The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-07-18
HAPPY THOUGHTS.

it to circus-clOwn.
He alone has energy that cannot be
deprived of it.-Layater.
Our enemies are our outward con-
science.-.Shakespeare.
How can a man see the point of
joke when he is the butt?
SOME put out their tubs to catch soft
water when it rains hard.
The secret of fashion is to surprise,
never to sappoint.-BuI1Uer.
When is a man likely to be done
brown? When his friends toast him.
THE hearing of the grammar class is
always parse-time to the teacher.
THOUGHT is the wind, knowledge the
sail, and mankind the vesseI.-Harc.
INDEPENDENCE, like honor, is a rocky
island without beach.-NapoZcon
EVEN the weakest man is strong
enough to force his convictions
Goethe.
ALL men would be masters of each
other, and no man is lord of himself
Goethe.
TAKE away ambition and vanity, and
where will be your heroes and patriots? ?
Seneca.
REPosE and cheerfulness are the
badge of the gentlemau-repOse in en-
ergy.-E83er8On
Love labor, for if thou does not want
it for food. thou mayst for physic.-
I William Penn.
/ HERE is the newest floral sentiment:
r. L - l., Id
to mari-gold.
LEARNING without thought Is labor
/ lost thought without learning IS peri
lous.-COnftscjuS
Predominant opinions are generally
the opinions of that generation that is
vanishing. DjSrGeE.
LAUGHTER is one of the very priyi-
/ Ieges of reason, being confined to the
human species.-Leigh Hunt.
IT'S the privilege of human nature
above brutes to love those who DISC
bIige us.-Antonius.
A LAUGH to be joyous must flow from
a Joyous heart, for without kindness
there can be no true joy Carlyle.
/ They have destroyed the beaten
track to Heaven we are now compelled
4 to make for ourselves Iadders.-JO16ert.
WHAT is the difference between a
sailor and a beer-drinker? One puts
his sail up, and the other puts his ale
down.
They asked Lucman, the fabuEst,
From whom did you learn manners
He answered, From the unmannerly.-
Saadi.
WE should accustom the mind to
keep the best companyby introducing it
only to the best books.-SydHey Smith.
IT IS almost impossible to state any
truth strongly without seeming conflict
with some other truths. Emerson.
ILooK upon death to be as. necessary
to our constitutions as sleep. We shall
rise refreshed in the morning. Frank
Tin.
VIRTUE does not give talents, but it
supplies their place. Talent neither
give virtue nor supply the place of it.
Chinese proUerJ.
THE following sentence of only thirty
four letters contain all the letters in the
alphabet John quickly extemporize
five tow-bags.
As A cruntenance is made beautifully
by the soul shining through it, SO the
world is beautiful by the shining
through it of God
WE paint our lives in fresco. The
soft and fusile plaster of the moment
hardens under every stroke of the
brush into eternal rOck-StirLiBg
THERE is no policy like politeness,
and good manner is the best thing in
the world either 60 get a good name or
to supply the want of it.-Bult0er.
MALICE and uncharitableness as often
consist In the vivid remembrance Of the
pang inflicted as in that of the blow
which caused it.-1Liss THachery.
THERE is a limit to enjoyment, though
the sources of wealth be boundless
and the choicest pleasures of real life
lie within the ring of moderation
Tur70er.
An Irishman who could not make ont
of his doctors prescription "a tea
spoon every two hours" swallowed two
teaspoons, and never had to call in that
doctor again.
I CONSIDER that the spirit of polite
ness is a certain desire to bring it
about, that, by our words and manners,
others may be pleased with us and
with themselves.-MO MOntcsqticU.
A MAN named Dunlop remarked that
he had never heard his name punned
upon, and did not believe it could be
done. There is nothing in the world
so easy, sir, remarked punster. Just
lop off half the name, and it is Dun.
Truth has no gradations; nothing
which admits of increase can be so much
what it is, as truth is truth. There may
be a strange thing, and a thing more
strange. But if a proposition is true
there can be none more true.-JOioasoH.
NICKEL.-Within the past three years,
more especially since the discovery OF
practical methods for electro-Plating
with nickel, the demand for this metal
has greatly increased, and its price has
advanced. It has risen from 81 to 70
Der pound. and its expense has become
eo great that substitute for 1t in the
art is now sought. a good substitute,
II is stated, may be found IN the metal
roapgansse. DIR. Percy, IN letter to
The london Times, states that twenty