The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-06-08
FACTS AND FANCIES

As JESSE POMEROY, the boy fiend, has
not murdered any one since being con-
fined in jail, the Boston clergy are of the
opinion that he means to reform.
PEOPLE who are continually moaning
in the car of Providence about the hard
times are always the last to get down to
a simple bread and molasses diet when
the crisis comes"
some confounded idiot has put that
pen where 1 can't find it" growled 4
man the other day as he searched about
the desk. g All, um, yes l thought So"
he continued in a lower key, as he took
the article from behind his ear.
A WORCESTER mother, having occasion
to reprove her little seven-year cid
daughter for playing with some rude
children, received for n reply: Well,
ma some folks don't like bad company,
but l always did"
II seems good to have the Prince of
Wales back homo again This shooting
tigers, even if the shooter Is up in tree
a mile and q half from the tiger, is pre-
caTious business for a prince. There's
danger of falling eff the limb.
SELAH occurs seventy-four times in
the Psaltcr, and thrice in Habukuk.
Nobody knows what it means. Many
think it comes from set, to elevate, and
50 is a direction to raise the voice in
singing-Others think it is 4 simple nOtG
6sne.-C Christian AdUOcdte.
A GIRL should never be asked why she
does not marry. The "why" Is her
business. One young lady, hard pressed
by her mother, said " am not unwill-
| ing to be married; but where is the
proper man? You cannot expect me TO
90 out and lasso a husband ?"
MIR. MoODY, in his last sermon in the
Hippodrome, said: Christians should
| live in the world, but not be Rlled with
it. A ship lives in the water, but, if the
water gets into the ship, she goes to the
| bottom. So christians may live in the
world, but, if the world gets into them,
| they sink"
| MY FRIEND.
The friend who holds a mirror to my face,
And hiding none is not afraid to trace
| Nv faults, my smallest blemishes, within;
| Who friendly warns, reprOves me II SIN
| Although it seems not so, he is my TREND
/ But he who, ever hattering gives me praise
| Who ne'er rebukes, nor censure, nor delays
| To come with eaGerness and grasp my hand
And pardon me, ere pardon demand
| He is my enemy, although he seem my
friend.
THE ladies of the civilized world are
delighted at Tyndall's marriage. They
| feel that no thoroughly great scientific
mind has ever vet grappled with the
| problem of the eXtinguishment of freck-
| les, and they feel, now that the leylathah
! is haruessed, he will soon be placed at
the right kind of work.
Coon habit in reference to sobriety
will save you from innumerable sins and
| temntations. In the one sin OF drunk
enness, almost every other sin Is included
II NAV with great truth be said that the
field of iniquity has many paths, and
| intemDerance is the gate to them all.
So that bv good early habits in this one
1 case. YOU will be saved from thousand
SnaTes. -,
DErIcATELY put-Scumble: You'll
Get your rent, Mrs. FlaheTty, If you'n IL
wait little. Pm not going to run away
| Besides, there's my clothes" Mrs. F.
your clothes, indade A moighty lot
on 'em you've got, sure: why, Whlh
yer hats on, yen wardrebe's Imply
RUsKIN observes as a rule women have
no eve for color. This explains why a
woman is obliged TO spend three-quartefs
of a day in getting the exact shade OF
ribbon to trim a dress, while When IL
comes to mending her husbands panta-
looms she seems 10 IHlnh tiidG 81 yNtioH
patch is just the thing TO match BLACK
broadclOth.
DISSATISFIED.
" Only housemaidw She looked from the
Neat was the kitchen and tidy was she
There at her window a seamsuesS s"C 9'iloA
"Were / a gcamstress how happy I'd be ="
"Onlv a Queenw She looked over the Wa
ters-
Fair was her kingdom and mighty was she ;
There sat an Empress, with Queens lof het
daughters
''Were | an Empress how happy Ia De
Still the old fraiIty they all Of them trip IN!
Eve i'll her daughters ls ever the same
Give her an Eden she signs for Flppih' ,
Give her an empire she pines Tor name /.
AN Iowa man consulted "a yelled
prophecies and inspired seeress," lsr IN
formation where lie could find his aihniIy,
what she would look like, and now ne
would know her when he met her. one
described a ravishingly beautiful young
lady, and the grateful man PAID neI
double her fee. And then the Yelled
prophecies removed her veil, and hesknew
: his mOther-in-law. He rose to MS ieei
with cold hollow laugh, and went ou'
| II