The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-02-12
RATEs o. ApvERT1sINe.
FACTs AND FANoIEs.

The late emperor of China left a
widow only sixteen years old.
Atlanta, Ga. has two widows, sis
ters, aged respectively thirteen and
fifteen years.
CT guess I'll take this book" re-
marked a Chicago lady to the clerk of a
bookstore "it's got twice as much
gold-leaf on the cover as any of the
rest"
"A Memphis doctor treated a man
for asthma when the disease was kid
ney complaint, and a jury made him
fork over So, 600, which soothes the
kidneys wonderfully.
The citizens of Gettysburg are in a
starving condition. Most of them in
vested their money in material for
making battle relics, the relics won't
sell, and business is dead broke.
Sheridan didn't always get the best
of dialogue. Some one characterized
him as ' good at fight, but better at
play, godlike in giving, but the devil to
pay" Just after be had taken q new
house he met Lord Gdilford, to whom
he said {: Well, all will go on now
like cIockwork." EYES," said his lord
ship, " tick, tick.
--Baudy, the decorator of the rev
opera-house in Paris, was sadly bother
ed for an idea by which to represent
the " Music of England emblematic-
ally in his frescoes. He painted finally
three little genii. One carried the
Irish harp, the other the Scotch bag
pipes, and the third paid the two first
for playing, and tried to look as if he
understood the music; so says q
French wag.
A recently patented automatic lock
is so constructed that it can be unlock
ed by no persons except during bank
ing hours. The lock was puTposely in
vented to obviate bank officials from
being taken from their beds at night
and compelled TO open their vaults by
burglars, as has been frequently done
in many parts of the country. The
lock is said to be no longer an exper-
iment.
Stockholm steps tc the front with
a new explosive twice as powerful as
dynamite. A chemist of that city is
the inventor, and claims that a charge
of eight ounces in five cartridges de-
posted in drill hole five feet deep Ie-
on its explosion, a mass of rock
over 100 cubic feet in volume. It is
called "vigorite "a very appropriate
name, If its merits are what Is claimed
for it. A few tons Of it properly placed
might be made most beneficial IN a
general distribution of the hidden
wealth of the Nevada bonanza.
in old times the class of writer's
who in our day fabricate sagacious dog
stories used TO entertain people with
stories like this: 4" A strange clock
belonged to HiDdOo prince. In front
Of the clocks disk was a gong swung
upon poles, and near it was a pile of
artificial human limbs. The pile was
made up of the same number of parts
necessary to constitute twelve perfect
bodies, bat all lay heaped together in
confusion. When the hands
Of the clock indicate the hour of one,
put from the pile crawled just the
number of parts needed to form the
frame of one man, part coming to part
with quick click, and, when completed,
he figure spraDg up, seized a mallet,
md, walking up to the gong, struck
,ne blow. This done, he returned to
he pile and fell to pieces again. When
wo o'clock came, two men arose and
lid likewise and at the hour of noon
md midnight the entire heap sprang
I'D, and, marching to the gong, struck,
ne sitter the other, his blow, making
Welve in all then returning, fell to
Jieces as before"