The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-11-17
SUNDRIES.

GENERAL ANDERSON, of Fort
bumDter fame, died in Nice, France,
ON the 26th of October.
a long Island chicken thief at
tempted to ply his avocation in the
vicinity Ofa bulldog. His apotheca-
ry's bill amounted to nearly $31. 70 -
A New Mexico attorney in address,
ing the jury threatened to blow out
the brains of any man who should
intimate that his client was guilty.
When a man wants to speak at a
public meeting in Prussia, he must
first obtain permission of the autho-
rites.
Among the furniture necessary in
the church in Baltimore, where the
Episcopal Convention is in session, is
said to be 295 spittoons.
The total issue of "iron crosses" in
connection with the late Franco
German war is estimated by the Ger
man War Ministry at about 10000.
List, the eminent pianist and
composer, has been granted letters of
nobility and q pension of 5000 fiOrins
by the Hungarian Government.
Let prudence always attend your
pleasures; it is the way to enjoy the
sweets of them, and not be afraid of
them, and not be afraid of the conse-
quences.
A Chicago merchant, who found
his safe and its contents destroyed,
quietly remarked that there was no
blame attached to the safe; that it was
of chilled iron, and would have stood,
but that the fire had taken the chill
all out.
Cincinnati is said to be more dense
ly populated than any city in this
country. The population is SO, 600 to
the square mile; New York, the next
most densely populated city, has 3D.
600 to the square mile; Cincinnati has
about So persons to the square acre,
London has 40, Edinburgh 40, and
Dublin 80.
It is reported that the Government
Bakery at Washington recently tried
the experiment of seeing how many.
lOaves of bread could be made from a
single barrel of flour, the IOaves
weighing one pound each when taken
from the oven. The result Is said to
be eight hundred and two lOaves, or
a little more than four lOaves for
each pound of flour. The increased
weight Is water mainly.
That during the last five centuries
more than $3.50, 900, 900 worth of real
estate has been washed away from the
eastern coast of England by the en-
croachments of the sea. a number
of villages and towns which used to
be set down on the old. maps have
entirely disappeared.
A man recently came to his death
in curious manner at Venice, Italy.
He was standing on the bronze auto
maton on the st. Marks bell tower,
which tells the time of day, with his
head between the bell and hammer.
The hour came round without his
notice; the autOmatOn struck one and
knocked his brains out.
It is indeed an i'll wind that blows
nobody good. 1t is said that there is
not single Indictment left against
any accused person i'm Cook country,
Illinois, which is certainly piece OF
good fortune for some rogues. But
on the other hand, the lawyers have
suffered severely. Hardly a law
library or law office is left; not a pa
per to show that there is a suit pend
ing in any of the six courts of the
county; not Judgment, not a. peti-
ton in bankruptcy in the Federal
courts. And worse yet, so far as is
known, all the records of deeds and
mortgages are destroyed.
One of the silly distractions of the
"health" journals, which greatly
damages their usefulness, is tha
which declares that it is unhealthy
for two people to sleep together. \
man of ninety-nine died the other da!
from the effects of sleeping with hi
wife nearly eighty years-or from
some other cause.
There is q man out in Wyomin;
who did not want for woman's wi
when forced to do woman's woTl
while his wife was on the jury. II
appealed TO her to come home, bu
she want in any particular hurry
rs che would now find out how mic
it was to stay at home and mind tn
children, while she was loafin
around the courthouse as he used t
do" The man went home and hire,
q gOOd-loOking cook, and sent his wifi
word to be sure and not come hom
until she wanted 10 on his account
but ~ soon rs the news reached he
she bolted Immediately, and is nov
one of the loudest Opposers of femal
suffrage.
A QUICK RECOVERN.-A ScotuS
trader was constantly afraid of hi
health, and imagined himself i'll c
every epidemic that was going. A
length the cattle plague broke out
and he persuaded himself that n
was i'll with the disease, and sent i
haste for the doctor, going over tn
symptoms of which he had read i
the papers, all of which he fancie
ne had. "I hope you don't reall
feel So" said the NJ. D., ''for there
an order by the Privy Council tina
every beast with these symptom
must be shot immediately" Th
trader was soon well again.
For long time a sentence fror
Madame de Stae's "Corinnen an
one from Chateaubriand were pitte
one against the other for literar
merit. The latter finally triumpheC
'"There is a God, The plants of tn
valley and the cedaTs of the mOuI
tain bless His name; the insect hum
His praise; the elephant salutes HiI
with the rising day; the bird gloriiit
Him among the foliage; the lightnin
bespeaks His power, and the ocea
declares His immensity. Man aloT
has said, There is no God"
In s'the domestic life of Thom;
jefferson the grand-daughter of Je
ferson relates a Yankee trick that
Oat we'll known i'm history. Whe
Mr.. Jefferson died July 1, 1926, g
enthusiastic1 Democratic helghb
of Aibeuarle, Nirgfnia, Observ,
that Jefferson. 10y dying on the FoUt
of July, had raised himself and il
Dartv one step higher in ii
3em1Ie of fame When the rum
reached this partisan, few days lat
thot Adams also had died on TIA
[l,,v hecxciaimcd in a passion, th
4iit was Il id Yankee trick"