The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-04-20
MISCELLANEOUS.

man, and the father of twelve children,
has discovered himself to be the only
living heir to an estate in Lexington
worth $50, O00.- Chicago Times.
"A new, and it is to be hoped unique.
way of Furnishing children in the Buffalo
Orphan Asylum is by letting the sash of
a heavy window down upon their hands,
thus combining and torturing them in
spite of their groans and cries.
A Baltimorean wishes to sell to the
Federal Government, for 81 500, General
Washington's sword-knot. 1t is well
preserved, is of silk and silver tinsel bull
lion, with tinsel rosette, and its genu-
ineness is said to be well attested.
Give us a man, young or old, high
or low, on whom we know we can thor
oughly depend-who will stand firm
when others fall-the friend faithful and
true, the adviser honest and fearless, the
adversary just and chivalrous; in such an
one there is a fragment of the Rock of
Ages.-DeGn Stanley. tfJ
Some folks are pesky injudicious.
When two men get to lighting in a back
yard. somebody is very likely to rush out
and disturb and bother a quiet-loving
policeman about it when he has no desire
to see the fight or have anything to do
about it.-.Boston Post. ~ %
Captain Percival. a Cape Cod mari
ner of the old school, was once awakened
in his bunk by shipmate with the an
nouncement s.that the vessel was going
to eternity .sWell," replied the Cap
tain, I've got ten friends over there to
one in this world; let her co., And he
turned over and went to sleep again
N z. San. ' = '''s' 5s,.
Eight hundred and sixty-four dogs
were stolen in New York last year, for
which Sc, 913 reward was offered and $50
questions were notasked. There are sup
posed to be eight professional dog steal-
ers, each of whom, it will be readily seen,
makes an average OF 1854 a year out of
this singular industry. 3ad spas l.
Paradise Valley, in San Diego
County, California, seems to deserve its
name, since it yields all manner of
fruits. The apple, orange, lime, lem on,
fig, olive, guava, peach, pear, grape,
strawberry, apricot, etc., flourish there.
Some brown Turkish figs grown there
measured four inches in length and sig
inches in circumference. 7....s= 5.,ss
"A pretty Philadelphia girl, on being
asked why her engagement had been
broken off, replied: You see, he came
tome one day with an album in his pocket
and proudly displayed the autograph OF
Charles j. Guiteau, which he went to
Washington on purpose to get. / was
not anxious to marry born fool, so we
parted. Chicago Times. gl
From circular issued by the Secre-
tary of the Miners National Union it APP
pears that 81, 900 persons have been kill
ed in various ways during the past thir-
ty-one years in English mines. 'sOur
| modernized mode of working mines, -
writes the Secretary, sis rendering ca
tastrophies of this kind of a huge mag
| nitude. - PIG 80
| Gas filters have recently made a
most useful application of photography.
| They photograph the gas flames given
by different burners or Jets SO that a Gus
toner can see if the shape and form of
light will suit him before he gives his
order. As the flames are moreover de-
picted ''Gfe-size'' the purchaser can al
ways tell whether his jet is up to the
standard.
"A man who is ordinarially intelli-
gent in most matters expressed surprise
the other day on being told that the per-
sons representing foreign countries at
! the seat of the National Government as
Ministers, are not religious preachers.
He thought, in his innocency, that all
ministers are preachers! Some people
live to learn, but it takes them a long
time.-Chtcdg0 Journal.
Here is q real adventure in the far
West for boys to read: Christian Alison,
aged twelve, wandered into Utah. He
was employed awhile on sheep ranch,
| but was too small to do the work, and
was discharged For twenty days the
poor little fellow trudged aimlessly
about, in bitterly cold weather, scantily
clothed and fed. One day he was found
insensible in snow drift, with a little
| flour in tin pail as his entire stock OF
provisions, and so badly frozen that, on
being sent to Salt Lake for treatment his
feet were amputated.- 7. Sun.
The problem of cooperative stores
and other plans of economizing is an old
and yet ever new one. One of the latest
enterprises of the kind, Consumers
Coal Company, has been formed in New
York with cash capital of $500, 900, the
par value of shares being five dollars.
The company was formed to supply coal
consumers at affair price and full weight,
and to protect them, especially the poorer
classes, from extortion. The coal will be
delivered in specially constructed bags
OF different weights, sealed so that they
cannot be tempered with. Coupon tick
cts viii be issued to stockholders at re-
duced price, each one representing ton
of coal. These can be transferred to the
poor, if the stockholders are charitably
| inclined. The managers expect to pay
dividends to the stockholders as well as
giving them coal at rebate from SEIZED.
RI. prices. it8
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| P. I. Barnum, who, having attend.
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