The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-04-06
FACTS AND FANCIES-


THEODORE THOMAS has purchased, and
Is going to turn the former mansion of
Edwin Forrest, at Philadelphia, into a
summer concert garden
THE average journalist can work ike
mule and with the briliancy of head
light to a locomotive, and still be abused
by an ungrateful public.
OK the eleventh of June in each year
the inhabitants of Cyprus throw beau
tifuI Young girl into the sea IN honor of
Venus. She is then taken out, crowned
and worshiped all the day as queen or
demi-g0ddess.
THE YEARS.
Nyhv do we heap large mounds Of years
Before us and behind,
And scOrn the little DAYS that pass
Like angels on the wind
Facn- turning round a small sweet tace
As beautiful as near,
Because 1t Is so small lace
We viii not see II clear.
And so it turns from us, and goes
Away in sad disdain
r,1-oT,G6 we could give our lives for It,
1t never comes again
4 CHICAGO doctor says that supersti-
ton often kills people who are otherwise
fitted for a long life. That may be 20,
but what Is a fellow to do when his
rrandmother's ghost POkes him IN the
ribs at midnight and whispers: Refund
that money-your hour has arrove
THERE is a saving of Schopenhauer
that the "women remain all their life
long bic children; they have an eye for
the thing which Is nearest TO them; they
attach themselves TO the present; they
mistake the appearance for the reality;
and they set aside the most mOmentous
question for the veriest trltte.
KEEPING LENT
Is this fast to kccpe
The larder lcanc
And cleanc
From fat Of veales and sheape:
Is it to quit the dish
OF feshe, yet still
To fill
The platter high with fish,
Is il too fast an houre,
Or ragged goe,
A downcast look and sowTe:
No! tits fast to dole
Thy sheafe of wheate
And meate
Unto hungry sowle!
1t is a fast from strife,
From old debate,
And hate
To circumcise "thy life"
To show a hearte grief rent
To starve tiny sin,
Not bin,
And that's to keepe thy Lent.
-R05Crt Hr51ick, 1891.
THE BOSTON Post thinks this, from the
World, beats Col Sellers calculation as
tn the profits realizable from introducing
R.lfu bpF "a
hundred and fifty millions of people IN
China. and all. men, women and children,
wear cotton clothing, both upper and
under. Allowing ten yards for the outfit
of each person, Of cotton cloth weighing
five ounces to the square yard, we have
foUr billions five hundred millions of
wards of cotton cloth, weighing seven
hundred thousand tons.
TIE Georgia ladies find It expensive
these hard times TO assume their leap
wear rights. A party of them at COlum-
bus. unanimously passed the following,
Resolved, That we have always been op-
posed to the young gentlemen hiring car
Tiages to take Us to places of amusement
simply because II rained. Resolved,
With a view of setting an example and a
precedcnt, we obligate ourselves to lg-
more carriages, and provide ourselves with
an umbrella, a waterproof and par OF
oyersboes. and we shall ask those gentle
men whom we are to escort to he pro
vided likewise.
Orr brains are seveHty-year clocks.
The angel of life winds them up once Tor
all. then closes the case, and gives the
KEY into the hands Of the angel OF the
resurrection. Tic-tac! tlc-tac go the
wheels of thought; our will cannot stop
them; they cannot stop themselves
sleep cannot stop them madness only
makes them 20 faster; death alone can
break the case. and, seizIng the ever
swinging pendulum, which We cail tRe
heart. silenccs at last the clicking of the
terrible cscapement we have carried so
long beneath our wrinkied tOTchcads.-
OEiTer Wendell HO!mes.
They are publishing that process again
bv which every man may become ms
own icc-housc. 1t is 10 fill a barrel with
water and let II freeze solid and then set
il away in the cellar, and help yourself
10 the contents through the summer
There is "A Danbury man who set out his
barrel for this purpose about two months
AGO. and TO see that man 90 up TO tins
barrel every morning and peer INTO IT
and kick it, and ponder over 1t Is the
very best evidence that the honest SIM
plIcIty of early times has not chllItly
percOlated through the shoddy Of this
age. Perhaps he has not yet got the
right kind of water.
CIRCUMsTANTIAL EVIpENCE.-A very
wealthy young man, with reputation
for fastness, married recently. On the
morriuog after the wedding the bride
asked her husband to perform an Office
Of the toilet for her, made necessary by
the absence Of her maid. The husband
did it willingly, and when II was con
cluded was astonished to find his pretty
wife in tears. "Why, my own precious"
said he, what Is the matter with her
hubby's pet?" 3" 0 Jimmie :" replied
the poor girl, crying as if her heart
would break, "if you hadn't laced
thousand corsets, you never could have
done it like that"
Go WAY DAR.-In this town there II
an old lymphatic negro who has wonder
fully large feet, and is always willing I"
take a rest One afternoon while he WAS