The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-09-06
MISCELLANEOUS.

Basic Stag. the refuse of steel
works when freed from iron and re-
duced to powder, proves to be yalu.
able fertilizer.
do they miss me at home?' Is
the favorite song of the Burlingtonian
whose wife and grown up daughters
are fond of pegging plates and chunks
of coal at him. Burlington Free Press.
Some laborious statistician figures
it out that in each minute in the United
States, night and day, all the year
round, twenty-four barrels of beer have
to go down 1906 throats, and 1880
bushels of grain have come to bin.,l
William Penn, when laying out the
city of Philadelphia in 1852, is said to
have modelled it on design of ancient
Babylon, and expressed a desire that
Philadelphia should be ''green coun-
try town, which would never be burnt
up and always wholesome.
Sacramento, Cal, is virtually city
without laws. In a trial few days
ago the fact was brought out that the
ordinances now used were never or
dered or accepted by the City Trustees,
or appeared, as required by law, in any
newspaper, and there is no record to
show that they were adopted.
-Uncouth Young Man-'.May I kiss
you, Miss JenesP" Miss Jones (indig-
nantly)-"What do you mean, sir?''
U. Y. M. (surprised) - "Don't you
know what kiss is YETI Well, you
are the funniest girl eversaw. Guess
you'd better study the dictionary
awhile. Good evening. - Toledo Bee.
-"Well, James," said the chiropo-
dist, "we must keep up with the times.
Look at this new sign" "Capitalr'
exclaimed the assistant. ''That will
surely catch the public Then he
went out and tackled up a sign that
read: "Corns Removed While You
Wait. Detroit Free Press.
According to the Engineering ana
Mining Journal, the Panama Canal uses
about 100000 tons of coal a year, and
buys almost exclusively the best so.
called ''smokeless'' Welsh coal. Ow.
ing to the great number of engines at
work on some sections of the canal and
the heavy atmosphere, the smoke
nuisance" is very great, and the use OF
anthracite has been suggested.
"A nine-year-old girl, spending the
summer in a country clearinghouse,
was a favorite with her fellow boarders
on account OF her beauty and spright-
illness. One of them was so devoted
that his attentions became annoying to
her. One day she said to her mother,
'.Do you think Mr.. Brown ought to call
me a puny devilp" '.Why, no, my dear,
of course not. But are you sure he
didP" ''He called me an imp; and
looked in the dictionary to see what it
meant, and it said a 'puny devil ~
Home Life.
"A true story of the perplexity of a
graduate of the Boston English High
School over g. word that he found oc-
curing with vexatious frequency in the
foot-notes of work that he read re-
Gently: 'Do you know" he asked,
''who Ibid, the author, WASP I've been
reading a book that has lots of ex-
tracts from his writings in it, and l
can't find his name in any encyclo-
pedia." The young man was told that
he was relative of the distinguished
author, Anon, who has written some of
the most beautiful things in the En-
glish language.-Bosto's Transcript.
"A lawyer living in town near
Waterbury Conn.,, states a fact which
well illustrates the thrift and frugality
which characterize many of the old
families which have not been touched
by modern extravaganza and love of
display. In that town three estates
have been settled within a few months
aggregatiEg property to the amount of
100000, and yet he says if all the
household furniture of those three
families had been sold at the best pos
sible price the amount received for it
would not have amounted at the out
side to over $500. 1t is too often the
habit now to have thousand-dollar
furnishings for hundred-dollar estates.