The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-04-06
MISCELLANEOUS.

The Chicago men who are to build
the Texas Capitol own tract OF land in
Texas five times the size of Rhode Island.
Louisville talks of establishing free
art gallery, where citizens may pass the
time between drinks. Chicago Ne,Us.
Chicago would have one. too, but she
has no time between drinks. --Louisuille
Courier.
"A New York police inspector who
had received five hundred dollars reward
for the arrest of murderer has turned
over the money to the trustees of fund
for the benefit Of the family of the muir
dered man.
The New York shaver who read his
verse the other day, s'Keep thy tongue
from evil and thy lips from girls had
no authority, perhaps, for his revised
version, but the teaching was sound
Buffalo Express.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt
have built cottage at st. Johnland, L.
l., in memory of deceased daughter.
1t is to be home for orphan girls, has
twenty-six beds, and Mr.. Vanderbilt is
to pay all running expenses.
"A correspondent of the Buffalo Er-
press relates the following on the author
ity of a friend lately returned from
abroad: ''Mr. Oscar Wilde, paying
morning visit to a lady, surprised her
| busting some articles of vertu too pre-
cious to be intrusted to any hands but
her own. co. said he, what unne-
cessary labor! Dust should never be re-
moved; it is the bloom of time. !"
"A Cincinnati woman found some
"baking powder in secondhand cup
board she had bought, but as the biscuit
into which she had put it were not as
light as usual, level-headed neighbor
| advised her to find out what the white
| powder was. 1t proved to be morphine.
The woman who would leave morphine
in cupboard, and the woman who would
| use it without making inquiries about it,
| are enough alike to be twins. Detroit
Free Press. ~
Louisville had case of tall oaks
from little acorns the other day, repre-
sented, respectively, by matrimony and
SNOWFALL. A boy threw SNOWFALL
| at the driver of carriage and knocked
| his hat off. Consequently the carriage
| was hindered so that it missed train,
consequently the occupants, a young
runaway couple, didn't get on board,
consequently when the girls parents
I came a few minutes later they were
| caught, and consequently there was no
wedding. -Sprtngfetd Mass. Republic
| an. s
The full returns from the Ryan
Sullivan fight are not all in yet. A st.
Louis man has been killed while eight
| ing it FER again" with another man who
disagreed with him on its merits, and
telegraph operator at Canton, O., was,
while discussing the subject, tempted to
show how much of a blow he could
stand, by requesting friend to strike
him in the breast. His friend struck him
what is described as moderately
heavy blow which caused him to fall.
He did not rise, and an examination
proved that he was dead.
The Boston "counter-jumpers" have
formed a ''Mutual Culture and Benefit
Association" the principal object of
which is to allow its members to 90 to
Europe. Each member subscribes fifty
cents week for the first twenty weeks.
This fund will be enough to send one
out of every twenty-five members to
Europe, the employers agreeing to pay
their salaries during their absence. Two
out OF every twenty-five members will
therefore see Europe each ten months,
and the whole number be able to 60 in
the course of ten years.
| An old woman named Martha
Agnes Boothe arrived in st. Louis the
other day from Louisville en- route for
Texas, with a black pipe and a long
knife, with which she threatened to cut
any one who interfered with her smok-
ing. She had no baggage whatever, no
money to take her to Texas, and nothing
to do when she got there, but she said
she had lived in Louisville long enough,
and wanted change. The police au-
thorities sent her back to Louisville,
whence, day or. two afterward, she
was returned to st. Louis. This game
| of battledore and shuttlecock could not
be kept up forever, and so she was put
ON train for Texas, to be thrown off,
probably, at the first station. This
seems to be a rather queer amusement
for two civilized communities to indulge
in, to say the least Of it.
| If 1cW years ago 0ouu helcnaTJ, OF
Erie, Pa, fell down, striking onhis right
hand After time his little finger be-
gan to swell badly, when he consulted
physician. But medical treatment avail
ed nothing, and theswelling grew worse
and worse, until he was advised to have
the arm amputated. But to this he would
not consent. The affiictioni is charcter-
lied by the medical profession as either
hypertrophy, an enlargement of the fatty
substance, or exostosis, morbid en-
largement of the bone. For over eleven
years the abnormal growth has been
slowly but surely progressing, until to-
day his hand is swollen to the size of a
mans head, while his forearm is as large
as mans thigh. By actual measure
ment his little finger is eight and one
half inches in Misunderstanding
than wrist. The palm of his hand is
fifteen inches in circumference, and
wrist eighteen. From the wrist the
swelling extends nearly to the elbow.
"A New York correspondent says !:
1.-The topic of building reminds me of