The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-03-29
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A statistician says that 1900
American women visit Canada every
year to smuggle a sealskin sacque.
There IS no doubt that this man has
been Tilted. -RoebeSter IN. ~ Demo-
crdt.
The great dry-goods stores of New
York, as well as those of Paris, are COM
PEELED to watch for female kleptomani-
acs. The number of otherwise respect
able women who steal is said to be
astonishing. N. z. Times.
The Fruit-Growers' and Forest
Tree Association of Canada, have passed
resolution favoring the eXtripation of
the English sparrow. 1t was shown
that the bird was slaughtering Canadian
song-birds, besides proving destructive
to farmers and fruit-growers.
"A little prattling child in Denver
wandered out in the street, asking plain
lively for some one to s'please come and
wake up my mamma" Finally two men
accompanied her home, and found her
mother dead from heart disease. -Denuer
Tribune.
"A bullet shot from pea shooter
struck a New Orleans lad in the head
and penetrated the brain. The ''pea-
shooter is composed of forked stick,
two strips of rubber, two bits of Irvine
and patch of leather. What New
Orleans lads head is composed of, is
matter of conjecture. Chicago Herald.
Although three or four crystals of
the genuine precious topaz, remarkable
for size and clearness, have been found
near Pixies Peak, Mr.. r. T. Cross as
serts that the stone which is cut in Col
orado and sold as topaz to tourists, is
not topaz at all, but simply smoky
quartz, or the cairngorm stone of Scot
land Chicago Tribune.
After hard run a policeman at
Seneca Falls, N. Y, discovered that the
laughing man whom he had caught
dressed in striped convict suit was
only going to a masquerade ball. 1t
was good joke, and it will be long
while before the officer can put in loaf
ing enough to make up for the exertion.
-UticG Herald.
For fifty-one consecutive years
William Stanford was an occupant of
the County Jail at Richmond, Va, and
for eighteen of those years he was
chained by the leg to the floor of his cell,
raving lunatic. He was released in
1877, a harmless imbecile, and few
days ago he died. His last words were:
''Dear mother"-the only utterance he
had ever been known TO make concern
ing his youth, some eighty years ago
Washington, Post.
-Ruskin says truly: "We want one
man to be always thinking, and another
to be always working, and we call one q
gentleman, and the other an operator;
whereas, the workman ought often to be
thinking and thinker often to be work
ing. and both should be gentlemen in the
best sense. The mass of society is made
up of morbid thinkers and miserable
workers. 1t is only by labor that thought
can be made healthy, and only by thought
that labor can be made happy, and the
two cannot be separated with impunity"
james McdardY, the oldest inhabit-
ant of the Braemar District, Scotland,
died recently, in the ninety -ninth year of
his age. In his early years. when fax
was grown in Braemar, he followed the
trade of heckler, but during the greater
part of his life he worked as a sawyer.
His wife died six years ago at the age of
ninety-seven, and their married life ex-
tended over the long period of sixty
eight years. Their family consisted of
three sons and six daughters, the oldest
seventy-five and the youngest about
sixty, and, as far as known, they are all
living.