The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-10-18
S 200 Per Annum.
FACTS AND FANCIES.

HUMAN beings, like the ground, must
be plOwcd and narrowed before they are
! in a receptive cOndition-beiOTe 1T Is any
| good TO sOw seed in them"
! FIRsT speaker" There goes an Eng
! Eishman; l can tell by the cut of his jib."
! Second s." Why, that fool there? HO,
| hOi HE'S from New York.
THE monster that has been Topping
about in the Mississippi near st. Louis, is
pronounced by the World to be the
Observation-Disclosures.
A WOMAN may not be able to sharpen
a pencil or hold an umbrella, but she can
pack more articles into trunk than a
man can into a One-hOTse wagon.
FEW young men can be frightened
nowadays by their paternals threatening
only laugh at the idea of how little they
will have to lose.
SpIRTTUALIsTs assert that the priest
at IOurGss performs the so-caIIed mira
eles through the mesmeric passes which
he makes; in other words, that he Is a
healing medium"
GOODWIN SMITH says; 1t Is the
fashion to accuse the Americans of un-
limited vOraCity, but they seem really to
be about the only people who look at
thing before they swallow 1t"
''WHO will love my baby now? were
the last words of Mrs Sien Chin, wife of
Kwang HI Chin, Chinese Interpreter for
the Harvard students. Here Is A golden
opportunity for a new song.
BRIGHAM YOUNG's grave is closely
guarded, and the phrenologist who wants
to know how big the prophets bump-Of
amativeness was will have to wait a long
time for the tough old skull.
CoNFUCTUs, n man who charged Meth
ing for preaching, used to say " Coarse
rice for food, water TO drink, and a
bended arm for a Pillow-haPpiness may
be enjoyed even in these"
\ PAIR Of boot-Iasts have been made
for Leonard Wilcox. of Rome, n. Y,
VINO Is seven feet high and weighs six
hundred pounds. THE lasts are twenty
two inches long and eighteen around the
instep.
And so beside the silent sex
/ wait the muffied oar;
10 hahn from Him come to
On ocean shore.
know not where his islands lift
Their fronded palms in air;
/ only know J cannot drift
Beyond His love and care.
ALI the other passions condesceud at
times to accept the inexoTable logic of
fact; but jealousy looks facts straight in
the Ease, ignores them utterly, and says
she knows great deal better than they
can tell heT.-HelDS.
SONNET.
"ky, thou art welcome, heavens delicious breath
When woods begin to wear the crimson leaf,
And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow
brief,
And the year smiles, as 1T draws its death;
Wind of the sunny south Oh still delay
Ia the woods ana IN the Eptdeh air
Like to A good old age, released from care,
JourEcyinZ in long serenity, away
] n such a bright, late quiet would that
Might wear out life like thee, mid bowers and
brooks,
And dearer vet, the sunshine Of kind locks,
/ nd music Of Kind voices ever nigh
4 nd when nay last sand wrinkles in the glass,
Pass silently from men, as thou dgst pass
e. The phenomenon of phesphOresenCea At,
sea has generally been supposed to be
:aused by electricity. Scientists now rs
ert that electricity has nothing to do
With the matter. They claim that it Is
Iue to micrOzOa which exists far down in
he sea depths, and rises at certain seasons
# the year. There are different species
The principOl one, according to POucbet,
3 the military nOctiluca. Their sub
tance is a dIaphamous jelly. In the
rOpicOl seas they are seen in perfection.
The whole broad surface Of the sea is a
,laze of light, Tongues of liquid fire
lart from before the PROV of the ship as
t plOws along; and the wake of the yes
eI seems like a line. somewhat whittier
md more beautiful than the normal con-
iition of the sea before it was disturbed.