The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-12-23
MISCELLANEOUS.

1.-TWO Japanese vases worm Sl,CUU
have been given to the National
Museum at Washington.
Probably this world couldn't get
along without cranks; but sometimes
it can't help thinking it would like to
try. Somerville journal.
The Industrial World says that the
railroad of India will have to use steel
or iron cross-ties, on account of the
ravages of insects. Even the steel
ties have to be dipped into bath of
tar and linseed Oil to protect them from
the white ants!
Cattle are their own best judges of
their need of water. according to the
National LiUe Stock Journal, which
advocates giving cows free access to
water, especially if fed mostly on hay,
which creates stronger demand for
water than straw, corn fodder and
millet.
Over five thousand cheap pianos
are worked off in New York City every
year at sales of household goods, and
each one is advertised as belonging
to lady who is obliged to dispose of
this magnificent instrument on account
of financial difficulties. IN Y Tele-
gram.
The Japanese tumbler is singular
bird, which has habit of jumping
from its perch, turning somersault in
the air, and then coming down right
side up on its perch again. 1t performs
The bird is somewhat larger than
canary.
During the last ten years the total
exports of the United States to France
have averaged $4,000, 0OO-a trifle
more than the imports; our exports to
Germany $57,000,000, while theirs to
us are $44,000,000; to Great Britain
and Ireland 1914, Oo0,0 900, while we take
from them goods worth $3.50, 100000.
There is family in Charlestown,
the pa.ernal head of which is connected
with the city works, two sons are police
men, one occupies a position in a re-
formatory belonging to the city. one is
a letter-carrier, two daughters are
clerks in the employ of the city, and
one daughter, the youngest, hopes soon
to obtain position as a teacher in q
public school. Boston Traveller.
JONES' Hello, old man. how do
like married life by this timer" Smith
Comparatively new to matrimony)-
'sFirst rate! wouldn't be bachelor
for a good Bit Indeed! Why, I
understood your mother-in-law was
living with YOU" 20, no. just the
other way. I'm living with her."
"Well, that does make difference" ~
Pittsburgh Dispatch.
Willie FARMLAND, three year-old
Georgian, playing in a pile of cotton,
scooped out hole and crawled into it.
After a time some one saw his feet
sticking from the hole and pulled the
little fellow out He was dead. His
hands were by his side, and the hole
was so small that he had been unable
to put them down and push himself
out.-N Y Sun.
An Indiana justice of the peace
who had twenty-seven of his twenty
eight decisions reversed by the higher
court has resigned in disgust and
opened a meat market. He says that
the professional courtesy which used to
be distinguishing feature of the bench
and bar has entirely petered out, and
that a justice of the peace of to-day is
of no account.--DetroI Free Press.
Two gentlemen in the smoker.
One of them mentions lady the other
had just left in the Pullman, and says:
''You are related to her?'' eve are
not blood relatives '.Then you are
related?" "Yes. but only by mar.
rage" 81 do not wish to be uncom-
plimentary to any friend of yours,
but am glad of that" $50 am l."
''By the way, how are you related BY
marriageP' -.'She is my wife. "-S!.
Paul Pioneer Press.
They were sitting in the parlor
gazing into the red heart of the anthra-
cite which glowel in the CRATE. when,
taking her hand and squeezingit tender
ly, he asked, in the poetical language
that lovers often use: "Are you will
ing, darling, that we should drift down
the stream of life togetherp'' "Om
she exclaimed. somewhat impatiently,
We've had enough of drifting matches
lately. If you want me to marry you
say SO" -Charlesto,on Mass Enter
| prise.
A new use for cattle has been APP
| parently found in Prussia, where band
of smugglers employed cow in their
attempts to avoid the tax on lace.
A strong ten-months-old cow was
wrapped round with quantity of lace
| valued at $1,000. Over this was fitted
false skin so ingeniously constructed
as to defy detection. They passed the
COW quite easily at the customs Office.
the men there admiring her size and
| beauty, some of the excise officers even
offering her feed.
If any philanthropist and Indian
| defender wants to know the exact num-
Der of Geronimo's victims, it is 413
Every one of these people. ranging
from old gray-haired sires to innocent
babies, were killed in cold blood, and
some of them put to such tortures that
death was welcomed as blessing.
One victim, a man, was tortured from
sunset to sunrise before he died, and
his cries of agony so enraged some of
the sleepy squaws that they forced hot
Goals into his mouth to silence him.
| ~ Y Mail.
An octogenarian of Pittsburgh,
| Pa, reckons that it has cost him only
| S8 600 To live his eighty wears In an