The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-04-01
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4 western settler-The sun at evening
1t is beauty's privilege to kill time, and
times privilege to Kill beauty.
The ladies give as a reason for marrying
for money that they now seldom find any
thing else in a man worth having
A Wisconsin gentleman sat down on a
bee hive the other day, and preflrS now to
stand.
Some one speaking, as if hy authority,
says that the women of Detroit have feet
like raisin boxes, and are ashamed to buy
shoes at home, ordering them usually from
the prairies Of the West, where leather is
cheap, and where there is pledty Of room to
manufacture them.
Brigham Young proposed to marry a car
load Of female recruits who recently ar.
rived in the sanity city, but only fifteen of
them would entertain the offer. Surely his
influence Is waning.
A tradesman who had failed in the city
Of Bangor, wrote on his front door, Pay
ment suspended for thirty days" \ neigh
Dor reading this, said, y ou have not dated
this notice" "NO," said be, Il dou'U intend
to do so. Itwould run out if did"
"What is the annual corn crop of Ken
lucky p asked foreign tourist Of Ken
tuckian. 81 can't exactly say" replied the
Kentuckian; "but l know it's enough to
make all the whiskey we want, besides what
is wasted for bread"
'Does our talk disturb you ?" said one
of comp any of taikative ladies to an old
gentleman sitting in a railroad station the
other day. mo, ma'am," was the naive re-
ply; 81 have been married nigh onto forty
years"
A Dutchman met an Irishman on q lonely
highway AS they met, each smiled, think
ing he knew the other Pat, on seeing his
mistake, remarked with a look of disappoint
ment: "raith, an l thought it was you, an
you thought it was me, an it's naythur Of
US" Says the Dutchman, 'Yaw, dat is
dhru. l am anuder man, and you is not
yourself; we pc poth oder podies."
A Justices jury of six recently tried man
for assault and battery, in Crawford county
Indiana and their first vote as to the verdict
was as follows: Juror No. ! voted "no cose
of action; )" No. ? voted Sat and battery,
Second Decree" No deemed the prison
er Guilty of Salt" No. 4 decided that
there was 'No action of caus; No voted
it assault and Batory," while No. decided
the prisoner "Gilty ofan a sault only"
A clerk in Wabash Avenue dry goods
house recently assured a lady, to whom be
was endeayoring to sell set of furs, that
they were the "best furs that ever grew on
a fur's back.
Spring styles are now omnIpresent Among
the most popular and stylish travelling dres
ses worn in this city is the divorce suit. "
Another style much in use is the libel
suit"
A man who had never given the President
a cent in his life, recently had the impu
denee to ask that functionary for an office
The executive was unable to express his
disgust, and referred the man to the post
master at Covington, Ky.
Some naughty boy in Penn Yam, the Other
day, ornamented an old, Gothic-frameC
horse hitehed to an awning post, with +,
stolen card sign which read Oats wanted
inquire within"
A man who had had a great deal Of troubl
with his two sons, who were very wild
and finally brought up in State prison, wa
sympathized with by a neighbor shor
time after their sentence. ''WeH, yes it /
hard at my time of life to have both Of m
sons go in that way; but you see, when
comes night there IS some satisfaction i
knowing where :hey are"