The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-04-13

RAIN or shine, the Centennial expo
sition will be opened on the 10th of
May and the formal programme has
just been issued. Wagner leads off with
an original march. and is followed by
Whittier with his hymn and Sidney
Lanter, of Georgia, with cantata.
Then comes General Hawley with his
official statement and his introduction
of the president, who will close the
ceremonies by procIaiming the halls
open to the public
The French hygiene commission has
made report to the Paris municipality
in respect to cremation. The report sets
forth that if the system of common
gravesis to be continued cremation would
offer great sanitary advantages. The
commission foresees, however, that legis
lative obstacles would arise, as the de
struction of bodies would prevent the
detection Of certain crimes. If adopted,
the commission thinks cremation should
be made optional, and an autopsy should
be made in every case where it is re-
sorted to.
A CORRESPONDENT of the London
Telegraph describes a breakfast to which
he was invited by the khedive of Egypt,
and which consisted of not less than
twenty-five courses, and it lasted until
three o'clock. About the cheapest wine
was hook at fourteen dollars a bottle,
and one dish of peculiar small and del
icate rice, grown on the khedive's own
estates, cost one louis a grain, or about
two dollars and fifty cents a mouthful
1t is hardly necessary to say-which is
probably the reason that the correspon-
dent doesn't do it--that while you are
eating this rice a gOrgeously-unilormed
mamaluke stands by with a musket
loaded with slugs, and at the end of the
first mouthful you have to stop.
The first pure glucose made in this
country is being manufactured at the
glucose works i'll this city. The demand
for the article by confectioners alone, in
the United States, is immense. The
sources of supply heretofore have been
France and Germany, where glucose is
made from potatoes. Here it is the pro-
duct of corn wholly. 1t is pleasing to
the taste as honey. The production of
grape sugar and glucose opens a new de-
partment for Iowa corn. The capacity of
the works here is 500 bushels per day.
This branch of manufacture bids fair to
become of immense Importance to the
state and country.-DaUeDport (IotCa)
Gazette.
THE French ministerof marine reports
a gradual falling off in the sardine fishe-
ries, owing to the inadequate supply of
bait, the roe of Goldfish from the Ameri-
can fisheries having heretofore been relied
on for that purpose. 1t has been found,
however, that grasshoppers pounded into
n paste initiate the roe so exactly that
the most knowing of the sardines cannot
distinguish the difference; and accord
ingly the French government has i'm
ported large quantities of the insects
from Algeria in order to try the new
bait on a large scale. Should the exper-
imcnt prove an entire success the grass
hopper problem which has so puzzled
the western agriculturist may be consid-
cred solved.
THE London Daily News publishes
the following synopsis of the annual pro.
duce of gold and silver from all sources
for the last twenty-five years: The
quinquennial average production of gold
from 1852 to 1856 was C29, 900, 900; from
857 to 1861, c2I SOC, 900 from 1862 to
1866, G22, 700, 900; from 1867 to 1871,
G23, SOC, 900; and from 1871 to 1878. go.
100000, thus showing a steady decrease
while the opposite is the case with silver
viz. 1S52l56, ES,IOO,OOO; 1S57I6I, ES,
100000; 1926, C9,9OO,OOO; 1S6757l
GIO,60O,OO0; and IS7Il75, els, 900, 600
The News attributes the great fall il
silver, which amounts to threepencC
III the rupee, or about twelve per cent
in India, to its increasing disuse, while
the reverse holds good for gold.
Mr.. DIsRAELI, who is admitted by
Englishmen to be one of the most effec
tive parliamentary speakers of the las
two generations, has one popularity tha
might be initiated with advantage by tn,
Legislators of this country. BY far thr
larger proportion of his speeches, includ
ing many of the more brilliant, have no
exceeded twenty minutes duration. /
has been ascertained that the Old Testa
ment was written with 5,642 words, tha
Milton used only 5000 words for tn
making of his poems, and that Shaks
peare employed only $4,000. The mora
of these figures is that if there are, com
paratively speaking, so few words in tn
English language, man who talks 70
two hours on single subject falls unde
the grave suspicion of vain repetition
not to say CauselesS cackling.
NORTH CAROLINA claims not only tina
a portion of her people adopted the firs
declaration of independence of Grea
Britain, over a year before the famou
declaration of the colonial congress, bu
that the first victorious fight of the revC
luton was fought and won by Mort
Carolinians on North Carolina soil. Thi
was the battle of Moore's creek, tough
on the 27th of February. 1776. TIL
royal forces engaged in this battle wer
mostly Scotch Highlanders who had Sc
tied in North Carolina, and who had fc
their leaders chieftains who fought in th
bloody battle of Culloden. They wei
commissioned by Josiah Martin, che roy:
governor of North Carolina, and directe