The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-02-26
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

Cincinnati girls refuse TO KISS Bnelr
beaux who we're shaved by female bar
bers, and so the enterprise was starved
to death.
There's nothing in women, after
all. Gail Hamilton and George Sand
have both said they would willingly
reIinquish their talents if the sacrifice
would make them pretty.
"A woman recently died in Alabama
leaving to somebody, it is said, an inner
itance of no less than 2S7 hOop-skirts.
That woman was as well hooped as an
imported barrel of French brandy.
I'd like to give something to the
DOOR" remarked a Toledo lady. It's
hard times and they must be suffering,
but I've got to use this $40 to buy an
other switch"
"A gentleman by the name of Har.
riott has been haunting the approaches
TO a certain newspaper Office IN san
Francisco, looking for the editor who
called his Clara (1lee Morris) 'Blonde
Bonanza"
The prominence and acuteness
of the noses of San Francisco young
women have attracted the attention OF
a California writer, and he fears that
female suffrage will begin to raise Its
0yOra nSaQ GDSI0 pIOSGh6tJ'
1t is said that there are many more
women than men in Massachusetts:
Give the women in that state the right
of suffrage, and the chsnees are That
they will vote all the men out OF Office,
if not out of their pantaloons, in less
than six months.
According to Kepesy, the surgeon
to the Austrian Polar expedition, choca-
late as a beverage. proved most valu-
able of all the preserved meat ana
vegetables in tins being also OF the
greatest service in sustaining the
strength and spirits.
Honor to him who first through
the impassable paves a road = Such,
indeed, is the task of every great man
nav, of every good man In one or the
other sphere, since goodness IS great
ness, and the good man, high or num-
bic, is ever a martyr, ard "splrltual
hero that ventures forward into the
gulf for our deliverance. ."-CdTLyte.
Human intellect, though varying IN
capacity IN different Individuals, has It's
limits IN all plans of enlargement by
acquisition; and these limits cannot be
transcended without aggregate deterIor-
alton in distracting the attention, over
loading the memory or OveTworklng the
brain and sapping the foundations OF
health.-sJdcOb BigeIOl0, M. ID.
"A rich old widower of Oswego told
s young girl there to drop her other
beaux. She obeyed. He often took
her out riding, and assured her that
when we get ready we can go of sud.
den like, and surprise the gossIps.
The young lady did not demur. Then
the rich old widower popped of very
sudden like, and married I1ch OLD
widow about his own age. The jury is
asked for S15, 900 damages.
Its a deep mystery-the way bhe
heart of a man turns to one woman ont
of all the rest he's seen in the world,
and makes it easier for him to work
seven years for her, like Jacob did for
Rachel, sooner than have any other
woman for the asking. [ often think OF
these words And Jacob served seven
years for Rachel, and they seemed but
a few Iavs. for the love he had for her.
George Elliot.
"-In a kindly and well-bred COM
pany, if anybody tries to please them,
they try TO be pleased; if anybody tries
to astonish them they have the courtesy
to be astOnished ; if people become tire
some. they ask somebody else to play,
or sing, or what not, but they don't
criticise And John Ruskin holds that
this is the way it should Ee in the world
as well as in the drawing-rOom. He does
not like critics and yet what else Is be
himself?
Anew York correspondent says that
hundreds of consUmptives, acting on
the advice of eminent ply sicians, visit
the slaughter. houses there daily for the
purpose of drinking the warm blood OF
an OK. They hold their glasses so as to
catch the stream as it flows hotfrom the
DIVING animal. and drink it steRming as
II is The habituaI drinkers are said
TO he greatly benefited by it, and they
say that it is no more disagreeable than
new milk.
Not only is it important for the
well-beiDg of society, but also 1t Is
necessary for the purity of every mans
moral condition that his impulse TO-
ward the good should never subsIde
into repose. He can never be safely
| left one moment to be good on system,
but must be kept aroused into energetic
opDosition TO his foe, while out OF this
ceaseless antagonism of truth and false
| hood. going on around him and IN him,
will be produced q perfection OF moral
| energy: as from the bosom OF the
tempest are born the germs or tefres-
trial beauty and fruitfulness.
| DR.. Wilkes, In his recent work on
DbvsioIopv. remarks that cit IS esti-
mated that the bones of every adult
Derson REQUIRES to be fed with lime
! enouoh to make a marble mantle every
EIGHT months" 1t will be perceived,
therefore. that in the course of about
! ten years each of us eats three or four
pantIepieces and a few sets Of front
door steps. It is awful to think OF the
consequences if a man would be shut
off from his supply of lime for a while
| and then get loose IN a cemetery: An
| ordinary tombstone would hardly be
| enough for a lunch for him.
/ in a few remarks upon the action
of lightning ng-conductors, Secchi, the
/ well-known astronomer, describes the
storm of November, 1872, in which the
cathedral and palace of Alatri were
struck by lightning, these structures
having been free from such visitstions
for many years. The damagc done on
this occasion was, as he shows, due IN
great measure to the fact that the light
1inp-rods, instead of being directly
connected with the metallic cutters and
other portions of the roof, were isolated
| from them. The fluid, therefore,
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