The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-02-13
GRAVE AND GAY.


"Dox'r you mean to marry again.
my dear sir ?" said buxom widow to
her ueighbor. 'E No, my dear widow, -
| said old crusty, sid rather lose all the
| ribs I've got than take another ?
els the old man any better p asked
| a boot-black of a newsboy the other
/ dav. "Better I" echoed Jim; "I
| should say he was You ought to
have seen him singing stove-wood at
/ mother this morning !"
A PRISONER in petty court was asked
| by the Judge If he had any counsel.
sfYes." he said, "I hal engaged an old
bald headed fellow to defend me, but
I don't see him round, and rather
| guess he's out for a drink.
A BACHELOR says if you hand a lady
a newspaper with a paragraph cut out
| of it. not line of it will be read, but
every bit of interest felt IN the paper
| by the lady Will centre In finding out
what tle missing paragraph contained.
OK KIssNG.-
And if it we're not lawful, the lawyers would
And if i were not pious, the clergy would not
choose it;
And if it were ROt dainty thing, the ladies'
would not crave it,
And if 'twere not plentiful thing, the poor
girls could not have it.
A VILLAGE in western New York is
reported to be exercised over new SEN
sation, caused by young lady of that
place leaving a line of bran along the
sidewalk while taking her afternoon
promenade. The gossips of the town
want to know where the bran came
from.
A BEDFORD, Pa, newspaper tells of a
girl who stands on half-bushel meas
ure and gracefully shoulders7 three
bushels of wheat. To a doubling ed
itor in an adjoining county, the newspa-
per mentions the fact that she is bru-
nette, five feet three inches longitude,
that her gravity is 225 pounds, and that
she can whip any editor in Cambria
county.
A CORRESPONDENT of country paper
complains of young lady schOo.-teach-
er VINO permits one of the big scholars
to sit beside her and kiss her occasion
aIIy. The probability is that he has
struggled for the position and been re-
iected, and that accounts for his sud
den affection for the prophecies.
THE WooDMAN AND THE SANDAL-TREE.
Beside sandal-tree woodmau stood
And swung the ak, and, as the strokes were
laid
Upon the fragrant trunk, the generous wood,
With its own sweets, perfumed the cruel
Go. then, and do the like: a soul endued
With light from heaven, nature pure and
VIII place it's highest bliss in doing geod.
And good for evil give, and love for hate.
Bryant.
THERE Is n story of Judge Grier,
which everybody delights IN, how he
set aside the unjust verdict of jury
against an Unpopular man, with this re-
mark ' Enter the verdict, MIR. Clerk.
Enter, also, Set aside by the court. "
[ want it to be understood that it takes
thirteen men to steal a mans farm In
this court.
How often have we seen the bloom
inc maiden upon whose face smiles
danced like mOOn-beams upon the bo-
som of q sleeping sea. and whose life
gave promise of happiness unalIoyed
and hope unrequited, sitting IN the
sanctuary with huge wad of gum In
her mouth, and her beautiful chin rIs-
ing and falling like wave upon the
ocean, while the meek pastor endeav-
ored to mint her to the New Jerusalem.
THE AUREonB OF CHILDHOOD
Our birth is but n sleep, and forgetting
The soul that rises with us, our HE star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar;
Not in entire forgetfdlness,
Aud not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do We come
From God, who is our home;
Heaven lies about us in our infancy!
Shades of the pUison-house begin to close
Bnt he beboIds the light. and whence it flows,
He sees it in his Joy;
The youth, who daily farther from the east
Must travel, still is Nature priest,
And bv the vision splendid
Is on his way attended;
At length the man perceives il die away
And fade into the light OF common day
- Wordsworth
THE population of Japan amounts TO
nearly SO, 600, 900. The area covered by
the capital city, Yedo, is is, GOO acres or
about % square miles, aud this city Is
therefore, IN point of area, next to Lon
don, the largest city in the world. The
population of Yedo is usually put down
at from 1 800, 600 to 5000, 900, but even
the smaller figure is a gross exaggera-
ton, the last census showing the num-
Der Of its inhabitants to be only 7oO,-
321.
A DIsTINGUIsRED president Of o col
lege said, in q recent lecture " IVES
Obliged once to sit two whole hours az
n dinner beside a lady with a blazlnB
crimson gown loaded all over WIN Jew
elry. Tie lady had an awful lncapao-
ity for conversation, and never 81
that gaudy color without thinking OF
the lady and yawning as recall the teL'
ribIy two long hours 1 had with her'
starting topic after topic without re-
gponse." 1t is now in order to hear
what the crimson lady thought OF the
college president.
WELLINGTON was once asked by Ia
DIV of rank, after dinner, to give her
an account Of the battle of Waterloo
request very like that made by
French countess who seized philoso-
pher at the supper-table, and ex-
claimed: "While they are cutting
up the fowls, and we have got five min
utes to spare, do tell me the HISTORY OF
the world, for 1 want TO know II so
much" However, the Iron Duke
proved himself equal to the occasion;
for he replied, ''Battle of Waterloo,
ma am, we pommeled the French, they
| pommeled MS, and we pommeled the
hurdest so we gained the day.
Total Statistics Of the Last United
States Census.