The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-08-28
PITH AND POINT.

THE man afraid of tramps has tied up
his dog and put up notice, " Laborers
Wanted, Boston Post.
IF yu want to git at the aktIal value
of a peakok,' - says Josh Billings, g buy
bob-tailed one. and then estimate on
! him.
''MY dear boy" said a careful Oil City
mother, ''it's raining to-day, so don't 90
in swimming or yoan get wet. oil
! city Derrick.
THERE is no tomorrow, say the philos
| ophers; but the Detroit Free Press SAYS
| the rule has an exception when YOU
promise your wife a new bonnet on that
! day.
IT destroys half the pleasure of a sum-
mer resort to hear q man eat soup at the
dinner table like the last few gallons of
water being sucked out of a bath-tub
by the waste Wheeling Sunday
Leader.
IT Is said that the editor of the Balti-
more Sun has the grandest mansion of
any newspaper man in America, but
none of the craft viii be Jealous. We
all know how much trouble it Is to keep
trees trimmed up and statuary mOpped
| off.-Detroit Free Press.
IT should reconcile the average reader
TO the intense heat which we are new
enduring to reflect that, without it, there
could be no corn. A hot summer means
an abundant corn crop, and plenty of
! that cereal will give the country cheap
whisky. Washington Post
A CONNECTICUT paper prints this as5
tonlshlng statement: - Friday, one of
our Selectmen, +. w. BartleH's OK, re-
ceived a severe cut in one of its fore feet,
/ by causing a scythe to fall, which was
| hanging on a tree under which he was
standing
. FEMALE BARRIERS" said Snodgrass,
repeating a paragraph announcement
he Just read in the paper, - don't be-
lieve in en- Why notP'' we asked.
Z" Because I remember what trouble
| Sampson got into by letting a woman
cut his hair.
| LAST year man patented fan which,
! fastened to the back of a rocking-chair,
was made TO work by the motion of the
chair. This year some one has fashion
ed fan whose motive power is the sew
| ing-machine; and next year we see no
reason why a combined fan and fly-brush
shall not be invented, to be attached to
| boarding-house tables and operated by
| the innate strength of the butter
| Louisville COuTier-JOUrHal.
! THEY were walking along the village
street, and they were newly welded,
| husband and wife. The ar was lnsuf
ferably hot, when he, looking at the
! signs "ice-cold soda - and ''lemOn
ice-cream,' - said: - Darling, ice is very
bad for the teeth; it ruins the enamel
| Then she took out her new set and put
ting them gently behind the tying post,
said: q Sweety, we win take all
the precautions and save all the en-
umel.n -
IT is pretty fair to test mans birth
and breeding to dine with him in a pub
| lie restaurant. If he bullies the walters
and generally revels in an air of lordly
authority, it is safe to say that he Is en-
| joying a luxury comparatively unfamil-
lar to him. The man who is born to
command will always be respected.
without any conspicuous effect on his
| part, by the people he employs. The
man to whom position of authority is
something new and abnormal may make
| his subordinates fear him; but that Is
all. A gentleman may stand on his
head habitually, and his interiors viii
not dare to venture upon an imperti-
nence; but shOddy, though encased in
! the triple brass of pOmposity, can not
| cheat the keen and certain valuation of
| the servants eye.-PUc6,