The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-11-06
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J. Smith is dead. That fine young man
We never shall see more;
He'd been a mennber-of the club
Since eighteen sixty-four
His nose. .wss Roman, and his eyes
Continually were peeled;
He made a splendid umpire, and
A beautiful left field
Bis hair was red and .'shingIed" close;
Much sunbuEnt was his face
- He never shone. with more effect
! Than on the second base
Though not matrimonial man,
He dearly loved match;
/ -E And, like his sister, had but few
l SuperiOrs 'On the catch"
APPLAUSE waits on success; the fickle
multitude, like the straw that floats
/ along the stream, glide with the current
| still, and follow fortune.
| Our of one hundred men you run
against, you viii find ninety-fve worry
! ing themselves into low spirits aud in-
digestion about trouble that will never
come.
- IN Savoy the rivers Arne, Dranse and
Fier have been poisoned to kill fish,
which the queer fishermen, who operate
IN this style, gather up dead on the
surface. 1895 -e 81
2 EVERY year of our lives we grow more
| Convinced that it is the wlsest and best
to fix our attention on the beautiful
and the good, and dwell as little as pos
sfble on theseviI and the false.
An Indiana man, with q turn for sta
tisties, calculates thai his faithful dog,
ten years of age, has cost him 1884, %
for hash, and S25 for license. The dog
is now for sale. Price, ten cents.
AD1RoNDAcr MURRAY hasn't put much
spirit into his sermon lately. The fact
is, when a man hasGto take care of eight
fast horses. all the week he can't put IN
many heavy licls for the Lord on Sun
day.
AT a recent meeting of a society CON-
posed of men from the Emerald isle, q
member mader the following motion :
+" AIr. President, I move yees whitewash
the ceiling green, in honor of the ovid
flag"
VINE growing is an important indus
try in the colony of Victoria. Australia,
and the government has forbidden the
importation of European vines for fear
OF introducing some of the prevailing
diseases.
THE editor of the Guardian Of Health
writes, go for the fire of our grand
fathers u Most men are satisfied with
the unsettled coal bills of the present
without sighing for a grandfather's fuel
/ to owe for.
An extraordinarily large turnip was
I dug in a garden at Salt Lake the other
day, which, on being cut open, disclosed
1 a laF9e-si lied frog, well and hearty,
] which tumbIed out and hoped of, just
/ as if he was not the creature Of won
I deTful phenomenon.
: FRUGALIFY may be termed the daugh-
! ter of prudence, the sister of temper
ance, and the parent of liberty. He
that is extravagant viii quickly be-
come pocr, and poverty will enforce de-
pendenes and invite corruption.
NINETEEN years ago q Tennessee faith
er refused to let his young daughter go
to q oandy-pull, and she disappeared.
The other day she returned, lifted eleV-
en- children out of the wagon, and en-
tered the hcuse and teok eff her things
.aszeoolIy as if she had not been gone
over 2 day .-...--. 80 .-.-- ....
4. M. DECRoIx, chief Veterinary surgeon
Of the French army, gives the equine
population of Europe as follows; Rue
sra, 800. 900; Austria, g, 100, 900; Eng
land, 2, 666 200; Germany, 2,500 GOO;
Turkey, 200, 900; Spain, 600, 000; Hol-
zerland, 10, 900; and France, 8, ,633, 500.
MANY years ago Gardiner Brewer, the
recently deceased Boston millionaire,
offered his daughter an annual income
of $40, 600 upon condition that she
would remain single. Miss Brewer had
sufficient Boston brains about her per-
son to accept the offer, though she's
been head over ears IN love so often
that the bare recollection of it makes
her dizzy.
THE British, French, Belgian, Ger
man, Swedish, Dutch, Norwegian,
Turkish, Grecian, and Syrian branches
of the Evangelical Alliance have issued
an invitation for the universal ObseTv-
ance of the first week in January, 1875,
from The 3D. TO the 10th, for prayer in
behalf of the whole world. Subjects
are designated for each day. a similar
programme viii be prepared for the
United States.
AMONG some notes on dueIs the New
York Post gives the following: " Rich
ard S0mers, a lieutenant In tse navy of
the United States, q gentleman of mild
manners and of a kindly nature, in
dElged IN three duels in one day, and
lost so much blood from wounds re-
ceived during the first two that he was
obliged 20. remain seated throughout
the third engagement. he is said
to have persisted in the Tnterpid fire
sketch, before Tripoli, in 1904. .
CHIcAGo statistics show that 30, ,O0O,-
900 Bushels Of corn have been Hbipped
eastward through Chicago alone since
The beginning Of the year. The vast
amount, as weH as that which has gone
by other routes and TO other markets,
he l. -
uOis probably thirty cents per busAel,
and on the something over 300 OOO.pOO
bushels Of corn raised in the two states,
has probably given them from 50, 0OO,-
600 20 Sc, coo, 0O0 more profit than usual
on the corn sold within the last seven or
eight months. - sac
The MOdOcs.