The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-04-09
FACTS AND FANCIES.


Commodore Vanderbilt has sailed
into the railroad war, ard knocks off
five dollars a passenger from Cincinnati
and New York.
in California they are having squir-
rel hunts instead of spelling schools.
| In some counties squirrels have become
a pest
Mrs. SwissheIm lays down this
broad principle regarding the male
| portion of the human race: "Only IN
his coffin is it safe for woman to kiss
| any one man in thousand"
-" Oh, I've loved BEFORE" said a
! Detroit woman to her fourth husband,
as she took a handful of hair from his
! head because he objected to hang out
the weeks washing.
A Chicago man thinks that the
worst speller ought to get the diction-
| airy, and the winner should have
wreath of sorreI, or some other garden
sass, like them Greeks"
The production of raisins from
California grapes is a growing business
and is strongly urged as likely to be of
great profit. The white mUscat of
Alexandria is named as the best raisin
grape.
some months ago, married a red headed
widow with four children, and last
week remarked to a friend, " was
blind when [ believed there is no hell.
I see now"
While Mr.. Jones, of Natchez, was
drinking his whisky he heard voice
call out Jones, prepare to die - and
he sank back on a chair aud died.
Heart disease? Not by jug full. Old
Il sDf5w shot him.
-Nessrs. Moody and Sankey do not
meet with entire approval in their re-
vival labOrs. The London AthenBum
says there is more curiosity than rel-
giOn IN the crowds they attract, and
compares Mr.. Sankey's singing to
cOstermOnger's cries.
As an illustration of the Hmitless
number of combinations which the
three primary cOlOrs are capable of, 1t
may be interesting to know that IN the
GObelin tapestry manufacture %, 600
distinct shadings of yarn are employed,
each one distinguished by the practiced
eye.
And he gave it for his opinion that
whoever could make two ears of corn
or two blades of grass to grow upon a
spot of ground where only one grew
before, would deserve better Cf man
kind, and do more essential service to
his country than the whole race of poll
ticians put together. .-St0Jt.
"A French soldier is to be punished
with death for insulting an upstaTt Off
Ger. This gives Victor Hugo an OppOr-
tunity to thus compare the case with
that of Bazaine: Having sold his flag,
having surrendered his army, having
betrayed his country-ife having
struck his corpOral-death y
-Pereire got little tired of return
ing the bows of an uncomfortable polite
man in his establishment, and finally
gave the polite man this conundrum,
at point blank range: 'Sir, what
would become of the hours if the min
ute-hand stopped to bow to the second
hand every time they met"
90 Well, Uncle Billy, don't you want
any more civil rights % Not anything
mo-, ! tank you, replied Billy. Near
" done rUind now. Hev to pay my
own doctors bill, lost all my money IN
the Freedman's bank, II, bber got no
forty acres an dc mule dey promised
me, an can't help myself to a little
chicken, fryin' size, widOUt gwinC to de
penitentiary. Pse got 'nuff cibbil
rights p
- Scientists now tell us that the in
roads of grasshoppeTs into the north
west, Of late years. is due mainly to the
havoc made among tho prairie hens,
which are slaughtered by tens of thou
sands every year to crafty the epicures
of this country and Europe. The
prairie chickens used to " absorb" the
grasshOppers before the latter reached
the settlements, bnt they are no longer
equal to the emergency.
-RudoIfo Lanciani, commissioner of
archaeology at Rome, has written
long letter to the New York Herald, in
which he gives very hatteTing promises
as to the finding of ancient treasures IN
the bed of the TIber when that stream
is drained He cites instances Of very
valuable discoveries of brOuZes, mar
bles and rich tit-bitS of the household
paraphernalia of the old Romans which
divers have made, and which have been
picked up IN the ancient sewers near
the river. he thinks that the seven
branChed candlestick which was borne
from Jerusalem after the sacking Of the
temple will surely be discovered in the
soft mud of that historic stream.
JEAN VALJEAE-
A merry wight. fond of bis ease,
W Hlle ne sings ms songs ana HJIOht7 lIl7 Allo1Hr
And light the air which sways the leaves,
Is Jean Vatican, the cobbier.
Through the summers day he sits and sings
OF the oIdeu days and OF ancient things.
OF the danes Of yOre and Of bygOne kings
Sings Jean Vatican, the cObbler.
The birds are singing in every tree
TIL the air j. filed with the melody
OF song a. light and gay and free
AZ Jean Naljean'E the cObbleT
With the waning shadows the bird in it's nest,
And jean in his cot, each seek the rest
Which sweet sleep brings, with no cares Op-
pre- red.
Alb happy Jean the cobbler.
General Spinner, in the course of
a recent interview, said in answer to
question as to whether there has not
been stealing in the treasury: Yes.
Recently there has been money stolen
in the national bank red smption
agency. When Graves (whO Is IN
chalge) found out he had theft with
him, he carefully investigated, and laid
traps to catch him. He came TO mo
one day and said he had "A clue.
said, Well, what is 1t He said that
be had suspected one or two women.
l shook nv head and said, You are
wrong. A woman won't steal Now,
I know they won {. They have not got
the nerve. The reason why i prefer
women as counters IS because they