The Bossier banner., 1884-07-03
MISCELLANEOUS.

found rat rest in the matted hair oil
his horses tail. The young rats were
nearly half grown.
1t is claimed that the Missouri Bo.
tanical Gardens near st. Louis have
complete collection of living specimens
of all the plants mentioned in the Bible
I'm illustration of the Scotcbman's
love of country the Duke of Buccleueh
said: II would rather die in snow
wreath on the braes of Yarrow than on
the softest bed on the shores of the
Mediterranean.
"A flower has been discovered in
South America which is only visible
when the wind is blowing. The shrub
belongs to the cactus family, and is
about three feet high, with crook at
the top, giving it the appearance of
black hickory cane. When the wind
blows a number of beautiful flowers
protrude from little Jumps on the stalk.
Thomas Edmundson, of Harvard,
Neb., hearing that his brother was con-
fined in a Buffalo On. W insane
asylum, Immediately took the train for
that city, to take his brother home. He
had hardly made known his errand in
the insane asylum Office before he be.
came afflicted with his unfortunate
brothers. malady, and he is now 0
raving maniac. Chicago Times.
The north of Scotland recently
came in for the tag end of shower from
Hecla or the other Icelandic crater.
Between the Orkneys and the Shetlands
ash has fallen so thick that it had to be
shoveled off the deck of passing vessels.
When Skapta broke out violently some
years since the fine dust fell in such
quantities over Caithness that entirely
killed the crops.
The girls with half a chance, and
under intelligent guidance, would make
as fair intellectual progress as the boys,
but it seems to be taken for granted
that they have no more intellect than
young chickens or kittens. and that it
is quite in the fitness of things that they
should pose for hours over some milli-
merry plates and be ignorant of nearly
everything else under the sun.-Pitts-
burgh Chronicle Telegraph.
A Detroit wife of three months
standing asks for divorce, charging
that her husband had won her heart
and hand by saying in this that he had
told her time and again that he was the
owner of horse and wagon, whereas
she has discovered that be only has a
wagon, and a very bad one at that.
What makes her so mad is that she
threw away a chance to marry news
paper carrier, thinking she would be
able to sicken the other women in the
block by appearing in her own turn
out on parade days Detroit Post.
A Berlin newspaper has got hold
of genuine sensation. It says that an
enormous hotel is soon to be built at St.
Augustine, Fla. It will be three miles
long, six miles deep, and seventy-fve
stories high, Guests will be taken to
their rooms by 500 balloons; the tables
IN the dining-room will be four miles
in length, and the walters who serve
the meals will be on horseback. There
will be a cuspidor in the office 100 feet
in circumference. The German doesn t
often try to be funny, but when he does
he means business. Chicago Tribune.
Except for those who may have
wealthy friends living in the interior in
favorable locality, Australia has been
practically found to be not a suitable
place for invalids. Any one who has
made acquaintance with bush hotel
would be slow to recommend it as q
residence, even to man in health, and
would certainly advise an invalid to
avoid it. The most eminent physician
in Melbourne has recently stated that,
out of hundreds with weak lungs who
had consulted him during a period OF
twenty-five years, not one of those who
had remained on the coast had mate
rally improved.
New York claims to have more
than thousand women who speculate
in stocks, grain, oil, whisky and every
other way known to the sterner sex, but
brokers, as rule, refuse their custom.
The reasons for this were expressed by
a broker thus: '.Their risks are small,
and if they lose-phe-w-w!" "But
supposing they make a hit?' " Well,
then they grow confidential. They tell
you they knew it was coming so. They
dreamed of black cat or the baby
cried twice in its sleep, or something
like that. They swear by their dreams.
If woman has certain dream and
puts het money on that dream, and
then the market goes the wrong way,
she has been swindled by the onorator. F"
M Y. Tribune.