The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-04-25
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS
Scientists agree that it is a cold
day when Indian summer gets left.
During the year 1888 nearly 700
persons disappeared in Philadelphia,
a large percentage of whom was never
heard of.
Anybody can tell you what to take
tor cough. The man who can cure
one has not yet appeared.-N. o.
Picayune.
1t detracts something from the in
terest of the report that man has
been found with two hearts to learn
that they were both up his sleeve
Binghamton Republican.
One of the largest private land
holdings in the world is the Haggin &
Carr ranch in California. It contains
400, 900 acres, covers $40 square miles,
and is over twenty-five miles square.
"A little girl living in Moon town
ship. Pa, died from eating too many
chestnuts. Shortly after eating them
she complained of severe pains about
the heart, and before medical aid could
reach her she was dead.
"A Maine historian says that in old
times the fine ladies of Eastport-then
a very gay, fourishing town-used to
acquire beautiful compilations by sleep
ing with their heads out of the win
dows in foggy weather.
Mrs. AL. Tell-''I have something
terrible to tell you. But can you keep
silent about it?' Mrs. Frank Candor
II assure you nobody ever learns
secret from me. Mrs. Speedy told me
yesterday that her husband was just
going to fail in business, and begged
me not to mention it, and [ haven't yet
breathed it. IS. F. Wasp.
"A Hartford dog has been taught to
wait at the gate for the postman and
carry the mail into the house. The
other morning there were no letters,
and, as the carrier passed without stop
ping, the dog jumped from his place
and got in the carriers way. The man
said kindly word to the brute and
barked as if for letter, and when the
latter was not handed over, bit the
carrier.
"A downtown restaurant has three
young women in its employ. One is
cashier, the other is bookkeeper, and
the other is in charge of the cake and
confectionery department. Last Christ
mas these young ladies thought to sur
prise the proprietor by giving him
their photographs in a group. The
proprietor gave the group to an artist,
who made lithograph of the same,
and this was attached to a neat calen-
dar which the lunch-house gives to
each of its patrons. Ittakes Chicago
man to get there. Hundreds of young
men are trying the bakery for the pur-
pose of getting a calendar. Not bad
dodge, and the young women seem as
proud over the scheme of the proprie-
tor as he is.-Chicago Mail.
Trees of the palm family have
larger leaves than any others. The
Inaja palm, which grows on the banks
of the Amazon, have leaves which
reach a length of from thirty to fifty
feet, and are ten or twelve feet in
breadth. Specimens of the leaves of
the TALBOT palm, native of Ceylon,
have been met with that are twenty
feet long and eighteen feet broad.
These leaves are used by the natives
to make tents, and form very efficient
shelters from the rain. The leaves of
the double cocoanut palm are often
thirty feet long and several feet wide.
When the wind is strong they clash to-
gether with noise that may be heard
at a great distance. Only one leaf is
produced each year, and they are SO
firmly attached to the stem of the tree
and so strong in themselves that man
may sit on the end of one and rock to
and fro in perfect safety.