The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-09-05
!GRAVE AND GAY.
At the Garden Gate.

/ erS or vell.-HdTG.
A GOOD place for small change-A
church collecting plate.
No man is free who cannot command
himself. -PytHagoras
! MONEY is like manure, of very little
use unless it be spread.-Bacon.
The virtues are lost in self-interest,
as rivers in the esea.-RochcfOIcauld.
g THEY put him in show case, " said
a West Hartford female at a funeral.
The more a man denies himself, the
more he shall obtain from God.-Hor-
ace
EDUCATE men without religion and
Won butmake them clever deviIs.-Dlke
Of wellington.
WHAT is resignation? It is putting
God between ones self and ones grief.
Madame SlUetchiae. ...
& Ma, replied the young lady, Gun
less the poets tell fbs, a prim rose is
not without attraction.
IT has been found that cedar chips
and cloves sprinkIed on a shovel full Of
Goals will clear a room of flies.
.'RosE, my dear" said mother to
her daughter, "if you are so stiff andre
served, you will never get a husband.
You have heard of " the SD AXE in the grass my hoy
o. the terrible snake in the grass
But now yuu must know,
Mans deadliest foe
Is a snake of different class,
lis the venemous snake in the gIassl
THE greatest benefit which one friend
can bestow on another, is to guard and
excite and elevate his virtues.-Dr.
Johnson.
PROSPERITY is a great teacher, adver-
sity a greater. Possession pampers the
mind privation trains and strengthens
! it.-HazLitt.
! THE first ingredient in conversation is
truth, the next good sense, the third
good humor, and the fourth wit.-Str
William Temple.
1 FIND that successful exertion IS a
powerful means of exhilaration, which
discharges itself IN good humor on
others.-Dr. Chalmers.
/ AUSTRALIA last year produced 5,39l,-
5O4 bushels of wheat, being an increase
of $50, 300 bushels over the yield of the
preceding year.
SOME interesting Shaksperean docu-
ments Rave been discovered, which con
tradict the recent theories touching
ShaEspeare's business with theatres.
Those Einsfo1k account our kind relations
Whose ready loans our frequent needs avail,
Who still encourage all our specuailoust
And take the consequences when We fail.
"TALKrya about the jaws of death, "
exclaimed a man who was living with
his third scolding wife. 81 tell you
they are nothing to the jaws of life l'
THE perfection of conversation Is, not
to play a regular sonata, but like the
HIolian harp, to await the inspiration
of the passing breeze. BUrkc-
IT is when you come close to a manin
conversation that you discover what his
real abilities are. To make a speech in
public assembly is a IRack.-Dr. John
son.
FIRST lesson in kissing gentle
man should be little the tallest. He
should have a clean face, a kind eye, and
a mouth full of expression instead of to-
baccO.
A LITTLE boy born very far north en-
treated his mother to tell him some sto-
ries about bad boys, and, upon her eX-
pressing astonishment, said he wanted
to find out how they got out Of scrapes.
The world Will still be able to make
a shift. It has been ascertained that the
cotton supply annually increases four
per cent. faster than the cotton-consum-
ing population of the world.
The great quantity Of books marketh
q show rather of superfuity than lack
which surcharge, nevertheless, is not to
be remedied by making no more books
but by making more good books.-Ba-
con.
KATE FIELD says that for downright,
unconscious impotence the Britisher
has not his equal on the face OF the
globe. The nasal .twang is not an
American idiosyncrasy. Many London.
ers have it, while it prevails to an
alarming extent in certain counties.
An indiana man claims to have sue
ceeded in playing thorough conf
dence-game upon the potato bugs. dc
planted grain of corn in each potato
hill. and, as the corn came up first, the
bugs thought it WIS corn-held, ana
started for other scenes.
WHEN Mrs. SiddOns was playing
Lady Macbeth IN Dublin, at that part
where a drum sounds, and she eXciaims,
"a drum drum Macbeth doth come
there was some difficulty or neglect.In
obtaining the necessary instrument, and
to her anazement trumpet sounded
She Immediately saw how absurd II
would be to saw drum while th"
sound OF a trumpet filled the ears Of the
audience. so she said A trumpet
trumpet 70 and stopped short, amld
breathIess silence, not knowing how +"
rhvne when voice from the gallery
called out Macbeth doth stump 1t!
at which the house broke out into peal
of laughter and applause, and the tragc-
dienne advanced 10 the footIguts M"
bowed her acknowledgment for the
relief She afterward tried to tind out
who 1t was. but failed to do so, and
never forgot what she considered the
most genuine piece Of wit she had met
with in all her experience.