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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-11-10

/ ward to the table, and taking up the
| bottle, held it to the light. It was
| empty! The condition of that bottle
was destined to have an effect on the
future population of PersimmOn's
| Corner.
cts empty, jedge," said Bill.
/ "1'm sorry. jest wait till l wind up
this game and I'll step around to the
Shades and fill it up"
" "William Ruffin," said the Judge,
with as much sternness as the asthma
would permit, eve have come for
you, and you can have ten minutes to
prepare"
"Well now that IS jest a little
rough" said Bill. "That isn't quite
neighborly. No man can't say as
eve: I didn't act squar' by 'em. HeV
you picked out the tree, Jedgei"
well, we thought as how that
old pine, jest outside the door, would
answer about as we'll as any," replied
the judge. "That limb jest over the
door rather took our eye as we came
along"
The lad threw himself at his faith
er's feet and burst into tears. Bill
put him gently aside. 'Jedge,' he
said, I'll jest trouble you to hand me
that there pipe on the mantle, there.
Ten minutes is time enough to play
this hand out and have one more
smoke
S AS the judge turned No-Nosed Bill
truck q match and stopped over. a
terrible explosion followed. When
/ the smoke cleared away, it was re-
marked that the door was split in
two and hung by one hinge and the
window was blown out, while at
least a third of the roof was gone.
The Judge was no more; Stumpy
and the boy were no more; the
stranger was no more; No-Nosed
! Bill was-a little more but not much.
With a loud imprecatiOn which
tore off another large piece of the
roof, the seven men sprang upon Bill
with their knives, but he feebly
waved them off with an uninjured
hand.
Easy, now, gentleman he said,
iaintly. jest let me play out this
hand my own way. I've only got a
few keerds left and there amt none
on 'em trumps. just lean what there
| is left of me up against the wall, there,
| W 4IA yCg anu ICb 1l1C lJttSo III I'LL Ho
now without no interference. No
man can't say as ever 1 took no ad-
vantage of 'em, and that is about all
l have to say
They complied with his request,
and also gave him his pipe and light
ed it, when he asked for it, but he
| seemed not to enjoy his smoke.
Five got seven thousand dollars in
that 'ere trunk there he said pres
emily, 'and (pufO wish you'd set up
a monument over me and this boy
| (pufD. I'm sorry for the boy. was
goin' to make a scholar and a gentle
man of that boy. And have some
thin writ on the marble, you know,
about how as / never took no ad-
vantage of no man and allus tried to
do my level best tpuff, puff. And
| put smallish kind of a one over
| that stranger there. There amt
nothin' mean about me-
The head of NO-Nosed Bill drop
ped upon his shoulder, and his pipe
! falling from his lips dropped on the
| floor and broke into pieces. The
seven men invOluntariIy sheathed
| their bowie-knives and took off their
| hats. And the faint smoke wreaths
| floated gracefully upward through
!. the rent in the roof and seen a mo-
ment against the deep blue sky, van
| ished forever.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-11-10

The cores are hollow, and 6 inches
in diameter, by 3 feet 8 inches in
length. This magnet is about five
times as powerful as that used by
Faraday in his famous researches.
From a paper on the vertebrate
animals of Australia, lately publish
ed'bY Mr.. Krefft, the Curator of the
Sidney Museum, we learn that no
woodpeckers or humming-birds have
ever been met with in that country.
Among birds, the parrot is the most
prominent, there being more than
sixty species. Reptiles abound,
among them a species of crocodile,
individuals of which frequently grow
to the extraordinary length of thirty
feet, and occasion much trouble to
the colOnists. No one of the five We
nomous snakes of the country is so
deadly as the English viper. The
number Of known harmless species
is seventy-fiVe.
Among recent discoveries in fossil
botany is the occurrence of three or
four species of tree ferns, like those
of the coal period, In the Devonian
formation of New York and Ohio.
which underlies the coal. BY this
discovery, made by the geological
surveys of those States under the di-
TectiOn of Profs. Hall and NeWbercy
respectively, the existence of those
gigantic ferns is carried back as sfar
as the bottom of the middle Devo-
nian. One Of them, says DR.. Daw-
son, their describer, has the cellular
structure and vascular bundles in
such preservation as TO show their
microscopic structure, which is pre-
cieely similar to that of modern
ferns.
The English journals report that
during recent explorations in the
moss on the shores of Loeb Etive,
Argyle County, Scotland, the re-
mains of an extensive lake dwelling
were discovered. The platform of
this structure is sixty feet in diarue-
ter, and the dwelling in the middle
is fifty feet long and tRenty-eight
feet broad. There was also discOv-
cred in large cairn q structure COM
posed of huge stones, and consisting
of two chambers, each twenty fee:
long, connected by passage of nearly
the same length. One broken urn
land the remains of four others were
also discovered. Loeb EtiYe is an
inlet to the sea on the northwest
coast of Scotland, running up for
over twenty miles, and varying in
breadth.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-11-10
CURIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC.

