The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-10-14
MISCELLANEOUS.


-Four homing pigeons released IN
New York reached New Haven, Conn.,,
eighty-seven miles distant, in sixty
seven minutes.
The Union Pacific Base Ball Club,
of Omaha, has mascot in the shape
of big, fat colored man, whose chief
duty is to sleep in the ball park the
night before game of ball. Chicago
Herald
Whenever the finishing touches are
being put upon an important building,
before it is opened to the public, there
is always San army of painters and
decorator" at work on it: You never
knew of anything smaller than San
| army to be thus employed. Boston
| Transcript.
Cotton was cultivated in India $50
| years before Christ, and was gathered
from the field by hand, exactly as it is
| being done to-day. The seed was then
separated from the fibre by hand, until
the invention of the cotton-gin by
Whitney, and this invention revolu-
tionized the culture of cotton through
| out the world.
| S. A. Wilson and wife, of Waltham,
Mass, narrowly escaped suffocation
one night recently. The sneezing of
cat awoke Mr.. Wilson, and he found
the room full of smoke. An alarm was
| given, and it was found that a fire had
been started in the basement by an in
cendiary. II it had not been for pussy's
sneeze the family would have met
| terrible death.-B0st0n Herald.
| "A novel conflict took place recently
near st. AIMS. B. c., between calf
and grown bull. During the battle
the young bovine was caught between
the horns of its opponent, and, says the
local chronicler, 1.-THE conqueror
marched off in triumph with his con-
sanguineous and believing crown. :"
The calf was extricated only by cutting
off a third of the other animals horns.
Farmer Ito country minister ID
kin bring you in couple bushels OF
apples, dominic, if you'd like 'em.
I've lot of 'em goin' to rot" Min
ister-''T Thanks, Mr.. Hayseed; would
be very glad to get them. Have you
ever tried feeding them to hogs? l hear
they are very fattening." Farmer
"Yes, I've offered 'em to the hogs, but
they won't touch 'em. ''-Hapers'
Bazaar.
| The unique idea of Concord
philosopher: mo mere COLLECTIVELY
can be self. No aggregate, unless
pervaded in every part by a continuous
whole, can possibly attain any inde-
is separately alive In this form it may
exist without knowing it exists. The
self can know itself only by discrim-
mating itself from itself through self
related distinctions in itself"
Gentlemen" he said to the re-
porters, as the sheriff puts the knot
where it would do the most good, Twill
you grant me one last request before
die" The reporters, to a man, said
!; they would. Then write ME down as
having been simply hanged moi
} launched into eternity I'm no dude. y
This request caused some consterna.
tior among the younger reporters. but
they all kept their word.-N. Y. Sun
A scientist. discoursing on snakes
said: Il am told that out in Kansa;
there are snakes that catch hold of the
legs of land turtles, or 'tortles,' as they
call them here, A snake will swallow
the hind leg of the 'tortle, and, O.
course, can not swallow any more
Then the 'tortle' goes tramping abou
with the snake attached to his leg, ane
using the snake pretty roughly. Tit
! snake can not let 60, for its teeth
! which are turned back or inward. ar,
locked fast. 1t keeps its hold until thu
leg becomes SO decomposed that il
, drops off. That fact accounts for tn
great number of lame 'tortles' fount
. in that country" Chicago Herald.
l "A two-foot alligator and two bi.
| artificial swans are in fountain basil
f in Macon, Ga, The other day it wa
3 noticed that the alligator was not to b
f! seen and that one of the swans SCENE,
I to be anchored close to the fountain
r Investigation showed that some boy
: had tied the alligator to the swan t
see him drag it around the basin, an
that the gator had wound himself u
o around the fountain and could no
? come to the surface, and not only that
a but had wound the string tightly aroun
y his mouth. When released he shove
: great pleasure, opening his jaws
1 their full extent, lashing the waite
4 with his tail and barking like dog,