The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-30
SHAKsPEARE's chair sold at auction in
England, recently, for 1928.

Asst were thy breast.
SHAKsPEARE's chair sold at auction in
England, recently, for 1925.
THE communist wants to earn his
bread by the sweat of some ether fellow
brow.
THE New York Times says that the
idea of teaching every girl to thump s
/ piano and every boy TO be q book-keeper
/ will make potatoes worth 81 per bushel
in twenty years from now.
Two Ostriches, harnessed to a wagon,
can pull a load of a thousand pounds,
and all the care they need is pail of
water, two or three old bones and hOd
of brick. Send in your orders early.
IT has been decided by eastern doctors
that it isn't the surf bathing nor the
mineral water which does 8 fashionable
young lady good, but it's getting a good
square meal three or four times per day.
SOME men can never take a Joke.
There was an old doctor who, when
asked what was good for mosquitoes,
can tell unless I know what ails the mos
quito ?"
IF the car wishes to perfectly ami
diers with firearms supposed to be
empty" They do more damage nova
days than any other weaPon.-PhtIddet-
lDIliG Bulletin.
PERsLANs can borrow a cooked ham
for the family table, and when it is re-
turned the dealer weighs it and charges
for the amount that has been used. The
plan wouldn't work in this Yankee land,
the borrower would fill the hollow bone
with shot and make out that the dealer
owed him for two pounds and quarter
of meat Worcester Press.
TWELVE HUNDRED persons are en-
plOyed in the New York city posJofice,
of whom only four hundred and eighty
two were appointed by Postmaster James.
Charles Forester, head of the register
ing department, has been fifty years in
the office, and there are a large number
of employees who have served thirty,
twenty-five and twenty years. The
postoffice has twelve branch Offices and
four hundred and twenty-nine letter
carriers.
ONE cent on the dollar is the settle
ment which John F. Chamberlain, the
fashionable gambling house keeper, of
Washington and Long Branch, has made
with his eighty-One creditors. The
debts included those of gambling, his
personal, household, and every manner
Of bills. Other claims are pending
against him by August Belmont and the
Lorillards for purses on races.
AN actual Philadelphia advertisement
ga refined gentleman, who does not use
tobacco in any form, but does have family
prayers and vocal blessings at table, with
a genteel wife (nOne others in their
family), can have five or six rooms,
partly furnished; every convenience,
undeTdrainage, water on each floor, and
give table board to two ladies for rent
our superior house girl can be retained,
if wanted"
PERHAPS one of the most cruel things
ever said was contained in Foot's advice
to the duke of Norfolk of that day. On
a masquerade night his grace consulted
the famous actor as to what character he
should appear in. Don't go disguised"
said Foot, "but assume q new character
go sober" It was the successor of the
duke Of Norfolk in question who con-
suited Abernethy for some ailment, and
was asked whether he ever tried the rem
edy of a clean shirt COyRhW Magazine
THE travs-Atlantic sparrow gets the
notice from the Boston Adver-
tiser: " All our little American young
sters are harassed by the savage EDgliCh
pest, which makes up in pugnacity and
what it lacks in size. 1t is
driving them away, and giving in its
stead its own Untuneful cries and the
chatter of its constant pickering under
our windows. 1t is prolific to marvel,
and if delicately favored, as in the past,
willsoo suggest the frogs OF Egypt.
Ara New Orleans hotel bar an eager
was pending 'twixt various
generals, majors, etc, when a quiet iel-
low observed, q happened to be there,
gentlemen, and possibly may be able to
re 'resh your memories" ThereuPOn he
proceeded to give a succincU account
Of a small action. What might have
been your rank, sir?" asked the hotel
keeper. " l was a private" About to
start the next day, he demanded his bill.
50 Not cent, sir; not a cent. You're
the first private / ever met
QUESTIONS of importance by four
year-eld: "How do they get our souls
out of our bodies when we die--cut 'em
out ?" q Why don't we see the yellow
embelopes the telegTaphs come in goin'
long the telegraph wiresi If the
Bible calls bad old folks goats, bad chill
II
late for me to have a twin brother ?"
i'Any rate, me and Billy Green is twin
cousins, amt WEI" "Tf you was me
when you was a man, would you drive
hearse or Join a circus2"
THE indianapolis Sentinel says quite
B dramatic scene occurred at a Rockville
meeting last week. A
tramp who had been notified to leave
-
gan to speak TO the utter amazement of
the audience His outward appearance
was so hopeless that when he betrayed by
his perfect rethoric and eloquence the
evidence Of a fine education, his hearers
we're astOnished. The people were 50
delighted with the speech of the poor
fellow that be was invited to speak the
next night, and a subscription was taken
10 for his benefit. IN early days he
studied in the Office of Terre Haute law
yer, and he was on his way to that place
n search Of employment.
A MAN out on West Hill was grievousIy
.ormented with a Thomas cat And he
determined to slay the same. So he
saught the cat, put it in his basket, coy
sred it with a board, intending to sit
1own on il, intending to ill the bucket
With water, and thus drown the 7. {.
But as he sat down, the active prisoner
pushed away the board, and when the
nan arose and saunSered into the house
10 look for the "extract of witch hazel" 4"
he could not tell whether he had set
DOWN on a stove lid, or merely slid down
4 shellbark hickory tree and lit in a goose
berry bush. And that night, a worn,
man, lying on his face trying to
ileep, sighed as he listened 70 the mock.
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