The Bossier banner., 1893-11-09
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

-She-"Do you smoke cigarettes?"
He-''O, no. come from Chicago. ]
smoke hams. ."-Godey's.
lis the boss at home?" Housemaid
No; Tuesday is bargain day, and she
never gets home until real late in the
afternoon. Inter Ocean.
do you take this man for better
or for worse?" asked the minister IT
can't tell until have had him for lit
tie WHILE" returned the bride.-Har.
per's Weekly.
"A Little Exaggerated
"My mamma gives me birthday party
next week. Did your mamma ever give
you one?" Lucy (contemptuously)-
''Oh, yes; more than fifty."-Leslie's
Weekly.
-Mamma-"And how did my little
pet get to sleep last night without
mamma?" Little Pet-"Papa tried to
sing to me like you do, an hurried up
an went to sleep SOS not to hear it."
-"Is your business good?" asked the
burglar of the counterfeiter. ''Good?"
repeated the counterfeiter. "Well, 1
should say it was. l have been just
coming money. y."-Somerville Journal.
-"But why are you SO bitter against
the police?" asked the caller. 'Tt's
just this" said Mrs. Owskeep. ''As
soon as have taught'a girl how to be
good cook one of them comes along and
marries her. r."-Indianapoiis Journal.
-Bond-''I hear that Miss Scadds re-
! jected YOU" De Broke-"Yes; but it
wasn't so bad as 1t might have been.
She loaned me five hundred, and said
she'd be sister of charity to me-
Kate Fields Washington.
How hard it is for different people
to agree even upon matters of seem
ingly small Importance. The man at
the bat struck the ball, and, while half
of the crowd said it was fly, the other
half declared it was a fowl.-Boston
Transcript.
| -Amateurus-"Rea the strietest
realism, is my ideal of an art. For in
stance, in painting a storm scene |
should use water colors." Cynicus-
ITO be sure. But what would use for
mud?" For mud why, why, hardly
know. How would best manage that?"
"Sign it my dear fellow, sign it, OF
courser'-N. Y. Herald.
The Limited. d.-She-"Kneel not to
me, dear George, but come and sit in
this chair, which is large enough for
two. Papa had it made on purpose"
He-"What consideration! What fore
| sight! How could he have known?"
She-"O, it is easily explained. We
have always lived in fat. detroit
Free Press.
-Poet-"And what did the professor
say to my tragedy" Professors Wife
! somewhat embarrassed)-"O we'll
he was, in short-speechless. Poet
"Speechless? What does that mean?"
Professors Wife-"Sir, it means a good
deal for man who can speak seven
languages. ."-Tit-Bits
Tired Traveller (alighting from
train) (which do You consider the
best hotel bere?" Drummer-"You
see that building over there? That is
the worst" Tired Traveler-'But /
don't want the worst; l want the
best" Drummer-"Then / don't
know what you're going to do. There
is only one. e.''-Presbyterian
The Mad eleine church is one of the
most beautiful buildings in Paris. II
was begun by Louis XIV, and compile.
ted in the reign of Louis Philippe. 1t
is of Grecian architecture. The prin-
cipal facade looks upon the Rue Royale
and the Place de la Concorde, and is
very magnificent. The interior of the
church is richly decorated in gilt and
marble. 1t contains many paintings
and sculptures illustrative of the life
of the Magielene. In May, 1871, 800
insurgents were driven by the YER
sailles troops into this church and
there killed.