The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-02-06
GRAVE AND GAY.

that the S1amoSo 6W1DS were mucl at
tached to each other"
A JERSEY paper describes a man as
/ being as sociable as batch of can
didates two weeks before election.
| IT WAS an expressive remark OF
/ practical man regarding the women of
F the period recently "She don't know
enough, sir, to bile water.
PATHETIC
Bring out the Grape snd toll the kneu;
She's dead-a lovely Lockport belle;
Her stomach failed away to get
With ninety oysters bet.
A DISTINGUISHED preacher says that
piety is the best cure for n scolding
wife but he doesn't tell whether the
wife must have it or the husband. Prot
ably he meant the former.
A New ALBANY youth Mortified his
teacher at Sunday-school, by asking If
the slang phrase 'take him out of the
wet," did not originate when Pharaoh's
daughter took the infant Moses out Of
the river Nile.
JULIA WARD HOWE says that there
is nothing but dumb submission for the
women" There isn't, Ell? She ought
to meander through this state and look
upon the splintered rolling-pins and
battered potato-mashers.
AN enthusiastic African, who had
spent de winter in Jamaky," found it
an earthly paradise. He said he could
'' lie abed, and, putting his arms out de
windy, pick oranges, pine-apples, and
Jamaky rum right off de trees"
THE two negro girls whose bodies are
naturally united at the hips, and who
were, until lately, shown IN this coun-
try, are row on exhibition IN Paris.
mi II 1a1
ingaIe and their manager, Franconl, is
getting rich with Them.
OK the whole globe, at least ninety
million, speak the English language,
about se7enty-five millions German.
fiftv-five millions speak Spanish, and
only forty-five millions speak the F'renth
language. These matters of fact may
serve to renov erroneous opinlons.i
A GOOD brother in church of Miami,
county, Ind, while giving his expe-
rience, not long ago, said BretheTin,
I've been a tryin' this nigh onto forty
wear TO serve the Lord and get rich both
at oDct, and I tell yer, it's mighty hand
sIeddin I"
LOVES PLEA.-
If of our affections none find grace
In sight OF heaven, then wherefore hath God
made
Love cannot have than that, in loving thee,
Glory to that eternal peace Il paid,
Who such divinity to thee imparts
As hallows and makes pure all gentle hearts
Michael angelo.
TIE Cuban insurreetion has cost the
Spaniards ten to fifteen Thousand sol
diers and $40, 900, 600 per year since the
opening of hostilities. In other words,
in the last five years Spain has wasted
300. 600, 900, and lost between fifty and
seventy-live thousand troops by bullet
and disease, in vain effort to subdue
the Cubans.
A NEGRO prisoner, on his way to the
penitentiary for larceny, was asked what
he thought of his trial. He said
'sWhen de lawyer dat Tended me made
a speech. I made sure dat was going to
take my ole hat and walk right out of
dat cot room but when the odder
lawyer got up and commenced talking,
1 knew I was the biggest rascal on top Of
de earf. )"
VIA CRUoIs, VIA LUCIs.-
As, after death, our lost ones grow our dear
So. after death, our lost ones come the near
They are not lost in distant worlds above;
They arc our nearest link in Gods own love
The hul an hand-clasps of the luhnite,
That life to life spirit to spirit knit
They fill the rife they make, ike veins OF gold
In fire-rent. fissures torture torn Of old!
With sweetness storo the empty place they
left,
As if wild honey in the rocks bare cleft.
- Gerald Massey.
TRPOIITE or infusorial earth, being
worse conductorof heat than coal-ashes,
and almost as poor as iRx-chaff, and be-
ing refractory, is adapted for walls OF
ice-cellars and fire-proof safes, for cas-
ing steam boilers and pipes, etc, and
possesses the advantage of affordinR
protection a. ainst rats and mice. It's
iightness is also a great recommendf-
tion. One cubic foot of it weighs 81
to 26 pounds the same bulk of dry
eoal-ashes, 4O1 to 49, pounds, and of
dry earth, 81 to 128 pounds. For cas-
ing steam pipes it is mixed with boiled
HaNseed