The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-09-25
So. 90 per Annum.
puNaENr PARAeRAPHs.


He who fights and runs away, may
get shot in the back.-TeXas Siftings.
We saw bald-headed man I'm the
very last row, but it was at church, not
the opera.
Spontaneous combustion is some.
times caused by an accumulation OF
oiled rags and sometimes by collection
of insurance policies. ."-Elmira Gazette.
Miss Plaingirl-''I sometimes feaI
that he doesn't love me; yet he kissed
me last night" Miss Prettypert-''Then
you may rest assured that he loves you"
IN. Y. Sun.
Mother tof spoiled child)-'I am
greatly obliged to you for bringing my
little boy back" Organ Grinder-'I
fraida he teacha munka bada tricks
N. Y. Weekly.
-Snooper-"It's no wonder they are
always finding microbes, bacteria and
such things in France" Simeral -
''Why?" Because France is
just the place for Parasites"
The Young Veteran =" Smithers?
Smithers is retired artist" Retired
artist, eh? Why, he is only twenty
eight years old" ''That may be; but
you don't have to be very old to retire
from art.-Puck.
The scene is Roman studio: Chow
do you know that old fellow is an Amer
ican?" Because he asked the price Of
of that Madonna. Any other but an
American would have asked who painted
it"-Society.
Judge of my horror, madame, as
yesterday caught my little Otto, aged
three, in the act of tearing my newly
written poems into fragments" Lady
what! Can the little fellow read?''
Journal Amusant.
1t is not impossible to say many
more original things about original
sin, and the fashionable preacher would
do well to pound some of the fashiona-
BILE sins of fashionable sinners Of the
present time.-N. 0. Picayune.
-A-"A more deserving medical man
than our friend Richard does not exist.
He very frequently accepts no fees from
his patients!" B.-"You don't say so?"
A.-'For he generally settles with the
heirs. "-Fliegende Blatter.
The academy committee have 3
grudge againsty you, haven't they?" asked
one disciple of the brush of a brother in
art. "Why, no. They accepted my ma
rine." $50 / saw. If they were we'll
disposed they would have it sent back. :"
Detective Ito country grocer who
had been robbed) what kind of goods
did the burglars take?' Storekeeper-
''No goods; only money. Didn't even
touch my cigars" Detective-"Ah,
there's a clew. Must have been some-
} body who knows the place. IN. Y
} Tribune.
: -''Did you ever see any thing like
! this name?" said a clerk in railroad Of
fee. ''It's Russian, isn't it?r' 81 don't
J know what it is; but it looks as il two
J sections of the alphabet had run into
each other and got telescoped. Wash
: ington Post.
Miss Goodley-'T do not think SO
much OF Jack Rounton as I did, Miss
Galee-"Why not?" II went to church
with him last night and he volunteered
to find the text" ''Well, what has that
to do with it?" 30, nothing, except
that / can't say that have much re-
| spect for man who hunts for the Epis-
tie to the Romans in the Old Testa.
ment"-N. Y. Sun.
What must do to awaken true
I appreciation of my work?" asked poet.
) speaking to a publisher that has just
} brought out an edition of Ibsen. ''You
> must write dramas without beginning
r and without an end-dramas from which
: the principal characters disappear, with
out warning, never to be heard OF
: again. 81 have done that" said the
: poet land yet no howl is raised over
b my work. What else must Ido?'' ''You
j must sit down and wait until you are
0 sixty years old" ''But suppose | should
: not be recognized even after ! have ct.
tanned that age?' 'Well, If you are not
you will then know that you are fail
ure. "-Arkansaw Traveller.