The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-05-21
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

| bAEA ShlEh--
| Would you know the baby's skies ;
Baby's skies are mammals eyes,
Mamma's eyes and smile together
| Make the baby's pleasant weather.
Mamma, keep your eyes from tears,
Keep your heart from foolish fears,
Keep your lips from d1ll complaining,
Lest the baby think tits raining.
Elephants live for two hundred,
three hundred, and even four hdndred
years.
(" On why should q fellow feel sad
When it's easy enough to feel gay
Oh, why should he go for to die
When there's every nducement to stav p
Mayor Wickham, of New York, has
had engraved upon his writing desk
TalleJ Iand's sad motto ''FOr every
appointment have made, l have gained
ninety-nine enemies and one migrate. ="
If rumor be correct, the Princess
CIothilde will be shortly separated from
her husband, Prince Napoleon, at her
own urgent request. 1t was mar
7'iage dc cOllUe7laRce,
An English Justice fined a boy ten
shiIlings for whistling while a clergy
man was passing the gate, and that's
the sort of little man John Bull is.
If the boy had been humming a tune
he'd have probably been executed.
1t must be rather binding on a man
one hundred and ten years old to pick
UP his favorite paper IN the morning
ard find a quotation like this IN the
leading editorial
The good die young;
But those whose hearts are dry as summer
dust
Burn to the socket"
At Pompeii they recently found a
ouriOus record. 1t was scratched on the
stucco of a kitchen wall, and has been
thus translated Lighted the fire,
cooked his meals, and swept his house
for him %, 600 times to this day, and he
refuses to take me TO the circus" Be-
meath this, In a different hand, IS writ
ten 4: "Women are never satisfied"
--"There is a dog" This trivial
phrase was used by an instructor OF
actors in Paris as the vehicle of an i'm
DOrtant lesson. He taught them to
give It in the sense of various impress
sions, as, fear of the dog. love of the
dog, contempt for the dog, astonish-
ment. regret, etc, and so exhibited
that it mattered less what words an
actor had to give than how he gave
them.
little in advance of their time. Accord
ing to Darwin, We are indebted to our
frisky ancestors, the ape, for our hair,
and men with long boards and prolific
scaIps h we no reason TO feel that they
are particularly superior to their less
lovely fellow-men. It may be extinc-
ton to the barber business and blow
to human vanity, but the coming man
is to be bald-headed.
-" Arrah, me darlint," cried jamie
O'FIannigan to his loquaciOus sweet
heart. who had not given him an Op-
portunity 10 get IN a word edgeWlse,
duripg a two hours ride behind the
little bay nags IL his oyster wagon
- are ye afther KNOWN why your cheeks
are like my ponies there? Shure
and it's because they are red, if 1t ?"
ouoth the blushing Bridget. 3" Faith,
and a better raison than that, maYOur-
neen. Because there IS one othem
aich side of a waggin' tongue.
The MeckIenburR declaration of in
might never have lmmor-
taIized North Carolina if it hadn't been
for the uufinchinR love of matrlmOny
shown bv the ladies of the tar-heeI
state. The royal governors allowed
the county clerks to charge Sl0 Tor
marriage Iicen this eXtortion. oP-
Grated as a damper on the ardor of the
swains, bat reused IN the female breast
the vengeance which blood alone can
dueH. Independence was the newt
able result Chicago Tribune.
The trade in " "bloOded dogs
is an item of no little amount. The
value of these principally pointers,
brought to this country from England 1I
be 100000. The furore about Lave
rocks red Irish settlers, Gordon's and
kindred breeds, is now as great as was
ever that in Japan about spotted rab-
bits. No dog that costs less than 81 QUO
is now considered worth owning. These
valuable animals have their pedigrees
preserved with as much care as the
nobility of England.