The phosphorescent matter in fish
es is asserted to be merely fat, in a
paper lately read before the Agso-
citation ofNaturalists and Physicians,
at Turin.
Baron de Seyls Longchan ps, in a
communication to the chronological
Society OF LondCn, estimates the
number o. known species of dragon
fish at 1,344.
DR.. Hjaltelin is of the opinion that
the introduction of the pOtatoe and
more vegetable diet has caused the
decrease in leprosy in Europe since
the Middle Ages.
TWo-thirds of all the zinc produc-
ed is manufactured into sheets. The
remainder is employed in making
brass, in wire, in zinc-white as a sub
stitut3 for lead in paints and for cast
ings. The two chief requirements
for zinc sheets are roofing and sheath
ing the bottoms of ships.
An English chemist has been ex-
perimenting for the purpose of as
CeTtaining how much of various
kinds of food must be eaten in order
to make one pound of flesh. lie
comes to the cOncluson that it reQuir-
| es % pounds of milk, 100 of turnips,
90 of potatoes, so of carrots, s OF oat-
meal, II of barley meal, and 81
| beans.
Some recent preparation have
| proved dangerously explosive on
being mixed by the apothecary. A
lady in England recently put a box
of pills which had been prescribed
| for her in her bosom. In a short
time there was a severe explosion
and she was badly burned. The re-
cipe was a mixture of oxyd of silver
muriat Of mOrphia and extract oi
gentian.
A Western ply ysician successfully
used ipecacuanba in deiiriUm trem-
! ems. lie first gave it as an emetic
I and afterwards from 10 to Is grains
every other hour. Connected with
| this remedy he used shower baths
and let the patients frequently drink
| strong beef tea, without any alco,
holic stimulants. 1t Quieted the neFY.
Gus system, excited the appetite, act.
Led on secretion, and uniformly pro.
F'duCed sleep, curing the patients il
nearly every case.
! Prof. D. A. Gould, who has gone tC
the Argentine Republic to take charge
of the National Observatory at Cor
dova, writes home very enthusiast
cally in regard to the splendors ot
the Southern heavens. He saws tht
m9gnifi }ence Of the Milky Way il
indescribable, exhibiting huge cIus.
ttrs, the sight of which through thu
telescope evoke es exclamatiOns o
delight and surprise from every be.
holder, young and old, and whethel
with or without astl onomical infor
nation.
The Stevens Institute of Techno
logy hes an electrO-msgnet, made il
Ansonia, Conn.,, which weighs abOu
l,600 pounds, and has a lifting force
estimated at between 50 and 90 tons
About 100 pounds OF copper wire
; one-hfth Of an inch thick, is wound
! on eight spOOls, each - inches higl
, by lie inches external diameter
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-11-10

