The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-06-30
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BeTliu in July.
How TO make a hot bed--Set the
mattress on fire.
Laura Fair is to hang July 2S, hav-
ing been denied new trial.
The latest style of bonnet is des-
cribed as ''the size of a scalp"
louisiana promises a rice crop this
season, of about 16, GOO, 600 lbs.
| AS early as 1857, a canal boat was
built of iron in Wiley, England.
A colossal statue is reported to have
been exhumed at Gainesville, Ga.
Louis Napoleon is suffering from
rheumatism at Chiselhurst, England.
The Hoosac tunnel is bored 1906
feet, and 99S7 feet remain to be bored.
A colony of one hundred New Jer-
I sey families are about to settle in Ten
neSsee.
A gentleman of Bedford, Mass, is
now repairing his house, which was
built 2S7 years ago.
Five hundred and twenty-five thou
| sand six hundred trains leave London
in the course of one year,
Three hundred and ninety-two
works oh American topics were pub
,
In the States of Iowa and IndiauS,
about two hundred women are work
ing farms on their own account
In London, it is said, for many years
mercantile men have been the most
liberal supporters of the fine arts.
It will take sixty years to restore to
France the forests FuthleSSly wasted
in the military operations of the late
war.
The Emperor OF China is said To
have an income from gaming houses
estimated at not less than 100000
year.
The word gentleman" occurs 455
times in Shakespeare; but the word
''gent" is not found in any of his
writings.
The total amount of currency lost or
worn cat while in circulation will ex-
ceed So, SOC, 900, or ID per cent OF the
whole issue.
st. Louis has recently opened
boulevard eight miles long and one
hundred feet wide, which is now the
fashionable drive.
The Medical Reporter estimates that
the people of the United States pay
S125, 100000 annually for medicines
and medical services.
Six and half millions of pounds of
toOaccO were last year raised in Con-
netticut-an average OF Il, so pounds
to the acre cultivated.
The capital invested in vessels on
the Mississippi river and in the cargoes
they are constantly carrying is cst-
mated at 81 100000, 600.
1t is pleasant, in these torid DAYS,
to think that Capt. Hall takes with
him in his Arctic vOy age a theTmome-
ter which will register SS degrees be-
low zero.
The Governor of Texas has ordered
an election of Congressman and to
fill vacancies in the legislature, eIec-
ton to commence October Sd and con-
tinue four days.
Over eight thousand head of cattle
crossed the Brazos at Waco, TeXas,
during the week ending June Z, bring
ing into the treasury of the bridge
company nearly $500.
London is sWarming with visitors.
There are about $4,000 Germans now
there, about 10000 French, about
so, 900 of other continental countries,
and about 10000 Americans.
No plant yields anything like as
much nutriment from the same extent
of soil as the banana. Humboldt csti-
mated that it returns twenty times as
much as the potato, and 113 times as
much as wheat.
To remove ink spots, put the article
stained over a warm flat iron, stretch
it well, then squeeze a few drops OF
lemon juice on it, and the spot will
disappear at once. Wash immediate
ly ia cold water
John Robinson's circus is being ad-
vertised now by a story that some
Kansas Indians stole his elephant.
The cheerful old pacbyderm was res
cued before the savages had secured
his scalp.
Butterflies have been found flying
at sea, 600 miles from land. Their
buoyancy is great, and the muscular
effort of flying must be small, while
the wind drives them forward rapidly
over great distances.
The Internal Revenue Commission
eT has decided TO reduce the number
of assistant assessors to fourteen hun
dred, being one thousand less, at the
end of the fiscal year, July l, than at
the commencement last year.
II is stated that this year foreign to-
baccO has been sold and smoked in
Havana, and also that Florida tobacco
has been imported there, manufactuT-
ed into cigars, and then sent abroad
again as legitimate Vuelta AbajO.
1t will probably surprise many peo-
pie to learn that the territory called
the ''British Isles" of which Great
Britain and Ireland are the chief of
the European continent, are fully 500
in number, and that I75 are inhabited.
Mrs. Bella French Iectured in
Western town not long ago on "Cor-
sets, Tobacco, and Whiskey.n A
correspondent of the Chatfield (OhIo)
Democrat says: "HeT lecture has had
a telling influence on our in inhabit-
ants. Every man in our village has
left of wearing eOTsets, and most of
the women have quit chewing tobacco
and drinking whiskey."
Soon after the death of the poet
Wordsworth, man met a farmer Of
the neighbOrhood, and said to bini,
Y ou have had great loss. What
loss" Why, you have lost the great
poet" +" Oh, ay" said the farmer,
hes dead; but ah hey no doubt
fwife will carry OH Pbusiness, and
make 10 as profitable ivvir ii was"
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