The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-02-04
MISCELLANEOUS.

I'm answer to the question, "What
makes a Florida girl POPULAR" we
would state that her fathers orange
grove probably has as much to do with
It as anything else.-Ocala (Fla.) Ban
7ser.
1T is announced that an English in.
ventor has lately devised a method of
coating tin with a material resembling
glass, which removes all danger of
poison in canned goods, and the adop-
ton of his process is likely soon to be-
come general.
The marriage of girl ten years
and eight months old to a man of thirty
years, is reported by good authority
from Suwanee county. The girls
father is minister. and the ceremony
was performed by his consent.-Madi-
son Fla.) Recorder.
If you are sick or think you are,
don't send for the doctor unless you
mean to follow his directions. You will
only worry yourself i'll by knowing
what he thinks of you, while you do
nothing to better yourself.-PhiladeI-
pltiG Bulletin.
"A lake, comprising 1875 acres, near
the village of Riverhead, Long Island,
has been drained, and the bottom,
which is found to be sandy, is being
leveled and stumrs pulled up and holes
filled for the purpose of establishing an
immense cultivated cranberry marsh
| ~ Y Tribune.
The commission appointed by the
Spanish Government to investigate the
great Andalusian earthquake last
| Christmas report that over Ii, 900 build-
ings were injured in Granada and
/ Malaga, of which 400 were ruined;
745 persons were killed, and 1,485
wounded.
A horse was sent up from the farm
to be shod. Having number of
ready-made shoes on hand, the job, in
the absence of the boss, was given to
an apprentice. After an interval the
following note came to the superin-
tendent: This horse don't fit none of
our shoes" Carlisle (Pa.) Indian
School Morning Star.
One of the largest manufacturers
of gloves in England recently issued a
circular to the fashionable dealers in
London, pointing out that the habit of
attempting to wear gloves too small
has grown to such an extent that it
has seriously affected the reputation of
the factory, and urging the dealers to
exercise their influence against this
expensive manifestation of vanity.
Though the great West doesn't
suspect it, at the Eastern centers of
civilization the dude has been replaced
by the Gussie, he supplanted by the
| Jimmie and the latter's successor is
the gou-gou, who is the reigning favor
tie. The name gou-gou is an exact
reproduction of the first sound made
by an infant We don't know whether
it was intentional. Express.
Frank Brewer, favorite negro
minstrel of olden times, walked into
the barroom of the Metropolitan one
morning, dusty and unkempt from a
long journey, and asked for glass of
brandy. The barkeeper handed out
the brandy, and then, suspicious of
Franks appearance, said: ''Just pay
for that before you drink it, will you?"
Frank, who was as we'll known in New
up, astonished, and stammered:
| Wv -N-WHaG! 'JuSb pay kOI lUdb
brandy before you drink it, repeated
the bartender. "W-w-why," said
Frank, leaning confidently across the
counter, sis it so im-m-memdiately
f-f-fatal in its effecte'-N. Y Citizen.
There ought to be stringent stat
ute making it felony to arrange a
prize fight in any State, to enter into
negotiations for arrangement of prize
fight or to engage in such prize fight in
any manner, either as principal, second.
assistant, stakeholder, trainer or ref
cree. The statute should also forbid
persons to leave the State to carry on
such prize-fight or to assist in it in any
capacity, and it should empower and
direct the officers to make arrests when
persons are about to depart on such
errands. These regulations, made suf-
ticiently comprehensive and explicit,
if they did not stop this disgraceful
brutality, at least would compel it to
keep under cover. 1t is now open and
shameless.-N. Y. Herald