before cards were made at Vitsrf,o :.
but when the latter became general
| they excited the utmost enthusiasm in
| the country, and n passion for the
| play existedi so much 50, that when
| the companion Of Christopher Colum.
| bus, after their discovery of America,
| formed the first establishment on the
| island of San Domingo, they found
nothing better to do than at once 70
| manufacture cards from the leaves OF
trees.
1t was at Bourges, in the Chateau
du Berri, that the game Of piqust,
which is especially the game OF French
cards, was invented, as tradition tells
us, by the brave Lahire, as 8 pastime
for Charles VII. The Italian tarots
had long been known; but this new
game was for the King of Bourges, as
he was called, as he go carlessiy with
drew there with his court and favor
ties, leaving half his kingdom in the
hands of the English. AS for the in
ventOr, Etienne VignOles, surnamed
Lahire, he had ever his helmet on bis
head, and his lance in his hand, ready
to do battle with his masters fOsa
and after life spent in the field, he
died of his wounds in I442 The sx-
animation of these cards leads to the
conjecture, that the author would de-
pict the institution of chivalFy; some
of the names retain the Saracenic
terms, such as ApOllOn, who appears
in the rOmances of ChaIIemagne as
the idol by which the BIoors were ac-
Gust omed to swear; and COrsubs, q
knight OF COrdOva, whose name made
many Christian hero turn pale, and
may have been a corruption of Cosroes.
the general name for the kings Of Per
sia. No doubt the companions of this
indOlent and VOluptuOus prince at
tached a personal sense to each char
acter. ApO!lon might be Charles him
self the queen called " Faith is lOst,p
represents his wife, or Agnes SOreI
' Sans Souci" were some resemblance
to the goldsmith, Jaques COeur, who
was almost his masters equal in
power, and his superior in riches:
COrsuba would denote the King OF Eng
land, usurper of France; Roland,
some OF the brave captains, Richie
mont, Dunois, or the Lahire the
Queen TrOmperie," (deceit,) the
DOwager-queen Isabel, who had sac.
rificed her husband, son and family to
England T; and finally "In thee [
trust" the name OF one of the queenP,
alluded to Jeanne dare. In some ca
ses the armOrial bearings are adopted
belonging to these persons and their
colOrs. 1t was in this reign that de-
vices, cOlOrs and embIems were es-
pecially brought into fashion; and
the celebrated book, the "Blazou de
COuleurs," was drawn up by the hel-
aid Of King AlfonZO, of Aragon, Civ
ing to each color a special meaning,
such as green, joy; black, simplicity;
etc. Everything at this period was
turned into an allegory, an emblem,
OF q mora. CMnNlbcr.s journal.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-11-10
What Prussia Does With the Money,

The London Times says: Now!
that a considerable portion of the
war indemnify, 500, ,0D,-has been
liquidated by France, it will be in
teresting to know, what becomes Of
the money. In the first place, $780,
000,000f, being the purchase money
for the Alsatain railways, must be
deducted from the sum total. The
rest, J, ,I75, ,000,000f., is equal to 49,
100000 thalers. or this 100000
thalers have been reserved to endow
the generals, and another 100000
thalers to assist those members Of
the landwehr and reserve whose Pc
cuniary circumstances have suffered
in the war. Two million thalers
more will indemnify the Germans
expelled from Franco 4; 7,O00,O 600 tha-
lers are allotted to ship-oWneFs
whose vessels were seized or detain-
ed in the harbOr by the blockade, and
abaut 20,000,000, thalers have to ge to
the inhibitants of Alsace and Lor-
raine for damages sustained and pro-
visions supplied both to the French
and Germans In the campaign. Add
TO the 100000 thalers required for
repairs and rolling stock Of the AL
sace-Lorraine railways, and we have
total of 100000 thalcrs consum-
ed in redressing some of the evils
wrought by the war. Ofthe remain
| ing 27l 100000 thalers the government
would, under a new act of Parlia-
ment, be entitled to appropriate 24O,-
| 100000 thalers as n pension for inVal-
| ids; but, as the whole sum is not re-
| uuired at once, and as the individual
| States are anxious to have a portion
! of their war expediture reimbursed,
| it is assumed that only 3I,OOO,OOO
will revert to the pension list for the
! present, and the remaining 100000.
| GOO be distributed. The division is
! made according to the number of
men supplied by each State. 10
/ other words, Prussia, or rather the
! late North German Confederacy, re-
| ceives fiVe-sixths Of the whole, the
remaining sixth being poTtiOned out
/ between Bavaria, Wurtemberg, Ba-
den and the southern half of Hesse,
| which before the war had separate
| contingent. The 200,OO0,0O0 thalers
| thus accruing to North Germany
will be employed in replentshing the
| war treasury and cancelling por-
ton of the war debt. The war treas
ury amounts, it is we'll known, to
| 100000 thalers. AS TO the WaI
debt. treasury bonds to the amount
of 35.OOO,OO0 1halers were redeemed
in the last few weeks, 6S,Q00,OO0 tha'
lers more fell due before the lst OF
FEBRUARY, and 100000 paper mon
ev are to be Withdrawn from circula-
, tion in the course of the present
year.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-11-10
Labor and Health in the South.
BY A. p. MERRILL, N. D.

