The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-11-28
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ANEW proverb: Trust not a horse g
heels nor dogs tooth, neither a man
who says he'll pay you Saturday.
/ WE are often harsh when we feel our
selves strong, and show indulgence only
when conscious that we are in need Of
it ourselves.
THE letter 80" is called the most
charitable of all the alphabet, because
it IS found oftener than any other in
"doing good. .'a .-a-@-e..a=.
+ AN observing politician says that the
difference between those going in and
those going out of office is mainly this: :
The former are sworn in, and the latter
go out swearing. =
AFFAIR one wrote to her lover beg
ging him to send her some money. She
added by way of postscript: g I am so
ashamed of the request ]. made in this
letter that l sent after the post-man to
get it back, but the servant could not
overtake him." ,fI9@98@5 ts 9aT09ff
h ABOUT three million pins are made
every day in this country, but, let 3
young fellow jab one into his arm while
measuring a girls waist some moonlight,
night in the interests of science, and he
never thinks of the other two million
and odd.
THE worst thing about this seasons
fashions is that it requires very beaui-
full woman to set of. the dress and make
it becoming. The person who would
invent style of dress to make homely
women handsome would realize for
tune.
THE boy who. when bis father was
after him with cowhide, hid himself
behind a haystack, where he disturbed
q nest OF hornets, in rejecting over the
matter while his eyes are recovering,
thinks it was case of mistaken identi-
ty.-Yonkers Gazette. 4 II. -a..s.. !.
The difference between taking broad
view or narrow view of any subjeetis,
that the man who has one tender corn
recently trodden upon, on his little toe,
secures no comfort from the reflection
that the'corn crop this year is one of the
largest the country has ever seen. 44E
Our in Iowa the young ladies aid the
yellow fever sufferers by selling kisses
at 10 cents apiece. We opine that there
has been enough wasted around here to
have brought in a revehue of 1856, ,381 23,
or in that immediate neighborhood.
The worst of it is the waste continues.
L. Cincinnati Breakfast Table! ti3 ai.l
+ "GOoD-BYE, sweetheart, =, were his,
last words to the beautiful girl who
hung over the front gate and pouted
her sweet red lips to be kissed; and
then, as he walked down the street, he
solilOauized: ssIf had all the money
/ have squandered on oysters and Ice
cream and buggy rides for that, girl I
could buy me an, oyercoat now and
/" whew!" he said, as the wind whist1ed
around the corner, q" pms a going itoD
need il pretty soon, q fineinnqqti
j The dinner,horn il the oldest and
most sakred horn thare IT,, 4 liz set to
musk and plays Home, Sweet Home'
about noon. 1T has bin listened tew
with more rapturous delite than ever
any band haz. Yu kan hear it further
thanlyu kan one OF Rodmsn's guns. 1t i
will arrest a man and bring him in,
quicker than a Sheriff7s warrant. II
kan out, foot emmy other noise. It kauzes
the deaf tew hear and the dumbto shout
fer joy Glorious old instrument! long i
may yure lungs last!-Josb Billings. ),
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