The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-05-01
MISCELLANEOUS.


nearly half the Twenty-third Psalm
Rutland Herald.
"A whale sixty feet long and thir
teen feet high has been killed off Beau.
fort, S. C. Sixty barrels of oil was ex-
pected.-. st. Louis Post.
Since the recent Southern cyclone,
the enterprising citizens of the section
through which the storm passed have
been industriously at work digging
refuge caves.
"A series of prehistoric mica mines
have recently been discoveredin Louis
lana The surrounding vegetation
shows that at least 500 years have
elapsed since they were Abandoned
". o. Times.
I'm 1859 William FL. May, of Troy
was divorced from one wife and married
to another. He discovered somehow re-
Gently that the Judge of 1859 had not
signed the decree, so that he was still
undivorced, and the error of twenty-five
years was corrected by Judge Ingalls,
few days ago.-Troy Times.
One of the latest cheats is tobacco
paper. The stuff is such an exact imi-
tation of the natural tobacco leaf and is
so well favored that it takes magni-
flying glass to detect the deception.
Cigars made of this tobacco paper have
a good flavor, burn well and hold their
white ash FIRMLY. Y. Tribune.
The old tramp who was a ''Michi-
gan fire sufferer last summer, will go
on the road this spring as an ''Ohio
flood sufferer He thought once that
he would have to appear as Java
earthquake sufferer" but the floods
have fortunately rendered this rather
farfetched excuse unneeessary.-Nor-
y'istoUn Herald
John Griffith, of Frederick, Nd,
received $4,000 for drove of cattle re.
Gently and in the evening started for
home. He had not arrived next morn
ing and was found by the roadside dead
by murder; but he had deposited the
money in the bank, so the plumber for
which he was killed did not reward his
murderers. Baltimore american.
According to G. A. Broadwater, a
prominent capitalist of Helena, Mott
lana, that Territory is not anxious for
admission into the Union, as the people
think that the benefits derived from the
admission would hardly counterbalance
the heavy expense incidental to the
maintenance of State Government.
-fhe world has probably never seen
just such funeral procession as the
one of Lieutenant belongs, wLo
persisted in the north. 1t has traversed
8,051 miles by reindeer, horse sleds and
by railroads preparatory to nearly
5000 miles of ocean transit, which
makes distance of nearly half around
the world.
Yes" said the boy, II had {
beautiful dream last night. dreamed
that saw big monkey plaguing cat
He'd take herby the tail and swing her
then he'd grab her by the scruff of tht
neck and hold her over the fire, ane
then he'd clinch her by the small of The
back and squeeze her. The cat yelled
awfully. O, it was q bully dream. y
N. Y. Nail.
Six little stowaways. ranging ii
age from seven to thirteen, were landed
in San Francisco recently, having been
brought over from Liverpool on a sail
ing vessel. They protested to be or
phans, and wanted "to come to thu
States to earn fortune as bootblacks ,
They have started in the business Saq
Francisco Cali
lit is stated that dark haired womel
are preferred to blondes by marrying
men. To uphold this theory Chicag'
physician has recently published stats
tics showing that in the area covered
by his researches blondes are general,
admired by poets and painters, but bru
nettes more frequently capture tn
wedding ring than do their light-haire,
sisters Chicago Herald
A Western township correspondent
writes to his county paper concernin!
a recent wedding, which may accoun
for the wonderful redness of the West
ern evening sky: 1.-The two wer
thrown into one another's society, an,
their souls mated in the impenetrab
mystery of their nativity, and being in
stinctiyely drawn together, blended an
heautitied in the assimilated alembic O
eternal love. Buffalo Express.
1t is said that the waste of yaluabl
timber in Eastern Tennessee is almos
uncomfortable. The finest specimens O
walnut and cherry are used for fcne
rails, fire wood, and similar purposes
Since the government survey of tn
country there has been change in thi
respect, and the people are beginnin;
TO appreciate the value of the timber re
sources. Another result is that tn
mineral resources are becoming known
and investments both in timber and j.
mineral property aIe now made wher
but short time ago they would hay
been considered improbable.
The Utica IN. ", Herald has fig
ured out the following: ''The statemen
that James S. Sherman is the younges
man ever elected TO the Utica MAYOR
atty is enough of an error to be an OIL
ror. Mr. Sherman was born Octobe
"a, 1855, and elected Mayor March 4
1884, at the age of twenty eight years
four months and ten DAYS Rosco
Conkling's record is better by eigh
days. He was born October 80, 1929
and was elected Mayor of Utica Marcl
2, 1858, atthe age of twenty-eight years
four months and two days. That wa
twenty-six years ago.
A New Method Of Watermelon Culture