The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-07-12
vioIets went grow in Chicago.

lOiGlS MSA grow II CulCdSO-
Geraniums and tube roses love to blow
in Louisville.
The gladioIa and the fuehsia talk it
| over in Memphis.
The hoIIyhock is only happy in the
| front yards of st. Louis.
Not many women are blacksmiths, but
( most of them can shoe a hen.
The century plant doesn't like Phila-
| delphia, but manages to grow there.
Seaweed dies on approaching Cincin-
| natl, and southern vegetation withers at
| Somerset.
Russians, Poles, Servians and Rou-
manians have little eyes.
Lager is so lively that it comes in hops
whenever you call for it.
The British national penny bank an
nounces 50, 100000 deposits.
The printing of one and two dollar
notes by the United States government
has ceased:
The sunfower fights nobly at Indian
apolis, and the pigweed strives by the
union depot.
The English Quakers have become re-
duced to about 900 persons, from
10000 a century ago.
There are in this country nineteen
libraries containing each $4,000 or more
volumes.
Fig culture in Florida, which has been
so greatly neglected during the war, is
now attracting the attention of capital
lists
A quart of peaches for every man, wo-
man and child in the country, is the esti-
mated crop from Delaware alone this
season.
The military authorities in Paris are
enumerating the horses and mules which
could, IN case of need, be pressed into
their service.
North Carolina has paid for fertilizers
within the last twelve months s., 900, 900;
Georgia S2,O00,000; Virginia probably
more.
A twenty-four pound turtle recently
captured near Norfolk, Conn, was strong
enough to move about from place to place
while bearing on his back man weigh
ing two hundred pounds.
1t has been discovered in Paris that
the little yellow marks on certain brands
| of Havana cigars, which cause them To
be greatly priced by smokers, are created
| by the sprinkling of acid.
| While Mr.. Adam Miller was blowing
his farm in Kinderhook, he brought to
| the surface a large turtle, which was
| alive, and had marked on its shell:
70 May 80, 1871, II. A. D."
Thirty years ago Shebeygan Wis,
school teacher struck boy on the head
| with a ruler. One day recently the boy,
now a man of forty, met the teacher and
/ pounded him. The wheel Of time never
stops.
Among the curiosities of the Columbia,
n. Y, college library are the old arm
chair in which Gov. De Witt Clinton
| died and the armchair in which Benja-
min Franklin was wont to sit.
They tell us of a Kentucky schoclmas-
ter who had his wife for a pupil, and
| found it necessary to chastise her one
| dav. Next day a notice appeared on
| the door, saying: - School closed for
one week schoolmaster is i'll"
The little town of Salem, n. c., with
| two thousand inhabitants, has gathered
| and sent to market during the past three
years more than three million pounds of
| blackberries, for which the gatherers re-
| ceived nearly half million dollars.
War helps a great many trades. A
paper concern in Ohio has an order for
| $50 tons of paper for cartridges for Tur-
/ kew. and a Pennsylvania town is shipping
six hundred tons of spelter to Europe as
| fast as it can be made, for cartridges.
One of the newspapers tells of a man
| whose life was saved by a plug of tobacco
carried in his pocket. A pistol bullet
| fred at him lodged in the tobacco, and
| the man was unframed. Moral: If you
use tobacco, don't take it out Of your
pocket.
THE flower loving citizen, who has
spent all his leisure time this season In
| laying out flower beds and fostering the
| same, will have his reward this summer,
when his daughters beaux will carry off
| his choicest varieties for buttOn-hole
bouquets.
A farm laborer near Seilhac, in France,
while ploughiDg somewhat deeper than
usual, found his blow arrested by what
| he thought stump. It proved to be an
ox-hide filled with gold pieces of the
| reign of Francis l., worth $50, 600 for
! their weight alone, without reckoning
| their special value as rare coins.
! The German government is preparing
| the organization and equipment Of the
| Landsturm, which comprises all able
| bodied men from seventeen to fifty years
Of age not belonging to the Line, Re
serve, or Landwehr. The Landsturm
| has not been summoned since 1913.
The full capacity of the salmon curing
| factories in Oregon, on the Columbia
river, for one season, is 81, $4,000 cans.
This amount will not be reached this
| summer. If Matching stations are not
| established, this season, says the Oregon
Astorian, will be the last profitable one.
A grand-niece of Lord Nelson is sueing
for the possession of certain valuable
Jewels given her by the emperor and
empress of Russia during her thirty
years residence in that country, and
entrusted by her to the son of vice
Admiral Sir William King Hall, r. N,
and pawned by him.
A Russian charges S5 to print one
hundred visiting cards. This is about
ten times as much as the American pr n
ters charge for similar job. But Then
it takes the former ten times az long 70
set up a Russirn name, and although lne @
card is two feet long he is somet!.nieS .lls,
Obliged TO run few syllables Oh 'no J"
breaker on the other side.
THE eunuchs in ConstantiIIoPtSS So sc
: mostly from Abvssinia anu 1- IIa.
StoIe1 or bought in infancy IN those
,,,,t-;es and secretly sold in the STAN
S1,,I ,,,orl-at only one out OF three sur
49,. ~ trin thither. In the streets OF
tbs capitaI they are easily recognizable
tnH M VI beardless, short bodied, long
io-5,ed La--I, wearing the fez cap, black coat,
, -55ts cut in the European style, ana
carving a staff made OF hiPPoPotaimu! US
leather, which is the insignia OF their
Office. Their countenanc express un-
hounded ennui. When freed and
enriched they sometimes marry, and net
infrequently beat their wives,