The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-06-26
MISCELLANEOUS.


-Five-year-old, whose mother had
used dime from his savings fund: Pa,
you owe me ten cents; your wife took
that much from me.
The ceiling of the Assembly cham
Der at Albany, N. Y, is made of paper
mache. 1t is model of it's kind, and
appears SO like marble as to deceive the
most expert eye.
"A man with penchant for statistics
has computed that more than four mill
lion miles of blood pass through the veins
of an ordinary human being during q
lifetime of seventy years.
in Chester, Pa, the colored people
have come to the conclusion, after
trial of eight years, that the education
of white and black children together
does not work satisfactorily, and have
asked for separate schools to be estab-
lished.
"A though" bird-the jay. A cheat
ing bird-the gull. A Boosting bird
the crow. A dishonest bird-the robin.
A rude bird-the hooking bird. An
untruthful bird-the Tyre bird. A low
spirited bird-the blue bird. A ''cabi-
net" bird-the secretary bird.
The village of Data, on the island
of Lesbos, has a woman said to be 1876
years old who stil has the complete use
of all her senses. The same island con-
tains three other inhabitants who are
said to have passed their hundredth
birthday-Ismail Apa, 10 years old;
Khalil Apa, in his 10th year, and
Aschil Baba, aged lis. All three of
these centenarians, it is said, earn their
living by daily work.
The New York World has printed
census of children in two representative
quarters of that city, Fifth avenue and
Cherry street. In 300 families living on
the former street there were found nine
ty-one children under 10 years of age,
of whom six were born in the past
twelve months. In Cherry street, which
| appears to be an abode of the very poor,
/ 800 families furnished $50 children under
/ ten years and Ill under one year of age.
| They manage to have considerable
| fun one way or another in the Tennes-
see Legislature. A Tennessee paper, re-
porting the passage of an important
! bill, says: "There was great enthusi-
asm, some disorder, and somebody tied
/ a sleeps bell to Mr.. Collins, of Carter
! County, and he did not know where it
was until he had attracted the attention
of the house. Visitors then filed out
and the house resumed it's usual appear
ance."
Near Lincolnton, Ca, on a stream
known as Fishing Creek" in shelv-
! ing projecting just above the water in
the stream is perfectly defined imprint
of a mans bare foot. All the toes are
perfect, and in every respect the mark
is as plain as if made in plastic clay or
even putty. The stone is as hard as ada
mant, and has been since the Oldest in
habitant landed in Lincoln County,
over 100 years ago. By whom and when
was the track made is an interesting
query.
1t is a strange coincidence that
several American clowns, and at least
one English pantomimist, have all died
insane. Hitherto the general belief
among professionals has been that the
quantity of bismuth used in making
up" particularly in America, where the
hair is cropped close and the bismuth
rubbed into the side of the head, had a
great deal to do with disease. But one
old pantomimist still living solemnly
attests that, so far as his experience
went, the bismuth not only left his
faculties unimpaired, but had the merit
of healing sores and CRACKS in the skin