The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-05-13
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS
"A California Chinaman recently
ran away with another Chinaman's
wife, and, to throw the pursuers off the
trail, took her aboard a steamboat rolled
up in lot of blankets, carrying her on
his shoulder.
The petrified skeleton of whale
over thirty feet long has been discov-
cred by an officer of the Coast Survey
on a range of mountains in Monterey
County, CAL, over thirty-three hundred
feet above the sea level.
Artificial sponge made of cotton,
rendered absorbent and treated with
antiseptics, has been invented in En-
gland. A piece of the size of walnut
has absorbed water until it reached the
size of a cocoanut. 1t is so cheap that
it need be used but once.
A recent report on the elevated
railroads of New York says that 'sdur-
ing the first year the roads carried 170,-
600 persons, and during the past year
nearly 100,0oO,00O. The first years
earnings were $4,000; last year nearly
$1,000, 0G0.
Evidence of the decay of forests in
Australia is found in the present exist
ence of few trees far exceeding in size
any of those about them and supposed
to be survivors of departed race of
giants. A tree twenty-five feet in cir
conference at height of thirty feet
above the ground was described at a
late meeting of the Royal Society of
New South Wales.
Rev. Mr.. Styles, of Bungton, Ito
usher in uptown church) you
show me pew, please +? Usher-You
can take any one of the back pews, sir.
Rev. Mr.. Slytes-But I am the Rev.
Mr.. Styles, of Bungton. Usher-That
don't make any difference, sir. The
back pews can be occupied by any one
who behaves himself. IN. Y. Times.
"A young man of Leadville. enam-
ored of young married woman of the
same town, made arrangements to
elope with her. Each thought the other
rich. The inability or unwillingness
of each to buy the railroad tickets to
San Francisco caused a postponement
of their plans and another home is not
broken up.-DenUer Tribune.
"A learned Berlin professor has
given to the world the information of
what makes ''merry twinkle" It is
caused by peculiar abrillar-like move
ment of the lids, the orbicularis palpe-
brarum and the parts around the nose.
The new reading of "Twinkle. little
STAR" would then be: ''Abrillar-like
movement of the lids, the orbicularis
palpebrarum and the parts around the
nose, diminutive satellite. "-Rocheste,
Post-Erpress.
Overheard in a street car: First
lady-Why, you know, dear, my hus-
band is too forgetful for anything.
Why, do you know, when he goes out
he really don't remember where he is
going. Second lady-Well, all men
are alike. They keep on talking and
half the time they forget where they
are going. First lady Ito conductor)
Stop at College street, please. Con-
ductor-Two blocks back, madam
Neso Hauen NeUs.
Joseph Aigner, the celebrated por-
trait painter, recently committed sui
eide by hanging, at his villa near Wen
ma. During the revolution of 1848 Aig-
ner's popularity led to his election as
commandant of the insurgent army le-
gion, an honor which afterward caused
his arrest by Prince Windischgratz s
orders, who had him tried by court
martial and sentenced to death. He
was pardoned at the intercession of a
| number of ladies of the Austrian aris-
tocracy, and some years later Prince
Windisehgratz sat to him for a portrait.
Mr. Afford married during the
second year of the late war, He only
had $3.50 to start out with, and this is
the way he got it: His father was a
mechanic and was gone all the week
at his work. When he came home
every Saturday night he gave each of
his children a fve-cent piece. James
had a disposition to save. He got a
piece of timber and bored hole in it
to fit the half-dimes and every one his
father gave him he put in this unique
savings bank. He kept this plan up
until he married. Upon investigation
he found he had saved $3.50. With
this capital the young farmer began
the battle of life. To-day he is worth
over $40. 000.-HartsUeH Goa Sun.