The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-11-14
PITH AND POINT.

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STERN necessity-the rudder.
A SMALL boy and q gun are harmless
when apart, but they make a terrific
combination.
SWEAT? Oh! no, we don't sweat.
Mechanics sweat-professiona men
perspire.-ElmirG Gazette.
THERE is many slip between the
hand and the pocket ok.-Elmtra Ad-
uerttser.
SOME beetles have as many as 900
eyes. The "boss y never gets chance
to catch them loafing.- Turner'S Falls
Reporter. S8gss
THE man who goes fishing always en-
joys more solid comfort while digging
the bait than he does in bringing home
the fish.-DGnielsonUille Sentinel.
The right kind of a man will always
have his life insured. It gives his wife's
second husband start. CoMrser-JoHr-
nal.
A WOMAN can't put on any side-sad-
die style when she goes in swimming.
She has either got to kick out like
man or get drowned. .-W Wheeling Leader.
A LADY who can't get on a street-car
with less room than two men will occu-
py, viii instantly shrink to the size of
four-year old boy at sight of a rat in the
kitchen.-Free Press.
SOMEBODY has discovered that wher-
ever the grain is cut and hauled in, the
tramp makes his appearance on the
stubble and demands work or bread
Brookville Democrat.
THERE is more unadulteratsd joy over
the capture of one solitary mosquito on
the inside of the netting than in circum-
venting the million and ninety-nine on
the outside.-st Louis Journal,
WITHIN the past few days number
of picnic parties have been struck by
lightning. Young ladies going on pic
mics should take along gentlemen who
are good conductors. ~ PhtlGdelp ai0
Chronicle. igIoa
THE tramps followed the wheat har-
vest from st. Louis to Minnesota, in
search of work. The harvest got about
four days the start of them at the send
off and maintained its lead to the end
Hawkeye.
RETURNS from al but two counties in
this State go to show that after the
tramps have got through with the apple
crop this year there will be almost
enough left over to make one barrel of
cider.-Detron Free Press.
An up-country newspaper chronicles
big church collection, and wants to
know who can beatit. There are men
in Keokuk who can beat any church col
lection. They attend only the evening
services. Send the broom down this
way.-Keoks1k Constellation.
WHEN you see q man come into a sa-
loon, place the third button OF his vest
against the bar, and then turn to the
adniring throng with swell, boys,
what are you going to takep Come up,
all of you'll" you can bet that he either
runs brewery wagon or is after an
Office.
A DISAPPOINTED lover who went South
three months ago with blighted heart
and strong appetite for death and OBJ
livion, came chasing back the other day
with a face like new whitewash, cam
phor bags in every pocket, and an over
whelming anxiety to behold the scenery
beyond the lakes. Yellow fever and
nonsense won't bunk together.-Brs,.k-
fastTa
SATURDAY afternoon a boy not over
years old was observed to sit down on
the curbstone on Washington Street and
lean heavily against hitching-post.
He looked pale, even through the dirt
on his face, and several pedestrians
halted to make inquiries. One Of them
observed an old stump OF q cigar in the
boys fingers, and he queried "Bub, is
this your first cigarp'' I" Moo; it's my
second,' gasped the boy; and after q
long pause, attended by increased pale
ness, "b-but l don't see any change in
the symptoms! !''-Boston Com. Bulletin.
So many exaggerated stories about the
heat have been put in circulation the past
few weeks that some of our readers may
be dilatory in crediting statement
made by correspondent writing from
st. Louis. He says that during the re-
cent hot wave in that city three human
skeletons in q medical college perspired
profusely and called for soda cocktails,
while an Egyptian mummy, 1900 years
old, in the professors room, begged to
have its wrappings removed and cab
bage leaf placed on its head = Our cor
respondent fails to give his name.--Nor-
ristown Herald.
.ss A MODERN RoMEO.A
He was swinging on the gate
She had cautioned him to wait
And he waited.
ss Hour fitted, came she not; .f-E
Fled his patience, and he got
sH1 ftss Aggravated. .ts 3H4
will give her surprise"
This he muttered-and he flies
aFt3 To her wfnder. s43ss
IL And he warbled, II am here; tSff
Come and comfort me, my dear
#86 My Belinder.r za ffK
Then he scooted, taking not
All the compOnentS Of what