The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-10-16
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Edwin Booth, while the boys go to study
nature asgp6rttfayetD by Hsdia Thomp-
son.-Boston Post,,.Jp fy
NATURE may have had some special
reason for heaping SO, much beauty on
the worthless butterfly and SO little on
the ( hard-WbfkiDg z and industrious
racoon, but she is just the old one who
never makes any explanations Detroit
Free Press. -,
~ AM past 60 yyeh:rryg old, and every
now and then / meet y1idIdiek knu
me 45 years ago, and srsrPembers some
deviltry l was guilty of then. Amt it
strange how tenacious the memory is of
those things, and howwestk il s'ovtenny
thing COED teller may hwuEcident-
ally done?''9Josh Billings. -,
"BoY, don't you know any better
than to be lettering around the. streets
in this way on this beautiful Sabbath
day?n said al SindayFscAooE fGaEi6r on
his way to his Bible class, "Oh, my
eye, I guess lido, sir; I'm 4 goin' fishin'
just as soon rs the other fellows come,
along, y exclaimed the young 'hSpefaI!slA
A"t1re'os' Base'rs u Oh w A b
A MAN named Phelps, in Cumberland
County, Ky, has named his children as
| as follows: Robert Goderich .Channipg
| De Ausbrey Phelps, Quitffan' FREMONT
Iturbide s;CadwaHfden PbeMxs Belchis
Zenoba Semiramis Phelps, James Rich
ard Augustus Phelps, BOthenia PAMELA
Melvina Phelps, Esau Mahurshal Al.
hashbar Phelps, Dionysius Ediic Robert
Turner Phelps, Thompson rBakNeEFSrnp- N
son Boanerges Phelps
MORE sensible than her mother was
that little girl who. stood by an elegant
show windeM efl 4 foy-sliop Che other
day, her cheap dress indicating that she
was a laborer'si child Her mother,
pointing at the, biggest and most richly
dressed of the dolls, said = "You would
Pike to have that, wouldn't you, LouiseP"
&C oh no, mamma net that one; it's too
well dressed fpnme,p /. AND what diff
ference. does that make TO You p, g Why,
I'd want @ Be my dolly's mamma, and
not her sefvant-girl. "i NC ! y'as s'si'''
A BOLD, bad burglar recently broke
into the house 5f an edit6f,,a In sthe
watches of the night. The editer awak- t,s
cned and questioned the intruder:
i'' What, do YOU want hereP What look
yon for?'' Said the burglar, grtiilfy,
|"Money.', - Hold ON a minute, - q,ioth
the editor, g and i will help ypqi I'ye
been looking myself for ten years, But
perhaps the two ofsns may have better
luck.' Then was theburglar much disl
gusted, but the editor called il a joke, j,
and insisted that the burglar ought to
set 'em up.al Sti1JDtHer' Lstn6eswns,.i ai''
+, "Now, ladies and gentlemen,rn'S
shouted the book-agent, before the
picnic concludes IIwant to sellevery one
Of you a copy of the Life of Poea-a
hontas She was all Ihjun girl, Poky
iwasr-they called her, Poky for ,shdtAaoT'
but she wasn't the kind that went around r..
peddling baskets and blow-gtlns. Not
frequently. She staid ut home play
ing croquetlin the front yard, or. wenttOi
the Ladies, Aid Society, and. didn' t take ~
no copperas off o. nobody. The cele-
lratetl John Smith - came travelling y
through them parts as ,agentfor family
paper, but Poky wouldn't let her father
raise IL club. .ol She married Smith after y I
wards, and the last aet of her life was to
die Of consumption. just there 0flieerr
Uncle Sammy Jones approached with a =.
shot-g,hi and the meeting adjourned. ~
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