The Bossier banner., 1883-05-24
MISCELLANEOUS.

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1t is said that the Mormon ennis
saries in the South have never succeeded
in converting a negro to Mormonism.
Prof. Huxley makes this point.
s'The French attend to their own lam
guage, the Germans study theirs; but
Englishmen do not seem to think it
worth their while.
The first work of the Egypt explor
ing expedition of London viii be the
excavation of Raamses, one of the two
cities mentioned in Exodus, as built bv
the forced labor of the Jews.
The Duke ofPortland. Earl de Grey.
Lord Charles Beresford. and Major Jack.
son, during a recent shooting excursion
in the Terai in India, killed four tigers,
six rhinoceroses, and number of samb-
hur.
-Boetel, the new tenor over whom
European opera-goers are in ecstacies,
was formerly, like Wachtel, cab
driver. His old companions in that
trade in Hamburg, where he was dis
covered, have just presented him with
a silver ''whip of honor which cost
S120.
Sadly ungallant, too, is the tickle
Mr.. Biggar. A friend asked him, lust
after the court had condemned him to
pay $4,000 to Miss Hyland: "Why did
you kiss her foot?" Because, 4" orowled
the honorable member from Cavan, ssit
was handsomer than her face"
The old ladies in the country, who
get a good deal of enjoyment out OF
what Charles Dudley Warner detests,
will not agree with him when he saws:
Il am weary of going to funerals which
are not my funerals, no matter how
ehatty and amusing the undertaken u
Albert Blair, while playing at Bing
hamton, Solano County, Cal, several
days ago ran silver into his foot. DR..
Irafton was called in and had to adj
minister chloroform before it could be
taken out. Next morning he died, the
physicians say, from spasms of the
heart.
An ingenious English tramp has
been IN the habit of securing satisfactory
quarters for himself by skillfully feign-
ing temporarily lunacy and getting
accommodated in asylums, of which he
has resided in forty. However, he tried
his little game once too often at Chester
lately.
The historic mountains of the old
world are bestirring themselves. Ararat
IS shedding ayalanches instead of catch
ing arks. Etna is luxuriating in a little
eruption, and from the volcanic ashes
falling on the coast of Norway it is
thought that Hecla is making things
interesting for Iceland
The chief of Nevada band of Piute
Indians has hit upon happy way of
restoring to sobriety, and at the same
time Furnishing, the members of the
band who get under the influence of
hre-water. He causes them to be
lowered into an abandoned mining shaft
forty feet deep and keeps them there.
feeding them on bread and water, until
they are perfectly sober and willing to
promise to abstain in the future. The
cure has been found very efectual.
Why would it not be better to sow
down to clover and timothy half of the
ground we have now in corn and by
better cultivation raise as much ON the
other half as we do now on the whole. /
and get the clover and timothy cleara
Supposing some of our fagmers try that
way, and after sowing half the corn
ground in grass for two or three wears.
piow that up and put into corn and sow
down the land that had been in corn.
All will be surprised to see how The few
years in clover had both enriched and
cleaned the ground. Coffin.