The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-05-31
MISCELLANEOUS.

can women: II am satisfied that most
of them have a pretty good time of it. !"
-"The Siamese system of hazing,n
says the Rochester Post, sis to allow
each Siamese college student to have
two wives. va 4. -!t#
miss Parloa says tough meat is
healthiest for inValids. Possibly; it can
not be eaten so fast, and the work of
mastication is good exercise.
The ninety Mormon missionaries
who are working mainly in Tennessee
calculate that the South will afford
them about seven hundred converts this
year.
The wives of most of the Mollie
Maguires hanged in Pennsylvania few
years ago are keeping dram shops in
the neighborhood of their husbands
old homes. m ~ FF3E
Ills it crime to be woman?"
asks Mrs. Blake. Certainly it is! Mr.
Daniel Maguinnis will please rise and
propose his favorite toast: Success to
crime. boston Post.
"A Kentucky school-master got 9
verdict of seventeen dollars the other
day in a suit brought against the trus-
tees for damages from q cold caught
running after them to get his pay.
"A man ninety-nine years old, living
in Unity, n. H., without using spec
tacles, recently shot four squirrels with
an old musket which once belonged to
! soldier in the revolutionary war.
Indian Agent Wilcox does not seem
to appreciate red angels. He thus an
nounces the outlookin his region: ''The
wings are sprouting from the armpits
of my Indians on the. San Carlos reser.
vatiOn.n ia tH9a
1t is the boast of prosperous
merchant of Athens, Ca, that he started
in life as the Circassian beauty of a
side-show, in proof whereof he exhibits
enhancing photographs of himself In
short petticoats and pink stockings.
AT Irkutsk, Siberia, they sell milk
by the block, each block having a stick
frozen into it for convenience in carry
ing. You can get milk with stick in
it in this country, but, the stick does not
always make it easier to carry.
3s-Importations of maearoni are said
to be increasing very rapidly, but wheth-
er the fact is due to a growing Lore for
it among our people, or to the large
number of Italian gentlemen laboring
on railroads, we are not prepared to
state!-N. Y. Sun. ~
Those who write for sample copies
of the Transcript please enclose a post
age stamp, not for publication, but as
an evidence that they don't take us for
a baldheaded philanthropiSt, with a
gold-headed cane and an income of
100000. a year, who is printing q paper
for amusement and paying the postage
for fun. -Middletot0n, Del, Transcript.
Major Gale Faxon bought horse
from the pastor of an Austin church,
and shortly afterward the following
conversation was heard: 'tYou have
sWindled me with that horse you sold
me last week" How soPn asked the
clergyman, very much surprised.
ft'Well, / only had him for three days
when he died. y" That's strange, /
owned him twentyLthreeI years and
worked him hard. every day, and never
knew him to do that while / owned
him.PhB ,iH 52Fa ,3T9a Is 5ztst.lsi ls8j
Melancholy tidiRgs for Jumbo come
from London. His former mate, Alice.
has never betrayed the slightest sign OF
grief since the day of his departure, and
now even the children are forgetting
him in their admiration for Jii1go; q
charming young elephant not yet five
years old, and not quite -four. and a half
feet high. lingo is a precocious beast,
and already PAGES the garden walks with
a load of children on his back, in bland
expectancy of buns. e'iIts3'
a-A prisoner who was to be hanged
received pardon just as, he. was get
ting into bed the night previous to the
day appointed for his execution. He
never closed his eyes asl night, nor had
he any appetite for breakfast the fol
lowing morning. If he had not been
pardoned he would have ''e1joyed d
good nights rest and would have
..Eeaten a hearty meal" Does anybody
know Why the expectation of being
hanged within few hodrs quiets the
nerves and sharpens the appetitep---
Rochester Post Egpress. 3a8 9ilF gBI
z ,4-Agreen-looking .'upabovian, ,'trsv-
cling with wagon, took in q number
of Lebanon on. " boys very neatly
the other afternoon. He would allow
rope to be tied around each wrist. and.
holding an apple in each hand, betsthat
while two bystandefs pulled the rope in
opposite directions, he could bite first
one apple and then the other. He won
every bite with apparent east, much to
the surprise OF those who did not under
stand q very simple principle in dynarn-
les. He was. naturally stout. but the
trick lay in the fact that the man pull
ing on his right, Of course, assisted
him materially in pulling against the
man on the left, and vice versa. twas
two against one every time; but the
mountaineer was always one of the two,
Black Men as Lightning CONDUCTORS.