The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-08-16
GENERAL ITEMS.

A YOUNG lady being asked her
opinion of moustaches, replied: 81
always set my face against themp
PRINCE ARTHUR of England is Wi
ting a series of magazine articles on
the organization of the British army
THE light of match will fright
en- a wolf away, it's said. But love
matches don't always keep the wolf
from the door.
A CHICAGO woman has married
a man in Jail. She brags she is
''the only girl in town who knows
where her teller stays of night"
A New London husband adver-
tises one cent reward for the return
of his elopeVl wife, but doesn't think
it worth while to have any one sent
after her.
.'Tate hsr up tenderly.
Lift her with care.
| No ore knows how dearly she's paid for her
hair"
The VALUE of real and personal
property in Allegheny county, Pa,
| is ISL, O7O. The combined value
of property in Delaware, Florida,
Nevada, Oregon. and Nebraska,
amounts to sos, ,915, or SCI, $780,
155 less than that of a single county
in this State.
A CONSTABLE in Ohio lately test
fed in court as follows CT know
nothing of her but what the neigh
bors say; and, in my oFiniop, what
one woman says of another is not
worthy of belief"
The TOTAL value of all property in
the United States, according to the
last census, was something over thir-
| ty billion dollars.
AN Arkansas wife recently sue
ceeded in tarring and feathering her
unlaithful husband after what may
literally be called a pitched battle.
CHARLES CLINTON, So years of age,
and a relative of Dewitt Clinton, was
struck by train on the Midland
railroad, Friday, and fatally injured.
He was the inventor of the patent
safety-valve, car coupling. locomo-
tive spark-catcher, fange for car
wheels, car-spripgs, the combustible
boilers, self,registering scales, CO.
ment, and many other patents. He
built Harpers second building in
Franklin Square.
THE FASHION of utilizing one part
of the human body to repair another
is extending. A young man in
Waverly, II. Y, had his foot mashed
} by car, and a space of several in
ches sloughed off. Several pieces OF
: flesh were taken off the mans arm
: and planted on the wound, some two
weeks ago, and have all ''taken root,
( and the foot is fast recovering.
STATISTICS have been compiled,
from which it appears that during
, the first four months Of 1872 the
amount of money sought TO be raised
for new loans, banks, and iGdus'r rial
undertakings brought out in Eng
. land, America, and on the Continent
was about 100000,
THE MINING fever has broken out
= afresh in Australia. Gold is being
turned up everywhere, and If not
gold, tin and copper. The advertis.
ers of prosrectuses of mining com
panies either "crowd out" the gener.
al intelligence from the daily Jour
nails, or obiige the proprietOrs to Is
, sue extra sheets. New companies
, appear every morning as regular as
! breakfast, and the men who are
waiting for an oFeniDg in life are
. everywhere bursting into full-blown
re-brokers.
5 A TRAVELLER in Florida writes
c "This is the land where towns con.
sist of one house; where steamboat:
Q make eight miles an hour; where
y railroads carry you four miles al
/ hour Con my honor, they are foul
= hours going sixteen miles from To
n col to st. Augustiue); where thu
It happy maxim rules, never do to-day
;. what you can put off till tomorrow
d where the mail com es semi-occasion
/, ally where the newspaper is almos
? as rare as u snowstorm; and wher,
G kilograms are unknown"
0 THE or binary reader who carelessl,
3 examines his dailypaper in the morn
ing, hardly stops to think while read
c ing the doings of almost the entir
/ world the day before, what an i'm
4 mense outlay of money was expend
j ed, and what an army of neWsgath
, erers were employed to collate tn
items he is reading.
n MISS KATE FIELD made an after
Y dinner speech in London. She sal,
. it is useless to talk of the equalit
) of sexes so long as men sit down t,
K turtle-soup in one room, and womel
n stand up to tea and sandwiches il
another, waiting with becoming hu
mility for admission to n Barmecid
" feast of reason and flow of soul.
A GEORGIA man lately died from
. the effects of a scratch from dog
= who was leaping about him in Joy a
e meeting him. Eager philosopher
= are discussing the connection of tn
= case with hydrophobia, but the,
= would show more sense by investi
= eating its connection with the stuff
n that the dog had been paving int,
since last he washed his feet ant
!. cleaned his nails.
; The consumption of animal ivor,
J is something enormous. Sheffield
he alone would demand the killing O
q 10000 elephants annually, were Their
$ no other sources of supply. On
Is great source of late years is found il
N the tusks of mammoths, an extinc
1t species of elephant, which lived i
II Northern Siberia some two hundre,