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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-07-19
OPENING FOR YOUNG MEN.

Col. Rocket in a recent able arti-
Gle IN his paper, the Memphis Ledger,
has the following well-timed advice
on the above subject
An old friend in the country writes
us to inquire if there is an "opening
in the city for his boys, who are well
educated, but thoroughly disgusted
with farm life2" Certainly there is
an opening in this city. There are,
in fact, many openings. One can
scarcely count them. They are thick,
thriving and thorough. If your boys
are ambitioustO engage in methiDg
useful and Profitable, they can hard
ly find an opening at this time. June
is trying month to business men
always, and the present June is no
exception. We must say to our old
friend that If his boys must quit farm
life, II they 1OiU quit farm lie, if they
are fatally bent on quitting farm life,
if the shady brooks and blooming
glens, and green hills are distasteful
to them, why then send them to this
city There are openings here for
opening to dress In the latest style,
and walk the streets gazing at the
them of certain sort. There is an
ladies as they pass. There is an
opening to stand on the street cor
ners and be disTespectfuI and impu-
dent. There is an opening at the
liquor saloons to taste the exhiIiara-
ting beverage and grow merry, grow
bOiSteFOuS grow mad swear reel
stagger, and finally fall into the
hands of the police and 90 to the
station-house. The gambling houses
are always open. There is a field
where the country boy who is DISCUS
ted with country life can "get his
money back. The openings are not
to be counted. You cannot move
without stumbling against one of
them. But remember, young man,
when you enter the maelstrom of
city dissipations, you leave hope be-
hind. Dear old folks at home, keep
your boys at home. There are open
lngs for them there. There is the
forest to be hewed down and fields
to be constructed. There, employ
ment is sure, aud the fruits of the
earth certain. There are counties
and States to be governed, and the
people who inhabit the county hold
the power and may command the
honors- There is no 6cyvadation IN
labor, but there l. deg. -datiOn IN
loafng about the sLrests of city,
and ruin lies at the end of the habit.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-07-19
uSEFuL KNnMLEnGE.

The most ancient manuscripts are
written without accents, or stops, or
! separation between the words, nor
was it until after the ninth century
that copyists began to leave space
! between words.
Chocolate, the flour Of the cocoa
nut, was first introduced into Eng
land from Mexico, in the year 1920,
and soon after became a favorite
beverage in the London coffee
houses.
Among the Romans all men of full
age were obliged TO marry, and it is
even of a modern law England
which infiots a fine upon all bache-
lors in the kingdom of twenty-five
years and over.
Glass bottles were made in Eng
land about 1858, but the art was
practiced among the Romans in the
year 70 A. D., as they have been
found plentifully among the ruins Of
Pompeii.
An almost ineXhaustible supply of
richly variegated marble has been
discovered on the shores Of Lake
ShdIl lBldEAly anu IL 10 ca AlBCibDh bAAG
"Champlain marble" will take the
place Of the imported varieties.
There Is but little reason for
doubling that British coal was used
in small quantities in the days of the
Roman occupation Of the British
Isles, as it has been found amid the
remains of Romanish civilization in
the city of Urieonium and elsewhere.
The first record, however, dates back
to the year 1180.
1t is said that a poultice and tea
made from the common field thistle
is almost a certain remedy for neu
ralgia. The leaves are macerated
and used on the parts afflicted as a
poultice, while a small quantity Of
the leaves are boiled down in pro-
portion ola quart to a pint and a
small decoction drank before each
meal.
Some Of the magnetism cements
used in India are remarkably firm
and durable. They begin setting in
two or three hours and become hard
in a few days, continuing to harden
for many years. When used for
plastering, they have been found
within a fortnight TO be "harder
than any stone, except granite, mar
BILE, and stones Of the first degree Of
hardness"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-07-19
The Poetry of the Table

