The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-03-23
FACTS AND FANCIES.

Engaging child % Oh, mamma says you
drink ike a fish,
THE MEETING OF THE WATERS
I saw shadow fading out
Where light saw light in greeting;
A veil consumed between two orids
Where this and that were meeting.
Nv ear touched silence where the song
of ocean ceased its moaning;
Twas only where the sea beyond
Began its deep intoning.
Thus sings and paints for thee, 0 soul,
Life's sad, exUltant story
The veil discloses, the music dies,
But after that the glory.
The Elmira Advertiser says doctor
in that place removed tape worm
''from lad that was ninety-six feet long
aud had over Il eleven hundred joints"
Well, a boy as long As that ought to
have eleven hundred joints.
AT the marriage of an Alabama
widOwer one of the servants was asked If
his master would take a bridal tour.
a Dunno. sab when old missus alive
he took a paddle to her; dunno If he
take bride to de new one or uot."
He was a Parisian They asked him
what would be the most horrible thing
to him. He said, after long reflection,
% 1t would be to be gUillOtined without
knowing it, and to come to myself all OF
a sudden and see myself in glass, head
less"
THE Suez canal has become so much
cause of jealousy between England and
France that Sir Daniel Lange has been
dropped from the direction of the cOmPa-
nv. This gives rise to much lll-teelng,
which is justified by English interests IN
the work.
A PLACARD with the words False
alarm-no danger" was toryears regu-
lar part of the stage furniture OF the old
Chicago museum, and was once or twice
used with effect It Is suggested that
theaters and public halls be provided
with them as means OF preventing
panics.
The average Milwaukee reporter hav-
ing found the skull of an Aztec with
glass eye, now finds IN Lake M1cnlgan
sea serpcnt with fins striped like the
American flag. Two drinks more would
have put spcctacles on that skull and
made the reporter see stars rs well as
stripes.
"MAyrNIA," said youthful youngster
the other day, chow old shall be next
5irthdav?7 six, my son, il you live"
" Well, suppose l don't live, can I go
right OH having birthdays like George
Washington - There are some older
bows who like to have their birthdays
/ ego right on"
/ An enterprising Chinaman of Gold
\ Hill. Nevada, recently mounted the FOL
/ lowing sign, handsomely painted, on his
newly established wash house - An
/ Charlie; washing done dam cheap.
/ Virtuous public opinion soon Obliged
him to take down the sign and put up one
with less scripture in 1t.
THE SMASH AT Hollow ASH
You intimate that you want to know
/ A bout the smash
I That happened down to Hollow Ash
/ Well if there's anybody knows,
/ He wears about my style of clothes.
In short then, twas Deacon bumpers lu-
neral,
! And everything was doing we'll
. driv the mourners, and Joe Fresh,
/ He had he head of the prOccsh.
/ Them Templar fellows from the town
. With an excursion train came down;
l And lust as they we're coming back
[ We was about to cross the track;
Joe turns around and says to me
And in his hand he held V
| "I'll bet YOU this that this here hearse
/ VIII cross ahead of that eXcurse.
I Them mOurners they set up a yell,
And then was mssin' for spell
II war amazin' how that crowd
I
They piled them victims on the swara,
About thrce-quarters Of cord.
On top they put the deacOns meat,
But where Joe went we all was beat
| sarchcd the pieces OF that train,
And sarched, and saTched. and sarched IN
vain,
And to this day it does beat me
Whar was the piece that held that V.
THE feeling seems to be gaining
ground i'm commercial circles that unless
some Improvement is invented IN safe
locks q return Will have to be made 70
the custom Of those halcyOn days when
the cashiers wife carried the assets Oi
!, the institution in her stocking and slept
with a rolling-pin and a fat iron under
her pillow.
"MAIsTER," said an old Scotch ser
want, els it guide manners when the gen
tleman gies a glass o whisky, TO take {
! drap or drink off the hail o'tF' Ih'
master having, in homely Scotch phrase
, iudiciOusly replied to this poser that tn
3 courtesy consisted in imbibing tht
a whole, the man exclaimed, with a slgi
! Of relief: Then Guide be thankit, wa
p mannerly !!
= THE unerring exactness with which
: the sperm whale viii pursue his way
J.. across the ocean for a whole day withOu
.
!. OftE. COMPASS, ..s w halemen have Ottel
0 remarked them TO do, Is truly astonish
n ing. The manner in which their rcasol
OF instinct guides them on such an unva
II rving course must needs be matter O
n conjecture
u THE London Sporting Times says tina
u James Gordon Bennett, Of the New 1or
: Herald, was willing TO give 10000 gum
u + eas. the price asked by Prince Batthyan
u for the Derby winner, GalOpin, but a.
II would not agree To the unreasonable col
u dition that the prince wished 10 lmpos
= on the purchaser, that the horse shoul
u not leave England, the sale was not cor
u summated.
u OK the 8th Of October, 1776, JOIN
: Adams wrote to his wife, from fhlladei
y nbia. The spirit of venality you men
" tion X the most dreadful and aiarmlh
~ enemy America has to oppose II is
- raugcious and Unsuitable a. the grave
- / This predominant avarlcc VIII rum amer
= ica II she is ever ruined. II Iod a.
oi mighty does not interfere by his gfac
81 40 control this universal idolatry TO Tn
=. mammoth Of unrighteousnes7' we sha
II he Given up to the chastisement OF hl
~ judgments ] am ashamed OF the age
live in"
Az honest farmer once led his two tu
-, tevs into his cranary and told them
- eaf. drink, and be merry. One of thes
. turkeys was wise the other foolish. tn
'or foolish bird at once INDUCED excessivel
,r in the pleasures Of the stable, unsusP
he cious of the future; and the wiser fow
= in order that he might not lie fattene
a and slaughtered tasted continually, mo
81 tifed his flesh. and devoted himself
J,a Gloomy reflections upon the bTevity
-, life VIXEN Thanksgiving apprOache
n, the honest farmer killed both turkey
,T- and, by placing rock in the interior