The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-02-08
FACTS AND FANCIES.


FACTS AND FANCIES.
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The discovery Of what is tvue, and
the practice of what is good, are the tive
most important objects Of life.
When freedom from her mountain
height unfnrled her standard in the air,
her skirts pinned back so very tight,
made her appear exceeding spare.
-"Pa," said little Jimmie, II came
very near getting to the head of my class
to-day" "How is that, my SOM"
/" Why, a big word came all the way
down to me, and if / only could have
spelled it / should have gone clear up"
Some people won't let well enough
alone. Take, for instance, the Jersey
City man who, having been sentenced to
a fine Of SIS and costs, applied for re-
consideration of the case5 and got three
months in the penitentiary.
The coarse long hair from the neck
of an old chamois, if drawn between the
finger and thumb from the root to the
point, becomes positively electrified, but
if drawn in the reverse direction it be-
comes negatively electrified.
-"Never re-engage man whom you
have once discharged" was Rothschild's s
faSorite maxim, che will probably vince
at your resolve and endeavor to annoy
you, but the wisdom of your decision
can never be doubted"
A New York man has cured him
self of the filthy habit of tobacco-chew-
ing, by tasting an apple every time he
felt inclined to partake of the degrading
weed. He had been perfuming and
frescoing stoves for seventeen years, but
the fruit worked an efectual cure.
THE BEST THINGS
A mans best things are nearest him,
Lie close about his feet;
1t is the distant and the dim A+
That we sick to greet
For flowers that grow onr hand beneath
Our hearts must die except they breathe
The air of fresh desire. ~ t5
An experimenting Englishman has
found it to be true that rats and mice
use their tails for spoons when the aper-
ture of the vessel containing the food
they seek is too small for their heads.
In this way they disposed of considerable
Jelly which he had placed in their way
for the benefit Of science.
The other evening when resident of
Beech street was eating supper his eight
year old son slid around and whispered
Father, you may have my sled"
"Why, my son, what do you want to
give me your sled for?"
Ma says you are trying to be good,"'
replied the boy, "and want to do all I
can to help YOU"
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" What kind of a place do you think
heaven to be ?" IA place. said he,
"where naught but good is spoken of the
neighbor." And in what" it was
again urged, docs its supreme happiness
consist?S g In tile feeling that no one
will SANDER me there, and that if have
any faults it will be 50 questionable to
speak of them that I and all will soon
forget them"
A correspondent sends us a very
touching description Of a scene of domes-
tic felicity he witnessed at the home of a
young married couple in Connecticut:
1 came upon them unexpectedly" he
writes "She was sitting in the front
parlor eating peanuts, and he was crawl
ing around on his knees picking up the
shells. ."-Brooklin Argrss.
"A Detroit boy paid his first visit to
one of the union schools the other day as
| a scholar, and when he came home atnight
his mother inquired: "Well, Henry,
how do you like going to sehool7"
Bully - he replied in an excited voice.
"I saw four boys licked, one girl got her
ear pulled, and big scholar burned his
elbow on the stove! / don't want to
miss day"
| SANTA's CoMIN'!-
Santa's comm! Guess he is!
Gran'ma, she's knittin' .@ ,
Biggest steckin' ever was;
| Never needs no fttln'.
| She p'tends it's granpa's seek,
| Polly says that's postr0u
i Says It everv bit as If
| Gran'pa was 'noc'ros!
/ Guess know whose sock 1t isl ~
/ Guess it's mine for Santa.
/ Won't Il hold lets? Hope be knows, p
/ So he'll bring plenty!
| Hops he'll cram it from the toe En-
/ To the big red toppin'.
/ Giolly lGracions! Just to think
i Sets a boy a-hoppin.'
Santa,s comm |! Guess he IL
Mamma smiles at sewin';
/ Everybody all the time 4
i Looks so awful KNOWN;
! 'Spoee they smell the kitchen things,
Cakes, and pies, and cheeses.
Myl ! feel 50 good !; / could M
Hurrah myself to pieces!