The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-05-15
MISCELLANEOUS.

In Springfield, o., recently died ter
rible death from the effects of eating
the peel of half an orange.
Women are becoming very popu-
lar in Valparaiso, Chill, as street-car
conductors. Travel has increased fifty
per cent. since their advent in their new
role.
Many of the Arabs captured in tho
battle of Teb said they knew nothing of
the English forces, had never heard of
their victory over Arab, had never
heard of Arab himself, and had never
heard of Tewfik.
Captain Austin, who calls himself
a crack rifle shot, was cowardly enough
TO attempt recently in England the feat
of shooting a potato off his wife's head.
He succeeded in his first shot, but at the
second his bullet struck the unfortunate
woman in the forehead where it glanced,
saving her from death, it is true, but
long.-N. y. Sun.
w. S. Cooper, employed in a Brook
lyn newspaper office, has adopted q
novel plan for paying his landlady for
board. He took the lady to the theaters
very frequently on free tickets, and
when she presented her bill for FIVE
weeks board, he met it with another
bill charging her full rates for the en-
tertainments she visited with him,
bringing her in debt. rooklyas Eagle.
Speaking of Mexican women, a
traveller says that 1.-THE daughters of the
wealthy pass their lives in vacuity; those
Al, l. g. "A I ii
and nearly all look hunger-bittcn and
badly developed. The health of the
higher class of women is wretchedly
poor. A plump, healthy woman is a
rarity. The picture SO often seen on
the cigar boxes of a beautiful senor'ita,
swinging in yoluptuous languor in a
hammock, is pictorial fraud.
"A Comstocker, writing from Eagle
City TO the Virginia (Neg. Enterprise,
says: "The Ceur d Alene liar is the
boss liar of the Western world. Neither
the Arizona liar, the Colorado liar, the
New Mexican liar, nor the Nevada liar
can stand before the Ceur d Alene liar
half round. He has n cold, hard
cheek of marble mule and the eye of
a basilisk. When he goes for the poor
pilgrim it is equal to q stroke of
paralysis"
There is place in the Blue Ridge
Mountains, in West Virginia, where
snow melts as fast as it falls, and where
the temperature of the ground never
reaches the freezing point. Vegetation
is always month ahead of the sur,
rounding sections. There is about one
acre of this warm area. The State
Geologist is of the opinion that there
may be volcano slumbering few
hundred feet below the surface.-Chi
cago Herald.
The ''lettern presented to the His
torical Society of Pennsylvania, by r.
Coulton Davis, at the inaugural cere
monies of its new building on the 18th
inst, is the commission of Benjamin
Franklin to be Minister Plenipetentiary
to the Court of France, directed te
Louis XVI, and signed by Henry
I.aurens, President of the Continental
Congress, 1878. 1t is in glazed
frame, accompanying which il rare
French engraving of Franklin, in which
''Diogenes'' is represented with hi;
lantern, as having found an honest
A4Adh' Il HctttUCtIYStO TCoSs
I'm boring for water near Snake
River, about forty-fve miles from Day.
ton. Ore, recently, stratum of frozen
earth was encountered at depth oil
tifty-five feet. Passing through this fol
five feet numerous cavities were found,
from which cold air came in gusts.
The escaping air at the bottom of the
well can be heard roaring at some dis
lance. 1t is not possible for anyone tc
hold his hand over the well for any
length of time without freezing it, and
bucket of water let down into the wei
was frozen over in few minutes
Work on the well has been abandoned
on account of the cold. Chicago Times
"A genuine snake hunt of considers
bic proportions took place near Pleas
ant Plains, 5. l., few days ago. Neal
the village is the s'snake woods" A
party of young men from Pleasan
Plains entered the woods provided witt
shovels, picks and crowbars. Rottel
stumps and large stones were over
turned and mounds with snake-hole
about them were opened. In ever
case hundreds of reptiles were foun,
coiled up and matted together. The,
were chopped to pieces by the shovels
The party worked hard several hour
and left in the woods an enormou
number of dead reptiles. Severa
$ thousand must have been slaughtered
IN. Y. Sun.
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