The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-11-23
MISCELLANEOUS.

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antular," ''tirantler," .tarantler," 'stll-
rantel, " "trantler,'.' 'turtleanter," 'sty-
rantlee."
The Salt Lake Tribune speaks OF
pleasant polygamy and tells of a
woman who was made $50 happy by ii
that she jumped into a well.'
According to high legal authority.
man is twenty-one years of age and
entitled to vote on the day preceding
his twenty-lirst birthday, which is really
the first day of his twenty second year.
IoDa State Register.
"A novel question is agitating the
residents of Tucson, Arizona, as to
whether female who went through the
marriage vows with man on his dying
bed is maid or widow. The technical
proposition is that the physician ex-
claimed, just as the minister was pro-
nouncing them man and wife: "My
God, he's dead"
A school of sportive whales carried
away the propeller of the ocean steamer
Mount Lebanon and left her almost help
less far at sea. A passing steamer towed
the disabled craft to Halifax, where she
was found to have experienced so great
damage that she was unloaded and dry
locked for repairs.-N. 7. Sun.
Nowadays, when the traveller in the
Holy Land asks to be directed to the
Mount of Olives, he receives some such
reply as follows: go to the telegraph
station; turn to the right and follow the
railroad until you see a beer-garden;
then steer for the beer-garden, and you
can't miss it. ~, Y, Independent.
Eastern ladies have very pleasing
and fashionable habit of knitting silk
stockings for their very particular gem
uemen friends, and the very particular
gentlemen friends evince very pleasing
and cheerful alacrity in accepting them
IN lieu of the inevitable smoking cap or
embroidered slipper.-Christnaas Hint.
The model for the Lee monument
to be erected at New Orleans has been
completed and accepted by the Monu-
mental Society. General Lee is repre-
sented standing in an easy attitude,
wearing the full uniform of Lieutenant
General, the hand resting on the hip, a
favorlte and almost constant position of
the great leader of the Confederate
armies. The bronze statue will be fifteen
feet three inches in height. CHicaqc
Times.
Some genius has invented a little
article called s.fre- kinder" Unless
it is made in the shape of coal-oil-can.
the newly imported girl will not touch
it. If it contains something that will ex-
plode and knock the domestic end over
end over two or three chairs. and burn
Off her eyebrows, without doing any
other damage, there may be a large de-
mand for the ssfre- kinder Ctica0o In.
ter Ocean.
During a Deadwood quarrel the
other night a woman was seen to rush
between the combatants, and throwing
herself before one of them exclaimed to
the other: "Don't shoot, oh, please don't
shoot him. Greatly affected, the foe
lowered his revolver and asked in tremu-
lous tones: g Are you his sweetheart,
wife or sisterP' Mo- answered the
peacemaker, but this man has room
at my house and owes me three weeks
Tribune.
An eccentric but very handsome
I" turnout recently seen on the streets
OF London is described as follows: 1t
consisted of dark green dog-cart of
very light structure, with the wheels.
body and shafts picked out with red.
drawn by beautifully symmetrical mule
with light brown harness. The gentle
man who drove this equipage was well
dressed, swarthy personage-a West In
tian Creole-attended by an English
groom in irreproachable livery.
1t is the '' good old CUSTOM of the |
Piutes, who believe in the survival of the
ittest only, to kill off all the children
hat are deformed or idiotic. Near
Dayton. New, lives squaw who has a
reformed and idiotic boy. The other
lay delegation of braves went to her
tut to kill the boy, but the mother FOUGHT
70 vallantly with tongue, teeth and nails
hat she held the executioner and his as
istants at bay until some of her white
leighbors, aroused by her outcries, went
o her rescue and drove off the ATTACKING
orce.- Chicago Times.
For a long time the art of MAKING
vhat IS known as Egyptian black pot
cry has been lost to the world. The
lack is of a peculiarly brilliant appear
nee which modern makers have been
Unable to produce. But the owners of
lottery works in Devonshire, England.
re now putting forward the claim that
ne lost secret has been found by them.
support OF their claim they recently
Inhibited at the county fair an example
their work in that line which was
generally thought to furnish an admirable
rgument in their favor.