The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-10-05
MISCELLANEOUS.

he OlleSt IOuSe Ill Tie Ulllteu states
Is said to be in Guilford, Conn. 1t was
used in olden times as a block-house.
The place is we'll cared for and does not
show its age.
In Germany it is considered the
height of vulgarity for a gentleman and
a lady to sit on the same sofa. Emigra-
ton TO this country increases annually.
philadelphia Ne,Os.
Punch describes the English summer
as follows:
" Three months of gloom that each year grow
eth glummer;
That sums the sell that is called English
summer"
A convict says he was sent to prison
for being dishonest, and yet he is COM
PEELED every day to cut out pieces of
pasteboard, which are put between the
soles OF the cheap shoes made there and
palmed off on the innocent public as
Observation-Disclosures News.
The new station of the Signal Serv-
ice on Pixies Peak is to be of stone,
44x29 feet in size. 1t will contain an
office, reception-room, kitchen and two
bedrooms. The work of construction
will not be easy, for everything which
goes into the building, except the stone,
must be ''paoked" up the trail, dis
lance OF fifteen miles, covering a rise of
5000 feet. The station will cost about
$4,000.
Near the village of Kirkmansville,
in Todd County, KY, there lives man
who has twice learned to walk, twice
learned to talk, is blind in one eve, is
deaf in one ear, is married to his aunt,
which makes him cousin to his children,
uncle to his brothers and sisters and
cousins, brother-in-law to his father and
mother, and-well, for further informa-
ton call on the gentleman himself
Chicago Times.
"A gigantic kite has been success
fully and easily flown at Brockport. Its
frame was made of lumber two inches
wide by half an inch thick, and was
covered with MANILA paper. The sur
face contained nearly two hundred and
fifty square feet, After the monster had
floated mile high, for couple of
hours, it was hauled down by means of
a team and the aid of a pulley.-M Y.
Sun.
"A French photographer boasts of
having been able to catch the impression
of flying bird. There is nothing at all
wonderful about that. An Austin man,
who has no scientific attachments what
ever, without any effort on his part,
caught the impression of flying bat. 1t
was avery clear impression. The flying
bat was brick-bat. He was offering a
resolution at ward meeting when the
accident occurred. TEXAS Siftings.
What does life consist of with most
OF us? Of nothing more nor less than
making a tremendous noise in the world
during our babyhood and then awaking
to the fact that during the rest of our
mortal career the world will like us best
if we keep still and mind our own bust
ness. The children who give promise of
becoming great men are somehow ham,
pered by circumstances and never come
to much.-M Y. Herald.
The Gridley (Cal) Herald is re-
sponsible for the following: A private
letter from Prattville informs us that P.
r. Welsh. of Humbug, caught a four
pound trout, in the bladder of which he
found small pellet of tin-foil. Inside
the pellet, covered with sealing-wax, was
ten-dollar greenback dated Washing
ton, April 10, 1876. As the object was
held in the bladder by growth of thin
skin over it, it is clearly evident that the
flsh must have swallowed it some time
ago. What motive caused the currencv
to be thus fixed up and thrown away is
a mystery.
"A man named John Naulty died in
Bucnos Ayres in 1879, leaving a half
million dollars. He had met while there
beautiful girl, whom he sent to Phila-
delphia to be educated and then to be
made his wife. Then he came to claim
fulflllment of her promise. She had
met another, younger. fairer. She was to
marry him, though he had not dollar.
The old man gave up all his claim.
MARRY" he said, ''and God bless
YOU" When his will was opened the
name of the bride, whom he had edu-
Gated for another, was found there
CHICAGO Herald.
The cold glare of mathematics often
exposes what otherwise would pass un-
A pauper in San Francisco
claimed to be ninety-three years old and
the nephew of the historically renowned
Pocahontas. A troublesome chap, with
an aptitude of dates and calculations.
and something of a memory, heard the
mans claims and calculated that the
paupers mother must have been 146
years old when her son was born, and
that Pocahontas did not become his aunt
until III years after her death, she hay
ing died of small-poxin Englandin 1917
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