The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-05-22
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.
.An-r1eHr-Bright eyes.

FAITH and hope cure more diseases
than raed1t ine.-Hartjrl Ltsther.
i BLACKSMITH is always striking for
wages.
The vie men of tho yeast-The
bakers:
GREAT hopes belong only toSgrest
souls.-HartineGU
NECESSITY knows no law, but law
knows a good deal of necessity.
A GEORGIA editor was bitten by dog,
| ''being evidently mistaken for bone"
WAT throat is the best for singer
to reach high notes with? A soar
| throat.
THE feeling of gratitude has all the
ardor of q passion In noble hearts,
Achilles PoiRceIOt.
An article you can always borrow
Trouble, and are not obliged to re-
turn it.
PURCHASE no friends by gifts when
thou ceasest to give, such viii cease to
lOye.-FttIJer.
THERE is but one kind of love, but
there are Thousand different copies of
.-ROchefoucauLd.
SUCCESS has no secrecy about it save
J
not able to perform.
An old wine-bibber says that an emp
ty ychampagne-bottIe is like au orphan,
because it has lost its pop.
An old Scotchman used to say "Im
open to conviction, but I'd like to see
the man that can convince me"
An AKRON, Ohio, man has had his
wife jailed for two weeks for hitting him
a L. L, t,@r4
prayers.
A KANSAS book agent says he can sell
ten dime novels to one work on relig-
ion, and he looks for earthquakes and
hurricanes to visit that state.
SOME New York state men have COM
menced wearing linen coats, but fire.
places ought to be painted on the back
TO give them an air of comfort.
A M1ssoURI judge has decided that .
woman is not an -" old maid " until she
is thirty-fve years old, and all the wO-
msn are singing songs in his praise.
CREMATION OBITUARY.
Dssr Jane is gone, my darling Dan,
She was calcined yesterday;
But the wind upset the tOmatO-can,
And blew her ashes away.
TIE esteem of wise and good men Is
ments to virtue; and it is the mark of an
it.-BurEe.
TIE editor of the Colorado Globe de-
MES that he was hung by vigilance
committee. Western editors are great
liars, and one don't know whether to
believe him or not.
THE brains of people advanced ia
years would be greatly strengthened by
habits of study. Old people should
have their lessons, their mental culture,
like children. It would be almost =
cure for the decay of the mind IS age
advances. Martin Luther.
WHAT a foe the farmers have to con-
tend against IN the potato bug is shown
by the experience of a man in Joliet, Ill.
He placed some in a bottle eight months
ago. They have been exposed to the
extremes of winter and summer, have
had nothing to eat, and are still living.
THE wheat crop is promising through
out all the grain growing states, aud as
a result of drain to India on account of
the famine, and the prospect of a short
crop in England on account of labor
troubles, the chances of brisk demand
at good prices Is such as to make glad
the heart of the granger.
WE once heard of a traveller at hotel,
who rose from his bed at night to ex-
anime the weather but instead of look
ing ont on the sky, he thrust his head
through the glass window of a cupboard.
Bless me - he muttered, "this is very
singular weather. The night is as dark
a. pitch, and smells OF cheese.
A CH1SAMAN shot an American eagle,
near Sacramento, one day last We K,
and cooked and ate the deceased mon e
arch of birds. A few hours later sew
eraI patriotic citizens were "lOyally"
yelling around a newly dug trench, and
there was a dead Chinaman at the bot
tom of it.
CHUBBY, q three-year old boy, was
much puzzled to know what made it
rain, when his orthodox mother told
him that God made it rain. A few days
after, Chubby was discovered amusing
himself By throwing water from two
story window on the heads of passers-bY,
and. on being demonstrated with by his
mother, said: " Why, mamma, / was
only playing God" OF course, the
mother was Mortified at the comparison.
IFoUND myself moralizing on the su-
periority of money over other virtues.
It is always appreciated. No ghost
need rise from the grave TO proclaim its
transcendent merits. It makes the hid
eous beautiful, the foolish wise, the
stupil witty, and the wicked saints. It
can patronize genius, and dictate to na-
tions. It is very fine to be Shakespeare
after death, but how much moro COM
Portable to be ROthschild while living
Kate Field.
THE three-foOt narrow gauge railroad
system is rapidly becoming popular in
this country, aud but few people are
aware of the fact that since it came in
vogue. during the lat three or four
years, no less than 1,3451 miles Of mar
row gauge railway have been built IN
this country and in Canada, which
roads, when completed, viii have =
mileage Of 4, ,5624 miles, while there
are ,591 miles under construction.
LET not mistakes or wrong directions,
| of which every man, IN his studies and
/ elsewhere. falls into many, discourage
Won. There IS precious instruction to
/ he got by finding that We are wrong.
/ Let a man try faithfully, manfuliy 70
/ be right, he viii daily grow more and
] more right 1t Is at the bottom the
/ condition on which all men have to cuI-
/ tivate themselves. Our very walking
! is an incessant falling-A falling and
/ catching of ourselves before We come
/ actually 70 the pavement It IS emble-
matte of all things man does.-CGr-
/ Lyle.
POVERTY is the safest lRdy-love for
an artist, as one of Daute's friends was
always telling him. With her, at least,
thew can enjoy the perfect freedom from
care which alone makes want suppOrta-
bic they can throw around their desti-
tuition that halo of romance which the
,,yosaic details of q household invaria-