The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-05-15
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.

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/ QUESTION for horlsts-Is not rich
mandarin China AstOr?
| TALBOT county, Georgia, last year
! produced s, ,832 bales of cotton and 49,
( 500 bushels Of corn.
A GEORGIA clergyman has thirty-two
children. His sermons are nearly all
upon the subject of L" a better life than
this"
ATLAsr General Concha is going to
/ try the expedient of striking the Gar
lists in the rear. just what they de-
serve.
THERE are twenty mills IN Montana
crushing gold quartz. The silver ore is
nearly all shipped to Europe, much of
it going to Swansea, Wales.
To BOTTLE
'Tis very strange that you and
Together cannot pull;
For you are full when am dry,
And dry when am full.
AT revival in a western town, out of
one hundred converts fully two-thirds
were males, which the women explain
by saying their own sex are mostly an
gels already.
IT IS astonishing how rapidlys young
mans emotion will change when lady
relieves her waist from his sneircling
arms by inserting about one inch of
hair-pin in it.
INSCRIPTION on a tombstone in CO.
Iumbia, Tenn: 81 Escaped the bullets
of the enemy to be assassinated by a
cowardIy pup-a kind husband, an af-
feotionate father"
EXPERIMENTS have recently been made
with dynamite as a means of clearing
land of timber stumps. The explosive
compound is said to do tie work eff
fectually and with little trouble.
IT ONLY takes three hours and about
half cord of wood to put millionaire
into very small glass bottle. The
only difficulty to be apprehended is the
inevitable increase of family jars.
DoN MANUEL CoNoHA, who is said to
have assumed the command OF the
Spanish Republican troops, is nearly
eighty years old. His brother, Don
Jose, who has been lately named COVER
nor of Cuba, is over seventy-four.
CORNELIUS O. LOGAN, minister fpleni-
potentiary of the United States to Chill,
has consented to act as arbitrator In the
question between Peru and Chilli aris-
ing out of the liquidation of the ac-
counts of the allied squadron during
the war with Spain.
&c You never saw such happy lot of
people as we had here yesterday" said
landlady in Indiana to newly arriv-
ed guest !; " there we're thirteen couples
of Them "What Thirteen couples
just married ?'' "Oh. no, sir thirteen
couples just divorced"
HAPPINESS
There is not in this wide world a happier life
Than to sit by the stoye-pipe and tickle your
wife;
To kiss her warm lips in your moments of glse,
And twist the cats tail when she jumps on
your knee
FIRST RUFFIAN.-"W "Wot was / hup for,
and wot ave I got? Well, foor'd q
woman and took her watch, and I've got
two years and a fOgging." Second ruff
ian.-"Ah, 1 flung a woman out o the
top floor window ; an I've only got
three MONTHS First ruffian.-" All,
but then she was yer wife"
SOME of the planters in the inunda-
ted bottom lands of Mississippi and
Louisiana have had three crops washed
out in the last two months, and they no
longer feel interested in the question of
" less cotton and more corn" but have
begun seriously thinking if it viii not
be "no cotton and still less corn"
AN HISTORICAL curiosity has just been
placed In the Museum of the Invaiides,
Paris-namely, the suit of armor which
Charles VII. presented to Joan of Arc,
and which the heroine went to deposit
at st. Denis after having been wounded
under the walls of Paris. It is COM
posed of steel plates, weighs about fifty
pounds, and in every respect resembles
the one in the Pierrefond's collection,
which the Maid of Orleans wore at the
moment when she fell into the power Of
the enemy in making q sortie from Com
piegne.
THEoDoRE r. TYAIBY, the inventor OF
the revolving turret battery, having had
great experience in machinery for weld
ing heavy ordnance, is contemplating
the construction of the largest telescope
lens ever made. He proposes a lens
more than twice the size of that recent
" made by Alvin CLARK for the Wash
ington Observatory. Preparatory steps
to casting lens of five feet IN diameter
have been taken near Tarrytown, New
York. II his experiment proves as sue
cessful as he has reason to hope, Mr..
Tymby's efforts will place American as
Economical science far In advance Of that
of other countries.
A PLANTER in Virginia, being dressed
for some speclal OCCASION, salu 10 OAcio
Ben, an old family servant, " Uncle
Ben, how do I look p why, you
looks splendid, marster, splendid.
Why, you looks as bold as a lion"
% What do you know about lion
You never saw one" Why, yes, I
did. marster, rs often seed a lion
often" Where, Uncle Benz" "Why,
down on Master Johnson's plantation
they's got lion, and you seed him,
too; I know you has" q" Why, you
old goose, you, that is not lion it is
a jackass, and they have named him
Lion" "WeIl, I don't care about dat
i don't care for dat. You looks just
like him"
Equinoctial Storms.
There is a popular delusion that