The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-05-18
FACTS AND FANCIES.

"Now," said the professor, as he grew
animated in the discussion, "all matter
constantly changes. ] have changed
since taking my seat here. Every single
moment in my body are tens Of thou
sands of blsod corpuscles smashed to
pieces and forever destroyed" Senior
in the back seat lin a voice expressive of
deep wonder) -" Gosh p
A STRAY CURL
Ii hung DER her shoulders diviRely,
A curl of magnificent gold,
thought as it lay there supinely,
OF tresses that German girls sold,
[ envied the curl so repOsing,
Like sunshine or ambient pearl,
But while I was dreamiiy doing
1t fell with a quivering whirl-
And that eurl-ahi my dream was then
ended
It lays there aghast on the floor,
While its owner in Ignorance wended,
Mid silence, her steps to the door!
OUT west, a short while since, a sub
scriber paid a years subscription to a
weekly paper consisting of single sheet,
by sending the proprietor ten cents in
coppel change, a half bushel of peas and
a piece of pork, whereupOn the editor of
the paper came out in the next issue
with a leader on the resources of this
great country, and the renewed activity
and prevailing prosperity among the
"hOTny handed" SONS of toll.
PARTING.
" So far-so farW Nay, sweet! nor distant
lands,
Nor breadth of waters can avail to bar
Nv love from thee. Alas! 'tis ever far,
To yearning hearts, the smallest space that
stands
Beyond the compass of Outstretching hands;
And never near-how close so e'er to each
True lovers be-if kisses may not reach
Across the distance. Since harsh Fate COM
mands,
Darling. farewell! With fearful eyes I go,
Unknowing when the glad return shall be;
But 1 will think-tO mitigate my woe
How loving souls of time and tide are free;
And oft, to greet thee, dearest, mine know.
Exultant, will o'erleaP the sunderlng seal
-ScyIbnCT'stO Nay.
NoBIFssB OBLIGE. - InterlocutOr -
" Who's that snowy woman who talks
and laughs so loud, and digs people IN
the ribs?" InteTlOCutTix-"O Oh, that's
the duchess of Bayswater; she was
Lady Gwendolen Beaumanoir, you
knOwp' InterlOcutOr with warmth -
"Ah! to be sure! That accounts for
her high bred ease, her aTistOcratic sim
plicity of manner, her natural and
straight-fOrward-" InterlOcutTix (put-
ting up her eye glass; By the by, par
don met I have unintentionally misin-
formed YOU; it's Mrs. Judkins; she's
the widow of an alderman, and her
father was a cheesemonger in the New
Cut % Interlocutor-" Dear me l-ah
hum !-er-hum hal That quite
alters the case She is very vulgar,
must sav-awful ~ n. BIT was the
duchess, after ail.-Punch.
REJECTED POEM.
far away in the wild western prairie
nobody is living there,
away in the eastern Sahara
nobody is living there,
except a few wandering travellers
travelling here and there.
far away on the western pacific
nobody is living there;
far away on the eastern atlantic
nobody is living there
except few wandering seamen
sailing here and there.
away on the border of northern arctic
nobody is living there,
on the border of southern antarctic
nobody is living there
except few cold frozen trappers
trapping here and there.
THE St. Louis Republican mentions
some of the troubles that will follow the
new money When man walks much
the inside of his legs will be chafed raw.
When less than dollar is to 90 by mail
it will have to be converted first into
postage stamps. When you run for a
car money will fly out of your pockets
at every jump. When you tell your
wife that you have no money she will
say that you lie, for she heard 1t jingle.
It will be difficult to pay man quar-
ter by mistake for a half When you are
in a hurry, the storekeeper will have to
weigh the coin in his hand and sound it
twenty-five times on the counter before
he can determine whether it is good.
The baby will swallow a dime day. A
boy with quarter will lose it in a crack
in two minutes, from which no amount
of coaxing with forks and chips can re-
cover it. Sleepy men will put buttons
and Iozenges into contribution boxes as
of yore."