The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-05-31
FACTS AND FANCIES.

FORTUNE does not change men; i
only unmasks them.
J BRIGHAM Young says: Ny mar
! risg5 with Ann Eliza was foolish thing.
! It was thing that l allowed her parents
10 persuade me into. l did it for her
good.
The difference between happiness and
wisdom Is, that the man who thinks
! himself most happy Is so, while he VINO
! thinks himself the most wise is generally
the reverse,
The newly elected president of the
| Cincinnati school board said, g would
have preferred that this honor had fell
on some other member" and they gave
him a grammar.
ONE can not De too careful this
weather. A swell exchanged his heavy
winter cane for light bamboo, and the
! consequence was a severe cold that lald
/ him up for week.
! THE first time a man Is interviewed he
| tells you family that he doesn't see what
/ his opinion is worth ana then he smiles
as if he had put on too much mustard
! N y Herald
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good, bad or Indifferent; nothing good,
| for that is vanity; nothing bad. for that
! is saffectation; nothing Indifferent, for that
is silly.
They who, when about to marry, seek
their happiness in the mere gaining OF
fortune and personal beauty, eylnce
heartless disposition, and their folly Is
often punished in their success.
SHERIFF HOLMES, who was shot
through the bead at Trinity Texas, the
Itth uIt., while attempting ITO arrest
Captain McGee, late of Indian territory,
died the 10Th nit MCGEE is at large.
STRAws swim upon the surface, but
pearls lie at the bottom. Snowy parts
strike every common eye, but solid ones
are only to be discovered by the most
accurate observers of the human head
and human heart.
Mary persons when they find them
selves In danger of shipwreck in the
voyage of life, throw their darling vices
overheard, as other mariners do, only to
fish them up again after the STERN Is
over.
The last words in the new French die
tionary is "zigOmanique," signltylng
man with his facial muscles so organized
as to produce a permanent grin. This Is
regarded as a deformity, for man may
smile and smile and be a william.
II is a great misfortune to have fret
fuI disposition. 1t takes the fragrance
out Of ones life, and leaves only weeds
where a cheerful disposition would cause
flowers to bloom. Tho habit OF fTetting
is one that grows rapidly unless 1t he
sternIv repressed ; and the best way To
overcome it is to try always 10 look on
the cheerful side of things.
DELIBERATELY workers are those that
accomplish the most work In gwen
time. and are less tired at the end of the
dav than MANY who have not accom-
plished half as much. The hurried
worker has often to do his work twice
over. and even then it is seldom done IN
the best manner either as to neatness or
durability. 1t is the deliberate and
measured expenditure of strength which
inviCOrates the constitution and buuds
ZIP the health.
II Is rumored that Richards Grant
White can't spell. He himself says:
" | have not the highest respect for spell
ing: ] don't take it CO heart. To be
sure, uniformity of practice IN this re-
sUeCt Is desirable, but a lack of strict con
formity to the received OrthOgraPhy OF
the time Is not matter of such grave
importance that an occasional lapse from
it should fill any one with shame or be
made the occasion of ridicule."
They Go TOGETHRR.--h citizen en-
tered a saloon and called for cigar. The
barkCeper handed out the box, and
cigar was selected, but the customer did
not appear to be very much pleased with
It. - Where's the beef?' he inquired.
% Corned beefw the barkeePeT repeated.
d" Why. what do you want with that?"
" Well" was the response, corned beef
and cabbage always go together. I've
got the cabbage here" Indicating the
Cigar " and ought to have the beef TO
match it."