In the first place a starched an6
ssn oothly-ironed table-cloth-which
if neatly folded after every meal, viii
look well for several days. Then
flowers and ferns In fiat dishes, bas-
kets, or small vases,-or tiny nose
gay laid upon every napkin.
The salt must be pure and smooth
The butter should be moulded into
criss-cros ed diamonds, shells, OF
globes, with paddles made for the
purpose.
A few pretty dishes Will make the
plainest table glow,-a small bri ght-
coIored platter for pickles, horse-rad
ish, or Jelly; and butter-plates repre-
seuting green leaves are also attrac-
tive.
A few pennies worth of parsely or
cress, mingled with small scraps OF
white paper daintiIy clipped, viii
cause & plain dish to assume the air
of French entree. a platter of hash
may be ornamented with an edging
of toasted or fried bread cut into
points; and q dish of mutton chops
IL muCA AO16 CA LS65Af6 Will OAS DOAt0o
stacked as the soldiers stack their
guns, forming a pyramid in the cen
ter,-each bone adorned with a frill
of cut paper. A few slices of lemon,
mingled with sprigs of parsely and
slices of hard-boiled eggs, form a
pretty garnish to many dishes; and
Eothing can be more appetizing than
beef, veal, mutton, or lamb made in
to mince-meat, and pressed into
form in a wine-glass, then fry in pork
fat, with sprig Of green placed in
the top of each little cone. The bas-
ket of fruit-peeches, pears, grapes
or apples, oranges or grapes-should
be tastefully arranged and trimmed
with leaves and flowers. The bowl
of salad should be Ornamented with
the scarlet and orange flowers of the
trop@olum,-their pibuant favor
adding zest to the lettuce, with which
they can be eaten.-Scrjbner.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-07-19
Origin OF Fires.

The cause of certain fires is ex-
planned by the following hypothesis:
When oxide of iron rust is placed
in contact with timber, excluded from
the atmosphere, and aided by a
slightly increased temperature, the
oxide parts with its oxygen. and is
converted into very finely divided
particles of metallic iron, having such
an affinity for oxygen that, when af-
terward exposed to the action of the
atmosphere from any cause, oxygen
is absorbed so rapidly that these par
ticles become suddenly red-hot; and
if insufficient quantity, will produce
temperature far beyond the igni-
table point of dry timber. Wherever
iron pipes are employ ed for the cir
culation of any heated medium eth
er by hot water, hot air, or steam,
and wherever these pipes are allow
ed to become rusty, and are also in
close contact with timber, it is only
necessary to suppose that, under
these circumstances, the finely di-
vided particles of metallic iron be-
come exposed to the action of the
atmosphere land this may occur from
the mere expansion or contraction
of the pipes in order to account for
many of the fires which periodically
take place at the commencement of
the Winter season.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-07-19

Old gentleman, we know you dote n
your boys, but you caunot 10 q bet
ter thing than TO train them to agri-
cultural or mechanical pursuits. The
professions are full. There are more
doctors and lawyers lhi.4 the public
can support. It takes years of Toll
to gain a foothold that Is firm, and
when that is obtained the poor fell
low finds his head sprinkled with
white hairs, his eyes dim and his
brow HrinKled. He is nearly old,
and has fretted away the golden days
of his manhood. No, let the nobis,
ambitious young fellows get mar
ried, settle down, construct nice,
comfortable homes. lay out farms,
start the heels and the mills, raise
cotton, corn, stock and every thing in
the farming line. There, is to be
found true independence. There, it
may be reached within very short
time, but in the cities it is the work
of lifetime. Yes, there are open
ings here for the dissatisfied boys of
the country, that need not be sought.
They seek their victims.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-07-19
Gapes in Chickens.

