The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-05-25

and ) Fighter of wrongs.
A thorn in the bush is better than
two in your hands.
Trouble is a thing that man may
borrow without giving security.
Don't turn up your nose at light
things. Think Of bread and taxation.
It is remarked that the men who
tell the best Stories generally tell
old ones. /
Hitch up beauty and virtue to.
qether and you have the best team
in the world.
The habit of cutting acquaintan-
ces is not a good one, when the cut
ting is done with knives.
There is nothing more despicable
than the man who despises other
people upon general principles.
Laborers in the Michigan woods
are working for their board. That's
what woods are for we believe.
A stuffed horse killed four lions in
. Paris menagerie the other day.
Its skin had been prepared with ar
senic.
You cannot expect a man to
stand corrected when he has been
Knocked down for making an er-
rone0us statement.
1t is the wife who has the making
of q man's home, says an exchange.
True, now and then she makes his
wig warm, too.
It is not to any mans credit. par
ticularly, to be the sou of an honor.
ed father. The credit lies in prov
ing worthy OF the distinction.
To dance we'll, a man should know
as little as possible of everything
else. He can balance partners bet
ter if his hair is parted in tue mid
die.
"Science,n says DR.. Holmes, sis a
good piece of funiture'f for a man to
have 10 an upper chamber, provided
be has common sense on the ground
fiOor.n
1t may seem paradox, but it il
nevertheless truth, that, hit a
man upon whatever part of the body
y0n will, the blow is sure to go
against his stomach.
"If l use it I'll be just as dirty
after it's gone; if I sell it l can have
peanuts and ride home, too,7 solllo
quized bootblack when he found
cake Of toilet soap.
Your disposition will be suitable
to that which you most frequently
think on; for the soul is, as it were
fringed with the color and complex
ion of it's own thoughts.-[Marcus
Antoninus.
Many owe everything of theil
success to education. Had they no
been well started in this way, thei
mediocre talents aud ordinary talen
would never have lifted or KEEP
them up. Hence the wisdom 0
every mans getting for his childre
the best attaii.able education.
There is no greater work on cart
than that of developing everythin
in man, of bringing it into harmon,
of holding it back from wrong doing
and pushing it forward to positiv
excellence. He builds a great wor
who builds pyramid; but he build
a greater work who builds cha
acter.
Never yet did there exist fn
faith in the divine word, By whor
fight as well as immortality wa
brought into the world, which di
not expand the intellect, while
purified the heart; which did nc
multiply the aims and objects OF til
understanding, while it fixed an
simplified those of the desires an
passions.-[Coleridge.
The man who has once learne
what very small part he plays j
the world, and how few peopl
watch him as he plays it, is likely
be . more genuine, earnest fello
thereafter. The conviction of OF
own insigai6eancs is a profitabl
seasoning to every meal-a fact
take with rs to Office, street I
church, or to mediate npon on OF
pillow.
II In hooom;no Aons<ar snnn;un