The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-01-24
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


who invented the whisk broom, and |
millions of them are whisking from
daylight to dark without her having
made cent out of the invention.
Warner, Cal, pays bounty on
coyote scalps, and some inhuman hun
ter, after scalping several of the
animals, again set them at liberty.
The fact was brought to light by the
recapture of two of the tortured
beings.
"A Nebraska man has settled the
question of how prairie dogs obtain
the water they drink. He says they
dig their own wells, each village hav-
ing one with d concealed opening.
He knows Of one such well 200 feet
deep, having circular staircase lead
ing down to the water.
"A Rutland Vt, family, while eat
ing dinner, discovered a small tin box
in the center of the butter. 1t was
opened and found to contain a ere
minder to some unmarried Christian
gentleman of his duty" The note was
from "a girl, eighteen years of age,
good looking, and an excellent house
keeper"
A passenger in sleeping-car on a
Michigan railroad pulled the bell-rope
and stopped the train. When found
and questioned by the conductor, he
only wanted to know if the train had
an engineer, conductor and brakeman,
or was running wild without them.
The conductor did not make very
polite answer.
"A Philadelphia newspaper says
that the prevailing impression that
"the old-tine, broad-brimmed, sugar
scoop Quakers" are dying out is erro-
neous at least as far as Philadelphia
is. concerned Twenty-Five years ago
the same impression prevailed, but to-
day the benches in the meeting -houses
are as full as then.
"A Manistee, Mich, baby which ate
an eight-grain dose of morphine was
given several antidotes, but it became
unconscious, and was given up for
dead. About sixteen hours later,
however, while the friends stood
around and silently admired the beau
ty of the corpse, the baby awoke and
smilingly demanded drink of milk.
"A Southern California paper tells
the following: "a New Orleans friend
was visiting us, and we drove him
around the country. showing him the
sights. After telling him the names
of the different trees, vines, etc, he
innocently remarked: You have ex-
planned many interesting points, but
you have not shown me a pumpkin
tree"
As regards the familiar tern
"corn," so frequently referred to il
the European journals, it usually de
notes in each country such grain as il
the most prominent production. Thus
in Central Europe the ''cornn is rye
! in France and England wheat, In
: America maize, and in some countries
oats. The term ''pulsen is also fre
. quently used in England, and ha
reference to beans and peas.
Atlanta, Ca, has a paper house
t No wood, brick iron or other materia
: is used about the building. 1t Is
: neat little store painted sky-blue, an
was erected by a Frenchman who i
agent for the paper of which 1t is con
s structed. The rafters, the weather
! boarding, the roof and the flooring ar
Z all made of thick, compressed pape
S boards, impervious to water and q
: durable as wood. The house can nc
catch on fire as easily as woode
% building, because the surface of tn
4 paper is smooth and hard.
4 A California miner says that miner
: are very superstitious class, and h
IS tells of dreams and other forms {
n warning they have received, notifyin
IS them of danger, which proved yer
d timely. He says 81 know Of a vastl
g rich mine in the San Gabriel Mountain
g Los Angeles County, that has cause
+ the death Of every man who has trie
IL to carry ore away from 1t. You ma
CEell O1lo EupOIObAbAOh csLSOs pNV 49,
are dozen miners besides myself wh
know of the millions that could
! taken from this mine, and yet al
q q afraid to go near it. Some half
= dozen men had been killed by cave
: ETC.
: : I'm small village of New Englan'
: a few years ago, some of the your
= = girls acquired habits of eating stare
- coffee, cloves and the like, to impro'
~ their compilations. The habits
= creased by indulgence, and the gir
= consumed large quantities OF the
- substances-al good in their plae
y. but very harmful when taken alon
70 in excess. In less than year four o
" Of six girls were under the docto
Ii care. The coffee-eater became t
y victims of insomnia, and was so mel
y Gus and timid that little things ma
- ~ her cry and tremble as with terr'
z The clove-eater had become the vict
e to hysteria, and was in a deploral
g state. Those who had the starch ha