The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-04-12
PITH AND POINT.
EARLY to bed and early to rise
Makes man healthy. wealthy, and wise,

b 4 MAKES man nedltny, WealIny, anu WlsSs
But early to Ryes and tardy to bed
Makes mans nose turn a cardinal red.
In point of railroad mileage Germany
heads European countries. In proper
tion to area, Belgium. nos uar
A MAN in Jersey raises monster mush-
rooms of excellent flavor, and 80 large
that one (costing so cents) will cover
an ordinary breakfast plate.
r If YOU want to be in style, you will
wear an amethyst ring on the third fin
ger of the left hand. Also, cough sad
ly now and then, as if you were the last
Of an illustrious family.-Free Press.
ssNo girl gets along we'll without a
mother" says moral exchange. This
may be true but hereabouts girls work
harder to get mothers-in-law than they
do to get mothers. eE.-aa. ~.'-
A, Boston girl, when asked to look
through a telescope and see "Venus in
all her glory, = replied frigidly, i have
no desire to look at any member OF my
sex who dresses as she is represented
to-" .... -..s .-.-.
A MAN in Troy, N. Y, recently had
a needle taken from his body, where it
had been for seventeen years. Did
you ever feel any inconvenience from
it?'' asked a neighbor; !" Only stitch
in my side, now and then,n was the
answer. 't -+'-'- AS"
: REV. ROBERT CoLLYER, of. Chicago,
threw startling spell over a New York
audience the other night, during por-
ton of his lecture on early marriages.
The New York Tribune describes the
scene this way He (Mr.s Collyerl said
that young man told. him, about a
year ago, that, having heard one even
ing, in company with q young lady
| friend, this lecture, he had proposed
and been accepted before he had walk
ed three blocks from the hall. At this
there was futter and rustling through
the hall, either of anxious expectancy
or of shuddering dread, A nervous,
now-or-never expression was observed
to creep over the faces of many young
men, and several couples near the door
rose and left the hall. % ;N192 Il '"
81 DO not wish to live always, but [
do want to write for your paper. 1t is
my lowly aim in life to be great writer.
/ want to be great. | want your ad-
vice on few lines | send. have a
great intensity (stc) for travel. / will
go anywhere and send back long let
ters." A peculiar appeal is this from
the 1ribune's mailbag; and these are
the lines she sends: "Why doth the
owl hoot and sleep by day, And Sleep
less hoot all night? Simply because
the nights dim ray Is better for his
sight. And so with truth she shineth
out, At night as well as day And ever
knows what she's about, While others
pass away..''h Advice: Don't be great.
Whenever the, intensity for travel'
comes on, take a trip to the Kitchen
Neaor York Tfi6une.iT slim fl-5
| 'sNOT IF CAN HELP IT."
| We went home the way that was longest, j. y
And the way was not very far,
| iti But the way seemed not at all far, yTtt (.
At the gate we took quite long rest
| Then said-lOoking up at star
| Said to Matte-but not to the star
."Could kiss You without doing wrong-lest
Wrong doing your feelings would mar e.
Your very fine feelings would MARI"
She said 'tNot nnless you're the strongest;
| And 1 know quite we'll that you are"
| She added: ''Im sure that you are" Jy@s
| Boston Globe.