The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-12-02
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A colored boy at Newborn, N. c..
was bitten by a rattlesnake the other
day, and there being no doctor accessi-
BILE his companions dug hole in the
ground and placed both legs in it up
to the hips, packing the mud securely
around him. The poison was extracted
and the boy is now we'll.
News travels slowly in France.
The French Consul at Philadelphia re-
ceives something like half dozen let
tiers week from French people who
claim to be relatives of old Stephen
Girard, asking whether it is true or not
that he is dead and has left large
fortune.-Sprinqfeld (Mass.) Union.
Captain Jack, of Mount Airy, N. j.,
rests his claim to everlasting fame up
on the fact that he has frequently eaten
one hundred oysters at single sitting
There is room for suspicion that in
transmission of this important fact
syllable has been dropped from the
gallant Captains name.-N Y. Mail.
The young woman referred to as
Miss Senkrah in a recent article on
List in the Century is said to be Miss
Harkness-Senkrah read backward
of Boston. who has during thirteen
years in Europe accomplished so much
with the violin that she is called 1.-THE
violin fairy" Liszt took such an in
terest in her that he accompanied her
on the piano, which was supposed to
be tremendous honor.
A middle-aged German farmer Wis.
tied Rondout. N. T., the other day in
search of a wife. A young man offered
to conduct him to the right woman for
thirteen dollars. The offer was ac-
cepted, the woman proved acceptable
and willing, and marriage cere-
mony' was performed by the two
jumping over broomstick. The
farmer took his easily-won bride to his
home in Duchess County Troy Times.
Charlotte Thompson was recently
playing "Jane Eyre" to very slender
houses in Buffalo, and could not under
stand the reason until told that the
people of that city were so jealous of
the city of Rochester that they could
not stand the fact that the principal
male character was called Lord
Rochester. A placard was immedi-
ately prepared announcing that the
character would be named Lord Buff
falo. The story goes that there was
standing room only at the next per-
fornnance.-Erchange.
"A California newspaper says that
the jolliest sport among Juvenile Re-
NOTES is fighting ants. They scrape up
a shovelful of these busy insects from
one colony and carry them to the
next nearest colony, dumping them to-
gether. The result is Immediately a
pitched battle, which is fought most
viciously. the little warriors literally
tearing each other to pieces, until the
last of the interlopers is dead. They
fight in pairs, or in threes. tours and
punches, as it happens to come handiest,
but it is always flight to fnish," and
ne quarter asked or shown.
I'm the recent changes made In our
horse railroads, q Hibernian conductor
was given route considerably longer
than the one he was accustomed to
and extending into a territory with
which he was not familiar. Unfor-
tunately his first trip under the new
arrangement was made at dusk, and
when he arrived at the terminus of the
old route he thrust his head into the
car and exclaimed: fanny av yez as
wants to get out beyant will kape yer
eyes paled. Divil another sthrate do /
know barrin' the one we've just
passed. Boston Commercial Bulletin.
Mrs. Wiggers-''Dear me! What
do you meana This stuff you have
bought for my new dress is not bit
like the sample gave you. Why, it's
miserably poor--don't believe it cost
a cent over ten cents yard, and that
selected was 49," MIR. Wiggers =
'sWell, that was the best I could do.
You see, Mr.. Blank, the only man clerk
in that store, hadn't any thing like your
sample in his department. ssOf course
not; but what has that to do with it?''
s.Well, all the girls in the other depart
ments looked so pretty and sweet that
thought as married man ought to
keep away from them. so, well,
never mind. dear, L II wear it. - Omaha
World
An item having appeared in sew
eral Western papers to the effect that
wheat is the only crop which can be
produced in Southern California with
out irrigation" the Daily San Diegan
enters an indignant protest, and asks
| that this piece of unintentional misin-
formation be; corrected. That paper
states that 'swheat is only one of
the many cereals raised in Southern
California. Corn, oats, rye and barley
are among the products of our rich soil.
raised in large quantities without any
irrigation other that which the ground
receives during the fall and spring rains.
Vegetables of all kinds and many varie-
ties of fruits, including grapes, are pro-
| duced in the same manner"
-..Among the funny feminine FASH
ions of the season is that of the little
bonnet which one so often sees
strangely contrasted against an enor-
nous editice of hat says the Boston
Beacon. 'sThis peculiar creation, with
its two concave segments descending
over the posterior lobes of the brain,
and its apex rising pointedly upward,
may be ravishingly delightful to the
female mind and may, from certain
points of view, seem not unbecoming;
but to the ordinary masculine eye it
looks aS IF tho waararfs hnad uaro