The Bossier banner., 1883-06-14
MISCELLANEOUS.


"A st. Louis Judge proposes to puI
down flirting. 81 shall,'' he said In
discussing a case, ''dismiss every case
of woman-insulting where it can be
shown that the woman first f6rted with
the accused
a Hartford photographer had posed
a. pretty country girl for a picture.
When he came out with the prepared
II plate she smelled the chemicals and
rushed out, declaring he was going to
chloroform her.
The word Deseret, so commonly
used by the Latter-Day Saints, is a term
found in the Book of Mormon. and sip-
nifies ''honey-bee.n It has no reference
to the desert, as has been commonly
supposed.
- This country is enthusiastically
spoken of by an English visitor as q
landwhere the reaper runs all summer.
Beginning in Texas in May, and some
g times earlier, the harvest travels north
ward by steady marches until it ends
IN September in Northern Dakota and
Minnesota.
The Schuyler mansion at Albany.
now occupied by Gen. Charles Tracy,
Is the historic house where Burgoyne
was entertained after his surrender.
welded his bride, and where, in later
years, Millard Fillmore was married.
Troy (N. y Times.
The bad effect upon the digestive
organs of the unnatural, if not cruel,
system OF clipping horses is thus noted
by the Breeders Gazette: IA newly
clipped horse will eat everything in
reach, thus oVertaxing his stomach.
<xf
ering-which over the abdomeni is rarely
arfificiallyreplaced- produces chilled.
collicky condition that sometimes ends
in chronic arrangement of the entire
intestinal caral''
Emma Bode, of New York, aged
seventeen, alleges that Henry May
burger, aged twenty, promised to marry
her. Her father brought suit m the
Marine Court demanding $4,000 dam
ages for the loss of her services. She
testified that every Sunday from No
vember, 1881, to February, 1882. she
= went ont with Mayburger. He used to
sit on fence near her house and wait
till she came out. The jury gave the
father a verdict for the full amount
Claimed and costs.-M Y San.
The proposed bridge across Niagara
Southern, is decided fact The con-
tract has been given to a Buffalo bridge
company to build q double-traek steel
truss bridge, with stone piers ON each
side of the river from the waters edge.
Work will be finished by December 1.
Men have been cutting trees from the
waters edge to the top of the river
bank on both sides. The site is about
four hundred feet to the falls side of the
railway suspension bridge.-N. Y Her
aid
Near the steamboat wharf at La
coma, n. H., is nearly air-tight brick
vault with capacity of five to six hum
dred bushels in which are deposited the
wood ashes made by the steamer Lady
OF the Lake during the summer season.
he other day the vault was opened the
hrst time since the steamer stopped
running, period of about five months,
Tor the purpose of taking away some of
the ashes, when the astonishing discoy-
cry was made that the center of the
y mass was as hot as when taken from I
the furnaces and the Goals were still red
hot.-Boston Herald
"A novel chase was witnessed in East
Marlborough, Pa, the other day. Two
foxes were discovered chasing a COM
mon cat in woody hollow. The chase
was a nip and tuck affair when first
noticed, and so continued for few Sec
onds, when it was suddenly terminated
ny the cat bounding up atree, and in SO
doing displayed a cunningness thatmust
even have surprised the foxes. They
were close upon the heels of the cat.
and tabby, realizing her danger, ran,
1lrst behind the tree and then up, SO |
that before her pursuers could stop and
get in position to jump she was I'D out
OF their reach Philadelphia Press.