The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-07-18
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A Milwaukee man made cannon,
filed it with powder and double B
shot, got in front of it and touched the
thing of. His purpose was to commit
suicide and he succeeded.
lin the hands of men entirely
great the pen is mightier than the
sword. 1t is the same way with a
parasol in the hands of woman. 1t
will stop horse-car.- o. Picayune.
Master of the house (slapping his
clothes Observation-Disclosures, why
didn't you dust my study chair?"
Bridget-"Sure, sorr, Oh knew yez
would be sittin' down in it presently,
and Oh thought it wasn't necessary"
Napoleon I. declared that agricul-
ture was the basis of all natural pros
perity, and set aside million francs
for the establishment and maintenance
of six experiment stations for the de-
Velopment of the beet sugar industry.
The New York Sun says that laws
intended to check the use of tobacco by
children are well meant, but ineffect-
ual, and that ''only the establishment
of public and the multiplication of pri-
vate spankeries' will accomplish any
thing.
An Irishman, having stolen watch
from a burning building and left, a
large sum of money to be consumed,
was asked why he took the one and left
the other. ''FOr the want of time, yer
honor" he laconically replied.
eler's Weekly,
Tourists who go up the Nile are
taxed every fifteen miles on some pre-.
text or other, and annoyed the other
fourteen by beggars, insects and rep
tiles. Any one who can go up Salt
River should not go up the Nile.-De-
troit Free Press.
"A Washington Territory farmer
was digging post hole on the banks
of Smoke River when he unearthed a
skeleton richly dressed in old-fashioned
clothing. The coat was especially fine
and was adorned with velvet collar
and cuffs. The place where the skele-
ton was found had been used as a horse
corral for the past fifteen years.
"A clever horse thief, who had been
stealing many animals in Queens
County, New York, was arrested, when
considerable difficulty was experienced
in identifying him. Witnesses stated
that while trying to dispose of his
stolen horses he had two eyes. When
arrested he had butone eye. A glass
eye was fond in his clothes and when
placed in the socket every person
recognized him.
In 1880 some thirty young women in
Berlin started an Old Maids Club, with
provision for a fine of 1000 marks
upon every one who married. The
club was a great success, but suddenly
an expidemic of marriage set in, and
at the annual meeting this year only
one member was left, and she found
herself called upon to dispose of %, 900
marks, the accumulation of the fines
paid by the former members. She took
the advice of the ex-members, and it
was decided that half the sum should
go to hospital and that the solitary
old maid should have the rest for her.
self
The natural soap mines of Owens
Lake, Cal. are thus accounted for by
one of the company now working
them. He says that the waters of the
lake contain a strong solution of
borax and soda. In these waters there
breeds grub which becomes a fly.
The flies die in the water and drift
ashore, covering the ground to the
depth of foot or more. The oily SUBJ
stance of the flies blends with the
borax and soda, and the result is
layer of pure soap. These strata re-
peated from year to year form the soap
mines, where large forces of men are
now employed.
Here was a private soldier who
would have made good judge. He
would have known how to "construe
the law, as the phrase is, so as to get
justice done. Two men were cooking
a fat fowl at their campfire, when a
corporal shifted the unaccustomed
odor. Hello, boys! where did you
get that chicken?" 20, we confscated
him for talking treason" Talking
treason! What do you meanP Chickens
can't talk" "No, but they can crow;
and as sure as you live, we caught
this rooster, this very afternoon, crow
ing with all his might for JEFF Davis"
The corporal passed on.-Youth's Com
panion.
Belief IN voodooism has not vet
died out from among the colored breth-
rem. In Macon, Ca, there is an edu-
Gated negro who, when he grew i'll,
consulted woman with some reputa-
ton for cures. She gave him medicine
and cuffed him, and then drew from
his side live frogs and worms and bugs.
He therefore began to make a mental
survey of his friends to see if he pos
sessed an enemy, and, finding that he
did, knew then and there that it was
he and no other who had put powdered
frogs and snakes heads into his whisky.
The enchantress keeps herself in Sc
clusion and none of her patients are
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