The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-12-25
SAYINGS AND DOINGs.


A WISCONSIN man recently killed sir
: skunks in one day. After interviewing,
the first one he became reckIe~ and Sc
: kept on.
In riding on the "raiI " alvsvs take
! a seat just In front of a fat old gentle
man. In case of a collision he breaks
the fall wonderfully.
"OH, George, your sister Is a n,ce
girl, but she does dress her head up
So" eyes" said George "but il is
the fashion; there's nothing in it, you
know"
FARMERS in want of market. and
desirOus of finding one in foreign conn
tries, should remember that one manu-
factory at home, employing one hun
dred men, viii support an additional
| five hundred people.
PRINCE BISMARCK is compared bv soma
one to a crOp-eared bull dog In appear
ance. His bald head and thick form
encased In the ungraeeful soldiers coat
are said to aid in the illusion. He holds
on well, too.
A WRITER IN the Montgomery Adve1-
tiser ascribes all the troubles at the
| South TO cheap shot guns, powder and
! lead. He says the shooting of inseeti-
vorous birds has this wear cost Alabama
alone. more than $4,000, 600 in the
ravages done by the caterpillar.
TIE noblest thing on earth is the msn
who rises to the dignity of self-mastery.
| The man who can refuse indulgence to
! a clamoring desire, can hold the craving
appetite ungrstified and say to the
rising passion, Peace, be still 20 is q
true hero.
"SIR, " said an astonished landlady to
traveller who had sent his cup forward
very fond of coffeeP'' siYes, madam,
I am" ne replied, cor I should never
have drank so much water to get lit
tIe."
WHETHER you work for fame, for
love, for money or for anything else,
work with your hands, heart and brain.
Say, "I will I" and some day you will
conquer. Never let any man have it to
say, " 1 have dragged you up" Too
many friends hurt a man more than
none at all.
THESE propositions are too absurd to
be entertained for a moment by think
ing people. Every delay in the prep
sration for final resumption partakes
of this dishonesty, and is only less in
degree as the bone is held out to con-
venient season.
Two negro girls in want of a new bon
net, placed distractions on the VIII
mington and Weldon railroad, nesr
Warsaw, the other day, for the purpose
of killing some ladies on the train, that
they might secure the bonnets. They
have been tried before a magistrate and
sent to Dublin jail SEcf'lHGti En-
g1siTeT.
An agent of the Massachusetts board
of health is travelling on the railroads
Of that State testing the air in the cars,
more particularly in the smoking-c cars.
He carries pair of bellows and small
vial, partly filled with a fluid, into
which the arr is forced with the bel
lows, and subsequently it is analyzed
and the impurities separated.
A Boston paper says: Almost every
day deserving girls apply at the bureau
for work, who have been without food
forstwenty-four and fOrty-eight hours.
Only last week a nice New England
girl, born on New Hampshire farm,
dropped on the floor from utter exhaus-
ton, when it was found that IN four
days she had eaten nothing but two
buns.
A CoRREsPoNDENr of the London
Times. accredited as one "whose IL
tere st it is" TO know, states that the
actual number of the regular German
army is 1924. $40 men, ont of whom
401, 639 are always on active service,
and BOA, 900 more can be modified In
eight DAYS. The remainder can be
mObilized in q few days more. The
new law on the lRndstrum viii add TO
tba 5izv,osol,Ia Foyoa oI,Ouk am lfs0 men
One of Boston's sources of revenue is
its rum trade with the Gold Coast of
Africa. At the time the British au-
thorities raised the duty On the yum
last year to sixty cents a gallon, there
we're seven American vessels on the
coast, with about 3s7, 900 gallons, two
other vessels were on their way from
Boston with 145, 600 gallons more, and
another vessel (the Starr KinR) was
getting ready to start with a matter OF
rs, 900 more. We leave it to whether
this isn't rather dubious business Tor
Massachusetts merchants to be engaged
Springfield Republican.
A YOUNG lady IN Paris, KY, remarked
to a companion, in q conversation the
other daY, that she would never paint
her cheeks again before attending fu-
neral. s'Why not ?" asked her friend.
&" Because, replied the young lady, II
was painted up when I attended fu-
neral last summer, and never wanted to
cry so bad in nv life, and was getting
NV handkerchief ready, when, glsne1Dg
around at, saw that coarse, yellow
skin of hers, through the tear tracks,
and it looked horrible. never had
such hard work to hold my tears IL
since I was born. Tn done painting
for funerals"
M1Sy RELIGIOUS people think it is nee
essarv TO deceive children. An English
teacher relates this story 70 show that
the little one ought to be deceived
81 A little girl was once asking her older
sister about heaven. DO they play
IN heaven? p she inquired. No, they
do not play there What do they do
there?' They sing and are good.
& Are there no toys there?' No, not
anv.' NO dolls, nor balls. nor Noah's
arks?' 'Oh, no = Then, said the
little one, I shall take my doll and go
30 hell. ," "Luther," this same teach
pr said, ''wrote letter 10 his son, IN
which he told Of the boys and girls
who play about the golden streets and
have ponies and horses 20 ride upon"
TIE statue Of StonewaII Jackson, ex-
scuted by the late AIr. Foley, the we'll
known English sculptor. for the city of
S. c., is now nearly COM
pleted at the Manor foundry at Chel-
sea, near London. The general is rep
resented as standing with a drawn
in the right hand. The
hand rests on the sword hjlt, and the
point of the weapon is placed upon q
vafaoo eF rner A. the side Of the figuFa