The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-08-28
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.


her spectacles the other day.
Coz. EGFEToN, in the house of Com
| mons, said philanthropy is so energetic
that SIT requires a good deal of infiu-
ence nowadays to get hanged.
INDIANAPOLIS women are relating 1T
tie "reminiscences of how they used to
romp with Henry Ward Beeeher. ''But,
sir, " they add, 90 I was very young!
GREAT efforts are being made to in
duce Liszt to visit this country. One
manager offered him l, 900, 000f. for one
season, but the Abbate politely declined.
A GERMAN at Terre Haute, Ind, sold
| last year, Is, 600 pounds of grapes raised
I on land, which, the same season, would
not have produced so bushels of corrl.
"I SHALL awaken in HEAVIER" wrote a
| Boston girl before taking arsenic. But
| she took too much for a death dose, and
awoke with a stomach-pump down her
throat"
at AM golng-I know I am, said
! dying AIississippian, 90 and believe I'd
90 easier if jim would get down the
| fiddle and play 'Sore heel Sally once
more" Jim did.
! A WESTERN postmaster writes to the
acknowledgement ''that hell will be
| full of country postmasters b fore long
| if they do not get more pay than IS al
| lowed this Office"
| AN ACCOUNT of a fire in England fur
nishes a valuable hint to volunteer tire
| departments. ''The London Scottish
was the first regiment on the alert, hay-
ing no trousers to put on, and the hre
was soon exinPuished.
BATHING cloaks, which are to be put
on dry when leaving the water, and
worn across the beach to conceal the
moist figure, are made of Turkish towel
ing, trimmed with oriental braiding,
and cut loose and very long.
THE potato bug is pushing the Span
| ieh fiv out of the pharmacOpeia as a
blisterer. An Indianapolis drug-house
has Just received an order for thousand
pounds Of him. We always knew the
potato bug was good for something.
McGRArH has had an operation per-
formed on the feet of Tom Bowling.
As the operation was radical and Sc
we're, it is safe to predict that the
! mighty son of Lexington and Lucy
Fowler viii not appear upon the course
in G race again this season.
OUR TREASURES
Nothing is our own ; we hold our pleasures
Just a little while ere they are ned;
One by enc life robs US OF our treasures
Nothing is our own except our dead.
! They are ours, and hold in faithful keeping.
Safe forever, all they took away.
Cruel life can never stir that sleeping,
| Cruel time can never seize that prey
THE Japanese, who are an initiative
people, have planned within a few years
a magnificent system of education. It
has three branches-the ''Great Learn
ing" which includes eight univer-
sites; the "Middle Learning" which
includes the provincial colleges; and the
"Small Learning 4" which is for the mass
of the people, The system has been
based upOn the result of observations
in the United States, where the mass of
the people have small learning
THE house at Kissingen, occupied by
the " Iron Prince, as the German
papers style him now, IS distinguished
by seven bombs, which it received from
the Prussians IN 1866, and which we're
left immured in it. A peasant OF the
environs, to whom the Prince, incog-
nito, showed the proper way of moving
meadows, has, since the thing got
abroad, refused large sums offered for
the scythe with which the Chancellor
exemplified his practical knowledge OF
farming.
THE NIGHT clerk of a Burlington no
tel was startled about IL o'clock the
other night by the following converse
ton. at q time when he supposed he was
alone in the office: "Come along, you
hoodlum, let's go up stairs" $50
nothin'," was the gruff rely, "let's
wait till the midnight train comes in
there's nothing You can get blood out OF
IN the house now" And the amazed
and Mortified clerk could see. nobody in
the room except two old gray mOsqui-
toes, doing on Saratoga trunk.
J THE BEST THINGS
The sweetest songs are those
| That few men ever hear
And no men ever sing.
The clearest skies are those
| That farthest OF appear
To birds OF strongest wing.
The dearest loves are those
That no man come near
With his best following.
LAST March q man named Emory
] Prabtle, a mechanic in the employ of
| the Michigan car company, made bet
1 with another man as to which could lon
ger hold out the handles of an electric
battery which a travelling nuisance had
2 on the Campus Martins. Prattle won
{ the bet, but at heavy cost. His system
3 received such shock that mp to this
time he has not been able 10 do days
= work. He has fallen away from pow
I erfuj, heavy man to q skeleton almost,
t and his physician cannot say that he
? will ever be restored to health.
HERE, now, is a bit of frescoing that
: is quite fresh. A negro woman living
near Carlisle, Kentucky, for the last
forty years-Jane Young, black as the
ace of spades-began about four years
E ago to change color, and gradually
! grew white, until she bleaohed out TO
> a tolerably fair complexion. Within n
r few weeks past her original black color
commenced return. showing itself In jet
black spots at different places on her
face. Men who understand about cut
icle are looking over the old lady's fea-
: lures to see what they can make out of It.
: BAILEY, of the Danbury News, relates
a a story of an American In London who
b could not find in any of the London
|, shops genuine Yankee chewing tobacco.
4 He was an inveterate chewer, and was
K nearly driven to distraction at not being
d able to find the weed Finally he called
2 upon the American minister, and asked
!. for q chew That gentlemen informed
70 him that he did not use the stuff In any
e but cigar form. The disappointed man
e sailed for home the next day. This re-
= calls the old lady Who called upon Mr..
Z. Washburne IN Paris and asked to look
e at the Brooklyn directory
e MISS LEIGH, an English lady living
= in'Paris, Is engaged IN the benevolent at
. tempt to secure building IN the French
s capital as a home for poor English girls
70 who go there with the desire Of per
2 fecting themselves IN the French Ian
guage, without which they are often un-
able to hold situations in England as
re goyernesses or shop-women. In Paris