The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-07-17
PITH AND POINT.

lHE Uf1nKiDS HAL SiaoS t'o oe'""'
| A sCHooL-BoY says he had just begun
dismal fractions. s--s
A LADY, describing an ill-natured
man, says he never smiles but he feels
ashamed of it. -
THERE is great trouble with Mount
| Etna this season. The Italians can not
keep the crater quiet.
"UNCLE BII.Ln writes to the Bricks
burg On. J.) Times and Journal that his
sweetest grapes are gathered from vints
which have plenty of COW manure to
feed on.
WE are requested by the publishers
Of Mr.. Benson's ' Fifteen Years in Hell''
to tread and give the book good no.
tice." Not this weather, If the court
knows itself, and it thinks it does.-
Bangor Commercial.
THERE was a case, not very long
time since, where it became necessary
to draw cork, and the only one present
of large party having pocket cork
screw was clergyman. He remarked
that he used it to open ink bottles!-
Boston Transcript
SOME persons have faculty for get
ting on in the world. The little shaver
who stood at the foot of his class when
we were schoolboys together now proud
ly guards the left field in some crack
base ball club, and is playing for field
ing average of .976-NeU HaUers Reg
,ster. ...',
A LEVEL headed poet sings: "The
time, the time, is short" Old pard,
shake You are the best kind of right.
We gave it only last week for three
months, and the bank says it falls
due to morrow. The time is short, but
it isn't shorter than we are-RocklGnd
. Courier.
WHEN you see a man wildly boring
his fingers down in the front Of his
, shirt-bosom or trying to reach down the
, back of his neck, on warm Sunday
evening in church, you may know that
crazy-bug has got down past his col
lar, and is tracing railroad map of
J Iowa on his bare skin.-Mc Gregor NeUs.
A CIRCULAR advocating summer
: resort calls attention to numerous cozy
} seats in forked trees and elsewhere -
/ some of them just large enough for two
. PERSONS" We defy the production of
8 an attraction that can 60 ahead of that.
=, We shall pass the major part of the sum-
e mer there.-Nea0 Hauen Register.
}, "ANp how does Charley like going
g to schools kindly inquired the good
g man of the 6-year- old boy, who was
J. waiting with tin-can in hand the ad-
j. vent Of another dog. "I like goin' well
}. 'nough," replied the embryo statesman,
d ingeniously, "but l don't like stayin'
e after get there. .''-Rockla'ad Courier.
u A NEW YORK publishing house, who
u lately published book of "Spiritual
q Songs" has since received the follow
d ing bona fide order from a country Sun
day-school chorister: Sirs-H you
t. have any thing new in the line OF sacred
IN songs, comic or sentimental, will you
es please send me some sample sheets?"
os WHEN the thermometer marks 20 de-
er grees in the shade in Greenland, the
! Greenlanders 60 around mopping the
ne perspiration off their brows and asking
IL one another, els it hot enough for
m you?" And they wish thunderstorm
l would come up and cool off the atmos
O. phere. -Norristo,cn Herald.
81 ). WHEN a caterpillar first gees into
-. ~. business he is called caterpillar, just q
% % plain, unvarnisned caterpillar; then he
80 turns into larva, then he is called 8
% pupa, and sometimes chrysalis, and BY
" :. the time he is butterfly he feels like s
~ =. runaway bank president, he has totet
IN around such cart-load of Names
A' Hawkeye.
"MY DEAR" said she to her husband
81 wish you would buy me a nev
-. - bureau" Certainly" replied Jones
~ "what kind would you likeP" "Well,
.;s replied the economical wife, 81 hav
-, IN read a great deal about the America
au ;na Literary Bureau. l should prefer on
lso so of those if they don't cost too much. -
1as Elmtra Gazette.
no A CORRESPONDENT wants to know
.rp wearing hat tends to make persol
yed bald. We believe it does. Wome
the don't wear hats and they are not bald
to at least they don't wear them on thei
to headsy and so they are not bald there
is Hats destroy hair. A woman's hat
left worn on the back of her head, and tina
un- is the reason women have to wear g
wo much back hair.-Dan5ury Neacs.
the oman alive" exclaimed the Judge
the in heated discussion of tangled thee
Y. logical point with his friend, 81 te
you, you are free agent. You do nc
have to obey any one - "Yes," sal
Mr.. Goodman, meekly, "but I d.
though" "Whop" shouted the Judg
can "whop" "My wife, her two sistel
ers' and the baby" howled the good mai
mel meekly triumphant. Red lights an
slow curtain Burlington Ha,okeye.
80 WHEN the head of a Main Street fan
,iov lily passed the weekly appropriation bi
Co. yas Saturday night he tackled on rid
;ev- providing that on and after that da
inc there should be no more cold Dime
and on wash-day, but when it came bat
The with veto showing how utterly u
COO. constitutional it was as well as revol
II in tionary in character, he had to tai
NAV water and adjourn down town witho
II" to debate. te.-Bridgepor Standard.
her. He remarked at the evening mes
Sec "I saw Miss Jelly this morning; car
ate pat upon her. Oh! butter dress "
and pretty, trimmed with knife plates a
rno1loyu aud Gtfad - %aa uor snuu