The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-12-30
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A steamer with stirring screw
has cut the water that rolls 'twixt
Dover and Calais in fifty eight minutes.
| that is how far England and France
are apart
| The Fish Commission at Washing.
ton has giant octopus. which meas
ures five feet across its body. 1t was
captured in the Atlantic one hundred
miles northeast of Cape Henry, by the
Fish Commissioners steamer Albatross.
| AT the present moment, SO says an
English paper, fortune-telling is one OF
the most flourishing systems of i'm
posture in that country, and there is
scarcely town or village without its
resident or visiting cheat of this de-
scription.
| There are living in Clearfield
County, Pennsylvania, man and his
two sons who are married to three
sisters, and the old man is married to
the youngest sister. Some of the chill
dren don't know their uncles from
their grandfather. Baltimore Anseri-
can.
"A lady named Augustine Ahumada
has died in Santiago, Chill, at the age
L =,
at Talca Mrs. Juana Gatica has died,
aged one hundred and thirty years
The latter leaves two sons, one eighty
eight and the other ninety-fve years OF
age.
Young man-'I want to ask you
question. Widower-.All right, ask
away" Y. M.-''You have been mar.
ried three times; tell me me which wife
did you love most?" W.-"You bite
three sour apples. one after the other,
and then tell me which is the sweetest. !"
Teras Siftinqs.
-Englishmen from Britain and the
colonies are emigrating to South
America rapidly, and taking up govern.
ment lands in large tracts along the
river La Plata and other localities, and
engaging in raising cattle, mining, etc.,
while there are very few Americans in
the whole country.
/ A Louisville broker telegraphed to
a customer in neighboring town: IT
can sell your stock at 81. The GUS
toner received the message, but it
read: Il can sell you stock at 81" This
dropping of the s'r'' in the message
caused loss of several hundred dol
lars to the customer. -Louisuille Cour-
ier-JourasGl.
"A Trenton On. j. man is the
owner OF colonial copper penny,
coined in 1886, and which he claims is
the only known specimen of the kind
in existence. On one side is rude
| figure of an eagle which looks, how
ever, more like representation of the
tabled griffin species. Around this
nondescript bird are the words ..E
| Pluribus Unum." On the reverse is a
figure of a Goddess of Liberty holding
in one hand the scales of justice and in
the other q liberty pole, from which
hangs flag; around this is inscribed
"Immunis Columbia.
An elephant attached to circus,
which had just concluded an engage
mont in San Francisco, ''cut up some
| high old Shines the other day while
being conveyed across the bay. After
smashing door the animal turned its
| attention to a deck hand, whom it
knocked into the hold of the vessel.
| The bar-room was next visited, and
| after mixing drinks, bottles, furniture,
etc., breaking the leg and several ribs
OF an assistant keeper and slightly in
luring another, the infuriated beast
was chained. Twelve hundred dollars
will about cover the damage DONE
| San francisco Chronicle.
-Zenas Caldwell was the first man
in New England who received collegi-
| ate education with view to entering
the Methodist ministry. He went TO
Bowdoin College, and his room mate at
| one time was Franklin Pierce. Mr..
| Caldwell was great mathematician,
| and it is related of him that he solved
problem in algebra which Franklin
Pierce could not do to save his life.
But Pierce became President of the
United States and Caldwell didn't
This is not good story to tell to
schoolboys, perhaps. Lewiston (Me.)
Journal.
The late Tully D. Bowen used to
tell story of man who went to
distinguished lawyer for an opinion on
case, and in about week received it
| neatly written out. with all the filings,
for which he paid the sum of one hum
dred and fifty dollars. He then went
to lawyer of somewhat less renown.
put the same question, and got the
same answer, for which he was charged
fUe dollars. He handed out the money,
at the same time exhibiting the other
| document and remarking its price.
..Ah," said his friend, s.that is for the
blue ribbon and the sealing
n. Y. Herald.
james B. Kelly, a Pittsburgh me.
chanic, has fallen heir to q German
estate and title of nobility by the death
of his uncle, the late Duke of Gas
come, of the former French province
of Lorraine. The estate was given by
Napoleon Bonaparte to his grand uncle,
Albert Mcmahon. one of his soldiers.
When the Province of Lorraine passed
afterward into the German power the
estate was notconiscated. Old McMa-
hon died in 1870, leaving the estate
and title to his son Albert, and the lat
ter died in July last. Search for his
heirs has just been successful. Pitts
buroh Post.
A Frightful Accident.
"What's the matter, Johnnie?n asked