The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-05-28
FACTS AND FANOIEs.

| Artificial butter-msking has never
! proved a success. The difficulty lies In
putting in the hairs so that they look
natural.
"A boy, who will yell like a Tartar
| If a drop of water gets on his shirt band
when his neck is being washed, can
crawl through a sewer after a ball and
think nothing of it.
At a teachers institute in Ohio re-
Gently, a lady teacher was given the
word " hazardous to spell and define,
and did it in this style: "H-a-z has
female hazard"
"A Cleveland woman recently mar
ried a Chinese laundryman, and In three
days thereafter the unhappy celestial
appeared at a barber shop and ordered
his pigtaiI cut off, saying in explana-
ton: "TOO muchee dam yank.
"A French butcher who was on his
death-bed said TO his wife: eff / die,
Francoise, you mHst marry our shop
boy. He is a good young man, and
the business cannot be carried on with
out a man to look after it. " CT have
been thinking about that already" said
his wife.
The pope had occasion recently to
rebuke an Englishman for rudeness to
his holiness in the Vatican. The per
son had gained admittance IN some way
and, instead of rising when the pope
entered, he sat during the entire audi
ence. In the midst of the benedlctlon
the pope demonstrated with him IN this
way +: "DO you come here to insult me
in my own house? Is it a gentlemanly-
like thing to sit down when all the
others are standing or kneeling ?" Al
ter this outburst the guards promptly
put the intruder out.
Some of the restaurants In Carson,
New, furnish to their customers nap
kins about four inches square IN size.
Yesterday, says the Appeal, gentle
man who had ordered a meal was
handed one of these diminutives, and
upon unfolding it he inquired If he
could not have a larger one. How
large a one do you want?" inquired
the waiter in attendance. Well,
was the reply, "Pm not particular
about a very large one, but 1 would
like one little larger than this, If you
have it handy for instance, about the
size of postage stamp"
The baroness of Gorlitz met her
law, a Silesian countess, on the
streets, the other day, and violently
demanded of her: "Why didn't you
put a monument over my brothers
grave ?'' Its none of your business,
responded the countess; I'm married
again. ANYWAY" "I'Il make 1t my
business, =" and she sprang like a tigress
at her late brothers wife. The war
whOops of the Amazon brought the
police. The matter was settled in court,
but both, being noble ladies, were OF
course discharged. In the meantime,
the monument is not 10 go up, for the
countess asseverates that "a whisky
bottle at the head of his grave would be
the most appropriate thing for him. -
Foreign COTTe8pO19dence.
M. CASTOR TissandieT, the sole
survivor of the late fatal balloon ascent
in France, has read a report of that
expedition before the Academy OF
Science in Paris. He stated that the
greatest altitude attained was from 8, 400
to $500 meters (5 miles 44O yards to
miles $50 yards). He ascrIbed the
death of his companions to the rare
faction of the atmosphere, and held that
if they had had a better apparatus to
supply them with oxygen they would
have escaped unscathed. He was OF
opinion that life could not be supported
beyond the height which the Zenith
attained, and expressed an opinion that
Mr.. GIaisher must have been mistaken
when he said he rose seven U1Iles.