The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-04-01
MISCELLANEOUS.


1T is estimated that fifty Thousand
conversations take place over thewires
| in New York every twenty-four hours.
For each message there must be at least
five ssHellos.n which would make two
hundred and fifty thousand s.Hellos''
going over the wires daily.-M. Y.1rib
ssse.
--Relic-hunters are kind of luna
tics, sometimes harmless, but often
otherwise, sid generally foolish, their
particular vanity being allied to that OF
| people who inscribe their insignificant
| names upon public edifices and monu-
| ments. - esobatr.yport Herald.
| 1t has been estimated that an iron
car-wheel will travel some forty thou
sand miles, while steel tire will run
the enormous distance of two hundred
/ thousand miles before wearing out;
thus, though costing so much more,
steel has greatly the advantage.-N z.
Times.
"A tailor in Boston has completed
an exceedingly expensive overcoat for
| a gentleman of that city, The value
| of the coat is said to be four thousand
dollars, though it is claimed that the
garment could not be duplicated for
much larger sum. 1t contains sixty
| nine Russian sable skins of the finest
quality. Boston Globe.
in Norway it is believed that wolves
are frightened away by telegraph lines.
1t is said that however hungry a wolf
may be he will never go into spot
that is enclosed by ropes stretched on
posts. Since the first Geographic line
was established, twenty years ago,
wolves have never appeared in its
neighborhood.
| "A lady at Santa Rosa, CAL, applied
to the city authorities lately for per-
mission to shoot rats with rifle around
her premises, which are inside the city
limits On being asked if she could
take the life of rat at fifty PAGES, she
answered that she could not, but her
sister could blow humming- birds
head off at thirty paces.-Sa's Francis.
co Chronicle.
| Pastel painting is taking its place
amongst the art work cultivated by
ladies. The working of it is pleasant;
there is no disagreeable smell as in oil
painting, no tedious waiting for the
paint to dry; one can begin or leave off
as suits the fancy Any effect can be
produced, from the most delicate trans
parency of ivory to the intense depth
and richness of oil painting. Chicago
Journal.
Advertising in Japan sometimes
attains height of originality and force
unsurpassed in the most progressive
country A bookseller of Toxic adver-
tises: ''Books elegant as singing
girl. Print clear as crystal. Paper
tough as elephants hide. Parcels done
up with as much care as that bestowed
on her husband by a loving wife, and
other advantages which, it is strange to
say, the advertiser finds "too many for
language to express
II Says "Halston" in the New York
Times: "a distinguished New York
physician, having listened to the record
; of millionaire's bill of fare remarked
pointedly: The average rich man OF
New York is not gourmand. The
! food eaten on Fifth Avenue costs less
every day than that eaten on any other
, avenue of the city. A vast deal more
money may be spent for service, but
food itself is eaten in less quantities and
in less variety by the rich than by the
poor in New York. "
The president of the New York
: Press Club has been presented with a
gavel made from large chip of the
keel of the old ship New Orleans, which
has lain in Sackett's Harbor since the
war of 1912, when it was built to meet
the St. Lawrence, which the British
sailed into Lake Erie. She was never
used, however, as peace was declared
before she was completed. The gavel
) is turned and carved, and silver dol.
phin extends along the handle. The
: hammer is made of a bolt of Swedish
iron taken from the wood above port
hole of the vessel.
, "A remarkable escape from an ALI
! gator is narrated by the Sylvania ga.
,, | TelephOne A Mr. Oliver and a negro
, servant were out searching for hogs.
and at the edge OF a pond discovered a
| peculiar looking pile of leaves, which
they poked into with pole, when out
| leaped an alligator and gave chase.
: Mr.. Oliver took to his heels across the
! | pond on the ice, but slipped and fell
and the dreaded reptile overlook him
He thought his time had certainly come,
but in his desperation seized his forrnid
able foe by the upper and lower jaws
! and held its mouth open until the Negro
) came up and put stick in it, thus
propping its jaws apart and rendering
it helpless. They then killed the sau
| rian, which measured something oyel
six feet in length.