The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-02-10
TIMELY TOPICS.

TIMELY TOPICS.
The school children of America an
nually pay $4,000, 900 for schools books,
OF which it is said the publishers pocket
$33, 900, ,0OO
AN English paper says that it is thought
IN many quarters that the jews are going
to purchase the Holy Land of Tarkey,
with e view of going there in body.
PRoF. TAYLOR LEWIS says that an
idea Of a Ged who merely started the
universe and then left it to evolution
''is exceedingly attenuated"
IT is now ascertained that Winslow,
iS'e Boston forger, sailed from New York
for Rotterdam, Holland He laid his
plans well, as there is no extradition
treaty with that country.
THE Northampton, Mass, bank rob-
berry, turns out to have been tremen-
dous i'aat for the cracksmen. 1t is esti
mated that over 100000 in money,
stocks and bonds were gobbled by the
robbers.
MIR. MENzTEs, who has just published
Il valuable work on forests in England.
says that lightning never strikes dead
trees, but always selects the strongest,
and those full of sap. It is we'll worth
knowing that the ivy often acts az a
IighUing conductor
CHARLES Francis ADAMS, IT,, con-
tributes an article to the Atlantic Month
Iy, in which some interesting statistics
are given, showing that the deaths by
rail are lower than from almost any other
cause. For instance, he shows that more
deaths occur from falling down stairwavs
mn the city Of Boston in proportion to the
population, than occur on the railroads
OF Massachusetts, in proportion to the
persons travelling.
The hanging" question is being in
vestigated in Great Britain in the inter
csts, not of the condemned criminal alone.
bat of humanity. Prof Haughton, of the
university Of Dublin, who has given the
subject a good deal of attention, repro
bates very strongly The use of any method
which fails to produce instantaneous
death, and recommends a long drop with
the knot under the chin.
IL6E late postmaster of Boston bears
testimony as follows to the excellence of
the service rendered by the much ma
tigned feminine clerks in his department: :
1.-The women have proved far superior to
men IN looking up -mis-sent and mis-
directed letters, and in making returns
10 the dead-letter Office. They have also
proved entirely reliable. There has not
been single instance in nine years
where the accounts of any woman have
shown a deficiency of one dollar in the
Boston postoffice."
\ RECENT visitor to the Dismal Swamp
describes it, in Forest and Stream, as
having lost none Of the characteristics
which gave it its name. Bears are not
so plenty there as when the region was
rarely penetrated by man, yet they still
afford sport for hunters. Lake Drum
mOnd, once believed by the ignorant to
he bOttomless is really not in any place
more than fifteen feet deep. Its water,
impregnated with the juices of juniper
and gum leaves, is of the color of wine,
and is drunk as a remedy by consump-
tives.
\ PHILADELPHIA expcrimenter has
been emulating the example of Dio Lewis
in respect 10 economical living and a
vegetable diet, and communicates to the
public the result of his effort to feed a
family of three ON dollar week He
tried corn-meal and found it insipid.
Buckwheat soon followed, and potatoes
soon failed to sustain bodily strength
Then oatmeal was tried and at the ex-
piratiOn Of two weeks, says the expert
menter, Il found myself four and a
quarter pounds heavier. My wife had
gained three pounds, while the lad had
gained over five pounds Our food out
lazy for fourteen days was exactly two
dollars and eighty cents, or less than
seven cents per day for each person. We
arc now pursuing the same course, with
al occasional mixed meal"
The success of the new harmonic
system of multiplex telegraphy "a
eharmingly simple name, by the way
cxcitcs the suspicion that our knowledge
of the powers and uses Of electricity is
merely in its infancy 1t suggests, more
over an immediate application of the
fluid in a manner which viii benefit i'm
mcnsely all those large cities and towns
of the country which are gifted with
musical taste. If the telegraphic appa
ratus can be so constructed as to produos
notes it would seem an easy matter 4
connect an operatic company or Thomas
orchestra by wire with every town which
has telegraphic facilities, and make on
concert answer for all. 1t would be
great saving to the performers, and tt'
wholesale character of the ptrformsnc
would undoubtedly cheaper it consider
ably.
MEssRs. FLOOD & O'BRIEN, manager
of the consolidated Virginia and Cali
fornia mining companies, announce thei
determination to send a specimen to Ia,
product of these mines to the centennia
for exhibition. They are preparing {,
nut a working force on their mines larg
enough to turn out ten million of bullion
This will be shipped to Philadelphia il
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