The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-04-11
NUMBER 81.
GRAVE AND GAY.


| 4 wATERsPOUT-A teetotal Grafton.
A SMART THING-A mustard plaster.
! A SERIOUS TURN-Twisting ones neck.
THE best color for Water-color.
SUITABLE garments for winter-The
| close of the year.
MORNING for labor, evening for re-
pose.-French proverb.
THE next worst thing to raining pitch
| fOrks-Hailing Omnibuses.
GENERAL Waiting on half a
dozen girls at the same time.
How TO turn peoples heads-COme
into a concert late in thick boots.
You can't do that again, said the pig
to the boy who cut his tail off
YOUNG ladies use powder, perhaps be-
cause they think it viii make them go
off.
COLERDaE said that liberation was
impossible till Indifference made it
worthless.
WITHOUT earnest convictions, no great
or sound literature is conceivable
LO,OeH
TALENT is that which is in a mans
power; genius is that in whose power a
man Is.
SOLITUDE is as needfuI for the imagi-
nation, as society is wholesome for the
character.
A POOR man is to be avoided-he lacks
principle and never has any interest in
anything.
He THAT lives in fear of death, every
moment feels its tortures. I will die
but Once.-,JlELi1Es Caesar.
He WHO is only in good health, and is
willing to work, has nothing to fear in
this wOrld.-LesSing.
VoIrARE declared that the fate of a
nation had often depended on the good
or bad digestion of a prime-minister
You will find this a good gauge or
criterion Os genius, whether it progress
ses and revolves, or only spins upon it
| CoLerjdge.
A DRUNKARD once reeIed up to White
field, with the remark, Mr.. Whiteield,
I am one of your converts. 1 think it
very likely, was the reply, for I am sure
you are none of Gods.
IHAvE heard, indeed, of some virtu-
GUS persons Who have ended unfortu-
| nateIy, but never of any virtuOus na-
ton. Providence is engaged too deep
Iy when the cause becomes SO general.
Dryden.
DOES ONE write, asks Leasing, for the
sake of being always in the right? 1
think I have been as serviceable to
truth when miss her, and my failure is
the occasion of anothers discovering
| her, as if [ discovered her myself.
IAN NOT used to begging, said little
| girl to a lady of whom she had asked
aims, because only two weeks ago my
father was a merchant Why, child,
how could he be reduced to poverty so
soon? My father took bad two dollar
bill at his peanut stand, and it ruined
him, sobbed the child,
VOLTAIRE once praised another writer
very heartily to a third person. 1t is
very strange, was the reply, that you
speak so well of him, for he says you
are a charlatan. Oh, replied Voltaire,
| I think it very like that both of us are
mistaken.
CRUEL HUsBAED-Deceive you In
dignant wife-Don't tell me any more
lies Didn't you say last night that
you were only going to quiet little
| party-dominoes and that sort of
| thing? Cruel husband-Just so that's
| what [ said, exactly. Dominoes, domi-
noes, you know Always have domi-
noes at a masked ball
Coop SENSE and good-nature are new
er separated, though the ignorant world
| has thought otherwise. GoOd-nature,
! by which mean benefcence and can
dor, is the product cf right reason,
which of necessity viii give allowance
to the failings of others, by considering
that there is nothing perfect IN man
| kind.-DTyde7l.
THIS anecdote is Sold of ProudhOn,
the great French socialist, and illus
| trates most fOrcibly the intensity and
| exaggeration of his radicalism. In con-
versation one day with Prince Napole-
on, the prince asked him what was the
form of society of which he dreamed.
Proudhon said One in which / shall be
guiIlotined as a conservative.
THERE is a lady In Lexington, Ky,
who possesses two pets, a monkey and a
parrot, who are on antagonistic terms,
and who are looked up separately when
| left unmatched. One day they wese &C
cidentaly left together, and desperate
fight eDsued. The monkey ruthlessly
pulled out every feather Of the unfor-
tunate parrot, and broke up the mantel
ornaments generally. When Mrs. c.,
returned, she found the monkey chat
tering on the mantel-piece, and out
crept the parrot, looking deeply injur-
ed. and greeted her with, L" We've had
hell of a time.
WHEN George Wither, the Puritan
poet, was taken prisoner by the Caval-
iers, there was a general disposition dis.
played to hang him at once but Sin
John Denham saved his life by saying
to Charles II hope your majesty vii
not hang poor George Wither, for as
long as he lives it can't be said that
am the worst poet IN England.
CURIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC.
THERE is a melancholy DIR. Trail
who announces IN a Philadelphia news
paper that we are approaching a clima'
of a pestilental period. From 1880 Il