The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-03-30

and he will require absolute satisfaction
from the Pekin government. The claim
IS supported by the American and Eng
lish representatives., and Admiral Ryder,
of the British navy, has rendered his
squadron TO aid the German war ships if
necessarT
THF largest ice house known is in
Br.Ossels, Belgium, the roof covering an
area or eighteen thousand feet. The
walls arc double, and filled in with moss
and sawdust. There are nine separate
ice-chambers, each one of thirty thousand .
cubic feet capacity. The temperature
never exceeds thirty-six and half de- /
grees Fahrenheit. There are galleries
set apart for the storing of meat in hot .
weather, capable of hanging two thou
sand quarters, and having them perfectly |
isolated. \ million tons Of ice have been !
stored in the building at one time,
A VERY important invention has
been made by Lieutenant Makaro1, of
the RUlssi1n navy, which is intended to
prevent the sinking of ships in cases of
collision or other damage. 1t consists of
'nats, which can be effectively applied
Immediately after the occurrence Of a
leak. The mats are practically indie
structible when exposed to the ragged
edge Of iron plates, however large the
aperture or severe the pressure of the
water. They are perfectly water-tight,
and continuous sUbmersion only tends to
strengthen thoir qualities. The Russian
navy is now supplied with them, and
several ships have been raised through
their agency.
AIRS. SWIsSHELM sa Us, very pertinent
ly, concerning the Belknap affair: cit
Is right that the women who have tempted
those dearest to them to do wrong should
bear their full share of the punishment,
and the best way to cure the evil they
represent is to make it odiOus, and let
them have their full share of the odium;
but the great mass of the American peo-
pie are called to repentance by these de-
velopments; and men more than women
need to cultivate taste for simplicity;
for women will always strive to be what
Is most agreeable to them, and if men
had not admired the reckless extrava-
gance which led Belknap to ruin, that
extAvagance would not have existed.
Let the press stop its cunning Aattery Of
stunning toilets and the work of regen-
GRAFTON is half done"
ONE of the plans for retrenchment in
the salaries of pOstmasters now under
consideration by the appropriate house
committees involves the payment of sal
aries according to the varying scale of
box-rents and gross receipts of each Office.
Under it the only pOstmasters who will
receive more than ZOO per annum will
he those of New York, Philadelphia,
Boston, Chicago, St. Louis, San Fran
cisco, Cincinnati and Baltimore. In adj
ditiOn to these the only Postmasters who
will receive So, 800 or upward annually
will be those of Pittsburgh, New Or
leans, Detroit, Cleveland, Washington
Brooklyn, Louisville, Buffalo and Mil.
waukee. Taken altogether the average
an these seventeen cities exceeds four
ahousand dollars, but as the scale de-
scends a large saving is effected.
A NEW electric light, experimental
upon some weeks ago on the roof of the
Siemens-Halske works at Berlin, proved
so successful that ordinary writing could
be read by its aid at the distance of s
mile. When the light was thrown to
ri hp l,Nr, .,c,, q
luminous train appeared thereon, which
much resemblC,d the tail of a comet, anC
drew together great crowds of spectatOr
in the streets. Signals made by the in
strume.ht were also repeated upon tht
cl2Cds, becoming thus visible at a very
%ceat distance. The experiments wer
made in the presence of a large numbe
pf officers of artillery and of othe
branches Of the government service, ant
were continued for nearly two hours
The instrument, which is provided wit
a locomotive engine, will be set up i
the Tegel artillery polygon for furthe
experiment, the German war departmer
having the intention of purchasing Sc,
eral of the machines for military us
both afiOat and ashore.
THE Portuguese are preparing to exc
else a little coercion on the Chimes
Portugal never makes much stir in Il
world, but when her trade is interfere
with she is very apt to do a little figh
ing or protesting on her own accoun
The mail from Shanghai brings the int
ligence that the Portuguese authOriti
at Macao "threaten TO remove the CT
nese Instructions to the trade of tn
port by an armed force of five thousar
troops" The distractions" consist
the vessels of the Chinese revenue serviC
which have been trying to prevent {
prosecution of the maritime trade of t
city. Macao is situated on a narrC
isthmus on the Chinese coast, at t
mouth of the Canton river. The pla
was given to the Portuguese in 1885
the emperor of China As a reward
their services in rePelling the invasio
of japanese pirates. In lS45 the Pc
was opened to foreigners, but the c.
ncse we're subjected to a tariff until Is.
Until 1874 Macao was the great point
shipping coolies to the west, but the c
ucse stopped the traffic at that tin
The population is 100, 900, of whom 6
600 are Chinese. In the event of v
growing outof the overt acts of the {
nese government, the Portuguese wol
doubtless be triumphant.