The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-09-06
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A little singular that passengers
are not permitted to converse with the
man at the wheel, notwithstanding he
is the spokesman of the ship.
"A man travelled hastily from San
Franciscoto Omaha, on hearing that he
had been remembered in his fathers
will, and the report proved true, but the
sum of the bequest was one dollar
San Francisco Chronicle.
Statistics show that the growth of
timber in Kansas is yearly increasing
beyond the consumption. 1t was feared
at the first settling of the State that the
timber would disappear in few years.
Chicago Herald.
Munk Murphy, brakeman, with
a claim to eccentricity, has established
it by riding into Boston coiled up on the
truck under a car, to win a bet that he
could not steal a passage. Lacking a
flag to wave in token of victory, he took
off his shirt and flung it to the breeze.
boston Post.
"A girl of Southington, Conn, was
discarded by her affianced husband.
Her cousin handed her bottle of
liquid, telling her to throw it into the
false ones face to ''make him smart
little, " 1t was yitriol, which destroyed
his eyesight and horribly disfgured
him.-HarJord Post.
-Iroquois. the Derby winner, and
his eolored groom slept in the same
stall on the steamer which brought
them home from England. The IN
easiness of the race-horse during stormy
weather was allayed by the presence Of
his sable friend.-N. 7. Herald.
i George Geddes says that the proper
time to apply plaster to clover is after
the plants have made some growth, say
after the wheat harvest on clover. sown
in the spring. He thinks the plaster
acts directly on the leaf on which 1t is
sprinkled. Prairie Farmer.
1.-THE best husband I ever met, -
says living writer, ''came out of q
family where the mother-a heroic and
self-denying woman Laid down the
absolute law: Girls first'-not in any
authority, but first to be thought of as
to protection and tenderness. Conse-
quently the chivalrous care which the
lads were taught to show to their own
sisters naturally extended itself to all
women"
The Methodist discipline says that
no woman ought to marry without the
consent of her parents. A minister asks
the official 4Aduocate if this is manda-
tary. He is in reply instructed US fol-
lows: 1--WE regard this passage as adj
visory, containing a sound general
principle, but admitting of. exceptions.
neither God, the State, nor nature puts
the control of marriage absolutely in
the hands of any one but the persons
themselves who make the vows and
must bear the burdens of matrimony. -
Two of the cottage-ow at Long
Branch have built a protection to their
property, which is situated on the low
bluff, by building solid wall, defying
the heaviest winter storm. 1t is made
of artificial stone, and reaches deep into
the ground, while its top is foored for a
promenade, with slope of green sward
behind. Wooden devices have all failed
to withstand the tremendous force OF
the waves, and heretofore, without
State aid, no property-owner has taken
the work in hand ON his own account.
~ Y Sun.
I'm railroad station at Birming.
ham, England, runaway daughter was
captured by her mother. just as she and
a young married man, with whom she
had designed to elope to America, had
got into the train. Catching sight oil
the object of her search, the mother
rushed at the clipping girl, and, shout
ing repeatedly: 80. you wicked hussy,''
laid hold of her, and threatened to give
her into custody if she did not go home.
The only reply she got was 'sFiddle-
sticks, but when o policeman was
fetched the girl consented to return
A North Carolina girl had her hand
completely severed from the arm by an
AK. The physician, not being in a CON
dltion to amputate the arm above the
wrist, replaced the hand, secured it
with silver stitches and adhesive plaster
and having bound both arm and hand
to a broad splint, ordered them to be
kept warm with hot flannel CLOTH The
third day pulsation could be plainly felt
IN the hand, which had also changed
its color. Says the physician in charge
Il removed the sutures on the four
teenth day, and afterward she carried
the hand in sling, and is now-three
months after the accident-able to ex-
tend the fingers and grasp with nearly
the usual strength. Philadelphia Re
cord.
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