The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-02-21
o. eENERAL INTEREsT.

the longest and most difficult word to
pronounce in the language.
1t is estimated that from five to
six million pounds of turkey and
million quarts of cranberries are neces-
sary to enable the city of New York to
enjoy its Thanksgiving feast.
"A man in the northern part of
Maine recently moved barn. After
the building had been raised on rollers
the man placed himself underneath
the building and turned it around.
1t is said there are twenty cen
tenarians in Paris, the most noted
being M. Chevreul, the famous chem
ist. OF the twenty, four are bachelors,
one benedict, four are widOwers, one
a maiden lady, one married woman
and seven are widows.
"A lady of Kansas City had large
mole on her cheek which she regarded
as Disagreement. She didn't like
her teeth, and had them all extracted.
Brooding over her imaginary personal
plainness she became morbid, and
leaving written directions to six me
up to look as nice as you can" she in
hailed half pound of chloroform and
died.
"A resident of I4itehfield. Conn,
who carved his initials thirty-fve
years ago on the limb of an apple tree,
found the souvenir the other day just
as a piece of the tree was going into
the fire. The gentleman has often
looked for the initials but they had
disappeared from the surface. A short
time ago the tree was cut down, and
the letters, as found, must have been
about four inches from the surface.
Two innocent looking farmers were
arrested the other day at Pittsburgh
and taken to the police station, where
they were asked to disclose the con-
tents of a small satchel they were
carrying. Five thousand dollars in
good greenbacks," they replied. The
satchel was opened, and was found to
contain old newspapers, for which the
verdant cOuntrymen had paid $175,
thinking they were getting counter
felt bills.
I'm some parts of Africa mans
wealth is judged by the number of his
wives. A man with sixty wives is
/ looked upon as sort of bonanza king.
His wives probably go out washing at
fifty cents a day, or make shirts at
forty cents dozen. In this country a
mans wealth is judged by the number
of dogs he owns. The possessor OF
eight dogs is generally too poor to
pay school tax, and his wife takes in
washing. -Drabe's Magazine
The members of Naugatuck
| Conn., family were awakened the
other night by the screams of a young
woman who dreamed some one had
kissed her. The father of the family
appeared with a lamp in one hand and
revolver in the other. No mar
could be found, but the daughter saiG
one must have been about, as she fell
his moustache. The mystery wa:
thoroughly solved when a pet kitter
emerged from behind pillow.
The Statue of Liberty on Bedlot
Island has wonderful attractions fol
the swarms of birds that are at presen
migrating southwark. They become
attracted by the glare of the electric
light, and rushing headlong upon il
are killed in great numbers. The
other morning no less than five hun
dred birds were picked up at the base
Of the statue. Twenty-Five distinc
species were counted. Nearly all o
them were small, and most of then
were ''yellow" birds. A red-heade,
woodpecker, two cat birds and severa
English sparrows were among tn,
slain.
in a recent scientific discussion o
"Benevolence" it was said: s'Exper
ience is showing more and more tha
those who are supposed to stand il
need of all this voluntary benevolenc
derive but little real advantage iron
it; that, on the contrary, it furthe
weakens their already defective char
acters, and tends to make their condi
tion one of chronic and constitutions
dependence on the assistance of Others
The time, we hold, has now come
when, broadly speaking, the best thin
any man can do is to hold himsel
erect, to practice a high-minded justie
in his relations with his fellow-men
and to eschew all modes of action ca
culated to encourage others to expec
that they may reap where they hay
not sown.
The most plausible view, anon
many doctors was that badness wa
especially liable to follow the wearin
of tight-ftting hat, the blood vessel
being CONSTRUCTED and the scalp d,
prived of the necessary supply of blood
But this view has been controverted b
a fact brought to light about the Pa
sees of India. The Parsees are con
PEELED to keep the head covered durin
the day by hat SO tight as to creas
the scalp and possibly the skull, an
at night they wear skull cap; an
yet not one of them has been known