The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-08-09
MISCELLANEOUS.


Visitors to California are struck
with the peculiar pronunciation of the
phrase, ''the big trees" The adjec-
tive is lost in the noun, and both are
uttered as if big trees were one word,
with the accent ON the second syllable,
The heirs of Captain Aaron Biddle,
a Revolutionary officer, claim about
nine miles square of land in Salem
County, New Jersey, including large
portions of Pennsgrove and Pennsville,
under title found recorded in Salem.
m Y. Sun.
1t is believed at Richmond, Ark,
that Joe Young, the negro who was
hanged there MAY rs, is yet living, hav-
ing been restored to life by the efforts
of his friends, who thought they noticed
signs of life in his body soon after it was
cut down and handed over to them at
the hanging Youngdropped seven feet
and was pronounced dead by the ply
sicians, although his neck was not
broken.-C Chicago Times.
"A butcher, of Springfield, Mass.
says that the housekeeper who asks for
white veal encourages law breaking and
buys. poor meat. The whiteness is due
simply to the loss of blood, the animal
having been bled twenty-four hours be-
fore it was slaughtered. The farmers
. do the bleeding, because the meat then
fetches better price; and the people,
who have foolish fancy that white veal
is the best, are in way responsible for
the brutal process creating 1t.
Mrs. A. T.. Stewart lives in COM
plete retirement in her great marble
palace. Occasionally she is given to
fits of desperate dependency. She will
lie on her couch for hours, refusing
sympathy from her dearestfriends. On
the wall is a picture of her husband
concealed behind a curtain. To that
she will go and, pulling aside the cur
tain, gaze at It for an hour at a time.
Then the certain will not be drawn for
days.-M Y. Tribune.
The granary of L. M Mcintosh, on
the bank of the Sacramento River, at
Chico, was mysteriously robbed night
after night. A watch was set, and then
a large flock of wood ducks was seen
entering the granary through broken
window pane in regular line. After the
last duck had got inside. the watchers
secured the window, and, going inside
armed with sticks, killed 1913 ducks
which had been feeding on the grain.
San Francisco Chronicle.
"A curious experiment was made re
Gently at Paris to determine the power
of a crocodile's jaw. The animal was
fixed on q table with its upper jaw con-
nected with dynamometer An elee-
trio shock caused him to give a sudden
snap. Three hundred and eight pounds
was marked on the instrument. It was
calculated that the contractile force OF
the muscles causing the movement was
1,540 pounds. The muscles on an or
binary sporting dog had $50 pounds OF
contractile force.
Farmer Weeden, of Rhode island.
has been prosecuted His two large
barns were burned twelve years ago,
with cattle and horses. Last year his
eutbuildings were destroyed, and a bot
tie of dynamite was found in the ruins.
Next the fences were torn down, re-
Gently the family tomb has been yio-
lated, wires have been stuck in his
moving field, his well poisoned, and
his house bedaubed. He says he knows
no reason for the outrages. The auth
critics fail to protect them. N 7. Sun.
"A Nihilist tobacconist of Boston
suggests putting poison into cigarettes
to the end that the bloated bondholders
who smoke them may be killed off by
the thousand at a puff. There is nc
need of poisoning them, The cigarette
young man will kill himself fast enough
if left. to himself. And the most iiend-
ish of the Nihilists could wish for no
more miserable death of his victims than
the slow-poisoning and self-conscious-
ness of torture of the suicide who is en-
shared by the festive fumes of the fatal
cigarette. Chicago Inter Ocean.
While David Fink, living neal
Reading, Pa, was driving to market
one day recently, a swarm of bees the
size of half-bushel settled on his
horses head. The animal began to
kick and howl in a fearful manner.
Mr.. Fink, with his naked hands, drew
from its nostrils handfuls of bees. but
the more he strove to remove them the
closer they stuck. Fink took off his
coat and succeeded in pulling off the
swarm and getting. the. horse out of
danger. MIR. Fink was blinded by the
stings received, and the animals head
was so badly swollen that it could not
get its nose In water-bucket.
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