The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-04-24
MuItum in Parvo.

N uItum IN parVoi that means much
in little. If be had transposed it, and
said little in much, it would have been
much nearer the truth" Thus sayeth
the reader. lfyou that say so, are a
lady, l will lift my hat and say, true, o
madam. But if you belong to the hirsute
variety of the genus homo, will say no
such thing, but will say, instead, that
perhaps you are as hard to please in a
newspaper article, as you are in the cut
of your coat, or fit of your boots. Per-
haps you don't like this. l hope you
don't, and also hope, you will promptly
avenge yourself bY-writing something
better
Poor editors, what time they must
have in hunting up, and fixing up, read
ing matter every week for their papers,
and in keeping soul and body together.
An editor may die of vexation, but new
er of starvation. Why, they can come
az nigh living on the wind as any Chame-
leon. I once heard of one, (whose sub
seribers would't pay him. that hired
himself out, as a sort of camera obscura,
through which people could look at a
solar eclipse, for two bits head Editors
know, but they don't like to tell it, that
there are some who don't know anything
about reading newspaper, intelligent
ly. If there is a murder, fire, fight,
wedding or hanging, published in the
Bulletin, Bolivar is the place where it
happened, because he reads it in the
Bolivar paper. If one of this class of
readers is asked about the editorials, he
knows nothing about them-eouldn't
find the editorial columns to save his
life
Sometimes a subscriber falls out with
the editor and orders his paper stopped,
just because it is not filed with matter
to suit his peculiar taste, and afterwards,
is filed with rage, and astonishment on
hearing that the editor still lives, and
the paper is still issued
Contributors well, I shall not say
much about them, at least, nothing
against them, for no one is expected to
testify against himself, however little he
may be. And besides this, some of them
are a necessary evil in a community,
and often confer a favor on an editor,
by supplying him with the necessary
amount of nonsense, for each number
of his paper. The only real trouble
they are to him, lies in his having to
correct bad spelling, (now should have
said photography, because contributor
should always use big, long word,) bad
grammar, bad punctuation, and in de-
ciphering bad chirography-I 10on't say
handwriting. Sometimes an editor is
so ungraclous, and utterly devoid of
of fear, as to throw into the waste basket
the illusions of some poor mortal, laborS
ing under severe attack of ca~ca-scrib-
endi, q could't think of all that wordl
for no other reason than that there is
no sense in them. The monster And
now having raised the nap of editors,
readers, subscribers and contributors,
will change the theme.
"Elbs saw [ ere 1 was able" This
line is remarkable, because it reads the
same from right to left, that it does from
left to right I saw it in the Bulletin,
some month or so ago. It was there
said to be remark Of the great Napo>
leon, on his journey from Elba to Paris.
1t was further remarked, that there was
nothing like it. Read this: Lewd did
1 live, and evil did dwell Who will
find another line of this literary curiosi-
tyr JOSH.