The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-10-18
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A New / Ork man 0du HIS own sun
arrested and fined for profane swearing,
and then the father paid the fine. A
hickory switch would come cheaper
N. Y. Graphic.
The New York Real Estate Record
expresses an opinion, based upon actual
statistics, that more houses will be con-
structed during the present year than
any preceding twelve months in the
history of the country.
"A bolt of lightning struck the
ground near East Thompson, Mass, in
front of pair of horses. One was
killed, and the other. bay, is now
coal black and much er.-Boston
Post
-Terse account of prize fight in
the Socorro On. M NeUs: Harry
Dougherty, our city circulator, broke
his arm yesterday afternoon. The
Mexican porter at the Sturgis House
fell on his arm.
A couple from Alexandria, Scot
land, came to this country to be mar
ried. They did so because the woman
was deceased wife's sister, and they
could not be married under the absurd
ISL law. 4HlS Is Ou0 u
the dificulty.-N. Z. Independent.
Portland, Oregon, has trouble
some amazon, whose most recent arrest
was for entering house not her own
and for carrying concealed weapons.
Her armory comprised pistol of the
pattern known as the Rocky Mountain
giant, which is conceded to be quite as
effective in the hand-to-hand encounter
OF two western pioneers as Gatling
. gun.-DenGer Tribune.
"A fifteen-pound cannon ball has
been found on Chimney Island, St.
Lawrence River. 1t bears the marks
of great age and was probably used in
the engagement at the capture of Fort
Levi, on that Island in 1760 Israel
Putnam, so conspicuous in the Revolu-
ton, was Lieutenant Colonel with the
English army under Lord Amherst,
and led in the capture of the fort.
Rev. E. E. Hale pointedly says.
s'0ne can get news now from Pekin
quicker than Dan could hear from
Beersheba. Which shows how the
world has changed-and the change has
happened in the last few years. Even
in this country we knew nothing of the
electric telegraph as a working force
some forty years since. Chicago Jour
nal.
"A correspondent in Ell Paso writes:
81 sat on the Plaza this afternoon and
saw approaching a Chinaman whose
face was disfigured by long, CHASTITY
looking scar. 1t was Sam Hing, the
richest Chinaman in America, who ID
said to have sailed down 100000.
Rumor has it that all the Cinnamon
employed in constructing the Mexican
and Texas railroads get their employ
ment through Sam Hing, and that each
Chinaman (about 100000 pays him
one dollar q month, besides bonus for
the job of work obtained through Sam.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
An American lady was travelling In
Europe. She stopped at French inn
in Normandy, and being the best French
scholar in the party she was deputed
by the others to arrange for lodgings,
etc. In vain she aired her best lin
guistic entertainments. Not a word
could the clerk understand, and for
aught she knew his replies were in
''heathen Chinee." In desperation she
said, with great distinctness: DC
you-speak-English?" He frightened
at once and said: Land sakes! I guess
] do; was brought up ten miles from
Bangor, Maine!''
On the high road to the capitol
from the Caspian the members of the
expedition sent by the German Govern-
ment to observe the transit of Venus,
met a lovely vision in habit and hat on
prancing steed. They halted, saluted,
and declared their errand ITO observe
the transit of Venus ah, well, you can
go home now, gentlemen, your duty is
done; good-bye;n and the pretty vision
disappears at q smart canter ..saway in
the ewigkeit," as Hans Breitmann saws.
That joke dawned on those Germans
after some hours.-Dr. Wits "Modern
Persia
In Scotland they have narrow, open
bitches, which they call sheep-drains.
A man was riding donkey one day
across. sheep pasture, but when the
animal came to the sheep-drain he
would not go over it. So the man rode
him back to short distance, turned
him around, and applied the whip,
thinking, of course, that the donkey,
when going at the top of his speed,
would jump the drain before he knew
1t. But it was not so. When the dom
key got to the drain he stopped all of
a sudden and the man went over Mr..
Neddy's head. No sooner had he
touched the ground than he got up, and
looking his beast straight in the face,
said: ''Verra weel pitched; but then
hoo are ye going to get over yersel?"
"A parrot has been the means of
presenting young lady who lives near
Boston in a very peculiar light. This
young lady sits on the lower front
piazza with her work or book a large
part of the time, but was out of town
for week, during which time parrot
had been hung in the upper piazza, a
fact of which she was ignorant, as she
is little hard of hearing. Resuming
her old seat on her return, she became
very much annoyed at the attention of
passers-by, especially the young gentle
men, and is now astonished to learn
that the parrot, hidden from view, has
been addressing everybody in the street
with the free-and-easy invitation, kiss