The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-08-03
MISCELLANEOUS.


some benefactor of the human race cam
invent some other excuse besides sea.
bathing for appearing without impro.
priety in scant costume.
A German barber who never spoke
except for some dish he wanted at the
table, has committed suicide in Philadel-
phia. 1t is a pity that such a jewel OF
the profession should have felt compelled
to take himself of. Chicago Herald
This is indeed an unfortunate sum-
mer for picnics. A huddle of men,
women and children in summer clothes
out in a grove this season, shivering
around a picnic table and calling Tor
''more mustard on that ham" is not an
inspiring sight. -Neao Havea Register.
The New York Senate passed bill
compelling the burial of the telegraph
wires. The San Francisco Wasp asks:
How would this do for an epitaph to be
given on the headstone of a telegraph
wire?
Once, overhead my lightnings flying,
made an art of lofty lying
Now here behold beneath Your toe
The lofty liar lying low
The art of lying men have found
SO sweet they've run it in the ground,
How many young ladies we daily
meet who are pretty-some beautiful
who dress richly and with taste, and
whose manners are apparently above re-
proach, until the wabbling of her mouth
reveals the fact that she is chewing gum.
Then all the charms she possessed van
lsh, and we observe only the rudeness of
her habit.-Criterion. The Criterion, it
should be said, is published in st. Louis.
NJ 0. Picayune.
The Albany On. " Times SAYS that
the son of wealthy parents in New Hamp-
shire, who is attending school in Albany,
was lately visited by two men, who pro-
duced deed purporting to be signed by
the boys parents, and conveying yalua-
BILE farming lands in Pennsylvania, and
asked him to certify to the signatures
and thus save them the time and expense
of a journey to New Hampshire to rem
edy the defect. The boy did as requested
and has since learned that the signatures
were forgeries.
General William Raymond Lee, OF
Boston, carries in his pocket-book lit
tie Slip of paper bearing the single word
"Death." 1t is the ballot he drew when
a prisoner of war in rebel Jail at Rich
mond, when he and two others were
chosen by lot to be hanged in retaliation
for the sentencing to death of certain
Confederate officers convicted of piracy.
The sentence of the pirates was, hap
PLY, committed, and General Lee and
his comrades were subsequently, ex-
changed.-Bosto,s Post.
The City Collector of Baltimore had
call, the other day, from prominent
Presbyterian minister, who paid him
~. o99.7l. The minister stated that one
OF his congregation had handed him
stout envelope marked, sS3, 899. L."
with the request that he would take it to
the City Collector, and pay it over to
him for the city treasury. The giver
stated that he had received it from an
unknown party, who had intimated that
1t was to pay what he thought he
owed the city for back State and citv
taxes: Collector Taylor opened it and
found 1t contained the amount named,
mostly in 300 and $50 bills. The
clergyman said he was entirely ignorant
as to who the party was whose con-
science had stricken him.
"A rumor was circulated in Mechan.
lcsville, N. T., the other evening, that a
human hand, apparently that of full
grown man, had been found in the ruins
OF Justice Talmage's Office, which was
burned recently and caused considerable
excitement. The man who found it took
it to shop, locked it up, and informed
the officers. The next morning it was
examined, and was found to be mans
glove with the fingers burned off. and
the remainder closely filed with ashes.
While parties were looking in the ruins
for other portions of the body to which
the supposed hand belonged, a Jimmy
was found, thus giving an assurance that
the building had been entered by burg
lars and set on fire.
When the Rev. Henry ard Beecher
was preparing his famous Lectures to
Young Men," he held long interview
with one OF the most notorious gamblers
IN the country, and then used the infor
nation about gambling and gambling
dens obtained from him in his wonder
fully realistic discourse on that subject.
After the delivery of the lecture sstoo
previous" young man tried to turn the
laugh on Mr.. Beecher by asking him
how he could describe a gamblino-hell
SO accurately if he had never been in
one. eff you never have been in one
yourself, :" retorted Mr.. Beecher, show
DO you know my description is accu.