The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-04-24
SAYINGS AND DOINGs.

ONE of the incest ways of committing
suicide, and Of revenging yourself on
your neighbor at the same time, is to
Jump down his well.
Ir's a good time to get married now,
when butteris forty-fve cents per pound,
as bridal couples don't require any sohd
food for the first month.
People who didn't draw anything in
the Louisville lottery viii now swear on
forever, and In about six weeks viii be
hunting after tickets in another drawing
GERMANY has a number of experiment
tai farms, where all new theories con-
nected with agriculture or cattle-raislng
are tried and their merits pronounced
upon.
THE Chicago Tribune prints poem in
which the writer wishes that she had ''a
heart full of sweet yearlings." How the
prosecuted author must have yearned to
tumble among that compesitor's hair.
TIE disease known as trichina is
causing terrible havoc among the hogs
along the Kaskaskia river in Illinois.
Not less than ten thousand hogs have
died already, and the fatality is still
unchecked.
FROM Cape Town it is stated that the
diamond fields are under cloud. They
have not only suffered from floods, but
their value is depreciating, and the de-
cline in price has caused commercial
embarrassment.
A MAGNIFICENT gambling hell, like
that of Baden-BadeR and at Homburg,
as they were when at the height of their
popularity, is talked of as one of the fu-
ture attractions of Cairo. The Khedive
10 cod 70 tho
A NORTH CAROLINA Judge added three
years to a mans sentence because the
fellow hit him on the pate with ouid
of tobacco and called him "old hoss."
It does seem as if the word freedom"
had no business in this country.
Two HUNDRED people in a Colorado
town recently turned out In body to
look upon a bedstead with castors, it be-
ing the first ever seen in the county. The
possessor had his hat ever his left ear,
and was for time a greater man than
the mayor.
TaE American Register, of Paris, in
forms us that dancing is going out of
fashion in Europe, and says: eff men
and women could fiirt as conveniently
and as pleasantly without its protection,
it would be given up altogether in civil
lied countries"
THE North Carolina Legislature has
passed a law which imprisons for five
years ''any person who manufactures,
sells or deals IN spirituous liquors as a
drink, of any name or kind, containing
foreign properties or ingredients poison
Gus to the system.
TIE smallest postoffice in the world Is
kept in a barrel, which swings from the
outermost rock of the mountains over
hanging the Straits of Magellan, oppo-
site Terre del Fuego. Every passing
ship opens it to place letters in or TO
take them out. Every ship undertakes
to forward all letters IN it that it is pos
sible for them to transmit. It hangs
there by its iron chain, beaten and bat
tered by the winds and storms, but no
locked and barred Office on land is more
secure. Tt IS not in the track of mail
robbers.
TEXAS is developing an inexhaustibIe
supply of salt. Her bayous are veri-
table mines of wealth, if properly
worked. One of these-the Laguna
Madre-is one hundred and twenty
miles long. and from three to tx miles
broad, and not more than eighteen
inches deep. The water is rapidly
evaporated, and the salt settles IN great
quantities in the bottom. The amount
of salt from this source is estimated at
10000, 900 bushels in the season, which,
it is said, can be placed on navigation
at ten cents per bushel.
WHEN Napoleon the Great died at ST..
Helena, an English physician took
charge of his heart, depositing it in a
silver basin filled with water. Two
tapers burned near It, but the custodian
felt nervously anxious while Watching
it through the night, and did not sleep.
In the silence of midnight he heard a
rustling sound, then a plunge into the
water, and a rebound on the hOor-alI
occurring with the quickness of thought.
He sprang from his bed to see an enor-
nous rat dragging the precious relic to
his hole. a moment more and the
heart which had been too vast in its
ambition to be satisfied with the sover-
eighty of continental Europe would
have been more degraded tsan the dust
of imperial Caesar.
THE smoIdering of the fires in the
burnt district of Chicago continued for
a great length of time, and it was re-
marked by q gentleman that he had
lighted a cigar In the ruins months af-
ter the confagration. Instances are
not rare where fires have smoldered for
years. At Singer, Nimick & Co. s Shelf
field steel-works, PittsbuTg, an extern
si7e smoldering fire, that baffi3s the
best efforts to extinguish it, has been
discovered, dangerously near the new
Tneeting-house. The ground fronting
on the river has been formed by the de-
posit OF cinders from the mill, and may
have been a hidden mass of fire for one
or two years. The firm lost consider
able from a fire some time since Vari-
GUS other Pittsburg rolling mills have
had such fres-in one instance known
to have existed for two years, and in
another for some eight or ten months.