The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-04-16
FACTS AND FANOIES.

FACTS AND FANOIES.
BABY
They called him tiddy iclle sing,
! And soothing syrUps they did bring
| To stem the rising squau.
In vain they sought for secret pin,
And gave him peppermint and gin
Yet louder did he bawl-
| Beneath his petticoats his feet.
Like little mice who pussy meet,
Did twist and twirl about;
| And, oh ! he roared in such way
| No cOstard seller blithe and gay
Gives half so loud a shout.
His tears an instant cease to flow
Anon he wildly sqUeals as though
! Some flea had bit him badly.
Poor pa, he rises up in ire,
Strong argument does him inspire
Things end for baby sadly
! Gen. Custar says it takes an Indian
four minutes to scalp a victim.
Bismarck was sixty years old on
| April 1. He is no fool, either.
Go and buy q COW right away. A
| Wisconsin COW came home the other
night with bag of gold on her horn.
| Ohio has a new religious sect called
! the Eternalists, and they are eternally
| fighting to see vino shall lead them.
"A postal card picked up on the
street at Norwich, Conn, the other
| day, bore this solemn appeal: Deer
mary for Iuv of God send me a pare of
pants.".
-" Don't call on me for three days."
| is what an Ashland girl posted on the
! front gate, and she further added
! I'm going to eat some onions this
! week if I never have another beau"
"A wonderful exhibition has been
opened at Brussels. 1t is a collection
of about 100 landscapes of great merit,
painted by a boy named Fritz Ker-
chOve, Of Bruges, who died an idiot
at eleven years of age.
Dark colOrs and quiet, neutral tints
are becoming the regulation style for
street wear, all the year round. Black
grenedine for summer wear, and black
| silk for winter use, are to be found III
the wardrobe of almost every lady.
Hats are faring, with broad brims
turned up, or turned down, or raised,
so as to display branches of trimming
under the brim on one side. They are
| picturesque and pretty, and are vastly
| becoming to young faces.
"A AissOurian who comes home after
an absence of a week and finds that his
wife has been knitting a tidy instead of
! splitting wood has 4 right to tell her
| that her folks always did have the name
! of b>ing the LATEST people in the state.
! Great preparations are afiOat at
! Trieste for the uGyeilInR the statue
| erected to the memory of MaXimilIan.
Invitations have been sent to all the
! companies who served under the en-
| peror In Mexico.
That mysterious muttering which
often comes TO us on a southern breeze
! has been finally explained. 1t is the
awful blasphemy of the Louisiana car
drivers when the native belle plants her
majestic No. IA on his toes Cincinnati
! Times.
Arizona hens are accustomed to lay
| ing eggs worth Siadozen; and the gentle
! Susan B., inclining her head a little to
! one side, and argumentatively flour
| ishing her right arm. exciaims "See
| what even the hens can do when they
! have their rights !"
! "A gigantic swimming bath, com
/ posed of iron and rooted II with plate
| glass, has been mOored Ia the Thames
| at London. The water that IS admitted
to it flows through thick bed of char
coal, and is so effectually filtered that it
! sparkles and glistens as If 1t were drawn
from an artesian well.
Cardinal Manning, in accordance
with a usual custom, will take his title
from some church in Rome, and has
selected the church of st. Gregory,
after whom he viii be called. If by
| any possibility he should be elevated to
the papacv, he would therefore become
Pope Gregory XVII.
The following harmless Of hard) hit
we find in one of our English exchanges.
! The doctor" referred TO, 1t Will be
perceived, is a reverend doctor
81 cannot praise the dOctor,s eyes,
! never saw his glance dlVIne1
He always shuts them Wheh ne pIayH' 60
And when he breaches lac shuts nine
"A large, heavy-set man who resided
near Indianapolis died recently from a
disorder which no Indian doctor could
| make out. At the time OF his death he
was little more than a skeleton, his
| fasb having wasted away. 4 post NOR
TN examination showed that his liver
Tvaz fuII of abscesses, so that mis- food
had not been properly absorbed, and
that he had actually starved TO death.
Johnny saved himself trouble but
lost marks In his definition exercise the
other dav. He got bravelY through
"presbyter," " which he found, by lOok-
ing it out, to be one who had had the
laying-On of hands by the presbytery.
/ The next word was "dissenter," and in
/ an evil moment Johnny. without tuIn-
/ ing a leaf in his dictionary, wrote,
Zone who has had the dysentery.
! The present programme of the Brit
] ish arctic expedition proposes that the
! two vessels shall leave Portsmouth
| about the latter end of May, and taking
| the usual route to Baffiu's Bay, en-
! deavor to pass up Smiths Sound. In
/ 81 degI ees or 81 degrees north latitude
/ they Will probably separate, and while
/ one viii explore the northern coast OF
! Greenland, the other will push still
! further nnrthwsrd,