The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-12-19

twelve hours.
He that wants money, means and con-
tent is without three good friends
Shakespeare.
IF "T' were in the sun, and you
C''u'D were out of it, what would the
sun become {? Sin.
WIDOWS who cry most are easiest con-
soIed. There is nothing like wet wealth
er for transplanting.
A CONNECTICUT father has christened
his daughter Glycerine. She will be
good for chapped lips.
A WAC said to an egotstical writer,
Somebody should take pity on his
readers and put out his rs. -
THE wateh-dog's honest bark is not
heard in Hinsdale, N. II. Not a canine
lives within the town limits.
EVERY editorial writer on the Boston
Globe wears glasses on the nose, and all
the Louisville writers under it.
THAT state of life is most happy where
superhuities are not required and nee
essaries are not wanting. -Plutarch.
Oh, 1ovely NJ Sc Brockett,
Your eye in its socket
Is bright as a rocket
just taking its start;
And when slyly you cock it
At me, what a shock it
Sends through my vest pocket
Right into my heart.
HUMAN natur IL like COW nRtur. hav
known them both tew Civ a good mess
ov milk, and then kick it over.-Josh
Billings.
Chow is your wife ?" inquired a doc
tor of one of his patients. She is
dead, thank you" was the witty and
wicked answer.
EVERY meal is a rescue from one
death and lays up for another; and
while we think a thought we die
Jeremy Taylor.
WRITING sketch Of his life, an Irish
man says that he early ran away from
his father because he discovered that he
was only his uncle.
IiowLNEss is the base of every vir-
tue and he who goes the lowest builds
the safest. My God keeps all his pity
for the proud. Festts.
IT Is written on the sky, on the pages
of the air, say the Orientals, that good
deeds shall be done to him who does
good deeds to others.
ANNA DICKINSON kept a Syracuse
audience waiting half an hour, the
other night, because her green dress
with trail had not come.
A MoDERN thinker says that many
people will be astonished when they
get to heaven, by finding angels laying
no schemes to be archangels.
TIE only original Venus viii come
between us and our sun in 1874, bat
the other Venuses continue to come be-
tween us and our sons frequently.
PASSION makes the best observations
and the most wretched conclusions. 1t
is a telescope whose field is so much
the brighter as it is narrower.-BtcI'teT.
The epitath of a resurectionist The
following jocose treatment of grave
subject is from BlackWood's Magazine;
Here lies an honest man, my brothers,
Who raised himself by raising others.
Anxious his friends from soil to save,
His converse still was With the grave
To rescue from the tomb bis mission,
BE took men on to the physicians
And strove that all, whom death releases,
Should rest. If not in peace, IN pieces
So here he waits his resurrection,
In hopes his life may bear dissection.
NOTHING is rarer than a solitary lie;
for lies breed like Surinam toads; you
cannot tell one but out it comes with
hundred young Jones Onits back Wash
dSlgtoa ALtst0n.
THE panic has reached Utah. Bus
mess men, according 10 an exchange, are
reducing their number Of wives, and
getting rid Of their outstanding obliga-
tioDs as fast as possible.
THERE is nothing pleasanter, when In
the declining years of life, than 70 have
the boy who used to catch all the fish
and find all the berries come TO you for
the loan of half dollar. Time works
its revenge.
FoRFuEE-rE1.LIxa is wonderfully
nice. under certain circumstances, but
when you are told, as a Sixth street
Young lady was yesterday, that you are
going 70 lose your parents in year,
marry a drunken loafer with but one
eve IN two years, and die Of heart dis
ease in three, it loses half its charms.
THERE must be healthy mental action
to insure a sound physical condition,
and nothing makes a woman grow old
so fast as narrow and shallow thinking.
while nothing keeps her young and
fresh 80 long as broad and deep mental
activity. We seek afar for the fountain
of youth while it waits to spring within
us.-Ann0 Bracket.