The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-05-02
FACTS AID FANCIES'
ImPIora Paers
AFrKR JOAQUIN MILLKa-

What Is the whole wide world TO me,
Isle of the Nor;hland' or vale Of the sun &
What Is the bref zs thst comes up from the SeAs
The scarlet popples that STUNT on the lea
What is It ali to a lie thai IS done =
for Is It life when the heart Is lead
when it lies like n bit oi clay in the srs sastf
Is il life when all sweet things are dead, -,
When laughter. and song, and music have fed
when in ali the world there is no Isat
In the land OF the snow. in the land of the vine,
have wandered and wandered through al The
1 have iaved in their torrents sn1 drank Of their
wine
have trodden the press of pain divine
And sung in their songs Of love sn5 miTth-
And yet. God! there is naught Of life
That can waken my heart from its living death
Nor clsmor nor Esiling minor OF strife
Nor kiss OF the su INNER with bloss0gH rife
Can waken my murdered heart In 20 oFeAin-
AMI better it were to sit down in the sun,
And sleep after tasks that we're WelI-begun,
Then wander the world as l have done,
And cry TO the winds to come snd SlaS
The best way to write spring poetry is
to take an axe and chop wood.
SoaE men are like chestnut burrs;
you must smooth them the right way or
you will get hurt.
CoMsfoDoRE VANDERBILT s widow, tits
said, is soon TO marry a southern gentle
man, who, it is inferred, is not seventy
six YeGrs old.
THERE will be a great chance for
American bonanza queens and the wives
of oil-struck husbands in Paris next June
or July. Ex-Queen Isabella of Spain is
to sell at auction 100000 worth OF
diamonds
A MAN who lost his good character
some time ago was severely hauled over
by some of his former friends. " know
it, boys, 1 know nv character is gone,
lost entirely. And" he added, rather
pointedly, " it's too confoUnded bad, for
it was the only one in the town worth
saving"
A LADY whose cook went to a wake
was given notice fortnight atterwaId
that she was going to be married. To
whom ?' asked her mistress. . Please
ma'am, to the husband of the corpse.
Why, does he love you 2" was the next
question. " Oh, yes, ma ana he fald l
was the light of the funeral"
FRIENDsHIPs are never completed
till men are bound TO each other by the
common experience of sorTow." Correct.
Men who never before exchanged more
than a nod in passing, will become sworn
friends and allies in common cause in
two minutes after they meet at the back
door of a saloon on Sunday morning, and
find it closed.
THE funny man of the Graphic must
be suppressed. He says that Edison has
invented a swaliow-tail coat that can be
used as boot jack. Bubbins read that
statement, and, on Sunday evening, when
a Rochester fruit-tree sgent called On
Bubbins' daughter, the old man thought
the youth wore that kind of coat, and
the result was painful in the extreme to
the young man.
THE family were discussing the play Of
Buffalo Bill the other evening, when
Grandfather Lickshingle said: YCu
can talk as you please, brit let your glan
father tell you that it requires histTiO1ic
talent till you can rest for a successful
assumption OF the title role of this finest
of all dramas in the English language.
Booth may do when an old played
out king is 10 be plugged in the
back with a cork knife, and then finished
of with poison. Mccullough can shut
his eyes and stab his little sickly daugh-
ter Virginia but I tell you when it
comes to standing out in the open stage
and shooting down ; whole troupe as
they make their appearance, not to men
tion lot of Injuns, hired for the oeca-
sion, who bite the dust before they know
what struck them, say when il comes
to this kind OF acting. there's no one ex-
cept Bison William who can rise to the
occasion.
A HEN, having laid an egg, was in
forming the universe OF the fact, when
a prolific Goldfish rebuked her for her
unEeemly eggotism. J." said the in
habitant o. the Vastly deep, lay in my
lifetime 768- -254, 922EE 1856 eggs, which, if
they came to maturity and we're Invested
at compound interest, would, in less
than four years, cover the habitable
surface of the earth TO depth of six
meters with Goldfish, and, in five, convert
the globe itself into one fshball, with
which it would be impossible TO give
bread" ''Well. why don't they then p
said the hen +" but, OF course, you know
nothing about the struggle for existence
and checks upon population, so, my good
sole--I mean cod you must excuse me
il decline to enter into argument with
vague theerist.' MCral--(There is nc
moral to the foregoing. In Boston it
would be called symposium bet"een
Rev. F. J. Cook and Mr.. Emerson. J.
New York World.