The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-09-27
MISCELLANEOUS.


&C. c. Reynolds, of Marietta. Ca,
had a. seythe thrown over his shoulder
and was riding mule. The animal.
frightened at a passing train, threw
Reynolds to the ground and tho scythe
took his head off-N O. Picd5u1ae.
When q Chicago girl reaches the
summit of Mount Washington, and
miles of some of the grandest scenery
in the world are unfolded to her view,
she just gives little gasp and exclaims:
cit takes the caker'- E1chamge.
1t has taken nearly four thousand
years to advance from the wheelbarrow
and the cattle-drawn or steam-drawn
cart to the bicycle, propelled by man
alone at equine velocity. Springfield
flfass. J Republican.
Mr.. Edison has had all he wants OF
Photographs. ''The more I think of
that photograph" he says. ''the more
| am convinced that it would have been
3 terrible thing to set a machine to
work recording all that a person said. "
Thousands of dime novels were de-
stroyed in the burning of the Munro
publishing house in New York. This is
not the first time fire has proved to be
great purifier; but this stholacust'' of
sensational literature may cause a num-
Der of boys to defer for few weeks
their trips west to exterminate the In
dians -Nor7istoyn Herald.
The eyes of President Soto, of Hon.
duras, opened very wide the other day
when he visited the New York sub
Treasury and held $50, 100000 Of gold
certificates in his hand. He says he
has quite as much wealth at home, but
it's all underground 7. San.
"A swapping turtle crawled out of
pond at Rockville Centre, N. Y, the
other day and made for grazing cow.
The turtle, with yiee-like grip, fast
ened upon the cow S fore leg, making
her frantic with pain. Three men
worked an hour topull away the turtle,
which weighed two hundred and ten
pounds. ~
If there is anything calculated to
fill the palpitating bosom of an ardent
lover with dismay and make him feel
like badly henpecked husband, it is,
when he has started up a tender sonata
on his guitar, to hear robust tom cat
In the vicinity start a piece of its own
composition in a higher key onters
Statesman.
Nevada, q State that manages to
spring more natural curiosities to tho
regular month than most others develop
in q year, has in her waters a whistling
fish. 1t is sucker, and the whistling
is done with a pursed mouth, after the
humanfashion. veracious newspaper
goes as far as to say that the fish can be
taught to whistle simple tune. Chi
cage Inter Ocean.
"A lady in Saratoga, blazing with
diamonds, sent the following order to
her milliner: "Deer Miss x: Please
get me tow yards Irish point lace, and
Alison get me six pares of CLUBS sevens
and a quarters, crushed-rose- berries
color. P. S.-Don send the Bill for I
| don want - to see it, he only alouse
me certain SUNNI and viii pay it
myself. ~. 7. Times.
"A new sort of beetle has appeared
in the vineyards about Fresno, Gal. 1t
is from half an inch to an inch and a
half in length, with hard shell, and is
| jet black. It works by night, and lies
by during the daytime. This BEETLE de-
stroyed about ten acres for man be-
fore he discovered what was the lnatter
with his vines, supposing the destruc-
tion to be the work of rabbits.
"A good man in northern New York
had lived happily with an excellent
wife until they were well on in years,
when she died. He bethought him Of
some fitting memorial to place over her
grave, and the happy thought struck
him that the square stove, by which
they had been comfortable through
many long winters, would be just what
she would like tohave If she had a vote
in the matter. He had the stove taken
to the cburchyard and placed over the
remains of his companion, who sleeps
quietly underneath it.-M. 7. Times. t