The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-10-04
MISCELLANEOUS.

uOHu Oh TIE DdFDGTS Oh Ouuuays Dut
allow the newsboys and bootblaeks full
liberty. In this case it is the little
shavers swho get through the laws
meshes, while the big shavers are
caught.
"A Massachusetts, woman, after in
effectually warning trespassers of her
huckleberry patch, sprinkled the bushes
| with Paris green. When complaints
began to come in from a lot of sick
neighbors. she simply remarked that
| she had found out what sort of buckle
berries they were, and went on with her
knitting. -Bosto8 Post.
The world came near losing its
smallest man the other day. His name
is General Pin. He is two years old
and weighs five pounds, being the
smallest child ever born. His mother
is slightly demented and endeavored to
commit suicide by jumping into the
river with the midget in her arms. The
! husband and father rescued them.
The famous live-oak tree. known as
the Devils Riding Whip" which is
situated three-quarters of mile north
west of the "Devil's Mill Hopper, :"
near Gainesville, Fla, measures thirty
three feet and four inches and half in
circumference, one foot from the
ground. Ti1estreeis hollow and affords
ample shelter for forty hogs.
The Sumterville (Fla.) Times is
responsible for this story: "a party of
gentlemen, recently, fishing in q lake
in Sumter County, had their boat at
tackled by monster alligator. For
tunately they had a rifle on board, and
succeeded in killing the saurian. When
they got the body ashore it was found
to measure fifteen feet in length and
weighed over eight hundred pounds.
When cut open whole hog was found
| in its stomach
After describing the repeated fail
ures of tumble-bug to get his ball out
of rut, the Indianapolis Nes0s adds.
FINALLY he plowed out a space, like a
sort of railroad cut, with smaller
slope than the buggy track, and pushed
his ball triumphantly out through it.
Was that reason? 1t was exactly the
course an engineer would take. 1t
was exactly the course taken to raise
the great winged bulls of NineVeh.
Has tumble-bug got a mind?"
-''More than half the diseases that
now exist sagely observes the Gin
cinnati Enquirer, ''could be cured with
pure milk diet alone. Physicians I'M
derstand this, and often prescribe milk
| diet for at least two months. We eat
/ too much, and infame the blood and
weaken the organs of digestion. Milk
gives the stomach a rest This is
! S.oaJ capea= Put Soma 1,nrcopc nopnOt
take whole milk with safety, especially
milk as rich as that from Jersey cows.
| For them skim-milk is best.
A few days ago Colonel John D..
Washburn, of Worcester, Mass, was
the guest of a gentleman at a summer
resort hotel. He happens to resemble
| President Arthur in some respects, and
on the strength of this resemblance a
wag started the story that he was the
! President. The result was that every
body in the place crowded to the hotel
to get look at the distinguished guest.
When told of their mistake they APP
Il peared to be incredulous, and during
the whole of Colonel Washburn's stay
he was logged about the streets by a
rabble of curiosity-seekers.- Boston
Herald.
Speaking of the American trotting
horse, Mr.. F. E. Nipper says that it is
very probable that the trotter will finally
surpass the running horse. Besides
mathematical evidence, he advances
the following: The trotter carries his
body more steadily-with less of rise
and fall-than the runner, and it seems
very reasonable that this should result
TO the advantage of the trotter, when
the process of developing and adjusting
his muscles and chest shall have been
sufficiently carried on, so that the con-
test between the two animals shall have
been reduced to a matter of muscular
capacity Chicago Journal.
Although bulls are popularity sup
posed to be of Irish origin, it is unde-
! niably true that some of the best, or
worst, come from English literature.
Notable is the one of which Sir Robert
! Godschall was guilty. A copy of an
important letter was produced in court,
the. original having been lost. The
cautious judge looked over his spectacles
and gravely inquired whether the copy
was taken before the original was lost
or after. 1t was the same gentleman
who. hearing that some one had had the
smallpox twice and died of it, asked
whether he died of the first attack or
the second. - Chicago Times.
John Moranda played the hero sue
sessfully in Salt Lake City for week.
He carried one arm in sling and said
that he had hurt it by fall. Then his
confederate, William Naylor, came for
ward with thrilling account of having
been robbed by highwaymen, who
would have murdered him had not
Moranda gallantly fought them off.
"He's so modest that he lied about his
arn," Naylor added: lit is wounded by
bullet The scoundrels took my last
dollar, but as soon as get remittance
from New York he's got to take his re-
ward" Both men were lavishly enter
tanned while pretending to wait for the
draft, and they found it easy to borrow
several hundred dollars before the sime
came for disappearing. - Chicago Tri6-
a1ae.
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