Put one tablespoon of wheat into
a vial, and pour on spirits OF turpen-
tine to cover the wheat, and keep
the vial well corked. Whenever you
find symptoms of gapes in chicken,
open its mouth and compel 1T to
swallow one OF two grains OF the sa-
turated wheat. Repeat the opera
ton morning and evening Sd long
as needed, and, If commenced IN
time, IL will cure nine cases out of
ten. The above has been a success
In my hands and that of my neigh
bors. We have seen it stated that
fowls affecteI with Gt2es could be
cured by forcing down the windpipe
little sweet oil through EIn ii
glass syringe. The oil kills the
worms, and relieves the bird at
once.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-07-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Steamboats, were first used on the
Hudson River in 1907, in England in
1912, IN France In 1916.
The consumption of sugar in the
United States, amounts to 100000
tons annually.
A correspondent of an English
paper recommends the laying OF old
iron about roso-bushes. He finds
that the iron-rUst acts as q tonic to
the rose.
A Connecticut Colony that went
to Kansas a year ago and secured
building lots for 50 apiece, have sold
some of the same Tor $700 each
Fenimore Cooper was a busy wri-
ter in his day, produced thlrty-nine
volumes in thirty years. Thirly-tM o
of the volumes were novels.
Colonel King, of Texas, has lit
tie farm of 81, 1872 acres, stocked with
$4,000 cattle, 10000 horses, 1000
sheep, and 5000 goats.
A residuary legacy by John Red
man, "A Boston master builder, to the
Massachusetts, General Hospital, has
turned out, on final settlement OF
the estate 10 the amount of $446,-
900.
Keepers of coffee-houses, hotels,
public houses, and eating houses in
ROme, are punished by imprison-
ment of not less than ten or more
than thirty days if they permit bias
phemy on the premises.
The New Orleans PicQyune men
tions the shipment of u bale of ramie
from that city to Baltimore, and ex-
presses the belief that it is the first
bale of this fibre ever sent to market
from that country.
California produced 100000 gal
Ions of wine and 100000 gallons oi
brandy in 1871. The total area il
vineyard is about 10000 acres, and
the gross yield to the vineyardists is
estimated at 50, 1000 The price
of the wine and brandy to consumers
out of the State is three times as
much as the vineyardists receive.
There are now plantedin New Jer.
sey @, 900 acres with cranberries. Two
years from now they will be in full
bearing, when that Stete will take
the lead in cranberry culture, as she
did few years ago with strawber.
ries, raspberries, and blackberries.
If you wait for others to lift your
burdens of life. the probability is
you will lie overwhelmed and crushed
beneath them. Ts best way is to
lift them yourself, one Dy one, as
they come, until you have placed
them oil behind you.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-07-19
An Ocean FIOater.

The ship Blue Jacket was burned
on the 9th of March, 1869, IN about
63 degrees south latitude and 60 de-
grees west longitude. between the
Falkland Islands aud Cape Horn,
on her voyage from New Zealand to
England. The figure head of the
Blue Jacket was lately picked up at
the little island of Rottnest, near to
Fremantle, Western Australia, a dis
tance of over 5000 miles from the
point of disaster. The time occupied
IN traversing the distance was about
two years and a half, making a
mean rate of SIX miles and a half q
day. This incident throws some
light on the direction and speed OF
the ocean currents between South
America and the Western coast oi
Australia.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-07-19
MATERING.PLACE NENs.

Cadet hops have commenced at
West Point.
Landlords at Cape May have great
expectations.
Beaa Brummels at the seasidewear
white flannel suits.
English families are in the najori-
ty at Lake George.
Swampscutt has fifteen hundred
fashionables from Boston.
There are three new hotels among
the White Mountains.
GiImore's band goes to Swahspcutt
in July for six weeks
Blue fishing is one of the f4vorite
pastimes ut Watch Hill Point.
Vlrginia's first families are concen-
trating at White Sulphur Springs.
Overlook Mountain is the name of
new hotel among the Caiskills-
The Saratoga hotels viii have reg
ular bands on and after this week.
Mountain resorts are receiving
god share attee.ia rota tour
isis.
President Grant lives very quietly
and unostentatiously atLong Branch.
New London has its full quota of
exclusive and reputive aristocrahc
guests.
Cozzen's PaIsade House is supe-
rior to his former establishment at
West Point.
Four-in-hands will be quite nu-
merous at Saratoga, A Mr.. Lord
has the finest.
Foreign ambassadors and other
notables have commenced to settle at
Newport.
Leslie Wallacks cottage is the most
elegantly furnished of any at the
Branch.
Excellent precautions against bath
ing accidents have been made at At
lantic City.
Morning dancing parties will be
feature of the season at Congress
Hall, Saratoga.
Schooley's Mountain has managed
to attract all its old patrons again
this season.
Islip, Long Island, counts Mrs.
Gen. Sherman and family among the
recent arrivals.
Natty little excursion steamers
have vecommenced gliding up and down
Lake George.
There is talk Of building q hotel on
Block Island in time for the season
of 1873.
Tarrytown on-the-Hudson is one
of the most beautiful and attractive
summer resorts.
Rye Beach is the acknowledged
rendezvous for all the ultra fashiOna-
bles Of New Hampshire.
The ''Old Mill" at Newport is still
an object Of interest and curiosities
to visitors there.
White Mountain travel has been
rendered easy and rapid by the re-
cent improvement in the roads.
Narragansett, despite bad wealth
er and fierce opposition, is doing
about as well as can be expected.
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fore his time; but to him is due the
immortal honor of adaring to put
these traditions to the test. It would
have been well if the continent had
been named after him; but the name
it now bears Ia musical and beauti-
ful, and as it has been consecrated
IN history as the home of freedom,
and rendered llGstsious and sacred
to us by the s4ges, warriors, and men
of fgenius it has produced, it viii stand
until time shall cease to add "ene
freeman more, America, to thee p
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-07-19

