The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-02-24
FACTS AND FANCIES.

souls VIII go to Saturn. Hence those
rings.
GOoD thing the dynamite ficnd killed
himself, for a jury might have acquitted
him on the ground Of " insanity
An exchange wants TO know. since
work Is pronounced wirk, why pork
should not be pronounced Pirk:
P0ssIBLY-it was Sankey's singing Sug-
gested the thing to Senator ChristianCv.
Anyhow, eighty and nineteen make
"Ninety and Nine"
PROCTOR, the astronomer, saws that the
moon is dead. Sorry to hear it; she was
as good a moon as you could find in a
nights travel.
Too LATE .-.--
/ Each on his own strict line we move,
! And some find death ere they find love,
So far apart their lives are thrown
From the twin soul that halves their own.
And sometimes, by still harder fate,
The lovers meet, but meet too late
The heart is mine. True, truel ahi true
Then, love, thy hand. All, no! adicU.
The longest night in Norway lasts
three months, and when young man
goes to see his girl her mother, before
retiring, tells her not to rum her health
by-sitting up more than two months.
Two young ladies. residing at Bakers
field, VT, who went TO bed the aother
night leaving a kerosene lamp dimly
burning, were found unconscious next
morning from the effects of the gas
which had generated from the iamP,
and were with great difficulty restored
I SCENE at church after the clergyman
peroration: Julia TO HantiPPe What
/ 4 beautiful close - NantippC, who has
/ been spitefully cycling a wel1-dres~cd lady
| before her" Beautiful clothes! Yes:
but know she didn't get 'cm in beau
! tifui way." -rzr aa r.H
Iowa FALLS is interested in the pPer-
ations of a little machine, newly patented
| tFat twists cord-wood out of a haystack.
| 1t Is intended To manufacture fuel for
| these grass-burning, blizzard stoves and
/ it twists whisps Ot hay into knots as hard
as bricks, go -.--s----.s
! THE Rev. H-Pahtahquahong Chase
! the hereditary chief of the Oiibbewav
nation, and president sf the grand Coun-
] Gil of Indians of Canada, is on n visit to
| Paris, and preached few SundayS ago
/ in the English chapel. His grandfather
/ received from George TII.a silver medal,
which has now descended 70 his grand
son. a.
The great pyramid weighs u. .768NOO,-
! 900 tons. According TO Herodotua, 10
took the labor of 100000 men twenty
! years to build it. To show the mechan-
| ical value of modern Improvements DR..
| Lardner afiiuns that four hundred and
eighty tens of coal with aR engine and
hosting machine, would have raised
every stone TO its position. a
THE hare snce challenged the tartoi-c
to a trial of speed. The hare lri-ked
about merrily. paying little attention to
| his rival, or jceTing him for his sloWncss.
| The tortoise, however, ploddCd along
steadily, and had weIl-nigIf reached the
goal, when the hare observed ms pro
! gress. Away darted the hane like light
ming, and won the race. M0ral-=Ih
race Is not always to the slow.
How PITTSBURGH Cor HER H
An Englishnan mounted his barb,
Then flew he away ike the wvnd
And he dropped an II here
And he dropped an ii there,
As wild shot his steed, and awry blew his
hair,
Till the road was with aspirates lined.
A Pittsburger, horriied, stood
And looked at that Engishman gui
Then he hastily picked up an il,
As though it had been ripe peach,
TO have seen him you'd thought him lecChl
And now we have Pittsburgh spelt 90.
THE Brooklyn Argus comedies the
truth of Gail HsmiltOn's statement that
lying Is the cohesive power of society"
and adds, Lying is also sort Of moral
glue, by which the pieces Of a shattered
character are restored to their proper
places, and made to look as good as new.
| The great trouble Is, however, that IL Is
not always accompanied by a guarantee
to stick"
IT is said that since the abolition of
purchase in the British army many re-
tired officers have entered the ranks in
the expectation of working up 10 com
mission One of the latest examples is
the case Of an old officer of the third
| Dragon guards and the member of au
| excellent family. His attachment To
! the service led him to select the six
! teenth Lancers.
The other morning husband escorted
his wife to one of the depots thar IN"
might start on Il visit 20 the country. To-
/ be gone six weeks, and as she WIS about
readytO enter the car he said, Dear me,
! but won't ! be lonesome though :" "I
rather think You will " she responded, iu
dry, cutting tone, 90 for I've arranged
4 with six women, four policemen, and
/ two detectives to keep an eye on you
/ He smiled, but it was sad smile.
! A EICE-LOOKING young man was seem
/ to spring from a Madison street car the
other day, and as he straightcned ont
| his joints and pulled down his shirt
/ bosom. he Was heard 10 mutter: q" You
may buy "A box al tile opera; YOU may
/ get your name i'm the newspaper Society
! reports; you may wear the flashc-t
/ diamond pin in town you may be in
| trOducGd To the governor; you may even
write poem but if you 20 into a street
car you are Just ar liable to be squeezed
into n corner and sat down on by a fat
woman with baby as any one else ~
| And he walked off with the air of q
martyr --
THE recent death of Sir Anthony
| ROthschild has set ahoat again in Eng
land an amusing story which has some
| times been told to illustrate the wealth
Of the Jewish family; '' Some years ago
| there was a whist club in Paris at which
one of the Rothschilds and several other
bankers used 10 play. One day one "t
| the bankers died, and the other mem
bers of the club, discussing their de
parted friend, the question WIS put
how much was he worth Sc twenty
five millions" +" Ca million steTling,D was
the reply ThcrupDn BOthschiid Tr
msnked compasiOnateiy, g ! had mo idoa
he was in such straitened eireumstau-
ces ="
| MANY 4 man lives with n woman haif
lifetime without suspectine tliat the
wife Of his bosom has really forgotten
more than nc ever knew. Many "a car
pet-knight who plumes himsclfHpon his
wonderful skill In smashing hearts is
being mentally measured ard intclies-
tually turned inside ont by the smiling
girl whom he thinks he is captiyatine.
Many 4 veteran bcau7yho auulis on his
gloves tn depart feeling Proudly. con