The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-07-18

AS thro' the fields we rov'd.
Yes, lie then seemed one pure delight,
Though now each spot looks drsaI
Yet tho thy smile be lost TO sight,
To mem'Ty thou art dear,
To nlem'Ty thou art dear.
MIGRATING birds go in a direct line
from north TO south, and never take
their course from east 10 west or west 10
east,
The person who bet on Mccarthy says
it Is a we'll known scientific fact that 4
man Is shorter at night than he is in the
morning.
The height of poIiteness is passing
round upon the opposite side of lady.
while walking with her, in order not to
step upon her shadow.
WORK is snecessary to success. Even
if it should be your good fortune to have
1t rain q pOttage, you weuld have to hold
oHt your dish or go emgty.
1HEY met; that is, she went 10 the store
And made him turn his department Ger,
Till he vanished behind the goods. and then
She pleasantly said she would call again
The poor man out West whose wife
dealt him triplets the other day, looked
at them glOOmilv and exclaimed: "Three
of a kind and nothing in the pot; just
my luck r'
PROFESSOR" Can you multiply to-
gether concrete numbers 2" The class
are uncertain. Professor" What will
be the product of five apples multiplied
by six potatoes ?' Freshman (tTiumph-
antly)-" Hash"
''I SHOULDN'T think there would be
such word as breakfast remarked
young Iinguist to his neither the other
morning. "Why not, dear % asked she
Because, ma" replied the boy, sit
amt natural. Things never break fast
they break loose"
ROBERT BOYLE believed that the
sound Of q drum made of VOLTS skin
would break another made OF sheepskin,
aud that harp strung with ioX-gut
strings, would make hens fly away. His
philosophical writings and even those of
Lord Bacon abound in suPerstitiOns of
this kind.
COLLEGE professor (to junior who has
been taking advantage of his absent
Iaindedness) "YOurg man, ! find on
looking over the records that this makes
the fifth time in two years that you have
been granted leave of absence to attend
your grandmother funeral. y Harper's
Bazaar.
THE promises of Jesus are not to us
like the Iegscies of one long dead they
are not the words merely of a great
philosopher, like the GIecian sage,
whom death hss severed from all personal
contact with our modern life. They are
the assurances Of living and present
though unseen friend and, when 70
accepted, they are full of power VIM.
NJ. Taylor.
THERE is no ridiculous nonsense about
the honest DeadwOOdians. The most
vigorous waltzer at a dance there last
i L. III l. & - I L
cause he had a stage coach to rob at ] =.
What a rebuke this is to our giddy,
procras'inating, self-indUlgent vOtaries
of pleasure That man is bound to rise
even if the Whole community have to
pull oD the rope.
THERE is on either side of the equa-
tor zone OF perpetual flies. Farther
north is the zone of migratory flies,
while still farther north is the happy re-
eion where flies are unknown. Il is in
contemplating the distribution of flies
that we perceive why the EsquimauI
cling 70 their frozen home. Superficial
d rrsOns have often asked why don't the
Esquimax leave'the Arctic regions and
come south 10 q comfortable climate?
Mrs. LANGTREY, the reigning Londen
beauty, did a spirited thing the other
day. In the midst Of an admiring cir
Gle she asked her husband TO introduce =
certain well-kn0wn gentleman. He did.
The gentleman felt fatteTed, smiled and
bowed. d" want yOu," said the beauty,
giving him her handkerchief, 81 want
you to wipe off paint from my face, as
hear you say at the clubs that ] am
painted"
EVERY fool does not sport diamond
ring. There are not rings enough to go
round. Nor is every man who wears
diamond ring fool. But it does seem
as if all the biggest fools are sure 10 have
a diamond ring. The diamOnd-ring fool
is not content with flashing his treasure
in the envious faces of the public
Nothing less than writing bis name Oa
the car windows-on the hotel mirrors
Oh every available glass furface--will sat
jsiy him.
TNE wIFE's EoLILoQUY.
Time was when much he loved me;
WDen we wal kEd out, ct close of day, inhaie
The veTnal breeze, and get some ice-cresm
At Ms. Browns, scented with vanilla