The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-07-17
MISCELLANEOUS.
Base ball is taking theplace of bun

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were landed at one haul, recently, on
the Northeast River, Virginia.
1t is the custom along the Rio
Grande for Mexicans to cross the river
and use the American post, thus saving
money in corresponding with their own
countrymen.
1t Is said that the people OF
this country consume patent medicines
to the amount of $500, 900 every
year. That is four dollars to every
man, woman and child in the land
N. Y. MaH
Here is a recipe. given by Frank,
lin over hundred years ago, in regard
to better times: $50 what signifies
wishing and hoping for better times:
We may make these times better if wa
better ourselves"
"A boy in North Easton, who is too
lazy to wind up his Connecticut watch
in the usual way, puts the stem on the
bannister and rolls it along as he goes
upstairs to bed. When he reaches the
top of the stairs the watch is wound up.
Hartford Post.
AT a Chattanooga (Tenn.) lawn
party, JEFF Lee pointed an unloaded
gun at Andrew Mitchell, who grasped
the muzzle to push it aside, remarking
that it was the unloaded guns that do
all the killing, when it discharged and
killed him in his tracks.
-Cowen once attended the races at
Newcastle, England, and was immedi-
ately surrounded by gamblers and bet
ting men beseeching him to make
wagers with them on the result. In
stead of doing this, he called for pen
ink and paper, and composed the ''Bet
ter Land"
Few cities in this country contain
so much beauty within their limits as
Savannah, Ga. Twenty-four parks, or
squares, each with several acres of tall
trees and smooth lawns, adorn different
parts of the city and give breathing
places for the inhabitants.
Calvin Brice, the Ohio railroad
man, is described as ga bright-eyed,
administered young man of less than
forty years. Within the last six years
he has made more than q million dol
lars. 1t was he who originated the
plan of the ttNickel Plate" He lately
decided $500, 900 to his wife as her par:
of the profits up to this date.-CLeUe.
land Leader.
Washington claims to have reached
the perfection of electric lighting.
Locomotive refieetors are placed on the
Capitol dome and on top of the Treas
ury, with an ordinary Brush Swan
light. The two illuminate Pennsyl-
vania Avenue between them, just mile
and a half, so that one can read news
paper at any point.
Horace B. Buell. caused himself to
be sent as express matter from Chicago
to Manhattan. Kansas, in a box so ar.
ranged that he could sit in it. He ex-
pected to escape from the platform in
the darkness, but his box was set down
bottom side up. His next misfortune
was to be placed on his head, when he
frightened the agent out of years
growth by begging to be released. He
paid 1925 for express charges, when
$3.50 would have purchased ticket.
Chicago Times.
An American, travelingin Germay,
was shown through one of the ducal
palaces. After he had sufficiently ad-
mired all the art treasures, etc, he
asked the ianitor who was showing
him through The edfice: SIS there any
thing else worth looking at in this old
shebang?n IF you will give me a
thaler FL let you listen at this window,
and perhaps this afternoon you can
hear his Royal Highness roll nine-pins
in the courtyard. ''-ArkaasGw IFao-
eIer.
"A gentleman visited the house OF
Henry Ward Beecher and was sur
prised at the smell of tobacco smoke in
the library. Turning to Mr.. Beecher
he asked him if be smoked. The reply
was: "No, but my sons do. | can not
pretend to put down these small vices.
| once tried to, L believe.n so, YES. y
said one of his sons; s'the only thrash
ing he ever gave me was for smoking a
cigar. But when the war broke out
and l went to the front the first present
| received from home was a box OF
cigars sent to me by my father ~.
Z. Sun.
"A fourteen-year-old cowboy on a
pony was driving steer in the alley
near the journal Office one day last
week, when the steer made for the
back door of Uecker's saloon, and
went pell-mell through the back door
and saloon and out of the front door on
the dead run, followed by the daring
boy on the pony. AS the steer passed
through he jumped clear over the table
around which were four men engaged
in playing friendly game of whist.
When the men saw the boy following
the steer they lodged under the table,
which made the pony's passage easy in
leaping over the table, Fortunately
the doors were wide enough in both
rear and front to make good place of
entrance and exit for the frightened
steer 1t was an exciting scene, but
luckily for the terrified Spectators no
harm was done to any one or to the
saloon. NoUotk (Ne6.) Joxraas.