The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-06-13
MISCELLANEOUS.


Among the famous cases OF exist
ence without food and drink is that OF
a fast of sixty-six days by sheep on
farm near Tuscola, Ill. The poor ami
NAL was imprisoned all that time be-
meath strawstack.
Large families, with the middle
classes, as a rule, stimulate exert1on
and enterprise, and in the districts in
which there are the largest birth rates,
there is the greatest amount of pros
perity and the least pressure on the
means of subsistence.
What are the chief requisites for
success in the literary world, Mrs.
Nibson?" inquired Softly. There are
two that l may MENTION" replied the
oracle. Zone of them is plenty of
patience. what is the other?'
"Plenty of postage stamps. IN. Y.
Sun.
Some simple country peasants
came to a celebrated sculptor in Wen
ma, and ordered a statue of st. Francis.
''Do you want him dead or alive?"
asked the sculptor. ''Well, you can
make him alive, and if he don't suit
twill be an easy matter to knock him
in the head.-From the German.
Report says that the judicious and
wholesale advertising of cigarettes had
brought the consumption in this coun-
try up to more than 100000, 900,
which figure was reached last year.
This would give an average of thirty
cigarettes every year to each man,
woman and child in the United States,
or about 40 to each adult male.
The Chinese do not drink cold
water, and an iced drink is an abom-
ination. They generally use instead
weak tea in small quantities. The
consequence is that dyspepsia is I'M
known. Water-pipes are generally
standing on a side-table, and after
meals, almost every one, before leaving,
lights small bowl of tobacco, gives a
puff or two, and passes the pipe to the
next conner
"A Kingston (Ont.) girl made up
package Of clothing, preparatory to
clipping with her most adorable Adonis,
and left the said chattels out-of-doors,
where he could find them and carry
them of. In the meantime the girls
mother discovered the parcel, ''got on to
the racket" and replaced the daugh-
ter's clothing with some of her own.
Then she laid in wait for the young
man, and on his attempting to take
away the clothing she had him arrested
for larceny.
1t is pity that some people are
not so quick with their hands as they
are with their tongues. A farmer once
had very lazy helper. One day he
returned from market and caught his
man sound asleep under the tree.
'Whatr' exclaimed the farmer, "asleep
when you should be at work? You are
an idle wretch, and not worthy that the
sun should shine upon your 81 know
it; l know it, said the mad, sitting up
and yawning, land that's the reason I
lay down here in the shader-Y outh's
Companion.
The different tones of piano are
made by having the wires of different
sizes and lengths. The longer and
larger a wire is, the lower its tone will
be, but as piano is too short to put in
wires of the common size which will
be long enough to make the lowest bass
notes, the wires have to be made larger
by winding fine wire around them.
This fine wire is sometimes of soft iron
and sometimes of copper. The sound
ing-board of piano is usually made
of American spruce, entirely free from
knots. 1t is fastened to the frame by
the edges only, so as to leave the whole
middle part of it free to vibrate when
the strings sound above it.