The Bossier banner., 1883-01-25
MISCELLANEOUS.

Ill taxes Dut tnlrteen minutes q
lead an elephant on a train, while il
takes twenty for any sort of woman tt
kiss her friends good-bY and lose tbs
check for her trunk.
"A girl at Richmond Hill, L. L, was
struck by an engine and thrown sixty
two feet through the air. Her body
struck the side of the station building
with such force as to break the boards.
THAT is half-granted which is de,
MED graciously," saws a philosopher
That may be so; bus denials, however
sweetly made, do not fill the contribu-
ton boxes.
The editor of the Troy Press, who
was recently horsewhipped. is said tc
have purchased sixteen-dollar revolver,
and is now employed in shooting apples
off the heads of his reporters.
The rate of vibration of the rattle.
snakes tail has been determined by DIR.
OFT to be sixty per second. The method
OF experiment was to attach pen to the
snakes rattle, the record being received
on a revolving drum.
The success of a Roman Catholic
colony, including several County Cork
Qreland) farmers, in Greeley County,
Neb., has encouraged Mr.. Lane to form
syndicate of capitalists, with the view
of establishing a similar Irish colony in
Iowa.
The strongest man in the country
lives in Georgia. His name is William
Mills, and he is reported to carry 4, O0C
pounds on his shoulders. This is nearly
as much as the late DR.. Winship, the
champion strong man could lift in har-
ness.
"A soldier, when under fire in Egypt
for the first time, commenced strategi-
cal movement to the rear. s'You are a
Wretched coward" said one of his COM
panions. Possibly am" replied the
retreating sage; s'but l prefer being q
coward for five minutes to being corpse
for all time.n
"A new book is called ssHow to Keep
a Store T" 1t is work of several hun
dred pages, and life is too short to read
it. The best way to keep store is to
advertise judiciously, and thus prevent it
falling into the hands of the Sheriff. -
NorrtSt0s0n Herald.
They tell of young and foolish
school girl who used red ink to color her
lips the other evening when she went to
her first party, and they also tell how
she suffered in consequence. She is evil
IDENTIFY school girl who has been under
baneful influence.
"A Boston man has made, in the pub
lie prints of that city, very sensible
suggestion to the effect that the fire de-
partment should be supplied with large
nets into which, when supported 6y
poles, persons in danger of incineration
could jump from any height.
There are quite as great objections
to living in the northern districts of
China as in some of the western States.
The hurricanes, floods and other ca
lamities that affict the Celestial empire
are as fearful as any in this country.
The system of coo operation in France
is rapidly extending among farmers for
the purchse of seeds, manures and inn
plements of the first quality. The men,
bers of the society bind themselves indi-
vidually oguarantee the payment of all
orders given.
bicycling is rapidly becoming uni.
versally popular, and scarcely any Sec
tion of the civilized world is now with
out bicycle club. There is fiourishing
organization in Port Elizabeth, Cane 81
Good Hope, and a club in Cape Town
has about seventy members.
"A woman in Hoboken has been
given in charge Of the police by her hus-
band who declares her insane. He saws
that she sold an eighty-five dollar suit of
his to an old-clo6hes man for a dollar
and a pair of cheap vases. One stands
aghast at the thought of the millions of
broken householdsif this case shall stand
as precedent.
DIR. Brinton does not take stock in
Mr.. Herbert Spencer's remarks about
Americans killing themselves with over
work. He says that the life insurance
companies, whose purpose it is to get
testimony for business uses rather than
fol- after-dinner speeches, show in their
table that the expectation of life is in
this country rather better on the grand
average than in England, France or Ger
many.
st John, N. B., had a novel funeral
the other day. The deceased was a
woman, and six women acted as pail
bearers. The latter were dressed in
black, with white wells and gloves, and
carried the corpse from the house to the
hearse; after the services at st. Paups
Church carried the remains to the hearse,
and latterly lowered the coffin to the
grave IN the church burying-ground.