The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-07-29
MISCELLANEOUS.


MANY worn-out pastures of Massa-
chusetts are being planted with chest.
nuts.
"A man at Los Angeles has COM
menced to manufacture perfumery out
of California flowers, and claims great
success.
Experiments are being made in
Philadelphia in the breeding of silk
worms from eggs of worms bred in this
country.
The newsboys of San Francisco
have organized protective union. Ten
cents is to be the uniform price for a
shine, and destitute members will be
taken care of.
AT the removal of barber shop
in Geneva, N. Y, the other day, a
show-bill was taken down which adver-
tised circus which appeared in that
place in 1857. 1t was entirely different
from the show bills of the present day.
"A movement is afoot in Philadel-
phia to erect monument over the
grave of Corporal William Fl. Rhial,
who was the first soldier of the Ma
tional army killed when the rebels in.
vaded Pennsylvania.
"A young man hurriedly left the
Northern railway train at Craigvale,
Can, one day recently, emphatically
kissed a young lady who stood waiting
for him on the platform, then rushed
back to his seat in the car and tran
gully pursued his journey northward.
Fred Sitton, of McMinnville, Ore,
had an adventure with bear recently
that was by no means pleasing. He came
across the bear and shot him four or
five times, when bruin turned on him,
run him up a sapling, and kept him
there for several hours, when his cries
were heard, assistance came, and the
bear was killed.
"A gentleman of Trumbull County,
O., was awakened one night recently
from sound sleep with singing, Bit
ing sensation in his leg. A search was
instituted and discovery made. In
the folds of his wife's robe de chambre
a fish hook was securely caught, and so
deeply had it imbedded itself that
slice of flesh went out with it.-Cgeve-
land Leader.
Stranger Cat the restaurant) -"Beg
pardon, sir, but you have spilled soup all
over your vest" Fogg-'I wish you'd
mind your own business. You've been
sitting on your lighted cigar for fifteen
minutes and have burned hole in your
coat-tail as big as my fist, but you
didn't hear me shouting it at you."-
Pittsburgh Chronicle.
We can not too highly commend
the determination of Rev. Sam Jones
to undertake to convert the Corncob
School of Philosophy. People who
boldly stand up and assert that the
Henceness of the Wherefore is due to
the Thingness of the Sweet Afterward
can not be reformed too soon for our
common safety. Philadelphia Press.
"A barbarous case of eviction lately
happened at Linlithgow, Scotland.
Miss Eliza Milne, teacher of the Doug
las Cottage School, was elected from
her house, and her bedridden mother.
eighty-six years of age, was removed
from her bed and placed on an easy
chair on the wayside. She laid there
for two hours and then expired.
1t is suggestive fact that at Luck
now, India, there is native press en-
ploying nine hundred workmen which
issues largely the sacred writings of the
Hindoos and Mohammedans. A native
publishing firm at Lahore translates
European infdel publications as fast as
they appear, and disseminates them in
the various languages of India.
Several years ago Louis Rennebere
was found dead in his bed at Mononga-
hela City, and buried. But he wasn't
dead after all, for he turned up the
other day at his old employers and
asked for work. He says that he re-
vived after being buried and dug out of
the grave; but it is thought that he was
resurrected by medical students, who,
finding him alive, paid him to quit town
and keep quiet. Philadelphia Press.
The stingray is the natural enemy
Of San Francisco oysters, and his APP
pearance on the Atlantic coast is al
most as much to be dreaded as the FIVE
fingered starfish that destroys the beds
ofeastern waters. The fish has power
full pair of jaws, with which he con-
siders it no trick whatever to smash the
she'll of an oyster into powder, after
which he sucks the meat into his
stomach and discards the rocky debris.
IN. r Tribune.
The citizens of Colletsville, N. c.,
have discovered an excellent and an
easy way to catch suckers when they
run up the Johns river. There is a
dam at Coliettsville, and the fish make
many attempts - climb the waterfall.
Baskets arr f;stsu1 to the top of the
dam so that they will hang just under
the water, and the suckers. failing in
their efforts to climb the falls, drop
back into the baskets. Four hundred
were thus caught one morning recently
The occupation of Jaehne, the con.
victed ex-Alderman of New York, is
described thus: HE stands in front of
a table on which rests vessel contain
ing starch water, and from basketful
of shirts which have been washed and
wrung out, he picks out one and dips
its bosom and wristbands in the starch.
Then he lays this shirt aside and re-
peats the operation until there are no
shirts left. He leaves off work at six
p. mn. Y. San.
Photography, it is claimed, is to be
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