The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-06-20
FACTS AND FANCIES.

lead pencil, and finally finds it between
his teeth, don't lend him money--he Is
absent-minded.--l Keokuk Constitution.
A Coal HoD OF SILvER--Silver is 30
plenty in Hartford, Connecticut, that at
recent circus performance there almost
all the money taken in was of that metal
The circus c0mpany's treasurer had bill
of S400 to pay a railroad company for
transportation and sent the sum IN
coal hod-
GIVING 'EM FITS by an error of the
press, the London Eclectic Review was
advertised the other day as the Epilep-
tic Review, and on inquiry for 1t at a
booksellers shop the bibliopole replied
that he knew of no periodical called the
Epileptic Review, though there might be
such publication coming out by hts
and starts London Advertiser.
WHEN this happy.go lucky old world
is I23, ,OOO, 900 years old, abSnt twice a
week the newspapers will chronicle the
sorrows of another father and mother
who locked their children in the house,
and then went visiting, returning to ind
the house in ashes. And, by the way,
the children also Hawkeye.
WILL BE OvERwoRKED.-Says the
Hawkeye: The rice crop in the Phil
lippine Islal Is this year is a total failure.
This is depressing news to the boarder,
who, remembering how little rice 1t takes
to make five gallons of soup when crops
are abundant, will tremble to think OF
the amount OF Overwork that VIII be
forced upon one grain now.
TOWING BY SUBMARINE CABLB-A
Leipsic journal states that the remarka-
bic success attending the novel system
of river navigation. introduced for near
ly the whole length of the Elbe river, OF
towing boats by the aid of chain sub
merged in the channel. has led to its in
PRODUCTION upon all the tributaries OF
that river.
A CELEBRATED actress, whose fresh
smile and silver voice favored the decep-
ton, always called herself sweet six
teen" She stated her age as sixteen in
court as a witness Her son was directly
afterward called up and asked how old
he was "Six months older than
mother" was the honest reply.
A TRIUMPH FOR INsTINCr.-Says the
St. Louis Journal: When a man casual
Iy sits down on a lowly humble bees
nest, reason urges him to sit there till
he has squashed the animation out of the
vindictive occupant, but instinct wArns
him to keep an important engagement
elsewhere. This is one of those engage
ments when instinct invariably gets the
better of reason.
THE sad fate of Charley Ross has not
been in vain. Mr., Ross has examined
497 unknown and friendless waits in his
search for the lost boy. More than 800
of these boys, who had been drifting
homeless over the face of the earth, are
now provided with comfortable homes
through the publicity given their cases
by being mistaken for Charlie Ross.
AN IsLANDIN DANGER-The Toronto
Telegram says: In the event of war
Prince Edwasd Island would be in great
danger from Russian cruisers. All they
would require to do would be to tie q
hawser to the island and tow it out into
the ocean. This would seem to show
the desirability of the government tax
ing Prince Edward Island in every night
until all danger disappears.
SHE CONsoLED HIM." Now" they
say to her, you can go in and see him;
hut remember he is very sick with heart
disease, and don't say a word that will
trouble him" Then she walked in, sat
down on the edge of a chair, and remark
ed, cheerfully, az she shook her head:
" Ah-ah IN sad, amt it? Thought
I'd Jest run IN, cause they said there wuz
no knowin' how soon you might drop
off! "-l Graphic.
THE LAND OF OPHIR.-Capt. 4,
believes that he has discovered Il b.
Iical Ophir in Midian. He has / Ight
back from his recent expedition tV nty-
five tons of specimens, including al the
valuable metals, turquoise, alabaster
and sulphur. Everywhere he found
traces of old mining operations. abund-
ant indications of gold, and silver quartz
which readily yielded fifteen per centum
of silver.
AN editorial writer on the New York
Express says: " We are ali too busy to
read in a column what we might read in
a paragraph. The man or men who
would make & successful newspaper to-
day are taught for their first lesson the
great secret of cOnci-eness and condensa-
tioD Tire man who can turn a bright
is more read than the essayist
who writes learned articles, column
long, for the London Times"
THE woman who found her board In
the Stewart hotel, finds her bard in the
am monarch of all survey;
Ny right there is none tp dispute
! speak ana my mi ions obey,
But long for a masculine brute,
so called.
o. 80 olitu les charm" that the pen
Of the poets have warbIed sbouti
Better live IN a hOvel with men
Than dwell in palace without
any.
NJ. GUsTAvE DeRE's colossal vase, four
meters in height, Is now placed in the
Exhibition. It terminates IN a straight,
narrow neck, on the brim of which chill.
dren are seated. maintaining their equi-
librium with difficulty, being intoxicated
by the fumes issuing from the amphora.
The body and pedestal of the vase are
adorned by little bacchanalian figures,
men, women and children, fauns and
dryads, led by Silenus mounted on the
hack of a crocodile, and entangled in
flowers and foliage covered with butter
flies, mice, weasels and lizards also inter-
1t is strange, almost auda-
ciOns projection, but manifesting power
full originality. Every figure is study.
WHAT DIME NOVELS DID FOR A Boy
A Sullivan (Ind.) tramp of fifteen re-
turned home from two years absense,
during which time his parents have had
no iutimation of his whereabouts. Dime
novels started him of, but reality struck
him In the shape of a fever at New Or
leans, broken arm at Galveston. two
broken ribs at Houston, sn almost fatal
fall by being pushed from the Texas
freight train on which he was stealing 3
ride and an accidental pistol shot while
driving a herd of cattle across Indian
Territory. The youngster sold papers,
blacked boots, worked in a livery stable,
a theateT, a restaurant, cut timber for
ties and herded cattle. He carried his
only sisters photograph as his most sa>
cred treasure; and, strange to say, does
not chew, drink, swear, bet or gamble.
He thinks he has seen enough of the