The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-02-27
MISCELLANEOUS.

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nually.
"A man OF Van Vert County, Ohio
On bet wheeled barrow containin.
$50 cats three miles through muddy
country road.
The revolution in Brazil will make
coffee scarce, but the abundant clov,
crop will serve to help out between thu
acts.-Boston Herald.
-Notincluding Alaska, Brazil is larger
in extent than the United States: it pos
sesses within it's limits an area of 5. 2S7,
964 square miles, with a population O
12,333,275.
Collectors of insects who remember
back of the introduction of the English
sparrow say that caterpillars are very
decidedly rarer where the English spar
row is than they were before his advent
and this every year.
"A Manchester IN. Y. } girl telephoned
to her fathers office asking if her dog
was there. Curley was there, and his
mistress asked the man to hold him ur
to the telephone. She whistIed and
spoke, and told him to come home. Cur.
ley pricked up his ears, and as soon as
he was placed on the floor started fo1
home.
"A school for the thorough instruc.
ton OF nurses in the care of babies is tc
be established in New York, in connec.
ton with the Babies Hospital there.
The Herald states that there is nc
school of the kind either in this coun.
try or in England, the only one in ex.
lstence being in Germany.
You are great friend. Here it is
three days that you have known that
DR.. X. had proposed to Rosalie, and YOU
told me nothing. know that he con-
hded his secret to you" ''Secret! l
thought everybody knew it. If 1 had
suspected it was a secret should have
told you at once."-Fliegende Blatter.
"A peculiar trade was made at Woos-
ster, Ohio, the other day. The articles
exchanged were red-hot stoves, and they
were moved while full of fiery Goals.
Inc city expressmen agreed to swap the
stove in their Office for one in the office
r. Harsh, nearly half block away.
The offer was accepted, and both stoves
were moved while red-hot. The trans
fer attracted number of Interested
spectators.
Managing editor enters humorist's
room. Humorist, showing back his chair
says: Il was just thinking what great
difference there is between humorists.
Yes" the managing editor replies.
quite a difference" ''Now," the hu.
morist continues, "Artemus Ward used
TO chuckle, yes, even laugh over his OWE
jokes. l am of different temperament
1 never laugh at my jokes" 'sNeithe1
does any one else" says the managing
editor.-Arkansaw Traveller.
Whether the Norsemen really dis.
covered and settled New England in the
eleventh century or not, Professor Ebep
Norton Hosford, of Cambridge. will
have it so. He has just erected at his
own expense massive tower at Walt.
nam, Mass, to mark what he believes is
without doubt the site of the ancient
city of Norumbega. This old STRONG
hold the professor located as the Mace
where the Norsemen stayed for lone
time before they abandoned it on account
OF the hostility of the "Skraelines. as
the natives of the region are called If
the old sagas.
: In an address to workingmen's or.
ganization, Mr.. Gladstone said recently.
1T was not extravagant to say that. al.
though there were but 9, 0OO, COO people in
the thirteen American colonies AT tbe
time OF the American revolt, yet from
among those 100000 of people there
at that epoch group of states.
men that might defy the whole history
II the world to beat them in any one
state and at any period of time. Such
we're the consequences of a well regula.
ed and masculine freedom
The coal gas at last came to be SC
pressing in its attentions to the damner
hat the damper turned on it and cast II
III. This was followed by a GOODNESS
between the damper and the register. \
r1end of the gas. On the other hand
he coal fire, although it had introduced
he gas to the damper, beamed on the
after, and pressed its own SCOT. The
tove, to whose embraces the coal fire
lad long submitted, growing warmer
he closer they were, did not breathe
asy at this, and the cinders showed |
for the stove. At this the |
rate, between which and the cinders
here had long been warm attachment. /
'ecame agitated and turned ashy. This
citation increased, and ended in The
rate giving the cinders the shake
luck.
-Fogg entered the car, to find ever,
eat occupied and the aisle filed with
tandees. But he was equal to the occa.
ion. He shouted, with the voice of one
aving authority, PLENTY of seats in
he next car" Instantly there was
ush for the next car. The STANDING
assengers started first, Of course. buf
here were lots of the sitters who wanted
D sit together and several moro who
bought by going into the other car
hey might get two or three seats to
nemselves. The result was that Fooo
elected one of the vacated seats and
as deep in his newspaper when the
'owd came pouring back, with an evil
ent desire to shed Fogg's blood. You
ee it was an oversight on Fogg's mart.
here were plenty of seats in the next
IT; he merely forgot to mention that
lev were all full-RostoT r,,.,,,.o.4