The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-12-04
MISCELLANEOUS,

1T may not be generally known thai
the disability law against Catholics still
exists in New Hampshire. No Cath
Ollie can hold Office in that State. --Chi-
cago News.
An electric light has been intro
duced into a lighthouse at the entrance
to the outer harbor of Rio de Janeiro.
It is of 1900 candle power and is yisi-
Bile a distance of thirty -five miles.
The Glasgow Herald thinks that il
Americans would substitute oatmeal
for pies and hot cakes they would be
calmer, less lively. less speculative.
less bombastic, and happier.
The latest indignity offered to the
memory of Carlyle is to credit him
with having invented the word
.sdude." In his journal ON July Is,
1885, he wrote: 81 seldom read any
dud of a book, novel or the like,
where the writing seems to flow
along like talk, without certain
pain, certain envy"
Birds in Sweden and Norway are
better protected than in any other coun-
try, and the consequence is that they
are tame and familiar. A resident OF
Sweden says that evrey morning floeks
of sparrows come into the room while
he is eating breakfast and run about
the room picking up crumbs or wash
ing themselves in basins.
Many tenement-house cigarmakers
receive from their employers 100 pounds
of tobacco, for which they have to re-
turn 102 pounds of cigars. The difference
is supposed to represent the water used
in moistening the dry leaf. Complaints
are made that when the tobacco falls
short cigar stumps, willow, oak, and
elm leaves are used to make good the
deficiency, and that in some Instances
100 pounds of tobacco have thus bee6
made to produce 200 pounds of cigars.
M T. Star.
MFR. w. j. Andres, of Sumter, S. c.,
killed hog a few days ago affected
with every symptom of hydrophobia.
The hog had been bitten two weeks pre-
viously by dog which was supposed to
be mad. The hog became so violent
as to necessitate its separation from the
other hog, and finally had to be killed.
A farmer living near Bishopville, in the
same county, shortly after killed q
young COW, apparently affected with
hydrophobia, supposed to have origi-
mated by the same dog passing through
that neighborhood.-St. Louis Post.
For some time the Capitol at Wash,
ington has been lighted with electric
lights. 1t is now found that the build
ing presents most untidy appearance
owing to the fact that myriads of all
kinds of insects have been attracted by
the lights and have killed themselves
by striking against the dome. Bushels
of May-fies, beetles, criekets, carvings,
dragon-fies, grasshoppers, caddis-fiies,
bees, wasps, hornets, butterflies, moths,
cicadas, froghoppers, plant lice, water
beetles, whirligigs, shippers, horned
lnldgets, gnats, mosquitoes, and every
species of insect known to the sur.
rounding swamps and woods of the
+ District have met their death in this
way. Washington Star.
When the late Frank Chanfrau re-
turned from California and was the pos
SCISSOR OF snug fortune he bought hand
some house at Yonkers and then went
to the warehouse on Peck Slip, where
AiS l"eiSl WAS euhpioseu as porter
and said: aid like you to step out with
me for awhile" 81 can't" replied
the elder man; sit isn't dinner hou,
yet and my employers wouldn't like
it." Eyes, they would; they are per
fcctly willing" said the actor, and ther
took his father to Yonkers. showed hin
through the house and asked MIN what
he thought OF it. 1T is a very beauti
full place. was the reply. ''Well, it is
yours, F." said Chanfrau.-N 7. TrJ5,
tae.