The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-05-17
MISCELLANEOUS.


New York is the pivotal State.
This truth Is undeniably impressed in
the New Yorker who has spent half
dozen hours with the boys.
Miss Oldgirl (giggling) Would
you believe it. MIR. Lighthead, that
Washington's birthday and mine are
on the same day? '.Impossible!' re-
piled Lighthead. "Why, you don't
look half his age"
First Burglar - whats that?"
Second Burglar-"A sample case. l
spend the daytime goin' around and
selling oil to keep doors from squeak
ing. Great scheme, amt it?"-- Omaha
World.
The Saguenay river is believed to
be the deepest stream in the world.
The general depth is from 600 to 900
feet, and the bottom of the river at its
mouth is 600 feet below the bottom of
the st. Lawrence.
-"Just think" said Mrs. Walkin to
her maid. 1.-THE very next day after my
new black dress was sent home was
called to 60 out of town to funeral"
"Wasn't that nice?" was the absent
minded reply.
There is really no competition be-
tween oleomargarine and first-class
butter. 1t is the inferior article that is
driven out by competition. The farmer
who makes good butter can regulate
his price, as it is always salable.
Hotel manager Ito leader of sum-
mer bandD-''Do you call this band
of picked musicians?" Bandmaster-
each! Dot vos so, bick 'em mine
selluff." Hotel manager-'.Well, then
you picked them before they were
ripe. "-Musicdl Record
Mrs. De Ham-''What do you sup
pose gave me this dreadful cold, Char
lie?" De Ham (who can't find the
change he left in his other clothes)-
Don't know, unless twas that New
York draft left in my other coat yes
terday." Chicago Mail.
The names for money in the Ian
guage of the Ogallalla Sioux are inter-
esting. Gold is mases-ska-zi, literally
''yellow white iron;" silver is masses
ska-ska. or white iron." and greenbacks
are minne-hurpimases-ska, or paper
that talks white from
What the matter, Browne" Eve
rything's going wrong. tell you, old
fellow. l feel like taking poison and
committing suicide" 20. come, come.
Don't do any thing like that. Here,
take another cigarette. - Merchant
Traveller
There is said to be queer old fell
low in Boston who has devoted years
OF time and fortune in money to the
collection of elaborate statistics which
go to show that the more dogs there
are in a community the more wicked
The people of community are.
In Europe the white pine has
proved valuable as forest tree. It is
perfectly hardy, is not injured by long
and severe freezing in winter, nor by
untimely frosts in spring or autumn.
Some groves in Germany are one hun
dred and twenty years old, and yield
large proportion of the seed demanded
by the increasing cultivation of the
white pine in Europe.
Old Philip Winebiddle, the founder
of the Winebiddle estate in East Liber-
ty, Pa, bought one hundred acres of
land where the city of Erie now stands
sixty years ago, and paid $500 for it.
Almost before the ink was dry on the
papers he made up his mind that he
had been swindled, but thirty years
later the land could not be bought
for 100000, and is now worth
IS, 0O0 900.
Partisan dressmakers have a code
of rules regarding color combinations.
Among them are these: Black can not
be worn with any neutral tint and es-
pccially not with green or blue; browns
combine well with blue, pink. scarlet
or fawn. Navy blue combines we'll with
bright red. Pink can be worn over
blue. but not blue over pink. Yellow
should always be used with the greatest
discrimination.
American women who marry En-
glish husbands will have much difficulty
in dissolving their union. if the con.
ditions are unhappy, by new divorce
decision of the English court, which
establishes the point that if an Ameri-
can woman married to an English hus-
band wishes to obtain valid divorce
she must sue in the English courts or
she can not get it, the domicile of her
husband being the controlling fact in
the eye of the law.
One of the queer uses to which
some fashionable women put District
Telegraph messenger boys is to have
them take out their pet dogs for exer-
else and airing. Every morning and>
evening the uniformed lads NAV be
seen around Rittenhouse Square, New
York. accompanied by pugs, fox terri
ers. collies, poodles and other dogs of
high degree, some loose and some with
leashes. The boys appear to enjoy it
as much az the doos