The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-09-22
LADIES COLUMN.

Miss Spaulding, NJ. D., of Sandusky,
amputated mans leg a few days
ago.
Silk dresses with brocaded f1ounces
are coming in fashion sgain this
winter.
The new style of dress in three
colors are called the patchwork COS
tunes"
The wife of Sir Walter Scott did
snot appreciate his literary attain
ments. She called his novels mon
sense books"
1t is said that Sallie Ward Hunt, of
Louisville, is engaged on book to be
entitled ''The History of Belle"
Ladies in the country have taken
/ to wearing thick boots with broad
! square heels, as the Louis Quinze
boots and heels are not at all adapted
for rough service.
Queen Victoria, an English paper
says, is troubled with visions of the
poOr-house. The table of the Queens
servants is about the worst served of
any in the country.
Miss Mary G. Rea carries the honor
of being the first woman who has
made q pre-emptiOn purchase of one
hundred and sixty acres of public
land In Montana.
Miss Lydia Nye wears the honors
of champion female pedestrian" of
bennington, VT, having walked the
other day thirty miles within eight
hours over a rough and mountainous
road.
A LynchbUrg colored woman fell
thirty feet out of third-story win
dow, striking the ground head fore
most. They are filling up the hole.
She wasn't hurt any,
Mrs. Stanton says she never knew
what it was to be perfectly happy
until she found herself in the Yose-
mite (Cal.) valley in a big straw hat
blOomer costume, astride of mule.
The Washington '9Women's club
have conceived the strange idea that
the most prompt way to cure the So
ciai evil is to describe in glowing
terms the splendOrs of the houses de-
voted to vice.
A Belle at Saratoga boasts of hav-
ing had twelve offers this season.
Her friends think half Of them must
have been done by letter as there has
has not been that number of unmaF-
ried men in tho house all the summer.
An Illinois agricultural society
has hit upon a shreWd plan for in
creasing the population. tits to offer
heavy premium ten years in advance,
to the couple who will at the end of
that time show The largest number
of descendants.
Among the lamp-Hghters in Mil
waukec, Wis, is little girl ten years
| old, who makes her rounds in all
! kinds of weather, and runs up the
ladder like a squirrel, while her
! elderly mother watches for her safety
| below.
dress was white satin and point lace,
and whose train was carried up the
J aisle by page, caused the choir to
sing, by her own special request,
| during the ceremony:
'Strip me of the robe of pride,
Clothe mt with humility"
St. Winifrcd Siubbs, an elderly
maiden lady of London, was directed
| by the health officer to discharge from
/ further service fourteen dogs who
I lived with her as companions, and
she was so soTrow-stricEen at the sac
rifice that she died instantly on re-
ceiviBg the order.
There is food for thought in this
extract from the writings of Madame
i Guizot: "a woman who has reached
the end of youth must not suppose
that she has any further concern with
| passiOn-nOt even with vanquishiBg
it. Her strength must henceforth lie
in calm, and not in courage"
a Honolulu paper relates that as
a native man and woman were out
| fishing on reef shark appeared
and attacked the man, and by sue
cessive bites took off his arms and
legs; that the woman made for the
shore with the limbless trunk of her
/ husband that she reached It in safety,
/ and fhut Tho man cfill ffrroc Z