The Bossier banner., 1894-09-20
MISCELL. ANEOUS.

Dlt YOU 1ltSII t1tOoo |
dent out at the race track?' NO
What was it?" He picked the winning
horse"
live caught you making love to
nv wife?" ''Well?" 'I'll give you fair
warning, did that once and I've been
sorry ever since."-Hallo.
AS more than half of the railroad
mileage of the world is in the United
States, Mr.. E. B. Cook, of Hobollen, n.
j.. suggests that our national flower
ought to be a car-nation.
One of Them-''There goes young
Billie Morse. They say his income is
so large he can't get rid of it. The
Other One-''O, so he's a single man,
then?"-Arkansaw Thomas Cat.
baby hammocks," reads sign on
a little hammock hanging outside a
downtown store. The dealer said that |
they sold more for use in the city; that
mothers bought them for sick children.
"A rude tramp, finding Mrs. Pickard,
of Paris, Texas, alone in her home, de-
manded dinner and some cash. She
grabbed pair of scissors and punched
several holes in his cuticle, when he
fed in terror.
All, well, let the summer girl laugh
and giggle and have good time In
few years from now she will be married
and will wear her winter dress in sum-
mer, putting on white starched tie to
make it look cooler.
The Philadelphia Press, one of the
| foremost snake organs of the country,
| tells about a semaphora cocinea that
swallowed two smaller snakes and had
| indigestion. A large emetic was ad-
ministered and presently the swallowed
snakes were recovered, still alive, but
very much frightened.
| Most of the figures used for cigar
store signs, which formerly were made
of wood, are now made of zinc, and 95
per cent. of these are of Indians. Some
of these figures are excellent; in some
cases the original model cost 81, 200 or
$500. They are made in various sizes,
from small figure that can be bought
for S25 or $50 up. A good seven-foot
Indian can be bought for S100.-N. Y.
Sun.
"A curious opening, according to
the London Globe has been found for
the artistic gifts of women. In the
great hospitals, water-color sketches
are taken of rare forms of disease. and
in this somewhat grcwsome class OF
work women. it seems have succeeded.
At Guys hospital woman has just
been appointed for such service for six
months, the post having previously
been filled by her husband, who is tenn
porarily incapacitated.
THE Washington club, a woman's
club in the city of the same name, is to
have clubhouse of its own, which is
to cost So. 900. 1t will be arranged so
that the rooms on the first floor can be
rented for concerts, theatricals, lectures
and banquets. On an upper floor there
will be rooms to be rented to club mem
bers who may desire them. The floor
between will be divided into library,
! reading, tea and card rooms. The Wash
ington club has membership OF over
, $50.
: Shoppers have become used to buy
ing ice cream freezers and Sealsllin
cloal1s, carpets and diamond rings
under one roof, but live lambs are a
commodity that heretofore has not
been offered at bargain sales-as they
. were at Baltimore department shop
. the other day. Those who bought the
lambs had to take them away them
selves, and this the eager woman man
aged to do by grasping the little crea
lures in both arms.
AS soon as the new city directory
was out, copy of it was put into The
: hands of a clerk of a large mercantile
establishment, with instructions tt
read it from beginning to end for {
= business purpose. The reader, wht
expects to get through the letter A by
r the end of this week has become inter
f ested in the book, and especially in tn,
r immense number of occupations fol
y lowed by residents of the city. He ha
already found his task hard, however
S and says that he will not be able t.
= work at it for more than four hours
J. day.-N. Y. Sun.
d Benjamin FL. Wells, a resident o
It West Lubec, Me-, in eating an orang
l. several weeks ago, got one of the seed
Il lodged in his throat and was unable t
IS remove it. Lately his thaoat began
Y swell, so that it became difficult fo
v him to breathe. lie obtained medica
l. advice and was informed that the see
y had sprouted, and must be removed a
l. once. He went to Boston for a surgica
Is operation for its removal, but the re
If port was that Mr.. Wells can get no re
t. lief, as the seed, instead of being lodge
a. in the throat, is in the lungs, and car
S. not be reached. The Boston physician
I'd can do nothing for his relief.
l. The belief that unsound teeth b.
Sc long only to a highly civilized state {
lie life seems to be prevalent one. Br
re j. Howard Mummery informs us
w Nature that very different conclusio
a was reached by his father, more tina
is twenty years ago, after an inquiry c,
ly tending over more than decade. Owe
ar 1900 skulls were examined, includin
to all the available collections in Gres
of Britain. Among SO skulls of ancier
Egyptians there were Is with cariol
is teeth among rs Anglo-Saxon skull
of 10: among l +6 skulls of Romano Briton