The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-08-19
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
1T il said that in the extreme South
clothes-pins are not used. There the
clothing is doubled over the linesand
allowed to hang until it is dry, which,
owing to the warmth of the climate,
is a matter of a short time.-Good
Housekeeping.
1t isreported on perfectly reliable
authority that the latest conundrum
at the London clubs concerns Miss
Fortescue, to whom Lord Garmoyle
paid 100000 for not marrying her.
Thus is it: What is the most expensive
kind of oil? Garmoyle. Because it
costs 100000 per gal.
Samuel B. Downey, Captain of the
Lancaster Bicycle Club, recently rode
his wheel from Lancaster to Philadel-
phia and back, distance of 1876 miles.
between $50 in the morning and II: AS
in the evening. He stayed nearly four
hours in Philadelphia and stopped for
supper on his way back.-Philadelphia
Press.
"A curious sale of skeletons is about
to take place in Paris. These CHASTITY
treasures belonged to French doctor,
who devoted his existence to studying
Idistorted human nature, and haunted
the hospitals to buy up tho corpses Of
deformed persons. Accordingly he
formed perfect museum of horrors,
for which his heirs now ask 1900.
The bent of the young American
mind was strongly illustrated in the
st. Louis high school, where the schol-
ars were directed to prepare list OF
the five greatest journalists dead and
the five greatest living. The boys
were nearly unanimous in heading
their lists of greatest living journalists
with the name of we'll known base
ball reporter.-St. Louis Post.
A correspondent of San Francis.
co society paper declares that in max
a call he never knows what to do with
his hands and feet, and asks advice on
the subject. The shrewdly judgin g
editor thereupon suggests that he take
his hat with the former and his depart.
ure with the latter. If all writer's on
etiquette were as practical as this one
they would not be the useless persons
they are now.-,San Franciscan.
MIR. John Rogers, of Mansfield,
Mass, had a throat gargle compounded
! at druggists the other day. When
! carrying it home the bottle exploded,
( and everything that the compound
/ touched was burned. 1t turned out that
, the clerk had used aquafortis instead OF
aqua pura, or pure water, and that the
; aquafortis, in composition with gly-
, cerine in the prescription, made some
/ thing about like nitro-glycerine.-
Boston Journal.
} Several negroes recently captured
2 a large sturgeon in Big creek, Georgia.
i. 1t had been seen swimming around in
| the creek for more than a week, and
) that day they went prepared with spikes
5 and axes to capture the monster. The
: water was three or four feet deep, and
, it took considerable work to bring him
r to shore. 1t was taken to Waynesboro,
and weighed eighty-fve pounds and
, measured six and one-half feet in
length. 1t is the first sturgeon ever
captured in the creek.-M. O. Times.
e John Carothers, while burning
e brush near Akron, o., caught his foo
: in brush heap and was in danger Of
t being burned to death. His yells
| uIOuSHb 81 HAL, VINO Sdiu. dy Liz
t the five dollars you owe me and III
o help you out" Carothers insisted that
a he didn't owe any five dollars. SAL
y right then, burn" said the man, and hi
: walked away. Carothers then BY
!. frantic efforts released himself, but moi
l before he was badly scorched.-CIeue
}. land Leader.
: "A Anew law in New Jersey is aimed
at the deceptive nursery agent. 1
=. provides that "any person selling frui
i trees or fruit briers, who shall misrep
&c resent the name or nature of said frui
9 trees or fruit briers, shall be guilty of
e m;sdemeanor, and upon conviction
g thereof shall be punished by fine no
exceeding one hundred dollars, or i'm
prisoned in the county Jail for a tern
p not exceeding three months, or both,
e at the discretion of the court"
"A tourist in Alaska writes home
''There is not horse, mule or bi
u cycle in Alaska; each and all would b
useless as means of locomotion. Th
whole country leads toward heaven a
e an angle of forty-tive degrees. Il
70 move on you must climb and keep Oh
climbing forever. The Indians, TO
o that reason, with level heads avoid tn
IS land, except as place to sleep on
g they live and move in canoes. Wha
z the gondola is to the Venetians til
!, canoe is to the people of Alaska"
a VALUE OF THE GOAT.