The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-05-07
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

Il
receive $50, 900 for a series of designs
for new edition of Shakespeare.
When the stoves are taken down,
see that the pipe openings In the wall
are protected by good TIN covers. Don't
stuff rags in.
They have got so Low that they
blow up whales with tOrpedoes, and it
won't be long before the women will
get hold of the invention and scatter an
intoxicated husband all over the ceiling.
Julian Hawthorne, in his "Saxon
Studies" saws: ''To be a thorough
German cook requires only callOus
conscience, a cold heart, a confused
head, coarse head, coarse hands, and
plenty of grease"
A portland chap, who during court
ship sent his girl some poetry begin
ming, ''Was it a CLEAN of golden hair ?"
was mortified after marriage to see her
hang that gleam" over the back of
chair.
In responding to the toast, "The
Queen" g Jolly Englishman at the Mas
sachusetts Centennial celebration said
''I wi sh to express my satisfaction in
being with you here to- day, and my equal
satisfaction in having been absent
hundred years ago.
in Providence, the other night,
Just as Lucy Stone had hurled at the
crowd the conundrum, ''shRll women
leave their children at home and neglect
them while they go to vote ?" slum-
bering infant awoke and gave vent to a
prolonged yell.
THE faults of our neighbors with freedom We
| And tax not ourselves, though we practice the
Words are like leaves. and where they most
Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
Pope.
"A country youth, who desired to
| know how to become ricL, sent quar-
| ter in answer to an advertisement, and
received the following valuable recipe
50 Increase your receipts and decrease
your expenditures. Work eighteen
hours day, and live on hash and oat-
meal Cruel.
"A sentimental young man of Chi
capo went to see his girl the other day,
and found that his letters had been
pasted over the tops of preserve cans.
Those beginning with MY Daring
Susan'' went over the peaches, and those
commencing with my Own Darling
were put over the apples. This was too
flatteringly sweet to allow the engage
ment to remain substantial.
A correspondent of the New Yor
Tribune states that the tail and part
of the name and flank of the leaden
eouestrian statue of George Ill, torn
down bv the c1Ionists at New York at
tbe beGinping of the revolutionary war,
are living half buried in the ground at
wilton. Connecticut, whittier the statue
was carried to be run into bullets Tor
the uge of the continental soldiers.
VIM. Cullen Bryant turns an cpl
gram as neatly still as if he were but
thirty. Herei is his excuse to the Echo, the
little journal of the homeopathic talr
at New York, for not furnishing the
poem it had claimed
qavo nv word, dear madam, it is true
At vour request to write verse or two
gave it YOU as frankly a. twas sought,
And now YOU chide because keep IL not
Talk not of honor; am honor : slase -
None but a rogue would keep the thlng ne
gave.
For the first time in twenty years
Mrs Thompson, of New York, scrubbed
ont the city hall. Twenty years ago
she married a man who became mil
Iionare. took the contract, before the
war. to supply A. 7. Stewart marble
for his new residence, was ruined IN
irving to live up to it Cwhen sIgnG
sacrifice bv the merchant-prince would
have saved him), and died an insane
pauper. leaving his wife to resume the
scrubbing business where she lett on
"A ourioug letter was received the
other dav at the postoffice department;
| Tt enclosed one dollar, was addressed
| bv a Jadv at Jerseyville Ill, In care
| of anv liar. ravana, POrteg Co., Ohlo'
and contained inquiries relative 10
missing husband. The letter was IN
| tended for 'any lawyer, Dtt on stoO 80, 'iIo ~
| of the popularity OF the manner u ~
! which the writer spelled =" lawyer Io
one of that ilk could be touhu III I'~
VIENNA to claim it. The IetIet was g., g.
! ge0uently sent TO the dead letter onlc''
Some one writing to the st. John
! IN. B. Telegraph says that WhllG % lOoh
! ing down In the waters oi the Day %
| Fnndy from the lantern OF ine
house at Digby, n. >, a ngignS -,,, u
ninety feet. he saw flock of wild ducks,
| LDoun as sbeIdrake, which suddenly
dived down TO an apparent distance OF
| ffteen feet. spread out ike ian, and
began literally to fly through the water
TIsin0 their wings with quick, lntermlt-
tent motion, while tn II legs and feet
seemed only, employed for the purpose
of steering. In this way they darted
| here and there after small fish, when
they seemed to catch and swallow Win
great rapidity.
Professor Strumpell, OF LelP &c,
has written q work on the mature ana
Origin of Dreams" IN which he asserts i
that "no chain of logical 'atoms can De De
! linked together while we dream no
conclusion can be drawn, no
argument can be followed up, and moth moth
inc new can be discovered" Uniortu-
nateIy for this theory, the fact that i,pi. per,
sops have solved mathematical ProolemF
3 in their sleep has been conclusively es'
' tablished. Men who, after long eiiorts,
have been unable to solve algeDT5alSS a5,aS
( problems have gone TO bed and Workeo e.
6 r. ont 20 successful solution while
a asleep. one single fact of this sort ttlIc up,
sets the professors ths0[y but gtudent. iegf
r Irsgn gIsC nc conclusions, and discovered SO
% Iutions while dreaming.