The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-06-11
MISCELLANEOUS.


Few towns in England under 90
do inhabitants can boast of daily
newspaper.
"A Connecticut cow swallowed 200
hair-pins the other day without injury.
What became of the young lady is not
stated. -Phitadelphta Call.
Mr.. Bonner, of the New York
Ledger, who has studied advertising and
effect, never uses posters or circulars
but confines himself to advertising In
the leading papers. ..Bosto" Journal.
Volumes have been written giving
diagrams and specifications as to how
children should be trained up, and yet
as soon as man becomes daddy he
throws his judgment overheard, shuts
his eyes to reason, and lets the squaller
rule the roost.- Chicago Ledger.
While Americans have little rever-
ence for their great men, while in the
tumult and excitement of politics they
attack them with SANDER and abuse,
they really love them, and the greatness
of their love shines forth refulgent in
the blackness of death.-SeGttte ny.
IT, PoSt-InteIH9encer. .-..
One of the leading articles which
the Polynesian Islands send to this
country is copra, which is simply the
dried meat OF cocoanuts. The natives
break the nuts into small pleaes, which,
after exposure to the tropical sun, turn
to a dark brown color. Copra is used
in the Manufacture of candles to large
extent Besides pomades and cocoanut
oil, copra furnishes volatile oil, which
is used in the manufacture of perfumerv.
The importation of copra into the United
States is yearly increasing. -Phitadet-
phia Press.
e "A writer in a juvenile magazine
recently gathered a number of diction-
ary words as defined by certain small
people, of which the following seems to
be genuine Dust-Mud. with juice
squeezed out. Fan-A thing to brush
warm off with. Ice-Water that
stayed out in the cold and went
to- sleep. Monkey-A small boy
with tail. Pig-A hogs little boy.
Salt-What makes your potatoes taste
bad when you do not put it on. Snoring
Letting off sleep. Wakefulness-
Eyes all the time coming unbuttoned-
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IA writer in the Nineteenth Century
urges inventors to develop the practica-
biIities of the photograph. He desires
10 be able, to GO about his ordinary
business with an apparatus in his hat
which shall according to his inclina-
ton. reeite the latest novel or other
book in which he may be interested.
! He wishes the'phonograph to do for the
spoken, word what the printing press
has done for the written word. Time
was when such proposition would be
laughed at, but the world is now slow
: to ridicule inventors; and as Mr.. Edison
has already invented the phonograpl'
and its development is only urged, nc
one will say the proposition is wholly
absurd. 7Ghicago Curvent,
The following persons can moi
marry in Georgia: First, a white person
to person of color; second, male:
under seventeen, females under four
teeni third, persons more nearlysrelateC
tthan first Cousin. Females under
eighteen must get consent of parents Of
guardians. A man can marry hi!
deceased wife's sister. The ordinary
licenses all marriages. The grounds o
divorce, are consanguinity, force o.
fraud in obtaining marriage, mental O.
physical fmpediments, adultery, tire,
years. desertion, of conviction of
crime for which the punishment is TIVE
8 years or more in prison. Cruel treat
ment and habitual intoxication furnish
discretionary grounds. The verdict O
two concurrent juries is necessary t.
divorce.