The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-07-17
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.

THE BIBLE
We search the world for truth; We Gull
The good. the pure, the beautiful,
/ From craven stone and written scroll,
From all the old hower-helds of the soul;
| And, weary seekers of the best,
We come back laden from our quest,
! To find that all the sages said
Is in the Book our mother read.
TIaHr-1ACING is again coming into
| fashion. This is good news for short
armed lovers.
! 90 Now is the time for roasting ears,
writes a rural editor. He should carry
a sun umbrella.
Love matches are often formed by
people who pay for q month of honey
/ with life of vinegar.
THAT was bright little chill J who in
quired, 'sMa, when COWS die, do they
go to the 'milky-way?'
Mrs. Lizzie Lloyd Phoenix, the
Russian diamond scandal person, is
known as the 90 Grande Duchesse " IN
Paris.
| A PHILANTHRoPIsT suggests that 1t
would lower the price of small cotfins
to muzzIe the boys during the green ap-
! pie season.
JAPANESE civilization has progressed
| so far that they ROW allow a criminal
/ his choice between being sawed up, be-
headed or hung.
1t is considereda pretty well-settled
/ fact that death has no terrors Tor the
man who marries a woman after thir-
1 ty years cOurtship.
/ NEVER visit friends without some an
nouncement of your coming. Crockett's
motto is a coed one: BE sure you
write, then go ahead.
ALECTURER aptly demonstrates the
theory that heat generates motion by
pointing to a boy who accidentally sat
down on piece of punk.
Nine. Lind -Goldschmidt and Mr..
Sims Reeves are each said to have
child whose promise of future renown
as a singer is very great.
A MOTHER advised her daughter to
oil her hair, and tainted fiat away when
that damsel replied, 'fOh no, ma; 1t
spoils the gentlemen's vests.
THE French and English press con-
slider that the manifesto of Count de
Chambord makes it impossible for hlm
! to become king of France.
WHILE Texas women claim to ride on
I both sides of their horses, the New
York Herald claims that all sensible
people ride only on the outside.
/ THE chancellor of the New York law
school told the graduating lawyers to
marry as soon as they could. so as TO
/ develop their argumentative powers!
THE Detroit Free Press tells US that
/ "the sable Georgia agriculturlsts fol-
| low the pIew or work among the corn
/ this hot weather without enough cloth
! ing on to conceal good-slzed WaTt.
WAIT WHITMAN on the Beeeher mys-
terry:
HinaIaya of bamboozlement!
Great cTawfish of the social seas and sacerdotaI
likewise.
odium theologicun, and go and come again,
Which if to be- or not, is why or which
Here seeing that by what we think we see,
And nothing see at all.
The beautiful and accomplished
daughters p" around Memphis so out
coon-hunting with their beaux, and on
returning home climb into the second
story window so as not to arouse the
old man.
PRoF. TYNDALn is exhibiting a fire
mans mask which enables the wearer to
remain in an atmosphere of heat and
smoke without danger. If fellow
could only take the things of this world
along when he dies
PRoF. MUGGINs having carefully eX-
amined the " comet" by the assistance
of several powerful glasses-at least
two-thirds fuIl-is fully satisfied that
! it is a SO straggler" from some drove
| consequently " "nameless.
CAPT. SHAW, the chief of the London
/ fire brigade, will very likely lose his
/ position. Recently, in order to show
/ the efficiency of the firemen, he ordered
| an alarm of fire at the British Museum
/ to be reported. The result was that
/ London, after having been frightened
/ from its propriety only to find that no
| thing was the matter, is full of right
eous indignation, and demands the sac
rifice of Capt Shaw.
-Constantinople has adopted some
| decisive steps to promote the morality
of the city. ALI public or secret gam
| bling in cafes or other places IN any
part of the capital is forbidden. Husin
Pasha, minister of police, has just IS
/ sued an order under which all theaters,
cafes chantants, cafes, and places Of a
| like nature in Pera and other parts Of
! Constantinople must IN future be closed
| at midnight. Any establishment keep
/ ing open after that hour will be com
| pulsoriIy closed by the police, and It's
| proprietor subjected to a heavy fine.
! WIEN the celebrated French chem
/ ist, Orfila, was on one occasion WIT
ness at a trial for poisoning, he was
asked by the president if he could state
| the quantity of arsenic requisite to Kill
| a fly. " Certainly, NJ. le President
replied the expert. But I must know
| beforehand the age Of the fly, its sex,
! its temperament, its condition and
| habit of body, whether married or sIn-
| gle, widow or maiden, widOwer or
/ bachelor" "
/ The MAIDKH's LAMENT
/ The setting sun gilded her soft brown hair
! Aud melowed the gloom in her luminous
| eyes,
| Then Redeemed with bushes her bosom far,
! And sank in blaze Of luXuriant dyes.
! Yet the sun comes mp with the coming morn
! And the west will fame again, as OF yorei
/ Bet hope once set is never reborn,
/ And heart that is broken is dead eyerfnore-
| So the maiden noansd with the moaning trees,
/ And lifted wet eyes to the rising moon,
/ And whispered her woes to the whispering
/ breeze
She must wear her spring hat till tho end Of
June.
Nor a bad joke Is attributed to one Of
the suite of the Russian empero5.. Ihe
talk of his English entertainers fell up
on the rather worn out talk OF INVADING
| London, when the gentleman alluded 10
saw the merits Of the subject and re
/ marked, " London IS 50 lmmese that 1
believe any small invading army land
ing at the east end of your capital Would
lose its way, and at the close OF "SeA
or ten days the soldiers would be taken
up by the police at the west end ior
begging.
| tarfained a distinguished guest from
SwifzerIand. whom he asked if he
Izould be helped to kippered salmon.
I'm T. = Alara