The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-30
ALL SORTS.
= WHAT does every man thirst after?-
A red herring.

= WHAT does every man thirst after?-
A red herring.
A DEPRAvED punster says he shall
smoke if he chews too.
THERE is a publishing house at Stet-
tin, Germany, which has existed Tor
three hundred years. It is that of the
Hennenlands, which was established in
1917, and history of which has just
appeared.
EMIGRATION from California to Texas
Is noticeable. Lately numbers of people
have taken this course, and much stock,
especially sheep, is being moved across
the country to the east side of the
Rio Grande.
AN Ohio paper says President Hayes,
when he graduated at Kenyon College,
delivered his Grafton in a bOx-coat with
side pockets" What did he deliver it
there for? Was he trying to pocket his
bawl?
SAMUEL L. POsT, a wealthy stock
broker, has purchased Goods island,
near Newport, r. L, for $1,000. At
present the island is uninhabited, but the
new owner contemplates Transforming it
into q summer resort.
CHIEF JOSEPH and his savages came
across three Cinnamon the other day and
killed two of them tor mere pastime
aud recreation" The California white
man will hereafter have a higher opinion
of the Nez Perces Indians.
MRS. ELLEN FOSTER, a woman lawyer
of Clinton, Iowa, has been appointed by
| the district court one of the committee
! to examine candidates for admission to
the bar. It is safe to say that no woman
ever held such an Office as that before.
The Prussian officers who have Joined
the Russian headquarters speak in high
terms Of the friendly and hospitable re-
ception accorded to them. The car
has personally treated them with marked
distinction and asked them to dine at his
family table.
WE read that Mars will, on September
5, be only 100000 miles from the
earth. How to prevent collision on
that day between Mars and the fashion
able shirt collar is the problem now
agitating Richmond philosophers
ONE test Of great mind is its instan-
taneOus availability in great emergency.
The boy who can drop a paper bag OF
eggs on the sidewalk and pass on without
changing his gait, interruptiDg his
whistle or looking at what he has dropped,
!
f IT is estimated that coffee is used by
60,000,000 of the human family, tea by
, 500, 100000, opium by 400, 600, 900;
700, 000,0 900. A large proportion of the
, human family use Substances that are
either stimulants or narcotics.
In the police court.--Justice Ito &C
cused, charged with drunkenness)
! RIgt
= my part, l can't conceive how one car
! keep on drinking after he has quenched
his thirst" Accused: Chin, vel
honor, what else is there to tell a mar
from baste?"
An old portrait painter named Cooper
: was found dead at Martinsville, Indiana
: lately. He had always carried a rusty
: satchel about with him, and when it was
: opened last Sunday it was found to con
? tain $4,000 in United States bonds
I The public administrator wishes it to b.
. known that there are no heirs, but thu
a name of Cooper is not rare.
J, The Canadians are getting very anx
: ious to have a reciprocity treaty will
q this country. The cloth manufacturer
? are especially DESTROYS of finding
f market for their goods in the union
+ Since the hard times Canadian merchant
o have not sold so much to America
. visitors who formerly smuggled acros
4 the lines large quantities of goods pun
V chased in Canada.
e THOMAS PARR, the Englishman, VIII
d died at the age of one hundred anC
a fifty-two, after his death was subjected t
II a post norton examination by thu
celebrated DIR. Harvey, and every par
% of the body was found to be in a SCUM
n and healthy condition, especially tn
= stomach, bowels and alImentary ar
Il paratus, and he had every appearance G
q being able to indure at least anothe
" half centuary.
d THE Austin correspondent of tn
e. Galveston News complains that ther
9e have been long, continued and seriou
is frauds in the Texas land office, certificate
j, being surreptitiously distracted. II
Y. quotes an old attorney general of tn
he state as saying that there are 900 fol
to geries covered up in the Office, and say
ID that the widows and orphan children {
g. 1000 old time Texans have been swindle
out of their estates by land thieves
through forgery and fraud.