The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-04-13
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"PM too poor to take a paper" If
YOU arc, YOU should be indicted by tie
/ grand jury for obtaining a family under
| false pTetenses.
THERE is a town in Maine whree, after
/ three DAYS hard work, the citizens raised
seventy-two cents for the widow of a man
who was accidentally killed.
THE kangaroo has been introduced on
/ several large estates in France, and Is
now hunted in that country as game. 1t
readily adapts itself 10 the climate.
TURKEY has fifteen immense ships of
war which cost nearly two millions of
dollars apiece. Their sole duty Is to fire
salutcs when the Sultan goes TO the
mosque
CAN you see me, 'dearcsJg' said
Chicago man to his dying wife. 'Ieli me,
can You see me ," No" she family
whispered, "but I can smell your
breath"
WHILE an Iowa woman was struggling
in the water. and likely to drown, her
husband yelled out: " New bonnet
swim for life - and she kicked out and
safely reached the shore.
WHAT is editorial courtesy? ? Why, it
is when an editor Is caught stealing
chickens at midnight and his brother
editors kindly aliude To the matter as q
strange freak of 4 sOmnambUiIst.
CUSTOMER What did you think of
the bishops sermon on Sunday, Mr
Wigsbv ," HairdresseT-" Well, really,
sir, there was gent a settin, in iron 10,
me as 'ad his air parted that crooked
that / couldn't ear a word :"
CHARLOTTE. North Carolina, has had
an eIopcmcnt, in which the bridegroom
was sixty and the bride thirty. he IA
tber of the bride tried to be present at
the ceremony with pitchlorll, but took
the wrong road
The peculiar bent of the German
mind Is shown by the fact that out of
the twelve thousand five hundred and
sixteen books published in Germany IN
1873, only nine hundred were devoted TO
fiction and the drama.
A PRETTY little Ohio schoolmam tried
to whip one of her pupils, boy OF fifteen,
the other dav, but when she commenced
operatioRs he coolly threw his arms
around her neck and give her a hearty
kiss. She went straight back to her desk,
and her face was "just as rcd
How DRoLL,-
Fourteen little hin bugs caught out IN a
shower,
Scrambled quick as lightning into the near
est flower
this i sweet!
Looks as though it really might be good
enough to eat"
They smeIled it, they tasted it,-"Yes, IN
deed it's uicei
Leafiet after Ieafet vanished in "a trice.
By the time the sun came, to chase away the
shower,
There were all the fourteen bugs, but who
could find the flower
Into it the creatures went: now was IN
hCm-
Fourteen little fat bugs sitting on a stem!
THE debating societies Of South Caro-
lima have been offered the following pro
blem bv the Abbeville Press: Which
is the best way to Get news-by borrow
ing your neighbOr's paper, or subscribing
on time without any intention OF paying
for it?"
MoIIEEE was asked the reason why,
i'm certain Countries, the king may as
sumo the crown at ioHrtcen years of age
and can not marry before eighteen. "lt
is" answered MOlicrC, because IT Is
more difficult to rule a wife than king
dom"
"MADAM," cynically observed a gen
tleman to a leader of fashionable society
of Washington, "wOman doesn't seem To
be az much of 'clingiHg vine as 7he
once was" "That's because of the CX-
treme insecurity of the manly oak," she
replied.
TIE Kearney (Nebra7ka) Press argues
in favor of DEMONSTRATING the buffalo,
and says: The animal can easily be
tanned and made 10 do good service in
the harness; that while his tail is not -
handy to twist, in every other respect,
size, strength, get-up and style, he IS
vastly superior to the domestic OK
"CHILDREN," said country minister,
addressing a Sunday-sChO0l, " why are
we like flowers? What do we have that
flowers havcT And Il small boy in the
infants class, whose breath smclled of
vcrmiiUge, rose up and made reply,
" Worms" and the minister crcPt under
the pulpit chair to hide his emotion.
WE are glad to silence one slander
against Gen. Schenck. it il this story
that he came away from England with
out waiting upon the queen and making
his official adicus. lie met her majesty
while he was strcaking it down to the
ship. " By-by, Nicky," lac said, cheeri-
". " Tn o. p. H." d" Well, 50 long,
lobby, lhc ueaI oln EiIi i'l'iiSu5 anu
they parted friends.
The BLACK HILLS STORY, BRIEFLY
| TOLD.-Unless emigrants are prepared
to 90 TO work cutting timber and tilling
the ground, and to assume the othor
trials and pains of pioneer life 10 exc
out an existence. they should take warn
ing iiUm the experience of man writ
ing from Custer City, in the Black Hills.
He finds that claim owners are anxious
/ to trade off their claims for -four and
bacon, and that the miners were earning
at most from fifty cents to one dollar a
/ day Chic0go Tl-iL5mc.