The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-10-21
MISCELLANEOUS.


be produced in Southern Californis
without irrigation.
An ordinance 7forbidding boys I'm.
der eighteen years of age to smoke
cigarettes on the streets was recently
passed by the city council of Los An.
geles, Cal
The late Sir John Anderson in.
vented for the British Government
machinery which reduced the cost OF
making bullets from $l.25 to IL cents
per 1000. and of bayonets from $1.S7
thing out of it beyond his salary OF
$4,000 year.
Some days ago the wife of Eli
Taylor, colored, was riding through the
woods near East River, near Appalach-
icola, Fla. when she saw ayoung bear.
She procured long pole. and getting
near his bearship. belabored him SO
soundly that he was soon dispatched.
He weighed about eighty pounds.-M
7. San.
A little boy playing in an old log
| house at Richwoods, Mo-, lost marble
through the floor and crawled under
the house to get it. He found there
tin pail full of gold and silver coin.
The amount proved to be $1,000. II
was the property of an cid gentleman
| of the place, who had hidden it there
in 1864 and afterward, not finding it
readily, thought it had been stolen.
1t is easy enough to have water.
melons of any flavor you choose. All
you have to do is to have watermelon
patch, and before the melon ripens,
cut a slit in the stem and pour in drop
or two of your favorite flavor every
morning. This receipt is given by a
Georgia man who has tried it and is
now luxuriating in lemon. vanilla.
pineapple and strawberry melons.
"A Brooklyn policeman has been
presented with a new club, which he
does not dare to carry. 1t was meant
for use among the gangs. As he
twirled it at the end of the leather
thong it was neat looking stick. not
easily distinguished from The ordinary
club, but if a tough took hold of it to
wrest it away, four short, sharp, two.
edged knife blades could be thrown out
fon four sides of the club.
A man named Goring, who lived
al Kingston, N. j., was working in q
cornfield when he scratched his arm
against cornstalk. He paid no atten.
ton to his wound until his arm began
to swell, and then he called in a ply
sician, who, however, could do nothing
to alleviate Goring's suferings. The
man, who was large, strong and in
good health before, died in horrible
agony.
All White, Chinaman, of Van.
couver, B. c., was considerably sur.
prised, recently, when, after going
around to several legal gentlemen, he
was told that he could not secure war
rant for the arrest of another China
man named Jongs Lee, who had agreed
to sell him a Chinese female and had
after receiving part payment of the
money, refused to carry out his con
tract.
A weak-minded youth of North
cumberland, Can, was recently tolt
that his grave was in cemetery neal
the town. He visited the place and
seeing stone bearing the name Of
: Fred" he concluded that that mean
him, and began opening the grave tt
} extricate his body. A policeman dis
covered him in the act and took him tt
jail. where he was kept until the prope
{ authorities sent him to an asylum.
The sheriff at New Castle, Pa, re
, Gently left the door of the Jail open ant
prisoner escaped. He then Offered
: one of the remaining prisoners fv,
t dollars if he would capture the fugitive
r The criminal gave chase, but failed Il
capture the man, and. strange to re
late, returned to his prison quarters
He could easily have escaped, blu. h
9 chose to serve out the remainder of hi
a term, only eight days, rather thar
> undergo the fatigue of an excitin,
a fight.
: The SdnitGrian relates a case il
{ which rat had died under the floor O
. large drawing-room and was givins
great offence to the owner of the house
: who had had the carpets and furnitur
e removed preparatory to taking up tn
t floor. An ingenious friend drops in
h suggests that the doors and window
r be shut, steps out to the stable AM
: traps a couple of blue-bottle flies, an
T returning, sets them free in the apart
t ment. The flies, after a little unde
y termined buzzing, settle pertinaciousl
y on certain crack in the floor, and O
g the removal of one plank at this poin
5 the cause of offence was readily RI
n moved.
d The frost bell is doubtless the mean
of saving many tons of grapes in th
northern portions of California, wher
the frost sometimes does so much dam
IL age. 1t consists of a wire running froI
d different parts of the vineyard to th
r house. On the vineyard end of th
1t wire is an apparatus that rings be
lr at the house when the thermometer d,
1. sends to certain degree. When th
u bell is let off the occupants of the hous
Il know that their vines are in DANCE
is and Immediately repair to the vinegar
n and light fires in different quarter
ir and thus prevent, through the agene
of this ingenious electrical device, ii
;. loss of tons of fruit.
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