The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-12-27
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A Sacramento man has started a
floating grocery, and by the aid of
steamboat promises to supply the resi-
dents aIon9 the Sacramento River
San francisco Chronicle.
Georgia claims to have statistics to
prove that she has smaller percentage
of idiots and insane persons1o the total
population than any other State.-N.
z. Sun.
"A restaurant in London advertises
american buckwheat cakes in every
style" 1t will interest many people to
know that there is more than one style
of buckwheat cakes. -BufaEo Express.
-Biliousness is not SO widely spread
a disorder among Americans as it was
fifty years ago, according to the state
ment of a scientific writer who pretends
to know all about it.-N. 7. I9depe1ad-
efat.
An innovation at fashionable din
ner parties is the serving of peanuts
with the coffee and fruit. Peanuts are
said to be good for dyspepsia, and it
may be for this reason that they have
been introduced.
"A Massachusetts, bride is about to
begin housekeeping ON S8,000,000 It
takes about $8,000,000 for young
woman of these days to keep house dur
ing the first three years of her matri-
mony Courter-.IourmGE.
The Shoe and Leather Reporter says
the toothpick and needle toes on boots
and shoes will probably disappear next
spring, and fashionable young men will
return to more sensible styles Sensi-
BILE people will continue to wear such
shoes as they please.
Captain James RAINS, of the barge
Kill Van Kull, of New York, had no
| further use for Mrs. RAINS, and putting
her into YaWl set her adrift on the out
going tide of the ocean outside of
Sandy Hook. The boat was overtaken
by a tug and recovered, with the fam
ished woman fast asleep in it.-N. Y.
Herald.
The Secretary of London bank
recently got away with f1I0,000 of the
funds of the institution, and the direct
ors, in a circular to the shareholders,
say: 'The board can only regret that
just at the close of what would other
wise have been prosperous year this
incident should so badly prejudice the
result.
i'm bummers' fight at New York
the other day one of the ruffians stuck
dirk into Jim O'Donnell' back, where
it stuck so fast that it could not be with
! drawn, and the victim walked to hos
pital, where three doctors separately
undertook to draw the knife, but gave
it up. A lever was finally constructed
and the weapon thus pried out.-N. Y
Mail
The Times, of Eastman, Ca, tells
of Cochran Justice of the Peace who,
just as two attorneys were about to ar
/ que case, took up his hat and said:
''Gentlemen, you may talk about this
case as much as you please; but I've
| got to go home and set out some potato
slips. When you get through you'll
find my decision written out there;''
and he walked out.
Mrs. Elizabeth Stedly, of Stony
Point, N. J., died recently, and DR..
Cooper having failed to gather from her
any OF her symptoms, insisted on an
inquest Then it came out that her
husband, Joseph, and his brother,
/ George, had beaten her and struck her
in the back with an ak because she did
not earn money enough to feed them as
well as they wanted to live.-NeUark
Register.
"A New England editor thus writes
Understandings and with true senti-
ment: 1.-The fairs are all over, the
pumpkins are gathered into the barns
and the apples in the bins, the nuts
stored in the garrets and the cider
ripening in the barrels, and it would
seem as if there was round lot OF
prospective comfort amid the SHOWS OF
winter"
just a hundred years ago the first
stage and mail coach in New England,
and probably in this country, began
running between Hartford and Boston.
Four days were required for through
trip. The fare was about ten dollars.
A little over two years later the pro-
prietors were at the head of trunk
line' extending from Portsmouth, N.
H., to Savannah, Ca A uniform rate
of fare was -.'three pence pei
mile, with liberty to passengers to carry
fourteen pounds weight of baggage. -
Boston Herald.
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