The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-08-15
MISCELLANEOUS.

$40, 900 each. Michigan, New Hamp-
shire, Rhode Island and Vermont pay
the smallest 900 each.
"A teacher in the San Francisco
schools succeeded in retaining her
position and keeping the fact of her
marriage a secret for five years, when
it was revealed by divorce suit.
1t is claimed that where the euca-
lyptus tree is grown in large quantities
entire immunity is obtained from mos
quitoes, although the air may be thick
with the insects at comparatively
short distance.
"A Boston woman, telling why she
could not get on with neighbor, said
that there are four temperaments. the
nervous, the physical. the pious, the
worrying, and her neighbor had the
fourth temperament, the neighbor, of
course, being a woman.
Mr.. William I. Walters. of Balti-
more, is the owner of the peach. blow
vase which attracted so much attention
a few years ago when sold at the Nor
gan auction for $4,000. He keeps it
securely locked up in the safe, and no
one ever sees it.
Some fifteen years ago Mrs. Abner
Purcell, living near Greenville, Mich,
told her husband that if he decided a
certain piece of land in particular
way she would never speak to him
again. He saw his opportunity and
decided the property in that particular
manner, and since then his wife hasn't
spoken to him once.
An English writer on professional
Beauties defines the kinds of beauty
now most in vogue as 1.-The weird, mys-
FERROUS, and anamic type of languid
beauty, and the pronounced. the noisy,
the unconventional, and, we might al
most say, the rude and unrefned type
of excessive youth or absolute giddi-
ness"
"A gentleman of Marietta, Ca, re-
Gently had some improvements made
on his residence. He noticed out of
the four carpenters at work three were
left-handed, and the man who came to
do the painting was left-handed. A
few days after that he bought door
bell and hired another man to put it
on the door, and he too, proved to be
left-handed.
The smallest oil painting in the
world is entitled "What an Awful Lie, "
is one inch by an inch and quarter in
size, very handsomely framed and was
painted by Mueller, celebrated artist.
The picture represents two monks in
conversation, one of them evidently
getting off a whopper to the other. 1t
is exhibited in New York.
The quantity of food necessary to
support the colossal frame of the ele-
plant is great. The daily rations of
one elephant have been set down
as follows: A truss and a half of
hay, forty-two pounds of Swedish
turnips, and mash consisting of three
pounds of boiled rice, bushel of chat
and bushel of bran; ten pounds of
sea-biscuit, bundle of straw for his
bed, weighing about thirty-six pounds,
which he usually eats by the morning,
and thirty-six pals of water.
james and John are good names
for boy, yet James appears to be
better surname than any other for
candidate for President of the United
States. We have had as many as five
Jameses in the Presidential chair
within this century-James Madison,
James Monroe. james K. Polk, James
Buchanan and James A. Garfield.
Moreover, the father of President
James Madison was named James Mad
ison and the father of President James
! Buchanan was named James Bu-
chanan. After the Jameses the Johns
have PANIED out next best-John
Adams, John Q. Adams and John Tyler.
"A story is told of a colored
preacher whose church had become
somewhat dilapidated. The minister
succeeded at last in persuading the
people to decorate the walls, but funds
gave out and they left a large recess
behind the pulpit unimproved The
patience of the preacher gave way be-
fore this evidence of want of proper
respect for the church, and at the close
of his sermon one Sunday morning he
very solemnly announced: "Brederen,
notice is hereby given that the Gospel
will not be dispensed wifi in dis church
any moa until dis abscess behind de
pulpit is fricasseed. christian Adyo.
cate.
will the educated woman marryP'
is 8 question under discussion in some
of the magazines. That depends. If her
education makes her bright, pleasant,
entertaining and sensible she will
marry, providing man worth having
is within reach. But if her education
makes her critical, dogmatic and
| pedantic, she will not marry, for the
simple reason that no man will ask
her. All women ought to be well edu,
Gated. Nothing more requires wise
and well-trained mind than to admin.
lister well the affairs of household.
An education which units woman for