The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-22
FACTS AND FANCIEs.


| The legislature of Delaware divorced
thirty-iour married couples at its recent
session.
DEBATING clubs are anxiously worry
ing themselves over the problem, which
has the most bones, s 50 corset or a so
cent shsd?
WE are ruined by English cheap
labor, the Buffalo Express thinks, bez
cause Colonel Mspleson took away
with him $50, 900, and ROwell $50, 600.
Mrs MONTAGUE once said to Sir
Willism Pepys, on seeing avery awkward
| man coming into the room, : There IS
man who would give enc of bis hands to
know what to do with the Other"
Ma. B. CHAMBERS Of the postottice
| department at Washington, writes that
| there are no fewer than fOuT thousand
women postmasters in the United states,
and that the number is on the increase.
a MAN, whose wife hanged herself IN
his presence, on being asked why he dlo
not prevent the tragedy, replied, l cut
her down three times last week, and L
can't be always cutting her down."
THE income of the widow of Lieuten-
ant Benner, the yellow fever hero, Is $500,
| derived from the fund raised for her
and invested in government bonds. She
| has also been given q comfortable home
in Elgin, Illinois.
THRY are building little stesmbost'st st
San Francisco for Honolulu, and her
owners has made its name the subject OF
riddle at the Hawaiian Islands, promS
| ising any one who discovers it before 1t
| is announced free passage on the vessel
| to any point on her route for one year.
AN Oil City boy who had run away
| from home, and at last returned, WAS
asked if his father had killed the fatted
calf for the prodigai " Not much" be
replied. He didn't kill the fatted calf,
| but he wanted to slay the pTodigal."
Mrs. JOHN SEYFERT, aged thirty
years. of Reading, has been sleeping
almost continuously for three months.
She arouses herself long toward midr
night, and partakes of q bite or two of
food, and then drops off to sleep again.
When 8 butcher sells a piece of meat
he lays it on the corner of an immense
sheet of coarse brown paper and rolls 1t
up, and then begins over again and rolls
| it up IN another sheet, and so on till the
purchaser is at q loss to know whether
he is paying for the meat or the paper.
EXTRACT from young lady's letter
- And do you know, Maud and l are
quite sure that Capt. POpple had taken
| far too much champagne at the ball, for
1 he took out his watch and looked hard
at the back of it and then muttered:
'B!esh my shoulI hadn't any idea it
was that time o night"
JAMES L. DUMPHREY, q Reading,
Vt, hotel keeper, on getting out of bed
in the morning, said that he would die
| before night. he made his will, dressed
4 L I. I -ol -, ha arTrf faH nd
| then reclined in an easy chair, with q
pipe and q bible, to prepare for death.
/ The astounding part of the story is that
he did die, an attack of heart disease
carrying him off
EsTHETIC enchantments: Lucy has
posed the little rustic model, and Mary,
Maud and Madaline sit, pencil in hand,
ready t. catch and transfer to paper the
| chiid's expression of WOndeTment aud
delight as it listens for the first time in
| its life to the murmur of the shell.
! Lucy: " Now, darling, put the pretty
| shell to your ear and hark to what 1T
savsl' Rustic Model: "Lor Is that
ali ! Why, q beer jug can do that"
| Il London Punch.
DR.. THOMPSON, taking for his text,
4" Look not upon the wine when it is red
| in the cup" enlarged upon the evil
| effects of drinking upon the head, heart
and purse. As the congregation depart
| ed, two old cronies, given to taking more
than q wee drop, talked over the sermon.
"Did you hear yOn, Johnnie ?" ne'er
wjnked an e'e." " Aweel, an what
thought ve OF ?'' eDsed, Davie, think
he has been a lad in his day, or he
couldna ha kne'd sac weel about it he's
been a sly hand, the ministerP
ALL of one long, happy hour mamma
had been reading TO the little ones, suns
day afternoon, aud talking to them shout
heaven and the angels, and showing
them pictures of angels with their snowy
wings. Suddenly Jack shouted " MO-
ther, when Pm an angel l want to be a
ShangL al V Shocked silence on the part
of the family circle, followed by the
explanatory cause by Jack: feathers
on NV Iegs YOU know" Mother dis
missed the little congregation without
the usual benediction.-[B Burlington
Hawkeye.
HEADLEss chickens are not un!Te-
uuently manufactured" by those acN
customed to handling game cocks. The
trick is done by cutting q slit IN the
skin of the neck near the head. The
skin is then drawn forward over the comb
and the bsak, and the result Is what
in sty-n out of a hundred people
wo I'D promptly pronounce a headiess
chicken. With proper care the fowl will
live many days af.er having been fOuily
treated, and the deception can be further
carried out by feeding with quill. The
trick became 80 common in New YORK
sporting circles, some years sgo, that
arrests we're made and fines imposed
under the lswpuniGhing cruelty to dumb
animals.