The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-10-11
MISCELLANEOUS.


Wood and Say Nothing One of its
rules is; ''Church one Sunday, yacht.
ing the next"
The price of wife in Siberia is
eight dogs, and some of them are con-
sidered dear at that When the wife is
dressed up the difference in the article
of barter is, to all appearances, very
slight.
A salt lake in Kenn County, Neya-
da, is very valuable and quite q curiosi-
ty. In the winter the lake
fills up with water, and when the water
recedes from the shore it leaves q very
fine quality of pure Chicago
Times.
Young Andrew Hall, of Brooklyn,
whose mother is wealthy, has married
a negress, and the family are endeavor-
ing to have the marriage set aside on
the ground that he is a lunatic. But
Andrew VOWS he is not lunatic, and
that he ''would sooner loose 5000, 900
than his black Mary. Brooklyn, IN.
~ Eagle.
I'm several States there are laws
against selling liquor to common drunk
ards. The method of posting up in
conspicuous places list of all drunk
ards in town has worked wonders in
several communities. A man has to be
pretty far gone to desire to see his name
posted in such list Chicago Times.
"A Nebraska farmer says hay is ben
eficially fed in his State. The hay is
cut short, mixed with bran, shorts OF
middlings, and fed as other feed,
ha1 hot Cd ~,
swill or slop. ''It puts on flesh as rap
idly as anything that can be given
| them"
"A tarantula fight was one of the
interesting events the other day at Los
Angeles (Cal.,) saloon. First scor-
| pion and tarantula were pitted, the
latter killing the former, but losing
/ leg in the contest. The wind-up was
between the victor and large black
tarantula, in which the latter killed the
former.
| The brontosaurus is one of the ami
mails now extinct which once inhabited
America. 1t is probable that we have
no occasion to be sorry that he is eX-
tinct. He was about fifty feet long,
and must have looked like a snake
mounted on four legs set under the
middle third of the body. He had a
small head and large tail, and weighed
about twenty tons.-N. Y. San.
"A rather singular accident hap
pened to Mr.. Keeny, at Moscow, Ida
no, recently. While riding horseback
he observed lying on the ground a
small package, and, dismounting,
| picked it up and got into the saddle
again. He proceeded to examine his
find, when revolver exploded in the
package, the bullet narrowly missing
Keeny, and lodged in the horses head,
killing the animal instantly.
A Hallettsville (Tex.) boy shot at
rat that was crawling along a joist
near the cornice of house. The bull
let struck the ioist, killed the rat,
struck knot, glanced, and, at an an
gle of ninety degrees and downward,
struck the boys father, who was walk
ing some fifty yards distant. The gen.
tleman's thumbs were in the arm-holes
of his vest, and the bullet entered his
arm at point directly over the heart,
penetrating to some depth, but drop
ing out.-N. Y. Times.
There seems to be growing belief
that Boston is losing her position OF
the center of culture, partly because
great literary men are decreasing in
number and partly because Bostonians
do not demand the best class of litera-
ture. Some one from the West said
recently: 1--WE know we need culture,
and we are determined to obtain it.
You, in the East, think you can i'm
bibe' it in the atmosphere. Consequent
ly we are gaining, while you are los
ing. - Chicago Herald.
Orders having come from Europe
that tight pants must go, the days oil
the full-fedged dude appear to be mum.
bered. 1t is hard to imagine dude
attired in any style of neither garment
other than that which fits him so close
ly as to impel the suspicion that il
must have grown on him. The dude
of the future will be dude only in
spots, and posterity will deplore q
fashion which has stolen from the dude
of their daddies his most distinguishing
feature and most conspicuous trade
mark. Chicago News.
Miss Lille Grub, the comely young
lady who excited much masculine adj
miration while member of the Rice
Surprise Party last season, was married
the other day to George d'Eberhard, ar
attache of the Mexican legation al
Washington. The Surprise Party seem
to have been veritable matrimonial
bureau on wheels. Two of the girls were
married in Frisco, threesmore in Other
western cities, and two have jumped
the broomstick since the season closed
Lone-lorn females would do well to GU
this piece out, paste it in their bonneti
and act upon the suggestions hereir
conveyed Chicago Tribune. -
The large number of children lef
by the late lamented Gen. John B
Hood, have been adopted by variou,
parties throughout the Eastern anc
Southern States. A singular coinci
dence is related in connection will
three of the gentlemen who have thus
taken the place of fathers of these in
teresting children. Messrs Russell
Adams and Mckee were classmates a
Yale College. They all married, bu
have no children. Without consent o
action, or even knowing what the 9th
ORC rua,.o a b0r,f 70 Jo aoob s.