The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1859-08-12
NUMBER Z,
HussoRous GLEANINcs.

~ Taking babies 10 church is
rightly termed crying sin.
0T The fellow who struck steak
Iof luck, has been indicted for assault
and battery.
G A wag recently deaued nous.
taches to Be the upper lip IN mourning
for the brains.
u Mrs. Patington says. that Louis
Napoleon is succeeding beyond her
most singuinary approximations.
u An epicure once asserted that
two were required TO make q meal oil
q ehicken-himself and the chicken.
or swipes says that tbs ladies'
hoops are like charity--they cover a
multitude Of SINS What yiganious
comparison.
o. The Young fellow whose girl
told him she didn'twant him any Ion.
gor, wears a brick in bis lat, 10 keep,
from growing taller,
Or The doctors ought surely is DO
able to escape calumny Ii IS held
that no man ltring should speak IN 81
them, and certainly the dead cant.
~ Theodore Hook says Of rail
roads and steamboats, They annihi.
late space aud time, not to mention
multitude Of passengers.
Or It is well known that the philos-
opher ThaIes believed water to Do the
first principle. Query. Was Thalesa
milkman ?
~ Sarah Jane recommends To
lbashful ladies' who are stared outuf
countcnance by horrid men, 70 stop
the practice by Showing the ankle
Or A Western editor thinks Hiram
Powers, the sculptor, is . swinjIer. be-
cause he chialled an unfortunate Greek
girl out Of = block Of marble.
IF A lady asked little two:year
told. Who gives you your daily breads
4 Dol,' replied the child, Z but uncle
Peter puts The sugar on"
4 ~ { Mrs. Smith, did yoh say IN
1.-The hearing Of my little girl, shst | vas
a great rusty catlp :. No, my dsar
Mrs. Muggins \ said You we're great
aristoctat.
/ Or Z Why ia such a bary.p said
q man to an scquantaace. lie replied,
1aI have just bought new bouaet for
my wife. and fear the fashion may
change bseoreI get home
G The age Is becoHlig moro re,
fined Root hog. Or iii" ," il now rem
Idered Penetrate the sabsoil, nv
pofcupine friend, or early expsrt an
obituary Hotiee Oh your untimsly de-
mise
j % AIT i lloseI-tahle one day. ono
lboarler remarked to his aeigbbcr
Ia This must be avery heaIlIl place for
lclickonsa : : Why r. asked Che otiler.
Becasse, I never SEQ any dsnd ones
4 about
II Sc when solne orc was lallentIF
] Foote'S unlueky fte ID being kickedin
| Dublin, johnson said lie was glad Of
lit. g lie II rising IL lba word, 2 added
i he ; 'swhila he vac Ia Elsgland, No
lone thought L Ssorlh white to kick
him.
i ~ Fair Cousin You don't mean
to say you're going 70 smoke, Charles.
and there arc strangers in the carriages
| Charles Well, asI don't see any gen-
ltlemen among en- % kick up row, I
think ! may as well take . whiff.
or Scence, located in the land Of
promise. Mr. Blank Miss Snooks
are you fond Of babieag" Miss snooks----
Yes sir, / am very fond Of them. Nc.
Well, Miss Snooks, am glad
/ to hear It Conversation ceases!
q n An eccentric genius happening
to meet a physician tried to conceal
| himself behind wall, ald the doctor
asked him the reason fof bis strange
behavior. Why be replied, 6 il IS
so long since / have been Ill that / was
ashamed to meet you.'
4 Ur Mr.. Smith, have you got
Imatcls y YES replied Smith, "a match
for tl,e devil, there she is mixing up
dough- Smith pointed 70 bis wife and
| then slid from The fFont door. The
last we saw Of Smith, be was !. kiEeing
lit down il down The road, botly pnr-
sued by redslieaded lady with cis.
tern pole.
i IP Not loiIg since, an Indiana
lawyer, defending criminal 10 court.
cominenced his addresss tc the Jcfy
with The following burst Of eloquence
II the court please GenlIemsn OF
the Jury The majestic eagle
proud emblem Of our Independence
may soar alooft and feast upon the seTa
pefsfft Of The rock . reak---s,rss, fke tvosa