the
frozen surface of gravelly soil.
| AC 1CpOA Sl6 pIOullS5Q Nv
next July, if Congress allows enough
fifteen large volumes of thousand pagea
each. The compendium will be four
times as big as that of 1S70.-Chicago
Journal
"A men has recently died from de-
! Hberate starvation in public inititution
at Allegheny, Pa, For six months he
has lived ON nothing but smallquantity
of milk and a still smaller quantity Of
| whisky, which was forced down his
throat. No motive is known for his
suicide Philadelphia Press.
Two tramps were making tour in !.
Missouri together, and their agreement
was to share comforts and discomforts Z
equally. One asked a farmer for chew
of tobacco, and got it. The iother de-
manded half, and was told that there
was not enough to divide. Enraged by
this act, he murdered the Ofender.A ,
Louis Globe. r..a J,
"A California farmer hunts wild geese
with COW. He has trained The animal
| to walk slowly out into the field where a
| flock of geese has settled on the grain.
She browses meanwhile, and he walks
alongside on the side away from the geese.
When within shooting distance he gent
" naurinIifs, $500, boss" and the obedient 2
bovine lies down. He rests his fowling
| piece over her back and blazes away.
both barrels at once, and bags thirty or
forty of the geese.-C Chicago Herald. e y
AT the recent fire in the Cambridge
(Mass.) car-shops, one Of the engineers
wanted help in raising ladder, and, see-l
ing man standing on the sidewalk near
by, he called to him: "Here, you, give
us a lift" The man responded WITH
alacrity, and a moment later, when the
engineer took better look at him, he
discovered that his assistant was Presi-
| dent Eliot, of Harvard University. An
apology was begun, but the President
graciously declared it was all right, and \
he was only too glad to be of any as
sistance Boston Post eof oa
THE Secretary Of the Panama Canal s.
Company, Mr.. @. Colne, delivered lee,
ture in New York recently. He says
that their labor force now consists of $50
white and $500 colored men, and that
the mortality among them is greatly ex-
aggerated. When finished the canal will
be about forty-fye miles long. To show
that the company was not organized for
/ speculation, Mr.. Colne gave long list +,
OF the property of the Company. 1t in
cluded steamers, sailing vessels and tugs,
besides all sorts of machinery, from 3 +
steam engine to spade.
The total eclipse Of the sun on the
9th Of May next will last six minutes,
and no longer one will probably occur
within the next hundred years. 1t will
be partially visible in many places, but
few will see 1T In its entirety, as its path
| lies almost entirely through the ocean,
touching land nowhere but at a little
island in the South Pacific called Caro-
line Island, which is out of the track of
any established commerce or travel Thee
French Government has determined to
send an expedition to that island, and it
is probable grand international gather
ing of astronomers will meet there to
take part in this scientific quest-N z.
"A negro boy, ten years old, came to
a very singular death at Winchester,
Tex, recently, by being packed In bale
of cotton. 1t is supposed be fell into the
press, which is run by machinery, and
was covered by the cotton, which pre-
vented any cries he might have made
from being heard. After the cotton was
baled and rolled out of the press someof
his clothing was seen. The ties were cut
and the boy found in the bale, but,
strange as it may seem, no bones were
broken, and the body, was neither
mangled nor bruised-only a slight
bleeding at the nose Had not some of
the elotsS;sg protruded from the bale, he
would have been sold with the cotton.
--Seofefs make merry over the par ).
tiality shown by Bostonians for baked
beans. The Adgertiser patiently bears
the abuse, having become 80 habituated
to it that it knows all the jokes which
can possibly be made on the subjeet
INSTEAD of retaliating," says this jour
ual, eve send our favorite Wand broad 2
cast over the world. We do not laugh,
as we might, at the. Southerner for his
eccentric habit of eating terrapin. Po-
| liteness has hitherto forbidden our re-
marking that the Western men keep all
their tender chicken grouse for home