The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-02-13
WAITS AND WHI0Is.
BEFnRF TIE RAIN.

BEFORE THE Rain.
We knew 1t would rain, for all the morn
spirit on slender ropes of mist
Was lowering its golden buckets down
Into the vaPery amethyst
Of marshes aud swamps and dismaI Tens;
SeooPing the dew that lay in the flowers
Dipping the jewels out Of these
To sprinkle them over the land in showers.
We knew it would rain, for the poplars showeI
The whites of their leaves the amber grain
shrunk in the wind and the lightning now
Is tangled in tremulOus skeins of rain.
There is man in the moon, and
man and woman in the honey ymoon.
A hint to ladies who viii wear out
side pockets: Have your purses made
up to look like er-bOoks.
A dry goods clerk of Shelbyville.
Ill, has swallowed % cartridge, walks
on tiptoe, and is not in demand at balls
as partner.
Credit is like looking glass, which
when only sullied by a breath may be
wiped clean again; but if once it is
cracked it is never to be repaired,
When we get money orders down to
five cents, IS has been proposed by bill
introduced in Congress, most anybody
ought to be able to get money to send
away. .---..-
.Muskrat farming is a rural industry
in Iowa. a good pond or marsh well
stocked yields profitable return after
tive years, the trapping being done in
winter.
1t stands every msn in hand to ex~
anime himself carefully and satisfy him
self that he has not been shipped in a
barrel 10 some medical college Hun,
dreds have been.
..LO, the collector climbs the shaky
stairs, comes in and takes his victim
unawares-"Ah,I I regret I'm not pre-
pared to pay that little biIl-call round
some other day"
1t is all very well to have "a place
for everything" but no man in authority
can hope "to enjoy true happiness unless
he has a place for everybody" with
good salary attached.
.Snodkins (who is eseorting a meek
msiden to her hOme): Haven't we got
most to your house?" Meek maiden:
90 dear no, Mr.. SnOdkins. We passed
my house an hoIr ago"
When a young man has learned to
consume cigarettes in an artistic manner
by ejecting the smoke through his nos
trils, life is no longer barren ideality,
but as real as bar of soap.
-" There is nothing impossible, " ex-
claimed a man who was discussing EIi>
sons achievements. That man, to find
out how egregiously he is mistaken, has
only to attempt to cut his own hair.
.."What makes dogs mad?' asks an
exchange. Boys. 1t makes a dog mad
as a wet hen the minute he sees a boy
with q tin can in one hand and a string
in the other looking for something to tie
them to.
-" How was the world made ?' is being
discussed in scientific magazines. We
werL there, but we suppose they got all
the subscriptions they could raise along
the survey, and then bonded the rest
Of the work and pushed it through.
My son, wouldst have notoriety
Publish thou an almanac. Wouldst
have great knowledge? Learn what
others forget. Wouldst have wealth
Either become an undertaken, a plum
Der or an Indian agent New York
Graphic
Puck thinks that a man can live
more economically during this cold
weather, for nothing short of absolute
necessity could induce a woman to get
out of her warm bed in the middle of
one of these nights and rife her hus
bands pockets.
81 am convinced that the world is
daily growing better" remarked a rev.
erend Aberdeen gentleman to a brother
minister; " my congregation is continu-
ally increasing. g Curious, replied
the other, who happened to be a Peni-
tentiary chaplain, g for 50 is mine. "
Little Laura was tired and sleepy
on new years night, when she prepared
for bed, and forgot to say her " now lay
me-" and in apology to her mother for
the neglect said, as she tugged away at
her little stockings: & couldn't 60 to
heaven t0~night mamma, any way for
the world, tos I'm too tired"
One day at the Caie de Foy one of
the leading nOtaries of Paris was CRITICS
ing severely the conduct of Marshal Mar
mont, when gentleman at an adjoining
table with a moustache like a shOebruah,
arose and cried: "Sir-r, yCu shall
account to me for those wordsI" you
are Marshal Marmont?" "I have not
that honor, but am his senior aide-de-
camp" % Very well, sir my head clerk
will meet you when and where you
please"