The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-02-20
FACTS AND FANCILS.
. NEW broom sweeps dirt.


ready eniven the young mining town Of
Bodie, Cal.
FRoN the debris of their coal mines
France makes annually 100000 tons
Of excellent fuel, snd Belgium a00, ,o0e
tons.
MORE timber is used under ground In
the ComstOck lode thSn hiss been en-
ployed in the construction of San Fran
cisco.
"CATALoG " Is the way in which the
Library Journal spells it, the word re
mnding one of his bob-tan brother,
program"
If the characters of all our young men
stood SIS high as their shirt collars, the
community would present better aspect
than it dOea.
CORNER loafers New Orleans PiOsyune
proposes to utilize by labelling them
with the names of the streets they intest,
for ths convenience of strangers.
Dc you really, truly, love me,
More than any Eirl you knSE?
Well then, hug me just 8 httle'
II you must betOre you go
Bold your arms around tighter,
have you never huggsd betoFe2
Draw ne ysaTsT, draw me closer
Cant YOU hug ms any moIer
-HDkG GGzs7s-
NOBODY seems to know what becomes
of the bumble-be in winter, but they
are ON deck and ready to be set down on
as soon as the fret baretOOted boy ap-
psars.
TIE NorristOwn Herald indicates its
belief in the oriental origin of man by
stating the well-known fact that both
the poppy and the mummy come from
the east.
IN Kantucky, when q mule gets so
lazy that he won't wsrk more than nine
or ten hours a day, they trim his ears
down and sell him to Chicago man for
carriage horse.
TEMPERANCE societies have1Stely been
formed in Hanover and GOttingen, with
a view, not sf preventing the use OF beer,
but of reducing its consumption TO mod
crate nTOpOrti1ns.
IH the cars which stood on the track
at Erie, snoWbound for tour days, there
were nine tons of silver bars and $780,
0e0 IN gold coin belonging to the gov
ernment Not dollar was Lost.
"YoUR Late husband, madame" began
her Awyer. Yes, know he was al
ways late out O nights, but now that he's
dead don't let Us uphraid him, said his
charitable widow.
A -FOUR YEAR OLD girl, left alone
with an infant in Urbana, o., said to the
mother on her return: Oh, oaby's all
broke The baby was dead, having
fallen from the little girls arms and had
its NECK broken.
THE pIumsar came down Ike wolf on the fold,
his plck u ueJp Isd q With ,Glder gold,
and to1 four mortal hOUn he 'aae love 20 me COOK
nd S-veutreR ~'uaTr were ehATBen up in the book.
- BkSsItug LsaaET-
O EEs Kz are As murmurs of the maiden talking
!. hen Ihe viols.s are blooming and the starr are
But s@es tsT tnsn her murmurr, the robin in the
Is the 1oiOe that say warbles PTithee set them
Hartford JsHrnaL.
History, modern and ancient, show
that q party OF fishermen may start of
and forget their bait or some of their
tackle, but the quart bottle containing
medicine" in case one of the number
is bitten by q shark or sea serpent, or
an allis atOr, is never, never left behind.
AN Irishman, in describing America,
gaid = am t Id that you moIght roll
England thru it an 1t wouldn't make
dirt In the ground there's tresh- wsteT
oceans inside that ye mOight dround
old Ireland in; an as tor Scotland,
We moight stick it in q corner and ye'd
niver be able to find it out except it
might be by the smell OF viii KY"
A PLAIN-gP0KEN woman recently
visited a married woman and said to
her: How do you manage to amuse
yourselfT' Amuse," said the other,
a don't You know thai have my house
work to do ?" Yes" was the answer,
81 see that you have it to do, but as 1t is
never done ] conclude you must have
some way OF passing the time"
"PooR Herbert How / wish you
did not have to slave so at that horrible
store from morning till nightl sald his
wife as, with iond caress, she seated
herself on her husband's knee, and gently
stroked the auburn locks from his sloP-
ing brow. And the grave, stern man OF
business understoOd her st once, and
answered Well, Susie, what Is lt-a
bonnet, or what? Go light on me for
money is sCaroer'n ever"
THE crew Of a shipwrecked vessel was
lately killed and eaten by the blacks on
the coast of Queensland, Australia The
bodies of two of the men were found ID
| an oven on the mainland opposite klDg's
! Reef. on which the vessel struck. The
| faatrIres of the men were unrecOgnizab BILE,
| the skulls being smashed in and parts of
| the flesh being removed; but traces OF
| paper, clothing, etc, in the neighbor-
! hood of the camp lett no doubt as TO
| their identity
A MAN gave a vest into his Wiie's
hands to be repaired, and when he came
hom. to dinner she showed him three
pencil stubs, piece OF chalk, four watch
| KEYS. nineteen mat, hes, Elk pant and
! four coat buttons, a receipt tor making
milk punch, q buckle, blank lottery
| ticket, q small handful of cloves, part OF
a roll of lo8anges, three seat coupons to
/ a Iast-winter's lecture, a poker chip and
a chew of gum that had slipped down
into tne lining OF the vest thrOu'h hole
In the pocket. 1t wss the most startling
discIogure the man had seen Tor many q
day.
IT is said that Franklin's appearance
at yersailles in a plain suit OF dTab cloth
| was, like so many other notable cir
cumstances, accidental, his court suit
not arriving in time, and the king send
ing to tell him To come as be Was. be
this IS it may, there seems to be evidence
I to show that he subsequently appeared
In a black velgeL embroidered cUat, and
a small sword, and the portraits taken d
him in France point to his dressing
handA mely. One, by Greuze, represe d :
hum In a green silk dressing gown, edgeo
with fur, and a light cOIOTed satin WaisI'
coat and frilled shirt