The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-06

The sheep OF Texas are valued at
$l3,S00,000. The mutton crop will not
be failure-the chop either.
The water of the sacred well at
Mecca has been analyzed and found to
be nothing but fluid cholera.
"Say, come over here and buy some
Shoes" croaks parrot hung in the
door of Philadelphia shoe store.
The reigning monarch of Abyssinia
cuts off the noses of those who take
snuff and the lips of those who smoke.
A line of passenger balloons across
the States of Missouri and Arkansas
would catch the tide of travel just
now.
Mr.. T. J. Middaugh, of Patterson,
Pa, has disposed of his trOtting mare,
Lady Relf, to Charles G. Toor for
$1,000.
The unusual courage of Greenland
women no longer excites wonder. 1t
is ascertained that there are no COWS
there.
Morgan Williams, of Philadelphia,
was thrown into lOckjaw by bite on
the thumb administered by Jeremiah
Sullivan.
The st. Petersburg Russia) Herald
describes President Garfield's demise
as a glorious death on the battlefield
of honesty.
Sullivan, the Saratoga pedestrian,
writes that he is ready to enter a 60
as-yOu-please race with Chas. Rowell
and others.
A social club in Kansas City is call
ed the DIRTY Dozen" This is to let
Of. 4 = L.
home institutian.
The cost of furnishing and repair
ing the Executive Mansion at Wash
imgtOn during the past twelve years
has been 1902, ,345.
A Texas man viii shoot just as
quick if you call him an "official
bulletin" as when you call him a liar
"a little quicker, perhaps.
A Boston paper suggests that when
| the mourning decorations are taken
down they be packed up and sent to
the Michigan sufferers.
The race-hOrse Macduff was badly
cut and bruised by his fall in the two
/ year-Old race recently, and will not
/ appear for some time to come.
The Chinese vaccinate on the nose,
and premiums are given by the gov
ernment to those who will permit
] themselves to be vaccinated.
The scattered tufts OF hair swept
/ out from the shop in front of which
the variegated pole rears its gilded
head are relics of babarism.
AT the sale of thOrOughbreds of the
/ estate Of a. p. McGrath, at Lexing-
ton, KY, Aristides brought $4,000,
Jury $4,000 and Susan Ann $1,000.
Irvine, KY, has kept its hangman's
gallOws standing for twemty-one
years, and the people have learned to
regard it as public nOOse-ance.
The race at Brighton Beech be-
/ tween Glenmore and HindOo has been
postponed until next Tuesday. II
HindOo is all right HindOo will win.
Edward Payson Weston, of pedes-
trian fame, is now regularly en-
/ plOyed temperance advocate of the
Church Of England Temperance
Society.
An enthuiastic woman at Shetland
Ont, baptizes herself every day. She
is determined to keep herself FREE from
sin if there is any virtue in water.
The letters "U. S. A" on the card OF
an American gave him some trouble
with Berlin policeman, who thought
that they were mysterious signs.
An enraged belle at White Sulphur
Springs bit the cheek of a young
man at a moment when he expected a
kiss, and her dentists bill will not be
much below 500.
Prof Swift says a new comet APP
peared at the very hour President
Garfield was passing away. -Four
comets are said to be visible now with
the aid of a good telescope.
Thomas VI. Bowen, one Of Colora-
dos new miIliOnaires, recently sent to
the Denver Mint two enormous chunks
of gold. The heavier is worth $4,000
the other, $4,000.
A Boston mendicant said to a gen.
tleman: 81 should like to have ter
cents to appease my hunger. 1 have
forty cents, and with ten more / could
get quite a decent supper"
If Iroquois starts for the Cesare
witch he will have to carry III
pounds. The top weights are Rober
the Devil I36 pounds, Ben dor 13;
pounds and Peter l3I pounds.
The editor of a Virginia paper wa
asked by a stranger if it was possibl,
that little town kept up four news
papers, and tie reply was, mo, i
takes four newspapers to keep up tn
town."
A Paterson, (N. j. youth, to abat
a nuisance, dressed as young woman
: accepted the escort Of a pertinaciou
loafer, and, getting him TO a lionel,
place, gave the coward a sount
thrashing.
The Philadelphia ChrOnicIe-H Heral,
tells of a Nebraska woman who wol
81 600 at a hOrse-race, and the mex
= day spent about 1900 for a bonnet an,
; six gold hair pins. She had a seal
! skin cloak, probably.
The PaH Nal Gazette this evemin,
y says: ITO day, when England am
= America stand as mothers beside on
grave, we may venture to hope tina
= the bitter memories and dividing an
2 imosities engendered by the Revolu
Z tionarv war are finally passed away
and suggests that England and Amer
lea shall endeaveF TO arrange some kim
d, ofan Informal union for the prevention
v of internecinc strife. Ifan EurOpeal
4 concert, despite almost insurmOunta
e bic difficulty is recognized as poll
j teal necessity, why should there no
be an Anglo-A merican concert wit