The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-10-16
RATES OF ADvERTIs1Ke.
SAYINGS AND DOINgs.

e ACCORDING to Miss Lille Edgertop,
the chief end of man is ''to serve God,
/ keep out of the penitentiary, make good
investments, and have fine obitusry,I
BRIGHAM YoUNG's physician feels Of
the old mans pulse, tells him to run
? out his tongue and then shakes his
head and remarks I" I dunno-I dun
no."
? KATE FIELD says she is conscious that
. "the man doesn't live who can boast
that he has held her hand more than
two or three seconds at a time" No
! one to love.
SOME people complain about their
children being non-observing, but we'd
like to see the child who won't observe
how the family pie is cut and who gets
the biggest piece.
BALTIMORE has got church spire fif-
teen feet higher than any in Boston, and
she chuckles and grins and pokes Bos-
ton in the ribs about it. It isn't fash
ionable to belong to q church with a
spire less than two hundred feet high.
That was beautiful thought of the
poet that woman cliDgs to a man like
the IVY" But is it always true? How
many baldheaded men can testify that
40 woman ever clung to them like the
ivy but what she let go like graphing
iron.
DIR. MARY WALKER, who parts her
clothes in the middle, is authority for
the statement of John Stuart Mill that
! petticOats are but another name for
passiveness that corsets signify coer-
| aion, and that the trail is embodied
| thraldom.
TIE following epitaph appears on a
! tombstone in Thompson, Connecticut {:
Here lies the body of Jonathan Rich
| aTdson, who never sacrificed his reason
/ at the altar of superstitiOn's god, and
who never believed that Jonah swallow
ed whale"
/ THREE Highlanders sat by their toddy
| on a rainy day, and as an Englishman
vas present they INDUCED themselves
in the idioms of his country. One said,
"T This Is the best whisky I never tasted
any more" The second said, $50 did
neither" The third concluded,
| &c Neither did too.
THEY have found in Holcomb valley,
/ California, a meteorological marvel,
/ mountain of gold bearing quartz. 1t is
I twelve miles from Bear lake, above
/ which it rises 800 feet. The crown Of
! the mountain is said to be a mass of
/ gold-bearing rock, 80 feet high, 100
/ feet wide and about two miles IN length.
The assays have yielded $40 ton.
THREE SEASONS
"a cup for hope!" she said,
/ In spring-time, ere the bloom was old
The crimson wine was poor and cold
By her mouths richer red.
"a cup for love :" how low,
How soft the words and al the while
Her blush WIS ripping with smile,
Like summer after snow.
g 4 cup for memory :"
! Cold cup that one must drain alone;
While autumn winds arc up and moan
Across the barren sea.
Hope, memory, love,
FnTNa fort asr rT1nrar and Inyra for Il
And memory for the evening gray
And solitary dove.
JEROME BoNAPARTE, the second son
of the deceased nephew of the great
Napoleon, has been recently admitted
to the bar at Baltimore, and his first
plea was pronounced an admirable eff
fort, full of promise of future distinc-
ton. He is described as a fine looking
young man of grave aspect, with an ad-
mirably formed head, and face full of
intellectual expression.
A KANSAS lady, writing of grasshop-
per visitation in Marshall county, says
Next day the cornields looked like
plantations of bayonets. They ate the
tops of vegetables, then the roots, leav-
ing hole in the gr0und, In the alb
sence of other fruit, we have been
counting greatly on the peaches the
trees are stripped, only the stones left
hanging on by the STEMS"
ETERNITY is a solemn word and sol
emn world. The soul of man shTinks
back with dismay and dread from enter
ing that mysterious abode of spirits.
And yet all are on their way to eternity,
and must soon enter it, and enter it
alone. But how little think the gay and
pleasure loving, who tread so near its
dark shores, how soon they must launch
away on that untried ocean.
AN AMERICAN millionaire has given
an order to Dresden for a dinner ser
vice. 1t consists of eleven hundred
pieces, into which fifty different shades
and colOrs are introduced. The plates
and dishes for each course are of differ
ent pattern, and in the centre of each
plate is an enameled landscape, and on
each dish copy of some celebrated
piece of statuary. The cost is s., 600
gold.
BUNYAS, the author of "PiIgrim's
Progress" on being cast into prison,
made flute of one of the rails OF the
stool belonging TO his cell. The keeper
often heard sweet music, but could not
trace it, as Bunyan on his approach al
ways replaced the rail in the stool. The
officers searched in vain for the myste-
rious sounds, but Bunyan kept his Sc
cret, and the baffied men we're forced TO
believe them supernatural.
REPORTS from seventeen cotton facto-
ries near Augusta have been received,
which show that the whole consumption
of the seventeen mills during the past
year to Aug. 81, was 10, ,361 bales Of
cotton. During the last quarter of the
year they consumed 3, 1926 bales. Six Of
these mills ran TO their full capacity,
and eleven did not. Had all run to
their full capacity, they would have
consumed 3,053 bales more than the
above total indicates.
THOUGHT engenders thought Place
one idea upon paper-another viii fol-
low it, and still another, until you have
written a page. You cannot fathom
your mind. There is a well of thought
there which has DO bottom. The more
YOU draw from it, the more clear and
fruitful will it be. If you neglect to
think for yourself and use other peoples
thoughts-giving them utterance only
YOU viii never know what you are capa-
BILE Of At first your ideas may come
out in Jumps, homely and shapeless
but no matter, time and perseverance,
will arrange an1 polish them. Learn TO
think, and you will learn TO write. The
more you think, the better you VIII ex-
press your ideas.
IT is a curious fact that Paris, with
all its love of music and amusements,
and its crowds of foreigners, can not