The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-06-22
MISCELLANEOUS.

che cotton crop every year. IS
sA ---Agmertgage ON personal property,
which was recorded in Boston the other
day, provided for. q rate of interest at
hfty per cent. per annuIn. g..,.sses..a IL,
An English journal says; = .:Among
American patents in a list before us are
five for obiiterating smallpox marks.
etc. The ingredients are ptimice stone.
elderhower, glyeefine, soap and fatty
matter. = ss9 lisM s.sas1Es{ Ogs
+ ---"Amieus Cato, amicus Plato, ami
Gus Cieere,l sed major yeritas.' y The
next. morning the lawyer found himself
reported in the newspapers as follows:
81 may cuss Cato, ! may cuss Plato,
may cuss Cicero, said Major Veritas. ''-
~. YPost as 80 %ssst ssio lsis& 3
"A three ear-old baby on exhibition
in Petersburg, Va, weighs lao pounds,
and the fnder-4p0edt, which is an au-
-thority in such matters, says that he is,
moreover, very pretty little mountain
OF flesh, as clean as a whistle and as fat
as a pig. g,,t5,..s.,s .sa.Ia,gfs
In a large Cincinnati billiard hall
two men had a fight with. pool, balls.
The missiles were thrown with reckless
force, not only injnring the combatants,
but smashing about all gthe glass in the
place, denting the fine woodwork, and
bruising several spectators. The repairs
would cost 81, poo X. isap.
4ss7-TGeneral e Abe Bufofd, the. con-
yerted turfman, of Kentucky in a speech
IN church thezothers night, lamented the
morals OF the turf, and said ipool-sellino
had degraded, a sport which, properly
conducted, was entirely compatible with
earnest christianity.-N Y. Graphic.
= -Naturalists tell us that the sting-ray,
starfish, prawn, boring winkle and
gryphen are the deadliest enemies of the
oyster. That's all the naturalists know
about it. The worst enemy the oyster
has is the spirituelle woman of 1877 pounds
when she declares. after the theater, that
she cannot eat a single morsel-oh, in
deed, no.-Burlington Haws-Eye.
Constable Davis, OF Summerfeld.
ILL.,, deserted his wife for no other reason
than that she had lost the beauty which
had distinguished her as girl. The
young men Of the town concluded to tar
and feather him and ride him on
rail-. Tar was lacking at the last
moment, and molasses was fused instead;
but the mobbing proved highly satisfac-
tory to all concerned, except tie con-
stable Chicago Ne,os.
"A young medical student at, Bow.
Coin College once asked Professor Cleye-
land, OF that institution, if there were not
some more recent works on anatomy than
those in the college library. ~ Dung
man, said the Professor, measuring the
entire mental caliher of the youthful
scholar at one glance, .'there have been
very few new bones added to the. human
body during the last ten years" - Chi
cage Inter- Ocean. e
A report has been published show.
ing the number OF accidents to riders
and pedestrians-in the streets of Paris
last year. The numbered persons killed
during the twelve months was 103, and |
OF wounded ,0S4. ThesefgHres include
only those persons who were SO seriously
injured as to need the assistance of the |
police. The frequency of accidents of |
this kind is attributed to the excessive /
number of vehicles. 1t is calculated that
there are %, $50 cabs and onnibuses |
plying daily in the streets of Paris.
Joseph X. Emmett, the actor. re-
Gently purchased huge st. Bernard doc
named Bayard, for which he paid to Nh.
rope, OF boston, the fancy price of (
$1,000. The dog measures seven feet
from nose to tail-tip. and weighs 200
pounds. Emmett introduced him in the
first scene of ,s'sFritz in Ireland lone
night last week. but Bayard made. such |
. COMPOUNDED objection to the Villain
stealing the little girl that the perform
ance came to stand still until the dog
could be coaxed off.-Boston Post. i
Victoria, the sixteen wear.
Did daughter of the Crown Princess. Of
Germany, was confirmed recently with
her cousin Leopold, the son of Prince
Frederick Charles The service was cell
ebrated in magnificent state apartment
arranged as a chapel, and the Grown I
Princess herself brought in her Young
daughter, dressed in plain gown al
white silk, with her fair hair drawn back
rom her round -habyish mfaee.as-O One eIl-
nous part OF the ceremony was the read
ng aloud by the Prince and Princess Of |.
heir confession of faith, a document
which, according to an old tradition of i
he House of Hohenzollern, had been
irawn up by the candidates for confir-
nation themselves. atst.s' Il
1t was on Lookout Mountain, at
Chattanooga, a New-Yorker stood on
Pilot Knob and looked down in the val
ey, and exclairned: s.How rrandr,
That's ten cents extra replied the
guide, as he extended his hand. ssWhat
charming prospeet!p continued the
1isitor. That's a fifteen-cent .expres-
ion-pay at the gate as you go out!'' F
Here has Nature mingled the grand
With the beautiful-the sublime with the
oyely--the majesty of the mountain |
With the loneliness Of the valley, F.
Colonel, that's one of our regular fifty.
ent oyations. 1t viii be charged in
With your hotel-bill.'i ssViIIain. how
lare you, said the Yorker, as he seized
nm and backed him to the edge of the !!
liff. Don't you do it, ColoneIl'' calm
y observed the man. 'sThrowine 4
'uide off the Knob always costs two
oliars nnore-pay at the TOLERATE "a Won