The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-01-06
GENERAL BREvITIES.

IT is said there are more lies told in |
the sentence, 81 am glad to see you"
than in any other six words in the Eng |
lish language.
ALAS, how easily things go wrong!
A word too much or kiss too long,
And there falleth mist and a binding rain,
And life is never the same again.
A CAREFUL housewife in Altoona,
Penn, put an $18 order and a $40
greenback into the drawer of the coffee |
mill on Wednesday for safe keeping.
Thursday morning the family enjoyed
a S28 cup of coffee.
ALL the horses taken by the Prince
of Wales to India were trained in the
Geological Gardens, so that they would
become accustomed to the sight OF wild
animals. They may be used in tiger
hunting with comparative safety.
A BUSINESS house in Columbus has
conspicuously displayed in its show
window mans skull, and printed in
large letters across the forehead these
words of warning to the daily swarm
of travelling statesmen: "This was
Drummer"
The Columbus Georgia. Enquirer
says: The Canada giant and his wife
passed through Columbus for Macon on
yesterdays train. He is only 20 years
of age and weighs 481 pounds, and
measures Z feet Id inches high. He
had to stoop to avoid touching the top
of the car. The wife is taller than the
husband. They are en- route to some of
the Western cities for exhibition.
THE Russian Ministry of Justice has
given instructions to its sub-departments
that henceforth corporal punishment
shall be discontinued in its application
to females sentenced to deportation.
Hitherto women have been punished
the same as men with knouts and rods.
Henceforth ten days of isolated confine-
ment are to count as the equivalent of
lash with the knout, and two days lash
with the rod.
A FEW days ago a youthful emissary
from one book store entered another
and made the inquiry, |" Have you Cock
Tails of Ancient Greece?'' The gentle
man Intercepted, distrusting his ears,
required a repetition of the question,
and it was given. "a copy of Cock
Tails of Ancient Greece.'' The book
was not in stock, but "Cox's Tales of
Ancient Greece" satisfied the desire of
the embryo bookseller.
PERFUMERs, by blending primary
odors, obtain all the various bouquets.
Roses, orange blossoms, jasmine, vio-
lets, geranium, tuberoses, and ionquil,
contain types of nearly all flower odors.
Blend jasmine and orange flowers, and
you get the scent of the sweet pea; Jas
mine and tuberoses mixed produce the
perfume of hyacinth; while violet and
tuberoses resemble the lily of the valley.
In recent lecture the Rev. Robert
Collyer told the following anecdote:
He was at o children's party one Christ
mas eve, and, seeing little boy sitting
in one corner and not dancing, he ap-
preached him, and asked why he did
not join the others and dance. sim
not danthing," said the boy solemnly,
"becauthe I.don't think danthing it'll
the great end of life." "Now, you
know" added Mr.. Collyer, s'if that was
my boy, should think he was meant
for minister, but / should be sorry for
the church that had to take him."
Ii the great exhibition of 1851 in Lon
don an American specimen of iron pa
per was exhibited. A lively COMPETE
ton among iron rolling manufacturers
was excited by the above challenge from
America, as to the thinness to which
iron could be rolled cold. Mr.. elliott
rolled sheets the average thickness of
which was the eighteen-hundredth part
OF an inch. In other words 1900 sheets
piled upon each other would collective
~ measure an inch in thickness, while
the thinnest tissue paper to be pur-
chased in the stationer's store measures
the twelve-hundredth of an inch. These
very thin sheets are perfectly smooth
and easy to write on, although porous
when held up to good light.
WILLIAM SHARPE, according to the
Doncaster Gazette, went to bed in 1907,
and never got up till he died there in
lS56-a life OF forty -nine years passed
in chamber nine feet square, the win
dow of which had not been raised fol
thirty-eight years. When he was 80 he
went one fine morning to church to be
married, but his affianced came not,
her father having an invincible repug.
nance to Mr.. William Sharpe as son.
in-law. The mortified bridegroom went
home, undressed, got into bed, pulled
the blankets over his head, and for for.
ty-nine years obstinately refused to gel
up and clothe himself, or to do any
work, passing the time uninterruptedly
in bed. He was never seriously i'll dur.
ing this time. His body was perfectly
sound in spite Of its great age and great
abuse, and he was only sick one week
before his death.
An English aeronaut lately tested 9
machine of his own patent called the
parakite. It is Sc feet high and so feet
wide. As soon as the sail was fixed