The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-04-27
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A young attorney at Brownsville,
Ky, who failed to get license to prac-
tiee law, has gone to chopping wood for
q living.
"A rattlesnake confined in a cage for
eleven months shed its skin four times,
ate sixty rats, and, although it had ac-
cess to tank of water, an apparatus
prepared for the purpose proved it had
never drank a drop.
The London Guardian saws that.
Gin spite of anti-religious manifestations,
there never was time when religion
commanded more intelligent interest
than in these days. This comedies with
the fact that theological books took the
lead in the literary publications of En-
gland for 1881. go.
Half the silver half dollars circulated
in Montana are alleged to be counter
feits made by the Chinese in San Fran
cisco. They are described as of exactly
the weight of the genuine ones, and of
one thirty-second part of an inch larger
In diameter. They contain only sixteen
cents worth of silver, which is all on the
surface.-C Chicago Meas.
Don't scowl; it spoils faces. Before
you know it your forehead will resemble
small railroad map. There is a grand
trunk line now from your cowliek to the
edge OF your nose, intersected by paral-
lei lines, running east and west, with
curves arching Your eyebrows; and oh,
how much older you look for it! Scowl-
ing is habit that steels on us unawares.
-HfSconsin State journal.
There is considerable evidence to
show that Nathan d. Marshall, of Cam
den, who committed suicide, was infiu-
enced to take his own life by his extraor-
binary friendship for Horace Hammel,
the defaulting secretary of the Newton
Building Association. The two men had
lived upon terms of the closest intimacy
from boyhood, and the horror of testify
ing against his lifelong friend, at whose
trial he had been summoned as witness,
is thought to have unbalanced Mr.. Mar
shall's mind. At least there was no other
known cause for the act of an estimable
citizen.-C Chicago Times.
"A lady of rank, proudly conscious of
her dignity, one day descanting on the
superiority OF the nobility, remarked to
large company of visitors that the three
classes OF the community-nobility, gem
try, and commonalty-m might very well
be compared to the three materials, china,
deli and erockery. A few minutes
elapsed, when one of the company ex-
pressed desire to see the ladv's little
girl, who was in the nursery. John, the
footman, was dispatched with orders to
the nursery-maid, to whom he called out
from the bottom of the stairs, in an audi
bic voice: '.Hollo. Crockery, bring little
China!''
-Epitaph hunters may be glad to know
that a rich reward awaits the enterpris-
ing searcher in the lonely mountain
gulches of Colorado. The following
specimens will serve to illustrate the
prevailing sentiment of these last trib-
utes:
He had sand in his craw,
But was slow on the draw;
SO we planted him out in the dew;
which is equivalent to saying that il is
essential to be quick as well as brave.
Another inscription thus accounts for a
tragedy in which man shot his wife
and then killed himself in dismal
guleh near Del Norte: 1.-TWO poor ten
stand the altitude. ~
Chicago Tribune.
About year ago tree fell across
the platform of street-car in the out
skirts of Philadelphia and seriously in
jured the conductor, who expected to be
q cripple for the rest of his life. All
sense or feeling had departed from his
lower limbs, upon. which not even a gal
vanic shock produced the slightest effect,
and several doctors gave up his case as
hopeless. About a fortnight ago the
conductor, while reaching as far as pos
sible for an article above his head. felt |
something in his back snap suddenly and
When he recovered from his
alarm he found that sensation had re-
turned to his lower limbs, and he is now
at work on his car again with his old
health and strength. = Chicago Herald.
"A strange phenomenon was OBJ
served the other day at Bartlett's Reef |
Lightship, off Saybrook, Conn, which re-
sembled tidal wave on a circumscribed |
scale. The vessel was lying perfectly |
still on a sea calm as mill-pond, and |
not breath of wind stirred the atmos-
ohere, when all at once an area of about |
l quarter of an acre was lifted out of the |
iepths to height of twenty-five feet,
,hurned into foam, and in a second threw
he lightship ON her beam ends, almost
'wamping her. The. phenomenon sub
'ided as quickly as it appeared, but the
oillowy roll continued for a long time
lfterward. Captain Edwards, who was
IN board at the time, states that he saw
! similar occurrence about the same place
nearly sixteen years ago. /
George B. Wall, of New Utrecht,
Y. T., in his dying observations regret
ed that he did not begin right with Mrs.
Vail. He said that if he had thrashed
her well when she first struck him she
would not have repeated it, and have
,otten into the custom of beating him,
he never returning it because he would
lot strike woman. From the neglect
# conjugal discipline it came about that
N day when Mrs. Wall had missed the
en- clock train, and had come back to
'ent her mischance on Mr.. Wall in the
lsual way, and he, for the sake of peace,
lad left the house, she followed and
etched him back, and then shot him
l. - ~