The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-09-18
PrTH AND POINT.

A. NJ. GRIswoLD of Felchville, Vt,
claims to have 1S1 boils. If he has not
tampered with the returns. Mr.. Girls
void Is a bigger man than old job
/ Chicago Tribune
LAWYER DEMBITz of St. Louis is in
variably polite. A long and terrific roll
! of thunder stopped him in an address to
jury, and on resuming he said: - Gen
/ t1emen, pray excuse the interruption. -
How shall we tram our girlsp'' ask
| ed an exchange. Train 'em with about
| % yards of black silk if you want to
| please your girls. A silk velvet train
would also make them happy.-Port
| Chester Journal.
THANK heaven, the tramps will soon
have TO 90 into winter quarters. But
what's the good? There's nothing to be
thankful for, after all. just about the
time the tramp season is over the lecture
season begins.
LIGHTNING struck a tree in Georgia
to which a mule was tied, splintered it
to kindlings and melted the buckles on
the halter, and yet that mule was brows
ing on the fallen limbs when hunted upS
Are mules nOn-conductorS?
a WOMAN who comes into church half
an hour late in order to show off her
AOOA C4OluCS SUOHANl ne AOoktNl upon
mildly. She is simply making room
in Heaven for two women in calico
Detroit Free Press.
WE know girl who viii wreStle with
a croquet mallet in the hot sun for hours
and not complain. But just ask her to
hold on to the wooden end of a broom
for few minutes and she'll have fit
Exchange.
TTrrE,194, - ,,o-~.,,c- .-4,,,,,.-z
about human nature. If n man had to
support his family by playing billiards
at two dollars a day he'd swear he had
to work awful hard for a living-Mid-
dtetOiCI1 Transcript.
Two Meriden men are in trouble over
the ownership of a ladder, and are tax
ing steps for a lawsuit. The Danbury
Nel0S says the result of this win be that
one lawyer viii get the sides and the
other lawyer win get the rounds, leav-
ing the holes to the htigantss
SAID a grizzly old pioneer to Remenyi
after n late concert in Virginia City: Il
amt much on the fiddle myself, mister,
but you bet yer life l know good playin'
when / strike it. l was to hear YOU last
night, and never run afoul of any thing
like it. You're a fiddler from Bitter
Greek, that's what you are, an 1 kin
lick the man at sez you amt
SEVEN young ladies received the de-
Sree of A. b. at Northampton recently.
% But" asks the Lowell Courier, 'how
can a young woman be a bachelor?''
Pshawi A. B. don't mean that in a
lady's diploma. 1t means after bach
elOrs,' and signifies that the young lady
that received the degree is qualified for
matrimony.
DEAN STANLEY was not equal to his Op-
pOrtunities when he performed the mar
riage ceremony for Prof. Tyndall. The
Dean should have asked the groom: ''DO
you take this anthrOpOid TO be your CO.
ordinate, to love with your nerve cen
ters, to cherish with your whole cellular
tissue, until final molecular disturb
ance shall resolve its organism into its
primitive atOms?''
A CELEBRATED German surgeon had
lost his wife. One of his friends has
tened to offer him consolation. Draw
ing a long face, the friend entered the
house of death. 1t was deserted. No
body in the parlOr, nobody in the draw
ing-rOom, not a soul in the bedrooms.
- Oh, horTiblei" he exclaimed; g has
the poor man, in his despair, put an end
to his life?' trembling with fear and ex-
citement, he ran to the savant's labOra-
tory, the sole apartment which remain
ed to explore, and there he found the
widower, a knife in his hand, TRANQUILITY
engaged over a dead body. "What?''
he exclaimed; ''yOu are not dissecting
your wife?'' Why" said the man of
science, with honest astonishment at his
friends horror, she's deGd !''-Frcnch
PdDeT.