The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-10-23

MISCELLANEOUS,


mo; can't say that 1 want the
earth" unused the freight car tourist.
"About three-quarters of it is water
and that l amt got no use for. "-Terre
Haute Express.
Aunt Mary-"Poor Bulge! Does
your tooth ache yet? If 'twere mine,
dear, I'd have it out at once" Bulge
'If 'twere yours! Well, auntie, so
would I" -Harper's Young People.
Census We'll, have
finished a big days work, and I'm
tired" His wlfe-"Im so sorry 1 can't
help you. Now sit down, dear, and tell
me all you found our about our neigh
bors. IN. Y. Sun.
Editors like breyity, but man who
was recently hanged in Indiana suited
them too well. He made no remarks
about heaven. but nodded to the
preacher and said: "I'll see you later,
and then the trap Brooklyn Union.
-"Say, old fellow, are you really a
relation of tho celebrated Prof. Drip"
eyes, but somewhat far removed"
''How then?" ''He is my brother, but
you see there are ten sisters between
u.s. "-Fliegende Batter.
"A dispatch from Ohio tells of one of
the shortest courtships on record. The
groom was guest at Canton hotel.
He became infatuated with the cook the
day of his arrival, proposed, and, being
accepted, married her at once.
The "L'' road companies in New
York are doing their utmost just now to
minimize the noise madeb by their trains,
and on some of the roads they have sue
ceeded, but they are still far from hay
ing the noiseless trains which so delight
the heart Of the traveller in Berlin, and
the service has great many lacks
The great Bear River Canal in Utah,
for the construction of which 50, O0O, 900
has been provided, is expected to be one
of the most extensiue irrigation works
in America. To get the river along the
side hill along Bear Creek canon and
out on to the plain near Plymouth will
necessitate moving 220, 900 cubic wards
of solid rock.
-"While passing along street in Des
Moines, the other day." relates the st.
Joseph News, Constable Allen noticed
woman digging in garden and turn
ing up peculiar-looking vegetables.
After she had loaded her apron and left
the scene the constable went over and
did little digging on his own hook, un-
earthing several gallon jugs of whisky
1t has been estimated that were
electricity to come into general use as a
means for propelling street cars, at least
10000 horses would be thrown out of
employment. This is serious consid-
GRAFTON, for were the street cars to
eschew them, what would become of our
decrepid steeds? In France this cues
ton could be easily answered.; but in
the face of our prejudices it is, indeed,
perplexing.
The Argentine Republic has nearly
1900, 900 sheep, yielding about 900, OOO,-
600 pounds of unwashed wool, which.
when washed, amounts to something
less than 100, 900, 900 pounds. The fiocks
of the United States, although in 1880
numbering only 4O,OOO,OO produced
nearly 1876, OO0, 900 pounds of clean wool
Thus the average per sheep in the Ar
gentine Republic was less than TX
pounds of clean wool, while in this
country it was nearly four pounds.
"A negro killed monster rattle.
snake six miles this side of Clover VAL
ley on the Union Pacific extension from
Milford, says a California paper. The
only weapon which the darby had was
in the form of earth clods, but he suc-
ceeded in crushing out the life of the
RATHER, and upon examination found
the snake to measure ten feet in length.
with ninety-six rattles and button on
the lateral extremity. This would rive
an almost phenomenal age to the snake.
making it about one hundred years old
The skin and rattle have been taken
North to Salt Lake, from whence it will
be shipped to the East
The laborers of the blacksmith
Zhuravleff, of KEW, found a conieal
bomb and conceived the notion of using
it as an anvil. They knew what the
thing was, but they thought it was not
charged, because they had found it w.
ing about freely. To make sure that il
was not dangerous, they tried it several
times in the fire and it did not explode.
Hereupon they fitted it up as an anvil.
But as soon as they tried to forge a
piece of iron upon it, it exploded with
tremendous force, tore off the roof of
the building and scattered the walls
Luckily, the explosion tended upward
above the heads of the workingmen and
only three of them were slightly
wounded by flying fragments
1t is not often that there is any dis
pute as to the habits of the Southern
negroes We see them on minstrel
stage in strange and uncouth CARDS.
and we hear them playing on the banjo
and bones. All this is the purest fancy,
and it would be the widest imagination
if it had not been sanctifed bv the
drunken craziness of circus performers
of the old Bob Ridley stripe Think, for
instance, of a Southern negro going
around and proclaiming himself to be
old Bob Ridley or Jim Crow. Did any,
body ever see a Southern negro, slave
or free, going around the country in a
calico coat and buttons as big as wash
tub, with banjo on his back and sing
ing songs written by white man?-At-