The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-06-01
FACTS AND FANCIES.

euchre. He tanned the young mans
Jacket and sent him home, and then sat
down and finished the game himself
SwINBURNE, the salacious British YER
sifer, has been expelled from the London
arts club for piling thirty of the MEM
bers' hat together and dancing a war
dance on the heap. Algernon Charles is
of too cOnvfvial a turn to get on well
in this practical world.
COUNTERFEIT gold coin, made of pla-
tinum, plated heavily with genuine gold,
has of late been circulated in California.
It is exceedingly deceptive, being of the
right weight, color and feeling. The Pla-
tinum is worth half as much as gold,
making these coUnterfeits costly of pro-
duction.
Chow had you the audacity, john"
said a Scottish laird to his servant, "tO
90 and tell some people that was mean
fellow and no gentleman" Ma, ma,
sir" was the candid answer, you'll no
catch me at the like O. that. / have kept
my thoughts to myself
THE Pope is rather reserved and aus
tere in his demeanOr. You can't put
your feet on the top of his desk and ask
him for a chew, and talk over baseball
and the presidential prospects with him,
anu ltCl dS easy SiIAtA OOAAiAoA tebDAS te7
do with some persons.
"Life, the seed-tiEne of our being,
Swifter than the shuttle flies;
But the good or evil flowing
From our conduct never dies.
All who live are daily sowing
Seeds in distant fields to fall;
And the harvest from them growing
We must gather after all.
"Gather, when the light has faded
When life's feeting scenes are Ger
In some cline by sorrow shaded,
Or where sorrows known no more;
From the memory unfailing
OF our actions, great or small,
Perfect bliss, or weeping, wailing,
Everlasting after dH'
THERE are few who do not remember
the childish wonder they once felt at
hearing the resonance produced by plaC-
ing a sea shell to the ear, an effect which
fancy has likened to the roar of the sea"
This is caused by the hollow form of the
she'll and its polished surface, enabling
it 10 receive and return the beatings of
all sounds that chance to be trembling
in the air.
IN order to act intelligently against
the cotton worm, southern planters are
advised by Professor A. X. Grote to act
in concert. He further recommends
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stroy the worm, be used against the first
brood that appears in the locality, so as
to prevent its spreading farther. 1t Is
highly desirable that the life-histOTy and
habits of such insect pests should be
/ thoroughly studied, with a.view to their
/ determination.
FRIGHTENED BIRDS.
| a Hush hush ~ said the little brown thrush,
! IT ,.ffa hn no II
/ "Keep still! don't open your bill!
There's boy coming bird-nesting over the
hill.
/ Let go your wings out, so
! That not an egg or the nest shah snow.
! Chee chee it seems to me
| Pm as frightened as ever bird can be!
Then still, with quivering bill.
They watched the boy out OF sight Ger the
/ hill.
All, then in the branches again,
! Their glad song rang over vale and glen
Oh! oh if that boy could know
How glad they were when they saw nm GO,
| Say, say, do YOU think next day
! He could possibly steal those eggs away!
BosToN turned out strongly at the
centennial inaugural. The heavy swell
| RostOnian was one immense plaid suit
and high hat; the solid Mnid0onS OF
! Quincy Adams pedigree were all frOCk
coat biph collars and black neckclOth,
and the BacOn-street matrOn was lmPos-
ing in furbelows and frills. And they
said TO each other carnt," " sharnt,"
" arnt." YOU know" and don't you
know all day long.-N. J. Aa't
A ROMAN tomb was recently opened
at York, England, and inclosed IN a stone
coffin was found the body of young
girl. admirably preserved by the use of
! gypsum, and furnished with what has
/ been considered a modern device-a
! chignon. This rested upon pyramid OF
pods, plaits and coils, and, although
! many hundred years old, is good sPecI-
men of the present fashion
A BOOK AGENT who has retired from
active labor, upon the hard-earned ac-
cumuIation of a lie Of industrious cheek,
saws that the great secret of his success
was. when he went to a house where the
female head of the family presented her
self he always opened by saying, beg
vOUr pardon, Miss, but 1T was your
! mother / wanted to see" That always
used to get 'em. They not only sub
scribed for my books themselves, but
told me where l could find more Gus
toners.
DIR. GRIFFITH, of Wyoming, Kent
county, Delaware, has discovered that
! guIfwced is a safe antidOte for obesity.
/ No care need be exercised as to the
amount of tea the patient drinks. lie
! tried il on himself, taking no other drinks,
| and in a few weeks his own corpulence
had greatly diminished. He tried 1T on
three stouter neighbors, who within two
or three months, lost from twelve to
thirty pounds. DIR. Griffith says that
great care should be used III collecting
the weed.
The sky is alouded, the rocks are bare,
The spray of the tempest is white IN AR,
The winds are out with the waves at play
And / shall not tempt the sea to-day.
The trail is narrow, the wood IS dln,
The panther clIugs to the aTching limb;
And the lions whelps are abroad at play
And shall not join in the chase To-Day
But the ship sailed safely over the sea,
1 And the hunters came from the chase IN gee
And the town that was built upon rock
, Was swallowed up in the earthquake shock.
/ -Byet HaTfe-
A FAMILY moved into the lower story
of n house on West Adams street recent
". The people who occupied the upper
, story smiled with fendish Glee as they
, proudly cazed on their own hVe chllaLeh lil-l
, who were playing toy-dTums ana "'iiS
! inetrurnents OF torture on the steps, put
when thev saw that there were iI IVui
, groVyn-up daughters and hoIiHoii1ai .s'i
2 81 -, in fbe ranks of the invaders
d t6ajr c1nfidence was somewhat snaAeh'
, ~ when at night the unmaIried son
e taoto,,t his cIarionet, and his father be
49, ooo-' =, ,,ractice on the kev-bugle, they