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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-04-11
Cricket Fighting.

In some parts of China crickets are
regularly trained for combat as English
pugilists, the method being as follows ::
The crickets when captured are kept
singly in earthenware pots, at the bottom
OF which is a small quantity of mold,
and a very small cup containing 8 few
drops of water for the insects to drink
out of and battle in. Their food consists
of two kinds of fish, called man-yu and
kut-yu. Insects called loo kum>chung,
tun-tsit-chuDg, and pin-tam- chung are
occasionally given to them. They get
honey to strengthen them, and other
items of their diet are boiled chestnuts
and rice. For two hours every night the
female cricket is placed in the pot with
the male. Smoke is supposed to be in
furious to their health, and the rooms in
which they are kept must be perfectly
free from it. A charm or mystic scroll to
avert evil influences is some times placed
on the cricket's pot. If they are sick
from over-eating, red insects called hun
chung are given them. If the sickness
arises from cold, they get mosquitoes if
from heat, shoots of the green pea plant
Shuk-tp, or bamboo butterflies, are given
for difficulty in breathing. At the
cricket-pit, which the Chinese call lin.
the insects are matched according to size.
weight, and color. The stakes are in
some cases very large. 1t is, however,
generally supposed by the government
that they consist of presents of sweet
cakes. A cricket which wins many
victories is called shsnlip, or conquering
cricket, and when it dies it is placed in q
small silver coffin and buried. Crickets
which display great fighting powers are
not unfrequently sold for large sums.
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The Daring Anglo-Saxon.

The population of the earth is esti-
mated at 1923, OF, 900. Great Britain
and Ireland rate the fifth of the European
countries in population (32, 021, 502), and
are the EDglish-speaking divisions of the
old world. The population of all Europe
inclusive, is $50, 0l2, $40, and the 49,
$50. coo of English.speaking religious
organizations of the world have civiliz-
ing work to do far beyond their cotem-
5oraries, It is no disparagement to
others to state, that, however divided
in theology, these seventy-eight English
millions have the true mission of civiliza-
ton in hand. They are the genuine
proselytes of the age. Though almos1
nothing in the vast ocean of human life,
thew are the conscious purifiers and i'm
nroyers of the whole race ofman. These
daring English people, with their relative
small forces, have been compared to
quicksilver, few grains Of which clean
swav the dross from the precious metals
and I once heard an intelligent colored
man. who saw the vanishing ghost of his
own species, call them "the terrible
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-04-11
MOuaehoId HInfa.

SMOKING OF LAMP WICKs.-A lamp
wick soaked for a quarter of an hour in
vinegar, and then dried before put into
the lamp, it is said, will not smoke.
BROWN BETTYs FOR BREAKFAST
One cupful Indian meal, two cupfuls
rye neal, one egg, one teasPOOntul cream
tartar, one-half teaspoonful soda, one
large teaspoonful of molasses; mix with
cold milk about as thick as pound cake;
drop in hot lard and fry.
CRUMPETs Three cupfuls raised
dough, work into it One-half cupful
softened butter, three eggs, and mix
sufficient to make a stiff batter; turn into
buttered PANS and let it remain fifteen
minutes before baking; bake one-half
hour.
COLD SLAw.-Chop quart of cabbage
very fine and stir in little spoonful of
salt, one half teaspoonful of black pepper ;
then add half pint of strong vinegar !;
some like an onion chopped into the cab
bage. 1t makes a nice relish with cold
baked meats and is pleasant variety.
CARAMEL CREAM-Have on the fire in
pan one pound of maple sugar; let it
boil two or three times, sufficient to
brawn, but not burn it. Beat six eggs
and one pound of white sugar very light
stir this into two quarts of boiling milk,
and stir constantly until it comes to a
boil; then pour in the boiling sugar, and
mix thoroughly. When perfectly cold,
add one quart of cream, sweetened with 8
cupful OF white sugar. Put in freezer
and freeze the same as ice cream.
HARD CUsTARD Five eggs well
beaten, Preserving three whites for mer.
ringe, one quart of milk, FIVE tablespoon
fuls sugar, two teaspooniuls vanilla, pinch
of sail, put in a pudding-dish, which
placs in pan of water in the oven and
bake. When nearly baked, add a mer
Tings made with the three whites auC
two tablesp oonfuls brown sugar to each
white, and any favoring. Bake light
brown.
REPoTTING PLAN1s-1f the roots be
come pot-bound, of plants that have
been blossoming all winter in the house
il will become necessary to repot them il
the spring, and the best time to do 81
will be during the months of April anC
May. Or, il you wish, you may pu
them out in the ground, trimming then
up, and they will soon sprsut again
making nice plants. The branches trim
med off will make good slips and. fin,
plRuts for autumn.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-04-11

