The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-01-11
MISCELLANEOUS.

The Wayland Liquor law, passed by
the last Connecticut Legislature; pro-
Vides for the sealing of all saloon doors
on Sunday by an official.
"A contract has been let for the con-
Btruction of suspension bridge across
| Niagara River, below the falls, for the
use of the Canada Southern Road, to be
completed next August,
"A shrewd lady who had recovered
from a decline was asked what cured
her. Il stopped worrying and began
to laugh; that is all,' was the reply.
The best possible kind of medicine, M
| q. Picagune. %
"A New Yorker who was robbed of
$1,000 in cash didn't 60 to the detectives
nor give it away to the newspapers. He
simply watched his wife until he found
her paving $207 for the making of a
single dress.-N. 7. Herald. 17
They've found out new way to
make humorists out west. When an ed
itor wants funny article he calls in a
college student, and asks him to write
serious article, and it's sure to be too
funny for anything -SonserUiEEe Jour
nal.
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/. Reformed Pirate: What is the
| difference between economy and mean
nessP Well, if man squeezes to save
little money, he calls it economy; his
! neighbOrs call 1t meanness. It depends
on who does the calling. Boston Tran
script. f. r3 t ast4
AT Knoxville, Tenn, recently,
happy couple from Granger County were
entering the clerk office for marriage
license, when the bride was so overcome
with bashfulness she ran off up Main
Street. With the aid of two clerks she
was headed off, caught and put through.
"A work on the diseases of elephants
| is being written. Their more prominent
affections are stated to be meningitis,
apoplexy, vomiting, collie, enteritis, he-
| maturia, tetanus or lockjaw, pneumonia,
anthrax and ''foot and mouth disease
This is book that no family should be
without. -BOSton Post. 51..- -.
A desperate fight among horse
traders attending the Scotch fair at Fay
etteVille, N. G., occurred the other
night. Over thirty men were hurt, two
MORALLY. Harvey Underwood was shot
by the wife of a man he had attacked
with a knife. More than one hundred
persons were engaged in the fight, and
the authorities are greatly worked up
because of the affair. The riot started
from dispute between two parties.
Philadelphia Press. --
John Grismer had always been
poor, and when he put twenty dollars
into the plate at church at Connellville,
Mo-, there was thought to be some mis-
take, but he said that he really desired
TO make the contribution. The note was
soon identified, by means of its number
having been recorded, as part of 3d.
recently stolen, and then Grismer con-
fessed. What he had intended as re-
lief for his conscience led to his detec.
tion.-St Los1ts Globe. s'-a.l-
In the matter of identifcations the
Norristown Herald is unrivalled Here
is its latest triumph: "a New York cor
respondent says that in the course of an
argument in the Supreme Court, on
Monday morning, Mr.. Marks, a we'll
known member of the legal profession,
suddenly rose and struck the opposing
counsel violent blow in the face A
Well-known member of the legal profess
sion, eh? We should say so. Every
one who has witnessed the play of Uncle
Toms Cabin knows Marks, the law
yer. : IN. 7. Graphic.
q, English travellers, who write about
this country, are usually surprised be-
cause the tomato is used almost as gen
orally as the potato. Thomas Jefferson
brought tomato seed from France, where
he saw that that vegetable was exten-
sively used as food for swine. DIR. bio
Lewis used to say that the too frequent
eating OF it by human beings produced
salvation. The Italians have taught
Americans that fine tomato sauce makes
macaroni more palatable. But there are
many poor cooks who hide their short
comings by putting the tomato into eyery
dish; so that one chef recently said OF
another: go, he'd put it into church
plate. IN. Y. Herald.
--One of the smallest dwarfs ever ex.
hibited in this country was Dole Dutton,
who made tours up to about ten years
ago. At that time she was eighteen
years old and was said to weigh only
twelve pounds. The reason for her re-
tirement from public life was the diffi-
Guilty in managing her. She was a
freakish little creature and sometimes
would refuse to go on the stage at all,
compelling her manager to refund the
admission money. In 1875 she married
man of ordinary stature named Swain,
but separated from him soon. Their
only child died in infancy. The news
of her being taken to an insane asylum
hopeless lunatic does notsurprise those
who knew her Chicago Herald.