The tide of emigration which pur-
sues IFS way westward with as much
Regularity as that of empire might be
DETECTED southwark to o greater ex-
tent than heretofore, could the public
mind be disabused of the prevailing
error in regard to the comparative
healtbfulness of the agricultural re-
giOns North and South. COnceding
the point that all newly-settled cOun-
tries are subject to febrile diseases, it
is of great importance to inquire
which are the least productive of
fatal Issues, and to this inquiry have
given much attention during a full
half century. The motaIity from
fever which attended upon the early
settlements of Western New York,
Ohio and Illinois, when the great
mass of emigrants were New Eng
land people, filled the Northern mind
with grief and dismay and the des-
tTuctiOn of life has not been prOpOr-
tiOnately lessened by the infusion of
such numbers of foreign birth more
recently. Among physicians there
has existed no difference of opinion
upon this subject; and it is not
doubted by any that the suffering
from fever in all the grain-prOduciug
portions of our country is as great at
the present as at any previous period,
although the proportion of mortality
has probably been reduced by i'm
proved treatment.
By contrast it may be sta ed that il
has not been many years since the
extinguishment of the Indian claims
in Northern Georgia, Alabama, Mis-
sissippi and Arkansas laid upon for
settlement and cultivation large
bodies of productive cotton lands,
which were greedily seized upon by
emigrants from the Atlantic and
Northern States and from Europe.
The forests and canebrakes were
swept away with great rapidity, and
the increase IN the supply of upland
cotton gave evidence of great agri-
cultural enterprise. Upon investiga-
ton by qualified physicians and
others, there has seemed to be no
room for doubt that fevers have pre-
vailed less and with less proportion
u mortality among these people than
among the producers of corn and
| wheat in the new States of the West !;
and they have not suffered such in
Jury from exposure to the sun as ii
was supposed they would. The con-
/ sequence is, that the belt of country
alluded to has filed up with au in
! dustrious and prosperous population,
! the cultivation of cotton being at
! least four times more remunerative
/ than that of grain.
Yellow fever, of which great fear
| is Justly felt, is not an epidemic dis
ease prevailing from year to year,
/ but form of fever occurring only
occasionally as an epidemic, and con-
! fined almost exclusively to cities and
/ towns upon the rivers. Emigrants
establishing themselves upon the
uplands have nothing to fear from
such visitations of diseases; nor has
/ Asiatic cholera ever yet visited the
I agrirulturalists of the region spoken
hof Dysentery and pneumonia pre-
/ vail to q less extent than in a colder
climate, and scarlet fever has only
made its appearance in these settle
I ments within few years, and with
out the fatality 50 common 10 .he dis
| ease elsewhere.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-11-10
Cattle Ponds fer Farms.

The severe droughts which visit
every year some portions of the coun-
try, cause, where streams are few and
small and springs lia deep, much
suffering to the cattle and a great
deal of labor in supplying them with
the necessary water to keep them
alive. We have often been in Sec
tions of this kind when a drought
prevailed, and we have known farm
ers to be obliged to send their cattle
from one to three miles to water,
but It was done only once a day,
We have wondered many times that
they never attempted to provide for
such emergencies upon their own
premises, which all of them could
do. The water from the roofs of the
out-buildings, if carefully gathered
in cisterns OF ample capacity, would
generally be sufficient for all the
stock these buildings would shelter.
But in times of great drought they
would probably be drained. In this
view, gOod-sized, deep ponds, we'll
constructed, could not fail to meet
all the demand. a pratical engi-
neer speaking on this subject peril
nently says:
sin travelling through the country,
! am often surprised that farmers do
not take advantage of low places
and convert them, at little expense
of deepening and sodding the banks,
into ponds to receive the rainfall
from the surrounding lands, and
thus supply their stock with water
The pond once made should be
strongly fenced and surrounded by
willows to prevent evaporation. The
fence will prevent cattle from get
ting into il. There should be a pas.
sage leading 10 the pond, ON the
.aOrth side, where the water would bt
accessible outside of part of the en-.
closure. This plan is invariably
adopted In England. There ] have
often seen one pond common to oul
fields. They clean. them every thirC
wear"
The approach to the water, i
should be borne in mind, must grad
ualiy descend, so that the portion 0
the pond fenced out should be o
suficient depth to draw all the wa
Ter within reach of the cattle, and tn
width OF the approach should Civ,
ample room for the two or three eat
tie to drink at one time German
torn Telegraph.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-11-10
HUMORs OE TIE DAY.