"Please inform me through the
Monthly, how my Orleander can be
made to bloom, usually it has pro
fusion OF clusters Of fresh young buds,
giving promise of future beauty, bat
there it ends, the flowers do not ap-
Dear."-M I. W.
THE Orleander requires a rich
soil, and a light sunny place, with
plenty of water; but yet the soil must
allow OF the water passing rapidly
away, through the bottom of the tub
or pot. Most likely your tub is full
of roots, and the water does not soak
through, the buds are very likely to
drop before opening under such Cir
cumstances - Gardeners Monthly.
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DRIFTING.
BY THOMAS BUouAxAx READ.

BY TEoAAs BUCHANAN READ.
Ny soul,to-day is far away,
Sailing the VeeuVian Bay:
Ny winged boat, bird afoat,
S"lins round The purple peaks remote.
Round purple peaks It sails and seeks
Blue inlets, and their crystal creeks,
Whrre high rocks threw, through deeps below,
o'eriooAing the volcanic lands.
Far, Yagua and dim, the Laountains swim.
While on Yesuviuss misty b-im
with outstretched hands, the gray smoke stands
OeEtooking the volcanic lands.
Here Ischia smiles DER LIQUID miles.
And yonder. bluest OF the isles,
Calm apri waits, her sapphire gates
begHiiing TO her bright estates.
heedsnot, II my rippling slciR
Float Float swift or slow from cliff 70 clif,-
With dreamful eyes my spirit lies
Under the walls Of Paradise.
Under the walls where swells the falls
The bays deep breast at intervals
Al peace lie. blown softly by,
cloud upon this liquid sky
The day, 80 mild, is heavens own child
With earth and ocean Eeconciled =
The airs feel arOund me steal
are murmuring 10 the muTmuring keel.
Over the rail my hand trail
Within the shadow of the sail
a JOY intense, the cooling sense
9lides down my drowsy Incidence.
With dreadful eyes my spirit lies
Where summer sings and never dies
osyeryeiiod with vines, she grows and shines,
Among her future oil and wines.
Her children hid, the cliffs amid
Are gamboiiRg with the gambOline kid;
Or down the walls, with dpsy calls
Laugh on the walls like waterfalls
The fishers dhild, with tresses wild
Unto the smooth, bright sand beguiled,
win glowing lips, sings as she skips,
Or gaze at the far-oG ships.
YOn deep bark goes where traffic blows
From lands OF sun to lands OF SHOWS;
This happier one its course is run
From lands Of snow 20 lands of sun
Oh, happy ship, 10 rise and dip;
With the blue crystal at your lipl
Oh, happy crew, my heart with you
Balls, and saIls and sings anew
NO more, no more, the worldly shore
Upbraids me with loud uprOar!
With dreamful eyes my spirit lies
Under the walls OF Paradise
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-07-19
The Horld,s Death Rate.

An examination Of the life statis-
tics of the census of this country and
Of Europe reveals many interesting
particulars. The number of deaths
in Europe every year is out of eve
ry 40 inhabitants, or z $500 per
cent, nearly double the average
death rate in the United States,
which is only for BYsry 81 inhabi-
tants, or l 23-100 per cent. The
leading countries of Europe present
the following annual bills of mortali-
fv.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-07-19
Inhabitant.

