The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-01-19
PuNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Education is q good thing when 10
does not directly unfit man for work.
ing for iving.-Phiiadclphia Call.
-Teacher-.What is the difference,
Tommy, between German and a
Dutchman. Tommy-.Dne has got
money and the other hain't. ."-EJoch.
Experience is a good school, but it
keeps us too long, and the tuition bills
are too costly for fellow who is in q
hurry for diploma ~ n
If the present coal famine con-
tinues there will be lots of short court
ing this winter. though we are con-
fident it will not cause premature mar
riages. s,s..
When the world is made over again
and the millennium comes, other peo-
pies children and other peoples cats
will certainly be abolished. --Someruile
Journal - g - g s''~
The world would be much better
off were those who pose -as~leaders as
deaf and dumb as they are blind
Pomeroy's Aduance Thought.
When a pawnbroker pays $3.50 for
a new $50 overcoat he may be trying to
/. lead an honest life, but he leaves room
for healthy suspicion to the contrary.
/ Omaha Herald. &, e. vtztz
( Only one rifle ball in thousand
kills a man in battle. II that thou
sandth bullet could befleft out of the
calculation what brave soldiers we
would be.-Martha's TneQard Herald.
-Itis not uncommon for a fashionable
young man to live beyond his means,
but when a dude lives beyond the
means of his mother he must marry or
come to wans-N. o. Picay,ine.
-Frivolity, under whatever form it
appears. takes from attention its
strength, from thought its originality.
from feeling its earnestness. Madame
de Stoel. rf #.s ts aa.t2 sfrs
1t is getting to be a common ex.
preston for man to say his baby
weighs ton. Itis generally the kind
of ton that ton of coal weighs
Puck.
IL have met with success very fire.
quently,'' remarked the aged cam
aigner, '''but we never spoke as we
passed by. Success always seemed to
be in hurry to see another man.
Harper's Bazaar. sta gs4aa9 s5.tB !
-"Mariah, suppose we give this copy
of Dante's Inferno awayp'' "Why,
what forp'' II don't think thas either
of us will have curiosity to look at it /
now that your mother has come to live
with us. y Washington Critic. s'-'
-"Mr. Snyderly, Ihear that you re-
ferred to me as liar.'' ..Yes, sir. ]
did; what are you going to do about it?"
II was going to ask you to put it down
on paper for me. want to get job
in an Omaha real-estate Office. and I
don't need better recommendation"
Lincoln Journal. H -
There seems to be confusion OF Z
ideas as to the anatomical Characters
tics Of property. We are told, for in
stance. that wealth takes to itself
wings, and then we. all know that it is
constantly changing hands. What
with wings and hands, it must be some
thing angelic. No wonder it is in SO
much request. .ifsa. ses
The Telephone Cat
Though most Of the cats on the backyard fence
Belong to the self-sa choir, 49,.
And faithfully call and caterwaul,
Maria! Maria! Mariar' 4f
There's enc that shouts above all the rest
At any hour that suits him best,
In strangely human, familiar tone, ts
AS IL he called through telephone,
Helloi Hello Hellor &# Ea 1854
His voice we have learned to know;
And whenever we hear 1t we say, There's that
Detestable nuisance-the telephone catl"
-Hdrpsr's .BGEor.