The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-05-15
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

AN honest small oyster is better than
q dishonest count. Whitehall Times.
A YOUNG man in Brooklyn boasts that
he has kissed his girl $50 times in six
huors and three laps, and thinks he has
won the match.
Mr.. R. ARLINGTON of Leeds, Eng
land, has offered the Baptist Missionary
Society $4,000, to provide steamer
for navigating the Congo River.
"WHAr is distance?" asks the New
York Herald. Well, an Eastern man
who has ever been in Omaha without a
cent in his pocket must know something
about it.-Detroit Free Press.
A DENTIST with a toothache is spec
tacle as rare as it is gratifying. 1t
comes perhaps but once in lifetime,
but it brings with it q fragrance that re-
mains for years.-Danbury Neaos.
A CORRESPONDENT explains why he
hadn't written before by saying he could
not "get money enough together" to
buy a postal-card.-Fond du Lac Re
porter.
IT is historically known that Tucson,
Arizona, is nearly 200 years old; that
100 years ago it was military post and
contained a population of nearly 500
people.
Two Young men in Wisconsin have
done a profitable business by buying
wolf scalps in Chicago and presenting
them to the Wisconsin State authorities
for the bounty.
A GERMAN dealer in bird trimmings
for ladies' hats has just received con-
signment of 80, 900 dead humming birds,
$4,000 corpses of aquatic birds, and
100000 pairs of wings.
Mr.. FINNEY, a London dentist, claims
to have found a filled tooth in the jaw
of an Egyptian mummy. Dentistry was
further advanced 1000 years ago in
Egypt than is supposed.
Mr.. ARTHUR EKIN, while sinking a
well on his premises near Eureka, H.,
few days ago, struck vein of inf1am-
mable gas which has continued to flow
ever since, and which he proposes to
utilize for lighting and h atipg pur-
poses.
A FEW years ago the Gar sent the
Emir of Afghanistan quantity of light
ming rods, and the Afghans put up the
gilded points on their houses without
connecting them with the ground. The
effect was not favorable to Russian pop
ularity.
MR.. STAMFORD, one of the financial
and landed magnates of California, is
the proprietor Of farm of 1000 acres
near San Francisco. Upon it are sheds
and stables stretching for mile, con-
tanning 800 thorough bred horses, valued
at over 100000.
A GENIUS in Xenia, O., has invented
a mans night-shirt which will sit up all
night with sick child, bounce burglars,
hunt up the paregoric, turn on the gas
and let its owner lie and dream of the
biggest waterlnelons ever raised in Geor-
gia.--DetroM Free Press.
A PIG upon the farm of Mrs. Tuthill,
near Howells, Conn.,, which has been
allowed to run in a field with COWS, has
been discovered drawing milk from
them. The short supply of milk given
by some of the cattle was thus account
ed for.
Mr.. SoTHERN, the actor, objects to
his dog forming new acquaintance, and
so he fastens two very sharp needles to
the dogs nose, leaving the ends project.
ing about an inch. When a strange
dog rushes up to ''shake noses" with
him, he gets a thrust which sends him
away bowling.
SCENE: German recitation room
March, 1880. Tutor: " Mr.. X, please
translate the following sentence: my
brother has glass of water and piece
of bread" Mr.. X. dropped from 1907
Please, sir, don't know the words fol
water and bread; we always did oul
sentences last year in beer and cheese. ,
Yale Record.
MACALLIsTER attributes the low
grade of civilization of the Australian
aborigines to the total absence from thu
continent of ferocious and powerful ami
mails, the comparative ease with which
the poor and limited quantity of tnei
food was obtained, and their nationa
isolation.
BosToN precocity-Jack (aged II
years or under) :-"I trust, Tommy
that you believe in the non-essentiality
of pre- existent first cause" Tommy
ooh, certainly. At least, l 60 no fur
Their back than the primordial atomic
globule." Exeunt, driving their hoops
Harvard Lampoon.
THE Russian Government discourage!
the travel of its subjects toforeign coun'
tries, for fear of injury to their moral Of
political views In order to retain then
at home, the price of the pass, without
which no Russian is allowed to leave hi.
country, has been lately increased from
five roubles to 100 roubles for each veal
of life abroad.
THE success attending NJ. Manchon's
system of lighting his cloth factory al
R0uan with alecfricitu 10 rrononnna6