The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-03-02
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FACTS AND FANCIES.

/ FACTS AND FANCIES.
4 NEW HAMPSHIRE man sends four
I teen of his children to one school, and
when they combine against the teacher
he knows that he can safely bet upon the
result.
AN interesting Harrisburg journal
says: Mrs. SiebOld, Of this city, Is eigh-
/ ty-four years of age, reads without
glasses, and has had her back broken
three times"
AND now Bayard Taylor also says that
/ black-eyed women can never love as
/ fondly as those with blue eyes. He says
they may think they love, but it's only
a morbid affection.
"IF Jones undertakes to pull my
/ ears" said loud-mouthed fellow on a
/ street corner, " he viii just have his hands
/ FULL The crowd looked at the mans
/ ears and thought so, too.
/ DID you every see the end of Henry
/ Smiths right thumb? Because if you
/ didn't you never viii, as Mr.. Smith very
! foolishly attempted TO interfere with
buzz saw, the other day.
JAMES GoRDoN BENNETT Is fairly
! warned that playing shinny on horse
| back will not enable him to cope with
the coniugal broomstick in the hands of
a willowy and poetic creature.
THAT preacher forgot himself who,
while addressing ladies' charitable -
ciety, said, L" My hearers, 1 now urge on
all of YOU TO dive down into your breeches
pockets and haul out sunthin' for the
poor"
AN eastern man calls himself on his
card " a Temperance boot maker The
need of temperance boots Is apparent,
for though they're not generally drunk
it's a notorious fact that they're often
very tight.
ANNA DICKINSON complains that she
has " bad sensations IN her head She
has been trying to create sensations for
long time. and if now she finds that they
have turned up in her head, she has no
body to blame but herself.
A DEBATING society is preparing to
vrestle with the following question
20 Resolved, that a man who plays on an
ACCORDION and keeps barking dog can't
he a Christian" Four members to one
want to take the negative side.
THERE is a watch in a Swiss museum
only three-sixteenths Of an inch in diane
ter, inserted in the top OF pencll-caSe.
It's little dial indicates not only hours,
minutes and seconds, but also days of The
D N. j
watches were inserted in saddles, snuff
boxes, shirt-studs, breast-pins, broachc5
and finger-rings.
THE New York World, speaking of
| European scandal remarks: " He Is
| said t., have lavished 10,OO0,OO0 roubles
uDop this lady during as many years"
/ This is not lavish. 1t Is downright par
simony. No lady can live in any style
on a rOuble a year-a TOuble Is about
equal to 100 COPeCks, or two sicca rupees
! G-15 of mohur or One-louTth OF halbe
/ vereinskrOne).
INDIANA farmers recently got out
their plows, spat on their hands, kicked
their oxen on the ribs, and jerked around
/ among the rocks as naturally as though
/ it were the month Of June. day or
two later they took their little crowbars
and pried up as much of the Plows a.
they could. and viii recover the rest in
the spring. Such is the simple life of
the agriculturist.
WHEN a great Tennessee medium ma
terialized an Indian, and a bystander re-
marked that the spirit and the medium
appeared a good deal alike, the manager
of the seanCe said: " Well, ! used To
think that way myself, but | understand
| better now. You see, the spirit absorbs
ing the naturalization that they do look
verv much alike; at times they can
barely be distinguished.
4 SEAL about three feet and a half in
length was shot in the Delaware river,
near Morrisville, Bucks county, Pennsyl-
vania, a couple of days ago. The seal
had got considerably out of his latitude
/ and deserved death for his temerlty IN
locating himself on a river whose bank5
were 50 thiclzly peOpled n those Of the
Delaware. His sealship was probably a
refugee from menageTie or a geological
garden somewhere along the river.
The Staunton Vindicator's compost
ton OH the ground hog "The ground
hog was out Wednesday. He saw his
shadow. He ran back in his hole. There
will be awful weather for the next SIX
weeks. Many persons will damn the
I ground hog. But he viii not care. lie
Is in his hole. If a person is safe III hI7
hole he does not care how much Curslng
goes on outside 1t is the same with
ground hogs as with grown persons"
Ak Iowa man went into his COW stable
the other day and by mistake mixed her
UP a nice warm mash IN a box full Of
sawdust, instead Of bran. The cow,
1 merely suppOsing that hard times had
come and they were all going 70 ecOnO-
mize, meekly ate her supper, and that
man never discovered MS mistake until
the next morning, when he MIXED that
COW and she let down half gallon Of
turpentine, quart Of shoe-pegs, and "a
bundle of lath
a VALUABLE manuscript has been dis
covered In the Azores, referring to the
colonization, in the year 1900, of the
northern part Of this continent, by emil
grants from Operto, Aveiro and the Is
land of Terceira It was written in 1870
by Francisco DeSOnza, and BaTboza Mac
hado states that it was lost during tke
great earthquake Of Lisbon in 1855. This
document, which, it is said, viii throw
great light on the disputed question OF
the early discovery of America, Is about
to be published by a learned gentleman
In the Azores.
GETTISG Up on COLD MORNINGs.-