The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-05-01
SWINGS AND pOINGs.


Two HEADS are better than one espec-
tally In barrel.
NOTHING makes a person laugh so
much as a set of new teeth.
BILLIARD BALLS exercise christian
| principles when they return kiss
| for blow,
WRITER'S trouble themselves to am
plify what their readers trouble them
selves to abridge.
| ADANBURY man has brought cut new
vermifuge with the significant name OF
'' The Early Bird.
ADVOCATES Of hogging in school assert
| that youth cannot be properly educated
without stern discipline.
A GEORGIA paper promises to publish
a thrilling cereal. Its readers Will
probably make an oat OF 1t.
USE what talent you possess. The
woods would be very silent If no birds
sang there but those who sang best.
"BomBD EGGs" is the name adopted
by new Danbury base ball club to sig
Nifty how impossible it is to beat them.
A MAN writing POLITICALLY of the
weather says 6 The backbone of win
ter is broken, but its tail wags yet occa-
sionally."
IF stick of wood is too long for the
stove, says Danbury, kick it a few times
with your heel. Then take it out and
saw it of.
A COMPANY has been formed at Rome
to establish railway from the base of
Vesuvius to the crater, to be worked by
steam and ropes.
THE official report of the Langley
cotton mills, of Augusta, Ga, for 1873,
shows a profit of S112, 800 on an invested
capital of S4G0, 600.
CERTAINLY work is not always re-
duired of a man. There is such thing
as a sacred idleness-the cultivation of
which is now fearfully neglected.
Macdonald.
MILWAUKEE thought she had a case
wherein young girl died OF broken
heart, but it turned out that her corset
strings were too tight, and one stroke OF
jack knife revived her.
TIE French Assembly Is considering
law providing that every newborn
child shall have its name and the date of
its birth tattOoed on its arm. The object
is to facilitate Identification.
A PARTISAN musical dictionary defines
shout to be San unpleasant noise, pro-
duced by overstraining the throat, for
which great singers are we'll paid, and
small children well punished"
An APOLOGY
Too late 1 stayed-forgive the crime
Unheeded flew the hours,
For noiseless falls the foot Of time
s. That only treads on flowers.
+ All who with clear account remarks
The ebbing of his glass,
When all the sands are diamond sparks
| That dazzle as they pass
Or who to sober measurement
| Times happy swiftness brings,
When birds of paradise have lent
The plumage of their wingsP
WE'RE we TO take as much pains TO be
what we ought to be as we do 10 dis
guise what we really are, we might ap-
pear like ourselves, without being at
the trouble of any disguise at ALL
RochefOUcGuLd.
POVERTY is very terrible to you, and
kills the soul in you sometimes but it
is the north wind that lashes men into
vikings it is not the soft, luscious,
south wind that lulls them TO lotus
dreams. Ollida.
No man finds in a woman's soul the
revelation of rarer self, receiving it
into his heart as the incentive towards a
better life, who ever loses it wholly, or
who ever forgets the gentle face that
was its visible type.
PEACE is preserved In q household in
Elkader, Ia, by long witty raw-hide
hung up in the bedroom of the juvenile
portion of tho family, bearing upon its
handle the legend, "Boys, please be
kind to your mother"
ONE of the most melancholy things
in the world is the enormous power for
! evil of the dead ever the living. There
is hardly a great painter, or writer, or
/ 4. L Il
direction, whose name has not been
used to fepress rising genius.-HGnl-
merton.
ONE may live as a eonquerer, or a
king, or a magistrate, but he must die
a man. The bed Of death brings every
| human being to his pure individuality,
| to the intense contemplation of that
deepest and most solemn of all relations
/ the relation between the creature and
| his Creator. Webster.
THAT Bald Mountain shake-up is ap
old fb after all Thomas Jefferson, IN
his g Notes on Virginia, remarks: 8 1t
is claimed that there was prior declar-
! alton of independence in North Carolina,
a statement having about as much foun-
| dation as the report that a volcano exists
| In the mountains of the same state"
In MarysYille, Gal, the other day, a
| Newfoundland dog walked into market,
! dropped a ten-cent piece out of his
mouth and walked off with a whole sal
mon. The butcher says some folks may
| call that dog intelligent, but he thinks
that dog that can't distinguish between
a ten-cent slice and a FIVE dollar fish
hasn't got even common sense.
WHILE youthful couple were being
joined in wedloek in in tees court, in
New York, recently, the damsei rather
Gstonished a number of spectators by
suddenly breaking ont with, " want to
know whether we are going to keep house
or board, before going into this thing"
The judge ruled the question ont of or
der, and the ceremony proceeded.
THE average Burlington Ga. saloon
keeper must be bad, indeed A learned
divine In that city recently addressed
one of them as follows '' Wretehed
man IL the bed Of that river was
bank-high with the suds of salvation,
and June rise of piety coming down
from the mountains, there wouldn't be
enough to wash your feet
TIE question of ten hours or eight for
a days work promises TO become inter
esting in New York about the FIRST of
next month. The master mechanics,
and especially the boss carpenters, have,
for some time, been preparing for a re-
turn to the en-hopr system, and at q
largely attended meeting resolved that,
on and after May /, they would not en-
ploy any men who would not be willing
to work ten hours day. This move