The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-11-22
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A reward of $1,000 Is offered for
the discovery of a process whereby
canned corn can be prevented from
swelling.
One of the queerest hauls was
made by Cincinnati thief, and COM
prised canalboat with its contents,
mules, harness, towline, etc. Finding
the ownership of his property slightly
troublesome, however. the thief sold
the boat for $65, traded the mules for
horse and 800 shoot" and then
skipped out.
1t is not often that seasickness
proves fatal; and yet that it may do SO
under aggravated circumstances, can
easily be imagined. Such an instance
recently occurred on the steamer
.Dunara CASTLE on the trip from the
TREE to the Clyde. The patient was a
girl, aged eight years, in whom the
seasickness terminated in aconvulsion,
which proved fatal.
An old writer says: "a long chin
declareth a man to be peaceable yet a
babbler. They that have little chins
are much to be avoided and taken heed
of, for they are full of impiety and
wickedness, and are spies like unto
serpents. If the end of the chin be
round it is the sign of nice manners;
but the chin of real man is square.
1T is said that in the southern part
of Russia the peasants use q coin Of
such small value that it would take
$50, 900 OF them to buy an American
dollar, and these coins are so scarce
that man who has hundred is looked
upon as rich, and one who has thou
sand is considered very wealthy. It is
strange to think a person wealthy who
owns two-fifths of cent, and comfort
ably well off on one-twenty-fifth of a
cent.
Among the crowd of visitor sat
the White House the other day was an
Englishman, young, good-looking and
well-dressed. Sand this is the famous
White HouseP" he inquired of one Of
the ushers. Eyes, SIR" was the reply.
"Ah!" responded the Briton, gazing
around the handsome corridor, I'm
very glad came. To come to this
country and not see the White House
would be like going to England and
not seeing London, you know"
Julius Thompson, colored, near
Waco, Tex. to all appearances died,
was shrouded, cofined, and about to
be buried, when a mule team ran away
| with a wagon load of mourners, and
the folks who went to see the accident
returned to find the corpse, too, at the
window looking on with a lively in
terest. OF course the funeral was post
poned indefinitely, it seems, as the sub
ject is reported as now able to pick one
hundred pounds of cotton every day.
Miss Chrysalis Ito her brother
Percy, after the ball)-'.Your friend
D'Edge paid me compliment to-
night" Percy-"Quite fiattering to
you, sis, for he seldom takes such a
trouble on himself. What was itpn
:sHe said my cheeks were like a Mar
shat Mel rose' ..Did, eh?n Eyes"
Ibid you ever see one?'' ..No; but
they must be pretty" .Yes-the color
is pretty in rose" "What color are
they?" '.Pale yellow" 1.-THE mean
brute. "-Drakes' Magazine.
-Poet-"John, congratulate me! /
have received a big price for my poem,
'Amelia's Tresses.' sFriend-'sI am
very glad to hear it, but where did you
! find a marketp / thought it had been
declined by about every paper or mag
azine of consequence in the country. !"
P.--"So it was, but changed it some
what, and it is now in them all.n F.
s1ndeedP What potent alteration has
brought this about P-ssO, I changed
the last couplet SO as to puff Blanks
Hair Restorative, and it has caught on
immensely. Boston Budget.
AT a seaside hop the other even
ing the band master introduced q new
figure into a quadrille, which was
danced by girls only. Those who took
the part usually danced by men were
distinguished by wearing Tam o. Shan
ter caps with two feathers in 'front.'
All the dancers at given signal stood
still, and shading their eyes with their
hands seemed to gaze anxiously into
the distance, while the orchestra
shouted: Sister Anne, Sister Anne,
do you see manpn The big trombone
answered sadly: "Boom-boom- bah!"
| and the dance went on.
"A writer in the Popular Science
Monthly, who has been investigating
the causes of the rapid growth of the
opium habit in the United States, says
that physicians are chiefly responsible
for it. He states that he has examined
thousands upon thousands of prescrip-
tions on file at apothecaries' stores,
and has found that opium in some form
is prescribed for nearly every ill that
flesh is heir to. He says that for all
nervous diseases opium effects immedi-
ate relief, ''and the doctors, knowing
this, and wishing to stand well with
their patients, prescribe 1t more and
| more. The result is to convert their