The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-05-16
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FACTS AND FANCIES.

THE bell punch noteth even the fall
of swallow.
A BAD man with some good qualities
keeps the devil happy month at
time.
Mrs. LOCKWOOD the lawyer of Wash
ington city, has made $20. 900 at the bar
IT is said that a Russian woman
doubts the affection of her husband when
he ceases the practice of beating her.
TIE latest definition of an indorseI
''He is a man who signs q commercial
philopena with his friend, and gets
caught"
TIE New Orleans Picsyune insinuates
that Lots wife looked back because there
was a woman behind her with new
bonnet on.
FIRST URCHIN-"W Wneu a doctor gets
sick, what makes 'em get another do3tor
to give 'em medicine ?" Second Urchin
-'"Cos they can't take their own mediN
cine; it's too nasty. They give it to
felix's"
JUNIOR CLERK" Would you permit
me to absent myself tomorrow TO attend
my fathers funeral ?" Head OF firm
(deep in fgures) =" You may go,
Hawkins, but do not let this happen
again"
{" WHY is it, my dear sir" said Wsffles'
Iandlady to him the otker day, =" that
your newspaper men never get rich :"
% don't know" was tine reply, except
it is that dollars and sense do not always
travel together"
YOU'VE girls do not understand the
witchery OF bright eyes and rosy lips,
but set off their beauty by all the artiti-
cial means in their power, never reflect
ing that by doing so they destroy their
principal chsrm--that of innocence.
LET a young gentleman and young
lady try the following scientific expert
ment A galvanic battery is set in mo-
ton, and while he takes one handle in
one Of his hands she takes the other in
one of hers. Then let them softly Kiss each
other. This brings out all the rewOrks
there are In two moving souls.
WHERE do potatoes come from p
asked a little fve-year~old. She was
told the usual thing. But where did
the rst one come from ?" she persisted
Her father said he didn't know. Then
she thought for a few moments and broke
out with: "Well, | suppose they made
a little 'teenty' one first, and planted it;
don't you, papa ?"
MY journal of Switzerland does not
mention what l we'll Tecollect, and
Wordsworth has well made the sub
iect of q sonnet, the continued bark
ing of dog, irTitated by the echo of his
own voice. In human life this Is per
petually oc -urring. II is said that a
dog has been known to contract an illness
by the continued labor of barking at his
own echo, and finally TO be killed by it.
- Crabb Robinson.
THE son of Napoleon I'LL, Prince Louis,
has inst entered on his twenty third
year. He can not exactly be called
Prince Imperial, for there is no French
emperor. 1t is said that an understand
ing was arrived at long since in the
British court, and with full consent of
the Empress Eugene, that the son of
tx e late emperor should be called, "a his
father was in his early exile, Prince
Louis Napoleon.
A JUROR in St Louis snored so loudly
that he awoke The judge, and the latter
was so indignant that he fined him SO
and sent him ont OF the box, after which
the case was adjourned, the defendant re-
fusiDg to proceed with only eleven jurors.
Scoring, accordingly, is contempt of
court, unless the Judge does it himself:
so that about the only thing the average
Juror knows how to do well is taken
away from him. Buffalo Express.
AN agricultural paper gives several
directions chow to tell a good egg"
They are not altogether satisfactory,
however. The quickest and surest way
to tell good egg is to place it in one
hand and mash it with the other. IF
an odor arises that leads you to believe
that a bone boiling establishment and
Limburger cheese factory have telescoped,
the egg is not good and you want to
throw it away and wash your hands
This method never fails.