The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-10-09
MISCELLANEOUS.

census enumerators in Madison County,
Georgia, is boy nine years old who has
never been given name by his parents.
Proprietor of country hotel Ito sery-
ANITA stranger has arrived. Make a
fire in No. A." Servant-"A big fire,
sir?" Proprietor-.''No he is a little
bit of fellow"
If there is any thing that exceeds
all else for appa1lingness it is the situa-
ton of a man who gets caught in rain
storm in flannel shirt that is already
too tight for him. Washington Post
AT Chisamba. Africa, the young peo-
| PIE have asked the missionary to raise
a flag Saturday evenings, that they
may know that the next day is Sunday
and come to the meetings.
! "A wild westerner attended church
in Winnigep, Manitoba, for the first
time in twenty years, and during the
service lit a pipe and enjoyed smoke.
He was fined $40 for disturbing worship,
! "A New York woman who is suing
for divorce because of failure to pro-
vide stated that when her eight children
were in need of shoes her husband sent
her basket of flowers and lot of his
own poetry
Ever had cyclone here?" asked a
Kansas man who was visiting a country
aunt in the East. 80, yes" said his
aunt. "Deacon Browns son brought
one from Boston spell ago; but, law,
he couldn't ride it. Tumbled off every
time he tried. Golden Days.
An obliging clergyman in ARGOS.
took, Me-, was lately called upon by a
loving young couple who were DESTROYS
of going to housekeeping. The clergy
man married them, and then thought of
asking their ages. The bride is fourteen
and the groom one year older.
The first steam vessel which sailed
on the Mississippi was in 1910, and the
enterprise was considered extraordin-
airy. In 1926 the steam navigation on
the river had so improved in respect to
facility and quickness that ffty-one
boats, of %, GIG tons, were employed.
The two hotels which Waldorf Astor
has decided to build in New York are
not intended for transient guests, but
for rich families, such as can afford to
pay 1000 to $1,000 year for suite
of rooms and board, and it is believed
that there are enough of this class to
FIJI both houses.
"A well-known London lady of rank
has just had a pair of ten-button gloves
made in which each button is a dia-
mond. The pair cost 5000 Gentlemen
in London are now wearing mousque-
taire gloves which go higher than the
elbow.
THE kola nut, of which good deal
has been said lately" writes the Lon
don correspondent of the Manchester
Guardian, ais rapidly increasing in
favor as an indispensable adjunct to
travellers kit. The French Alpine Club
have just adopted it as stimulant and
nutrient in their Notwithstanding ex.
petitions"
An athletic Cuban negro, about
thirty years of age, escaped the other
night in Boston from strong cell in
police headquarters. Reaching between
the bars of his door he pried off the face
of huge paddock with a case knife and
the wire handle of bucket, pushed
back the bolt and opened the door, He
! got through corridor window to the
top of shed, dropped to the ground,
! climbed fence or two and was off for
| parts unknown.
! Two Cincinnati women thought they
would make a fortune by opening a res
taurant and hanging out sign "Home
Cooking Here" But the patronage was
so poor that they were threatened with
bankruptcy, when a recently-married
man advised them to change the sign so
as to read ''No Home Cooking Here"
They are now doing rushing business,
| and will soon retire with a fortune.
| "A police officer of this city has de-
vised an ingenious mode of signaling for
the patrol wagon. He has brass plate
| fixed in the end of his club, having an
opening of suitable shape to correspond
| with and act as key or wrench to turn
the lever that sends in the alarm. This
| opening also serves as mouth-piece to
| a whistle set in the base of the club.
| This is most practical device, for the
| subjects of arrests are, as rule, neither
/ obliging nor amiable, and certainly not
| prone to remain peaceful and inactive
/ while an officer is extracting his keys
from his pocket to send in an alarm
Chicago News.
Thunderstorm lore is thus made
plain by the Cincinnati Enquirer: If you
can count three slowly-that is, one
count to the second-between the fash
of lightning and the peal of thunder,
you may know that destruction has not
been wrought in your own locality. The
flash and the crash are really simultane-
GUS, only the light of the former travels
much more swiftly than the sound of
the latter. If it takes three seconds for
the noise of the thunder to reach you,
then the storm is 3,27O feet-two-thirds
of a mile-away. But when the fash
and the peal come close together, then
shake yourself to see if you are hit.
Women Who Draw Men Salaries.
The writer was in a downtown bust
hess office talking to the cashier. Three