The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-02-07


like to hear the dogs side of the story.
TIE following hit at the water-cure
was made by Charles Lamb, and none
but himself could have made so quaint
a conceit. 1t is, said he, neither new
nor wonderful, for it is as old as the
deluge, which, in my opinion, killed
more than it cured.
TITS a good investment to have good
nature, and so much of it that you ex-
hale it, as flowers do their odors for
you do not know who viii take the
comfort of it, though there may be
hundreds and thousands that you never
heard of who will be recipients of the
blessed influence of your disposition
I. Beecher
JONES had worried Smith with con
undrums very often, and now it was
Smiths turn. Guess what I did last
night? said Smith. Jones thought of
various and sundry improbable things,
suggested the making of a speech, the
doing of kindness, the getting him
self into the lookup, and finally gave
up the conundrim in despair. Well,
said Smith in a triumphant tone, Islept.
AMONG the gifts which have been
made to humanity, none, in the lower
sphere of virtues, should call forth our
thankfulness more than the gifts of
cheerfulness, and wit, and humor.
They civilize life. They carry with
them perpetual blessing. If any man
have buoyancy, if he find himself given
to wit, in the name of heaven do not
suppress it. Multiply the drops which
spring out of that precious fountain.
There is life in it Beecher.
As THERE has been a good deal said of
the danger to health of the sewing ma
chine, it is worth while to mention that
DR.. Parker recently read a paper on the
subject before the State Medical Society
of Virginia, in which he maintained than
fatigue is not disease; that there is no
reason to conclude that the use of the
reasonable time is injurious and that
machine may be used by a woman for
four or five hours daily, if she be in or
binary health, without injury.
HERIDAN agreed with Walker that the
pronunciation of wind should be wynd,
but insisted, contrary to Walker, that
gold should be gooId. Sheridan tells
us that Swift used to jeer those who
pronounced wind with short /, by say
ing, [ have a great minn'd to finn'd why
A.
critic retorted this upon Sheridan by
saying, if I may be SO boold, I should
be glad to be toold why you pronounce
it gooId.
Nor over 80 miles east of Auburn, on
the line of the Central Pacific railroad,
there lives a man whose sense of hear
ing is not very acute, as viii appear
from the following F: He was hunting
for game about mile distant from his
residence, when a grouse few up and
lit on tree on the hillside; and the
same moment travler approached and
inquired the distance to the next station.
Deaf man (pOinting)-He few right up
there. Traveler-How far is it to the
next station ? Deaf mantle lit right
up there. Traveler-You must be a d-n
fool. Deaf man-Yes, there is a great
many around this time of the year.
IT IS not the great matters, the
! supreme joys, which fasten upon the
human heart with such force, but the
small interests and pleasures I'M
noticeable vioIets-frOm which the
departure is so painful. When some
pitless fate has grasped with iron
hand the fortune of a whole life, a
heroic will stands up in a mans breast,
and cries in calm defiance, ''Talze it then
I can live my life without it ;" and then
a noble self-respect over-masters the
pain of bereavment, and we stand firmly
and proudly among the ruins of our
hopes. But when fate seizes upon one
great expectancy after another, takes
one flower after another from our lives,
and color after color fades out of the
picture of our day, till at last it lies
before us cold and gray-then a name
less sorrow comes upon them, anand
he feels his heart shaken within him.
The Limitations of Education.
We have spent two generations now
in praising education and endeavoring
to Guido one another IN our estimates of
what it was possible for education to do.
But in our enthusiasm we have over
praised it. There are many things that
the most careful education cannot do.
And the sooner we come to understand
our limitations, the more wisely we
shall carry forward our work. Take
even the matter of temper The child
who is quick or violent in his passions
will always be so. How many mothers
have sunk down in dependency be-
cause they could not eradicate a violent
temper You could more easily make
blue eyes black. People talk of sub
DUNG strong-willed child, of breaking
the force of his will. You may change
the manner of the action of his will, but
you cannot break the will unless you
break the boy. And just such hopeless
things are undertaken in educational
institutions. Boys are sent to college
Who should have Eaan se,7t oDIvvIara