The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-10-17
MEASUREMENTS.

"A bad nickel, easily identified by
certain marks, has worried the street,
car drivers of Rome, Ga, for two
years.
-''Well, what you wearin' glasses
fur, Mr.. Johnsing?" Fur my eyes,
Niger; did you s'pose 1 wuz wsarin'
SIN fur de collie. Once WeeL.
Education without experience is OF
about as much use to man as lace
petticoat would be to the wife of an
Eskimo fisherman. Boston Courier.
-Eiffel is said to have gained the
first idea of the tower which bears his
name from sitting behind an American
woman in an American theater.-Life.
"A stingy man of Burlington, VT,
drew up some valuable papers and
used ink of his own make to save ex-
pense. The other day he found that
the writing had all faded out, involv-
ing him in a loss of $1,000.
-Droughts are not so great a calam-
ity, reasons the New Orleans Picayune,
as poor farming and poor land. An
ordinary drought would hardly be no
ticed if all farms were skillfully man
aged on the intensive plan.
1t is said that Cullman County,
Ala, is the only level arabic and fer
tile tract of land in the Southern States
in which there are virtually no negroes.
In a census population of more than
$4,000, including an area of over /, 500
square miles, there are only fourteen
negroes.
Recently negro woman near Gen.
terVille, Wilkes County, Georgia, hav-
ing her young baby in her lap at
church, got to shouting and pounding
her child. She beat it so severely that
several of it's ribs were broken and the
child died in a few days from the
injuries.
The Italian laborers of New York
are said to be largely given to the
quafing of sarsaparilla and other light
notwithstanding beverages in the sum-
mer season. Comparatively few OF
them indulge in beer or other alcoholic
liquors while at work.
Not long since resident of Una
dilla, in Dooly County, Ga, heard
chicken squalling in his yard, and
went out to see what was the matter.
He found large toad-frog attached to
the wing of the chicken, trying to swal-
low an object twice as large as himself.
He had to kill the frog to get / I'm loose.
The number of locomotives in the
United States, says railway authority,
is now over $4,000, to which Canada
and Mexico can add about 1890,
making the total number on the North
American continent not far from 80, 800.
The average number of locomotives
per mile of road in the United States is
about ga.
-Visitor-''You say this ruined cas-
tie is haunted?" Guide-'Undoubt
eddy. The specter can be seen almost
every night" 1T is probably the
ghost of some robbers" mo, it is the
ghost of an actor. who neglected while
living to have himself photographed in
his favorite role. and who consequently
can not rest in his grave. German
Fun.
An Iron Nerve.-Boggs-"W What
an extraordinary nerve one of the
passengers in that railroad smashup
displayed. :" Foggs-''Yes, and he has
displayed nerve more extraordinary
still since then" Boggs-''In what
wayP" Foggs-''Why, by suing the
company for $4,000 damages for the
injury to his leg, which happens to be
cork. brakes Magazine.
An Albany youth. whose life in
clearinghouse was made miserable by
the constant playing upon an asthmatic
piano, procured hose, attached it to
the cold water faucet in the wash
room, carried the other end into the
parlor, and turned the water upon the
fair performer. The effect surpassed
his expectations, for the playing was
not only stopped, but the wires of the
instrument became rusted from the
flood poured in upon them, rendering
an outlay of $50 for repairs needful.
"A leading Presbyterian minister of
Chattanooga, states that on the top of
White Mountain, in Western North
Carolina, are three trees of the cachoin
species growing close together and
each being abouta foot in diameter and
about fifteen feet in height. The top
of the trees is about twenty feet in d.
ameter and perfectly flat, being so
completely interviewer that number
of persons can walk on them with ease.
Twelve persons can lie down on the
top of the trees without danger of fall
ing. Indeed, so close are these tops
that holes had to be cut in the middle
for persons to get on top.
Americans are gradually being
recognized as the greatest yachting
people in the world. Nowhere else
can one find SO much enthusiasm and
interest over a yacht race as here, and
what is more significant, this is the
only country in the world where the
masses have any idea of the details of
sailing and the maneuvers of yachts in
a race. The yacht-race reports in the
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