The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-05-25
MISCELLANEOUS.

Whether are we drifting?' asked
crank who has been tied to a single
idea and stuck in The mud for quarter
of century. ~. O. Picayuae. fF9
Over 1000 more brass bands in this
country this year than last, and yet the
base drum Founders go at their work
| without the culver of a lip. -NeU Haven.
/ Register.
Jamaica ginger has been declared
coming summer time when that Sheriff
| gets too much cucumber aboard, the in
habitants of that district will dance in
glee about him while be suffers, and no
Jamaica ginger will assuage his grief
Courser-JoavnG.
Mr.. Partridge. the newly appointed
Minister to Peru, has been for many
years widower, and is now childless,,
his two daughters having died not long
ago. He is fifty-four years old, and was
graduated at Harvard. He has travelled
much abroad, and has some literary
tastes. Chicago Tribune.
Dan Rice tells with great gusto q
story how he once played draw poker
ON Long Island with Count Louis, who
was afterwards known to the world as
Napoleon LII. Il beat him." says the
famous circus man. "He died in nv
debt. Peace to his remainsi Like him,
| too, have found my Sedan.-M 7.
| Post. '-
PIT. Barnum says: ssSeme people
think it a fine social thing to say when
they meet their friends: How are you,
my boy? Let's take drink 1t would
be more sensible thing for a man to go
out with his pockets full of baked pota-
| toes and say, when he meets friend:
How are you, my boy9 Let's eat po-
| tato,'''
/ Near Blacksbury, Va, there was
lately born a wonderful lamb, which has
! its heart ON the outside of its body,
where.It may be seen throbbing and pal
/ pitating as normally as if it were in its
proper place. The lamb apparently
swooned away upon q mans laying his
hand upon its heart, and when the hand
was removed the lamb recovered again.
In tearing down the old Postofice
building in Cleveland copper box was
taken from the cornerstone, but the
contents, with the exception of few
coins of 1850 and 1855, were so decayed
from mold and dampness as to be en-
tirely nlegible. The box had, however,
not been properly sealed, and the place
where it was deposited was nearer the
roof than the ground. - Cleueland Leo
der.
j =" joaquin Miller's wife, Minnie
Myrtle is dying over in New Jersey"
says the New York correspondent OF the
Indianapolis Journal ..She wrote
poetry after he left her, then lectured
then married { 1 have forgotten his
name) but life has been too severe for he,
and she has succumbed. Miller still
lives with his new wife nee Leland)
but he never speaks of her to his friends,
never acknowledges that he is married,
always goes into society without her,
and has never been seen with her even
on the street"
/ i'm the winter of 1854, twenty -eight
years ago, DIR. w. g. Avery, of Green's
boro, Ala, while hunting, lost a gold
watch, hunting-case English lever.
This watch was returned to him one day
last week by colored man, who found
it on that day, about one mile from the
good condition and, considering the
length of time it has been exposed to the
weather, is comparatively bright IT
was identified by the initials of the
owner, engraved ON the outside of the
case.
One of the most singular of the many
pistol accidents was that by which a
woman was killed at Georgetown, Cal.
Her brother was explaining how afriend
had been shot with weapon supposed
to be unloaded. He illustrated the &C
count by taking a revolver from his
pocket "But," he said, II won't be
foolish enough to point it at anybody. Z"
Then he turned round, and as he did SO
it went off, the bullet striking his sister.
He declares that he had not cooked it,
1 and did not touch the trigger. - Chicago
Herald.
4 "A few days ago the ferryman at
Meals Ferry, on the Chattahoochie
River, while putting some passengers
/ over in his fiat, discovered box floating
down the river. After the fiat had landed
its passengers, the ferrynlan seized q
batteau and made his way to the box,
which he soon overhauled, and was
astonished to find that it contained a
sweet little babe. 1t was white child,
well dressed, with plenty of good
clothes besides. Some old people who
live in the neighborhood have taken and
will raise the little Moses.-C Chicago
Times .fa TerAg a 81 81 S4s
Miss Maggie Kingsleygef Bombay,
Franklin County, New York, niece Of
\ William. Kingsley, prominent Brook.
lyn politician. apparently died q few
days ago, and lay as If dead for nine
days. While the body was being pre-
pared finally for interment she came to
life, having been in a trance, and is still
living She would have been buried
but that sheehad once before been IN !
similar trance, though for less length
of time. The original cause of her sick.
ness is said to have been grief because
OF the departure of a brotherfrom home
N 7. San. a,ssss ~ =
"A Prickly Pear, Montana, farne,
has pointer dog with dissipated habits
contracted from too intimate association