The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-01-22
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

| "A Terre Haute poet remarked, upon
hearing of man who had been drowned
| in tank of sour mash, Life's golden
thread is snapped.
Migrants are not permitted to warm
up in the Boston libraries. Boston
'fbrains are easily disconnected by the
smell of old clothes.
"A Baltimore beggar has retired on
a fortune Of S26, 900, and when an aims
asker rings his doOr-bell the retired
beggar goes out and makes the fellow
Jump three feet high at the first kick.
The Beecher Jury is composed of
two Episcopaliaus, one Methodist, one
Baptist, one Lutheran, two Roman
Catholics, three Presbyterisus, and two
persons who are not members Of any
church.
"A little four-year old created rip
pie by remarking to the teacher OF her
SUnday-school class "Our dogs dead.
bet the angels were scared when they
saw him coming up the way. He's cross
TO strangers"
The library of the British Museum
purchased no less than 3, 415 manu-
scripts last year. Among them was
curious treatise In French on the holy
sacrament, composed in King Edward
". of England, IN 1549, and written IN
his own hand.
Mr.. Mitchell. of Sterling, Illinois,
while under the influence of intoxicating
LIQUORS, attempted burglary and was
fatally shot. Mrs. Mitchell has since
compelled each Of the three salo@n-
keepers, who sold him the liquors, to
pay her $500 damages.
There has been started at Mevagis-
sey, Cornwall, q mandatory OF Corn
ish sardines," the sardinss being pill
chards preserved In oil, immense guam
titles of which have hitherto been used
as manure, or returned to the sea as OF
no use.
A second expedition to the interior
of Africa is announced as having been
undertaken by the Berlin African Ex-
ploration society. Her Won Homeyer,
a well-known ornithOlogist, Is to be the
leader, and will start from st. Paul de
Loanda.
In the German postal service an
order has Just been issued directing
that certain words derived from the
French, such as g0oSte Te8tG11te, shall no
longer be officially used, and defining
what German words shall be the equiVa-
Tents of these.
The latest chrome story comes
from down eas', where Sunday school
teacher said to one of her pupils
e Johnny, why don't you irvite your
friend Billy to come to Sabbath-sohoOl
with you?" Johnny looked up with
grin full of intention, and equally full
of tee b, and said :'' I know yer teacher.
You want to get Billy into the class SOS
you can get a chrome for a new
scholar"
-Lawes and Gilbert, after a very dry
time, as soon as heavy rains commenced,
observed that no water ran from the
tile on manured land, while on the un-
manfred soil it ran constantly. This
clearly proved that the water was abb
sorbed by capillary absorption on the
manured land, while it passes directly
through to the drains in the uDmanured
soil. And this is the secret why ma
nure in soil enables it to stand q
drought.
in st. Paul they tell the story of
Maggie Flynn. She loved and was
loved by a worthy young man, who
hoped soon to make her his bride, but
SANDERS envenomed tongue poisoned
her reputation and caused her lover to
cancel their engagement. She, suffering
unjustly from the cruel blow, lost her
reason, and would have been carried an
incurable patient to the insane asylum
had not the employers of her quOndam
lover investigated the stories affecting
her character and ascertained their utter
he was travelling, but
they ordered him home, told him the
good news, and sent him to claim Mag
gle before she should be sent to the
mad house. She was with the sheriff,
who was about to convey her TO
her destinati U, when the young man
came into her presence. at sight OF
him, the cIouds that lowered on her IN
telIect broke away, and-bridal-veils-
not straight isckets. are in order.