The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-12-13
HISEELLANFOTTe


A cargo of American apples is on the
way to Australia, where the fruit sells at
SO per bushel.
The Astor House, New York, as soon
as its present lease expires, will be con-
verted into stores and Offices.
Paper shirts were so much of a sue
cess last year that great preparations are
making for this years trade.
Recent trials in New York prove their
most powerful freengines unable TO
throw water to the top Of their very high
buildings.
A little English boy ten years old has
just received a bronze medal from the
Royal Humane Society for his courage
in rescuIng from drowning small boy
and girl who had fallen IN rain swollen
stream.
The Emperor of Russia at his recent
visit to the cemetery at Sabastopol. where
repose the soldiers killed during the
siege, planted two acacias before the
tomb Of Prince Michael Gortschaoff and
crowned his bust with flowers.
The London Times, in view Of the
great increase of drinking in England,
exclaims: Among all tho writers, all
the takers, all the preachers, all the
workers, all the names We see daily
blazoned on the roll of English fame, are
there acne that will Sc. about to ablte
this nuisance ard scandal-our nationa
drunkenness r.
Tfmid people should aviod England.
i poor girl was arrested there AMI kept
week in jail, simply because she looked
nervous and afraid, and 4 little man from
the country behaved 50 queerly, on his
first visit to London, that the police lock-
ed him up. He was tie most harmless
creature in the world, and being scared
vas his only cfense.
On the night Of the Boston fire a
dealer in boots and shoes, finding that
the fire had reached his rear store, said
to few strangers who had assisted him:
You might as we'll help yourself to
boots" One fellow took pair the mer,
chant handed him, AMI after CHANGING at
them said: you haven't got 4 pair of
slim sevens, have yon?' An explosion
next door prevented a response
Inasmuch as heat Increases about one
degree every fifty feet tia. We penetrate
the earth, a scientif; writer proposes
that we bore four or five, OF ten thousand
feet, if necessary, and from the heat thus
obtained drive CUR engines, Wa m our
dwellings,, by conducting it under the
soil, and by the aid of glass, grow in New
England all the Southern AMI tropical
fruits, and melt the snow il the streets
of our cities.
a race of people, differing in nearly all
respects from the Asiatics, inbabit the
Kurle Islands, north Of japan. They
are called Airos, AID are said by etomoI-
ogists to be members of the Caucasian
race. Quite recently, it is said, an an
cient literature has been found among
them, of higher order, and proving that
their ancestors enjoyed a civilization
that will compare favorably with that Of
any Of the earlier nations Of the world
An English lady of family and fortune,
about SO years of age, has bestowed her
heart and hand upon a youth Of II, whose
Occupation has hitherto been attending
the "Icader" of an omnibus and attach
ing drag4 to tho wheels of carriages.
The lady was district visitor, and hap
penning to call upon the lads mother,
who was an invalid, she was Sd struck
with his devotion, that she thought it
would be good thing to havehim in the
family.
A gentleman sent to the intelligence
Office to obtlin ''yonng LADY, to look on
while his wife did the work The fair
creature who was offered for the pace,
after asking some fifty questions about
whether they had tubs set whether
the Kitchen was down stairs" &;
asked how many evenings she could have
"out" "WeH," said the gentleman, 81
don't see how we can let you have more
than seven How many children have
you ? sail tbs hand maiden "Only one
boy eight years Old but Wen drown him
if you think he'd be in the road"
The London Economist says: 1--WE
do not suppose that the Americans will
permit the etiquette about reflections
to be broken in 1875, but we can see
quite clearly that General Grant will
have a chance of a third t:rm, such as
his predecessors have never enjoyed
The South will be in his hands, and if the
parties are even tolerably equal, the
! President, who while President, carries
the whole negro vote, will be, for one
party or the other, the only unconquer-
able candidate. We may yet date from
this election a real and n considerable
change in American politics, for apart
from all considerations of personal char
acter, it has, as We conceive, enormously
strengthened the hands of the presidency
Itself"