The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-02-09

Potters come forth, take up the baby,
andsay, sOothingly: My poor child!''
and so retire.
'fOho!n she said, wagging her
head malicioUsly. $50 it's your
child, is it +? I'll pay you for this when
we are married. And you theologi-
cal student, too!n
With that she fell TO preparing her
self for public exhibition as rapidly
as possible.
Meanwhile, Mr.. POtters was walk
ing up and down the room with the
baby in his arms-he had heard that
was the best way to quiet children
thinking of what he had just seen.
"And so this is the secret she
would tell me when we were married
and could not help myself he said,
recalling her words of the previous
day. How could she imagine that
would ever live with her after know
ing her disgraceful story? She ought
to be ashamed of herself! How ugly
she looks when not dressed / never
could have believed that woman
could alter herself so, he added.
He was very innocent.
At this moment the baby began to
cry. He endeavored to hush it, but
every instant its screams grew louder
and louder.
In the midst of the noise came a
knock at the door.
Come. in.p
Miss Maria Quilts entered, but
stopped short, with well-feigned
amazement.
''Elijah, dearestIU she exclaimed.
You with baby What does this
mean ?'J
''Hold, unhappy womanp' said Mr..
POtters, sternly. "Your shameful
secret shall remain forever buried in
my bosom; but let there be no fur
ther question of love between US"
Whats that you say ?" she Shrek
ed.
''I say that I could never think of
taking for my wife an unmarried
Miss Quilts not very equable tenn
per took fire.
81 like that" she said scornfully,
''when its your baby"
The sudden assault staggered him.
'NIy baby" he gasped.
eyes, your baby A pretty minis
ter you'll make If you do not marry
me, III cause a scandal, and expose
you ~
Infatuated female! beware how
you draw destruction upon your
head :"
The answer of Miss Quilts was to
spring to the window, fling it open,
and cry: "Police police ~
In a few minutes the numbering
step of burIy bIue-coated guardian
of the peace was heard upon the
stairs, and he came in, stolidly.
All this time the baby vas yelling
with the full power of his lungs.
CT want that man arrested" said
Miss Quilts, pointing to Potters.
'fWhat for ?' ---
''He wishes to abandon his child.u
"Its a lie-an internal lief" shout
ed Potters. ''It's her baby"
It's yours" -s
"it'S yours
'fIt isn't.''
at is,D
"Ow!-owI-ow!'' from Miss Quilts;
premonitory symtoms of mysteries.
"Come, now" said the policeman.
you don't play them points on me.
Which ofyer owns the babby? ?"
HE dOes.''
''She does.n
II don't"
"You do"
The policeman rubbed his chin
meditatively.
II guess you'd both step around
to Jefferson Market, and settle it
there"
"Oh, my baby! my precious little
darling: And did its naughty mamma
go and leave it, so she did?n With
which rather confused observation,
Mrs. WhiffLers rushed into the room,
snatched the baby from POtters, and
fell to kissing it eXtravangantly. ~
$50 here's another on 'em, said
the embarrassed policeman, who
could find no other remedy for the
situation than to repeat his former re-
mark, that they had better step
around TO Jefferson Market.
Potters gave him a bill and he was
satisfied.
You horrid thing!" said Mrs.
WhiffteTs, energetically, to the crush
comes of old maids meddIiug with
Children Flinging this ranking
/ Parthian arrow, she withdrew.
"What is that terrible secret you
spoke of Yesterday 2p asked Potters,
gloomily, eyeing Maria.
HThat-thRt-that is my from" " she
soBbed.
1t is, perhaps, unnecessary to add
that the engagement was broken, and
! Miss Quilts left her boarding house
that afternoon. 1.s
SOMETHING ABOUT YOURSELF -
/ SuppOsing your age to be fifteen or
| thereabouts, I can figure you up to a
/ dot. You have I60 bones and 500
muscles; your blood weighs 25 pounds;
your heart IS five inches in length
and three inches in diameter; it beats
seventy times per minute, 200 times
/ per hour, 400, 800 per day, and SO, 722, :
200 per year. At each beat, a little
over two ounces of blood is thrown
out Of it; and each day it receives
and discharges about seven tons OF
that wonderful fluid. Your lungs
viii contain a gallon of air and you
inhale 900 gallons per day. The
aggregate surface Of the air cells Of
your lungs, supposing them to be
{ spread out, exceeds 10000 square
( inches. The weight of your brain is
I three pounds; when you are q man
Il viii weigh about eight ounces
more. Your nerves exceed 10, 900, 900
! in number.
/ Iavers, and varies from one-fouFth to
one-eighth OF an inch in thickness.
i The area Of your skin is about / ,TOC
! square Inches, and you are subjected
to an atmospheric pressure of Il
4 pounds to the square inch. Each
/ square inch Of your skin contains
g. 800 sweating tubes or perspiratory
i pores, each of which may be likeneC
/ TO little drain tile One-fouFth Of an
] inch long, ma king an aggregats
Y length of the en- tire surface OF YOU
body, Of 201, ,166 feet, or tile ditcf
for draining the body almost fOrty
miles long.
The Emperor of -CEl ina IS soon to bt
married, and has imp orted pair o.
i elephants to assist at the ceremony
His future consort5 IS undergoing
careful training in the etiquette o.
\ court life. For three yea yrs the looms