The Bossier banner., 1893-05-11
MISCELLANEOUS.

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daughter had eloped last night" rs
that why he is looking SO badly cut up?"
No; it's because he has discovered that
it isn't true.''-Inter Ocean.
'-"Why," asked the society wife, edo
you persist in using that absurd nick
name, 'duckie"" Because" replied
her husband, you are so continually
in the swim. "-Washington Star.
-Mandy-"Well, Silas, l reckon you
found Laura's house awful fine" Silas
well, them that likes it can call il
fine. She had piany in every room
and not bedstid in the house. Inter
Ocean.
-Woman-'What shocking coat.
Tramp-"My dear madam, while | ar
l can not bring myself to make an
elaborate toilet until after dinner
Detroit Tribune.
-Wife-'Nhy, John, could hear you
singing to the baby clear out in the
street Why did you sing SO loud?"
John-''Well, l had to keep him from
finding out that he was crying. Inter
Ocean.
Force Majeure. e.-Florence-"Wh by,
Mabel, 1 thought you said you would
never accept Arthur" Mabel-"So
did, dear. But he just put his arm
around my waist when he proposed,
and-well, 1 yielded to pressure."-
Judy.
"A Common Expression.-A trades
man who was very fondof his glass, pre-
sented check at Boston banking
house, and on being asked, as usual,
How will you have it?" replied:
Hot, without sugar r"-Yankee Blade
There is some chance of boy
amounting to something if he is stupid
when 6 years of age. 1t is the boys
who are prodigies at learning when
they are young who stay out in the rain
when they are grown.
DO you know Mr. Drydust?" said
Maud "Yes," replied Mamie. "He's
very learned" isn't hep" What makes
you think so?'' 'He can't talk so long
on such uninteresting things WASH
ington Star.
Bridget was a "hired girl" who was
too amiable to believe in scolding. A
story of her should be remembered as
an item on the credit side when the de.
linquencies of ''help'' are being conncd
over. "Why, Bridget" exclaimed the
housewife, II can write my name il
the dust here!" "Deed, ma'am," re-
piled Bridget, with generous admira
tion, ''thot's more nor | can do. Sure
now. there's nothing loike education
after all, is there, ma'am?"
When the South Carolina conven
ton adopted the ordinance of secession
on December 90, 1860, the city Of
Charleston seemed delirious with joy
The bells of the churches rang out
merry peals, and these were accom-
panied by the roar of cannons A
group of enthusiastic young men went
to st. Philips churchyard, and forming
circle around the tomb of Calhoun
made solemn vow TO devote "theil
lives, their fortunes, and their sacred
honor to the cause of South Carolina.
independence.
"A story of how Alma Tadema
learned to paint marble is being circu
lated, which goes far to prove that prac
tice makes perfect. His first master
was Dutchman, who set him at work
On subject wherein marble was con
spicuous, but he painted this so pain
fully that his teacher was quite ill
The master then set the young painter
ut work on block of marble, which he
was made to copy day after day and
week after week until he loathed the
sight of it, and forever after Mr.. Ia
dema was able to paint marble as it is
painted by nature.
The dates of the first issuing Of
newspapers in the original thirteen
states are as follows: In Massachusetts,
1904; Pennsylvania, 1719: New York
1925; Maryland, 1928; South Carolina
1872; (the first newspaper issued south
of the Potomac); Rhode Island, 1892
Virginia, 1876; Connecticut, 1755; North
Carolina, 1755; New Hampshire, 1855
Delaware, 1861. The number of news
papers in the colonies at the breaking
out of the war for independence in
1775, was only 81, whose total weekly
circulation did not exceed 1000 copies.
Silk sheets are an elegant caprice
of women who find it difficult to spend
their income. They are usually oil
plain white, and helnstitched with the
monogram cipher along the hem. But
sheets of pale pink and blue are also
made with delicate line of embroid-
cry along the edge. The fancy is one
which will probably be INDUCED only
by the favored few, and its reign, like
that of silk lingerie, will be brief.
Still, on July nights it might seem like
sleeping on cool cloud pillows to dream
between the cool silken web If any
thing could make n July night worth
living, such luxury is calculated to ac-
complish it.
Some people grow dizzy on looking
down from the approaches of the Brook
lyn bridge, but seldom or never from
the central span, although it is higher.
The reason is that the houses on the
land sides furnish standards of meas.
urement from which it is easy to esti-
mate the distance above ground but on
looking directly into the water, unless
a ship is passing beneath, it is impos-
sible to say, from the mere appearance
of the waves and ice or flriTtip,r ,na++o,