The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-01-16
GRAVE AND GAY.

| OBRIEN, 1a., boasts OF weather "colC
enough to make a polar bear wear Arc
bic overshoes.
JACK, who is at boarding school il
the country, writes home, ''Please send
me good trap to catch a woodchucH
and piece of carpet to say my prayers
on.
FORTY pairs of hands flying wildly il
the air, forty mouths in distressful pan.
tomime. "What do you want ?" asked
the teacher. s'Your hair is falling of, ,
answered the chorus.
WHEN you have lost money in the
streets, every one is ready to help yol.
to look for it /; but when you have lost
your character, every one leaves you TO
recover it as you can.
THE arrangements of nature are ad-
mirable, exclaimed young lady dur
the late high winds. The same wind
which disarranges our dress blows dust
into the eyes of the would-be observers.
"FELLow-CITIzENs," said a colored
preacher, ''ef had been eatin' dried
apples for a week, an then took to
drinkin' for a mont, I couldn't feel more
swelled up than I am dis mint wild
pride an vanity at seein' such full ten
dance har dis evenin'."
Speaking of snow-"T'he beautiful snow"
Look at it. flying and drifting below
Filling the pavement and street with its slusb,
Making of soil an alluvial mush;
Wetting our whiskers, mustaches, and hair,
Soaking the stockings and feet of the fair;
Waking up chilblains we had when child.
Blist ring coTns till they're angry aud wild.
IL all OF the authors OF . Beautiful Snow"
Would take the snow with 'em, to regions be-
The snow and the fellers together might go.
At least they've permission, so far as we know
A LITTLE boy was recently presented
with toy trumpet, to which he became
greatly attached. One night when he
was about to be put IN his ''little bed,
and was ready to say his prayers, he
handed the trumpet to his grandmother
saying, "Here gran'ma, you blow while
1 pray"
A MILL has recently been started in
England in which -four is made by
crushing the grain by small trip-ham-
mers instead of grinding it. It is
claimed thh a pounding mill, costing
s1,OOO, will produce as mach flour in
the same time asia grinding mill worth
$1,000.
ALEXIS has besought his father not
to send him around the world again.
The stern old czar consents on condi-
tion that he will break with the girl of
his affections. She is beautiful, high
toned, amiable creature, but there ap-
pears to be something the matter with
her "blood."
DID aay Of our readers, asks the In
terror, ever know of q congregation who
went heavily in debt for a new church,
and who did not soon thereafter snub
and ship their pastor? The church
debt makes people cross, nl-natured,
critical, and the minister is the most
natural object in the world at which to
shoot splenetic arrows.
PROF. LIE CoNTE, In the American
Naturalist, in his paper on economic
entomology, gives an instance in which
all the caterpillers in a nine-acre piece
of woods were destroyed by a disease
which had been communicated to them
by a silk-worm. The same principle
might be used in destroying the cotton
worm and others of like nature.
In FORMER times the government al
lowance given to the widows of Scotch
clergymen was nearly equal to the
clergymen's stipends. A minister of
Cranshaws, a parish among the Lam
mermoors, having wooed lass in hum
BILE circumstances, the father of the
damsel, when consulted on the subject,
said, "Tak' i'm, Jenny, tax i'm, he's as
guild dead as liYin."
DAUGHTER of the house do privi-
legged old friend of the family: "Dear
Mr.. Lupus, you don't seem to be en-
ioying yourself. should like to have
you waltz this once with me-" Privi-
legged Old Friend: "My dear child, I
don't dance; but, If it suits you,
wouldn't mind sitting here with my
arm around your waist, while the 9th
ers are making themselves dizzy"