The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-09-13
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them is exactly alike.
The consumption of tobacco in the
United States is said to be about ten |
times what it is in Great Britain.
There is talk of building railroad
between Plotzle, and the fortress of
Novoglorgieosk. Just think what an
American brakeman would do with that
name.
The first apple tree raised on the
Pacific coast. from seed sent out on a
Hudson Bay Company's ship to Van
conyer in 1926, is said to be still stand
ing on the Government reserve near
Vancouver. Chicago Times.
"A popular French cook at Phila-
delphia asserts that English sparrows
are an admirable substitute for reed
birds. If this is the case the problem
of their destruction will soon be solved
by enterprising pot-hunters,
I'm The contest in the Federal Court
at Kansas City to test the validity of an
act of the State Legislature which pro-
hibits the sale and manufacture of oleo-
margarine, the decision has been rem
dered and sustains the State law
Kansas City Times.
If burglar should enter your
house, throw toy pistol at him. In
bis rage, he will pick it up and attempt
to discharge its contents into your head.
Then all you have to do is TO call the
police and have the fellows body re-
moved.--N. 7. Graphic.
Florida is said to contain mystic
rious and unknown region never yet
visited by white men, and inhabited by
| remnant of the Seminoles, as yet I'M
tainted by civilization. A party of
New Orleans journalists propose to ex-
| plore this terra aTacogfita.
Should the scheme of flowing o
portion of Palestine with the AIediterra-
mean be carried out, the Red and the Med
| iterranean seas will unite to form a
body of water about two hundred miles
| long, from three to ten miles wide, and
deep enough to float the largest ships.
They had Chinese picnic up the
Hudson, the other day, and the music
furnished by real Mongolian minstrels
was said to be a realistic suggestion of
Pandemonilm, hearing which Berlioz
would have expired with envy and
Wagner have collapsed with despair
N 7. Graphic.
An interesting discovery has been
made on the south bank of the Yellow
stone River, near Miles City, on great
sand stone rock, where appears carved
in large characters the name civilian
Clarke, July %, 1906" Clarke was asso-
eiated with Meriwether Lewis in 1905
in exploring the northern half Of the
continent.
President Barnard has addressed a
letter to the New York Tribune humor-
ously defending our English spelling.
In abiding to an interchange of sound
representatives he says that if this were
prevalent ''aigh paighg oph Ingleish
| wood preazent al varied AIMED pixie
/ wrhesk appearance, troughleigh pliezing
tou ey kaurrekth thaispth. IiadiGiaapo-
us Journal,
"A correspondent who is apparently
an anti-tobacconist writes as follows:
.'The native Canadians are not a hand
some race, and the traces of Indian
blood are often discovered in their
physiognomy. But the dWarfng effect
of the constant use of tobacco for many
generations. early and late, is clearly tC
be seen. No excessively smoking and
drinking race can get or keep ascendan-
y."-C Chicago Journal.
Among the visitors of Charity Com
missioner Nissan, of New York, recently
was James Clarkson, a stock raiser o.
California. 81 have come on, - he said
! handing the Commissioner cigar, ''tC
find out something about myself. / was
picked up in the streets of Brooklyn, anC
. | until | was twelve years old / was {
county charge. Then | was sent to {
farmer in Iowa, and then made my OWL
t way / mean to take some poor DO.
back with me. IN Y Sun.
Prince Charles, when he cut through
! the Austrian army, in retiring from
Jagendorf, gave this order to his infant
ry: 'sSilent, till you see the whites 0
, their eyes, This was on May %, 1745
and this order, so successful on that day
was remembered twelve years after a
7 the battle OF Prague, when the genera
. Prussian order was, by push of bayo
nets; no firing till you see the whites c
| their eyes, Prescott also recollecte
, it at the battle of Bunker Hill.-BoSto
Post.
AluOlS tuC luClNCAoS Va 1AlC CbON SA
!, son hanging at Lawrencevifle, Ca, th
Gwinnett Herald says that when Dl
s Moore removed the rope from Stever
sons neck woman who had presse
her way to the rope asked permission
q enter. She hurried to the sheriff ant
Selling the moose that had just been ri
moved and was still warm, rubbed
rapidly across a goiter on her necl
G There is superstitious idea in the couI
try that rubbing the unpleasantprotu
ance with q rope with which felon hs
). been hanged will remove it.
= The Vienna New Free Press has co
: lected from an official source statistic
!. ON the confiscation of newspapers
;. Vienna during the year 1882. The
y confscations amounted in all to PIG,
e which 1874 were morning papers. Mo
a seizures occurred in November, and Il
= fewest in April. The reason for this
e said to be fact that the public attoTnt
happened to be very well in spring, al
in somewhat bad health during autumn
= But, practically, the public attoTnt
- can do as he pleases, and it has pleas,
ALL LIZ, r,,;llSax1 IS Ill.,,