The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-06-12
SAYINGS AND DOINGs.

MISS LovEJoY of Wis. has commenced
her fourth breach of promise case.
The sale of the works of the late Sir
| Edwin Landseer, which recently took
place in London, realized nearly 1867,
TIE Dunkards wear Quaker clothes,
| and shake hands and kiss when they
come together. Most of them I've IN
| Ohio.
| PASSION gets less and less powerful
| after every defeat. Husband energy
| for real demand which the dangers of
| life make upon it.
THE most fashionable of Saratoga
| cottages rent for IS, 900 for the season
of three months. Others bring 81, 500,
others 81, 600, and so on down to $500.
SARroRIs' connection with the Grants
| has not improved him grammaticalIy.
| When asked, 90 Wilt thou have this wo-
man to be thy welded wife ?" he replied
| "I do.
OLIVIA, a lady correspondent, writes
| TO the CaPital: In all delicacy may
we ask why you apply the term hen to
the woman attorney and the prOnoun he
to the man p
New YORK spends annually S9,O0O,-
900 on newspapers, 81, coo, 900 on thea
| ters, 50, 900, 600 for religious purposes,
and $50, 600, 600 on liquor and liquor
establishments.
THE intelligent compositor thus de-
monstrates the possibilities of type :
THE parents of the bride were numer-
GUS and handsome" And yet sOmo
folks say there is no hell.
ADVICE to persons living In houses
adapted for two families /: When your
bell rings, wait; the other people may
go to the door. When their bell rings,
rush to your door and listen deyoutly.
BECAUSE a well-dressed young man in
Chicago omnibus remarked that
''there were no good. looking girls in
Chicago" the elegant Times of that
place denounces him as ''a polished
ass.
The ailantus trees of New York are
to be displaced by horse-chestnuts. 1t
is true that the ailantus is attacked by
the caterpillar, but what proof is there
that the horse-chestnut Will not come
down with the "epizOotic ?"
Mrs. SARToRIs is gentle and amiable.
If the brave young Englishman who IS
her husband had married a woman of
the disposition peculiar to a good many
American women, he would In less than
two weeks imagine that Re was being
hen-pecked by the American eagle.
The "bag feat was accomplished by
Madame FOntainbleau in a Chicago
theater a few nights ago. GO 1t consists
of leaping from the gallery to the stage,
while envelOped in bag, and catching
by her feet on a trapeze. 1t was done
to the intense delight of large audi
ence."
WHEN Napoleon was a small boy he
was asked whether he could tell what
nationality he was of, and he indignant
ly replied, "Of Corsican." When
Chang and Eng wss n small boy he was
asked whether he was a native of Siam,
and he Indignantly replied, OF course
Siam"
The Cunard steamship line is about
to turn a cold shoulder to Boston, and
has come to the conclusion that it does
not pay to send their vessels there. The
reason, however, is clothed in more
delicate language, and is based on the
ground of high cost of railroad freights
on grain and other products.
THE attention of crusaders" is re-
spectfully called to the significant coin
cidence that, for some years past, the
importation of opium has increased
I0CJTL 10CISSN WIN the ADVANCE OF buo
teetotaI movement, one hundred and
twenty-five tons of that narcotic solRce
being our present annual allowance.
That eminentIy respectable and nu-
merous body of religiOnists who call
themselves Dunkers, or Dunkards, will
be a good deal astonished, if not horri-
fed, to see the way the telegraph has
Iibeled them in transmitting the reports
of their convention at Girard, ILL.,, to
the eastern newspapers. Several journ-
ais published the report with the head
ing. GA Drunkards' convention" as
the telegraph made it, and the Boston
Journal improved upon it in this way {:
81 novel nizatiOn-National con-
vention of Drunkards."
THE King of Hawaii is becoming
alarmed lest his valuable subjects be-
come extinct, leaving nobody for him to
'boss." Says this royal idiot Now
what can I do to mark my relgn-what
shall be done to signalize it This is
my great desire--tO witness an increase
in the population of these islands. But
I can not do this alone you must assist
me. The father who provides for a
large family, and the mother who gives
birth to them and takes good care of her
children, are the benefactors of Hawaii,
and should be rewarded. They are the
hope of the nation"