The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-04-23
FACTS AND FANCTEs.


burglar in the house." said the wife.
John sat upright in the bed, Burglar
b-u-r-g-l-e-r-hurplar," and he rolled
over waiting for a harder word.
Julian Hawthorne says of a meer-
schaum pipe sit Is like woman's
heart-as soft, as light, as brittle, and
as enigmatic, and only time and use
can prove it true"
-" Ma" " said an intelligent, thought
| full boy, CT don'S think Solomon was
so rich as they say he was" why,
| nv dear, Whist cOuld have put that into
your head ?" 4" Whv, the Bible SAYS
| he slept with his fathers and I think
| if he had been so very rich he would
| have had a bed of his own"
| "A shaft has been sunk at LawtOn.
| England, for the purpose of pumping
up brine, to be conveyed by pipes to the
coke ovens in connection with a cOlliery,
a distance OF two or three miles, there
| to be converted into salt by means of
| the waste heat from the ovens. The
| cost of the undertaking viii, it is said,
exceed 5000, 900.
"A Boston man, who is described as
possessing uncommon "iutellectuaI
ability" has become disgusted with
the " blue stockings " of that city, and
declares that his future wife must be
perfectly ignorant, and n biROt, she
must know nothing and believe every
thing. I should wish to have her call
TO me from an adjoining room. " My
dear, what do two and two make 2"
The last letter ever written by Gen.
" StOnewall Jackson is in the posses
sion of the Southern Historical Society.
1t was addressed to Gen. Lee under
date of May 2, 1863. and reads as fol-
lows &c General The enemy has made
a stand at ChancellOr's, which is about
two miles from Charlottesville. ]
hope soOn as practicable to attack. I
trust that an ever kind Providence viii
bless us with success"
An antiQuated beef-head of the
En0lish parliament having denounced
old maids" as social failures, Mrs.
William Gray calls the attention of the
English people to that part of the Bible
in which st. Paul says "The unmar-
rie1 woman careth for the things Of the
Lord that she may be holy II body and
In spirit but she that is married careth
for the things of the world, how she
may please her husband"
Churchill county, Nevada, is poor
and pious. It never possessed n jail,
and, until very recently, it never felt
the want Of one. But last week a real,
bouncing criminal invaded its innO-
cence. He was soon stopped in his
mad career-arrested, in short. Not
having any Jail, the county authorities
confined him in a shaft 900 feet in depth.
He was hoisted to the surface three
times a day, aud given his meals, after
which he was lowered again to mediate
and praise.
The variety of kisses introduced in
the Beecher business is calculated to
amaze people who do their kissing
without analysis. There have been the
parOXysmal kiss, the inspiratioual kiss,
the impulsive kiss, the enthusiastic
kiss, and the holy kiss the kiss of rec
OnciliatiOn, the kiss of grace. mercy
aud peace, and the kiss mutual. The
other kisses are reserved for the TebUt-
tai and erebuttal testimony. It would
not do to bring them ont all at once;
there is a limit TO human endurance.
The French government can't get
along without the column VeHdOme,
and proposes to make it's destroyer pay
all the cost of its reconstruction. 1t
mas Just seized a number of paintings
belonging to NJ. COurbet, and will offer
them at public vendue, applying the
PrOcGGuS 10 the 1uDQ lDT iut EEbAilhiLE
Of the monument. After all, this Is
about as effective q way as any TO pre-
vent incendiarism. Make the authors
of the mischief pay for repairing the
damage they have done, and there viii
be far less mischief done.
The Cinnamon, who walk over
bridges built two thousand years ago,
who cultivated the cotton plant centu-
ries before this country was heard Of,
and who fed silkworms before KING
Solomon built his throne, have fifty
thousand square miles around Shang-
mai which are called the Garden of
China, and which have been titled by
countless generations. This area IS as
large as New York and Pennsylvania com
bined, is all meadow land, raised but
few feet above the river-lakes, rivers,
csnals-a complete network OF water
communication the land under the
highest tIIth three crops year har-
vested population so dense thar,
wherever you look, you see men and
women in blue pants and blouse 50
numerous that you fancy some falr or
muster coming off, and all hands have
turned ont for a holiday.