The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-01-30
GRAVE AND GAY.
We waited for Waite, and we've got him {;
The last Of the trio
he came from Ohio J!
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And he's got the ermlne, dod-rot him.
ANEW weekly paper. called the jim
and Eliza Journal, has been started in
| Mississippi. Jim and Eliza are the ed
itor and wife.
THE Iegislsture of western Virginia
| is said to have passed law at its last
session '' to prevent the owners OF hogs
from running at large.
BRIGHAM You've instructs his mis-
sionaries to 6end him no women over 30
years of age. The man must be crazy.
Who ever saw a weman over 30 years Of
age?
MYNHEER, do you know for what
we call our boy Hans p ''Do not, re-
ally" sWell, tell you. Der reason
dat we call our boy Hans, dat ish his
name"
HE Dubuque people, after q good
deal of wrangling, have decided that
society has no reason to look down upon
woman because she wears muskrat
furs.
GRANDMA, why don't you keep a ser
want any longer ?" Well, you see,
child, I'm getting old now, and can't
take care of one, as L used to, you
know"
A WORTHY Kentucky farmer, being
asked il daughter rec ,nlly married
as still living with him, re oied: ''No,
sir when one of my girls swarGs she
must hunt her own hive.
IF all men we're to bring their mis-
fortunes together IN one place, most
would be glad to take his own home
again, rather than take a portion out of
the common stock.-SOtOn.
IT is stated that the Mormons are
about to re-establish themselves at
Nauvoo, the place from which they
were forcibly elected by the citizens of
Illinois, about twenty years ago.
TIE Pail Mall Gazette has invented a
patent baby-washer, where you slide
the begrimed and molasses-coated in
FAINT in at one orifce and take it out
cleaned, fed and spanked ct the other.
THERE are minds so impatient of in
feriority that their gratitude is a spe-
cies of revenge; and they return bene-
fits, not because recompense is pleas
ure, but because obligation is pain
Johnson.
HONDURAS and San Salvador, the two
baby republics of Central America, are
at war with each other. A force Of San
Salvador troops captured the port of
the struggle. The war seems to be an
unprovoked aggression on the part of
San Salvador.
A NEW plan is to be tried with Michi-
gan conyicts. The striped garments
are to be abolished. The prisoners are
to be allowed to correspond with their
friends. Those who are uuedUcated are
taught and when liberated, each man
is to receive a suit of clothes, SO in
money, with whatever he has earned by
overwork.
PRoF. PROCTOR says that if an infant
were born having an arm OF the length
of 81 600. 900 miles, so as to reach the
sun. and If In the cradle he were to
stretch out his arm and touch the sun,
that infant might grow to the three
score years and ten allotted to man, but
he never would be conscious of the
fact that the tip of his finger was
burned he would have to live one hun
dred and thirty-fve years before that
would be experienced. Some infant
ought TO Just try this to see whether
the professor is right.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Boston Her
aid says he is surprised to read of
Charles Sumner calling the Puritans
80 the founders of liberty on this conf
nent." He says that, landing upon
Plymouth Rock, they lost no time in
the tree of Puritan ascendancy
and religious prescription that their
early history is a record of persecution
of other sects and finally, that the
name cf Puritan should be construed
to mean all that is mocking and hypO-
critical. Having written this and signed
his name to it, he had better move out
of Boston