The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-02-28
MISCELLANEOUS.

From thunder shower to zero wea-
Their within twenty-fOur hours would
offer a fine illustration of American
climate. 7. Post
Three men stood on the center of
the Brooklyn Bridge at twelve o'clock
the other night, during the heaviest of
the storm, and drank a bottle of wine.
They were there on account of a bet
made ten years before, to the effect that
if the bridge was finished in ten years
they wonld drink a bottle of wine on it
at midnight. Brooklyn Eagle.
"A remark made some time since by
Mr.. Spurgeon, that he considered the
Scotch people owed much of their
strength of character to the regard paid
to the book of Proverbs, has led
French Christian to print and circulate
widely copy of the Proverbs of Solo
mon as an antidote to the lax morality
which now obtains in France.
Chinese slavery in American CITIES
is not, the San Francisco Chronicle
lady who recently addressed the East
ern press. 1t exists in that city in an
exaggerated form, and even the courts
are powerless in their efforts to draw
out the truth. The slaves dare not
tell it.
The boy who fastened the rope OF
his sled to a spoke in the hind wheel of
milk wagon was a little shaver who
had never travelled, but since he came
down and was picked out of the slush
by a kind-hearted man he has been
heard inquiring for various works on
the subject of gravitation and natural
philosophy.-Detroit Free Press.
-Ebenezer, Ca, is dead town. It
was settled in 1874 by immigrants who
followed Oglethorpe's arrival year
before. In 1886 mulberry trees were
planted, and the inhabitants followed
silk-raising with some success so long
as Ebenezer remained inhabited. AT
the time of the Revolution EbenezeI
was Furnishing village, but was cap
tured and occupied by the British after
the reduction of Savannah. This
marked the beginning of Ebenezer's
decay, and in 1885 the village was prac-
tically abandoned, the lands in the vi
entity having become worn out. There
is nothing now to be seen but deserted
ruins.-AtlantG Constitution.
Nerve and presence of mind saved
John II. Feldkamp's life. He is a cut
ter in a Cincinnati clothing store.
While he was operating machine a
spring broke, and as he reached to pick
up detached piece his long beard was
caught and rapidly wound into the ma
chinery, which threatened to draw in
his head and crush it. Instantly he
| threw out his arms and braced them
against the frame of the cutter, and thus
he stood until his beard had been pulled
out by the roots and part of his cheek
had been torn off, exposing the gum of
his lower Cincinnati Times.
Colonel A. S. NJ. Morgan, of Pitts
burgh, Pa, has in his possession an
autograph letter written TO his mother
In 1922 by Thomas Jefferson. She had
sent him the prospectus of a society, of
which she was founder, whose object
was to encourage American manufac-
lures by piedging ladies to wear only
American-made dress goods, and he
wrote: ''The effort which is the subject
of your letter is truly laudable.
No one has been more sensible than
myself of the advantage of placing the
consumer by the side of the producer,
nor disposed to encourage it by exam
| pie. '-FEttSb2tTgb Post.