The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-01-08
FACTS AND FANoIEs.

What is the largest room in the
world? The room for Improvement.
In Texas they hang a man when he
refuses to marry the girl whose hand he
has sought, and the poor devil is gen.
orally very glad to get off so lightly.
One by one the roses fade. It is now
boldly denied that men who wear long
hair are possessed of any more talent
than men who have it snipped close.
Bones of Robert Bruce were quoted
iu Edinpburgh at e1 los apiece, which
is not much of a bonus considering tho
length of time they've been accumulat-
ing interest.
-Abducting children ought to be en-
couraged. After awhile, when the crop
of small boys had become exhausted,
some Of the big boobies who fire of
pistols on Christmas might be taken.
The other day Binghampton girl
offered to let a countryman kiss her for
five cents. "I gad," exclaimed the
bucolic youth, that's darn cheap If a
fellow only had the money"
1.-THE child has since died is the
laconic remark which a Pennsylvania
paper afixes to an account of a twelve
Year-oId girl who had already mastered
logic, rhetoric, geology, botany and the
mysteries of mental and moral science.
They have a new test for intoxica-
ton in Canada. When a man can pro-
nouree " reciprocity" without tripping,
the police let him go. In Maine the
test is Erastus Richardson, and
''rsssis risson" is deemed conclusive.
The New York World describes
hell as a place where every body be-
longs to a fire company. We suppose
that New York Gnd Boston men monOp-
olize the positions of foremen and
treasureTs.
Two French savans have presented
to the French academy of sciences the
result of their experiments upon flame
produced by the mixture OF sulphur of
carbon and bioxide of nitrogen. The
light produced by it Is so intense as to
quite eclipse the sun. By the help of
it, photographers viii be able to do
their work at any hour of the day or
night and IN any condition of the at
mosphere.
Next spring one hundred English
swells are coming for q grand buffalo
hunt on the Plains. The hunt ID to be
organized on magnificent scale. Twtn-
ty ecouts, headed by Buffalo Bill will
ehaperon them, aud in addition to vast
retinue of servants, cooks, groOms, and
vale 8. tLey will be accompanied by a
brass band, which viii discourse sweet
music as they gather abont their camp
fire to partake of the evening meal OF
canned uffalo meat.
The Woman's Journal notices the
progress of the sex in England. 1t
saws There is growing up in England
q large class of women who do not mar
~, but who apparently wish not to
marry. They deliberately devote them
selves TO literature, to teaching, to some
trade, generally an artistic one, st any
rate to some occupation that gives
livelihood and tends TO culture, and this
they choose for life. The marrying
instinct seems dead, or rather never to
have been born in them.
"A story is told of two pretty Balti-
more girls. who were out rowing on the
Lake Of Lac rne, and when the barge
of the King of Holland came along, in
stead eff trailing oars and respectfully
falling behind royalty, actually raced.
The king was evidently amused with
this exhibition of American indeper-
dence, and made a sign to his oart men
tc let the young ladies go ahead: Com
ing to the quay second, he told his cox
swain TO moor the victOrs' boat, and
sail Z" He knew they we're Americans.
Experiments made within the past
six months have developed the astound-
ing fact in natural magic that four mes
sages can be sent over a single wire as
readily as two, and that through mes
sages and local ones can be sent with
out interfering with one another over
the same wire. While, for instance,
messages are being simultane ouslv ex-
changed between Boston and New York,
two more can be sent on the same wire
between Boston and Worcester two be-
tween Worcester and Springfield, and
two between Springfield and New
Haven or New York, making in all
eight separate and distinct messagea
crossing and recrossing on one wire at
the same moment Of time.-OLd and
RelO.