The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-07-10
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.


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/ Handel.
DIR. .Brown-SequaFd-h -has-sailed for Eu-
rope-and-hyphens-w -now-have-a-rest.
I STRAW is in demand, but in lengths of
about twelve inches with a glass a. the
end.
GREAT places are great burdens dis
tinquished conditions in life exact great
servitude.
ScorF ROGERS carried his shotgun
out on a slippery log, IN Missouri, few
days ago.
NorHNo, it is said, contributes so
much to the Emusic of the future" as
matrimony."
LIFE is as tedious as twice told tale,
vexing the dull ear of a drOwsy man.
Shakespeare.
Man is the merriest species of crea-
ton all above and below him are Sc
rious.-AddiSoH
The worm of concience is the COM
panion of the owl the light is Stunned
by evil spirits only.-SchiLLeT.
THE anti-ice reform is not making
much head-way. "Ho, waiter a glass
of ice-water. with dash of animalcul@."
TENNYsoN is writing another "Idyl of
the King" Writing idyls should never
be encouraged during the corn-hoeing
season.
TASTES differ with localities. In Fort
Wayne a man with a red nose is looked
up to as a profound thinker and deep
philosopher.
THE Leghorn fiat of the season has q
wide brim without any wire, SO that it
may be shaped at will. After the wearer
has been out In shower the fiat shapes
itself.
AUGUSTUS LEONARD dressed up like an
Indian, and descended on the cabin of
Missouri family for fun. They kept the
body on ice three days for his father to
arrive.
A BROOKLYN husband comforts his
wife for the loss of their dear little
eight-moutbs-old, by reminding her that
there will be more room on the clothes
line now.
"OLD PROBABILITIES" predicts light
winds and hurricanes for July, but he
can't scare a man who lives in a rented
house and has his furniture insured for
its full value.
THESE old fellows are perfectly resist
less. Four months after the death of
his wife, Asahel Mix, of Bristol, Conn.,,
aged eightyyears, committed matrimcny
with a girl fourteen years and six
months old.
An Evansville damsel Witnessing a
foot race between a number of young
men q few days ago, became disgusted
with the performace, pulled off her
Shoes, challenged and beat the whole
crowd.
IT is to the credit of Milwaukee that
only four men looked at 81 giraffe the
other day without remarking that it
would be nice to have that throat-one
could taste his drink so long.
THIS is the month in which little
boys find that their hats have grown
too large for them, and walk into school
with long faces, amid sympathetic
whispers of "Why didn't yOu have
yOur head filed, instead of sand-paper-
ed ?"
An Idaho school teacher has intro
duced a new feature IN his school.
When one of the girls misses q word,
the boy who spells II has permission to
kiss her. As a result, the girls are fast
becoming poor spoilers, while tue boys
are improving.
MARRIED men who have extravagant
families, which they are in duty bound
to support. get no credit for retaining
from suicide. Just hear Louise Stock
ton sit is worth noticing thar, while
the men who commit suicide are almost
always unmarried, the women are mar
Tied or widowed. This leads to the in
ference that, while men can not live
without women, women find life unbear-
able with men,"
A FIRM dealing largely IN coal in one
of our western cities had in their ser
vice an Irishman named Barney. One
day the head of the firm, irritated be
yOnd endurance at one of Barney's
b1unders, told him TO go to the Office
and get his pay, and added Hon
are so thick-headed I can't teach you
anything" Begorra," says Barney,
50 larn wan thing since I've been wId
We - "What's that ?" asked his en-
ployer. " That siyinteen hundred
make ton"
THE San Francisco Alta makes the in
teresting announcement that "the
amount of money, in round numbers
nineteen millions, realized from the
sales of the surplus wheat crop Of the
state for the past year has exceeded the
value of the gold produced from the
California mines. The remark does not
embrace Lile DulliOu JiO+N " 4NSNHNAt.g
which is the result of California capital
and labor. It merely points out that
the soil of California for the past year
has rewarded industry with more value
in wheat than In gold. If We were to
take the whole production the difference
would be much greater.
THE proposed abolition Of patronage
in the church of Scotland is stoutly OPP
posed on a variety of grounds. Among
others because, IL is alleged, there IS
thus created q state endowed church
perfectly independent Of all state con-
troll. The ladies are also mp in arms mp
on the slight put upon them by the
measure giving the election Of clergy
men entirely into the hands Of ''male
communicates, while still another OBJ
lection is that the proposed measure
would add immensely to the power or
the clergy, inasmuch as the formation
Of the communion roll is entirely with
in their power, so that they could frame
the different constituencies as they
chose.
National Bank Reserves.
The COMPTROLLER Of currency has writ