The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-09-19
MISCELLANEOUS.

IN the hand would be twice as good in
the bush.-Life.
For stealing pot of flowers from
a grave colored man in Savannah,
Ga, was recently sent to Jail for one
year.
An Indian in the Everglades, Flor
ida, it is said. is still holding in slavery
negroes that were his when the war
broke out.
The almost Incredible statement is
made by South Florida man that it
has rained more or less in the vicinity
OF his home on the Goth of May for the
past nineteen years.
Abraham Shearer, of Canada, con-
Guided to run away from his home and
wife. When he reached the train the
first person he encountered was Mrs.
Shearer, who had been simultaneously
seized with the same notion.
"A man who died lately near Sparta,
Ga, could repeat the names of all the
Senators and Representatives in Con-
gress from the beginning of the gov
eminent. Yet all this never brought
him an engagement in dime musuem
and vast worth dollar to him.
"A test has been made in Frame to
see whether the color of horse had
any thing to do with his characteristics.
1t has been demonstrated that any
such idea is all nonsense. Pedigree
and early training have all to do with
1t, and color nothing whatever.
"A resident of Palatka, Fla, while in
Clay County saw an entire family work
ing in five-acre field. In the middle of
the field was a pillow, to which was
hitched the old man, assisted by the son
and daughter, the mother of the latter
doing the blowing.
The women of Chicago have estab-
lished the first college of practical arts
for women in this country. 1t is de-
signed to give women a practical in
sight into the avenues of business life,
such as law, railroads and even "life
insurance"
At the big spring near Fort Deca-
tur, the Governor of Alabama said to
the Governor of Tennessee, II can say
to you what the Governor of South
Carolina said to the Governor of North
Carolina-but it will be cold water"
They smiled.-Montgomery (Ala.) Ad-
Vertiser.
The ways of auctioneers in different
parts of the world vary greatly. In
this country and England the seller
bears the expense of the sale, but in
France the purchaser bears the cost,
five per cent being added to his pur-
chase. In Holland it is still worse, the
buyer being required to pay ten per
cent. additional for the expenses of the
sale.
Near Summerville. La, a lady
went into the woods and caught small
green snake by the head. Covering it
up she went into the house where she
was boarding and asked the man:
Don't you want prettyPp "Yes," said
he. She threw out her arm. The mans
wife was standing by and was SO
alarmed at seeing the snake squirming
about that she fell back dead.
-'Mistah Jones, l hyah yoh's been
habin' trubble.n I'm what wayP'
''Why, dat yoh wife done run erway
wuf Pete Jenkins" 30 yes.n "You
has my sympathy" much obliged
"Tm glad ter note datyou doan' take
it to h'aht.' mo, amt had time to
think about it much" What yoh bin
doin'P" Bin sympathizin' with Pete
jenkins. Merchant Traveller.
"A party of gamblers at Montague,
Mich, were treated to an unwelcome
surprise one night recently. A woman
who suspected that her husband was
one of coterie who met in quiet
block slipped up to the room and
raped on the door. The inside guard
opened the door. There was immedi-
ately general scramble. Two knights
of the green baize jumped into bed and
pulled the quilts over themselves.
while others sought any available nook
or corner. The wife eollared her erring
liege and led him triumphantly forth.
A Boston man says that when Edi-
son first thought of making a phono-
graph he perfected most of the details
before even drawing plan. When he
had the idea well developed, he told
an old German who made models for
him to make machine after a certain
pattern. The inventor didn't hint what
he wanted it for, but occasionally sent
an order for a change or alteration to
be made, without even looking at the
model. Finally the German took the
machine to Mr.. Edison, who fitted a bit
of tinfoil into it, turned the crank, and
spoke into the funnel the words OF that
famous poem beginning '.Mary had a
little lamb" The German looked on
as though he thought that the inventor
had gone crazy. Then Mr.. Edison re-
versed the crank, and, in that queer,
piping voice now so familiar. the ma
chine repeated the lines. "Mein Gottr'
said the German, throwing up his
hands. "Mein Colt! it talksi''