Bill stickers-Files.
Dark ages-Iadies' ages.
Slip knots Lovers ties.
A day of reckoning-Saturday.
An universal want-Want of mon
oy.
"Home rule"-Petticoat govern
ment,
Drop us line as the trout said to
the angler.
A mau ought to keep out of trade,
if he can't get tin.
Is it possible for garret widow
to suffer rOomatic paDes?
The way to keep your silk umbrel-
la-Only lend your cotton one.
To become the lion of a party, it is
not necessary to make beast OF ones
self.
Why are lawyers like ivy ?-be-
cause the greater the ruin, the more
they cling.
What weed does a gardener seldom
object to see "A cigar in his own
mouth.
Why is dishonored draft like Mr..
Gladstone ?-Because it's a noted
Bill.
At an auction of miscellaneous ar
ticles in the open air it began to rain
when a by-stander advised the auc-
tiOneer that the next article put up
should be an umbrella.
Bakers make many friends but
scrape more acquaintances.
"Tbe fools revenge"-on wit
'Rather fsr-fetched, eh ?"
a warning for fashionable assem-
bles-lOok out for paint.
Why is hen immortal? Ans
Because is son never eets.
If shoemakers are not radical, they
are at least addicted to extreme
measures.
When is a smile behind time P
When it's little laughter.
Why is the letter S like a sewing
machine ?-Because it makes needles
needless.
A Yankee, having read the words
Er nihilo aihH fit, wants to know
what he did it for.
Why are swells in Hindostan like
poverty ?-Because they're Indi-
gents(ce).
Worth notiUg-This is a good
time of the yS:sT to collect autographs
of your creditors.
Happy thought, by cheap shirt
maker, on his own workwomen ::
"They come like shadows, and sew,
DEPART"
fla duck goes into the water for
divers reasons, does he come on land
for sun-dry purposes
One would suppose that ''the lux
ury ofwoe" (whOa y is the best ap-
preciated by the tired cab-hOrse.
The man who gave bit of his
mind to another has since been pun
ished for breach of the piece.
Judy says she has heard that mon
ey is the root of all evil, but she has
no objection to having trunk full OF
it.
If "A gentleman marries, the lady
must be won before she is mo ;ried-
afterwards they are both one.
A New York oculist charged q
wealthy patient $1,000 for taking out
an eye. That eye was an eye dear
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-11-10

WHAT SCOPE OF COUNTRY WILL
SUPPORT = RAILRoAD.-COl. Ham
mOnd, an experienced railroad man
says that territory ten miles wide on
each side of a railroad, in a country
capable of sustaining any ordinaril
dense population, is capable of sup
porting il. Whenever n ilrOadS run
out from any commercial centre,
through such a country, they will be
sure TO bring a sufficient population
to support them, within a very few
years after their construction, if it is
not already there when the road is
projected. This is for railroads of the
usual construction and equipment.
It is but fair to infer that narrow gauge
railroads being cheaper of constTuc'
tion, can be supported by proportion
ally less area and population.-Fdcjfe
RUFoL Press.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-11-10

God reveals His beniiicence to the
poet and artist in the clouds that
curtain the skies, and the mists that
mantle the mountains He shows his
bounty to the husbandmen and oper-
atives in genial showers and mfail-
5ing rivers.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-11-10

TRAINS are running regularly. on
the South and North Railroad from
Montgomery to Elyton, a distance
ninety miles. The work between
Elyton and Decatur is progressing
with the utmost energy. It is expected
the entire road will be completed
within the coming twelve months.
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What an unlucky suitor did: He
wOOed and she wouldn't; he cOOed and
she couldn't.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-11-10

Is it fair to define baby clothes as
" baWI-dresses ?ii
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-07-26
LIBERTY OF THE PRESS

Around her waist put my
I, felt as soft as cake
.ob. dear, "ssys She what At. liberty
You printer men do take =
4why. yes, my Sal, my charming gal
n squeezed her sOme' guess3
Can you say aught against
The Freedom of the Press :"
kissed her some-I did, by gumi
She colored like . beet
Upon my living soul she looked
Almost too good to eat.
l gave another bus, and then
Says she, Il do confess
rather kinder sorier like
The Freedom of the Press !