The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-02-20
GRAVE AND GAY.

As YOU receive the stranger, SO you
receive your God.-LGUGter.
A GOOD man enlarges the term of his
existe e1ce.-BfdrtiaI.
HERE is the newest floral sentiment !:
&" IF you wish for hearts ease, don't
look to marigold."
4 SINGULAR instance of seepticism is
recorded in the case of a man who said
the Bible was g too good to be true"
An Indiana man has married and
buried three sisters, and is now pros
pectipg for another family to entomb.
A FLoRD1AN heard the other day, for
the first time, the story of David and
/ Goliah, and he became SO enthusiastic
that he swung his hat and called ou5:
Bully for the fellow with the sling
THE ONLY way to make the mass of
mankind see the beauty of Justice is by
/ showing them in pretty plain terms
1 the consequence of niustice.-Sydfaey
/ Smith.
| ONE can Judge something OF the pa
tience of Hoosiers from the statement
of an Indiana paper that twenty men
4 handled over thirty five cords of wood
! TO get rabbit, which escaped after all.
The story is told of Sir Hercules
! Langrishe that, on being asked, {" Fave
| you finished all that port (three bottles)
without assistance ?" he made answer
/ &c Not quite had the assistance of
/ bottle of madeira"
| 4 SACRAMENTO dealer in hair oil, who
/ sold on the principle of "no cure, no
/ pay" has sued one of his bald-headed
customers, and the latter demands
bald-headed jury in order that he may
be tried by his peers.
IT isn't always best to call things by
their right name. A young gentleman
called a coach dog Dalmatian hound,
and was informed by his Jidncee that if
he could not refrain from profanity IN
her presence, they must heneeforth be
strangers.
WITHIN the last three months the
president has appointed thirty post
mistresses. The consequences might
have been anticipated. TwentY-seven
of them have already notified their
husbands that their services are no lon
/ ger required.
TIE happiness of life may be greatly
increased by small courtesies IN which
there is no parade, whose voice is too
still to tease, and which manifest them
| selves by tender and affectionate looks,
( and little kind acts of attention.
4 StsT7le.
/ A PHILOSOPHER remarks that there IS
something peculiarly instructive IN
standing upon a street-corner in large
4 city and watching the men all rushing
around trying to make money and the
women all floating around trying to
/ spend it.
+ The INNOCENT MAID
''AIy mother, she tells me-
/ Nature has given thee
/ Lips to speak with, my daughter my OWE
/ And so thou must use them for speaking alone
But 1rhy are they red then
White lips would answer for speaking IS well;
| And why has she said, then
I - OIlIy for speaking 2" o who can tell
( A poor little innocent girl like me,
For what but to speak with, can my mouth be +?
/ THE cruelest young female is the girl
/ the Wisconsin country papers are boast
/ ing of. They are all telling how she
/ sheared thirteen sheep in five hours,
''the other day." and now, of course,
those tbirreen innocent sheep are left in
/ this weather without oYercoats.
An idle young man was complaining
to a prosperous friend that, although
he had tried his luck in all sorts of fairs
and lotteries, he had never been able to
draw anything. "Indeed," said his
friend. "Well, suppose you try a
TALKING about upsetting sleighs,
Wicks remarked to a young lady he
was taking out TO drive, 'fI always pick
out the softest place I can when / upset
my sleigh" She replied, Why, l
should think it would grow monoton-
/ ous, always falling on your head.
THERE is a sweet pleasure in contem-
plation. All others grow fat and in
sipid ON frequent use and when man
hath run through a set of vanities IN
the declension of his age he knows not
/ what to do with himself if he cannot
think. p. BLoes1t.
A FEW days ago a very handsome lady
entered dry goods house and inquired
4 himself back and remarked that he was
at her Sc vice. 'f Yes, but / want
buff, not a green one, was the reply.
The young man went on measuring
goods Immediately.
The BIRD OF GoLD.-
Upon whiteIy-blossomed spray
Chanted golden bird, one day
A strange, sweet bird, with rosy WINGS
Which only in the sunrise sings.
It's voice rung as a spirit clear
Might vibrate through crystal sphofe
And when high hopes its heart would sur
It swept the air n cOnqueror!
1Tis silent now No more, in sooth,
Returns the golden bird of youth
PRESIDENT NoT-r. in his wise old age,
once took a newly Unmarried couple aside,
and said "I want to give you this
advice, my children Don't try to be
happy. Happiness Is a shy nymph, and
if you chase her you will never catch
her. But just go quietly on and do
your duty, and she viii come TO you"
THE North Frisians are very unmer-
cifu1 to people who don't marry. One
of their legends say that after death,
old maids are doomed to cut stars out
of the sun when it has sunk below the
/ horizon. and the ghosts of the old bach
elors must blow them mp in the east,
running like lamp-lighters all night up
aud down q ladder.
NIGHT
O night! most beautiful most rare
Thou givest the heavens their hottest hue
Aud through the azure fields OF air
BringB't down the azure dew
For thou with breathless lips apart.
Did'st stand in that dim age afaF,
And hold dpon thy trembling heart
Messiaii's herald star
For this / love thy haliowed Feignl
For more than thrice blessed thou art
Thou gain ct the unbelieyer's brain
By enteTin at his heart
A YouEG man from the rural districts
asked friend at ball--pointing to la
dies with Iow-necked dresses . Is that
the fashion nov % cob" replied the
friend, those ladies are rising into an
gels. and angels, you know, don't wear
dresses /; but It is no use for you to
stand Watching, for 1t isn't probable
they will rise entirely, though, before
the dance closes.
, A sERMoEIzER with q high forehea /
: made these remarks upon the soul-sav-
? mo <,rfoeffov, fAfxy h-akbFor, a man