The Bossier banner., 1891-02-05
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


and fours, and are always chattering.
The foreman of one of the argest
barber shops in New York is authority
for the statement that more men part
their hair in the middle now than ever
before.
Iron collars for heavy work horses
are coming into use. They may weigh
less than seven pounds, and the advan-
tage of their use is said to be immunity
from sore necks
The highest point on the New York
Elevated railroad is at the One Hun
dred and Tenth street curve of the Sixth
and Ninth avenues division, which is
said TO be ninety-two feet high.
There are growing on a farm in San
Antonia, Cal, two large fig trees that
are as old as the State They are thirty
+ feet in height have very large spread,
and are marvels of productiveness. 1t
is thought they will yield one thousand
pounds of fruit each.
"A Montreal clothier recently stuck
upa monster sign one hundred feet long
and sixty feet from top to bottom. 1t
was nine days wonder to the passing
crowd, but the proprietor of the build
ing had the sign removed. The cloth
ing man is now suing for ten thousand
dollars damages.
-Flreproof construction of buildings
is slowly growing more and more of an
exact science. A species of porous terra
Gotta filing is rapidly coming into use.
Sixty thousand dollars worth of it
was recently put into one building.
Experts say, however, that as far
as f1reproof floors are concerned alter
nate layers of plank and cement form
the most impenetrable of constructions.
If, as has been estimated, the popu.
lation of the United States is twelve
times as great as that of the Dominion,
it will be seen that the divorce ratio is
immensely greater here than there, due,
no doubt to the difference in the sys-
TENS of the two countries, and to the
higher estimate placed by our Northern
ne'ghbors on the inviolablty of the tie
than we do. It is, indeed. startling to
realize that, while the populations of
the two countries are as IL to /, the di-
vorces are as 2,7OO to /.
Took Stranger INA Tennessee
farmer took in a stranger who said he
was land surveyor in hard luck He
was set to surveying the farm, and he
found it nineteen acres short of what
the deeds called for There was gong
to be lot of shooting between the
neighbors, and all the guns had been
loaded for bear, when Nashville sur
veYor came out and found the old line
correct. Then they k cked the stranger
out of the county and fired their guns in
the air Detroit Free Press
When Thomas R. Powers went tc
take down an umbrella that was hang
ing on the awning frame in front of his
store, last evening he was most emphat-
ically shocked. His ant cs, in fact,
made several observers laugh. After a
little investigat on, it was discovered
that the rain had converted the awning
into conductor OF electricity, which
was leaking from the wire of an arc
light in front of a neigh boring store
and that the umbrella had been con-
verted into averitable Leyden jar which
required but the pointing of finger or
a knife at any of its Tbs to make the
tn ng spit "blue fire. Fall River
News
The denizans of lower Broad way
are treated to a novel ght There are
number of pigeons which live upon
the wharf-boat but they fly up to
Broadway and Front and p ok up seeds,
grains of corn, and such pickin1s as
birds love and the market people leave
Among the flock is black p geon that
has no legs. It's mode of picking up
seeds is very odd This bird alights on
its breast, and seeing any thing ii
wants, rolls or wallows over to it and
picks it up. 1t is fat, and does not ap-
pear to be suffering for want of food II
has been captured several times. and
those who have handled the bird declare
that there was no ind caton that it ever
had any legs Cincinnati Enquirer.
"A singular runaway is reported from
South Brooklyn N. Y. woman named
! Gildersleeve, who had lived W. tn her
husband for over thirty years and had
borne him four sons, some of whom have
attained manhood, has left her home
becaus., as she states in a letter, her
husband had not furnished her means to
properly clothe herself and had refused
to give her the money to have her teeth
attended to- She therefore secured a
place at fourteen dollars month, and
with her earnings for year she said
that she proposed to have her teeth
properly cared for, and with the balance
to buy clothes to last her during fe.
| Then, if her husband would receive her,
| she intended to return to him, as she
| loved h M.
The good old town OF Waldoboro,
Me-, settled by Germans one hundred
and fifty years ago, yet shows by the
names of many prominent citizens the
nationality of its founders. The Lin
coin County News gives bit of its his.
tory of the early days Of the town in a
report of the first town meeting held
Sept 81, 1773 The record of the meet
ing shows that after electng part oi
the town officers it was voted that 'the
meet ng be achurnt to the morrow at II
o'clock in the forenoon On this second
day the officers elected included Z
worten, dear reaf, lether sealer. sealel
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