The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-09-20
MISCELLANEOUS.

Like the dog in the manger, the
nose is above kissing, and is always
ready to interfere with the kissing of
others.
"A man over seventy years of age is
said to be in jail at Penn Yam because
his son, to whom he gave fortune Of
10000, can't afford to pay few hum
dred dollars for his release. Troy IN.
T. Times.
Oscar Wilde told q Liverpool audi.
ence that while off the Pacific coast of
the United States he saw seal basking
on rock on whose back was painted
the announcement of manufacturer of
tooth powder.-N. 7. Graphic.
Headlines in the Louisville Courier
Journal: ''Murderous-At tornado steals
out of the quiet of spring day and
sweeps from Chattanooga nearly to the
Gulf a path of death and devastation un-
equalled in the history of that section :"
Recently occurred in New York the
annual distribution of $4,000 appro-
priated for distribution among the des-
titute blind of the city. Each beneli-
ciary receives this year thirty-eight
dollars. The object OF the gift is to
keep the recipients out of the public
institutions.-N Y. Herald
The steamship Great Eastern has
never been a success financially, but is
to be employed in carrying coal from
the Forth to the Thames in Great
Britain. She will be able to carry about
10000 tons on each voyage, and from
thic ha oxxrr, a, va lol - b11,, IL,
the scheme will be remunerative. Chi
cugo Inter Ocean.
AT barbecue given at Satartia by
the citizens of Yazoo County, Miss, a
Mr.. Warrington objected to the. way
his son was cutting up a sheep. This
enraged the son and he attacked his
father with the knife, cutting his body
almost in two. The elder Warrington
died in a few minutes. The son escaped.
st. Louis Globe.
"A family in Craftsbury, VT, is
terribly afflicted. The father has a
cancer on his forehead; two daughters
are rapidly running down with the con-
sumption; son, on whom the family
has largely depended for supper is in
very poor health, probably in consump-
ton, and the mother, worn out with
labor and anxiety, is raving crazy.
Rutland Herald.
Not especially handsome married
women make the most elaborate expo
sition of finery and jewels at Saratoga
this season. They seem to have gone
there for the express purpose of ex-
hibiting their wardrobe, and if you do
not stare at them and make remarks
they seem offended. This is the way
the social wind is blowing just now
N. 7. Mail.
The London Lancet stoutly opposes
hepractice of putting binders on horses.
It says: sit seems to us that they are
useless, ugly, and, to some extent, in
furious to the eyesight. The most beau
tiful feature of the horse is the eye. If
it were not hid from our gaze it would
serve to denote sickness, pain or pleas
ure. Many time would the driver
spare the whip on seeing the animals
imploring eye."
Although it might be reasonably
expected that any husband would know
his own wife, yet, strange to say, Joseph
Millen, OF Baltimore, whose wife went
on the excursion which ended in the re-
cent frightful accident, recognized her
features at glance among the victims
on the wharf, further identified the
body by a close inspection, and went
home crushed with grief and horror.
There he found Mrs. Millen in perfect
health, to the utter bewilderment of his
senses. She had returned to the CITY
by an early boat and was at home
when the accident occurred. Baltimore
american.
"A writer in the Portland (Oregon)
Meas. describing recent journey, says
in the exaggerated language of the great
West: 'From New York to st. Paul
the ride was commonplace, unmarked
by special incident save a few days
stop at Chicago, that busy city where
men GO on the run from eight o'clock in
the morning till four in the afternoon,
whether they have anything to do or
not. The day arrived everybody was
rich; next day they were ali poor but
the Armours, McGeoch & Co. had failed
for many millions, and a break in lard
threw fortunes into confusion. Such is
Chicago-always to be the great GEN.
trail city of this country"
"A beautifully carved mateh-safe
made of fine white sandstone was re-
Gently found in the Nevada State Prison
quarry. The safe was carved by M.
Pritchard, q convict, and is an elaborate
affair some ten inches in height and the
same in width, with an arch over all
On the arch is gilt cannon, and on the
base, in panel, is bas-relief repre-
sentation of an eagle holding spears in
his talons and resting in the angle
formed by the crossing of two Ameri-
can flags. This is also gilded. On the
ends, which are nearly four inches
through. is the representation of the
Stars and Stripes, surmounted by the
monogram ~. E. c." The ends of the
box are also handsomely carved. Chi.
cago Times.