The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-03-16
FACTS AND FANCIES.

EVERY mans life is a fairy tale, and
written by Gods fnger.-RaHs Andersen.
MANNER Is of importance. A kind no
is often more agreeable than a rough yes.
-Bengei
As the Greek says, Many men know
how to hatter. few men know how to
praise Wendell Phillips.
BALD-HEADED men are more profsne
in summer than in winter. The flies
have something to do with it.
A FAMILY in town has a dog twenty
five years old. He was originally a
hound, but he's stayed with them 90
long that they call him tarrier.
ONE of our merchants sat his umbrella
against tree while he stepped into a
store to ask question When he came
out the tree stood there. No one had
taken it.
PERSIA Is the country where woman'E
wrongs really need attending to. The
Persian wife Is sent to Jail month for
talking to her husband in a loud tone
of voice"
WHAT George Eliot calls warm pale
ness" is identical with the hue of
mans face who struggles wildly on the
perilous edge of an Orange-peel, and Is
too pious to swear.
THERE has been good deal of fun
made over the Chinese birds nest soup,
but it is said by Americans who have
tasted of the dish that it will yet be
served at our restaurants.
THE Two LIVES
o life below-how brief and poor and sad,
One heavy sigh.
O life above-hOw long, how fair, and glad!
An endless 10Y.
Oh. to be done with daily dying here
Oh, to begin the living IN yon sphere!
O dav of time, how dark o sky and earth,
How dull your huel
o dav of Christ, how bright. sky and
Made fair and newt
Come, better Eden, with thy fresher green;
Come, brighter Salem, gladden. all the scene
Hope is the last thing that dies
in man, and though 1t Is exceedingly de-
ceitfuI. vet it is of this good Use to us,
that while we are travelling through life
it conducts US in an easier and more pleas
ant way to our journeys end.-Roche-
fOucduId
Mr.. PUNCH being asked his opinion Of
the present ladies' dress, replied:
highly approve OF the present fashion,
comprehending as 1t does the highest
Craccs of the two most distinguished
models Of female beauty-having in front
the Venus de Nedici; behind, the Venus
de HOttentOt
A DIVORCED woman Of DanbuTy re-
Gently married again, and shortly lost
her second husband by an accident. 4
neighbor, on hearing the shocking news
observed. It's awful, awful indeed
but then. =" she added, with an encouraging
nod, "it Is not so bad rs it might be.
She has another husband. 1t taIn't as
bad as if she had lost the only one she
had" The friends took comfort.
FAME
Six hundred staIwart men,
From English vale and Scottish glen,
To brave the battles thunder;
An order passed that was not given,
An awful crime that cries to heaven,
That Balaklava blUndeT-
A poet meath his vines,
Weaving the tale in rhyming lines
That set the world TO weeping,
That bring a wave Of golden store
Unto the island cottage door,
Into the poets keeping.
An old man, stark and dead,
One wintery day, in an open she'd
StarvatiOn's mOUrHful story
And he was one who charged that day
With the Light Brigade" in the famous
fray
Alas, for earthly glory,
CPL be a good man and give up
drinking and give YOU diamond engage
ment ring" said the lover. go Edward
you-you are 20 good ~ and she leaned
her frizzes on his shoulder. And there
they sat and sat until the soft arms Of
night, that dusky nurse of the world,
had folded them from sight-pOndering
planning, thinking, she of the diamond
ring, and he of how on earth he was to
get it.
BLESSED Is the man who knows enough
to keep his mouth shut. Some people
live sixty years without learning the
art. Indeed the older they grow the
wider their mouths open. \ man or
woman who is a gabbler at fOrty-five II a
dreadful afliction to a house, or church,
or q community. There are two things
this age needs TO learn-when to say
nothing, and when it says anything TO
say it well. "If any man among you
seem to be religious, and bridleth not his
tongue, this mans religion is vain
Golden RUte.
The prOvident Indian, says the Austin
(Nev.) Reveille, covers his hat with a
dirty handkerchief to protect 1t from the
snow. The improvident Indian hasn't
got hat or handkerchief. The pTovident
Indian is the one that is successful at
poker. When the red man CANDLES he
plays for all that's out. As the boys
say, "he's blooded ;" and when luck Is
against him he plays Of hat, coat, boots,
horse. wife, everything, When he has
hal ,a ran Of bad luck and the weather Is
severe, he lies down beside a wOOdpile
and takes his solemn oath that he viii
never touch another card as long AZ he
lives but soon RECEIVERS from his tt of
dependency and hunts a job to earn
money with which TO again WOO the hCEle
goddess.
We have had spelbng matches and
pronunciation matches, and now 1t Il
time to begin enUnciation matches. Min
listers especially ought 10 enter for
them. Let them practice giving out
texts and notices. 1t Is too bad 70 nave
their " dear hearers' think that the text
is " something about hawk between two
pigeons" when il i really, " why halt
We between two opinions?" and very
bad, for the minister, when lie says,
" there will be no service here this after
noon. as ] am going 10 OfiIciate for an
other clergyman, to be understood 70
sqy- " there will be 10 service here this
afternoon, as I am gong fishing with an
other clergyman" When a clergyman
can't saw .sIIl venture to assert" with
out leaving doubtful whether he uI--
say "I'II bet you a shirt" he bad better
look out.
The following curious advertisement
was published in Londonderry, Ireland,
in 1888: " Whereas, on February the
l4th, 1888, it pleased kind providence 10
confer on Matthew Neely, Of Burnaliy,
parish of Tamlaghtfinlagan, and county
Of Londonderry, manchild, whose ap-
pearance is promising and amiable, and
hopes the being who first caused him to
exist viii grant him grace. Also, in
consideration and IN remembrance OF the
many heroic deeds done by that unlver-