The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-08-24
Wff MISCELLANEOUS.
Paris IS said to be unusually full Of

ton did.
An inch Ofrain falling ON an acre
of land weighs about one hundred
tons.
A Madrid dispatch, of Tie 18th,
states that the murderer of 'rim has
been arrested.
| About $75, 100000 foot up the mon
ey losses of the Rothsehilds as the
| result of the war in Europe.
In Georgia, sunflowers Of three
and four feet in circumference are
among The production of the sea-
sen.
At the Portland Catholic Cathedral
they charge admission fees of five
cents to half dollar, according to
the location of the seats.
Cincinnati has made a piano with
out strings or reeds, small bars of
steel being hammered instead. The
effect is striking.
Dom Piatt mas abandoned his Gat-
arg department. The attempt TO DC
funny to order, even once a month,
was too much for him.
Assistant assessors of revenue il
different parts of the eouRtry are still
being dismissed, under the cov0rll-
mental policy of retrenchment
Fossil lions, tigers, leopards, cle-
plants, heifers, lemons, pain leave
and cocoanuts have been found in
Colorado.
Mr.. j.. G. FcnimOre has sold from
ninety acres of land, within the last
ten years, near Wilmington, Dele
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Sll.
The story OF William Tell and the
apple is said to have been distinctly
told in an ancient Persian manuscript
just discovered in the library at
Breslau.
An old German who crossed the
ocean TO see his friends in Lyons,
Iowa, reached them just in time to
fall dead before a word of greeting
could be uttered.
The inn-FHostelleried Zane
Raye-where Joan of Arcs father
and mother were entertained by the
city of Rheims in 1929, still ex-
lists and is still an inn.
a greyhound, which st one time
belonged to "Jacatro, Commodore
StoektOn's guide" died recently ],
near Los Angeles, at the advanced
age of twenty-thrue years.
The Connecticut Legislature has
passed law compelling railroads TO
fence eUnoceupicd lands lying between
the line of the road and high way.
The striking of soldiers in battle
by shots is said to vary according To
the uniform. Thus, of those dressed
in red, y are struck to z in green,
in brown and in blue.
A London letter says that twupro
minent Communists talk of visiting
the United States and Oflecturing-iu
defence of their ideal federation.
The steam power employed in lLs
United States does the labor of II0,-
100000 men, while that Of Great
Britain is equivalent to 49Q0OO.O0O.
The contemplated tunnel ur,ler the
Detroit River, between Detroit and
Windsor, Canada, will extend SJ6S
feet from portal to portal. The Csli-
mated cost is s., $4,000.
The Emperor OF Brazil now in =
London, is said to utterly asfound p
that city by being out of bed shd
stirring as early as six O'Clock in the
morning.
OF the six thousand people at Sar-
atoga last week il is estimated That
only five hundred were there on aC-
count Of their health. The others
came TO see and be seen.
The Greeley Tribune, a bright lit
tie paper published in the new town
of Greeley, Col, displays its title in
tho form Of fnr csn,SIo Of IT,
writing of the modern Horace.
Mr.. Henry w. Peek, III. p, has Of
fered prizes of 5000, $1,000 and $500
for original treatises in favor Of the
maintenance of the Church of Eng
land as an established Church.
a man in Los Angeles, who had
been in perfectly good health, sud
IDENTIFY lost the power of speech with
out any apparent cause. As he can
neither read nor write, he is unable
to give his own views in regard TO
what led to his sudden dumbness.
In a number of the Maine towns
the drought and devastations of the
grasshOppers have left the fields as
bare as a ledge. Farms which last
year produced Fifteen tons of hay
win not be mown over this season,
and the crops are utterly destroy
ed.
The number of horses iii Russia is
greater in proportion to the pOpuia-
tion than it is in our greatest horse
region-Kentucky. Russia has one
horse to every three persons. Ken
tucky has one horse to about four
and half of its population.
Charles ID. WrightingtOn, mechaIi-
ical genius Of Fairhaven, has recent
ly completed a miniature steam en-
gine perfect in every detail, of about
one mouse power. The boiler j.
three inches long, ard the machine
contains over 800 pieces, some OF
which are Of gold. It runs finely.
In Pekin, newspaper Of extraor-
dinary size is published weekly OIL
silk. IL is said to have been publish
ed more than a thousand years ago.
In 1927, a public officer caused some
false intelligence to be inserted in
this paper, for which he was put 10
death. Several numbers of the pa
per are preserved in the Royal Libra
~ OF Paris. They are ten and quar-
ter yards long.
A Philadelphia physician writes TO
the Post to correct an impression
that blackbeFFies are useful or harm-
less in cases where children are con-
valescing from diarrhGa or cholera
infantum. lie says that from close
observation during several years,
meantime enjoying large practice.
he is forced TO believe that there j.
no other cause so fatal to life in these
complaints as eating blackberries.
A copper hatchet, of the general