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

THE people of western Georgia are still
immigrating to Texas In large numbers.
| A TRUST company is a concern which
trusts the money of one man in the hands
of another.
A wORS OUT parent in Chicago has
named his baby Macbeth, because he hath
murdered sleep.
TIE Herald of Health says flesh meat
tends to make men bold, enteTprising
and courageous, while vegetables render
men peaceful, benevolent and yirtuOus.
"OH, we don't mind the fourth story"
! said a congressman's wife in choosing
| Washington lodgings the other day;
% we can go up and down in the venti-
| lator."
A HUGE petrifaction, formed almost
| entirely of serpents in various positions,
! but making a solid mass, has been found
near the line of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad.
-"No, George" she said in response
/ to his question, "it is not true that a
string of new belt buckles in a shop win
/ dow would make any woman lose train;
| but" she added musingly, sometimes
she might have to run little"
| Why should the rich desPise the poor?
Why should the poor repine2
little while and We shall all
In equal friendship join.
Life at the best is but Jest,
But 'l since t,s we're here, with friends 50 dear,
Wen drive dull care away
A SIMPLE looking country lad, to
whose lot fell the leading question in the
catechism, "What is your nameP' re-
piled: Carrots ~ 'Who gave you that
name?' "AII the boys in the parish,
sir" whiningly replied the red-haired
urchin.
"Charles," said young wife 10 her
husband, as they sat at the window
watching the fashionables on their way
to church, "when you die and / get hold
of the insurance money l intend TO have
a fur cape and muff Just like that lady
| has on over there"
The Parsees of Bombay, during the
! receptions that took place while the
| Prince of Wales was there, appeared in
the full-dress night-gOwns which for cen
| turies they have been in the habit of
wearing on state and festive occasions.
/ 1t is time that they reformed their habits
The report of the Royal Commission
on VivisectiOn has been completed, and
| Fnglishmen who are disposed to cut up
alive are on the pins and needles of
anxiety. As soon as it has been presented
| to the Queen and laid upon the table of
Parliament it Will be given to the public.
A LADY remarked TO a popular divine
! that his sermons were a little too long.
| Don't you think so?" said she-'Just
| little ?' "Ah dear madam" replied
/ the divine, 'I am afraid you don't like
! the sincere milk of the word" "Yes, l
do" said she "but you know the
| fashion, nowadays, Is condensed milk"
MIR LINCOLN used to tell story of a
! Winchester confederate, who was so over
| jOyed at receiving his pardon that he ex-
/ claimed "Thank you, Mr.. President
| Thank you'll Now Pm pardOned s'pose
| Pm as good a union man as any Of you
emphatically one of you again. But
| didn't Stonewall Jackson give us thunder
in the valleyf'
She, a girl of seventeen, walked un-
| der the naples month ago, and gathered
the golden leaves, and said, 90 leaves,
YOU remind me of crushed hopes anC
scattered plans" He, her father, found
them in nail keg the other day, and
shook them down in the corner Of the
woOdshed, and said, There, that dog
has got just as good bed as any canine
/ in this town :"
He had made a hearty meal at a res
/ taurant, and rising up he said to the
1 cashier: % / declare, if haven forgotten
my wallet" The cashier fired up, and
hurled big words at him for full three
minutes before pausing for breath. When
a chance came, the stranger continued:
4" But have fifty dollars here in my vest
| pocket" The cashier couldn't smile to
save him.
! A LADY who had just lost her husband
was weeping and lamenting: All,
mother" she cried, raising her eyes to
| heaven, "I should gladly give half my
life 10 be eight days older" Why, my
child?' asked her mother. The beTeaved
one, regarding afTectionately the photo
graph Of her dead husband, answered,
" Because, then ] should no longer be
grieving over my loss.
HE came back to his mother looking
very forlornly, with big red swelling
under his left eye, and four or five hand
fuls of torn shirt boiling over his breeches-
hand. "Whv. where on earth have you
been?" she asked. Me and Johnny
beeD pIavin'. He PLAYED he was pirate,
and I PLAYED was duke. Then he put
on airs and l got mad, and - Yes,
yes" interrupted his mother, her eye
flashing. and you didn't finch
&" Nom, but the pirate licked.
In his last illness poor Hood was
reduced TO a skeleton. As he noticed .
very large mustard Poultice which Mrs.
Hood was making for him he exclaimed
q Oh, Mary Mary That viii be great
deal Of mustard to a very little meat ~
Shortly before his death, being visited by
a clergyman, whose features as well a.
language were more Iugubrious than CO
soling, Hood looked up at him comTas-
sionately and said Ny dear sir, I'm
afraid your religion doesn't agree with
you -
4 young man in Chicago WIS recently
found dead in his room, and the snpposi-
tion was that he had committed suicide
I by poisoning; but upon analyzing the
contents Of his stomach nothing but the
following were found in it Pickles,
r pound cake, lemonade, cold turkey, beer,
! fried oysters, cold punch, ham sandwich,
sponge cake, beef tea, mince pies, cham
, pagne, lobster, game pie, fruit cake, tea,
: chicken salad, whisky, coffee, bologna
I sausage, port, cheese, sardines and sherry.
The jury returned a verdict of "Died
through the visitations Of friends.