These tables, which viii be new to
most persons, are another evidence
how highly we, In this new country
of ours, are favored. It is a general
Ga that longevity of the Old World
exceeds that of the New, but, il it is
so, it is so only in special classes -
those rSised by wealth and rank and
social privilege above the many.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-07-19

A vulture, 6 Is said can hy ons
hundred and fifty-nine miles an
hour, Wild geese, ninety miles an
hour, the coemOn crow, twenty nFe
1ailes. and swallows, ninety miles.
It issaid that = falcon Was discover
"a at Malta, twenty-four hours after
the departure Of King Henry ~, OF
France from Fontainebleau. II true
this bird must have flown for twenty
four hours at the rate Of fifty seven
miles an hour, not allowing him to
rest for a moment during the whole
time.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-07-19
The Worlds Work,

Our external lives are not made
up of great occasions, and our great
ness is not in superhuman and ex-
hausti ve effort, but in gradual growth
and this is nourished by little friend
ly acts and sacrifices which call into
exercise every family of soul and
sense; and the lives which most de-
sire to be called sublime are those of
which the world and history take lit
tie account. Ths lives of men and
women around us are, for the most
part, commonplace, and we could
not afford to have it otherwise. II
all of them were reaching after oc-
casions Of rendering themselves sub
lime, how would the worlds work he
done? The worlds work is tiresome,
perpIexing, Uncongenial, and some
times, and for some people of neces-
sity, it is very disagreeable and me-
nial service; yet in the spirit in which
this work may be conceived and car
ried forward to the end, there is a
sublime purpose and conservation,
be the end ever so humble.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-07-19
A Years Vital Statistics in London.

London, with a population of g.
100000 still grows rapidly. The
number of births last year were 112,-
$50 against 80, ,332 deaths. The es-
timated increase of population be-
tween the middle of 1871 and 1872
is As, ,7I9; so that the natural increase
was supplemented by about 10000
representing the excess of immigra-
ton over emigration. The birth
rate varies rem arkably in different
sections of the population, depend
ing much upon ages, proportion oil
the sexes, coniugal condition, and
social positions. The death-rate IL
London is 1871 was 24.7 per 1000,
being 81. above that for all England
exclusive of the deaths from small
pox the London death-rate would
have been only 22.3. AS it was, the
rate of mortality was higher than In
any year since 1865, when cholera
was epidemic. The male death-rate
of London in 1871 was 26.6, while
while among the females it was 22.8,
at the recent census there were 49,
0 females living IN London to each
100 males. In 1871 there were q
594 deaths from violent causes in
London, 2,138 of them from negli-
gence or accident, including 900 from
fractures and contusions, among
which are 20S deaths caused by
horses and vehicles in the streets.
Among the deaths by negligence OF
accident are 400 from sulfocatiOn,
nearly all cases of infants. There
were I09 ca .es OF murder or man
slaughter, nearly all of them cases
of Infanticide.
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Inhabitants.

The lte-tables of the United States
show a much wider range; from the
highest, Arkansas, where the annual
deaths are l to 40 inhabitants lit
tie over two per cent. of the pOpula
tion-to the lowest, Oregon, whose
death rate is less than one half of one
per cent, or 1 to every 209 inhabi-
tants. The following classification,
or grouping, of the States and Terri
tories, will be found interesting. l.
exhibits the average yearly number
of deaths to nomination:
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A car load Of butter from San
francisco, the first that has ever
reached the Massachusetts market
from the Pacific coast, arrived IN
Boston last week, aud was looked
upon with considerable interest by
produce dealers. 1t contained 100
boxes and 40 packages, and the
whole shipment weighed within a
fraction of ten tons.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-07-19

Why is dressing a fahguing pro-
eess1 Because it's a-tiring (attiring)
yourself Strange that this thought
so seldom occurs to the ladies.
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Beersheba Springs, the favorite
resort of the South, is full to over
hoaing this season.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-07-19

Words are wise mems counters
they do but reckon by them; but
they are the money of fools.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-07-19

Roast beef and plenty of outdoor
air is the successful prescription for
cOnsumptiOn.
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Vice and laziness have everywhere
their votaries, and the vestiges of the
''shabby footstep" are to be met with
in all places. No human beings ever
congregated into community, with
out inclUding among themselves the
just and the unjust, the wise and the
ignorant, the evil and the good.
If civil word or two viii render
a man happy, he must be vretched
indeed who viii not give them to
him. Such a disposition is like
lighting another maa's candle by
ones own, which loses none Of its
brilliancy by what the other gains.
Mr.. John W. Hughes of GAINESVILLE,
Ohio, states that Alton, Ill, is the
best place in America for making
glass. His reasons as that lime,
pot clay, and coal are all to be found
there in abundance, and facilities
for shipping by river and rail, are
unsurpassed.
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He who avoids temptation avoids
sin.