The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-10-24

ANALYSIS is the desth of sentiment. .-
C. d. Warner. . .....-..
WuEN time shall hang up his scythe
he will be no mower.
CoxTENTAENT is natural wealth; lux
ury, artificial poverty. s
! DIR. JOHNSON defines q ship as prie-
on with chance # being drowned.
TIE best thing to do should the drum
of your ear be destroyed Get trum-
| pet,
! WHAr is the champion conundrum?-
Life, because everybody has to give It
up.
No author can be as moral as his
works, as no preacher is as Pious rs his
Richter.
AMERICA is a fortunate country. She
grows by the follies of our European
! nations. Napoleon
JEALOUSY is only the art Of torment
ing yourself, for fear you should be tor
mented by another.
A New YORK editor says sugar hae
gone mp so high as to induce a slight in
crease in the price of sand. -..
THE latest announcement for new mu-
sic: 90 Hush, Sisters Dying, with
Piano Accompaniment. "
A PRUDENT gentleman, unwilling TO
accuse . neighbor of lying, said he used
the truth with penurious frugslity.
HE is incapable of a truly good action
who knows not the pleasure in contem-
plating the good actions of others
EaUater.
How did Robinson Crusoe know that
he was on an inhabited island? Because
he saw a great swell pitching into lit
tie cove.
TIE most bashful girl We ever heard
of was the young lady who bIushed
when she was asked if she hsd not beer
courting sleep.
AN old lady thinks the bonds must
be family of strong religious instincts,
because she hears of so many OF them
being converted.
The brain of a six-year-old boy, re-
Gently deceased in London, weighed 5S
ounces. The average weight of q mans
brain is 4s ounces.
AoT1oE is the real teacher, Instrno-
ton does but prevent waste or mistakes;
and mistakes themselves are often the
best teachers of all.-FrOIGde.
MRs. BIAIAPRoP, good soul, proPO-
ses to distribute tracts among tetotel-
ers, who, she regrets to hear, are living
in q state of spiritual destitution.
WRITE your name with kindness,
love and mercy on the hearts Of the Peo-
pie you come IN contact with year by
year, and You will never be forgotten.
IF love and ambition should be equal
in balance, aud come to iOstIe with
equal force, make no doubt but that
the last would win the prize.--Bfoa-
fatigue.
RECTOR, going his rounds-An nm
commonly fine pig, Mr.. DibbleR, de
clare! Contemplating villager-Ahlyess
sir. II We was only all of us as ft to
die as him, sir
Or Of the best puns ever made by
the late Phoebe Cary was this: Why
was Robinson CrusOe's man Friday like
a rooster? Because he scratched for
himself and Crusoe. -... .....
TIE Minnesota Law compelling sa-
Ioon-keepers to pay ten dollars annual
Iy to the support OF the state inebriate
asylum has yielded twelve thousand
dollars this year.
In this world there Is one gOdlike
thing, the essence of all that ever WIS
or ever will be of godlike in this world
the veneration done TO human worth
by the hearts of men, Carlyle.
GREAT men leave two different i'm
pressions of themselves on their coniem-
poraries-the one the result OF their
public career, the other of their private
life.-PhiIil1 Gilbert HaD1erton.
TEE reputation of a man is like his
shade s It sometimes follows and some
times preeedes him it is sometimes
longer, and sometimes shorter, than hrs
natural size.-FTeysch lDrOUsr6.
ARTIFIoIAI. wants are more numerous
and lead to more expense than natural
wants; from this cause the rich are Of
tener in greater want Of money than
those who have but bare competency.
TIE aneients had but one word for
manners and morals. Tt might be well
If the same were the case for us-yet
with this essential difference, that,
while they degraded morals 10 the lev
el of manners, a higher culture would
lead us 70 raise names to the level OF
mOrals.-Dr. Peabody.
Try it on broken tbill, or any wood
work that has been split. Put it on wet
and nail fast. Thin skins make the
best bag strings in the world 4 raw
hide rope is a good substitute for
chain. Il is valuable to mend broken
link in a trsce-ohain. For some purpo-
ses it is best to use It IN its natural
state. For other purposes it may be
dressed soft.-Jour7aal Of Chemistry.
It is related OF the G rmau musician
AIoschelas that, soon after his arrival in
England, he was asked at dinner what
fruit he would take. Some sneers,
be answered Il afterward appeared
that he had endeavored TO frame Eng
lish phrases according TO the dictionary,
and having read In that, that 'fNOt to
care hg" meant ''to sneerata person,
ne concluded that "sneer" was syno-
nym Of "hg."
How watehful Wa must be 70 keep
the chrystal we'll clear, that it be not
made turbid by our contact with the
world, 30 that it will not reflect objects.