The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-08-21

A VIRGINIA paper Iaments that the
q raccoons are gradually but surely dying
out in that state. One by one the rae
t coons fade.
A DELAWARE men thrashed his wife
almost to death because their baby
didn't get prize at baby show, and
then he offered to trade the bady for a
, pig.
! a GENTLEMAN, on presenting lace
J collar to his adored one, said, carefully:
"Do not let any one else rumple 1t.
No, dear, she replied, "TIl take 1t
of. ("
AMONG the modern improvements IN
Persia which the Shah has ordered IS
guilIotine, a gallOws and corps OF bal
let-girls to be shipped to him from Eu-
rope.
A MISSOURI writer speaks of one of
his contemporaries as "pOor old skin
ny-bony, whose knee and arm joints
have been held together for twenty
years with cotton twine."
/ ONE of the most cheering signs to in
dicate that the panic is over is the fact
that a stranger can display a fifty-cents
shinpIastGr IN Chicago and not be hauled
! out OF the river next morning.
THE Detroit Free Press mentions
/ Kansas farmer who declares that q
/ grasshopper sat on the gate-post and
! threateningly asked William Bryant,
where in thunder is the balance of that
/ cold meat ?"
/ To ERR is human. No lives are passed
without errors. The best and meanest
I of Gods human creatures can, without
a great stretch of memory, recall the
4 time when they got hold of the wrong
end of the poker. -.
/ GUSTAV has found gold in abundance,
and the Black Hills country is a sort Of
Z paradise. half California, half FloridPs
/ Whether the American people are ready
+ to take their scaIps IN their hands and
/ 60 to develop it remains to be seen.
I EPIGRAM-
J A waggish wight ca shrewd one, too,)
Once told me that he really knew
, q girl that put her humoTs OF,
And ceased to scoid, to laugh I'd scoh,
To weep and sorrow DER rOunances,
! And went no more to plays and dancer
1 doubted long-at last he said,
% The reason is, the wOman's dead.
/ THREE giraffes Just from Abyssinia
/ have reached the garden of plants IN
/ Paris. This animal threatens to be-
come extinct. He is taken now in a
very small district, and has resisted all
efforts to domesticate him as made IN
] Africa, though these efforts are partly
successful in European menageries.
CIVILIZATION and christianity are ev-
cry day penetrating into Japan. One
of the latest signs of the times is the
offer of various idols for sale. The
journals of the country contain many
advertisements on the subject. Here IS
one "For sale, at Kama-Kura, very
fine idol, with six arms. 1t is fifteen
feet high, and was cast IN brOnze-at
Sheffield"
DURING the official life of Police
/ Chief Savage of Boston, that city has
/ had at one time free rum, at ano
/ license law, at another a prohibitOTy
| law badly enforced, and yet again for
| time prohibitory law vigorously en-
/ forced, and vet he says there is no vari-
/ alton in his statistics furnishing the
least indication of when any one policy
prevailed.
! IT IS asserted that, for fall goods,
browns viii take the lead. It is q tint
which makes the complexion appear
finer, whittier and clearer than any other
color, and is selected by both blondes
and brunettes. Combinations of purple
and grey are also predicted-the grey
being rough in texture, and the purple
of silk or poplin. Blues, too, from the
desp navy to the clear Marie Louise
Will be popular.
Now THE best way III the world to
seem to be anything, is really to be
what we would seem to be. Besides
that, it is many times as troublesome
to make good the pretense of a good
quality as to have it, and if man
have it not, it is ten to one but he Is
discovered to want in, aud then all his
pains and labor to seem to have it at
last.-TELlOtsOn.
A SINGULAR dinner took place lat9ly
at the crystal palace, IN London.
About four hundred years ago a citizen
of st. Clements, Eastcheap, bequeathed
to his fellow-ci6Zens a piece Of land,
the annual proceeds of which were 10
be applied to defray the expenses once
year of a meal consisting of bread
and cheese, raddishes and ale, A large
party sat down to the humble repast,
but after it had been disposed Of it was
quickly followed by banquet which a
Lucullus might have envied.
A wBTTR who has firted with the wC-
men of Paraguay says "Only imaf-
inc yourself about TO salute f. Q red
lips of a magnificent little Hebe, ar
rayed IN satin and flashing with dia-
monds as she puts you back with one
delicate hand, while with the other she
draws forth from her mouth abrownish-
black roll Of tobacco quite two inches
long, looking like "A monster grub, and
then, depositing the savory lozepge on
the brim of your sOnbrero, puts up
her face and is ready for q salute. How
ever, one soon gets used TO this in Par
aguay, where you are, per force Of Gus
tom, obliged to kiss every lady You are
introduced TO-"
New YORK og-seller-loquitur: ''You
see, sir, we keep all kinds here. Now,
that little toy terrier on the floor there,
he's worth 300. A lady came in her
carriage yesterday from uptown, and
says she, want that dog ; he's dar-
ling I'll give you S75 for him. but my
price was 800, and didn't weaken
Bless you, she'll be down to-day and
have that fellow out Of this, with a sill
yer collar around his neck and q long
ribbon TO lead him. Then she'll be
back with him sick IN q week from over
feed, and want me to cure him. Ia
ha !" with some contempt in his voice.,
"these women are as wise as sarpints
with the men, but they don't know moth
in bout dogs p
Ar OLD Orchard Beach, on the coast
of Maine, a quaint old custom is still
observed with annual regularity. a
! belief prevails among certain classes OF
/ the country folks In that vicinity that
/ the water of the ocean possesses some
/ peeial virtue on the 26tb day Of june
4 for the ouring of chronic diseases. Ard
30 on that day there may always be
/ seen a constant stream of odd-loeiziaz
country vehicles, filed with the ''Iame,
/ the halt. and the blind" +" all going eea-