The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1859-07-22
NUMBER 4
uuMoRous cl.EANINes.

IL Ihe flrst step toward love IS, to
play with cousin.
~ Life is a farce 10 tie rich, a
comedy TO the wise; a tragedy to ths
poor.
IL Nature has sometimes made q
fool, but coxcomb is alwaysof mans
making.
~ Much remains unsung, re-.
marked tom cat, as a brickbst cut
short his serenade.
~ It is exceedingly bad il hus-
bandry to harrow up the feelings Of
your wife.
or The.reason why, some people
put on airs, is because they have moth
i ing else to put on.
~ The most ecomical time to buy
cider is, when it is not very clear, for
then it wills for itself.
RE The man who couldn't trust
his feelings is supposed to DO business
on the cash principle.
B@- Men in a passion should be
treated like kettles--when they boil
over they should be taken off.
Sa The latest novelty is a dog who
has whistle growing on the end of
his tail. He always calls himselfwhen
wanted.
s@- A strange genius, in describing
a lake in Minnesota, says it is 50 clear,
that by looking into il you can see
them making tea in China.
/ RE A Yankee, according TO- the
poet SAKE, is driving man. BE
secs aquducts in bubbling springs,
buildings in stones, and cash in every
thing"
Gy Somebody has Invented and
{ patented a machine for setting up ten
pens. Couldn't some of our wiseacres
possibly contrive a machine 70 set up
folks in business?
seAs An outside passenger on a
) coach had his hat blown over bridge,
: into the stream. Frue to nature"
said gentleman who was seated beside
: him, "a beaver naturally takes to the
water
Ra A letter was received lately at
the Chicago post-offioe, directed "To
e an honest Man." The chief clerk sent
E it to the dead letter department, with
: the candid confession that the man ad-
!. dressed did not live in Chicago
~ 9 Charley, my DEAR said a
loving mother the other day, TO her
hopeful son, justbHdded into breeches.
: I"Charlie, my dear, come here and get
r some candy" guess ! won't mind
it now, mother replied Charlie, "Tve
got in some tobacco
re- A cute Yankee, in Kansas,
7 sells liquor in a gun-barrel instead Of a
y glass, that he may avoid the law. and
r make it appear beyond dispute that be
is selling liquor by the barrel. OF
: course the cute Yankees customers
: are liable to 60 of half-cocked.
: AZ A fellow was told At d tailor's
: lshop that three yards Of cloth, BY be-
,fI ling wet, would shrink one one quarter
Of a yard. Well, then" lie ID quifcd,
aif you wet quarter cfa yard, would
, there be any LETT"
y n Jack, did you carry lhal un
y brella home that / borrowed yesterdayp
i i" No father, you have often told me to
lay up something for arainy day, and
as thought it would rain before long,
? laid the umbrella up"
Fl Or An editor says his attention was
d first drawn to matrinony by the skill
le full manner in. which pretty girl han.
died broom. A brother editor says
the manner in which his wife handlsd
broom is not very pleasing.
" AZ lady, some time back on q
p visit to the British Museum, asked the
Is Is person in attendance whether they
T. had skull Of Oliver Cromwell? Be-
1. ing answered in the negative, Dear
ID me-" said she. that's something very
al strange; they have one at Oxford"
OIL g It is said that lady on putting
Ill on her corsets is like man who drinks
e to drown his grief, because in so-loe6sg
i herself she Is getting tight. 1t shall
h be said that lady on drawing on her
be stocking, it is Ikea man is court.
ut ling widow with five children, because
p> in 50 (adl dressing, she is putting her
III foot in it.
ler GT A lawyer, who was sometimes
pa On forgetful, having been engaged to plead
- m the cause Of an offender, began by say
he ing, " / know the prisoner at tbs ban
ofI and be bears the character Of being
IN a consumate scoundreii' Here some
body whispered to him that the ptiso
ich ner was his client, when he immediatslI