The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-10-30
n' i'eh. or ten lines, constitutes One Square.
SAYINGS AND DONGs.

cuts man into forty i've pieces and
turns his boots wrong side out.
| Mrs AUSTIN, of Alexandra, Va, has
lived in one neighborhood thirty-eight
years and never borrowed her neigh
boris f1at-irons or cup OF sugar.
The Paris Figaro says that $1,000
greenfnches are blinded every year, IN
France, to make them sing, and that
this cruelty is practiced generally by
the little boys, at the primary schools.
THE Princess of Wales is said TO be
the hardest working woman in Eng
land, but somehOW or other the Duchess
of Edinburgh got several days start of
| her in the matter of q new fall bonnet
THERE will be some young widows in
| Utah before Christmas, if the astrol-
oyer who predicts Brighsm's death on
the 7th of December is not also false
prophet.
Rev. J. r. STANDARD, of Indiana,
sued a newspaper for libel and dropped
/ dead within week after commencing
| the suit. These fellows will learn a
| few things by and by.
THE son of an editor in Pennsylvania
has been recently convicted of arson,
| being prompted to commit the crime by
a desire to make interesting local news
for his fathers paper.
LONDON gossips are dealing in lively
way with the fact that DisraeE lately
had lilies and foget-me-nots IN his but
tonhole. They say that marriage is
the least possible consequence.
WESTERN papers are combining to
discourage the offering of prizes st fairs
for the best women equestrians, as they
say the exercise is too trying and kills
most of the women engaging in 1t.
IS WHERE did you learn wisdom ?" in
quired Diogenes of man esteemed
wise. From the blind" was the re-
ply, "who always try their path with
a stick before they venture to tread on
it."
IMAGINE the wrath of the young woman
who rises from her seat In the car to
give it to an old lady when she turns
around and Esees that the young man
opposite is looking out of the window,
instead of gazing at her approvingly.
THE attempt to export young Ameri-
can shad to Germany for stocking the
rivers has proved a failure. Although
abundantly supplied with fresh Croton
water, all of the hundred thousand fish
| died of starvation before the end of the
journey.
| THE Nashville reporters are aston
! ished over q spare young man down
there who takes nine cups of ceffee and
a great quantity of sandwiches at a sin
| gle meal. The possibility of a tape
worm does not appear to have suggested
itself.
NONE but those who keep up appear
ances against heavy odds can under
stand what servitude pretence imposes
upon the sensitive soul. The sting of
confessed poverty is not nearly so burn
ing as is the reality of being poor while
seeming to be rich.
INTEMPERANCE is largely on the in
crease in Gla' Cow, Scotland, and the
authorities are very much troubled
about it. Saturday night thousands of
factory hands-men and wOmen-be-
come outrRgeously drunk, and remain
In that condition over Sunday.
DIRECTORY MAN How many reg
ular and steady bOarders are there in
this house?" Landlady-"Well, there's
fifteen o. them In all, sir; but some
stays out more nights than like, ami
only four is what you can call regular
and steady, owing to sickness"
BRICK vaults and safes are now manu-
factured so that any attempt to reach
their interior breaks sundry bottles
filled with sulphuric acid into powdered
carbonate Of lime. This produces II
simultaneously caTbonie gas enough 70
HuL1tdif a y iIilTHA Ot btAi EtuAHs
SIR ISAAC NEWTON, little before he
died, said "I don't know what 1 may
seem to the world, but, as to myself,
seem to have been only like boy play
ing on the seashore, and diverting my
self IN now and then finding smoother
or a prettier shell than nrdinarv, whilst
the grea' ocs an of nth la sA 9@i
covered be'orr me "
THERE are many evils rna5 Ta
around the heart, and many temptation
prompting Us TO respond to their calling
but none more readily co-wOrks with all
evil than profanity, and is ever ready to
lay waste a moral and upright mind,
with its eadly sting and poisonous ar
row. Profanity, we can uthfuily say,
is the anchor of many evils arising from
an ungoverned disposition.
ETFoRTs to reach the gypsies with re-
ligious teaching, says the Christian
Union, have never met with much sue
cess-probably have not been prosecu-
ted in the hope of success. There are
about seven hundred thousand of them
in Europe and eighteen thousand IN
England. Their religion seems to ex-
tend no further than a belief in their
annihilation at death. Converts, how
ever, are made here and there.
WIDOW JONES husband died far away
from nome, ana II BOOk 80 long 70 Eehcu
her that the relict had quite recovered
from her grief, and was giving a large
lunch party, when the body finally ar
rived. A wagon drove up TO the door,
and large box was handed out. Curl
osity ran high among the ladies at the
window, and with one accord they x
claimed, "Why, Mrs. Jones, what can
that be?" Up went Mrs. Jones eye
glasses, and after a glance she cooliy
said, "Well, it must be old Jones come
home. Charley, run down and open
the door for your father"
THERE is a good deal of wisdom to be
found In the by-ways. A recent Eng
lish book mentions some lines, Known
as the "Seven Conditions" which ap-
near beneath a series of old designs 70
be found In almost every house ON oth
banks Of the Rhine. The first ls the
emperor, who says :" Ilevy tribute.
Next comes the nObleman, who says
at take tithes." The Jew (medi@7al
tvpe of the trader) says "I live on
nv profits" The soldier says: 81
nav for nothing" The beg9ar saws a;
ssi have nothing" The peasant says
50 God help me, for these six other men
have all to be supported by me"
CAPITAL punishment has been totally
abolished in Switzerland. The new
Denal code of that republic may be
briefly summarized Homicide, COM
nitted voluntarily, is TO be qualified as
murder. and punished with from ten to
twenty years of solitary confinement
Premeditated murder (''With malice
DreDanse'D is TO be classed as essassina-