The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-11-14
MISCELLANEOUS

-Atchinson Globe.
The London Enquirer says the
United States has the best torpedo
service of any nation in the world.
"A little girl sent out to hunt eggs,
returned without success, complaining
that lots of hens were standing around
doing nothing.
This is a funny old world, anyhow,
but it is very hard to realize it when
you are reading the comic papers,
Somerville Journal.
The startling fact has been discov-
cred that 1896, 800 bushels of peanuts
are consumed in this country every
year. 1t is suspected that 25l,S06
bushels of them are slain in the upper
galleries of theaters, and that 276. 405
bushels are eaten in street cars and
court rooms.
For heroism in one of the battles
of the Mexican war, the Legislature
of Missouri granted to Absalom Hughes
the right to keep dram shop during
his natural life without paying State,
county or municipal license. Although
over seventy years of age, he is still
engaged in the business at Cedar City.
-Merchant-"Can you bring me
few bushels of green peas, this MORN
ingP" Dakota Gardener-"Not this
mornin'. My peas war; jest blossomin'
when left home an hour ago. But eff
that ar cloud, drops an inch or two
SOS ter keep often the sun, I'll be here
with load this AFTERNOON. Thine.
The total production of gold and
silver OF the world in 1887. according
to the report of the Director of the
United States Mint for the year 1888,
was, in gold, 500. 1926, 800; in silver Cat
United States coming value) $125, $780,
310-or 1926, 173. 10 in all. The real
value of the silver was, however, much
less, being about S94,000,0OO.
An Easton man, homeward bound
with a new carpet sweeper, was &C
costed by a neighbor who is Jealous to
be thought agricultural. and who asked
consent to try that mower on his lawn.
He tried it, and finding that he could
not make the grass fly he passed it
back with an expression of mistrust in
"these new patents. "-Allentown (Pa. }
Register.
finding a pot of gold in the cellar, and
the next day she went down and began
looking for it. She managed in short
time to run across four large sized rats,
an old key that had been lost for six
months, and a jug of whisky her old
man had been hiding behind the potato
barrels. She is a firm believer in
dreams now.-Peck' Sun.
"A nine-year-o1d son of Maine, liv.
ing eleven miles from Bangor, heard
of the electric lights in that city, and
leased his father to take him there
that he might see them. The father
said he hadn't time. A few days after
ward the boy was missed. His father
drove straight to Bangor, and at nine
o'clock that night found him under an
electric light, gazing in open-eyed de-
light. He had walked all the way.
An interesting innovation in the
method of catching cod has just been
made by the French fishermen coasting
off Newfoundland. They catch large
periwinkles, remove their shells, and
use the creatures for bait. The cod,
it is said, have bitten eagerly at the
new bait and the owners OF the French
vessels have caught fish so fast that
they were able to sail for France in the
first week of July, instead of October
as usual. In England the whelk has
long been used for the same purpose.
One of the most interesting natur-
al curiosities of Lycoming County,
Pennsylvania, is situated in Rose VAL
ley, about six miles from Trout Run.
1t consists of seven natural wells ex-
tending almost straight downward to
depth unknown. Large stones cast in
some of these wells go rumbling down,
making a coarse, rasping sound at first
as they strike against the sides of the
well, growing fainter and fainter until
lost by the distance. Near these wells
Is cave, the mouth of which is large
enough for horse to enter. Several
gangways lead off from the main ell
trance to large separate chambers, and
from these other passageways lead off
probably to unexplored chambers.