The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-12-19
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A woman of Reading, Penn,
hanged herself because she could not
endure the toothache.
The force which a California pump
kin exerts while growing is equal to
the strength of a large horse attached
to stick of timber.
Two flocks of sparrows at Mounds
vile, W. Va, engaged in pitched
battle, and when they had finished
eight birds lay dead upon the ground.
An eagle weighing nine tons re-
GENTLY arrived in Brooklyn from its
home in the mountains OF Maine. 1t is
of granite, and will be placed over the
main entrance of the new post-ofice.
"A Chinese doctor in San Francisco
is said to enjoy an income from the
practice of his profession Of $4,000 per
! month. He has been in America
nearly thirty years, and many Cau-
casians are among his patients.
Near Elmer, Ore, farmer cut
down fir tree on his farm. He got
$12 for the bark. From the lumber he
built house 14x20, s feet high; shed
kitchen feet wide and 20 feet long,
woodshed 14x20 and had 800 boards 6
inches wide and 2 feet long. He ALSO
cut 334 railroad ties and fifteen cords
OF wood-all this from one tree.
During some maneuvers of the
German cavalry at Greig woman
and her little boy got in front
OF regiment of cuirassiers charging
in full gallop. The leading officer
shouted to her to lie down, and she
did, lying upon her boy. The whole
regiment passed over without iniuring
her, every horse in whose track she
lay having been made to jump over
her.
"A fleet of seventy-fve barges near
Memphis, containing $4,000 bushels
of coal, recently suffered from the dep-
relations of countless myriads of
shrimps, which ate out the oakum in
the seams of the boats, rendering a
large working force at the pumps
necessary to keep them from sinking.
The boats were lately moved into the
current, which swept the little incum-
ORANGES off, and the leaks stopped.
-Four tramps arrested at MoberIy,
Mo-, for vagrancy were put up at pub
lie auction from the Court House steps.
The sale had been duly advertised a6-
cording to law, and there was a large
crowd present. The bidding was not
very spirited. Two of the tramps went
to farmers for two dollars a head, and
another was bid in for seventy-five
cents. The fourth tramp could find no
purchaser, and he was returned to jail.
The three who were sold were to serve
their purchasers for four months.
"A carpenter, of Black Rock, N. Y,
committed suicide the other day, leav-
ing a letter in which he said; 'AsI
have been engaged for the last forty
five years successfully in the carpenter
trade, being sixty and one half years
of age, have decided to do something
higher and better. The Bible SAYS:
In my Fathers house are many man
sions, and being as there is so many
they must need some repairs. I've
been a good carpenter on earth and 1
guess l can be in Heaven"
Two lovers visited the same young
lady. One evening Jones alone was
with her. He said in tender tones,
do you think, Mary, you could leave
father and mother, this pleasant home
with its ease and comforts, and emit
CRATE to the West with young lawyer
who had only his profession to live on,
and search out a new home where
both could be happy" Dropping her
head on Jones shoulder. the maiden
softly whispered, II think l could,
Archie We'll" said Jones, there's
Tom Brown, who's going to emigrate
and wants to get wife. I'll mention
it to him."
1t is thought that irrigation VITA
be the means of doubling the popula-
ton of every Western State and Terri
tory within the coming ten years, and
that in the East. where the rainfall is
heavy, but uncertain, irrigation will
ultimately be resorted to in order to
insure greater regularity of crops.
Four-tenths of thu area of the United
States, not including Alaska, require
irrigation. This territory includes part
of California, Texas, Kansas, Nebraska,
Oregon, all of Arizona, New Mexico.
Utah, Wyoming, Montana and portions
of Dakota and Washington.
"A clergyman CT Boston likes to tell
story of his experience in a suburban
church some years since. He was 80
preach an exchange, and so was lit
tie anxious to have things go smoothly.
The pastor had left written order of
service for him. but he noticed that it
contained no organ response after the
''long prayer. So he called the aged
sexton to the pulpit and asked him
what followed the prayer The sexton
couldn't remember. Doesn't the or
gan have any thing to do?n asked the
preacher. 90" said the sexton. Il
believe the organ does give a few notes,
just enough to take off the effect of the