The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-06-18
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

A broker SAYS '' Give me the bonds
| of q government, and I care not who
| breaks its laws.
The average American boy will
make great fuss and complain bitterly
that it will spoil mis- clothes, if asked to
! bring In an armful of wood for his
| mother but give, him a gun, and he
! will crawl half mile on his stomach,
through a ditch with four inches of
water in it, to get shot at some ducks.
"A writer discussing the compare
tive economy of horses and mules, after
saving 1.-The only superiority see in
the mule is tnat he Will stand rough
treatment better" adds what is very
true when he says, '' but there is neither
religion nor greenbacks IN harsh treat
ment of stock.
travelling Sunday school gimlet. :"
love Won so much I could talk all day to
Won Int time forbids. But / hope to
meet Iou in heaven, and then" l
hone he WON'T said a restless, red
headed boy, "he'u talk is to death
won't he, Jim ?"
An OK will consume two per cent. OF
his weight of hay per day to MAINTAIN
his condition. If put to moderate labor,
an increase of this quantity to three
per cent. will enable him to perform ms
work and still maintain flesh. Ii he is
to be fatted, he requires about four and
a half per cent. of his weight daily IN
nutritious food.
old Zachariah Jackson, of Rocky
GuIch, Nevada, is a 4" forty-nIner who
had been through the mill. The other
day he hobbled up to party OF new
comers and observed . Tend TO yer
bizness. bows, and yell be all right.
I've been here nigh on to thirty years,
and have been lynched, shot and
stabbed. knocked down, thrown of a
mountain and mopped around generally,
but I'm here to-day, biggern'n box
car"
The laws of Paris are strong per-
suasiye to honesty on the part OF trades
men. Jewellers are obliged to dlstIn-
guish plated from genuine ware by the
word limitation " placed where the Gus
toners cannot fail of seeing 1t Ii a
grocer is detected selling adulterated
articles he is heavily fined; his name
and Ylace is published at his own eX-
pense IN the official journal, and he Is
compelled to expose in his store foE
specifed time a placard stating that ne
had been fined for selling aduIterated
goods.
Every duty brings IT'S peculiar de-
light. every denial its appropriate com
pensation, every thought its recon-
pense, every love its elysiam, every
cross it's crown; pay goes with perform
ance as effect with cause. MeannesS
overreaches itself vice vitiates whoever
| indulges in it the wicked wrong their
| own souls generosity greatens virtue
exaIts; charity transfgures, aud hoh-
ness is the essence of angelhOod. God
| does not require us to live on credit ; he
paws US what we earn as we earn 1t, good
or evil, heaven or hell, according to our
| choice.
The sale of soda water is falling OH
all over the country, and costly tonn-
| taius. manufactured in the eastern cities
for from $500 to s.. 500, would be dead
stock in the drug stores but for the sale
| of mineral waters. If lager beer were
| to be had in the private cafes and
| boupht for ladies, it would finish the
soda altogether. Thousands of men,
now. are in the habit of sending bottled
| lager home to their wives, particularly
nursing wives, whereas, glass OF peer
! from the keg is equal in freshness to
cross of bottles. Tartar;c acid IS the
principal and generally the only adul-
| teration of beer.