The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-07-04


Come between my love and your nigh majesty.
ION City Derrick.
EVERY man Is free moral agent, and,
in addition, there are book agents.
OUT in the Black Hills TIE jack
rabbits are called narrow-gauge mules.
VAT a monster language" says
Frenchman. Here / read in re news
papers Eat man commit a murder. who
was committed for trial and zen commit
ted himself to a reportair. No wonder
every yzing in America is done by COM
mitee."
AL the discoveries made within the
last century were ridiculed and treated
with contempt by our iorefathers; yet
we are equeally preiudiced and hostile
to all these improvements proposed to
US, which will in all probability be
adopted by our children.
OK sultry Sunday morning the pas
tors little girl, OF nearly three summers,
became wearied at the length of the ser
mon, and in a low tone OF voice, but very
earnestly, said, to the great amusement
OF those who sat near, Come. papa;
that's enough. Let's 90 home"
ARISTOTLE laid It down as a maxim
''that all inquiry should begin with
doubt" Whenever, then, we meet with
mysteries beyond our feeble compreheE-
sion, would it not be more rational to
doubt the very faculty we are employing
the capacity of our reason itself?
Why is the hen immor-
tai? Because her son never sets. F-St.
Louis Glebe-DemOcrat. Wrap its little
pen around it fold its humor on its
breast; since we know the Globe has
found 1t, let US give that Joke rest.
Aged sixty-fye years st. Louis Jour
nal
SHE (bewitchingly)-"Oh, I'm so glad
you are going TO see me to my carriage,
Mr.. Brown :" He (fiattered1 :" Indeed
And may / ask why2" She-"Oh, be-
cause the girls are so jealous, and want
to prove that do not monOpolize all the
good looking men,
ADVERSELY exssperates fOols, defects
towards. draws out the faculties of the
wise, puts the modest woman to the
necessity of trying her skill, awes the
Opulent, and makes the idle industrious.
Much may be said in favor of adversely,
but the woTs. of it Is, it has no friends.
WHAT is the difference - said she,
" Between The moon and you >
'' cannot tell, my treasured one,'
said he. with intTest Le9.
The difference ia this" said she,
With satire Of Junius
II Yonkers Gazette.
A LADY addicted to novel-reading was
so forcibly struck by a passage which
alluded to the neglect of children and the
sad consequences, that she exclaimed,
without lifting her eyes from Ler book,
Henrietta, where Is your little sister 2'
Down stairs, mother" &" Well, my
dear, run right down, see what she is
doing and tell her to stop Immediately"
The maternal mind was relieved
IF Adam could for ten minutes come
to life, would he recognize the old place,
the same old city lots, the same old lem
ons, oranges, figs, elephants, snakes, dan
deliOns, lie plant, peanuts, sassafras and
persimmoDs that he used to name up
and chalk down All would he gone.
He would recognizs naught. But if he
happened TO wander into the negro min
strels, he would hear tie same old joke.
A STORY they tell in Europe An
American lady, while at Rome, managed
to secure an invitation To a court ball,
and while there was approached by
Prince Humbert-now kiBg-who adj
dressed her some polite speech. She did
not rise as IS etiquette, but, pointing
with her fan to a vacant chair near,
won't you set down and rest your trOtters
awhile p
A LADY from Excelsior, Mich, re-
Gently related her experience in shoe
| ing hens" The object is to prevent
their scratching. She makes a boot, or
stocking, of stout cloth. and ties il on
the feet. Then the fowls are let loose
! into the garden and fields, and they kill
| off the insects, but do not iDjure the
crops in the least. 1t is amusing TO see
| them walk, as though they were treading
on eggs, al first. but they soon become
accustomed to it.
IL relation to fast setting under diff
eulties, the following story is told by au
old compositor: You may talk about
setting up type in a rush and making
| tast time, but when was young and my
! fngers were nimble and my elbows lin
/ Der. 7 used to be counted g pretty good
oomPositor. 1 Iemember cns night Ia
particular when / set thIes THOUSAND
/ ems an hour out Of bag by moonlight,
and had to tsfe every letter to the win.
dow to see what it wss."
4 THANKFUL MINIS rER-The hal
was passed round in certain American
congregation for the purpose of taking
I up a collection. Alter IL had made tn
! circuit of tse church it was handed ID
| the minister, who had exchanged pull
| pits with the regular preacher, and h
| fonnd not a penny in 1T. He inverte
the hat over the pulpit cushion an
shook il, that its emptiness might be
| known, then looking toward the ceiling,
he exclaimed with great feIvor, 81 thank
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