The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-06-05
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.

BRET dARTE s labE pO6LH HIS " 10
read nineteen times before its pathos
can be appreciated.
QUEEN VICTORIA is reported to be fol-
loving established precedents IN the re-
lation of mother-in-law.
NEw YORK people have tried hard to
like horse meat, but they have had to
| give it up and go back to beef.
SOME lord in England has ordered
/ two numbered living prairie chickens
| from Grundy county, Iowa, and viii
/ try to acclimate them.
! CUSTOMER to barber: "I sly, don't
| (hic) put any bay rum (hic) on my face,
cause it'll make (hie) my wife think
| I've been (hic) drinkin'."
EVERY cat in Paris during the siege
was taxed three francs year. 1t was
1 noticed after this that there were much
/ fewer cats In the houses, and much
better supply of rabbits in the restau-
rants.
AUTOGRAPHS OF George Washington
are selling in Philadelphia at 81 apeice.
| The manufacturers are about intrOduc-
! ing some improved machinery, and when
/ that is in they can be had at forty cents
a dozen.
! AT a conference meeting in Salt Lake
| city recently, Brigham Young, Jr., ex-
! planned his system of praying for his
! enemies "I pray for our enemies,
! brethren, but I always pray that they
may go to hell !"
/ DANIEL Boon had very brief relig-
! ious creed. It was simply to love and
/ fear God, believe in Jesus Christ, do
all the good to your neighbors and
himself that he could, and as little
harm as he could.
EARL RUSSELL is not with the Wash
ington treaty. He told the house of
lords the other night that it had ''tarn-
isbed the national homer, lowered the
national character, and sacrificed the
national interest.
A KALAMAZOO widow, who is not one
of the despairing kind, has the photo
graphs Cf her three departed lords IN
group. with a vienette of herself in the
centre, and underneath is the lnscrlp-
ton, 'iThe Lord will provide"
The Chicago Times chronicles the
fall of an enormous aerolite IN the VI
cinity of Farmersville, Livingston
county, Mo. The shock of its impact
with the ground is stated to have been
like an earthuuake. and the molten mass
is described as fully twenty feet high
abve the soil, and some twenty feet in
diameter. It presents the usual ap-
pearance of such bodies, being black,
shining mass Of meteoric iron.
Rev. Mr.. WALTON, of Hightown,
n. Y, placed a sealed can of beans
upon the live Goals in the stove to
to assist in the opening thereof. An
instant explosion followed, shattering
the stove, upsetting the tea-kettle,
a. l. hn nN
and pIastering the beans to the ceiling.
The whole family had a narrow escape,
and the dominic concludes. that he
knows beans now.
From the account of the Sanders
Vile, Georgia, Herald it appears there
was something to laugh at IN the escape
of the convict from the Washington
county gang hired for agricultural Ia
Dor. The oVerseer had some dogs that
he was training to catch any of the
gang who might escape, and he turned
this convict loose to exercise the dogs
and instruct them IN their parts. But
the fellow took his part in earnest, and
as the dogs failed to come up to what
was expected of them he was not
caught.
THE idea that Dickens intended a
portraiture OF his own thriftless sire IN
the character of Wilkins Micawber sug-
gests to a sagacious London cores
pondent that the latter name is-but Il
disguise of tho literal expression,
" Ny father" Change the "y" to
ssi " the "f" to 90 " the 81 4" to "w,"
have Micawber at once This power
full speculation reminds one of the old
explanation Of the derivation of Mid
dletown from Moses-you drop the
'oses and add the 'iddletOwn
QUANTITIES of unsafe dams have been
discovered IN Massachusetts, since the
williamsburg flood. The latest dis
coyery of the kind is that a dam near
Worcester, which confines a body of
water twice the size of the Mill river
reservoir, has been In dangerous state
for eight years, and was six years since
condemned by the county commission
ers and ordered to be removed. The
order has never been complied with.
and when the dam bursts the city Of
Worcester Will vanish.
The old question, does lager intoxi-
cate came before a court IN Dayton,
Ohio, a day or two ago. A Germ-n
testified: : "If you drink five or six
glasses Of lager in a little while You
will feel more pleasant as If you drink
five or six glasses of water in the same
time, and if you drink five or six glasses
Of water in a little while you will feel
more disappointed as If you drink five
or six glasses of lager in the same
time" The jury were out four hours,
and stood seven to five.
THE value of carrier-pigeons was so
plainly shown during the FrancO-GeI-
man war, that the French government
has decided to erect a large house and
TO keep constantly in it for the next SIX
years 5000 pairs Of pigeons for breed
ing purposes. Each fortress is to have
a pigeon-house, with a capacity for l.
600 birds, and two general stations are
/ to be established, with accommodations
/ for 60, 600 birds. The Germans too are
/ breeding carrier-pigeOns on a large
( scale for the use of the army.
/ THE spring brain-work has began in
some of the principal newspaper offices.
/ The st. Louis Democrat says In
/ the spring, the spurs grow longer on
/ the CANDY roOster's legs IN the spring,
a pullet's fancy lightly turns to thoughts
/ of eggs. The Minneapolis Tribune
says " In the spring, the vernal bluo-
Der ripens IN the FURNISHED whale IN
the spring, a tadpOle's fancy lightly
turns to thoughts of tail. The Boston
Globe says In the spring, tn ura-
brella-owner gins to wonder when Is
his in the spring, the soda FOUNTAIN
lightly turns TO thoughts Of fizz.
WHILE company d, of the Twenty
/ eighth Pennsylvania volunteers, was 10
ing picket duty, John Moy was placed
as sentinel, with orders 70 examine all
"passes." During the day horseman
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