The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-01-05
MISCELLANEOUS.

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"A 81, 100000 company will be able
to pipe gas fuel from Illinois to St.
st. Louis next season.
Baths, gymnastics and mountain
climbing are prescribed by German
physicians for heart disease. #
"A recent work on physical beauty
asserts that the tendency in women OF
the present day is toward smallness OF
stature. Big women, in fact, are going
out of fashion.
Instead of plugging up the hole for
n wood screw. from which the thread
has drawn out, with wood, it is said il
plugged with cork that it makes much
better job. ....
No one can realize how much
money there is in the world until he
reads the assets Of insurance companies
printed on the backs of their folders
Exchange.
1t is said that Norwegian cheese is
beginning to be imported in quantity
into English markets in competition
with other foreign goods. and that the
offerings have met with ready sale.
"A man in Oil City with small oil
we'll would not accept the terms that
the Standard Company offered him
for the produce of his well, and to dis
pose of it started little refinery of his
own and peddled the oil about town.
Now his product has become famous
for superior excellence. and he supplies
the whole Oil City retail trade
"A carrier pigeon sent from Cort-
landt street in New York ahghted the
other day on the window of shop in
Spencer, Mass. Under the birds wing
was paper with this written on it:
''Give me corn. and water to drink and
battle in. and let me 60" The owner
of the shop did as requested, and the
pigeon. much refreshed. flew away.
The automatic weighing machine
in the Broad street station at Philadel-
phia, during the past six months, reg
istered a larger collection than had
ever been made by similar machine
anywhere in the world, although they
are placed in the Grand Central in this
city. and at all the other big stations
in this country and in France and En-
gland.-M y San.
The boys on an English reform
ship in the Mersey mutinied recently,
and for several hours were in possess
sion of the ship. They smashed the
furniture and did a great deal of dam
age, after which seventeen of the worst
ringleaders lowered boat and escaped
to the shore. Some of them were re-
captured.
Visitor at Sunday-school (making
a few remarks)-"Of course, children,
you all know why we come to Sunday
school. Will that bright little bov on
the front seat stand up and tell us? NY
young friend. why do you come to
Sunday-school?" Bright Little Bow
(explosively)-'Coz nom makes me
come"
Little Ruth sat at table and heard
each remark as the plates were passed.
One wanted ''small piece" another
"a very little. etc. When it came her
turn she reached her plate out eagerly
toward the coveted food. 1'll take too
much, if 90 please, papa" she said,
with naive sincerity.-DetroH Free
Press.
-Europe's annual expenditures for
armies and flags is So, s67, 500, 900. The
national debts incurred by war aggre-
gate $24. 113. 057, 655, on which 81 ,OOO,-
OO0.0O0is annually paid out for interest.
The war question is rapidly merging
into financial one, il it is not there al
ready. Only three or four nations are
left who can afford even short war.
AT recent meeting of the Amer
lean Society of Civil Engineers curl
Gus statement was made concerning the
durability of the sun-dried bricks used
for building purposes in Peru. It was
said that these bricks seemed to i'm
prove in quality with age; SO that when
building three centuries old was torn
down in Lima, the bricks from the
ancient walls sold for higher price
than new ones.-M Y. Ledger.
lis your boss scarey?' asked a
Massachusetts farmer of a pair of pretty
girls who had stopped in front of his
farm house to gather autumn leaves
Moo. guess not" was the an
sver. .'.WhyP' 20, nothing. only l
didn't know. and as 1 was jest goin' to
kill pig /" Here he stopped, for
the girls hustled into the wagon with
agility, exclaiming, as they put whip to
their steed: IF the horse isn't. we
are" IN Y Sun.
WHATS this gathering of boys in
the shed this afternoon, James?'' in
quired his mother. "Well, YOU see.
ma. replied Jimmy Tuffboy, 1--WE are
going to form walnut trust on the
plan of the rubber trust, you see.' II
don't quite see." swell, this is the
way: The boys all agree to get as
many walnuts as ever they can an pool
in together. I'm interested cause I'm
going to STORE tho pooI - uo~yc,..y |