The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-07-03

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invalid.
DUBUoUE disguises the identity of
some of its citizens by spelling their
names Hoag.
/ DETROIT girls sit on saw-lOgs and
dangle their limbs in the wayelets rath-
er than go to a summer resort.
THE most untalkative person seldom
fails to make few remarks when with
bare feet he steps on carpet tacks at two
( O'Clock in the morning.
WHAr must be shall be; and that
! which is a necessity to him that stTu8-
+ giles is little more than choice TO him
I that is willing Seneca.
You can Judge something of the eweight
/ of a Milwaukee woman when 1t Is stated
/ that the crash of one falling on the side
4 walk can be heard two blocks away.
THE price of steamboats, has fallen
ten per cent. along the Ohio and Mlssls-
sippi, and poor folks who contemplate
/ laying in a steamboat should buy now.
! If YOU want to find out mans real
/ disposition, take him when he is wet
and hungry. If he is amiable then, dry
him aud fill him up and you have an
angel.
! WHAT is even poverty itself that
man should murmur under 1t? It Is
but as the pain of piercing maiden'S
/ ear, and you hang precious jewels IL the
wound.-RichteT.
! ALoFT, on the throne of god, and net
/ below, in the footprints of trampling
multitude. are the sacred rules of right,
! which no majorities can displace or over
/ turn.-CHGrJeS Sumner.
OLD AGE is never honored among rs,
but only inaulged, as childhood IS; and
old men lose one of the most precious
rights of man-that of being judged
by their peers Goethe. .-.
THOMAS Hoop died composing
that. too. a humorous poem. He is
sad to have remarked that he was dy-
ing out of charity to the undertake.,
who wished to urn lively Hood.
NEVER burn kindly-written letters,
the mute utterances of those afar, yes
dear, whose faces you may never lock
upon again. Remember how many
little notion In tinware they will pro
cure.
CoGGIA's comet is now approaching
the ca, tn, and persons who know where
to look for it can see 1T, Its tail IS half
a degree long, and resembles, to the
heated imagination of the astronomer,
half-opened fan.
CoLoRADo haiistones weigh n pound
apiece. This is taken right from Col
orado paper, and it offers to forward
/ few for inspection. The story of VIII
liam Tell may be exaggerated, but this
is straight case.
/ WHENEVER you see small boy
emerging from the house with his left
arm shading his eyes and the other
smoothing the basement of his trOus-
ers, it is safe to arrive at the conclusion
that he has been chasing the boot jack
around his father.
"A man who was about to be hanged
in Alabama sang ioyfuly as he stood
with the moose about his neck: "Oh
the bright angels are waiting for me-"
Whereupon the local editor fendIshly
wrote And then the angels stirred
up the fires, and looked brighter than
ever"
REoIPEs for the preservation of fUrs
abound IN all the papers, but the old
plan promulgated by Punch long ago is
the best. This is, to pull out ali the
hairs with tweezers and varnish theskln-
In the spring remove the vRrnish and
carefully stick all the hairs Il the old
places.
This is the way it generally is. Mrs.
Jones will say TO her undutiful little
son, ''Why amt you like Willie Brown"
Mrs. Brown will remark to her hope
full, Why amt you like Jimmy
JonesY The boys have lots OF fan
about it, especially when they are steal
ing watermelons together.
The new liquor law of Mississippi re-
quires that no person shall be licensed
to retail liquor until he has first secured
the accommodation of more than half
the men over twenty-one years of age,
and more than half the women over
eighteen years of age in the corporation
or township wherein desires the license.
NOVELTY has charms that oar minds
can hardly Withstand. The most valua-
bic things, if they have for long while
appeared among us, do not make any
impression, as they are old. But when
the influence of this fantastical humOr
is over, the same men or. things will
come to be admired again, by happy
return of our good taste.
IAsnl's freless locomotive has been
in use for sometime on a section of the
New Orleans and Carrollton railroad.
According to Gen. Beauregard, prcsi-
dent of the railroad company, these
locomotives have resulted IN gain over
horses of twenty minutes to the round
trip of six miles. They re more man
ageable than horses, being more readily
stopped and started. They set ont
with 123 pounds pressure, make the
round trip, and get back to the starting
/ point with 40 to 80 pounds. One dunn
my is equal to nine mules.
( BECAUSE her Britannia majesty be
came indignant at being introduced to
I divorced American woman, the Chicago
! Times is also indignant, and it asks :
| "Can If be the same queen who wrote
/ to the sultan informing him Of Alfred's
4 wedding, and received an autograph
i letter in reply addressed TO his 'augnst
friend and ally? Is Victoria, who IN
suited a woman because she had legally
taken a second husband during the
lifetime of the first, the friend and ally
of a man who has a concubine IN every
corner OF q palace bigger than the expo
sition building?"