The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-08-28
MISCELLANEOUS.

only one foot through.
--Broiled Sausages: Make the sausage
into quite thin cakes with the hands, |
lay them on a gridiron, and broil them
over hot fire.
The Salt Lake Herald says one
marked result of Mormon rule is that
that city of $4,000 had no debt and the
smallest tax rate of any city in the
United States-fve mills year.
1t is believed by many that the seal
fisheries of our northwest coast must be
given up, and the seals destroyed on ac-
count of the injury that the seals do to
salmon fisheries, now growing every
year more valuable.
A little girl who is given to initiate
her elders in words and ways, drew her.
self up in dignified manner at break
fast recently, and said to her elder
brothers and sisters: Children, if you
please, we will suspense with that per-
! diculous noise
-Chipinone-''W is that lordly
looking man on the other side of the
aisIe?" Ukerdek-"That is a newspa-
per man" "Why does he put on so
much style and seem 50 haughty?" ''He
is young one, and is riding on his first
railroad pass. Inter Ocean.
according to an interviewer, Car
! lyle surpassed himself when first intro
| duced to DIR. Joachim. Shaking hands
with the great violinist the sage OBJ
served that he ''hadn't great opinion
of musicians-they seemed such vain,
wind-baggy sort of people"
| Govoo oF "a - no charm
est and wisest lawyers in the country
have made wills, passed away, and the
said wills have been broken all to fin
ders by heirs and other lawyers. An
ignorant Missouri farmer wrote his will
in four lines on a slate, and it stood
three lawsuits and ten lawyers
The most expensive thermometer
in this country is in use at the Johns
Hopkins University. 1t is known as
Prof. Bowland's thermometer, and is
valued at 10000. 1t is an absolutely
perfect instrument, and the graduations
on the glass are so fine that it is neces-
sary to use a microscope to read them.
"A farmer in the vicinity of st.
Louis, Mich, sent his wife to market
and he went into the fields to plow.
About noon the good wife returned and
explained to her husband that it was
Sunday. Neither had remembered the
day of the week until Mrs. Golf found
st. Louis people going to church.
Every time General Butler is asked
for his opinion regarding the proper in
vestment for an enterprising young man,
he says that ''rent-paying real estate"
&c 4bo in "a x4rnrl1
He always adds that no man who ex-
poets to accumulate property can afford
to be mean about money matters.
The Young Man (rapturously)-
"And now, Flossie, it only remains for
J you to name the happy day. Please make
it soon, very soon, darling" The Young
Woman Tin the kitchen few moments
later)-"B Bridget, would it interfere with
any of your engagements if 1 should be
married three weeks from next Wednes-
! day EVENING""
, - Lottery tickets seem to be very
plentiful in Louisiana just now. The
, Southwestern Christian Advocate tells
, of a brother who got things SO mixed
up that he presented lottery ticket
for admission to love-feast. Professed
Christians are coming to be among the
strongest supporters of the lottery, says
o local paper
= "A few days ago three families Of
Finlanders settled on farms in the
. northern part of Beadle County, South
Dakota. In one of the families there
:, are nineteen children, in another seven
: teen and in the third nine, the parents
= of the last family having been married
> but ten years. These families will soo1
be joined by four others, all relatives
= numbering forty-six persons, making
= total of ninety-seven persons in nint
= families.
: "A minister had travelled some dis
= tance to preach, and at the conclusion
!. of the morning service waited for somt
= one to invite him to dine; but the con
= gregation dispersed without noticing
' him When the house was nearly empty
!. the minister stepped up to gentleman
!, and said: Brother, will you go home t.
= dinner with me to-day?" "Where do vol
= live?" about eighteen miles iron
: here" mo; but you must dine wit
= me-" answered the gentleman, with
;. flushed face, which invitation the clergy
man gravely accepted.
The president of the British Pbal
Is maceutical Conference is credited wit
{ having adopted and recommended tn
1t following for the happy dispa Oh c
Il poultry A large, wide-mouthed, stoI
q pered bottle is kept charged with a
d ounce of chloroform. When a chicke
rs has received sentence Of death it is he'll
II firmly under the left arm and its hea
d slipped into the mouth of the bottle
/ A few deep inspirations follow, and tn
N bird, without a struggle, becomes III
"a conscious Then, holding it by tn
:. legs, it's neck is dislocated by quic
e. stretch.-Our Dumb Animals.
Il AN intelligent dog in West Cheste
l. plays hide-and-seek with his owner,
\ little girl named Amy. She taught
=. the game, and they both, it is said, fin
! much fun in playing it. Amy will te
the dog to remain in certain place III
=, til she hides. She then calls and tn
:, dog starts on the search, finding Am