The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-04-12
MISCELLANEOUS.

of 5000. 900.
AN eastern merchant who never al.
vertised was found living dead on the
counter in his store the other day. It is
thought the body had lain there for sew
aral days before being discovered .-Dm-
| tatth Tribune.
I'm Pulaski County, Virginia, a few
days since, Mr.. David Smith, Jr., and
Miss Lizzie King, a romantic couple,
undertook runaway match. The ele-
ments sided with the girls father, who
| captured the lovers. took them home,
and made them get married in decent,
prosaic style. His only objection to
Smith was his extreme youth.
A liking for one-story factories has
been developed among the manufacture.
ers of New England. and they are being
built in many cases where the nature of
sites permit They are said to be eco
nomical, handy, safe, and free from that
vibration which looms impart TO tall
structures. An immense flax mill on
this plan has just been opened at ia
maica Plain, near Boston.
"A prize was offered by lot of butch
ers in Flushing, L. l., for the nearest
guess to the weight of hog. One man
had dreamed the night before that the
porker weighed 397 pounds. and he put
these figures down. The other guessers
laughed and jeered at him, but his time
came when the carcass was laid on the
scales. He hit it to the fraction of a
pound.
-Dielman had been chief clerk of the
Hotel Emery, Cincinnati, for a number
of years. The owners decided to make
him the landlord because they regarded
him as very able and honest In exam
lining the books for the purpose of letting
him start anew, they discovered false en-
tries covering his stealings of thousands
of dollars, Instead of being the host of
a great hotel, Dielman is now dis
graced fugitive Cincinnati CONNER
eiGl.
"A remarkable thief has been caught
in Chicago. He is young. handsome,
well educated, very gentlemanly and
wonderfully audacious. He lived sew
eral months at the larger hotels, dressed
in such an extreme of the fashion as to
attract attention. and paid his bills
promptly; and all the money was OBJ
tanned by sneak thieYing in the rooms of
fellow guests. In one instance he took
a bag containing negotiable bonds worth
$4,000. When caught at last bya watch.
man he drew pistol and attempted to
escape by murder Chicago Nel0s.
"A New Jersey doctor is trying to
form a joint stock company which he
wants to form for the purpose of saving
400,0 lives in this country per year.
The prospectus of this company has been
issued and sent to large numbers of per-
sons. The doctor offers to reimburse the
stockholders and devote one-half of the
enormous sum he is to receive toward
destroying disease altogether in this
country and putting an end to the pres
ent medical fraternity, which he calls
dynasty licensed to commit unlimited
murders every year.-N. z. Times.
Ezra Clark. an old settler of Kirk
land, N. T., and prominent manufact-
urer of that place, died recently, aged
elghty-six years. He was thrice mar
ried, his last wife dying few months
ago. Three children survive him. A
remarkable fact in his history was that
OF occupying the same house and farm
Tor eighty-six years, and of residing in
two counties Herkimer and Oneida
and in four different towns New Hart
ford. Paris, Kirkland and Whitestown-
at the same time and under the same
roof, the house being on the dividing line
for the county and town.
The recent explosion of gun
powder factory at Berkeley, Cal, de-
yeloped hero. Frank Roller saw the
shower of sparks set fire to tarpaulin
on the deck of a schooner lying at
wharf. He knew that fifty tons of the
explosive was aboard the vessel. The
crew were aware of it, too, and they
seampered away as fast as possible. But
Roller leaped through the window of his
house, ran to the perilous craft, and ex-
tinguished the flames by throwing on
water with a bucket If the fire had
reached the cargo, the town and every-
body in it would have been destroyed.
No Incident of the Ruby snow-slide
is more thrilling than the experience of
the miner, Tom Brown. Lying on his
back under ten feet of snow, blocked like
ice about him, unable to move hand or
foot, with his dead comrade lying across
him, and kept in that position for hours,
not knowing whether or not relief would
come, his thoughts must have been ter
rible. That he escaped alive, is little
less than miracle. Who can picture |
his thoughts during those nine hours of
horrible torture and suspense?-Denuer
Tribune.