The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-11-16
MISCELLANEOUS,

berry jam were replevined by an injured
| Illinois husband from his wife, who had
gone to her father Chicago HeraId.
The explosion of kerosene lamp
at Plymouth, Me-, did not hurt Mrs
Miles much, and the loss of the dress
which she Wore was of small account;
out in burned pocket was 81 300 in
paper money.-N Y. SIN.
The smelling furnaces at the Ely
copper mines. near Waterbury, VT,
have destroyed vegetation in the vicinity
of the mines, and the farmers there
abouts have brought suits for heavy
damages against the mine owners.
"A ragged tramp complained in q
Washington police court a few days ago
that he, while asleep in park, had been
robbed of pair of Henry Clay's panta-
looms, which he had been keeping as a
memento of that great man. Washing
ton Star
A woman witness in Louisville
court suddenly surprised the examining
counsel by saying: believe me, /
didn't mean to tell a story just now, but
| do want to take something back that
have just said. 1 was frightened -
Courier Journal.
Some of the peculiarly designated
clues of New York are: "The Triple
Club, The Ancient Order of Egyp-
tian Monks" 1.-The Honorable Order of
E. Campus Nitas,' The Noble Order
of Guinea Witches" 1.-The Wizoons of
Gotham etc, etc. They are all
''stuffed clubs after meetings.
A physician writes the Concord IN.
H. Monitor an account of the sufferings
of a lady in Chester who is slowly
dying from having swallowed eight pins
which she placed in her mouth Novem-
Der ID, 1881. Several were extracted
from her throat, but the majority of the
pins remain and are causing her intense
pain. The surgeons are unable to afford
relief.
While cripple named Divine, liv-
ing in Montgomery, Orange County, N.
L., was STOPPING over fence to gather
some catnip growing on the other side,
his crutches slipped from under him and
he fell with his neck wedged between
two pickets on the fence. He choked to
death and his lifeless body was found
hanging on the fence the next day.
-One large oyster stew, a large steak,
a dish of fried potatoes, two ears of corn,
three fried eggs, three lamb chops, dish
OF stewed chicken, two cups of coffee.
two pieces of pie, a loaf of bread and
half pound of crackers constituted the
dinner of New York man. Of what
the man was constituted deponent saith
not, but the man was engaged on anoth-
er halfpie when the observer left.-N,
Y. Mall
AT a dance at Calabasas, Arizona,
Jim Smith shot and killed the floor man
aTer who announced quadrile when
Smith wanted a waltz. The next day he
shot and killed another man who had
dared to say that the deceased had not
been given "fair show In the words
OF the Tombstone Epitaph: AT last ac-
counts Mr.. Smith was a prominent and
respected citizen of Calabasas, with moth
ing to mar his pleasures, sports and
pastimes.
Not even the cottage where Garfield
breathed his last speaks more eloquentlv
this autumn at Long Branch than the
lofty new house of William Garrison,
upon the only hill there, where the last
scion of a great fortune made his brief
dwelling. and in a morning persisted,
leaving to survive him a strong old man
whose white hairs tell the pain of half a
century's labor, and no son on whom to
confer the increase.-N. Y Tribune.
The daughter of one of Denver's
best citizens-it always is the daughter
OF ''best citizen in such case, and
the girl is always young, handsome and
accomplished-wa caught by her father
at the dead hour of night at the ground
end of rope. Her lover was waiting
for her behind convenient tree, but SO
soon as he saw the old man he fled, and
the daughter was returned to her room
and locked in. The next day it appeared
that the romantic lover was an ex-con
Wet discharged only few days before
from the Canon City Penitentiary.-
Denuer Tribune,
DR.. Virgins, the other weather
prophet of Canada, predicts that tre-
mendous storm will sweep this planet in
March, 1883, beginning in the northern
Pacific seas, and crossing the meridian
OF Ottawa at noon of the 18th. India.
the south of Europe, England, and es-
peclally the North American continent,
will be the theater of the ravages. The |
low lands of the Atlantic will be sub
and on the ocean, no vessel less
than an ocean steamer will be able olive
in the tempest. The recent gale that
visited this continent was predicted by
DIR. Virgins four months before it came
to pass.-DetroI Post.
The Absent Minded Man and His Box,
81 was going to Kinzua, when
young man got on at Warren and sits
down side of me, and bym'by SAYS he
I've little box here / call my bean
box With that he pulls out a little
round box an shakes it, an hears
'omethin' rattle. Now SAYS be, .s'pose
we jest bet the cigars on there being odd
Or even beans in that box All right
says |, it's odd.' You've lost saws
ne, Yes. says |; well get the cigars
1t kinZua.' And then we falls to taiEin'