The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-01-16
INSTANTANEOUS.

-Ru1lng machines, which are now
used for ruling paper with faint lines.
were invented by an ingenious Dutch
man, resident in London, in 1882.
After Nevada man had sold
rocky piece of land for song, silver
lode was discovered there. He didn't
know it was lode-ed.-Texas Siftings.
1t takes about fifteen minutes to
transmit telegram from San Fran
cisco to Hong Kong via New York,
Penzance, Alden, Bombay, Madras and
Singapore.
"A handy man in Steubenville,
Penn, used his children's roller skates
to move a heavy laden refrigerator
from the dining room to the kitchen,
and not one breakdown happened.
People think they enjoy more keep
ing their money. 1t is the testimony
of those who have been touched by
the spirit Of sacrifice. that the delight
of giving is greater than the delight
of keeping.-Advance.
Dear" said physicians wife as
they sat in church, there is Mrs. Gold
berg sitting in draught." Never
mind" said her husband, II will cash
that draft later on. Washington Cap
ital.
An honest old farmer was talking
about the gayeties of neighboring
seaport and became unexpectedly inn
pressive. The ALT were all down there
with their yats," he said. and every
body felt pang of envy, if not of sur
prise. Commonwealth.
Foreign maueuvers have developed
the fact that torpedo boats are ex-
tremely uncomfortable at sea, so much
so that the crews lose all energy and
rough weather makes them all but
helpless. During experiments at Co
penhagen recently q torpedo boat upset
and sank.
In Stockbridge township, Michi-
gan, a hungry hawk swooped down on
acme young turkeys. The mother tur-
key tried to drive them away, but, fail
ing to do so, sped away, and in few
moments returned with a whole flock
of able bodied adult turkeys and made
a combined attack on the barn yard
pirate and beat him off.
The average number of fires in
New York is $500 a year, or about
seven day. Of these, one half are due
to heating apparatus, chimneys, stoves
and boilers, and the other half are due
to electric lights, gas, matches and the
use of kerosene. The number of in
cendiary fires in year in New York is
about fifty.
"A fair and buxom widow who had
buried three husbands recently went
with a gentleman, who in his younger
years had paid her marked attention,
to inspect the graves of her dear de-
parted. After contemplating them in
mournful silence she murmured to her
companion, "Ah, James, you might
have been in that row now if you had
only had a little more courager'
-Convicts who lately escaped from
EddyviIle penitentiary in Kentucky
fooled the keepers, who chased them
with bloodhounds. They dropped
poisoned meat and the dogs forgot all
about their training and tackled a
square meal. They died and the pris-
oners escaped. One of the convicts was
serving sixteen years sentence, and
the other was booked for six years.
"A girl in a Chicago public school
applied to her teacher for leave to be
absent half day on the plea that they
had company at home. The teacher
referred her to the printed list of rea-
sons that the school committee think
sufficient to justify absence, and asked
her if her case came under any of
them. She naively replied that it
might come under the head of "domes-
tic affection"
An old Bucksport sea captain thus
describes the way in which he dis
missed an undesirable sutton for the
hand of his daughter, the other night:
IL just showed him up the companion
way and out on the gang-plank leading
from my house, and gently remarked
that the wind was off shore and the
sooner he got under way the better
ohing he would get before morning.
He paid off and bore away down the
street. Lewiston (Me.) journal.
1t is said that Puget Sound has
1900 miles of shore line, and all along
the line, miles and miles farther than
the eye can reach, is one vast and al
most unbroken forest of enormous
trees. The supply is so vast, that al
though the sawmills have been work.
ing up 100000. 900 feet of lumber taken
out of the forest every year for the
past ten years, the spaces made by
these inroads seem no more than gar
den patches.
Indications now point to the ex-
istence of submarine volcanic crater
between the Canary Islands and the
coast of Portugal. From cable-laying
steamer in SO degrees % minutes north.
8 degrees 81 minutes west, the water
was found to measure 1900 fathoms
under the bow and 800 under the stern.
showing the ship to be over the edge
OF deep depression in the ocean bot