The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-08-09
MISCELLANEOUS.

A tarantula escaped from the bot
tie in which an embryo naturalist was
bringing it away from Hot Springs the
other day, and for an half hour or more
was decidedly the most important pas
senger on a crowded car.
Mr.. Gotham-''Would you like to
see 'Pygmalion' tonight, Miss Por.
cine?n Miss Porcine (of Cincinnati)
Yes, very much, Mr.. Gotham. ]
believe in encouraging any thing con-
nected with the great hog industry"
-Pack.
The maximum cost of feeding q
Chinese passenger from China to San
Francisco is twelve cents a day, but the
Canadian Pacific steamship Abyssina
recently brought over 1900 Celestials
at an averags cost of A cents day. 1t
was mostly rice and not much of it.
The oldest house in Indiana, the
old Moore mansion, situated on the
Utica pike, near Four Mile Springs,
was recently torn down. 1t was built
in 1900, of stone and brick, and for
many years past has had the reputation
of being haunted.
OF all the mean things said by men,
to and about women, commend US to
that Grabbed parson who told the sis
tiers of his flock that "Christ appeared
first to women after the resurrection,
jest so as the news might spread
faster.n
Scientists are of the opinion that
the newly discovered cities of Arizona
are those sought by Cortez and the
early Spanish Adventures in their ex-
petitions after gold. The cities are
seven in number, and give evidence of
former civilization and wealth.
"A speed trial between the tele-
graph and telephone from New York to
Boston was lately undertaken at the
Sun Office in New Y orl City. The con-
test lasted for ten minutes; $50 words
were delivered in Boston, ready for the
printer, by the telegraph' and 346
words by telephone. But many of the
telephone words were incorrectly re-
ceived. So the telegraph was the win
uer.
Within the Antartic Circle there
has never been found Towering plant
In the Arctic region there are 762 kinds
of flowers; fifty of these are confined to
the Arctic region. They are really
Polar flowers. The colors of these
Polar flowers are not as bright and
varied as our own, most of them being
white or yellow, as if borrowing these
hardy hues from their snowy bergs and
golden stars.
Brown Ito Dumley, who has had
a bout at billiards with Robinson)-
"What do you think, Dumley, of Rob-
inson's game?" Dumley-"He's fair
player, but mighty lucky" Brown "a
little later, to Robinson) -''What do
you think, Robinson, of Dumley's
billiards." Robinson-"He plays fair
game, but is one of the luckiest men
ever aw."-Drake's Magazine.
Omaha man-''Think law is use
less relic of barbarism, eh?n Enthu-
siastic Socialist-s'I worse, it is a
curse; there should be no law; men
don't need law, and they would get
along much better without it. But
am in hurry; have an engagement to
meet the committee tonight" 'What
committee?n sThe committee to draft
oath-bound, iron-clad, obey or-die laws
to govern our Socialistic organiza-
tiOns. Omaha World
In 1742 there fourished in Boston
an original sort of a character, Thomas
Fleet, who was printer and the most
popular auctioneer of his day. Among
other rare bargains he offered at public
sale was this: "a negro woman to be
sold by the printer of this paper; the
very best negro woman in this town.
who has had the smallpox and the
measles; is as hearty as a shore, as
brisk as bird, and will work like
beaver"
-'Don't be a clam" is q warning
that meets one very frequently now-a-
days. Well, why not? What's the
matter with a clam? He's all right. If
he fulfills his mission and makes the
most of himself, what more could be
expected and what more could any per-
son do? The clam is as well born, as
well bred, and as respectable as the
oyster, yet nobody thinks of speaking
disrespectful of the oyster What has
the clam done that it should be made a
term of derision? Nobody ever heard
of clam getting drunk, lying, cheat
ing at cards, abusing dumb animals,
putting little dogs eyes out, or doing
any of the thousand things by which
men distinguish themselves from
brutes. The clam is yet to be heard
from. Perhaps he would say, Don't
be man. "-Indi0napotis Journal.
Clugston Departed in Haste.