The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-04-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

STATISTICS prove that the frail, broken
down American woman lives longer on
the average than her TOund-faced Eng
lish sister.
COLFAX declares in his lectures that
in his retirement from the cares of public
life, he has found CHS life dream"
Ssh; don't awake him.
A 1AssEN cOunty, Cal, farmer re-
Gently had two thousand sheep starved
to death. His feed gave out, and the
deep snow prevented the sheep from
reaching grass.
THE Kentucky legislature has passed
bill taxing all dogs over three years of
age 81 each. Dogs refusing to give their
ages to the census enUmeratOrs will be
dealt with summarily.
RUBENsTEIN, the condemned murderer,
has complained to the authorities that
he has been subjected to a punishment
not included in his sentence, his keepers
having fOrCibiy compelled him to wash
himself and put on clean clothing. His
father was almost as much incensed as
he, and declared that he would catch his
death O cold"
THE lady correspondents harp on Mrs.
Belknap. One expatiates upon her
Z" big hands," another declares that her
nose is an unmitigated pug, far too
small and expressiOnless for the rest of
| her face" The latest writer, however,
settles her unfortunate sister with: ct
/ never seemed to me that the soul of that
proud lady had any message for my
/ soul"
THE decision of the United State STU
| preme court multiplying the California law
! against importing immoral Chinese wO-
man, creates much Indignation and gen
Uine alarm on the Pacific coast. Depu-
tations are organizing to go to Washing
ton and besiege congress to meet the case
| by enacting the necessary legislation. 1t
is understood that the entire steerage
capacity of the steamship lines has been
engaged for six months by the Chinese
companies, and that many thousands OF
these heather evils will be precipitated
upon California, if preventive measure;
are not at once taken.
A PHOTOGRAPHER, of Lyons, France
is credited with a discovery of immense
Importance. 1t is nothing less than
method of phStOgraphing coIOrs, or pro
ducing naturally cOlOred pictures. The
usefulness of the process in science will
be vastly increased by this new appIica
ton of it, while broad field is opened
in the region of art. The reproduction
of landscapes with their natural colOring
and of the paintings of the old masters
instantly suggests itself No more Occa
sion for deity " retOuching" photo
graphic Iikenesses with the artists brush
Those who do not like their complexio
can paint before they sit.
THE death of the Hon. A. 0. P. Mel
olson, chief justice of Tennessee, IT
moves another of the landmarks Of by
: gone American politics. At one tim
| Judge Nicholson was among the fOremOs
, democratic leaders of the country. II
was born in Williamson county, Tel
= nessee, August 81, 1908, and graduate
: at Chapel Hill university, in North Ca
: DINA, in 1927. He settled in Tennessee
: as a lawyer, and was a member of tn
S Tennessee legislature from 1888 to 1873
{. a senator in congress from Tennessee
e from 1910 to 1912, member of the sci
t ate from 1913 to 1915, chancellor of til
+ middle division of the state in 1S4
: president of the bank of Tennessee
$ 1916 and 1917, printer of the house
y representatives of the thirty-thiTd col
n gress, printer of the senate of the thirt
:. fourth congress, editor of the Washin
t ton Daily Union from 1858 to 1856, al
t. again United States senator from 1S5
/. His term extended to 1865, but he w
II expelled July II, 1861. He was a del
- gate to the Philadelphia National UniC
i convention in 1866. In 1867 he w
e elected chief justice of Tennessee, sin
|. which time he has sat upon the benc
a He was man of extensive culture al
a great ability.