The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-09-04
MISCELLANEOUS.

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in Paris. Chicago Journal
George Parker, farmer aged thirty
years, died at McMinnYille, Oregon,
few days ago, from The effects OF in
flammation, produced by swallowing
cracked cherry pits. De'tcer 4'riba'ae.
An enterprising citizen OF Vallejo,
CAL, has been detected smuggling
fasksof whisky on board the United
States Steamship Hartgord by sewing
them up in salmon. San Francisco
I, Cal. 80
. No girl is plain, says Mr.. Ruskin,
who is well bred, kind, ofn4odest. All
! real defor1nitv means want Of manners
or of heart. All real ugliness means
some kind of hardness of heart or vul
garity of education.
The New York Times says the To-
connective works at Paterson, N. D., now
furnish for Sc, 900 and less locomotives
that they. demanded and received 49,,
000two years ago, and business is very
dull at that.
A Kansas shoemaker stopped work
and began to spend money freely. He
was on that account arrested on sps
picion of having robbed stage coach.
Then he had to confess and prove that
hewas an heir to an English quarter OF
amillione- Chicago Inter Ocean.
"a Quebec mechanic the other day
stepped upon nail which pierced the.
soleeof his boot and ran into his foot.
The nail was new one and clean, and
he thought nothing of the injury, but
in two DAYS. he became lame and was
laid up, and on the eighth, day he died
of loekjaw.
Some photographs recently placed
on sale in Berlin show that the favorite
residence of Prince Bismarck at Fred
cricksruhe is far from being the castle
which popular fancy has supposed it to
he. Ifis, in fact, soaanpretentious a
little house as, hardly to deserve the
name Of villa. ssss asssr1Ssss
The keeper of the only saloon al
Runck Gulch, Col, got early inforrna-
ton that two horse thieves were going
to be hanged in the place, and he
q hastily advertised the entertainment by
means of placards throughout the re-
gion, thus drawing highly remunera-
n tive Chicago Herald.
Between the ages of fifteen and
forty-five a woman can grow about
seven crops of hair. 1t averages about
four ounces to the crop, and when the
prevailing popular color, brings hand
some price. The total annual crop is
estimated at 100 tons, gathered from
S00,000 heads. IN. T. Tribune.
Rattan and cane bedroom furniture
is growing in popularity. Pie beds
and dressing cases come in extremely
pretty artistic designs They are cool,
andif properly attended to and cleaned
oncee very six months viii last lifetime
: They are sometimes ornamented with
broad satin ribbon, but they look just as
well without this addition. M Y.
Herald. sea ,,.s
Louisville has gone back on the
standard time recently adopted through
out the country. Out of one hundred
Of the largest cities in the United State:
seventy-eight still use the standard
time. OF the twenty-five cities that re
fuse to adopt it Cleveland and Cincin
natl are the most important Chieagt
Journal
ave need 4ighthere in the South, y
sayssthe New Orleans Pieagasne, ''more
-. than anything else, skilled labor. W.
want, more and more, trained archi
tects, engineers and machinists. Tech
nieal education should be constantly
applauded and assisted, and our young
men should be taught that the learned
professions, are not the only avenues
TO distinction and wealth. y
Those were very old cigars whicl
were given the other day to the Spanisl
consul at Portland. Ne. They were
lot of two thousand sent to his prede
cessor thirty eight years ago, but whicI
failed to come into his hands before b
sswas transferred from his post Ate
being stored for so long . period, the
are still pronounced 10 be pf excellen
favor BoStou Herald. -
q. Always keep the love letters Won
s. husband wrote you reSnfatriage il
a weilrleeked iron box in the darkes
corner of the attic. Nothing sputs
Is man in such a temper as to- jstumbl
across his former illusions and read
few pages of them. Some men unde
such circumstances have been know
to kick themselves down stairs and b
seriously injured. Erehaage.
The s.heathen Chinee'' NAV be
poor, deluded son Of an effete civilizs
ton, but he is too ssfiy' to'allow truste
a 4 cashiers to get away with the doodle.
80 Slo runs Boston ..washee'' house
Sun Gun, Hop Yn. lChn- Gam, On
Ling All There and Stay There wrestl
with the wash tub One Lung wa
footing up the crow tracks on the da,
book the other night to see if it tallie
with the cash, and when asked if b
was the regular cashier replied: 20, n,
me keepee to-day. next7boy totrnollov
Evly day anothel boy, one boy all tim
too muehee cheat All same Melica
man - Boston Globe.
The Medical Record makes III
startling statement that looking -glasse
areTespensib BILE for piefrurial POISONING
Instwo cases given. ora man and a
wife, the cause of the trouble was in
ploosing glass hanging IN the bedroom
the wooden back Of which was dotte
with thousands of minute globules {
merepFg The Apartsaent was heate
during the night. In another instanc
the source of the poisoning was a mil
rors forty years Old, whose back had b,