The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-11-27
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.

| VON ARNINT has no traditional ground
for loving the Napoleon family. Five
of his fathers eleven brothers fell at
| Waterloo.
WHEN we see a young man that
spends all he earns We are inclined to
suspect that he does not always earn
all ne spends go
EVERY German steamer arriving in
New Yolk brings not less than thou
sand canary-birds, but our hooking
birds are not jealous. 1e
SoArE of the students at eastern col
! leges can board themselves for thirty
| five cents per week, but they don't feel
like tearing around much.
TIE annual product of American
watches, Notwithstanding the dull
times, exceeds 200, 600, and the capital
invested reaches So, 900, 600.
CoLoRADo started a college a few
weeks ago, and up to date its inmates
consist of one woman, three Indians,
a buffalo calf and professor of botany.
DECLINING A KISS
Said the master to Mary, sweet-lipped lass,
AS she stood in her place at the head Of her
class.
s'You can. nv dear, decline e kiss no doubt ?"
81 can" =" she replied. with blush and pOut,
And 3 glance to the masters heart deeply
But. sir, If you please, would much rather
not"
THE highest prize in a Chinese lottery
is twenty-nine cents, and the man who
draws it has his name in the papers
and is looked upon as heap of fei-
low.
DIo LEWIS has been heard from again.
He says that Goldfish gravy is the best
food for Respondent persons, as it i'm
parts cheerfulness. Pass the Goldfish
gravy. @
EE1s are only twenty dollars per bar
rel in Boston, but who'd pay twenty
dollars for q barrel of eels when he can
buy big anaconda for twenty-five dol
lars and fifty cents
NINE. PozzoNI, the new 17ris71a donna
In Paris, is said to have 'the divinest
arms and shoulders" Added to which
there is a sort of "vocal peaches and
cream" quality about her singing.
WHEN a Peoria youth goes TO spark
girl he finds the old lady in one corner
of the room, the old man in another,
and dog under the melOdeOn, and he
is required to speak up like an oratcr T.
Rev. Mr.. OsBoREE of Florida. speak
ing at a recent meeting of the National
Holiness association, urged the people
to seek salvation from tobacco, from
croquet, and from Freemasonry."
TIE Paris Journal says that ex- Queen
Isabella, of Spain, is about TO sell her
diamonds. estimated at a value Of
twelve millions of francs. They viii
be disposed of by auction IN London.
SOME old letters have been ndiseoyeTed
which 90 to show that William Penn
-, hn Ind NJ
rob them while they we're drunk. From
what we have seen of Mr.. Penn we
can't believe it.
He comes notI Yea, he cometh Wherefore
wait
At casemate or at door his step to greet
Thou tbink'st perehAnce to catch him at tho
And stsv the passing Of his rapid feet.
Yet are thou sure the chambers are all meet,
In order set to serve his royal stateg-
The banquet laid, the crown above the seat,
Fresh rushes strewn, and all things adequate?
He comes not? Yea, he cometh-needeth not
Thy watching and thy waiting. He seeks
As surely as the mountain stream the sea-
He cometh nor hath e'er one life forgot.
But when he neareth, saying: Here am T."
Shall he find all things at, or pass thee by
DYING the other day, Georgia man
took his wife's hand and said 60 Susan,
you've been a good wife We've lived
together thirty-two years, and i never
found button eff my shirt III speak
a good word for you as soon as I git
thar 70 l
BoAsTFUD Texas sheet: eve know
some men who can take their pint a
day, and some who take their quart,
but to find a man whose standard is as
high as a gallon is rare. Sherman has
a man who boasts of chambering that
quantity" zs ..s
DEXTER is fed low, according to pre-
vailing ideas of horse diet. He has not,
in Mr.. Bonner's hands, been treated to
more than nine quarts of oats day,
quart or two of bran and few wisps of
hay, given carefully and with great
regularity.
THE changes In styles for gentlemen's
clothing are cas- ~ noted, viz: Coats are
much longer ; pRntaloons are larger and
straight, without "spring" at the foot;
vests are invariably of the material Of
the coat black and very dark gray
English goods are used.
TIE truth of Gen. Sherman's com
plant that the American soldier is over
worked, is touchingly confirmed by a
recent picture of the o'eTlabored victim
marching against the Indians, with one
hand grasping his trusty rifle and the
other holding on to his unreliable
scalp.
THE beauty Of keeping q goat is that
he isn't particular what you feed him
on. A Buffalo Billy got into the house
the other day during the famlly's alb
sence, and managed TO make respee-
table meal of a Panama hat, three linen
bosom shirts, box of Havana cigars,
and part Of a new bonnet.
AN Indiana editor who Prides himself
on his descriptive powers says: Mr..
Weller. of Columbus, was playing with
his pretty little ivory-handled revolver,
when the beauty went OF with loud
roar, and Mr.. Weller began exeeutinga
frantic pas de seal, with a bullet hole
in his No. 10 boot He now has re-
volver for sale"
THE papers get a good deal OF adver-
tising by keeping this item before their
readers: GA family IN Florida lost
their little boy, and advertised for him.
That very afternoon an alligator cfawled
no out Of the swamp and died on
the front doorstep. In his stomach
was found a handful of red hair, some
bone buttons. a pair Of boot heela,
glass alley, pair OF check pants, aDu
E. RaPsF 00iiA'' 10 ''''' '-''--'H' '''D
OUR hard times have reached China.
In that country the demand for silk
worm eggs is 50 much smaller than usual
that there is great distress through
out the country. So, if ones resources
are shortened on this side of the world.
his numerous daughters buy fewer silks.
and the manufacturer makes fewer calls
for his raw uaafarial ana ~ = ~.ooc