The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-05-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

at Olympia, Washington Territory, says
it is nothing unusual there to see man
taking a wheelbarrow load of silver
dollars to the land Office to pay for land.
The word ''that'' is perhaps the
only word in the language that can be
used five successive times with absolute
correctness of grammatical construction.
For instance: He said that that that,
that that gentleman made use of was
perfectly right. See?
AN Arabic MS, dated 1865, contains
the curious information that merchant
vessels trading in the Indian Ocean at
that time carried divers, whose duty it
was to discover and stop leaks in the
hull of the craft below the water line
The pointof danger was indicated by the
sound of trickling water.
"A North Carolina woman, aged
fifty-three has just begun to learn to
read. Probably she was informed
by an enemy that her name was in one
of the local papers. When woman's
curiosity is once aroused there's no tell
ing what she will do in order to CRAFTY
tn. Y. AdUerttSer.
"A New Jersey man wrote to the
Postmaster of New York City as follows:
"Wou1d you accommodate me by send
ing me the names of all the - family
which is on record at the Post Office or
in city Directory. am very anxious to
find out about my Posterity, which have
been absent from and parents had no
record of for Twenty-eight years.-M Z
Herald.
+, The great bridge over the East river,
TO connect the cities of New York and
Brooklyn, will, within the course of a
few months, be finished and thrown
open to the public, and it has been de-
termined that it shall be free to foot pas
sengers; the fare in the cars for ride of
mile and a-half being five cents, and
that the tolls for animals and vehicles
shall be SO low as to reduce the ferriage
on the river boats as much as possible
N Y. Tribune.
The Charleston Is. CO. Meas again
calls for the enforcement of the repeal
of the law against dueling, being now
moved thereto by the publication of an
advertisement in the Barnwall Sentinel,
by lawyer, Major i. W. Youmans, in
which he denounces another lawyer, L.
b. OBryan. of Allendale, S. c., as a liar
and coward, the latter having refused
his challenge to fight duel, growing
out of quarrel arising from petty case
in which they were opposing counsel.
A new anonymous prophet has
arisen, and lifting the curtain which
hides the next decade, he pictures the
Battle of Moy," and tells in realistic
manner how Ireland gained her indie
pendence. mo more landlords, no
more agents, with their blighting and
whitening train of tithes, distrains and
evictions, no more poor laws Such is
to be the fruit of great battle which is
to take place in 1894 The prophecy has
been published by an Eastern house and
is rapidly acquiring notoriety and popu-
larity. IN. Z. Times.
One man and one gentleman-that
is, one common plain man and one col
lege-bred gentleman-ha started in
Syracuse correspondence bureau, and
for pecuniary considerations answer all
questions ON etiquette. love, health and
science. Questions of love they answer
according to the best of their judgments.
The most important interrogation vet
put to them is: ''Is it right to use The
butt end of the cue in bursting the tri-
angle in game of poole" At this rate
the bureau ought soon to be able to tell
the whereabouts of Charley Ross, Wig
gins storm and few other such things.
Syracuse IN. Y. Journal.
1t appears that Bostonians wait
until they grow up before they allow the
local wave of culture to strike in. An
examination of the younger children of
the public schools of that city, made by
DR.. Stanley Hall, showed that eighteen
per cent. of the number had no knowl-
edge of cow further than they gained
from pictures; sixty-one per cent of
those examined had never seen an ant;
sixty-five per cent. had never seen corn
growing; ninety per cent did not know
where their ribs were nor exactly what
they were, while only sixty per cent
were ignorant of the location of their
stomachs. Some of the children stated
that flour came from the grocer, who
gets it directly from God; others said
that meat is dug from the ground or
picked up from the meat-tree. M z.
Sun.