The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-09-26
MISCELLANEOUS.

HoFOE OcRlHs bO SHOW us temper until
he loses it.
-1he latest railway signal indicates
automatically the time that has elapsed,
up to twenty minutes, since the last
train passed it.
"A living man with three legs, q
living man with two mouths, and q
living man turning into stone, are
among the curiosities announced in a
New York museum.
Nevada had a'''Dead Horse" post.
Office. 1t was ordered to take a new
name and it took that of Live Horse"
The department wouldn't have it, but
changed it to Rosedale.
An Englishwoman of twenty-six
recently advertised that she was de-
sirous of being married, and would,
therefore, be pleased ito correspond
with Christian vegetarian man.
A yacht was recently launched on
the Thames by electrical appliances,
which enabled all the supports to be
removed on the pressing of button,
and the vessel glided into the water
without the slightest hitch.
The kangaroo is in danger of being
exterminated. Its skin is so valuable
that large numbers of young kangaroos
are killed, and high authorities are of
the opinion that, unless the process is
stopped, Australia will soon have seen
the last specimen of this interesting
animal.
"A Boston newspaper thinks it high
time that the expressions 1.-The colored
lawyer, " ''the colored artist and the
like were expunged from the vernacu-
lar phraseology, and says: "How would
it look, for instance, to speak of Wash
ington Flanders, Esquire, the red
headed bank President; or of Ulysses
Flaherty, the bandy-legged broker; or
OF Cornelius Cronin, the cross-eyed cor
respondent of the Concord Chrome
typeP"
-Four years ago William Il. Camp
bell, a good old-fashioned Democrat of
Saxton's River, Vt, was appointed
postmaster. His wife, who has always
been a Republican, has constantly as
sisted her husband during these four
years, and so well has the Office been
conducted that when he resigned
Democrats and Republican united in
asking the Government to make her
her husbands successor. She has lust
received her commission from the Post
master-General, and her husband is
now her assistant
Twenty million dollars are what
somebody has estimated as the gross
amount contributed by the American
people during the last ten years for
the relief of suffering caused by disas-
ters or epidemics. Two million dollars
year make large sum. In one-dol-
lar greenbacks, laid end to end, it
would stretch nearly from Washing
ton to New York City. The total sum
given in ten years would span the
greater part of the continent
ington Star.
"A new swindling scheme, said to
be very successful among reIigiously
inclined agriculturists, is thus de-
scribed by the McHenry Plaindealer:
A pretty female solicits ten-cent SUBJ
scriptions to a foreign missionary So
ciety, and those who donate are re-
quested to sign their names on a paper
with others who have kindly given
something to the heather. Beneath
the paper the sucker signs is an ingen-
ious copying paper that transcribes
the name to q promisory note, and she
leaves with as many notes as she has
names, which she gets discounted as
soon as possible.
"A writer in Florida paper sava
Of the Seminole Indians: They have a
handed down from their
forefathers which they believe-that
the Great Spirit first made the black
man, next the red man, and third, the
white man, after which the Great
Spirit called them together and placed
before them three boxes, one filed
with books and maps, the second with
bows, arrows and tomahawks, the third
With spades, axes, hoes and hammers.
These are the means offered by which
Fou are to live; choose among them ac-
'ording to your fancy The white
nan had the first choice, and chose
the books and maps; the red man took
The bows, arrows and tomahawks.
in Columbia County, Georgia, is
1uivering tree. Years ago, the negroes
Of the neighborhood say, murder
vas done under its branches. Two
men had accompanied woman to
church, and after she had entered the
'ditice they quarreled about her, and
me cut the other to death. The muir
ierer escaped, and ever since every
lmb, large and small, on the tree
rembles as if in fear, or as a suffering
animal would culver. This occurs
when not breath of air is stirring.
No negro in Columbia County can be
induced to pass the so called haunted
pot alone at night. Prominent gem
lemen say they have noticed the phe-
lomenon. but no explanation of it has
sver been volunteered.