The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-06-21
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PuNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Dried sharks fins are found in
every Chinese store in New York. and
sell for four dollars per pound.
The judges are now nearly rs we'll
paid as the baseball players. but the
game is not nearly so interesting
Toronto News.
Here lies lawyer cold in death, 81
With all paid up that's due him
He lies at ease in peaceful rest =
For lying's natural to him.
-Washington Critic.
If one would have good picture
of public opinion he must take it by the.
new instantaneous process. 1t does not
keep still.-N. O. Picayunc.
The difference between a square
man and group of dudes in front of
hotel is, that the former pays as he
goes and the others gaze as they pose.
NJ 2. World
A bride sneezed twice at the church
ceremony the other day, and the old
nurse said it was good luck. Other
people said it was because her dress
was cut too tropically for the tempera-
ture of the editice.-Boston Gazette.
The men who will never die are
the men who voted for Washington, the
oldest Freemason, the last soldier of
the Revolution, Jefferson's body servant,
and the man who originated the idea Of
the Pacific railway.
"A Congressman on receiving his
hat from the cloak-room, asked the
waiter how he knew it was his hat, aud
was promptly answered: II didn't
know it was your hat; / only knows it
wuz the hat you CUB to mo-"
Enthusiastic Bonapartist-"Eet ees
coming. Get ees coming, the papers off
M chere Paree already call him .Bou-
langer l." Level-headed American
Historians will refer to him, not as
Boulanger l., but as one Boulanger.''
Omaha World.
Mistress (seyercly)-..Marie didn't
hear you make use of the expression
you little brat in the nursery just
now?" Marie "a French bonnc)-
"Yees, Madame, but Mess Flossie do
wexes me sol" Mistress Cess severely
10, thought you were speaking to
Fido. Send Miss Flossie to me at once"
The Epoch.
-Landlady Ito applicant for board)
Have you children. MADAME" APP
plicant-''No." Landlady-'You are
fortunate. for we never take families
who have children" Applicant
Have you any childrenp" Land
lady-''Yes; two" Applicant-"Well,
you are unfortunate, for we never
board with families who have children"
IN Y Sun. @
You can tell whether man il
lazy or industrious just by the way he
asks for work." observed business
man who just dismissed an applicant
with regret that he had no opening for
him. Indeed! l should like to know
how" "Well. some men ask for
position, while others want a 'situa-
ton. ~ Pittsburgh Chronicle.
Freddie (to his eldest sister. who
has been watching the clock impatient
ly): isn't time mo ney, LucyP' Lucy
"Yes, Freddie, and am very glad that
you have such sensible ideas Freddie
"Then I'd like to know how Captain
Corkscrew can waste SO much time with
you every day, when father says he
hasn't got red cent. --Harper's Bazaar.
Str anger:-"Pardon me, sir, but ]
heard you complain to q friend OF q
feeling of lassitute, which is peculiar to
this season." .Well?" II am agent
for preparation which will make you
feel like new man." "What is itp''
"Dr. Balsam's Magic Potion" 20, ]
guess won't try it. - "Why notp" Il
am DIR. Balsam, the inventor of the
medicine ~ Lincoln Journal.