The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-08-02
HUMOROUS.
A capital demonstrating

Il movement III real estate
Earthquakes.
What relationship exist between
a sea-song and a Neptune?
A carriage wheel grows less tired
the more it works.
The only good motive for riding
a man OH rail is a locomotive.
Pirds NIT yoost de same kind of
iedders will gone together NIT diem
sells.
Old maids are fond of pairs, but
cannot endure any reference to dates.
A Connecticut editor offers 10
vaccinate, free of charge, all new
preparing subscribers to his paper.
People who are always wishing
for something new should try new-
ralgia once.
john Russell Young, on his re-
turn from Europe, will assume the
editorial management of the New
York Herald.
The Houston & Great Northern
Railroad, by a late decision of the
Texas Supreme Court, Acquires title
to many millions of acres Of the
Texas and public domain.
PaterfamiIias recently came upon
a scientific treatise on "The Veloci-
ty of Light" he says he can under
stand nuw how it is that his gas
bills runs up SO rapidly.
You run no risk by pouring oil
out of can into your stove if you
have no fire in it. Another safe
way is to have no oil in the can.
A Connecticut sheriff says: "Il
any man doubts the Bible doctrine
of human depravity, only ask him
to be sheriff of this county one year.
An American paper says the
touching spectacle of a boy leading
home his drunken parent was wit
messed at Burlington. Iowa, last
week. The progress was quite slow,
however, as the boy was considera-
bly, the drunken of the two.
MARRIAGE AND WILIS.-Mar-
riage, after making a will, renders
the will void, probably for the rea-
son that the testatOr is Lcld to have
been of unsound mind or he would
not have committed the folly of get
ting married.
An immense catfish was lately
captured in Lake st. Croix with
full-grown axe, handle and all, in
its little stomach. It may be an
"axe"- asperating question, but VIC
should like to know what he did
with the man that was taken down
with the weapon.
81 wish you wouldn't give me
such short weight for nay money!"
said customer to his grocer; who
replied remembering the customers
unpaid grocery accounG "and l
wish you would not give me such
Tong wait for mine"
St. John, Nc, has produced a
lamb with one head, two bodies,
nine legs, ten hOofs and two tails,
and feels rather proud of the
"lusus natura," instead of looking
upon it in the light of ca-"Iamb"-
ity, as it really IS Boston Post.
While a Waterbury (Ct.) farmer
was moving his dooryard, a sly
puppy hid in the grass and then
jumped out to take the scythe by
surprise. But the puppy turned
out TO be more surprised than the
scythe; for he found himself in two
places at the same time.
Careful wife: "Don't, Charles,
go to Boston with that hole in the
elbow of your shirt" Husband:
'Why not, my dear?" Careful wife.
" Because if the train should run of
the line, and you should get killed,
people would think me very neg
ligent wife" Husband: (buttoning
up his overcoaD: "Ahem! yes, l
dare say they would
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE
VERY LATEsT.-The Pekin Gazette
contains the folIowing:-"The per-
nilsson to use a yellow bridal pre-
viousIy granted to Hsi-li-pa-cha-
crh-cha -pu, a Magnolian noble of
the first rank, is Withdrawn, it hav-
ing been discovered that no such
privilege has ever been allowed to
mobiles of either the third or fourth
rank.
There is a cry of distress umong
the poorer classes of all the capitals
of Europe from the impossibility of
securing decent homes in the cities.
In Berlin it is absolutely necessary
for the police and the Government
to interfere on behalf of the poor,
while the same evil is assuming such
proportions in London that the mat
ter has actually demanded the atten-
ton and interference of Parliament.
A St. Louis nobby dry goods
clerk, who attended dance in the
rural districts a few days since,
wore a Chevoir shirt and put on
many airs. lie was somewhat
taken down, however, when he over
heard one country lass say TO an
other: Chat st. Louis chap slings
on heap of style for a fellow that
wears bed-tick shirt"
Two neighbors, living in Win
chester county, lad long and en-