The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-11-02
Fun, Fact and Fancy,
ODDS AND ENDS.

The Agricultural Bureau of Georgia
costs each citizen a cent and quarter
per year, and last year saved the farm
ers Ss5s, 600.
Arthur Orion, the Tiehborne claim
ant, works on a sowing machine in pris-
on. lie is in good health, but Is re-
duesd seventeen inches In CIR
Professor Huxley proves conclusivsly
that the alligator was once bird, walk
ing about on two legs, and to this day 1t
lays eggs. We are glad it was never
domesticatsd and made baTn-yard
fowl
Mother-Now, Gerry, be good girl
aud give Aunt Julia Eiss, and say good
night. Gsrty-NO, mol If / kiss her
she'll box my ears, like she did pePa's
last night.
Tilton's friends deny that he saW any
body In that berth, and dispute that
when he boarded the train he was softly
whistling: Tommy, Make Room for
7 cur Uncle"
A new style Of trowsers for boys has,
been invented IN Boston, having a cop
per seat, sheet-iron knees, riVeted seams
and waterproof pockets to hold broken
eggs.
On Saturday, Sept 80, fishing smack
CT New London, Conn, struck shoai
of maeksrsl mile long and a quarter
Of mile wide, and took $4,000 worth
of fish.
The salmon product of the Columbia
river, Oregon, will this year give the
enormous total of 100000 pounds,
and the amount canned for shipment
will yield 100000.
A Paris merchant who died recently
left So 900 to the woman who refused TO
marry him. AS result of her refusal,
he said, he had been enabled to live in
dependsntly and happily as bachs lor,
and the Sc 900 was an expression of his
gratitude.
A New Y ork lawyer defending a case
In the Supreme C0nrt the other day,
said he had two witnesses In court In
support of his client, and taat they would
be cure to speak the truth, for be had
had no opportunity Of communicating
with them.
wnen your emu puts penny INTO Tos
mouth instead Of its pocket or the contFi-
whites Of eggs three times day, avoiding
al acids, until specie payments are re-
sunned.-PittsburgC 0amereiGL
The following epitaph, copied from
Pennsylvania tombstone, has been sent to
the historical society of that State; "Here
lies the bodie Of Magaret Fay, her would
II her could but her couldn't stay, her
had bad legs and a baddish cough, it
were her legs as carried her off,"
One passing through Arkansas doesn't
see half as many revoivers as he would
have noticed two or three years ago. It
isn't particularly because everybody is
trying to be real good, but more because
they have found out that good shotgun
is more to be depended upon.
Surprising she did walk three-fourths
Of = mile in the rain, soil her new striped
stockings, and nearly ruin her dress, what
was that in comparison to the Joy of be-
ing the first one to tell Mrs. Jones that
the Smiths couldn't board at the Revere
this winter, as old Smith had failed.
When an authoress names her hero
'ClAude" and her heroine Maud" and
adopts Victoria st. Clair" for nom de
plume, you may know that her real name
Ls something like Sarah Jane Muggins,
and thAt she is a sentimental young thing
Of thirty five, with two corS-screw curls
hanging in front Of each ear.
Judge Mackey, leading South Caro-
lima Republican who supports Hampton
declared 10 public speech few DAYS
ago, that he vas prepared to prove by
facts and figures that the stealiBgs of the
Republican party in South Carolina
during the iast eight years, would be
amply sufficient, without a cent of taxes,
10 run the entire State government for
several years to come. This, bear in
mind, Is Republican, not Democratic
testimony.
A little less than thirty years ago, in
Hawkins county, this State, four broth
srs N rried an equal number of sisters
Now they have 81 children, or an aver
age of l33 to e ich family.
Whoever the fellow was who got up
the above paragraph, he had just come
out Of some political convention whose
delegations were divided and whose votes
were split into halves and quarters.
Halves are not counted in this game.
When n Chicago girl received dis
patch from Wisconsin announcing that
her lover was going of with consump-
ton, she telegraphed to bis friend
III as poor Jeffrey kept up HE life-in-
surance p Friend telegraphed back
"Policy for $4,000 in your favor is paid
up till May 9, 1877 I'oor Jeffrey can
not last after the first cold snap" The |
young lady then wondered phiIosophi- |
cslly how she would look in black. and |
'elegraphSd 70 jeffrey Darling, l will |
be with you on Friday. never to quit !
you during life. LURLINE" at will be |
a sad loss to you, my love" said her |
mother. "Yss, ma, = sobbed the girl. |
but the loss is fully covered by insu-
rance
Growing Old Gracefully.