The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-12-10
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

L up 8AA Tue ONkAH q AA<S1 OSx2 R0 kA4kxY VA@
j-Ss0if.
| People live to greater age on the,
average in New Hampshire than In any
! other State in the Union.-N. z. Her..
AID.
A veteran of the waves who is de-
voting his old age to the amelioration
of the condition of seanen, says that
"Poor Jack" now receives worse treat
ment on the water, if not on the land,
than he did forty years ago.-Bosto~
Journal. i
An old and respected citizen of
Southold, L. l., fell from a load Of
cornstalks two months ago and broke
his hip and leg. Recently. while cross
| ing the room, he fell, by the slipping
of one of his crutehes. and broke both
his arms.-N Y Mail.
A considerable number of shad
have been caught in the Alabama and
Ohio Rivers this season as result of
the shad-hatching operations of the
United States Fish Commission on the
Potomac, from which the young shad
were distributed. 80 Chicago Inter Ocean.
AT Smolensk, Russia, a small vol
cano has developed itself. and the peas
ants have been trying to put it out by
drenching the ground with water. Ae-
cording to the latest accounts the vol
cano will continue for some time to af-
ford excellent practice for the local fire
brigade. :
The loss of cattle in Southwest
Florida the past winter is reported
greater than in any other previous
| l.
loss at two thousand head. Pneumol'
MIA, Georgia paper says, seems to
have been the disease that played such
havoc. Chicago Times.
The practice of scalping is not a
monopoly of American aborigines. In
his Recent Origin of Man" Southland
quotes from Heredotus to show that
the Scythians used to scalp their fallen
enemies. In the present time the wild
tribes of Northeastern Bengal use the
; scalping knife. - Chicago Herald.
A Pennsylvania jury recently got
up and said that their time was too val
liable to allow them to sit quietly and
listen to the triding impertinence and
foolish witticisms of members of the
bar. Sarcasms on ''the intelligent
jury" should be suspended for few
weeks in honor of this one.-Pkitddel-
phia Press.
Gum arabic is rapidly rising in
price. The average annual consump-
ton is nine million pounds; the amount
, in market is>only four million pounds,
and even if the war in the Soudan
should be over in a few months no part
of the new crop could be received in
Alexandria until next December
Philadelphia Press.
"A Keutuckian gives the following
glowing description of his trip abroad I:
Il landed in Liverpool at night, went
to bed, had a good rest, got up in the
morning, found the bar, called for an
American cocktail, got it, took one
taste. and-returned home in the next
steamer. This country is good enough
for me- IN r Sun
The Japanese language is called
1.-THE Italian of fhe Orient An Amer
lean in okio has learned that the Japan
, ese for do me the honor of dining
E with me to-day" is, 'Anata-wa wata-
kushito go yeshone hru mashe wo tabe
nyee yukatay kudazaye ma sainka. F."
What do our italian fellow-citizens
think of oriental Italian?
AT Harpswell, Me-, those engaged
> in digging CLANS the past winter have
received seven dollars per barrel for
them. 1t takes eight or ten bushels
of the shell fish to fill barrel when
the shells are removed, that is, at full
r moon. But according to the Bath In
: dependent, it takes twelve bushels if
the CLAIMS are dug when the moon is
in its first quarter.
: Mr.. j. M. Rodgers, of Sumpter
a City, Ga, has two curiosities on his
| farm. One is horse which takes its
fodder to the water trough and vets il
. before eating. The other is mule
that can outkick anybody's mule, and
3 when he is turned in the stockade and
8 fails to find corn in his feed trough to
. kick at, he gets revenge by kicking the
trough.-Bostos Globe.
From census that has Just beer
q taken of the persons visiting public
houses in London between the hours oil
nine and twelve on Saturday night, il
] seems that two hundred houses were
q women and 7,0f9 children-in all, by
r COsOVO pSESOuS. III WdS ALSO 1Uluu Tia
on a Monday morning 1880 womer
;, entered twelve public houses in St
Pancras between the hours of ten and
v twelve.
The telegraph wire between Ma
con, Ca, and Chalen recently ceased
: working, and q search was made fol
: the cause. The cable passed through
@ the cellars of the excise Office at Ma
con, and it was discovered that it Lar
i over rat hole and disturbed the 70
dent in its movements. The little ami
NAL had gnawed through the covering
of the cable and bitten through tbs
copper threads, thus breaking the con
+ nection. -LomisUiIlc CoETier-sJourfsGl.
About 3 year ago traveller il
: Germany came across an officer EN-
d ployed in experimenting some details
t of military railroad transport. HI
n had been captain during the Franco
4 German war, and had allowed his
company to be surprised. After being
L 4