The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-06-25
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

months ago, to between $50 and $40 a
share, and yet the mine is worth Just as
much as ever.
There are so many catastrOphes Oc-
curing Just now which furnish grounds
for appeals to the charitable, that all
| truly good men are exchanging their
ready cash for United States securities.
Brooklyn Arg1t8.
"A party of ragged Cinnamon re-
| turned to San Francisco the other day
! from Nebraska where they had been
farming and mournfBIly and cOntiden-
tally told a reporter: Too muchee
! hOppee all around like hell"
When one looks around and sees
| hundreds of doughheads getting rich
/ doing nothing, while he is working like
a slave for his daily bread, we tell you
what, it makes a fellow feel as though
the butter of this world was spread by
a step-mother.
The London Builder suggests that
in order to prevent the wall of hospitals
from absorbing the miasma of disease
and in time becoming saturated with
Gne fOUIness, they ought to be lined
with thick glass, the edges of the plate
| being cemented.
An exchange declares that "the
] chief purpose of long dresses Is to en-
able their wearers to cheat In playing
crOQuet. " That may be the chief object,
! but we can't see how any woman Of
! taste cuuld consider the cOncealing OF
| gigantic pair of feet a secondary object.
| Australia has a big tree, too, and
it is gratitied to think that there is not
! time for an American vandal to go Over.s
chop it down, and take 1t to the centen-
NAL, q is 4SO feet long-an announce
ment which will shake the midritf of
hundreds with envy, hatred, malice and
all uncharitableness.
! Nervous old ladv-policeman po-
| liceman there's a strange dog that viii
| stick to me, and won't leave me, and
can't get rid of himl Couldn't yOu take
| him in charge, or something? Police
man Cwho doesn't like the lob)-Nery
sorry, ma'am, but we can't interfere
with any dog so long as he's follerin'
o'somebOdy!
Prince Gortschakof makes great
use of the ladies. He Is one of the
most polite men IN Europe, and IN the
midst of abundant small chat he may
| be gathering IN great information. In
his own country he knows every thing
| that goes on in every family of impOr-
! tance. No mean spies, no policemen,
no vile paid agents impart the infOrma-
ton. It comes gently, deicately,
doubIy distilled in letters from innU-
merable lady correspondents.
A young lady was standing on the
| wharf, waving her handkerchief at
| schooner lying IN the stream. d" Know
anybody aboard ?" queries her compan-
/ ion, as he came along. " No, / don't;
but they're waving their handkerchiefs
at me, she replied. " Hand (haD ker
! Choo) cbiefs" he exclaimed, dropping
! his basket, and leaning against wood
pile why, them 8 the mems shirts hung
! out to dry" She waved INTO ware
! house.
Sc No, grandmother it's all of no
use 1 love him, I've loved him Tor
years, and he loves me, and they may
part us, and 1t may kill me but III
never care for any body else, and I'll
! think of nothing IN the world but HIM,
morning, noon and night, until die ]
g Poor darling Now, take my advice.
Come and spend few weeks alone with
me at Little PeddiBgtOn, and lead
quiet life, you know, and look after the
geese and poultry, and all that, ana
you'll soon forget him !
He said he had an original poem
for sale which he would part with
cheap, as times were hard and he
wanted money. The poem contained
twelve lines, and he would sell 1t at
seveuty-five cents a line. The editor
told him they weren't paying out much
for poetry Just at present, but asked
him to read it. He commenced IN
low, sad tone Of voice, as follows
Dearest father, thou hast left us,
And thy lOss we deeply feel
And when he picked himself up at the
bottom Of the stairs there was "a
shadow on his brow"
They were standing at the gate.
| The Young man spoke sadly and scDerly
of hard times, high taxes, and OF geIJlnB
work at the rolling mills. Her beauJl,
fnI eyes filed with tears that glistened
like pearls IN oceans depths, as Sn9
softllv answered: John, let us get
rsarried and trust in the Lord for the
raet CAN right Mary, replied the
vouno man, bitterly, "lf you Will Guy
49, Iats and dresses of the Lord,
viii stand the rest" A prolonged 81
Ience followed, and We went on our
way. c--..-,-
recolIections, the grooming OF WashlnG-
TOMS white horses was something sur
pris1ng. The night before the AOISeS
we're expected to be ridden they were
covered entirely over with paste, OF
which whiting was the principal compo-
nent mart then the animals were
gwatbed in body clothes, and left to
sIeep on clean straw. In the morning
the composition had become hard, was
we'll rubbed in. and curried and brushed,
which process gave to the coats beau
tifuI. glossy and Eatin-hke appearance.
The hoofs were then blackened and pol
ished, the mouths washed, teeth picked
and cleaned, and the leopard skin hous-
ings being properly adjusted, the white
hcargers were led ont for service.
Mrs. Fawcett, IN her new mover
. tells OF a precocious infant who deVeI-
oped a marvellous originality IN eA'Gtn-
| Eoraneous PRAYER. When she Salu LI !leL
PRAYERS at her mothers knee, having
bee1 told that she was not 70 learn any
Iorm of prayer, but to ask nom nc hef
heart for whatever she most desired,
. sbe ,,raved for ga red cloak WV VslVet
/ bnttons. 'xactly ike Amy Grey's, we're
4 Is anover at We shop" Then, when IN
: sfTucted not to ask for material, but ior
+ spiritual blessings, her mterpfcIsa.tlOu
g for a spiritual blessing was that there
Q might always be short sermons ~
a church. When she had scaTlhiin', AiiI tt
y her mother had begged her Ply ~ Io
her recovery, she having been tolt a,tas ia
2 when She was beginning to get Dettet
E her skin would peel of, snn "hgh II "'S
I I1 nn1fF Well lDluEu