The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-05-31
0mnium Getherum.

Ine OnlV way 10 LOOK at WOman'S
faults is to shut your eyes. q
There's good wide ditch between
saying and doing.
The tongue three inches long can
kill man six feet high.
If you do not enter the tigers den
you cannot expect to get her cub.
Blame not before you examine the
truth.
The carpet -baggers' last steal
they have stolen away.
The devil never yet tempted a
man whom lie found judiciously EN-.
ployed.
1t is now claimed that whisky
drank from blue glass bottles
strengthens the breath.
Take things as they are, and
make the best of them. That is the
only true and practical philosophy.
Judge Trumbull, of Illinois, likes
Hayes first rate, but he thinks the
President ''stole our thunder
A Wall street man wants to know
the difference between the day rate
OF gold and the nitrate of silver.
Those who come to you to talk
about others, are the ones who go
10 others to talk about you.
The Fortnightly Review has an
able article on "Water as a Bever-
age" The idea appears to be feast
BILE.
A correspondent out in the sub
urb wants to know "the best way
to make a hot bed" If you are a
married man, crawl into bed rather
late, with your boots on.
Horrible AS it may sound, We are
glad that a war is about to occur in
Europe. The Russian and Turkish
names will kill off the individuals
who read aloud in the grocery stores.
Rhiaebeck Gazette.
One unlocked for difficulty in the
way of the revival of the old whig
party is the discovery that Mrs.
Hayes couldn't stand on hard cider
platform.
Don't think your girl has broken
her ankle when she squats down
and grabs the lower end of her dress.
She is only reaching for her hand
kerchief in that new tangled pocket.
Whenever you read of s'region
of terror" in any Southern State you
can calculate that some carpet-bag-
gers has lost his grip on a fat office.
Detroit Free Press.
Russia has more horses than all
of the remainder of Europe put to-
gether. She has 16, 16O, 900, or 227,.
O5 for every 1000 of population. It
would seem that she should never
be at loss for cavalry.
The census returns of Sweden and
Norway for the close of 1875 have
just been published. The former
has population of 1883. 291, and
the latter of 1,817,237, making the
total population 6,200,528.
One cannot be too careful this
weather. A swell exchanged his
heavy winter cane for light BAN
boo, and the consequence was a
severe cold that laid him up for a
week.
If all the army officers and pri
Yates were to be arraigned for Major
Reno's offence, and punished as he
is, perhaps it would be the speediest
way of abolishing the army.-Hart-
ford Times.
Civilly disposed democrat
''Well, Wr. Jones, how is your Pres
ident getting on at Washington"
Cheerful republican-"As we'll as
you could expect a President that
was not elected Albany Argus.
When the head of a family comes
home at shockingly late hour,
deposits his weary self on the top
of the piano, and, while gently tink-
ling the keys with his major toe,
murmurs something about the an
noyance of squeaking bed, it is en-
tirely safe to draw conslusions.
1t is interesting to sit in flour
store now as the proprietor receives
a dispatch, and yells, eThey're
THROWN shells across Grassacoral.
itchzeffinvarina, an some one is