The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-04-30
FACTS AND FANCIEs.


-Dio Lewis says "Let woman
teach school five years and no man can
| live with her as a wife"
The way they manage it in England
is to dismiss any person in the employ of
the civil service who may give the news
| papers an item.
The latest novelty in dairying con-
sists in the use of the stomach Of the
pig instead of that of the calf IN the
manufacture of cheese.
Ct loved Charles" said she, wiping
! her ewes with the hem of her OverskiTt
sc I loved Charles as much as any wO-
man could love a man: but when he
commenced wearing spitcurls dropped
| him."
Be very circumspect in the choice
| of the company. In the society of thine
| equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasures,
in the society of thy superiOrs thou
shalt find more profit. To be the best
in the company is the way to grow
worse. The best means to grow better
is to be the worst there.
San Francisco has the champion
religious idiots, who dress as children,
act as children, and play marbles and
leap-frOg, because they belIve Elk
cept We be converted and become as
little children, We shall in no wise enter
the Kingdom of Heaven"
There is no man, but for his own
interest, hath an obligation to be honest.
There may be sometimes temptations to
be otherwise out, all things considered,
he shall find it the greatest ease, the
highest profit, the best pleasure, the
most safety, and the nOblest fame, to be
honest.
In the Lynchburg Va.) News there
is an obituary notice of Mr. Charles
Henry Lynch, who, it is stated, was the
grandson of Charles Lynch, the Or1gI-
nator of the famous "Lynch law. The
old tree is still standing IN the yard OF
the family homestead from which Judge
I,ynch's victims were suspended. This
statement is confirmed by the authority
of Webster, who says, " the term is de-
rived from a Virginia farmer named
Lynch, who thus took the law into his
own hands.
The fact is our eyes deceive US
most ridicuIOusIy, even about the com
monest things. at first thought, which
| should YOU say was the taller, a 3-year-
old child or a flour barrel? And could
anything but actual measurement con-
vince Won that the same child is half as
HIGH as a six-footer There Is an old
saving that a child at 2 years old IS
half as tall as he ever will be, and after
few experiments IN measuring one
can easily believe it, but not before.
Immigration is on the increase.
During the first three months of the
wear, II, ,12S passengers landed at the
port of New York, an increase of LOSS
over the corresponding period OF 1874.
From the registered entries OF the
destination of passengers who landed at
CASTLE Garden. 1t seems that 5000 of
these immigrants were going no further
than New York 4, ,274 to the west, and
467 to the south. The south is hardly
more attractive to foreign enterprise
now than it was before slavery had
been abolished. Very little progress
can be made in that section of the COun-
try until all danger of Outlawry has
passed.
The Moravian missionaries IN
Thibet mention this singular custom as
Shassa: ''Every year the lama commu-
nity provide a man of the lowest Glass;
dress him up in goat-skin, with the hair
Out-side. and a singular head-dress,
and then drive him out of the town to
the river, where they lay on him the
sins of the whole people. The man
has then to cross the river, and 1--we III
a wilderness in solitude for some weeks,
being abundantly supplied with food
during this season. On his return ne
receives many presents from the people.
The disgrace IS so great, however, that
no one is found voluntarily to go
through the ceremony, except IN very
rare instances, It IS a singular analogy
to the scapegOat of the Old Testament.
When Rachel presented herself at
the Theatre Francais, after passing two
or three years at the COnseTvatOire, she
first applied to Provost, another come
dian of this tbeater. /" You are not
made for the STAGE" said he; you
had better go on the bOulevards and
sell bouquets" When she reached
Samson there was some encourage
ment. eff I had your organ, sald
| he. 'sI would work miracles. - Ihen
| put your genius into my voice, re
| turned she Z" be my master. Later
wben sbe was the favOrite tradgedlenne
of Paris, at the close OF one ol her
| brilliant victories, she carried an arm
| f1I of EOwers from the stage and de
Dosi+ed them in the lap Of Provost,
| saving: Won't you buy some 1ou
| recOliect you advised me to sell them
g Come, " answered the comedian, Tor
get the advice and embrace the false
prophet"
-About one in five of all the prison
ars in the United States are BOYS, from
/ ten TO twenty years of age They are
I,o,s who we're early deprived Of their
! r;C;Lt 10 be compelled TO respect the
ri0bts of others. Almost every person
/ Who will read these lines labOrs under
some one great disadvantage because IN
! his childhood he was deprived Of a
| right. One secretly bewails the power
| Of bad habit another bushes at his
| ignorance another laments a bodily
| infirmity another deplOres a grIeYous
/ fault; another regrets neglected tai
/ ent. Many more suffer In body and
| mind as well as inflict frequent suffering
! upon others, without knowing the
/ cause. Some have a bad temper, un-
| controlIable now, which IT was their
right in childhood to be aided and com
peIIed to control others are brutaily
! selfish. because they we're cheated OF
their right to be taught, and trained
and forced tc refrain from bullying the
weak and trampling upon the helpless.
/ others 90 their way through life de
| iected and spiritless hecaugc they dld
/ NOT euiov their right 10 be obliged to
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