The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-07-31
MISCELLANEOUS.


The experiment of ostrich farming;
In Florida has proved failure. Chit
cago Times.
-Yaller Dog and Raw Dog are the
names oftwo little towns south of Hepp.
uer, Oregon.
Telegraph wires were recently
worked from Chicago to London
7.000miles. = Chicago Journal.
"A Baptist lady in Texas devotes to
the Lords cause all the eggs laid by
her hens on Sunday.-Chicdgo Tribune.
IL am so much in sympathy with
nature, remarked a young Gusher to
a lady friend, as he plucked bunch of
grass in the Seventh ward park.
"Yes," she replied; sall shades of
green do harmonize.' Gusher says he
can't imagine what she was driving att
-Pecks San.
Maggie Lee, a magnetic girl, ;"
gave a performance in Frankfort, KY,
the other night, in presence of Proctor
Knott and large audience. A man
weighing 225 pounds sat in a chair, and
she easily lifted him and the chair by
touching the chair with the tip of her
finger. Louisville Courier journal.
"A painful episode of disappointed
love has Just occurred In Paris. Some
watermen found the bodies of young
man and woman, tied together, floating
in the Seine. It was evidently a case
of double suicide, and. from informa-
tion afterward acquired, it appears that
the hapless couple, who belonged To d
respectable class of society, had been
thwarted in their desires of union by
the father of the girl, who had other
views for his daughter.
A regularly organized band OF
young thieves. calling themselves tie
Ozark Spirits y has been unearthed in
Sumter, Ga. They have captain,
signs and passwords. Ten boys of re-
spectacle parentage were identified as
members of the band. They have been
very successful in thieFing, the pro-
ceeds of which consisted of watches,
knives, cuff buttons, silk handkerchiefs,
money, etc. Some ten-cent novels were
found in their possession. - Chicago
Times.
"A man from the country stepped
into a gun shop on Austin Avenue to
buy gun. Several muzzle loading
guns were shown him, but he said be
preferred breech-loader. 81 suppose
you prefer breech-loader on account
of it being easier and quicker to load -
mo, it isn't that particularly I had
an old musket that loaded at the muz
zle, but one day it went off at the
breeeh and nearly blew my head off
Instead of gun that loads at tht
muzzle and goes off at the breech,
want one that can load at the breecl
and fire off at the other end. - TsrG1
Syttsgs.
AT the single yard of Mrs Matild;
Seymour, on Raft River, about thirt,
miles from Mobile. Ala, may be seer
an unusual and interesting sight in ths
shape of a petalligator. The petisovel
nine feet long, and as gentle and docil,
as a kitten. At the sound OF his nam,
called by any one of the Sevmoui
family, he viii Immediately crawl on
of the water and perform whatever i
required of him in the way of carrying
baskets, picking up sticks, etc. On
popularity of the saurian is his intenss
fear of dogs. He cannot be induced Il
come ashore if there is dog in tht
vicinity, and il on shore when one ap
pears will at once take 10 the water. :
ISL. Louis Post. 4s
The Treasurer of one of the coun
ties of Maryland says.it is even d won
der to him that defalcations are no
more numerous than they are, tempta
tons are SO strong. sWhen Z hrs
took hold of the Treasureship of, oul
county, says he, II was literally be
sieged with letters. circulars and con
hdenfial communications from New
York banking firms of doubtful motto
rlety They came in every mail The
were marked private, personal. an,
all that sort of thing. They proved {,
me-on paper, of course-now coult
easily double all investments. The
showed that by putting my money a
was absolutely certain to win. an,
that it was an impossibility for me t
lose. =
1t is proposed to enact law pre
hibiting fishing with nets in the Poto
mac for i've years, in the hope of Nc
storing the ancient piscatorial glory {
the river, Three hundred thousan
shad were often caught at one goo
landing on the Potomac during ia
spring fishing, beginning about tn
middle of March and terminating earl
IN May, and half million herrin
were taken during the season. Stu
geon, rock, and other fish were CORE.
pondlngiy numerous. Shad brough
from 30 to $12 per hundred, herring :
per thousand, sturgeon three cents pc
pound. and rock from $50 to 81 DC
thousand. The sturgeon weighed frol
forty to one hundred and fifty pound,
the rock one to seventy five, and sha
three to six pounds. = Washington Pos
Colorado,s Climate.