The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-04-17
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PITH AND POINT.

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DANCING. is forbidden during Lent,
but fish balls are allowable.
NEVER strike man for q small loan
when he is down. ~-
"LAUaH when you 'can," says one
joker, "We shall make . note Of it,
and remind our wife al the next can.
ning," says another. fis ''aR'i h'
LIFE is but span Marriage is a
double team. Youth welded to old age
is tandem. A cross old bachelor Is
single and all sulky.
A NEVADA Girls Love Letter A"Dear
Jimmy: It's all ups We amt going to
get married. Ma says you're too rough,
and I guess she's right. I'm so sorry
but can't you 60 to Europe and get
filed ?93Eeii2ss 30i s.iless99.,a OIL
3 "GEoRaIE." said q devoted young,
mother of our acquaintaiace to her very
Juvenile son. yoq can not have another
cookie till you ask for it properly!
" Please, for Christ's sake, Amen, said
little innocence. with immediately fold
ed hands.
THE mule is disappointing animal.
One fell down q shaft in Maryland 85
feet deep. Every one said, ssThat mules
dead, but it, was kdisted up uAinjured.
and walked away, and Just as every ons
said, lss That mnle' Tot hurt" it laid
down and died. .asgs
/ By the co-operative' pan of purchas-
ing introdtcsd byiaiNew' York dealer,
2 Clergyman ea4 obtain &23 worth of
household necessities for $1f, among
the articles being gteh 4difes OF sermon
paper, minister's record, 3 'fpur-ounoe
bottle of castor-oil and the same quanti-
ty of Epson salts. = >. ., s,,,-{,
THERE is nothing more wonderful
thsA the effect OF vanity on the human
mind. We, hear Of ? young lady who
was presented with half q dozen costly
night-gowns, elaborately embroidered
in colored silk, notslsn9-ago, and she
became somnambulist for, the NEXT six
nights runping.-Roston Globe ,.ot,,.
AiPooR fellow Is met on the boulevard
in Q very thin overcoat at0rnamented with
o tremendous hole on each side ~" !" !
say" says d friend, with complacent
tcompassion, You 0uknt to freeze to
death in coat like that's s'NOt' at all,"
replies the other with cheerful shiyer,
4" this coats all right. The cold just
comessin ut one hole and goes out at the
other, and neye5 feel it,'s 9til tgdj b
+ A soY's mind looks at every, thing
from the standpoint Of base ball and
| marbles. ssWhy do you sqppose,'' y
| said i Sunday school teacher to his class,
I"wh1 do youlsuppesOthAy tosk Stephen
outside the; city walls when they stoned
hint" 1twas poser, but one Of the
aspiring youths vas squal toi the en1er-
get a better crack 1t lin i gaess.s
SPHINa, sweet spring, will soon be
here. The green grass win spro6t; the
keno player and the lanbkin WnlExms
Dol; the turtle, dove will turtle to its
mate the young man fancy WIN light
| IL turn to thedf fhm of low; tkebuEnble-'
bee will bumbla his first BUNDLES, the
festive yellow Jacket and the small boy
viii renew relationy;; 'stfEw hats viii
come ont; 20 will dastsfs, whia6 pants,
strawberry festivals hoilsr and osM-.
paign papers; and the spring poet will
mount the editorial stair ~ish cheerful
face and 70 !, pounds, o6 tpaappscEipt =
Spring Is at hansd. d.1Ne0 Orleans Times.
/ WHEN Burns wss Hfstl invired to dine
at Dunlop House, a:west eountry dame,
who acted as housekaeper. appeared to
doubt the proprietY of her mistress en-
tertaining rnese ploughman who made
4 rhymes, asii he. 1wete as9enslsman OF
old descent, By Nay pf convincing her
I 81 the bard's right TO such . distinc-
ton, MrH Dana6p gave her the s' Cot.
! ter's Saturday. Night 70 read. This
she SOON did, and, returning the volume
with q strong sAakB0f thsH head, said |;
s Nae doubt ladies and gentlemen think in
4 muckle o. this, but for ma it's naething
but what I saw j. my fathers house
every day, and / dnna SEQ how he could
hae tould IL ony other wsy." AMI ai'N'
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