The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-09-24
MISCELLANEOUS.

Alaska pays a greater revenue to
the General Government, in proportion
to the population, than any Territory
now or heretofore in existence in the
United States Chicago Herald.
Two young men, one of whom was
disguised as a woman and passed as the
Others wife, have been reaping har-
vest from charitable citizens of Stockton,
Cal, by their pitiful tale of restitution.
San Francisco Chronicle.
AT Seneca Falls. N. Y, the largest
single electric light ever produced was
recently placed on exhibition. 1t was
50,000-candle power, and placed on
tower at a height of seventy-tive feet it
lighted up the whole village. -BafaEc
Express.
As two men were fishing in a mill
pond at Valatie, Columbia County, N.
Y, the other day. they saw crocodile
about six feet long crawl into the water.
1t was put into the pond six years ago.
when small.
One of the greatest puzzles to the
observing spectator who watched the
youngsters playing Copenhagen at the
children's jubilee was to know why
those little girls who fought so hard
against being kissed played the game at
all. They didn't have to.-Pittsburgh
PA. Commercial.
"A swallow has made its nest and is
rearing its young in one of the railway
signal balls at Bow Crossing, N. Fl.
The covering of the ball became torn.
which allowed the entrance of the bird.
The signals are lowered and raised
many times daily, but the pets of the
switeh-tender appear to like their home
very mnch.-Boston Post.
Joseph d. Fuller, an old gentleman
of seventy, claims that he is entitled to
100 acres of Philadelphia. 1t was willed
to Sally Mercer Fuller by William Penn
before he went back to England the last
time. When she died nobody claimed
the land and it was taken by the city
and sold. Mr. Fuller has been looking
up the genealogical record of the fami-
~ and is convinced that he is an heir
Philadelphia Press.
1t is said that when old Green Hill
Protestant Episcopal Church, on the
Wicomico River, was built, in 1873, the
people drove their COWS to the building,
MIXED them, and with the milk mixed
the red ochre with which the pews were
painted The color still remains. The
effort to restore the old church has
taken pract cal shape and will be sue
cessful if its friends promptly respond
to the appeals made in its behalf. Bal.
ttmore Sun.
The man who drives the sprinkling-
cart reviyes the ancient feud, turns on
the water with start, and almost
browns the dude; the man who draws
the lager beer awakens from his sloth
and does it so that very nearly all of it
is froth; the man who eats bananas
drops the Feelings on the street, the
man who follows after fops along for
twenty feet; and, so on, half hundred
things combine to make it clear the
heated term, with all it brings of Gus.
scdness, is here Chicago Tribune.
"A few days ago Watervliet, On.
7. farmer was induced by stranger
to act as agent for wire fence, signing
what he was told was an agents certif-
cate. Soon after two men visited him
and showed him paper, the one he had
signed 1t was contract to purchase
$4,000 worth of wire. He invited the
men into his barn. where he snatched
the paper from the hands of the one
that held it and drove both from the
premises with pitchfork. Trog
Times.
One of the neatest retorts ever
made in Cambridge, Mass.-not bad
soil for good things-was brief re-
Spouse lately given by young lady tc
an undergraduate, who offered her
with some hesitation, his seat in the
lhorse-c car. She got in with an elder
companion. The car was crowded. and
two young men sat near. One gave his
seat at once to the elder lady; the Other
kept his place. His friend asked him
Disgusting it, however. in German-why
he did not give his place to the young
lady. Because she is not pretty
enough. Af.er a little reflection, how.
ever, he, too, rose and surrendered hi:
seat. The young lady took it, and
thanked HMM German--M. Y. Trib
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