The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-11-11
MISCELLANEOUS,

marksznan who recently, at five hun.
dred yards, struck squarely the head OF
pin stuck in the center of an envel-
ope.
There was a street illumination in
a Western city recently, and the re-
porter called it ga revelation from some
planet where the sordid things of sense
had never seen the light, but where the
superbly aesthetic had ever held full
sway. - Chicago Times.
The word seismic" just now so
prominent in the description of earth
word meaning ''to shake" Without
styetching things, an attack of malarial
fever might be called the seismics.--
Springfield Mass Union.
"A peculiar sand known as squeak
Ing sand'' is found at the boiling spring
on the Ira Hill farm in Dayton. When
rubbed or pressed in the hand it emits
q succession of sounds which it would
defy tight-ftting door to outdo.-
Biddeford (lMe. Times.
Louisville has 10000 colored peo-
pie. many of whom are prosperous and
some of whom are rich. Some of the
best real estate in the city 10 owned by
colored men; there are three or four
large furniture dealers and many coal
yards, groceries and saloons owned by
negroes. Courier-Joatrnal.
"A farmer near Lawrencevil1e Can,
recently mounted a horse to rescue a
couple of drowning sheep. He was
just entering the stream when his horse
pitched him over his head. He appears
to have been struck by the animals
hoof and stunned, for he sank at once,
and when the body was recovered there
was black mark ON his forehead.
1t is said that in Maine town the
postmaster was Republican aud APP
pointed his wife. who is Democrat,
as his deputy. With the change of adj
ministration the husband lost his place,
as an offensive partisan, and the DEM
ocratic wife was appointed, and she
has reciprocated the favor by selecting
her husband as deputy. thus keeping
the office comfortably in the family, in
spite of the revolution of parties
Boston Traveller.
"A Boston whisky dealer bought
cheap coffin. put A gallon key of rye
whisky inside, screwed a plate on the
lid of the coffin, on which were en-
graved the name, age and birthplace
of the alleged corpse, boxed the coffin,
as is usual, and shipped it to town in
J Maine. There an undertaken took
charge of the box and drove ten miles
into the country before the coffin was
opened and the liquor removed.-M Y.
San.
"A lady had peculiar experience a
few days ago in Portland, Ore, while
riding horse. The animal was high
spirited and, becoming unmanageable,
threw the woman entirely out of her
riding. habit, and ran off with it hang
ing to the saddle. Ayoung man caught
the horse and led it back, and the
young woman took the habit from the
saddle, put it on, mounted the horse
and rode away.
! The trigate bird is considered to be
, the ieetest animal that tiles. Indeed,
its speed is such that seamen have a
belief that it can start with the peep of
t dawn from the coast of Africa, and,
following the trade winds, land on the
American coast before sunset 1t can
undoubtedly fly more than two hundred
miles an hour, but there is no trust
I ICSO1d Va tuO opCCo vi WAtCu ~
: is capable. Chicago Times.
A physician said lately in a paper
at Saratoga that it should not be sug-
. gested to children that they are nervous.
, There is any amount of wisdom in the
. sentence. Children with either physical
or mental infirmities should not be
constantly reminded of them. The
i mind brooding over such troubles fixes
:, them upon the system as chronic and
incurable-when the trouble by wise
treatment would be outgrown and for
i, gotten. Troy Times.
T The following is related of an East
Bridgeport man: He went home few
1 nights ago, and, not feeling well, took
what he supposed to be four pills and
I then slept the sleep of the just. When
v his wife awoke in the morning she be-
$ gan to search for four shoe buttons
9 which she intended to sew on baby's
n shoes before the little one awoke. She
: could not find them. and the husband
: Joined in the search, Finally he re-
9 membered where he had found the pills
!. and said: "Good heavens! swallowed
g them buttons. "-Bridqeport Conn. }
q Post.
:. in Oregon the catching and cam
d ming of salmon employ two thousand
white men in various capacities. II
o employs two thousand five hundred
n Chinese. 1t employs fifteen tugs and
steamboats,, and makes business for a
O half dozen more employed regularly
d in the traffic of the river. 1t employs
? besides hundreds of boat-makers, sail
makers and net-weavers. 1t is the basis
$ of the prosperity of the city of Astoria,
/ and attracts much of the foreign com
IL merce. Indirectly, its benefits reach
il every business and nearly every person
|, in the State of Oregon. Francisco
t Chronicle.
n in Washington Territory there are
! at present only eighteen counties, anc
about all of these were taken from
IL Oregon when it was made State
r The soil is good enough in the best o
Il them to produce forty bushels Of whea
to the acre, fifty to eighty of oats
: twenty to forty of barley, and plent,
ID of cereals and vegetables, pastur
g lands, etc. There are fine forests o
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