The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-09-09
MISCELLANEOUS

"A horse shot q vaquero near
Nogales, Cal, one day recently. The
animal was rubbing flea off his hide
against tree when the gan slung to
the saddle went off with fatal results.
| "A New York policeman found a
man beating his wife with club, and
put bullet through him. Such treat
ment as this tends to discourage
the wife-beating business. - .ftsburgk
Chronicle Telegraph.
"A Minneapolis man says that in
China red is thought to be very lucky
color, and that is the reason why Chi
nese laundrymen in this country use 30
much red paint and so many red cur
tains.
Julius Hafecker, German machin-
list of New York, loaded his gun With
water, keeping the powder dry by in
serting cork between it and the water,
and then blew his head off with the
charge.
Last year 279, 0OO,OO stamped g n
velopes were sold by the Government.
They were worth $5,773,000. En-
velopes which in 1869 cost $3.50 per
1000, and the extra letter-size that then
cost 5000 are now sold for 2.40.-
Washi,s gton Post.
"A negro in the Wateree section OF
South Carolina declares that the mos
quitoes are so numerous and venomous
that it is impossible to work his fields,
and he has abandoned one part of his
farm. Two horses, he affirms, have
succumbed to the pests.
"A singular and beautiful relic of the
flood last summer is the crop of daisies
that it sowed through the bottom lands
of Kansas. Some sections are dotted
thickly with these flowers, and as they
were never known to grow before it
seems certain that the seeds were
brought down by the flood. - Chicago
Mail.
All the wood yards in Montana on
the Missouri are now controlled by In
dians, and the price of wood has been
fixed at three dollars per cord for cot
tonwood and four dollars for ash, and
cash must be paid. Any Captain who
attempts to get wood for less than these
figures, or who stands the aboriginees
off, is reported Chicago Herald.
Mrs. Robert Graham, of Fleming
County, while riding on horseback,
was stricken with paralysis and rem
dered insensible. She did not fall
from her horse, which wandered about
at will for some time before the I'M
fortunate lady was found. Taken to
her home, she died in few hours
Lexington (Ky.l Gazette.
Two children of farmer Agnew, of
Tara, Can, boy of ten and a girl
of four, while playing in the barn,
found a gun which their father kept
loaded for rats. ''Stan' off there a
piece" said the boy, ''an' let me see if
l | can't shoot you" The little girl
obeyed cheerfully, and the young Ca
muck filled her face and shoulder with
| fine shot.
The crew of the smack White
Cloud, of New London, had a fight
with a big sword fish the other day.
After the fish was struck it turned on
the boat in which were its pursuers,
pierced it again and again with its
| formidable sword, and finally STAYED
it to pieces. Meanwhile the smack
drew up, and the big fellow was finally
overpowered and killed.
Peter Elwanger, market man at
Bowles market. Louisville, is the pos
sessor of silver dollar coined in 1904,
which he refused to sell for $500. The
coin came into his possession through
an aged relative in Indiana, who has
owned it for over fifty years. There
are but seven pieces of this date in ex-
istence, and they are valued at $1,000
each by coin collectors. Henry Stoch-
aoff offers to buy the coin for $500.
A paper at Winston, N. c., pub.
fishes card by young lady which
| sets forth that her fiance having broken
| the engagement between them, .and
engaged himself to woman whose
husband has been dead only three
MONTHS" she feels called on to say to
the public that ''during the engage.
ment he borrowed money from me,
which he has never paid back, pretend
ing to buy land with it. / don't want
him and wouldn't have him since
have found him out"
Next to the oyster industry on
Long Island is that of cutting sand
from the beaches. The industry COM
mences at Carries Point and takes in
most of the beaches to Stony Brook.
The business is an immense one. There
are several varieties of the gravel and
sand. There are the big stones about
half the size of hens eggs used for fur.
mace bottoms at steel works, also for
| oyster beds and roadways. The grit
gravel is used for asphalt works. roof
ing and paving gravel and canary bird
gravel.-N Y. Tribune.