The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-02-07
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A storekeeper in Toronto, Ont,
has been fined twenty dollars and costs
for selling chances to guess the num-
Der of beans in a bottle for prizes.
They had a ''feather-picking"
match on farm near Kansas City, Mo-,
recently, and one of the contestants
stripped chicken clean in twenty Sec
onds.-C Chicago Herald.
"A lady in the neighborhood of
Hawkinsville, Ga, is the proud possess
sor of fifty-fve bed quilts, all the work
of her own hands, and she can quilt
two week.-EGchGnge.
Since the appointment of the Ma
tional Convention there, Chicago is
said to wear its hat on one side and
smoke cigar at an angle of forty-fve
degrees. Y. Commercials Advertiser.
The most rapid speaker in the Sen
ate is Mr.. Beck, of Kentucky, who is
often rivaled by Mr.. Frye, of Maine.
The fastest speaker in the House is Mr..
Blackburn, of Kentucky Washington
Star.
George, son of Prof. Allen of the
Pennsylvania Normal School at Mans
field, deserted from naval training
ship at Newport last July, and it is now
discovered that he suicided by drown
ing from the vessel.-DetroH Post.
The natives of Madagascar have
taken cleverly to the manufacture of
firearms. They have accurately imi-
tated the French mitrailleuse, and call
the German engineer, who has shown
them how to make dynamite, Father
Gunpowder."
The first mulatto child born in
Greene County, Georgia, is now living
in Morgan County, and yet bears the
odd name, "Sin." The child was born
on the place of Mr.. John E. Dawson,
of Greene, and, being mulatto, she
was named Sin. She is now known to
be Ill years, and probably older
Chicago Times
The Portland (Me.) Transcript adj
mits that soon after Artemus Wards
death it started movement for q fund
to erect a monument to his memory
It collected in all S35. Discouraged at
last, it turned the money over to Mrs.
Browne, the humorist's mother, and
she expended it in procuring the stone
which marks his grave.
-Corbell, an employment agent at
Montreal, sent one thousand men to
Lake Superior to work on the Canadian
Pacific road. They have since made
their way back with complaints of i'll
usage. One of the number recently
sent bullet through the brain of the
agent as he sat at hotel window
Chicago Times
Peter Gilsey, the grandfather of
the present generation of Gilseys, in
New York, and the founder of their
great wealth, landed in this country
from Denmark penniless. He was
piano-forte maker by trade, but after
ward opened a cigar store on the
Bowery, where he and his wife built up
fortune of 100000 by peddling out
penny cheroots.-MsY. Times.
According to Rabbi Sonneschein, of
st. Louis, the American Jew can keep
Christmas without in the least violating
his religious convictions. The Rabbi
says that the 25th of December was
celebrated by the pagan world as the
time when the longest night gives way
to the lengthening of the day, and
that the early Christian church, which
had originally celebrated the natal day
of its founder in the spring, accepted,
at the end of the fifth century, the pa
gan festival, transferring its celebra-
ton of Christ's birth to December.
Moreover, the Maccabean priests insti-
tuted festival on the 25th of Kisler,
the corresponding Jewish month, to
take the place of this pagan feast,
when they had, by defeating the Syrian
king, driven out Greek idolatry.-Sk
Louis Globe.