The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-05-04
MISCELLANEOUS.

The Canadian banks were forbidden
last July to Issue any more "a bills, but
b. some queer freak the public demands
them, and the Dominion Government
will hereafter issue bills or that denomi-
natioa.-0 Chicago Herald
AT. a recent dinner party in New
York the colored servants were dressed
in the style, of a century ago, and looked
as If they had stepped out of pictures of
Mount Vernon in the good old days
when George Washington was lord of
the manor.
The disposition of colored people to
visi. and console sick friends is Illus
strated in case in Georgia. A colored
woman was attacked by collie. About
one hundred of her sympathizing
friends collected around her bedside.
The floors gave way and the house was
wrecked.-N. KaHerald.
tts Our fashionables will be dismayed
to learn that the most polished nation in
the world has decided it is not now s.the
thing to wear awatch chain in view.
What in the world is to become of the
massive plated chain cables to which our
watches are suspended ?--DetroI Free
Press. sass-
ai--In Ruval County, Florida, dwells a
polygamist with three wives. A negro
deemed it a duty to prosecute him, and,
after gathering the requisite proof,
started for the Court House to make a
complaint. He had gone only a few
miles when the polyganous husband
overlook and shot him.-Chieago Neucs.
Mr. Vanderbilt is now perfectly con-
tent to be admired and envied simply as
the driver of Maud S., whom he has just
brought to New York. He is to be seen
in the Park every pleasant afternoon, is
often accompanied by General Grant or
Mr.. .Lorillard, and would rather talk
about.the turf than anything else. IN. Y
San.
A Brooklyn man gets $500 from a
dentist who broke one, of his teeth and
let the fragment fan into the windpipe,
where it stuck. The patient was under
the influence of gas at the time, didn't
know what had happened, was doctored
for bronchitis, and only sued the dentist
after coughing up the ivory at the end
of long sickness.
One British boast is, that they de-
test the shams of America. When they
construct a work it is constructed for all
time. And yet, a corps of British en-
gineers built a $4,000, 900 breakwater at
Madras, but when it was lately finished
and announced as ready for business, q
storm came up and tore out the break
water by the roots.-DetroI Post and
Tribune. e@'A &
aai1-'Don't talk to me about the advan-
tages of an education" Indignantly ex-
claimed certain manufacturer lately.
.'Here / spent $4,000 on that boy of
mine.s He came out of college with fly
ing colors. I put him in charge of the
factory while / went off for a little vaca-
ton, and what do you suppose he did ?
Shipped 10000 of my new patent inn
proved snow-shovels to South America. :"
philadelphia Neags.
The estate of Ko Kun Hua, the late
Chinese professor at Harvard College, is
valued at $4,000. His widow, who was
appointed administrative, signed her
name ''Ko; before marriage, Vas"
The children are named Ko Poh-fu Ko
Joona ia, Ko Wan-Lan, Ko Wanting,
Ko Wan-Ku, Ko Shu-Ju. The rights of
administration were transferred to Mr..
Horace D.. Chaplin by Mrs. Ko just be-
fore her departure for China.
Said the Texas man to his Northern
guest: g There isn't much fun going on
this week. Now if you'd come week
ago I could have taken you to three
lynchings and dance, but just now
there ism much sport on hand How
ever, if you like, we'll go down to the
saloon and start fight. I've no doubt
the boys would 90 in to make it pleasant
for a stranger" Texans are hospitable
men.
DIR. Hammond says that great many
persons are afflicted with the reasoning
mania. y We are compelled to add to
this statement our conviction that the
number, large as it is, bears very small
proportion to the countless hosts who
have an unreasoning mania. Physical
science is certainly very irving and very
exasperating. II ones brains are as wet
and soggy as the muck of marsh he
is called an idiot; if ones brain is so ac-
tive that it dives into everybody's affairs,
peers through the keyhole of every cham
Der and prizes into every possible secret,
he has reasoning mania; and if he has
just intellect enough to mind his own
business, and nothing more-well, the
number Of the latter is SO extremely
small that, as yet, science has not CLASH
fed them.-N Y. San.