The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1892-06-09
MISCELLANEOUS.


An Appropriate Key.-Band Master
Quick! We must play Hail to the
Chief Do you all know it?" New
Performer (timidly)-''What key is it
imp" Band Master-"A major-general-
ly."
Stoves are not very recent inven-
ton. A fixed stove was used by the
Romans in the times of the empire for
heating their baths, and in Germany
and Scandinavia for baths and for hot
houses.
The greatest river in the world is
the Gulf Stream; at its narrowest point
in the straits of Florida it is thirty-nine
miles wide and two thousand feet deep,
with a current of from three to five
miles an hour.
Ice two inches thick will support
the weight of the average man, and of
four inches thickness will support
man on horseback. Ice five inches
thick will bear the weight of an eighty
pound cannon.
The nearest fixed star is Alpha
Centauri, and it's distance from the
earth has been computed by Bessel, the
German astronomer, at twenty thou
sand and eight hundred and thirty-two
billions of miles.
"A we'll preserved skeleton of man,
said to have been at least ten feet tall,
was exhumed at Trace Fork, Tenn,
last week. The skull and other bones
are very large. 1t is supposed to be the
skeleton of prehistoric man.
Lightning rod Agent - Hulloa,
Bub! Do you think your father would
like to have his house rodded?" Bub
with depressed sobs) ~ shouldn't
wonder. He's just rodded me. Kate
Fields Washington.
During the past year thirty-one
damage suits have been brought against
the city of st. Paul, in which the
amount claimed aggregated $40, 376 so.
Only Sl,11zSS has been recovered in
nineteen cases. The other twelve cases
are pending.
Goodman Smith-"Why not come
to church, Brown? You would hear
beautiful sermon" Baddon Brown
my dear boy, heard one when l came
home at two o'clock this morning, and
l can't stand another to-day. Smith
Gray & Cos. Monthly.
-Doctor-"I'm grateful, indeed, Miss
Growells, but how did it happen that
you suggested me as physician to the
late Miss Deadhem; thought that you
were not friendly to each other?" Miss
Growells-"We were not; that's exactly
the reason that suggested you"
The republic of Colombia, compris-
ing Venezuela, New Granada and Ecua.
dor, was organized in 1915 and it's in
dependence was recognized by Spain in
1923. In 1929 the republic dissolved into
three republics and in 1880 Venezuela
adopted new constitution.
"A London cobher, in connection
with his repairs, advertises to give
music lessons at five shiIlings per quar-.
ter contemporary thinks the COM
bination happy one as the shoemaker
could beat time while hammering
new sole on well worn shoe
II don't think papa cares much for
you, Fred" she whispered softly
That's all right" he replied, fore
warned is forearmed. you know"
Wouldn't it be NICE" she continued in
a much lower whisper, if you were
really four armed?' -Epoch.
The Centralblatt der Bauwaltung
states that pipes of cement, in which
wire netting is imbedded, are now being
manufactured in Berlin. The wire
netting is said to greatly increase the
strength of the pipes against bursting,
so toof hov a. e.
conduits
IF l should speak to you about a
subject that is very near to my heart,
what would you say?" he asked con-
tdently, folding her in his arms. ST
would say that under the circumstances
your choice of subject is about linn
tied to me, she said, laying her head
on his shoulder. Boston Post.
Mrs John 7. Adair the American
wife of an Irish gentleman. has an
Irish castle. an English estate. and a
big Texas cattle ranch, but discards
them all for the charms of London life
She was a Miss Wadsworth, twenty
years or so ago, a member of we'll
known Tennessee family of that name.
"A number of convicts, while exca.
waiting in the construction of a fort at
Luton, near Chatham, found a number
of human bones. The bones date from
pre- Roman times - probably from
period two thousand years ago-and are
those of very tall men, one of whom
must have been fully seven feet in
height
Gen George W. Jones, aged 60 has
just been admitted to practice in the
supreme court of Iowa. Gen. Jones
was 1owa's first United States senator.
Previously he was delegate to con-
gress from Michigan and Wisconsin and
a soldier in the Black Hawk war. He
acted as one of the seconds in the
Graves-Cilley duel.
The largest tree on a forest lot in
Rochester owned by a syndicate of
which Gov. futile is a member, was
felled recently in the presence of his
excellency. The age of the tree was
believed to be over 200 years, and six
choppers worked lively for two hours
to bring it down. 1t was five feet
through at the, butt, and would have a
of foot 100 feet from the
base
The Pleaides is one of the few
consultations mentioned in the Old