The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-12-12
PITH AND POINT.

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Rome Sentinel.
GONG the rounds of the press-the
girl who waltzes.-Utica Observer.
The "Sweet bye and bye" is now
spoken of as the saccharine future. "
You've man asked by friend to play
billiards.; Thanks, no; I'm never
lucky at games of skill. Figaro.
ALWAYS pull your Thanksgiving tur-
keys in the dark of the moon, especially
if they are located on some other mans
roost.
PROFESSOR EDISON is inventing
machine to turn over the festive slap
| jack while the hired girl sits in the cor
ner reading the latest novel. Move on,
great army of progress!
LADY" How much is this vard?"
Clerk" Three dollars and half. 1t
is an elegant material-double it can
be worn both sides. If you tear one
side you've only to turn it on the 9TH
er."-PucE.
A GEORGIA man changed his resi-
dence eight times in eleven months, and
the last time his wife said she didn't
even care to go to heaven, for about the
time she got fixed up and learned where
the water was, and every thing, her hus-
band would want to Breakfast
Table F
The Madisonville (Ky.) Times says
w. H. Goodloe, while engaged in ths
wonderful feat of throwing up silver
quarter and catching it in his mouth,
hi frf,
physicians and an hours coughing to
get it out. He has abandoned the idea
of joining circus.
A LITTLE fellow, at whose house hens
had been kept but few weeks, visited
neighbours to find playmate, when
he was informed that his young friend
was suffering from the chlcken-pox.
The lady of the house, in tones Of curl
osity and solicitude, asked the little fell
low if they had the chicken-pox over at
his house. "No," replied the youngster,
gravely, 'swe haven't had our hens long
enough YETI
A MAN met Burlington boy walking
toward town eating an apple. elbow
MANY apples have you?" asked the man.
The boy replied, "One-half as many
apples as l have eaten, added to twice
as many as am going to eat, less five
that bigger boy took away from me,
divided by two-thirds the number 1
dropped in the orchard when / saw the
dog, plus six which ate on the orchard
fence before the man saw me, will equal
one-fifth of all that I tried to get"
How many apples did he haye?--Ha,0k-
eye.
A MASKED burglar entered room
where man and his wife lay asleep.
They both awoke when the robber
pointed a pistol at their heads and
quietly backed out of the room, and got
off with his plunder. The startled
slumberers were terribly frightened,
1.-THE mans hair turning white before
morning." The woman was as much
scared as her husband, but upon exam
lining her hair, which hung over the
back of a chair, it was found not to have
changed particle. Nor istoacn Herald.
"You see," said the respondent man,
who was sitting on a barrel, addressing
the grocer, who was spearing the top of
a biscuit case with knife, "some peo-
pie has good. luck and some people has
bad luck. Now, | remember once was
walking along the street with Tom Jel-
licks, and he went down one side of it
and went down the other. We hadn't
gone more'n half way down when he
found a pocketbook with ESQ in it, and
I stepped on woman's dress, and so
got acquainted with my present wife.
1t was always so," added he with sigh,
"that Tom Jellicks was the luckiest
man in the world, and never had no
luck.''
Wen lean no more upon the gate.
And gaze in eyes of Brown
Not that our paths run separate,
-Meriden Recorder
Wen tell to her sweet words no more,
Less she invite us in;
For the nights are growing chilly
-Gowanda Enterprise.
But in the parlor, round the stove,
Well gather as of yOre,
And tell the old, old story,
The tale we've told before
IN. Y. Express.
But sweetest. sweets of mortal ken
And sweetest words e'er said
Must wait and wait-the clock strikes 10
VIII they ever go to bed?
boston Transcript
THE LOVERS QUERY.
Her hair was yellow; strands of gold
Fell DER her shoulders, fold on fold;
Her eyes were of a heavenly hue;
She wore a number seven shoe.
Her taper fingers, taper waist,
Were fashioned to the average taste;
Her nose was high, her jaws were strong,
Her nails were sharp (perhaps too long,;
And though not young, a cOmely maid
Was she when in her best arrayed.
Though many praised her yellow hair,