The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-06-20
MISCELLANEOUS.

name OF Jerusalem John johnson
wants it changed to John the Baptist
Smith in order that he may inherit ten
acres of land.
An old black cat, smelling mis-
chief, saved the lives of eight families
in New York tenement. A defective
gas main was slowly suffocating the
sleepers.
Peach stones find ready sale at six
dollars per ton in Vaca Valley, Cal.
They are used as fuel, "burning as
long as coal and giving more heal"
Apricot stones are also burned.
Their grotesque alphabet is max
ing the Germans a nation of near
sighted people. Defective vision is
not only acquired, but it appears to be
handed down to offspring.
"A Baltimore barber makes the as
sertion that mans beard grows faster
in bright weather than in cloudy. He
thinks that the sunlight has the same
effect on the hair of man head and
face as it has on plants.
"A Canadian paper wants to know
why 100000 Canadians should pay
more to be governed than 60,000, 600
Americans pay. The thirteen Cabinet
officers of Ottawa receive $105,000 a
year, while the eight Cabinet officers
/ of the United States receive $64, 900.
Cowboys in Franklin County,
Texas, frightened wild pony into
! dashing blindly over a precipice into
river thirty feet below. After the lapse
/ of few moments the pony appeared,
climbed on the opposite bank, and
dashed away, apparently uninjured by
his big dive.
Two men in Tioga County, Pennsyl-
vania, who had jointly bought cow.
quarreled about dividing the milk, one
claiming that the other owned only the
''front half'' of the animal Subse-
quently the owner of the rear half was
lifted by the cows horns, and he
wanted damages of the front" part
ner.
I'm Evansville, Ind, recently, dur
ing the progress of divorce suit, in
which a woman was trying to gain
girl recognized her and sprang crying
into her arms. The court granted a
recess for the mother to see her child
in an ante-room, but when the recess
was over neither could be found.
i'm Ware, N. H., six-pound cat
saw an owl in tree and decided to eat
it. So it scrambled up the tree, and,
after a short, sharp fight, fell to the
ground dead. Theowrs big claws had
been too much for it. The bird was
captured, and found to measure six
feet from tip to tip of its extended
wings.
AN official report on the agricul.
ture of Colombia states that there are
no farm horses in that country, all the
heavy work being done by oxen. The
ordinary riding horses are small, sell
dom being over fourteen hands, but
they are very strong and enduring. A
good saddle horse costs from $3.50 to
$500 in Bogota.
according to the Macon, Ca, Tele-
graph, one day not long ago man by
the name of Coon called at the Way
Cross post-office for his mail. He was
followed by Mr.. Fox, and that gentle
man had barely cleared the door be-
fore Jim Wolf wanted his mail. Next
day Lamb and Lyon marched in to
see if there were any letters for their
folks. It was great day for game.
"A hawk made dash at some
chickens in a colored mans yard near
Americas, recently, and the old hen in
terfered. The two fowls got into a
furious fight, when a daughter of the
man thought she would capture the
hawk, and grabbed it by the tail. The
infuriated bird turned on the girl, tore
her hand severely with its talons, cut
up her face badly and went off with q
chicken and ate it within hundred
yards of the house. When the old man
got home and seized his gun the hawk
rose in the air and sailed off.
The Carthusian monks have refused
SIG, 100000 for the secret of their
liqueur This secret no one has beer
able to reach, although time and money
have been wasted in the effort Exper.
iments without number have beer
made, but they were as futile as the
search to discover the mysteries of the
polar regions There are, it is said
about fifty different plants in the prep
aration of the liqueur. Each monk has
his own grounds to cultivate. his owl
workshop to himself, and in them ht
pursues his daily manual occupation
without conversation with any one, anC
alone to his self-communings
The oldest of all the obelisks is tn,
beautiful one of rosy granite which
stands alone among the green fields OF
the banks of the Nile, not far from
Cairo. 1t is the gravestone of a grea
ancient city which has vanished ant
left only this relic behind. The cit,
was the Bethshemesh of the Scripture
the famous On, which is memorable t,
all Bible readers as the residence o
the priest of Potipherah, whose daugh