The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-05-16
GRAVD AND GAY.
A NOTICE of a peal-Lightning.

He who has not the weakness of
friendship has not the strength.-Joa5-
| bert.
That is a most wretched fortune
which is without an enemy.-Pu6Lius
Syru8.
To be good and disagreeaDle at the
same time is high treason against virtue.
GREAT warriors, like great earth
quarkes, are principally remembered
for the mischief they have DONE
BoUee.
An epicurean has discovered that the
pIeasantest way to take cod-liver oil is
to fatten pigeons with it, and then eat
the pigeons.
HERo1sM is active genius; genius,
contempIative heroism. Heroismis the
self-devotion of genius manifesting it
self in action.
WHAT is the difference between a Jew
and a lawyer ?-The one gets his law
from the prophets, the other his profits
from the law.
THE labor of the body relieves us
from the fatigues of the mind and this
is it which forms the happiness of the
poor.-Rochefoucauld
IT is the mind that makes the body
rich and as the sun breaks through the
darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the
meanest habit.
THERE would not be half the difficult
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occurrence of cases where the lesser vir-
tues are on the side Of wrong.-J c.
Hare.
Man is physically as well as meta
physically a thing of shredsand patches,
borrowed unequally from good and bad
ancestors, and a misfit from the start
Emerson.
The fact that the old Greeks used to
laugh over the same good jokes that we
| dO,.Ieads DR.. Hopkins to remark that
Irish bulls were once calves in Greece.
-AdUance.
ABAsEArENT sometimes becomes de-
basement, and when I hear people sing
a hymn announcing that they are dying
worms, [ always'want to administer
vermifuge Lonqte5Zo1U.
SOME people are never cOntented.
After having all their limbs broken,
their heads smashed, and their brains
knocked out, they viii actually go to
law and try to get further damages.
A MAN, after waItzing six times with
one lady at a ball, was asked if he was
fond of dancing. o nc, replied the
youth, I don't care for it, but my doc
tor advised me to-day to take a sweat,
and this is cheaper than Turkish-bath.
A KINGS fool who was condemned to
to die was allowed to chose the form of
death, and chose old age. An Iowa girl
being asked what form of death she
preferred, remarked that if she must
die she preferred to be smothered-I
with kisse5.
NEVER put much confidence in such
as put no confidence in others. A man
prone to suspect evil is mostly looking
in his neighbor for what he sees in
himself. AS to the pure all things are
pure, even so to the impure all things
are impure.-J @. Hare.
II YOU wish particularly to gain the
good graces and affection of certain peo-
pie, men or women, try to discover their
most striking merit, if they have one,
and their dominant weakness
every one has his own, then do justice
to the one, and little more than Justice
to the other. -CheaterfeJd.
A MAN once went to a lawyers Office
and told the legal gentleman that he
had been insulted by a man who told
him to go to, and desired to know
what he should do. The lawyer suave-
Iy said: I wouldn't advise you to go:
the law dosen't compel you.
An intelligent Aberdeen preacher re-
Gently took for his text, "Adam, where
art thou ?'' and divided his subject into
three distincts parts 1st, all men are
somewhere; I'd, some men are where
they ought not to be; and 3d, unless
they take care, they VIII find themselves
where they would rather not be.
PEOPLE are fond of talking about the
extravagances of genius, the exaggera-
tions Of the imagination, and when they
meet with something very extravagant
and exaggerated, they regard this as a
proof that the writer's imagination was
so violent and uncomfortable, it quite
ran awaw with him. One might as well
deem gouty legs symptomatic of
strength and agility. Exaggerations
mostly arise from feebleness and torpOr
of imagination. It is because we feel
ourselves unlbIe to vivify an object in
its full, calm reality that we mouth and
sputter. Glesses at Truth.
A FARMER, who was sympathizing with
a neighbOF on the death of his son, said:
You should recollect, Neighbor Jones,
there IS no loss without some gain.
John, you remember, was always a
nonsirous eater. I know he was, re-
-sponded the bereaved parent; but to
think he was laid up with rheumatism
all winter and died just in haying time
is prettyrough.
A wELL-KNowS English divine, oppos-
ed to reform in spelling as in every
thing else, once declared that the fear
full orthography Of English formed the