The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-01-20
SUNBEAMS.

"Did my moustaehe trouble you 2" said
he to her. "No," she sighed, AZ only felt
little down in the mouth"
! Surprising power of endurance cat
/ tle-drOver who had one ear cut off by
the Indians got up and walked off on the
other one
It was an Irish editor who said that
/ absentees were the curse of Ireland, and
added that his unhappy country swarmed
| with them.
A Russian proverb says:-"Before GO
| ing to war, pray once; before going to
sea, pray twice; before going TO get mar
ried, pray three times"
A little WhitehalIer, gazing upon an old
picture Of his mother, taken in a low
I dress. remarked, Mamma, you was mos
ready for bed when dat picter was
tooken."
II takes 'em half an hour to get the big
English cannon ready to fire, and by that
time fellow could dodge, heel it around
the corner and tuck himself away in a
dry goods box.
When a citizen of Rochester is blown
into the dreamy hereafter by a kerosene
lamp explosion. the gas company officials
gIimly remark: Comes o fghtin' agim
honest monopoly"
bolt of lighting struck tree in
front of Chicago alderman's house, the
other night, and in his fright the alder
man remarked, Hold on III restore the
money"
81 never sot my mind to writin' poetry
till two years ago." said young ruralist,
jilting back in grocery chair; ''but the
minute took to gOin' with that Johnson
girl, 10y gosh l couldn't help it."
''Vot's dat you says, Shonny ?" inquired
Mr.. Schmidt, as he was correcting his off
spring with a strap, 81 says holdings,
fader." "Yah, but I knows vot you
drinks; you drinks dam
THAT clock, stranger said Michi-
gan farmer, "was the best kind of clock
up TO six months ago, when my daughter
began to have beaux, and now the blamed
thing is always two hours slow"
LongfeIlow is working at a new poem.
He has rewritten it forty times or more.
but he can't get it to suit, and is too proud
spirited to adopt Childs' style and make
the name "Alice" rhyme with "Constau-
tinople.''
Prof Park, being at Plymouth in warm
weather, was lodging in bed that re-
semhled Pekin, in being more popuIous
than comfortable, and he remarked in the
morning that he never before knew what
was meant by olive geese feathers"
There is good boy in Lisbon, if we
may believe the Lewiston Journal, who,
when he found his aged mothers Bible
was of too fine print for her failing eye
sight, sold the book and bought a base
ball bat and four sticks of chewing
candy.
The enterprise of true journalism is IL
Illustrated by the case of the editor of the
D0Hy Tader, published nj Belvidere, Ill,
who, being horsewhipped, got out an ex-
ira containing a full account of the
affair, and sold papers enough TO pay for
the arnica and plasters.
On Hang, of North Adams, sings of
Mary and her little lamb
Was gal name Moll had lam,
Fleas all samee white sno,
.Evly place Mol gal walkee
Ba, Ba, hOppee long too.
A case came up for trial in a French
court, and as the evidence wGs expected
10 he of certain character, the Judge
intimated the fact, and requested the de-
cent women TO withdraw. Not a soul
moved, "Usher," said the Judge, "now
that the decent women have Withdrawn,
turn the rest OUT
Fair Division Irish Builder 10 la
borers aloft) many of yez is up
there 2"
Laborers On chorus)-"Three''
Irish Builder - 'tSlre, that's too many;
half Of yez come down at once -
Tn +ba I,iJliard solooD he for,7,J that Liz