The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-10-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A huge lemon was recently picked
at Pansoi1kee, Fla. 1t measured twenty
four inches in circumference one way,
twenty-five inches the other, and
weighed four pounds and thirteen
ounces.
During trial in London it was de-
veloped that the plaintiff, a woman,
had been divorced from her former hus-
band because of her misconduct with
her present husband. who had been di
vorced from her sister.
Milton Miester, formerly of Lancas
ter County, Pennsylvania. and now of
Utah Penitentiary, remarks in letter
to a friend: II am serving out a six
months sentence for loving, cherishing
and caring for my dear families, con-
sisting of three of the best, noblest and
loveliest wives in the Union and twenty
three just as good and pretty children
as ever came from Heaven to so;ourn
for season on this mundane sphere. "
Chicago Tribune.
The yield of grain in Texas for the
present year has been the greatest ever
known in the history of the State The
Galveston NeWs, commenting upon the
fact, says: ''With no untoward disaster
to the cotton crop the State is on the
eve of the grandest period of agricultural
prosperity she has ever enjoyed. The
commercial and general business situa-
ton may naturally be expected to SYM
pathze with this prosperity.
AS an evidence of the ignorance
which prevails through Wales, the vicar
OF a large district writes that he gave
to poor woman, whose daughter was
i'll, little jar of extract of meat, telling
her to boil it with certain seasoning.
The woman complained there was some
thing wrong with the thing. She had
boiled it for hours. and could get nc
charm out of it. The fact was she had
left the jar unopened.
-''How can ever pay you?" Don't
tly." Don't try?" mo, ifyou really
wish to do me favor 81 don't I'M
derstand." 80 long as I know you
never can pay up you will be valuable
to me in another way. Whenever bill
is presented that can not conveniently
meet | will simply say that have mon.
ey due me that must be collected before
l can pay my creditors. Do you see?"
eyes; and as special favor give you
my word and honor I will never pay
you. "-Harper's Bazaar.
Here is hot weather conundrum.
A gentleman remarked the other day
that if he were in an elevator and II
dropped from the fifth story he would
break the force of the fall by jumping
four or five feet in the air just before
the elevator hit the bottom. And now
people are arguing as to whether he
could or not jump tour OF five feet in
the air with nothing under him but a
falling elevator. Could hep And
would he break the fall or not?-Chica
go Times.
The great majority of people pay
no attention to their health or their
mental sanity. Their whole time and
energy are devoted to securing wealth
and distinction. They leave their health
to the doctor, their quarrels to the
lawyers, and their souls to the ministers.
A little education in the right direction
would change this. But it may be
asked why pipe to those who will not
dance. 1t may be that people will
some time learn that health and mental
sanitation are worth more than wealth
and distinction Philadelphia Press.
"A tadpole, the larva of a frog, has
a tail and no legs, gills instead of lungs,
heart precisely like that of a fish, a
horny beak for eating vegetable food
and spiral intestine to digest it. With
The approach of maturity the hind legs
appear, then the front pair; the beak
falls of, the tail and gillS waste away;
the lungs are created; the digestive ap-
paratus is changed TO suit the animal
diet; the heart becomes reptilian in
type by the addition of another auricle;
in fact, skin, muscles, nerves aud blood
vessels vanish, being absorbed atom by
atom; and new set is substituted. Dos.
ton Budget.
The principal crops of Japan and
their annual products are as follows.
Rice, 196,000,000 bushels; wheat, H.
100000 bushels; barley. 49.421, 900
bushels; maize, 1882, 900 bushels; soy
beans, 11,556,000 bushels; buckwheat,
$4,000 bushels; raw cotton, 10,251,-
600 cwt.; hemp fibre, 1873, 700 cwt.; tea,
394,048 cwt.; tobacco, 3S2.441 cwt. !;
sugar cane. Z 149. 900 cwt. potatoes, IT,
9o0,000 cwt.; bark of paper mulberry,
$4,000 cwt.; indigo leaves, dried $780,
600 cwt. The exports are annually
S36, 100000, or nearly one dollar for
each person on the island. The i'm