The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-11-05
MISCELLANEOUS.

The Superior Court of North Caro-
lima has decided that railroad com.
pany can not force a passenger to ride
in a smoking-ear if he objects to doing
so.
1t will pay to store the hay, straw
and fodder under shelter, as such ma.
terials are often injured by the exposure
to winter storms and spring rains
RaraI NesO lorker.
An Indiana farmer couldn't get any
of the neighbors to sit on the fence with
him and talk horse and white at a
single, and so he went and drowned
himself. Free Press.
"A man who abused Christopher
Columbus IN restaurant in Sacramen.
to was pounded until his life is despaired
of. Christ. has friends in this country
who won't stand by and hear his
motives in discovering America ques.
toned. Detroit Free Press.
The distance from Cologne to Ber.
lin, 474 kilometers in bee line, was
recently covered by some carrier pig.
cons belonging to the Berlin Society
''Pfeil'' in eight hours and forty-one
minutes, which is equal to nearly fifty.
five kilometers an hour.
During the fifty years since the frs
train ran in Belgium the railway com
panies claim that only thirty-one tray
elers have been killed through any
error or disaster in the railway itself
although 1880, 900 passengers have beer
carried over the lines.
Since New Years Day $50 inve1
tions have been fled in the Patent Office
relating to roller skates. Boxwood. o.
which the wheels are generally made
has doubled in price. Contracts foI
ten thousand tons of steel for the skate
have been given out Washington Post
in a cemetery little white stone
marked the grave of dear little girl
On the stone were chiseled these words
"a child of whom her playmates said
1T was easier to be good when she wa.
with us. used to think, and I d.
now, that it was one of the most beau
tiful epitaphs I ever heard. -Detroi
Post.
The unkindest thing that has re
Gently been said about the legal profes
sion is embodied in the remark made il
a French provincial court the other day
to a lawyer who was called as awitness
''Look here, Brother X" he said
''just lose sight of your professional
character for moment and tell us thu
truth.
Prospective bridegroom Ito pros
pective bride)-Would it be possible, dc
you think, dear. to postpone our wed
ding until Monday? 1 am in receipt O
dispatch calling me to Buffalo on i'm.
portant business, P. bride-I'm afraid
not, George, dear. The wedding pres
ents, you know. are only rented unit
Saturday. N. Y. San.
"A Laeonia On. Fl. correspondent
of Manchester paper is ready to swear
that a trout weighing twenty-eight anc
a half pounds was caught in Lake Win
nisquam recently. Another member Of
the same party, it is alleged, caught one
weighing eleven and half pounds
Owners of expensive trout tackle maj
be pleased to learn that the big fellow
was caught with cod line and hook
with cold chisel for sinker and Z
live bull frog for bait.-N Y. Post.
"A number of Concord (Vt.) peopl,
have been victimized by fellow who
claimed to be agent for weekly paper
Each subscriber gave ten cents for the
paper six months, and also was to have
a chance at several valuable prizes
Then the agent sent each subscriber {
certificate, saying that he had drawn al
organ, and requiring one dollar to pay
for boxing, etc. The subscribers have
since found out that they all drew or
gans and all sent one dollar for boxing
but the organs do not come.-Rutlda5d
Herald.
The Indian population of Dakota il
1851, and the total area of Indian res
ervations, as they at present exist in the
Territory, is 41,948 square miles. or g..
847, 105 acres, This is an allowance o.
825 acres of land for every individual
Indian, counting in the old men, womeI
and children. The population of tht
tribes of the Sioux Nation west of the
Missouri River is 25.537, and the are,
of reservation is 35,739 square miles, o.
1883, 129 acres-a farm of 1853 acre
for every Sioux west of the river, chief
brave, old man, squaw, boy, girl anG
papoose. Chicago Journal.
1t was well worth the while of .
Manitou (Col.) correspondent to write
this, and it is worth anyone's while t,
read it: s'The Rockies are piled up lik'
purple clouds against the brittle. spark
ling sapphire skies. They trail off in +.
royal glory of color to the far South
their pink and purple peaks picked on
with piles of everlasting snow. They
are the Rocky Mountains in all truth
Not tree blooms upon their bald ster
ility of rock, and yet in the ambel
atmosphere. under the sweet, clear
sunshine, they look as if the next put