The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-11-08
MISCELLANEOUS.


-Fiancee-"S Surely, Augustus, you
have present for me tonight. :"
Augustus-.No, darling; what made
you think SOP" Fiancee-.I saw you go
into a pawnbroker's with big bundle.
and had hopes. The Cartoon.
"A moccasin having been killed
near Smithville, Ca, some boys, out of
curiosity, made a post-mortem exami-
nation of its body. To their amaze.
ment they discovered that it had swal-
lowed q snake of length nearly equal
to its own, less the head, which had
been chewed off.
"A correspondent of an English
magazine alleges that perfect cure
for sleeplessness is to think of some
dream one has had, the more recently
the better, and to begin to go over again
In the mind as nearly as possible the
details of the dream. Sleep comes, he
asserts, almost invariably and often as
quickly as the fall of curtain.
General Washington was quite
dancer in his day. In letter to
Colonel Wadsworth, March 10, 1779,
General Greene says: eve had little
dance at my quarters few evenings
past. His Excellency and Mrs. Greene
danced upward of three hours without
sitting down. Upon the whole we had
a pretty little frisk.'
"A Muscatine woman went to sleep
with a watermelon rind tied on her
face to improve her complexion. A
burglar entered the room that night,
saw the apparition in bed and was so
frightened that he was paralyzed, and
was found in that condition in the
morning. He has since become raw
ing maniac. Omaha Herald.
$50 Jones has gone wrong, too"
said the assistant cashier to the treas
urer, the morning after the cashier had
disappeared. "Gone wrongr' replied
the treasurer, in disgust. 81 should
say he had gone wrong. The idea of
trying to go to California when Cana
da is only ten hours ride away. Why,
| could have told him beforehand that
he'd be nabbed!" -SoDserUill Journal.
-'.Mr. JONES' said the managing
editor to one of his reporters, "did you
attend the spiritual seance at Library
Hall this EVENING"" 81 did," replied
the reporter. II hope you have treated
the medium fairly, Mr.. Jones. You
know a good many Spiritualists read
our paper. How have you written it
upp' Fair to medium" replied the
reporter. TEXAS Siftings,
"A couple of gentlemen met upon
Boston thoroughfare the other day, and
after exchanging the usual interroga-
tories the conversation turned to the
consideration of mutual acquaintance.
Il met him about an hour ago and he
wanted to borrow a quarter, y remarked
one. Wanted to borrow quarter,
did hep returned the other. HE
sized you up pretty well; he wanted
$40 from me.-BostoD Budget.
The inhabitants of Oakland, CAL,
who few years ago imported large
numbers of gum and eucalyptus trees
from Australia as fever destroyers.
have come to the conclusion that the
roots of these Australasian monsters do
more harm under ground than the
branches do good above, and have set
to work to destroy them. The roots
have playful way OF strangling those
OF other trees within their reach,
breaking drain pipes, cracking pave
ments and loosening foundations in an
extremely alarming fashion.
The annual loss to the productive
industries in the United States caused
by insects is estimated at $3.50, 900, 900.
AS civilization advances new insects
make their appearance, marching
sometimes eastward, but generally
westward. There are few, if any,
forms of vegetation that have no para
sites that devour their foliage or fruit
The loss to the cotton crop is estimated
at $15, 900, 900 a year, while that to the
apple crop is not much less, and that to
the potato crop at least one-half as
much. But the estimate is not a fair
one until into the loss is counted the
time spent in fighting to securs the
proportion that is saved.
"A farmer near Orlando, Fla, saw
In the sand the trail of what he thought
was very big snake. He followed it,
and after ten minutes trailing came
upon the largest serpent he had ever
seen. It was engaged in swallowing a
rabbit, and the farmer waited and
watched the operation. After the rab-
bit had disappeared he walked forward
to get a good shot at the monster,
which, according to his story, at once
reared up its head as high as good
sized man and '.began racing back and
forth before him, drawing nearer each
time, Kissing and darling out its
tongue The farmer shot and broke
the snakes back, and another shot
killed it. 1t was a "coach-whip" snake,
of the boa constructor family, and meas
ured sixteen feet and two inches in