The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-03-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

Mr.. Holcomb, lately Secretary OF
the American Legation at Pekin. says
that out of the 400, 900, 900 inhabitants
of the Chinese Empire fully 300.000.00
spend less than one dollar and fifty
cents month for food.
"A contest over seat in the Mary
land Legislature is going on between
two men who bear the striking names
respectively of Scaggs and Sasscer.
Scaggs is said to be man of command
ing ability. He recently remarked.
with pungency worthy of his high
reputation for intellectual brilliancy:
II won't stand any of your Sasscer."
"A peculating student at Cornell
University, Ithaca, N. Y, was electri-
fed the other day when he went to OBJ
tain $40 note, part of which was pro-
truding from the pocket of vest hang
ing in an unoccupied room. A pro-
fessor had connected the vest by an
electric wire to signal bell. The VIC
tim made q clean breast Of his depreda-
tions
-Bunko man Ito stranger)-"Aren't
you Mr.. Smith, of Smithville?"
Stranger-'.No. sir. My name is Pres
sure of Philadelphia. / am forming a
stock company to raise funds to devel-
OPP the new and wonderful phenomenon
which has been unfolded to my friend,
Mr.. Keel" But by this time the
bunko man was blocks away.-M T.
Sun.
The old Connecticut pilgrim known
as "the darned man. is dead. In young
manhood his mind was unhinged by
the sudden death of his affianced bride,
and for the rest of his long life he
tramped through the State, always
wearing his wedding suit. The great
desire of his life was to preserve that
suit. And the only articles he ever
solicited were needles aud thread or
yarn to mend it.
A Pittsburgh coroner's jury re-
Gently returned the verdict death
from delirium tremens resulting from
accidental causes" At another in
quest, after hearing the doctor say
that the subject, who killed himself
with prussic acid. ''only accelerated
his death, which must have come from
consumption in a very few weeks" the
jury arrived at this unique verdict:
death from consumption, accelerated
by prussic acid"
Foreign letters often come adj
dressed in queer fashion. A newspaper
was sent to Paris to announce the death
of gentleman at New York. The
death notice gave the customary adj
dress for the funeral. adding. "Inter-
ment at Greenwood" To the bewil-
derment Of the postman and the con-
sternation Of the family. letters of con-
dolence were received addressed to
"Mrs. Matilda Blank, So-and-so street.
Interment at Greenwood The melan-
cboly addendum had been taken for a
sort of suburban annex, such as Yon-
kers-on-Hudson.
The president of one of the leading
railroad corporations of the Northwest
has made the following prediction: at
will not be long until points in Dakota
within five hundred miles of Duluth
will be sending wheat from their stations
to Buffalo for fifteen cents bushel."
This means that when raised on Da-
kota's soil at a cost of from twenty
three to thirty cents q bushel, with an
investment of IS. 80 per acre, will bring
In the local market, when freights to
tho seaboard are lowered to this extent,
almost the same price that the Eastern
farmer receives, raised at double the
cost of production and on land repre-
senting eight times the capital invested.
"A Boston correspondent writes that
the new rough-back playing cards, now
becoming somewhat popular, were in
vented by well-known club man, Mr..
Endicott. He had been playing cards
at "a club, and after going home and to
bed dreamed that he was playing poker
and made misdeal One of his COM
panions who had an excellent hand re-
preached him for making him lose the
benefit of it. Every WE'LL" Endicott
said in his dream; ''if you had had
rough-back cards it wouldn't have hap
pened. 1t isn't my fault" When he
awoke in the morning he remembered
his dream, and the idea of rough-backed
cards seemed to him good one. He
reflected, experimental, perfected his
improvement, patented it in three or
four countries, and is now likely to
make fortune out of his dream.