The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-06-21
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A dig DEaRlnd HcH OelOHSlHS u
Baltimore man has distinguished her.
self by laying All egg that was about
the size of a cherry and weighed only
seventy-one grains.
Norwich has a man who says the
bridge across the Thames at New
London is to be the biggest kind of
bridge. He has examined the plans
and he declares that it will have five
spasms. "-Norwich fCt. J Bulletin.
An escaping defaulter. who was
held up on his Journey by train-robbe-s
and relieved of his hard-won pile, COM
plains that professional courtesy is dead
in this brutal, grasping, modern world.
Puck.
There are people in this world so
constituted that they would not think
themselves paragons of virtue because
the statute of limitations forbade their
being tried for grand larceny. -Phila-
delphia Inquirer.
Henry Shaw, the venerable St.
Louis philanthropist, who gave the
Missouri Botanical Garden and Tower
Grove Park to the public, has donated
nine acres of ground near the park to
Washington University for base ball
and other athletic sports.
"A St. Paul baby fell from second.
story window. alighting on an awning.
Thence it bounced off and fell on the
shoulders of a gentleman who was
passing, and who caught it in his arms.
The gentleman's plug hat was ruined,
but the baby wasn't hurt in the least.
Young man getting off street cary
Here is my fare. conductor; you for
got to ask me for it." Passenger
"Who is that young man who just got
got of, conductor" Conductor-"I
never saw him before; some crank,
guess. 1t takes all sorts of people, sir,
to make up the world"
Mrs. Finnigan-'.He's no better.
doctor. You towld me to give him rs
much of the powder as would lay on
sixpince. I hadn't sixpince. but I
gave him as much as would go on five
pinnies an two halfpinnies, and it's
done him no good at all, at -
Funny Folks.
-Schomann (cordially)-"Tm the
advance agent for the great and only
show on earth. We strike your town
next week. Here's couple of passes;
take it in" Hotel clerk (coldly)-
"Any baggage?" Schomann dubious
ly)-"No." Hotel clerk (briefy)-
1.-TWO dollars, please"
In Turkey. when a man tells
falsehood the authorities paint the
front of his house black. If that Gus
tom reigned in the United States, dur
ing a Presidential campaign every
newspaper Office in the country would
look like stationary Thunderstorm. -
BRAKES Magazine.
"A man in Pawtucket lately made
application for insurance on q building
situated in village where there was
no fire engine. In answer to the ques-
ton. "What are the facilities for ex-
tinguishing fires?" he wrote, 1T rains
sometimes"
An Indian jungle is not a forest.
All uncultivated or waste lands in In
dia are called 'jungles." Forests are
scarce in that country. The mount
aims jungles," where the tiger has his
home, and from which he comes down
to carry off people or domestic animals,
have no trees other than low scattered
bushes and rocks.
AT Indianapolis, as a gentleman
was walking along the street. accom-
panied by two young ladies, one of the
girls stepped on parlor match and in
an instant the dresses of both were
ablaze from head to foot. By prompt
action on the part of the gentlemen the
flames were smothered before the young
ladies were seriously burned.
The train had run into a snowdrift
and the engine was butting its head in
rage against six-foot bank. "For
once the iron horse appears to be
BEATEN" remarked fat woman in
second class carriage. "You shouldn't
call it an iron horse" mildly reproved
a solemn-faced man. ''Why not?'
asked the fat woman in some surprise.
because it's block TIM softly MUIR
INJURED the solemn-faced man, as he
gazed out of the window and across
the wintry waste with far-away look
in his eye.-Enqlish Magazine.