The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-06-11
FACTS AND FANOIEs.

| MAKE YOursei1 an honest man, an0
then you may be sure that there is one
rascal less in the wOrld,-CGriyLe..
There are few wild beasts more to
be dreaded than a communicative man
with nothing to communicable. de
BOna7d.
Philadelphia gives employment to
no less than sixty thousand women
chiefly in exhibiting their spring bon
nets on Chestnut street.
| He leaned on the fence pouring out
warm VOWS of love and admiration to
| the lovely beipg on the other side. 1t
was dark. We could not see her face
| but she said: Pray desist. You are
too vacillating. Only a week ago you
| told that same stoIy three doors below
here. They parted.
-Colored waiter in a lager beer
saloon up town bawls out his orders in
! stentOrian voice as follows ''One
pair @ gIasses); ''two pair" q glasses);
''full hand" g glasses). Then for a
! change he calls: zone team" @
RIasses); ''tandem" g glasses); ''four
finland" a Plasses); ''four in hand,
with footman" g glasses).
The Princess de Cont, a daughter
/ of Louis XIV, expressing before the
Moorish ambassador, her dislike of
polygamy, the latter replied ." Mad
/ anne, plurality of wives is allowed
| among us because, IN our country, we
must seek in several women the charm
! ing qualities which are here to be found
in one" This excels Spanish polite
ness.
| -Apropos of the growing rage for
! tight-lscing in Paris, Emily Faithfull's
paper says the whole tendency of mod
| ern female fashion is to render the form
| of woman as nearly approaching to
that of a tightly-strapped umbrella as
possible. A we'll dressed young woman
in the present day is a figure laughable
enough far a Christmas pantOmime of
" Strand" extravaganza,
The latest invention In the life-boat
line is a boat with a broad line of cork
at the Ioad-line, so constructed that it
sails equally well either side up. 1t
will not upset easily but, If 1t does
upset, the bottom and keel fall right
down through the centre, and there it
is, Just as it was before, perfect boat,
only what was the bottom has become
the top.
As soon as the baby teething begins,
the romance Of married life ceases. No
woman can feel any sentiment for man
who travels around in his night shirt of
a hot summers eve, with a squalling
infant dsngling over his shoulder. 1t
| is then that she stops calling him
Darling" and descends to such COM
monpIace observations as 90 John Cam
fire, be careful howyo hold that baby"
A little girl was once asking her
/ elder sister about heaven. ''DO they
play in heaven ?" she inquired. ''No;
they do not play there" ''What do
! they do?" ''They sing and are good.
! ''Are there no toys there?' No; not
any," 'No dolls, nor balls, nor Noah's
arks ?" "Oh no - Then" said the
little one, ''I shall take my doll and go
to hell"
The manufacture OF percussion
powder is one of the most dangerous
| occupations in the world. 1t is usually
made in some isolated building, re-
moved a good distance from all other
! buildings Recently, John DOnahue,
| employed to make this powder for the
| Winchester arms company IN New Ha-
ven, was blown into shTedB. In week
| or two there were ten applicants for his
place.
-" You see,'' said Theirs, 9" aphRel
came from Paradise, and Michael An
! geIo came from the Inferno, to prove
! that the genius of man partakes of every
| character. Note the contrast " said
! NJ. Theirs, IS Raphael, coming from
Paradise, lived like a pagan, while
| Michael Angelo, coming from the In
/ fernO, lived like a saint, bearing IN his
| heart a divine love for the marchIoness
of Pescara."
In Paris they make two eggs out of
/ one by cutt ng the shell with a GLACIERS
diamond and then slicing the egg
/ quickly with an oiled knife. The two
! halves are deftIy dropped into boiling
butter on the plate, which fixes
them, making them look Ike two, and
for which the customer-whO has not
seen the perfornance-pays without
| suspicion. Wac couldn't pay the Ger
mans their indemnity and get back to
| specie payments IN three years with
such gains ?
The Chinese government has for
| some time past been making arrange
ments IN Europe with view 70 the de-
Tense of the coast and principal rivers
of the empire. Engineering works on
an extensive scale, and supplied with
formidable artillery, are about 70 be
constructed at various strategic points,
and the general system of defense has
been confided to Maj. Gen. Ripley,
formerly Of the United States army, Dut
who went over TO the cOnIedeIAt5a al
the outbreak of the civil wsr. Gen.
Ripley was Ia command at Charleston
when hostilities commenced. he Is
now IN England, but will sail for China
in a few days, preceded by other
artillery officers whose services the
government of China has secured
"A school teacher In Mississippi
used his fscility in short hand 10 make
q verbatim report of e negro clergy
mans prayer, and he sends it to the
Educational Monthly as follows: 0
Lord God of dis glorious universe,
wilt dou look down in do Omuipresence
of dy eye upon desc dy cOllard children
bowed upon de knuckle bone di night.
Take a solemn peep upon rs and let a
} heap o. light IN. Dou knowest what
desc DIV poor darkies need. On every
, side dou knowst, o Lord, Is de evidences
, of de dislocation and obstruction OF de
human family. Dere be fighting among
. one another and natural disease. But
we die to live again as saints or eviI
spirits. Dere be dIscushlon and doc
3 trines, eleoshion, before ordination,
I perfection and sich like, confuse the
A., inteIlects of both black men and white.
: But good Lord, dou knowst dat desc
are vain illusions, splittin' and divldin
r dy creatures into sexes without mercy