The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-04-10
SAVINGS AND DOINGS.


WHEN a mans nose become a little
reddish, il ought to be pulled, like other
radishes.
A CAMBRIDGE professor has decided
that human being couldn't live a min
ute in the moon. and we therefore warn
| people to keep away from there.
A PAPER in Illinois says that q mans
social standing there is graded by
whether he drops a ten-penny nail or
a quarter into the church contribution
box.
LIFE INSURANCE is not popular in
Kansas, because there is no method of
telling whether man in good health
will live ten hours after he commences
to talk politics d.
THE California papers tell about a
| boy climbing a tomato vine to get away
| from a mad dog. Tomato vines attain
an enormous size In California, and so
do dog stories.
HEREAFTER no portrait is to be placed
| upon any of the bonds, securities, notes,
! fractional or postal currency of the
| United States while the original of
such portrait is living.
A RECENT lecturer on 'Food" gives
this laconic advice: "Iet women feed
| their husbands ON oatmeal porridge and
| apples" Possibly the husbands may
have voice in this matter.
THEY were going to put man ont of
q San Francisco theater for creating a
disturbance, when a voice cried: "He's
| all right, he's killed a Chianman !" and
they let the man alone.
A DETROIT hotel-keeper writes his
own bill of fare, thereby saving the cost
of printing. It announces '' Coffee,
soupe, rosie befe, fride ham, boyled and
bakt potays, fride cou1 puddin and Minis
pie. q"
liz the preparation of epitaphs, says
Lord Kames, cOnciseness is quite as de-
sirable as truth. We do not remember
to have seen any epitaph In which a
mans virtues are more concisely stated
than that upon the late Mr.. Mink:
The angels tonight, in their mansions of light,
Are waltzin' 'found Anthony Mink;
He faithful and kind, any you'll hnd,
And gin was his favorIte drink.
AT a Dubuque wedding, among the
presents ostentatioJsly displayed was
one-hundred- dollar bill, a present from
the dOting father to his darling daugh-
ter. After the guests had departed,
the old man coOlly rolled up the bill
and put it In his vest pocket, and that
was the last of it.
THE Pilatka CFIorida) Herald men
tions farmer by the name of Fitch who
has been compelled to move to the other
side of st. Johns river in consequence
of the depredations of Clligators. He
says his cattle have been thinned out by
an old bull alligator, which has been
the terror of his neighborhOod for years.
To MAKE an imitation of rosewood,
without using nitric acid Dissolve four
ounces potash in one gallon of hot water,
and four ounces red sanders-wood; when
the color of the wood is extracted, two
and half pounds gum shellac are add
ed, and dissolve over a quick fire. Use
this on a ground work stained with log
wood.
THE American Register, of Paris,
speaks of the new temperance move
ment in this country SIS a curious and
amusing illustration of the extent to
which fanaticism can be carried" and
says that the ladies engaged in praying
at saloons ''show lamentable want of
dignity and self-respect, for there is no
tyranny like that of fanaticism."
A MODEST young husband IN New
York sent the following message over
the wires to friends, the other day
'See ninth chapter of Isaiah, sixth
verse;" The dusty old bible was hauled
down in an instant, land the above chap
ter and1,verse were hunted out andifound
to explain all. The.verse'reads: &c For
INTO us a child is born-unto us a son
is given"
A SPANIEL named Ourley is the regu-
lar mail carrier between a settlement
called Lake of Two Woods, Dakota,
and the Minnesota line, twelve miles a.
way. Letters and papers are placed in
a sack and tied about the dogs neck:
he is told to go, and never fails to reach
his destination. Arriving, the mail is
overhauled, the faithful servant is treat
ed to good dinner, and started on his
return trip.
THE greatest bell in the world, the
F." Emperor William Bell, !" destined for
the Cologne cathedral, has just been
finished. It weighs about 5000 pounds,
is 18 feet high and IA feet wide. The
first moulding of the bell proved fail
ure, and considerable difficulty has yet
to be overcome in transporting the i'm
mense affair from Frankenthal, where it
was cast, to the top Of the tower OF the
Cologne cathedral.
SOME stingin' sarcasm from the st.
Louis Republican 6 If the big yaller
tom-cat that owns the board yard comes
inside your fence and howls his joyous
pseans every night beneath your lattice
until the bald spot on your head grows
red hot, and the wife of your bosom
calls upon you to drive the invader from
your hearthstone or die, and die nobly,
you musn't get up and put head on
him with a handful of buckshot, be-
cause it's cruelty to animals"
In ancient days, the people of Grims-
by, England, formed an admirable no.
tion of wisdom required for corporation
honors. The burgesses assembled at
the church, and SCI iected three of them
selves as candidates for the mayoTalty.
The candidates were conducted, with a
bunch of hay tied to each of their backs,
to the common pound, In which they
were placed, blindfolded, with a calf;
and he whose bunch of hay was first
eaten by the calf was thereupon declared
mayor for the ensning year,
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