The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-02-24
MISCELLANEOUS.

The sect of the entomologist-in.
sect.
The Prince of Wales started the
fashion of wearing ulsters.
The census shows that Iowa is
ahead of any other State on babies.
"A sixteenth interest in Goat Island,
at Niagara, has been sold for $4,000.
"A mermaid on exhibition at St.
Louis proves to be half donkey and half
Goldfish.
OF the seventy-six United States
Senators only thirty-three were born in
the States which they represent.
The horse which Wilkes Booth rode
to the place of his capture after Presi-
dent Ltncoln's assassination belongs in
Abingdon, Conn, and is good traveller
though twenty three years old.
Michigan has female type-setter
who set up 5000 ms, made up the
paper, took in fifty dollars on.subscrip-
lions and sued the editor for breach of
promise, all inside of day and half,
SO says the Detroit Free Press.
"A Hartford (Conn.) man, on a
wager, drove from Manchester to Hart
lord, eight and three-quarter miles. in
thlrty-tWo minutes the other day. The
loser rode with him but took out an &C.
cldent insurance policy before starting.
This year Florida has had the cold
est weather since 1857 and with one
exception since 1885. About one-third
OF the orange crop has been marketed
otherwise it would have been total
loss. 1t is thought that the trees are
not injured, but the oranges and lemons
are frozen solid.
On each side of every compartment
in the railway car of India is a revolv-
ing lattice, which is constantly wet by
a reservoir of water on the top of the
carriage. A revolving lattice is in the
form of a spokeless wheel and is con-
structed of fibrous particles of bamboo,
| oocoanut and rice straw. When this is
thoroughly wet the hot air passing
through becomes cool and delicious.
| Sir Walter Scott was so persistent in
denying the authorship of the "Waver-
ly" novels that when Samuel Warren
wrote to him, asking for some literary
| advice, Scott replied: 81 am not the
author of those novels which the world
chooses to ascribe to me, and am there
fore unworthy of the praises due to that
| individual whoever he may be.
cannot be useful to you in the way you
propose.
| Mr.. Isaac Farwell, of Dorset, Vt,
who has just entered upon his 1O3d year,
appears to be acentenarian about whose
age there can be no doubt. He was a
soldier in the war of 1912, and since
| then has been a farmer. So active is he
that he daily walks from his farm to the
village, more than a mile away and does
the family marketing. He has had seven
| children. two of whom are still living at
the ages of seventy-fve and seventy.
There seems no improbability in his liv-
ing for several years to come.
Thomas Corwin, of Ohio, the famous
public speaker, once said: 1.-The trouble
with members of the bar is that they
don't get down low enough. They shoot
over the heads of the twelve numbskulls
before them. | have seen Ewing, Stan
berry and Hunter, leading luminaries as
they are, dumbfounded at being beaten
by some stump-tailed, penny-royal bull
of country attorney with no more law
IN his head than snake in dog days.
1 never score success in a Jury trial
that don't feel Inundated. Even if nv
side has the right, know l have used
means to win that ought to shame a
down east stock peddler''
Miss Coats had suspicion that
William Pullen did not mean to keen
his engagement to marry her. She kept
the toll-gate at Norristown, Ind, and
he, though seventy years old, fell in love
with her while dropping the small coins
into her hand. just before the time for
the wedding she sent him the following
written document: You are hereby
notified that you will be held to your
promise to the letter, and that if YOU
remain away, or in any manner fail to
keep said promise, you will so violate
your agreement at your peril, and will
be made to answer the penalty therefor
to the full extent of the law" That
made the old man angry and he refused
to marry her, though he had fully il.
tended to.
People who have never visited a
deer forest in Scotland are apt to picture
grass glades, paradises of fern, giant
oaks, and shady beeches, and the dreary
realityis usually agreat disappointment,
for g Forest is nothing but a vast
tract of moorland which has been "for-
ested, !. e., from which the sheep have
been removed. The deer would get on
perfectly well with the sheep if the lat
ter were left alone, but they have the
greatest aversion to shepherdsand dogs,
who are continually coming on the
scene. There is no sport in I" driving
deer-it is mere stupid butchery, but
stalking is not only splendid exercise
but the most exciting amusement con-
ceivable. =
The progress of languages spoken
by different people is said to be as fol.
lows: English, which at the commence
ment of the century was only snokon