The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-03-06
SAYINGS AND DOINGs.

1 SA1INNES AND DUfAlGS.
AN English Judge, Baron Anderson. on
| being asked to give his opinion as O the
| proper length of a sermon, replied,
Twenty minutes, with leaning 10 the
side of mercy"
THE world of spirits, we are told, is
sixty millions of miles distant, which
will be some comfort TO those wLo are
blamed for taking all the spirits they
can get in this world.
Iris now the practice Of some silkman
ufacturers to weight their silks with a
solution of lead acetate, by which means
poisous properties are impaired to the
silks, as well as an increase in weight.
In seventeen years Spurgeon has re-
] ceiYed Is, 900 persons into his church,
erected thirty-six chapels in London,
and supplied the same with ministers
| trained IN a college of his own found
ing.
ALLUDNG to the death of citizen
recently, the Danbury News remarks:
60 With the single exception Of twenty
! three years ago, when he took few
lessons on a violin, his life has been
blameless.
THE Aericulturalist states that very
| fine white vinegar may be made from
| the juice of the white part of water
melons. At a certain stage the fluid is
| bitter. but when perfected acquires q
/ vinegar flavor.
A COAL field with seams varying from
| five to thirty-f five feet in thickness, and
! extending over a region of $50 miles,
has been discovered in the new terri
| tories on the liue of the Northern Pa
cifc railroad.
-
you think my father will go to heaven ?'
ask ?' Well, because if he don't
have his own way there, he won't stay
long, I was thinking"
LOVES LAND
In the south is loves land,
Where the roses blow,
Where the summer fingers,
Fearless Of the snow.
There winter chills il,
So it's life is long
Gentle breezes fan il,
Age but makes 1t strong,
Nay, fresh roses wither
Where the il ho.-
Not in torrid regions
Blooms forget-Ine-not.
Loves q tender blossom,
Which the winter Chi Is,
But too eager summer
With its kisses kills.
FoR pure grit and long-continued pa
tience you ought to 60 to Toledo. A
young lady in that town has sent one
hundred and sixteen pieces of poetry to
the newspapers, and though all have
been rejected, she is struggling with an
other.
ONE might write a column obituary
notice on an office-h holder and then not
equal the brief announo ement in an
Iowa paper: " Harvey dickson, county
treasurer, is dead. He was lenient
with the widowed, and his books always
balanced" "
THE Illinois Central railroad is about
to inaugurate the planting of trees to
furnish supply of ties for the road.
The particular portion of the line on
which the work will begin this season
is that part of the '' branch" between
Chicago and Champaign.
M. MULLER states that In series of ex-
periments recently made, frogs that were
frozen in brooks IF ice for eight hours
re alive and breathed normally as
soon as the ice was thawed. OF two of
these creatures of equal weight, the
most yo, acious consumed the most OK
ygen.
A PEORIA naturalist, in attempting to
warm the ears of a frozen wasp over a
gas let. discovered that the tail Of the
insect thawed out first, and worked with
a rapidity that was as astonishing as
the nideous profanity of the natural
ist, who held the insect by the tail
while thus experimenting.
ACCORDING to Pettenkofer, cholera
patients may be attended with perfect
impunity if proper attention is paid to
cleanliness. In addition to the ordinary
cleansing of rooms and utensils, he
especially insists on the Immediate sub
lection of all soiIed linen or other cloth
ing % the action of boiling soapsuds.
THE most appalling case of deafness
that we ever came across outside OF an
asylum was an old lady who lives just
across the street from thenavy yard. The
other day they fred salute of twenty
one guns. The old lady was observed
to start and listen as the last gun was
fred, and then exclaim, "COme IN.
A WOMAN applied to the police justice
/ in Detroit the other day for a warrant
| for another for slander. The justice
4 stated that it was a case for the record
| er's court, but asked her what the
woman said. "She called me q liar,
renIied the female. "Did she qualify
/ IL ;" inquired the judge. '' Yes, she
! did-look a-here," replied the com
pIainant. showing a scalp-wound four
| inches long. Shed a quallhed me
again if I hadn't knocked her over with
/ a brick
IT is a circumstance worth noting that
the native British regiments who are en-
Gagged on the gold coasts have been
/ fo1nd to Withstand the climate much
better than the West Indian troops. all
of whom are colored. The facility with
which the British race becomes accli-
matized has long been well marked and
recognized by authropologists but the
contrast afforded in the present in
stance has not often, If ever, been OBJ
tainable before, and it is of some soien-
tific value.
MILE. LEvAsUER, a leading tragic ac-
! tress in Paris, was once playing most
J touching part IN which the heroine com
mits suicide by taking poison. AT the
most pathetic passage, while she was
! bidding adieu TO life and making every
/ body in the theater sob, she suddenly
/ changed her tone, and shrieked, . Dam
/ nation. what has been put In this
/ bowl % Imagine the effect of this
/ homeIy prose delivered IN SO energetic
/ a manner In the rlidst of stately poetry!
/ The actor, Beauvaliet, who loved
practical joke, had sneared the beaker
with asafetida.