The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-11-13
RATES OF ADvERrIs1Ne.
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SAYINGS AND DOINGS.

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| MARRIAGE is often the end of mans
| troubles-but which end ?
TIE largest diamond does not always
cover the best hotel clerk.
KISSING FAIRS are held in Iowa to
I clear off church debts. It's ten cents
per kiss.
WHEN a female child is born in Wis
eonsin the unhappy father begins to
save money to buy piano.
TENNYsoN is said to be at work upon
| something for Mrs. Edinburgh's baby.
1t begins, 'tis said
a. Oh, toothIess, hairless, royal babe,
AbOut thee all the Russians rave" etc
SKvENTY-FIvE ladies of Rochester are
out in s card denying that they sleep in
their corsets In order to keep their
forms graceful.
TIE peanut crop amounts ito only
$50, 900 bushels this year, and after the
female colleges have been supplied
there won't be pint apiece for the rest
of us.
CALIFoRN1A nowhol ds the Yosemite
valley in trust for the nation, and has
paid 800, 600 to settle the pre-emption
claims of the persons who colonized
there.
1t is asserted as fact that Disraeli
is quite spoOny on the Empress Eu-
genie, and all because the premier has
taken to wearing forget-me-nots IN his
buttOn-hole.
TIE Norwegians in this country still
insist that Left Erikson discovered
America before Columbus did. VIII
liam Tell has gone, and now farewell to
Chris.
TIE imperial memorial Office in Pekin
has received the following verbal decree
from the emperor In honor of the
birthday Of her majesty, the empress,
let dragOon clothes be worn for three
days, beginning from the Doth inst.
9th August.) From the throne"
PooR young thing She tainted away
at the wash-tub, and her pretty nose
went ksrslOp into the soapsUds. Some
said it was overWork: others, however,
whispered that her beau had peeped
over the back fence and called out
90 Hullo, there, Bridget, is Miss Alice at
homer"
SATISFACTORY SoLUuoN.-
Facts in geology and Egyptology,
Very momentous as touching chronology,
Seem to run counter to facts of theology
Very well, never mind What II they do z
true.
Truth and truth ne'er can at variance be;
All truths viii some day be proved to agree
Seemingly different truths, let us say,
Are equally true in a different way.
THE PHILADELPHIA Press: Six months
before the belching of the guns of Sump-
ter anY one would have been deemed a
fool who predicted absolute war" And
the Louisville Courier Journal: "This
may be all true enough but the war is
over now, and why do you seek to renew
the bitterness of sectional hate by spell
ing Sumter with a p ?"
GOETHE's ideal of married life, and
one to which he strictly adhered, is de-
scribed by himself as the union of two
persons of cultivated faculties, identical
in opinion and purposes, between whom
there exists that best kind of equality,
similarity of powers and capacities with
reciprocal superiority In them, so that
one can enjoy the luxury of looking mp
to the other, and can have alternately
the pleasure of leading and being led in
the path of development.
ADEL1NA PATTI is getting to have a
reputation as q spoiled child Of song.
At a late reception, a Yankee. whose
parsimony held even sway with enthU-
siasm, ventured to present the bejeweled
darling of the salon with q hfty-Cent
nOsegay, and the shock it caused her
was SO great that she stood upon one
leg for several seconds while ten or a
dozen gentlemen scrambled wildly
around in search of cushions for her to
faint away on.
AND now the drawing "Tha-a-nks "
of the languid swells has crept into the
dry goods stores so when lady hands
her currency TO the brisk cOunter-iump-
er, and he has yelled "ca-s-sh I" in a
rasping voice into her very face half
dozen times, and raped on the counter
till her teeth are on edge, he unsettles
her digestion for the rest of the day by
handing her the change and drawling
's Tha-a-nks" in a vapid, easy, familiar
style, as if he had just finished a waltz
with her.
BRET HARTE, lin an essay on COntu-
Gins, gives the following as "his jokes"
cone day, being handed a two-foot
rule, COnfuciUs opened it the wrong
way, whereupon it broke. The master
said quietly that sit was a poor rule
that wouldn't work both ways OBJ
serving that Wan Sing was much ad-
dicted to opium, the master said, 'Filial
regard Is always beautiful why?
asked his disciples. He loves his pop
py,' replied the master, changing cOun-
tenance.