The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-11-20
RATES OF ADvERrIsINe.
0a' iasL,. o. Ten hrss, ooassis,.las One Square.
(There are q squarea n each oolunan.)
SAYINGS AND DOINGs.


THERE is never q scarcity of Ithe small
potato crop. leassi fa taE
WHERE to go when short of money
go to work.
TIE Japanese make strong string of
paper, and we have seen a very good
/ cord Of woodruff not lately.
F. B. HARPER, the heir of "Uncle
John" Harper, was offered $50, goo for
Longfellow the other day, but declined.
3 WHEN man saves his cigar money to
buy his wife a new bonnet and the
children new shoes, it indicates spell
of sunshine.
Mr.. Ss1RKINs says he has been mar
ried sixteen years, and all the income
they have had to live on has been IN
eome-p -patibility. .
OLIVE LOGAN poises a rolling-pin on
the end of her thumb and demands to
know who first uttered that expression,
''Logan's man Sykes"
TIE Mar family, the Chase family,
the Follett family and dozens of other
families have held meetings this season
and sent agents TO England TO see about
&c that fortune" What a multitude OF
fortunes there are over there to be sureS
but did any one ever hear OF any one
getting one of them, or any part of one,
on account of the family string2
EUROPE is discussing the celebration
of one more centennial. This is the
centennial OF the potato, or of its in
PRODUCTION to European tables. Al
though the potato, went to Europe
much more than a hundred years ago,
its introduction to the table OF Louis
XVI, by Parmertier, in 1774, is the
date counted as the beginning OF its
history beyond the water.
CHARLES q. WEBB, one of the most
amusing men on the planet, ded1cates
his forthcoming book To the Bald
headed, that noble and shining Army Of
Martyrs. % Entertaining the idea that
loss of hair is caused by loss of sleep
he offers them his books as an intellect
ual poppy, believing Ito use his own
words) that in its wake shall follow
'' tired natures hair restOrer, balmy
sleepP' .--..a-g a rsf- r--sg ..za FL
THE police boundaries of London
cover 576 square miles and population
of 1900, 900 inhabitants. Here are
gathered more Jews than there are IN
Palestine, more Scotch than there are
in Edinburgh, more Irish than there
are in Dublin, more Roman Catholics
than there are in Rome, and there is
great variety IN the languages spoken.
There is birth in London every FIVE
minutes, and death every eight min
utes.
PrTY the poor CelestiaIs. They are
TO learn French after OIlendorfs sys-
tenn /; and so now, no doubt, the young
Mongolians are studying In their Ollen-
DORIS such passages as this Have
you the old horse of your dead grand
mother ?" "No, I have not the old
horse of my dead grandmother, but I
have the small squirrel of my old step
father" As " 0llendorf" seems based
upon the principle of using phraseD
chiefly to be met with In insane asy-
iums, we presume the above is a fair
specimen of the exercises 'sboned" by
young John Ohinaman. .,..
QUEEN CHARLOTTE, wife of the king
of the Friendly Islands, is a Methodist
class-1eader, and the king is a licensed
local preacher of the same denomina-
tion. It is not much of kingdom
only %, 900 inhabitants-and its only
productions are earthquakes and bana-
mss. When pagans they cut of thiTe
little fingers and toes as prOpitiary offer
ings to their gods, but when the Yves
leyans established q missionary station
there in 1927 they stopped the surgery,
made them wear clothes, set up print
lng-press, taught them the multlpllca-
tion table, and how to trade off cocoa
nut oil.
EVERY man who is In the habit of
getting drunk should read this touch
ing, perhaps truthful LITTLE story from
the Detro Free Press, and Immediately
reform or geta big dog " Wednesday
afternoon a half-drunBen man named
Croy, living in Canada, was wandering
around the Potomac, accompanied by
big dog and having lots of money. Yes
tsrday morning he was found in-an
alley, sleeping q drunken sleep, and his
dog was keeping watch over him, and
would allow no one TO come near until
the man shook off his sleep. The dog
had been stabbed twice with knife,
and there were two extra hats in the
alley, showing that thieves had come
to rob the man and that the dog had
fought them of. /" -t