The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-12-04
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SAYINGS AND BOTNGs.

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DoE'F stand still and peint the way
to heaven. Spiritual guideboaTds save
| but few sinners.
THERE is no law against butting ones
head against a stone wall, but, as rule,
| the remuneration is small. Fss
JasH Billings says = There ara two
things in this life for which We are
never prepared, and that is twins.
TIE last survivor of the battle of
Trafalgar has insisted on dying again,
which reduces the number to less than
twenty.
MARK TWAIN is a failure as a dEsma-
tist, but what is a dramatic failure TO
man who is able to own q silver-plated
boot-jack.
THE fancy for wearing a little bunch
of natural or artificial flowers with the
bow at the throat is on the increase with
the ladies.
THE United States consumes 79, ,45O
tons of tobacco for chewing, and 73, 500
tons for snuffing. Last year we used
], 1892, ,346, 900 cigars.
CHEsTNUTs should always be cooked
before eating, as they are more healthy;
besides, cooking Imparts an improved
flavor to the worm, and stops its wrig-
Cling. "
WHEN a young wife made her first
boys pants precisely the same behind
as before, the father exclaimed Good
ness I he won't know whether he's going
to school or coming home"
EVERY year the population of France
is reported less and less. There is an
absolute, constant and regular decrease,
and at the present rate of decrease the
country viii be depopulated in 1S3.,
years.
TIE hair-brush which cost you a dol
lar last week, and which is Row only 1T
for hndling- wood, had bristles which
came from a Mexican plant called ystle,
wretched substitute for the genuine
irritaRt " He
3 TWELVE hundred men ere at work on
a new California hotel The man who
gets the contract for furnishing that
building with bed-bug poison viii have
no difficulty in marrying of his Oldest
daughter.
SAID a Missouri preacher 'sThere's
a powerful sight of giggling back thar
in the corner, and it's got to be stopped
or the Lord will delegate me TO open
the door and throw some one out = 1t
was stopped.
'sVFRTs,r is the word now applied in
England to persons who change their
faith. Convert being in some cases too
respectful and peryert IN other cases
not respectful enough, the barbarism is
held to be justifiable.
THE citizens of st. Louis are proud
of the residence in their midst of q bead
tifui poetess. of a nature SO sensitive
that she recently tainted dead away at
the sight OF her little brother with q me
tooth comb in his hand.
WHEN Chicago woman answered the
door-belI and was informed that her
husband had been drowned, she senk
down and whispered tAnd the bill
for thirty dollars worth Of false hair is
to come up at four o. 'clock-ooh-hoOoonIR
AFTER a tongue has once got the r.
knack Of lying it is not TO be imagined
how impossible, almost, it is TO reclaim
it. Whence IL comes to pass, that we
see some men, who are otherwise vezy
honest, so subject to this T1ce.-1Aon- rs
taig1te.
MARIA is a very popular name IN IllI-
nois. When a cat climbs a back fence
in a we'll populated neighborhood and
pIaintiveIy calls out " Marian u twenty
or thirty windows are hastily thrown
up, from which protrude twenty or
thirty female heads " Idly answering
=" what % -F-
WHILE workmen were sinking we'll
In Ray county, Missouri, recently, they
came to what appeared to be the bed of
a lake. about twenty feet beneath the
surface, which showed petrifed stalks
of water-lilies imbedded in sandstone, =
and fish about four feet long, with
very large head and prominent eyes.
TIE only evidence Of perturbation
which the president gave when mes
senRer rushed IN with the news that
Massachusetts, had gone democratic, was
to remove his cigar from his mouth and
rest the lighted end of it on the back of p
Gen. Babcock's hand. BabcOck's per-
turbation was much more pronounced. z
THERE are fourteen thousand people
in Damascus sick with the fever, while
brigands are plundering the surround
ing coun ~ so that agriculture is inn
possible, and IN Damascus a moham-
medan family, having gone over to
Christianity, have been carried to the
jail and left there. " The Holy Land"
is the general title for this vicinity.
" HERoDOTUs, my son, what time is
it?" inquired Mr.. Spilkins Of his son,
Who had Just returned from college.
4" Well, father" replied the youth,
pulling out his watch, ''let represent
IL O'Clock, and y equal ten minutes;
and x-2-y is the angwer." Spilkins
pondered for a moment, and then said
he thought it must be about bedtime.
EDmBURGH's baby is laid IN a cradle
IN silver fligree, lined with pink silk,
pink curtains, and covered with white
lace, while his diminutive form is wrap
ped IN q quilt of white satin worked By
Auntie Beatrice. The whole establish
ment is 50 pretty that for its preserva-
ton the yoEth is under royal command
TO behave, IN certain particulars, differ
ent from other and even royal babes
VIZ give our washerWoman notice that
hereafter We want our own clothes. Last
Sunday we put on another fellows q
shirt, but couldn't wear it at all. lt
vas all ruffied around the top and
looked real handsome, but there was no
place for q collar, and It hadn't any
bosom, though we are bound to say
there was plenty Of room for one. Yes,
It was q handsome shirt, but We don't
have ours made that Way.-MaS Adetsr.
TIE Georgia state geologiss reports
that he is generally taken for revenue
detective, and finds that character some
what uncomfortable. but the momeDt ne
diseloBes his real object, 50 every fellow
comes back with his pocket fall of rocks
and wants to know if that's what
want. met one man who thought be
had lead, petroleum and silver al On
about one hundred acres. The state ls
exceedingly rich, but every farm doesnt
/ hold foTtuu ..
ALKxANDRE DUMAS PeTe, when 10
/ gave a dinner-partY to commercial men
/ had q sOIneyvhat ainnruIar method OF de-