The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-03-13


deer is the bucks kin.
BIRDS sre not noted for courage, but
many of them die game.
IN every human countenance Is either
6 history or prophecy.
THE vigorous idea keeps wsrm though
wrapped in few words.
al hope 1 see you well, /" as the buck
ct said when it touched the water.
OVER 81 ,009 was used in stocking the
rivers of New Jersey with fish last year
THE pancake is like the orbof day, be-
cause it rises in the yeast snd sets IN the
vest.
THE greatest difficulties are always
found where we are not looking for them.
-GGoethe.
DIFFERENCE is the most complete, the
most direct, and the NEST elegant Of all
compliments.
"MAMAIA," said 8 little girl on her
fifth birthday, "what time to day shall
be born 7''
THERE is real lOge just as there are
ghosts every person speaks OF it. few
persons have seen it.
HOWEVER old q fellow grows, he sl-
ways likes to stop and inspect the vslen-
tines in the shop windows.
AN ingenious web of probabilities is
the surest screen man can place be-
tween himself and the truth.
1 DESIRE no other glory than that of
having completely performed the task
imposed upon me- Napoleon.
DKNIs KEARNKY To THK PRBsIDRET.
If it's thrue We afraid
To sOign the bill indade,
Yen be doin' as the divil may have bid yei
But the cause shan't be Dethrayeo
I'll inmsjetly secade
And take the State of Californay Wild me-
THEY that can give up essential HbeE-
ty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
A POUND of energy with an ounce Of
talent will achieve greater results than
pound of talent viii with an ounce of
| energy.
LET q young man be petted by his
mother, and furnished all the spending
money he wants by his father, and it's
only q question of which pooT-house he
will die in
TRUST him little who praises sll him
| less who censures all and him least of all
who is Indifferent about all in short
don't trust anybody at all.
PHYSICAL. culture has been greatly
overrated. Athletes are mostly fools:
a few dozen of invslids regularly do the
worlds most important work.
A FRIEND, apologizing for another, re-
marked, &c He is very reserved in man
uers." Very" was the reply, I" so
much 30 that they are rarely seen."
KINGSLEY says the love of man for
woman, when sanctifed by religious
feelings, is the greatest of all forces that
] - Fo- uorfrH Or fT1TiuIdnGl rroad
"BoB, by sitting on that side of the
hoIse-csr, you are missing sll the sights
on this" Never mind, Harry, Pm
sighting ali the misses on this side"
No matter how pious men are, the
moment they place policy before pTinci-
pie they become incapable OF doing right,
and are transformed into the most odious
tools OF despotism.
THAT the soul is harmony is doc
trine which has always had q wonderful
attraction for me, and, when mentioned,
came back to me at once SIS my own
original conviction.-F Plato.
THERE are very few sermons preached
which better sum up the whole matter
than the little speech of the little boy
who said: 81 want to grow good and
gooder every day of my life. Amen"
A wIDowKR of sixty-fve, with eountennnce serene,
Unto the marriage altar leads miss of sweet six
The priest steps down, in stole and gown, with
And to the q font" without a word, he leads the
! blushing pair.
Z" Why bring US here7' the groom inquiries. The
sober priest reples,
thought that thee ha brought to me this infant
70 baptize."
AN eastern schooner had among Its
crew two daughters of its captain, and
it is said that they do their work on deck
as handy as able-bodied men. Nothing
is said by the chronicler OF their ethcienS
cy aloft.
A SCOTCH parson said, somewhat sar-
eastically, of q topper, that he put an en-
envy in his mouth to steal away his
brains, but the enemy, after thorough
and protracted search returned without
anything.
He who is passionate and hasty is
generally honest. 1t is your old dissem-
bling hypOerite Of whom you should be
aware. There is no deception in buL-
dog; it is ouly the cur that sneaks up
and bites you when your back is turned.
THE ianitor's instructions to his son
" When you meet the first floor, bow
and take off your hat for the second IN
cover for the third, carry your hand to
your head for the fourth, nod; for the
attic floor, let the lodger nod first"
Is it 30 bad ,ithen, TO be misunderstood?
Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Soc
rates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copper
nicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and
every pure and wise spirit that took
flesh. To be great is to be miPunder-
stood.
+" No, thank you; I never waltz; ma
says if any Of the young men want 10
hug me they must do it on the ely che
won't have them; mussing my dress
up, and leaving finger marks on my
white waist, 30 long as abe does the wash
ing and has to support me-"