The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-06-28
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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.



| Tbs summer bright. the summer fair.
! The summer, sweet, serene, disClOsts
In all its realm Of riches
| No other bloom that can compare
| With JUues delicious roses.
Springs cloudy days and summer heats
! Come when life only Cr0PSs sad pTOses,
But life is TeiO2cnt Of sweets
/ When poetry the spirit greets
/ And sCatters sweet June roses
| Lies June-what shall we call those hours
In which the soul. serene, Tsposss7
Their bloom dispeiiug gloom that lowers.
Cottage IIsa,fh.
| English cockneys talk about the
I" R0osun harmy hon the Janube, you
! Inaw."
RED HOT times may soon be expected
! in Sing Sing. The cODyicts are going to
making stoves
A CHUNK of the Giants Causeway,
| three feet high ard twenty inches thick,
| costs SO delivered at Glasgow.
/ THE mosquito has arrived at the
| watering-pIaces. Same old lOOk-same
! bite.
| New JERSEY Is said to offer strangers
| a better shake of the ague than Arkan-
sas can ever hope tC turn out.
] How is it that most any man can jump
out of bed on a dark night and put his
! hand on the matchbox the first time
trying.
THE Cincinnati school board didn't de-
eide to " repair and erect a new building"
| though one of the members proposed it.
THREE New Hampshire men met their
/ deaths last year by falling on Pltch-tOrks.
| One can't be too careful about where he
| falls these times
! a WOMAN at Elizabeth, New jersey,
| has 900 receipts for making hOrse-lini-
| ments and salves and yet she never owned
even q clothes horse.
! A New YORK state tramp was throw
! ing stones at a train of cars when an en-
! CINE came along and divided him into
sixteen pieces and bunch OF bones
The presidency of a life insurance
company has its SORROWS. 1t takes an
| official 50 long to count over his salary
| that he has no time to go a-tiSbinC.
| BosToN isthreatened with new paper,
| to be called the New Departure and
| C0lored Progressive Democrat, and to be
! edited. as the Post phrases 1t, by - a col
cred citizen of Boston. "
THE Mexican government doesn't
/ care to see a regiment of Yankee cavalry
qalloping DER its sacred soil in search of
gore, aEu Will Ihdho du 'iloAI ~ SN1A'N' y
! itself.
No icweler can half appreciate the
| beauty of handsome woman who sits
on the opposite side of the car. He is
wondering whether her red jewelry Is
coral or wax.
CLOTHES don't make the man, but
/ some of the wOrst-lOokinT old smoked
| hams ever held out to the American pub
lie are covered ina way to make mans
| mouth water.
A MAN who shot New York lawyer
| began to prosper right away. Lands,
who shot a New Jersey editor, lost his
! property, his wife got divorce, and lie
| is fast becoming a lunatlc.
A CHARMING young lady OF the
Washoe valley has many admirers. One,
greatly infatuated, and somewhat eNas-
nerated that he could never selZe an op-
portunitv to speak to her alone, at length
proposed to her plumplv in the presence
of one of the enemy. He was accepted,
and. overioyed at his success, at once
invited the other young man to act as
groomsman at the wedding. lie de-
cIined.
A CLERK in the Allegheny, Penn, post
office brought down his hand-stamP upon
4 letter which he supposed to contain
garden seeds. Instantly there was loud
| explosion and a clerk ghastly pale. With
an utter disregard of the department reg
ulations the envelope had been filled with
paper caps for toy pistols.