The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-03-08
WIT AND WISDOM.

Perhaps you heard about the boy
who complained Of the stone as an inn
pedment in his peach.
People who ar, not rich, but live 10
if they were r.ch are the least Likely
ever TO become rich. And " society"
is full of such people. 49, Chicago JOHr11a'.
The great secret Of gctt ng on well
with the world, a secret which few
have learned. is to know when TO speak
and especially when to keep still. IA.
J. Herald.
"A circus might gain the reputation
Of having the champion @ luilibrist if 10
would engage "A man who would step
out of the sawdust a"d balance tho
books Of a Newark Savings Bank
y. Grnphic.
DIR. Schliemann, il is stated, will dg
northwest of Athens in search of Per
icles grave. We susucct a suspicion
has got abroad that the late Mr.. Pcriclcs
was poisoned, and it is proposed 20 holt
post mortem examination on the Odv
The guilty should be brought 70 Justice.
--NOrr.SloWn Herald
mo, young man. it dOesn' hurt
you particle TO SOW your wild oats. g."
ahead and SOW as you wish. ] ut it's
the z thering in OF the crop that will
make you howl And you have 10 gath
er it, TOO If you don't, il gathers You
in. and one is a great deal worse than
the other. ''-BaptiSt Weckia.
Down in Salem the other day
bright little girl was sent 90 get some
eggs. and on her way back stumbled
and fell, making cad havoc with the CON
tents of her basket. ''WOn't you catch
it when you get home, thought e.
claimed her companion. no, indeed,
! won't she answered. I've got =
grandmother. - - BOSTON Post.
A gentleman isiting a school hud
a book put into his hand for the pur-
pose of examining a class The word
''inheritanee , occurring in the verse.
the querist interrogated one Of tho
youngsters as follows: WI at is patri-
mOnYr' Something left by e
father" What would YOU call IL if
left by a motherP" Matrimony ~
~. y Ledger.
Customer: what do you ask for
your half dollar tca?' ShOpman
'.Well. our regular price is seventy-tve
cents. but I'll let you have i. for sixty;
ONLY don mention il, please Custom.
or is battered and takes a pound ~
once When he comes TO think il o. or
afterwards his mind grows unsettled.
but having ri en- his word and being un
"A greenhorn went TO a mcnagcric,
where an Orang outang particularly
stru k his attention. Several gentl"
men were conversing about the animal.
one Of whom expressed the oUiniOn that
it was a lower order of the hum -
species. The cOuntryman did not like
this idea, and, striding up 20 the gentle
man, expressed his contempt for il thus:
"Poohi pooh! he's no more human
species than I be"
DIR. LANCER states that he fat Of n
child contains less oleic acid. but
more palmitic and stearic acid than
that Of adults, besides being richer iu
the butyric and capro'c acids" Per
haps this is what causes the infant 10
yell so vociferously during the night.
but we can't always tel IL may he
the richness Of the butyric and caproic
acids. and it may be a displaced pin
N0rrtstOI0H Heraid.
The American people. IN adopting
any great reform, are all much like the
Yankee who bet with a Dutchman that
he could swallow him. The Dutchman
Law down on a table, and the Yankee.
taking his thumb in his mouth, nippcd
it severely "Oh, you are biting me
roared the Dutchman. '' Why, you oil
fool" replied the Yankee. "did you
suppose / was going to swallow ven
whole?'