The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-04-05
MISCELLANEOUS.

Every flower about the house certl-
fies TO the refinement of somebody.
Maine has girl who spells all her
words backwards She is ready to say
''sey' to proposal of marriage.
Dogs belonging to the aboriginese
and those kept by Europeans in South
Africa are bitterly hostile to each other.
A straggler almost invariably loses his
life.
Wing Chin Foo is the editor of a
Chinese newspaper in this city. Him
catchee news on Wing. No much Chin
Him no Foo, by big majority.-M. Z.
Commercial Advertiser.
The first Union flag was unfurled
on the 1st of January, 1776, over the
camp of Cambridge. 1t had thirteen
stripes of white and red, and retained
the English cross in one corner.-N. y
Herald.
Boast not of tomorrow. "I'H see
you in the morning" said Mayor Good
win, of Oxford, n. c., to a visitor,
Monday, and while speaking, fell head
long to the floor, dead of heart disease.
Detroit Post.
Everything American is the fashion
at present in the City of Mexico, and the
Mexicans are beginning to adopt many
OF the customs of this country. Ameri-
can ladies find especial favor in the eyes
of the dark-eyed senors.
A Cincinnati man who suddenly got
rich in hog speculation has read some.
where that every family, the richest and
the proudest, has skeleton in his closet.
and now he is skirmishing around to buy
skeleton, as his wife and daughter want
to be in style,-BoStoaa Post.
Brooklyn cannot be first in anything,
it would seem, without exciting the envy
ofanumerous brood of rivals. The first
stroke of lightning recorded this season
occurred here, and several cities are mad
enough aboutit to tear down their telc-
graph poles. = Brooklyn Eagle.
"A scientific writer says that low
forehead does not always indicate ignor-
ance. Neither does high forehead de-
note knowledge. Many man whose
forehead extends clear over to the back
of his neck does not know enough to pull
down his Vest.-N. T. Advertiser.
What this country needs is a new
tWo-cent piece coined out of some metal
that will look like gold, so that man
can make folks think he's putting a five
dollar gold piece into the contribution
box.-BoSton Post. What this country
needs is some one to slaughter the next
paragrapher who mentions contribution
boxes. Detroit Free Press.
Three Georgia girls each drank
several egg-noggs and whisky straight,
then got in buggy and started off i'll
high spirits for a party. From the fact
that they were subsequently found
asleep in fence corner, while black
smith was scrapiTg up the remains of
the buggy with hoe, it is fair to infer
that the party passed off without their
presence. Chicago Nes0s.
"A smart thief in San Francisco
stole knife and pair of scissors from
a tailor shop. When the police caught
him and searched him they found only
hammer. He had no knife and no
scissors. Patient investigation showed
that the fellow had stolen the hammer
in the pawn shop where he had sold the
knife and scissors for ten cents.
The sarcophagus ordered last fall
by President Arthur, to be placed above
his wife's grave on South Ridge, in the
Rural Cemetery, Albany, N. Y, has been
placed in position. It is of italian
marble, about eight feet long and two
feet high, and rests upon massive triple
pedestal. Around the upper edge, in
raised old English letters, is this inscrip.
ton:
HERE LIES THE BODY OF
ELLEN LEWIS HERNDON,
WIFE OF CHESTER A. ARTHUR
Born in Culpepper, G. H., August 30, 1857,
Died at New York, January IL, 1880.