The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-03-15


Five feet FIVE inches is said to be
the perfection of height for wo-
man.
A French woman In Toledo, wife
OF a fisherman, speared five hum
dred pike in four days. 20 7.-
"Comeand kiss me- Is the name
OF a small Vicksburg steamboat.
Anna Dickinson, report says, is
not to marry, but is to go on the
stage.
Mrs. Rawlins, widow of the late
Secretary of War, has married Mr..
q. +. Daniels, of New York.
Some ''horrid" man says that il
the present style of dressing young
ladies hair it is hard to tell which is
switch. -zzeau.s
Whats in dress?" says a popu-
lar writer. Sometimes a great deal
and sometimes a precious little.
There is time for all things. The
time to 'leave" is when a young lady
asks you how the walk. is.
Mrs. Lamb, of Petersburg, Va,
became deranged from investing in
lottery tickets and failing to draw
prizes. ,a
Half OF the sorrows Of women
would be averted if they ueould re-
press the speech they know to be
useless-nay, the speech they had
resolved not to utter.
Tight lacing caused a lady of I'm
adilla, New York, to burst e blood
vessel two days after her marriage.
A cynical lady, rather inclined to
fiirt, says most men are like. a cold
very easily caught. but very difficult
to get rid Of. -
Mollie Morton is the most unpop-
ular young lady in Louisville female
circles now. She was the especial
favorite of Alexis when he was in
that city.
It is the fashion for ladies during
Lent to wear large chain of jet
around the waist, which hangs at
one side and to which is attached a
large jet cross.
Knoxville, Tenn, has a youthful
feminine tax collector-Miss Lucy
SteVens-who collects more in q day
than dozen publicans could in a
fortnight esf
A South End, Boston, woman has
recently presented her husband with
a $1,000 house, which amount she
had saved out Of her housekeeping
fund.
A virtuOus WON an is thus describ-
ed by Solomon: She looketh well
to the way of her household,s and
eatheth not the bread of idleness.
Six hundred girls, aged from ff-
teen to twenty, applied in one after
noon at the New York Grand Ope-
ra-house for places in the Oriental
marches in LalId ROokh.
There is woman in Philadelphia
who weighs but ninety-fve pounds,
although she eats three pounds of
meat between the sunrise and sun
set of every day.
Mrs. James w. Mays has amazed
the people of Fulton, KY, by her
skill as a marksman. Last week,
with o rifle, she shot several wild
geese, hitting each exactly in the
head.
Mrs. Horace Greely, who has been
considered incurably sick with pull
monary affection, has almostentire-
ly recovered her health at the,Isle OF
Wight, and will soon return to
America.
An Ohio man has been married
seventy-fve years, and has had his
mother-in-law as a boarder during
the whole time. He says he has
never had cause to regret her COM
pany, and recommends her as q
model mother-in-iaw. She is now
1O5 years old. tE@
A Boston lady declares that she
is guilty of downright falsehood a
dozen times day, by saying to. peo-
pie whom she meets, 'I am so glad
to see you" and she cannot break
herself of the habit of so lying.
In the Elgin watch factories three
hundred of the five hundred EN-.
ployes are girls who earn from VteI
to twenty dollars a week, and do tho
more delicate part of the work more
skillfully than men. So
Mrs. Brown of North Carolina,
having stated that she cured her
consumption by partaking of kero-
sene oil, her example was quickly
followed by several neighbors. The
delusion was soon exploded, how
ever.
The girls in the Iowa State Agri-
cultural College not only knew more
about farming than the male stu
dents, but have become profcients
in making beds and dusting, under
the superlntendence of a matron
and general housekeeper.
The Chicago Post has q female
editor whose extraordinary abilities
were first manifested, according to
the Woman's Journal, when she
was sent out to write up slight
street-car difficulty, and returned
with full report, to which was add
ed complete history of yehicular
locomotion from the days Of Hector
: and Troy.
The daily noon dav I1rayer-In eet-