The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-03-27
SA1INGS and DoINGs.

THE spirit-world Is sixty millions OF
miles from the earth, some spirits tell
US who have come back.
In China two people Of the same
| name dare not marry. The Smith fam
lily would suffer in that country.
SPELL murder backward, aud you
have its cause. Spell its caUse in the
same manner, and you have its effect.
IT is estimated that in less than
century the whole arabic land of the
United States viii be taken up by actu-
al settlers.
WHAT is the difference between far
mer and bottle of whisky? One hus-
bands the corn, and the other corns the
husbands.
NARRow-GUAGE railways have now
1864 miles IN operation Ia this country
and Canada, and over {, 600 more are
now contemplated.
WHEN she told him he was fiat,
Jones said 1t was her fault, because she
would not have him round. Jones
thinks he got square on her.
a wArCHA1AN Who lodged in the boil
er-room of a factory was asked If he
wasn't afraid of being blown up, and
answered, with sickly smile, No; I'm
a married man.
ANDREW JACKSON was accused of bad
spelling, but John Randolph defended
him by declaring that '' a man must be
fool who could not spell a word more
ways than one"
AND now here comes a cleaning light
through the midnight darkness. Rev.
Meekam, OF Green Bay, says that 1t is
his belief that most Of the editorial
fraternity will eventually be saved.
A PRAYER FOR JUSTICE
thou God of truth and justice
Seated on thy glorious throne;
Hear the pleadIngs of thy people,
And thy mi SbtY power make known.
God of Israel
Send Us swift deliverance down.
Lo. the slain of Moloch strewing,
Like the sand the ocean shore
Hark the drlnkard's death-kneu Wsiling,
Wailing DER Us evermOre!
God of mercy,
Hast thou lost thine ancient power?
Shall the widows piteous crying
Waste itself in wild despair
Shall the orphans bitter sig hing
Die unheeded on the air {?
God of Judgment,
All thy majesty declare!
THERE is an old story that st. Peter,
when revisiting the earth, was obliged,
amid tho multitudinous changes on
every hand, to have a guide through
most of Europe, bpt on entering Spain
he dismissed him; for here, said the
saint, everything Is just as left it.
ADAMS apple is the name given to
the protuberance IN the fore part of the
throat, occasioned by the thyroid cartil-
age of the larynx. This name origl-
mated from a superstidous tradition,
that a piece of the forbidden fruit,
or 90 AZ IN
and occssioned the swelling.
A PUBLISHER in Yeddo, Japan, has
lust issued a life of Washington ia for
ty-four volumes, printed In japanese
characters, and illustrated with numer-
ous engravings. On the irontlsplece IS
the portrait of the first president of the
United States, in the costume of the
present day, wearing heavy mustache,
carrying a cane in his hand, and es-
corted by terrier dog.
THE teacher of an infant school had
her attention called TO one little fellow
who was listening to what she said.
She had been teaching her class the
elements of English history, and wish
ing to see If he knew what she had been
talking about, she suddenly asked {:
"Johnny, who killed King Rufus ?"
With a surprised look, he replied,
&c Why, I didn't know he was dead !"
A VIRGINIA railroad was made to pay
S25 for killing a rooster. The engineer
said he spoke TO the gentleman with the
whistle as kindly as possible, but when
the fellow dropped one wing on the
ground, raised his good eye heaven
ward, and commenced whetting his
spur on the rail, forbeRTance ceased to
be a virtue and he lit into him with
thirteen freight cars, and forwarded
him to his happy scratching-grOun
by lightning express.
The New Orleans Picayune says that
on the ID instant one of the railroad
corporations of its city threw into tho
Mississippi river forty-seven thousand
counterfeit nickels, all OF which had
been received by its lines in payment of
fares during the year. Tho spurious
coins, 1T says, are manufactured in New
Orleans, but the makers have not been
discovered. The railroad companies
offer a reward of one thousand dollars
for the discovery Of the counterleiters.