The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-15
HAPPY THOUGHTS.
Tales of a Grandfather.

. Giady girls, you may laugh at your grandpa
And enjoy putting pins in his chair,
Doubled up is this figure, and furrOwed thi
/ Very scant are these teeth and this hair.
/ You may speak of me still in your soft prett
I As the quaintest old image unhung;
But fond recollection survives my decay
I was very gOOd-looking when young.
Half century does make sort Of q kind
OF a difference mark you, my dears,
And the brief way TO reckon my age up, L mad
Is in tens OF in dozens Of years.
must be about eighty or so, by the clock,
But my mind is q little unstTung,
And my talent for counting has come 10 block
I brilliant at figures when young.
In the dash-aIong, hard-living regency days
| I was prince of the fashion and style,
When drove in the park with carriage and bays,
Even Brummen bent low at my smile. .
What was gold 2 A mere nothing. In pleasure and
Far and wide it got scattered and fungS
For, though now on the parish, proudly can say
I was rolling in riches when young.
o the flirting and frOlic and fun that had
I was called Adonis in curls.
There was many feminine heart very sad
When I married your grandmother, girls.
I had rivals hut what a rival to me
An baiie ,i me- the :gnaiiid old paIlrer You see
was dashing Don Juan when young
London Fun.
A TAKING paper-The sherif's war
rant.
SPIRITUALIsTs' paper-CW)rapping pa
per.
that differs from ones own
Minnesota expects to harvest 80
OOO, 900 bushels of wheat this year.
"a lrYrH-The gentlemanly hotel
clerk " so much spoken of.
BREACH of good manners-For ruin
to stare you in the face,
WHY didn't a dog want place in the
ark? Because he had bark of his
own.
WHAT kind of essence does a young
man like when he pops the question? ?
Acquiescence.
A young Englishman has recovered.
heavy damages from tailor who sent
him an insoIent dun on a postal card.
Dm'sr thou say thou wilt live to-
morrow? He is the wise man who lived
yesterday.-Martial.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY wants the name of
the Pullman cars altered either to Pull
man-and-woman or pull-irrespective-of-
sex cars.
"C-C-C-can that p-p-p-parrot talk ?
asked a suffering man of German.
- ' en- he don talk so gOOJef as you,
schop, by tam, his head off. D."
In Louisiana few months ago a court
awarded negro woman $75, 600 from a
steamboat captain because he refused
to sell her ticket for cabin passage.
A GAS leak in Mt. Pleasant parlor
broke up a love match. Before they
discovered what it was, the couple
quarreled about which one had the bad
breath.
SAYS a country parsOn g After much
reflection have come to the conclusion
that the souf is in the shape of a right
angle triangle, and is situated in the
small of the back.
Nor in the sky, not in the sea, not if
we enter into the clefts of the noun
tains, isthere known spot in the whole
world where a man might be freed from
an evil deed.-HindOO lOrOUerb.
THEY say that a certain professor of
married his wife to try expe-
riments with her, and that when his
mother-in-Iaw died the old fossil smiled
so as to look almost human.
UNDERGOING his examination, a med
ical student was asked what was the
mode of action of disinfectants. He re-
Piled, they smell so badly that the peO-
pie open the windows and the fresh air
gets in.