The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-10-31
MISCELLANEOUS.

weeks ago.
-"What are your charges, doctorP"
Three dollars a visit. ''Well, we
don't want you to come on visit, but
juststay ten or fifteen minutes. Puck.
"A natural curiosity is to be seen
on a street in Columbus, Ga. A small
oak tree is growing from the limb of
chinaberry tree, and the strange freak
attracts the attention of all passers-by.
The constant increase in the num-
Der of steam yachts indicates that
pleasures sailing is going where our
mercantile marine business has already
gone largely-into steam.
"A New York policeman preferred
charges against woman VINO at
tempted to stab him with hair-pln.
But for his stentorian efforts to escape,
she would probably have bruised him
with her bangs. -Atlantic Constitution.
"A stone has been discov 'ered In
Japan which has remarkable gu; Nltles
as a cement material, and can pc
worked up for much less price tina n
the imported article costs. The cement
will bear weight of 400 to 500 pounds
per square inch.
The family of W. F. Strouse, of
Shamokin. PENN, have odd luck in
birthdays. His wife was born on
Christmas, his second daughter on st.
Valentines day, his third on the Fourth
of July, and his only son on Thanks
giving day
"A negro was convicted of robbery
at Walker, Ga, the other day on very
circumstantial evidence. He stuck his
hand through a window, and a woman
lit match and looked at it. She ex-
amined negro's hand in court and de-
clared that it was the same that had
been thrust into her room.
"A Summerville, Fla, paper says:
1--WE have man in our country who i
thirty-five years old who was never
more than forty miles away from home,
never rode on a train or steamboat,
never wrote or received a letter, never
subscribed for newspaper and never
voted.
1t had been noticed of late that
many of the suckers and catfish in the
creek near Marshall's paper mill in
Kenneth Township, Chester County.
Pa, was found dead or stupid, and
upon examination it was found that
the fresh water leeches get into the
gills OF the fish in large numbers and
sap their blood.
The province of Ontario, Canada,
is possessed of the most extensive de-
posit of rock-salt which has yet been
found on the America continent The
salt was first discovered at Goderich,
about twenty years ago, at depth of
one thousand and ten feet, by a boring
which was made for petroleum. The
salt-measures extend over an area OF
twelve hundred square miles.
"A farmer of Northeast, Pa,
drove stake by each of two hills of
corn in his garden recently, and then
stretched up the longest leaf to mark
its height. The next morning, at the
same hour that he had measured it the
day before, he repeated the operation
and found that one had grown over
four and the other five inches.
"A ''wild woman of the mountains -
who lives on Blue Mountain, Mary
land, was arrested the other day, after
giving the daughter of Senator Butler,
of South Carolina, a severe fright. The
old woman is well-known character
in those parts. She is described as be-
ing but three feet tall. and her face the
acme of ugliness. She has led her
strange life in the mountains for years,
and her name is terror to all the chill
dren in that region.
"A weasel came down the hill and
went into a house in Easton short
short time ago. No men being handy
seven women of the neighborhood
armed themselves with pokers, canes,
etc., and entered the room. There was
a faint squeak in one corner, and seven
women jumped on chairs and screamed.
Their screams so terrified the weasel
that it ran out of doors and was killed
by sick dog that was lying out in the
sun.
-Dennysville, way down on the
eastern Maine coast, is one of those
"old towns with history The town
has no debt; the village has not had a
dwelling house, barn, store, church or
school-house destroyed by fire for more
than eighty years, and at the late town
meeting Peter E. Vose, ESQ.,, was re.
elected selectman and treasurer, after
service of twenty-seven years in the
former and twenty-three years in the
latter position. During all these years
no person but Mr.. Vose had ever writ
ten word or made figure in any
town book excepting the town clerks
book or drawn an order.
AT Castle Garden there are many
theories of the great decline in Eu-
ropean immigration to this country
during the first half of the current
year. 1t is said to be owing to the
reduction of the surplus population OF
several countries of Europe by the i'm
migration of past years, to the difficult