The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-09-03
MISCELLANEOUS.


Vermont the heaviest rams fleece
weighed twenty-eight pounds thirteen
ounces, and the heaviest ewes fleece
twenty-one pounds nine ounces. This,
1t is claimed, exceeds the record at any
public shearing Boston Journal.
"A Woe-begone looking specimen OF
humanity, telling wonderful stories
about being captured in the mountains
of Syria $50 years ago, shedding six
sets Of teeth, etc., and claiming to be
the veritable Wandering Jew, has been
doing up Winston, N. C.-Charleston
rs. O. Neacs.
"A man named Selig Voitcjtmnotev.
zky applied to a New York court the
other day for the privilege of dropping
the last twelve letters out of his name.
He based his plea upon sanitary and
economical reasons. and the court
granted his prayer. His name is now
Mr.. Selig Volt, and he has our con-
gratulations.-N y San.
"A Providence Journal correspond
ent recalls that Nathaniel Hawthorne
once attended Bowdoin alumni BAN
quet at which he was expected to speak.
The presiding officer at the proper time
arose and introduced him with some
highly laudatory remarks, and then,
turning around. found Hawthorne's
chair vacant. That shy genius had
slipped out of the room unobserved and
was not seen again that evening.
Toward the close of the reign OF
Queen Elizabeth, a blacksmith manu-
featured paddock of iron, steel and
brass, of eleven pieces and pipe key,
all of which only weighed one grain.
He also made chain of gold of forty
five links which he fastened to the lock
and key and put around the neck of
flea, which drew the whole with perfect
ease. The chain, key, lock and flea
altogether weighed one grain and q
half.
B. F. Eastman writes to the Port
land (Me) advertiser that, on the 9th
of June, 1916, as he remembers, the
ground froze in the region of Portland
to the depth of two inches, and summer
birds died with the cold. There were
frosts in every month of the year except
August, and not one bushel of corn RI
pened. People with money went on
horseback to Hallowell to buy the Vir-
ginia Tor horsetooth) corn at two dol
lars bushel. People without money
went hungry all the next winter,
The myth that a large sum oil
money had been offered by the En-
glish Government for 1000, 900 postage
stamps is said to have arisen in the fol
lowing way: An advertisement ap-
peared in London, England, asking
charitable people to send their stamps
to poor boy in Brighton, who wished
to cover his walls with the portraits q
her Majesty. When they should be @ 81
cred the lads education was to be pait
for by wealthy lunatic. Thousands Of
stamps were sent, and then cleaned anG
sold. The police broke it up.-M 7
Mail.
Pope Leo spends an hour or 81
every afternoon, says the independence
Beige, of Brussels, in preparing thu
material for monumental history o
the papacy. He has had study fitte(
up adjoining the Vatican library TO
convenience of access to the archives
for the papal prison is vast and dis
tances are great. The gigantic tasl
will, of course, not be finished in th,
lifetime of Pope Leo; but even a mer
fragment of it would be of the utmos
value to the student of modern history
since it must in the main be based upol
unpublished documents.
"A congress of philologists will as
semble in Vienna to persuade the Wort,
to adopt a universal language. TIL
scheme is by no means novel. In tn
thirteenth century a Toulousian mon
named Roger worked very hard to con
vince his contemporaries that it would b
to the advantage of humanity if ,
tongue of his own invention was gener
ally spoken. But his mongrel largo
was more wordy than French and near
ly twice as diffuse as Greek, and, al
though the apostle of reform wrote sew
eral books in the new language. there
no record that anyone save himself eve
knew exactly what they treated of.
TT remember" said Detroit DO
to his Sunday-school teacher, 'you tol
me always to stop and count fifty whe
angry. and I've done it. Eyes? Well
I'm glad to hear it. 1t cooled your ar
ger, didn't itp'' ''You see, boy cam
into our alley and made faces at me an
dared me to fight. Twas going for hin
He was bigger'n me, and I'd have &c
pulverized. | remembered what 70
said and began to count" 'sAnd yo
didn't fightpn mo, ma'am. Just a
got to forty-two my big brother cam
along, and the way he licked that be
would have made your mouth water.
was going to count fifty and then run
Detroit Free Press.