The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-07-22
MISCELLANEOUS.

Higginsville. No., has q club OF
old men composed of gentlemen over
seventy years OF age.
The English sparrow has crossed
the continent and appears in full force
in California.
Sugar, glycerine and gum-arabic
are the articles used to produce the
glossy appearance of ink.-Chicago
Herald.
A bed of snowballs, with q loose
mound of long-stemmed roses rising
from their midst, was pretty center
| piece at Washington dinner.
The Stockton (CaL) Mail says that
| the craze there now is for big roses and
one has been grown in that town this
| spring eighteen inches in diameter.
"A large Newfoundland dog in
Utica, N. Y, has cost his owner $500
in damages for biting people in the last
year. The man concluded to kill his
expensive pet.
| Progressive jack-straws is slowly
but surely supplanting progressive
euchre among the elite. Progressive
Simon-says-thumbs-up will probably be
the next fireside vagary.-Pecs's Sun.
Between New York and the Cult
of Mexico there are only four natural
entrances to harbors where the depth
at mean low water is over sixteen feet,
while the largest ships draw from
twenty-six to wenty-eight-and-a-half
feet.
A man at Walnut Creek, Cal,
stole some paste diamonds from two
burlesque actresses. Believing them
to be genuine, he stole horse to en-
able him to get away more quickly,
and was arrested on the latter charge
alone.
A dweller on the banks of the Co
dorus, in Pennsylvania, ties short lines
with baited fish-hooks to the legs of his
geese and drives them into the water.
The fish bite and jerk the lines and
then the frightened geese hurry to
shore, dragging the fish after them. So
says the York Age.
"A stick of timber $50 feet long and
eighteen inches at the butt, and straight
as pen-holder, was shipped from
Olympia, w. T., recently. 1t was the
finest piece of timber ever shipped
down the sound, and was intended for
flagstaff at Port Discovery.
"A grotesque drawing on an en-.
velope sent by young Clarence Rigby,
of Youngstown, O., to friend on a
New York newspaper, was seen by the
editor and led to an order for several
illustrations, and probably to perma.
nent and lucrative place on the paper
N 7. Herald.
Several wild horses have been capt.
ured in Roop County, Cal, where they
have been roaming for years. Among
them was magnificent stallion thai
for eight years had defied the efforts OF
the most skilful vaqueros. The horses
are the descendants of some fine stock
belonging to former owner of the
range.
The oldest and smallest republic in
the world, San Marine, is inclosed or
all sides by Italian provinces. It is in
f1ourishing condition, although it has
but one principal town and four or five
villages, with an aggregate population
of between 1000 and 5000. 1t is 2,20(
feet above the level of the sea.
Old Mr.. O'Hara, of Reno, know,
how sharper than serpent's tooth i
it is to have thankless child. Two
months ago his son induced the ole
, man, who is very infrm, to deed hin
his property, and then he decamped
| leaving his father with only five dollars
, | The father is now in the county hos
| pital and the son is in Butte City com
| paratively well off.-DcnUcr Tribune.
, There are now about 275 potter,
! kilns in operation in this country. no
, including the large number employed
by decorated pottery makers. The tota
; capital employed il the industry il
about SO, 900, 900. two-thirds of which
} is absorbed in plant. The amount o.
| | wages paid to the thousands of potter,
J hands is placed at from 100000 tt
$1,000, 900 per annum. Finally the an
nual value of the American potter,
, product is over $4,000, 000.-Trol
, Times.
: There is man in Newton, Mass.
1 whose dog follows after the horsebacl
l exercise of his master and has ba'
4 habit of dashing at stray hens alons
1 the highway and killing them. TIL
a master has adopted kind and rationa
nCbiiOu VI puuioiiiuOhe, dho III OFOi
I case makes the dog take the dead hel
1 in his mouth and bear along his dis
j. grace in the face of all observers. Iii
S almost as touching as the punishment
9 laid upon Coleridge's '.Ancient Mari
t ner," of whic'i it is close copy
k Boston Joarnd.
t AT little Girls party in this city
few days ago when the dolls had be
come trihe tired, two of the youn
e people decided to entertain the res
g with charades. As none but the Chi
r dren themselves were present, the re
: ports of the entertainment are necea
4 sarily secondhand, but from all az
: counts it appears that there was on
t pre-eminent success. "Of course, it
: easy enough to guess, but it was re,
y fun. First they talked about ca
that was the first syllable; then for tn
] second syllable they had a sledge, an
0 the word, of course, was mew-sledge.
t Hartford Co4rarst.
: Working on Small Scale.
:. The old adage in regard to "a littl