The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-08-14
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IT is observed that at the fashionable
seaside resorts no ladies under one
hundred and forty poundsssavoirdupoi
are in bathing this season.
s'Ir costs less to take a weekly ps-
per-" argues the Cape Ann Advertiser,
than q diligent hen can earn in q
year, at the market price of eggs.
BALD mountain has got through shak-
ing, and singularly enough the new
converts around there have commenced
playing cards and setting up again.
IT may be the right of an American
citizen to ride around in wagon and
howl like q Wild beast, but quiet people
wish that elections were further apart.
A MASSACHUSETTS man has been in 3
successful business forty nine years,
and never advertised. The business
consisted chiefly in lying about his
neighbors.
WITH stupidity and sound digestion
man may front much. But what in
these dull, imaginative days are the
terroTs of conscience to the disease OF
the liver ?-CGTIyte.
''OUT in Wisconsin horse kicked
book agent, whereupen the citizens
made a donation party for the horse,
and he now has oats enough to last him
a full horse lifetime.
A YOUNG LADY asked clerk in the
Wisconsin News company's store if he
clerk, ''but I'm afraid boil is COM
ing on the back of my neck"
A MICHIGAN girl was killed by light
ming while picking feathers for her
nuptial pillow. This seems to be a fair
warning 70 those young ladies who are
too proud to sleep on corn husks.
DEATHS take place, the world over,
at the rate of one every two seconds.
There Is a sense of profound relief IN
the thought that every time a man
goes out of the world, a baby and
half are coming into it.
THE PHILADELPHIA LEDGER doesn't
write obituary poetry for children out
side of Philadelphia. This Is the style
IN which it mentions the death of n
small boy of Lowell "Iowell-Satur-
day. Two little boys and pistol. Now,
only one little boy and pistol"
IN the time of the second Emperor Of
the Ming dynasty, some learned China
men began to make digest of num-
Der of Chinese books. The digest was
completed fourteen hundred years age,
and has never been printed, because it
would make twenty-five thousand eight
hundred and seventy seven volumes,
work much larger than the Chicago
tax-list.
AN ingeniousf sfellow IN Lewiston, Me-,
has been selling keR, supposed to con-
tain ten gallons of liquor. By an IN
genious arrangement in the kegs pint
of rum was sealed up inside these kegs
and so placed that, taking out a small
cork, the purchaser could test tho liq-
uor, but while there was a pint of liq-
nor there were nine gallons add several
pints of water separated from IT.
MORE than fifty women applied for
admission at the Agassiz School at Pen
ikese. Only seven women offered them
selves this year for examination at Har-
ward. Apparently there is a difference
between studying at scientific school
open to men and women and passing an
60 examination for women" under the
auspices of a celebrated university. But
the former seems most popular.
Two SCORE years ago Signor Blitz,
whoseems to flourish in perpetual youth,
was notified by the Mayor of Boston
and the town authority of Lowell that
he must not perform on Saturday
while in Connecticut there was law
prohibiting his exhibitions. Now he is
regularly engaged for the entertainment
of children in Sunday-schoOls, Just as
lecturers are engaged for lyeeums
sometimes being allowed to set his table
on the pulpit platform.
AN ENGLISH writer In a recent article
gives a cooling description of Iceland.
After stating that there are no trees, no
vegetables to speak of, no town except
the capital, no inns, no hens, no pigs,
no roads, no shops. no manufactures,
no army, DO navy, no criminals, only
one policeman, and two lawyers, he in
quires of himself, " What, then, is
there ?" and himself replies, "Snow-
mountains, glaciers, hot springs, earth
quakes, vOlca' oes, northern lights, cav
erns, mOrasses, and, above ell, deserts"
This is hard on Iceland.
As though it hadn't enough on It's
hands already, the German government
has undertaken to regulate dueling IN
the army. Boards Of honor are to be
formed, and without the sanction of
such board and the presence of its
president no duel is hereafter to be
conditions are to be exempt from Grim
inal prosecution for casualties occurring
on the field of honor, except IN peculiar
~ hagrant cases Of Unprovoked insult.
The old emperor is quoted IN the Lon
don Times as saying: 4" viii no more
tolerate in the army an officer who wan
tOnly attacks the honor of q cOmrade
than an officer who does not know how
20 guard his own hon0F."
EUGENE LAWRENCE writes In Harper's
Weekly: ssThe war party in France en-
ploys II private language that seems
the sxtravagaEce of bombast. Newspa-
pers may be cautiously silent, and min
listers yielding and submissive, but the
politicians of the cafes and the clubs
have no hesitation In confessing the
future policy Of aggression. France,
they assert, IS gathering an army that
nothing in Europe can resist. All its
youth and manhood are TO be converted
into soldiers. In some unguarded mo
ment they viii strike Germany. The
war viii be one Of unsparing severity,
and If they fail, Paris viii be razed to
the ground and the name Of France be
blotted out from among nations"
SOME ONE has said that a man who
can play good game of chess has all
the mental requisites necessary for
great general. A professor Of the manly
art of fencing and boxing says the man
who can spar well has attained the
highest point of physical development.
In this exercise every nerve and muscle
is brought into Simultaneous action at
the command OF the brain. Dancing
and fencing are graceful sparring Is
more graceful than either, because it
demands both boay and mind, More
over no man can spar well unless he hes
his temper In perfect control. 4 con-
mon objection Is made to sparring on