The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-05-29
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.
,enius.-DisrdeLi,

YOUTH is genius. -DisrGetf.
PUBLIC opinion is a second conscience
Alger.
THE two coIors which are indiscerna-
ble are invisible green and blindman's
/ buff.
THERE is one town in Connections
| that is not afraid of the measles. It's
| HRddam.
THE subject of cream-ation, says the
| Graphic, might with propriety be dis
cussed during the berrying season.
CoLoRADo prefers cross-eyed womens
as they have bettsr facilities for per
ceiving the approach of Indians.
THOMAS THUMB and wife have set out
on their annual farewell tour around
| the country. and will wind up the show
business in about twenty years more.
WOMEN are fast becoming familiar
/ with politics. We have heard of We
| man who believes so thoroughly in in
| fation that she blows her husband up
/ three times a day.
! The Mobile Register asks: "Why
| should not the federal government build
| and keep up the levees on the Mlssls-
/ sippi river, as we'll as build breakwaters
on the Atlantic ocean ??
AsMAnL Aberdeen child, being asked
/ by her Sunday school teacher, What
| did the Israelites do after they crossed
| the Red sea ? answered, 1 do not know,
ma'am but perhaps they dried them
! selves.
| THE Rev. Adirondack Murray says he
/ doesn't believe in horse-racing, but If
any fellow comes dashing up behind
! with the expectation of passing him on
the road, he will find himself most
-nably mistaken.
SHE lives in Douglas county, Oregon;
has been married eight times, has eight
living husbands, and resides with none
of them. Her daughter, aged twenty
three, with energetic emulation, has dis
posed of three husbands.
No earnest thinker is a plagiarist
pure and simple. He will never borrow
from others that which he has not al
ready. more or less, thought out for
himself. Charles Kingsley.
DAWN
There ia a solemn stiffness in the air;
The moon attended by single star
Shines high in placid ether; eastward far
Along the horizons edge, there Is a glare
OF orange brilliance, and above 1t fair
And paly blue the sky, without a bsr
OF streaky cloud the pure expanse to mar,
Is tinctured with the coming splendor. There!
The fulgent head springs, and a million rays
Dazzle nv study-room is charmed with light,
A golden picture OF its window plays
On the green bookcase, and shadOwy wight
Behind me sits, and, as ] turn my gaze,
Mocks all my motions like an elfsh sprlte-
ADELrNA PATTI, the fair Marquis of
Caux, is said to be growing enormously
fat. Several cabinet councils have been
held at ST. Petersburg about it, and the
car offers a liberal reward for the dis
oovery of any means to thin her out.
A ST.. LOUIS lawyer asked witness in
| court. s'Did you ever know Mr.. Suther-
/ land to 90 back on bargain ?" The
opposing counsel objected to the ques-
ton on the ground that it was not gram
maticaI, and the judge sustained the.
objection.
AN engineer on the Western North
Carolina railroad shouted to a crowd of
rustics, who had gathered to see the
first train of cars come in, Put down
your umbrellas you'll scare the engine
off the track u The umbrellas were
lowered at once.
CHARLES AUGUSTUS, who was married
to the daughter of very honest but
somewhat impecunious parents just
after the panic, says he did not find it.
half so hard to get married as he did to,
get the furniture.
A Boston millionaire offered a man
two dollers and half tie other day for
stopping a runaway team and saving
the life of his daughter. He can't hope
to be a millionaire long if he is going
to squander his money In that way.
IF you suppress the exorbitant love
of pleasure and money, idle curiosity,
iniquituous pursuits and wanton mirtb,
what a stiffness there weulG be IN the
great cities The necessaries of life
do not occasion at most third part OF
the hurry. -Brlyere.
A Missouri clergyman stopped his
discourse to cut of a liberal piece of
plug tobacco for his mouth. and when
one of his hearers reproved him, the
preacher started for Kansas, where the
folks aren't so particular, and where
plug tobacco and patriotism go hand in
hand.
CONFIRMED old topper soliloquizes
" They say whisky is a curse. And
they say brandy is a curse. And they
say tobacco is another curse. Well, I
wish all those curses would come home
to roost, and roost low, at that, SO as I
could pull 'em down whenever 1 want
ed EN-"
Miss LESTER, of Baltimore, has sent
to Tennyson q wild daisy picked from
Poe's grave. The package was tied
with a white satin ribbon, upon which
was written, THE only blossom from
the nameless and neglected grave of
Edgar Allen Poe, 1874" It was the
only flower TO be found on or near the
desolate place.