Anglo-Saxons, with their awful onward
march and their memorable and resistless
destiny" No other nation or race pos
sesses the qualities of the English
speaking nations. They are the colon
izers of the universe they are the
school teachers of the present and future.
They conquer on all sides by various pro-
cesses. Frem the English isle they send
forth a navy that penetrates to ali the
seas and shores of the earth a small
English army of 65, 0J0 that holds India,
an empire as large as the continent of
Europa, without Russia. with popuIa-
ton of 10000 600; literature, with its
silent, yet relentless pioneers, the English
bible, Shakespeare, Bacon and Milton,
and their contemporaries ard successors,
that is read in all lands and translated
into all languages; myriads of all inven-
tions and fabrics of inconceivable novelty
and variety. For north America they
send forth an example of peace and pro-
gress even more marvellous because the
eutgrowth of different system of gov
eminent, a prOvidential preparation,
perhaps, for the ultimate destiny in
reserve for the barbaric multitudes who
are to be redeemed by English daring
and discovery.
Call this rhapsody If you will, but
British statesmen like Mr.. Gladstone,
Mr.. Disrseli and Mr.. Bright, and British
philosophers like Dean Stanley, Tyndale,
Canon Farrar and Mr.. Froude are com
| PEELED to accept as facts what fifty years
ago would have been regarded as impos-
slble. They are indeed the vanguard Of
the English speaking people in Europe
and their reflections and labor extend
much further than English boundaries
OF necessity, we being distant and rela
lively new, and more occupied with oul
own affairs, and have not yet the cosmo
politan influence that this empire has
must admit that the real British leader
must consider not simply internationa
issues, but must dispose of them too
because they are interviewer with tht
historic and commercial and religious
fibre of British institutions Forney'
Tendon Letter to the Philadelphia Press
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the ten dollars was his'n for keeping the
books. she retorted: &c Who's been keep
in dem ar books Hasn't been keepin'
de books In de trunk all de time? Ham
dem funds what's comin' to me for keep
in de books"
"What did you tell her, Nose ?'
al tole her l wanted dem books to
keep de minits in, dat she didn't know
how to keep de books, but she lowed she
was gwine to show me she know'd how to
keep de books, and, toah God she is
a-keepin' 'em. De lodge has 'pinted a
committee to investigate my accounts,
and dar she is squattin' on de trunk,
heldin' out her ham for de ten dollars Use
done spent. Doesn't yer know somebody
who wants ten dollars wuff of white.
washin' done in advance P'-[ San Anto-
Mo Express.
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OLD NOSE IN TROUBLE.
He has n Misunderstanding with the 20
CONAN" about BOOk-KcePIn'.

He has a IIIsunderatandIDE with the ''OIe
CONAN about BOOk-KcePIn'.
We met "Old Nose" yesterday, and
noticed that there was a dark cloud
lowering over his respondent brow.
whats the matter, Uncle ?" we
asked.
He shook his head as if he had nothing
left to live for, and said:
"I'se in a peck of trouble. De Lord
knows where dis heah is gwine to end
Tse done glib it up"
"What is the trouble about ~
After several signs that seemed to
come from the bottom of hi
boots, ne explained that he was the
secretary of the local colored lodge of
Free Masons that he was the GUS
todian of the books; that for keeping the
books he was paid by the lodge ten dol
lars a month; that every Saturday night,
after the lodge was over, he carried the
books home, and turned them over to the
cole CONAN" aunt Dinah, for safe keep
ing, and she slowed them away in her
trunk, "along wild her 'fshal flowers, and
fedders, and finery, and SIGH" He also
stated that he had forgotten to mention
to aunt Dinah that he was receiving ten
dollars month for keeping the books,
and he had uniformly forgotten to turn
over to her the aforesaid ten dollars, but
I had squandered the same for his own
, little personal expenses; that some I'M
known demon had informed Dinah that
old Nose was getting ten dollars for
keeping the books. and consequently,
when be remarked the other even
ing that it being time for him to
go to the lodge, and upon re-
4uesting her to hand him out the
books, instead OF doing so she sat dewn
On the trunk, and positively refused to
turn over the documents until he paid
over the ten dollars. When he told her
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-04-11
seTappfRg'' a Telephone.

The New York Times, under the head
of "Scientifc Notes." says that if a
string telephone with 2 parchment mem
brane be united at any point of Bell
telephone, one may hear through tia per
son using the Bell telephone. Several
string telephones may thus be employed
with good effect. It is worthy of note
that the voices of women and children
can be heard best with telephones hav-
ing plates of three to Eve centimetres in
diameter, and the voices of men with
those having plates of six to eight cent?
metres. When the gamut is sung into a
telephone with a large vibrating plate,
the lowest notes are easily heard while
the higher become less distinct. With a
small plate the results are reversed.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-04-11
AGRICULTURAL.
Grasses IA Tennessee.

Mr.. B. F. CockTill, of the stock
breeders association, read an essay before
the same at its late annual meeting on
"Grasses in Tennessee" in which he
said
The fact that SO small portion of the
arabic lands OF our state-are devoted to
the cultivation of the grasses, isa lament
able one; especially so. as grass is the
most important facter in the production
OF all flesh, which constitutes about
thirty per cent. of the human food of the
entire werld. Again, the importance of
grass becomes a more potent factor in
solving the great problem that is now
awakening the vest minds in existence,
viz, the preservation of the soil, the
foundation of all prosperity, either indi-
Yidual, state or national.
The estimated value of the grass crop
OF the United States for pasturage
and hay together is about ST.
000, 100000, at the present time.
OF this amount Tennessee is entitled
to at least one thirtieth, or thirty-three
millions. Deprive us of this amount OF
property, and issue the decree that there
should never be another acre within the
limits of our state, devoted to the cult
walton of grass, and where would we be
in ten years from to day 2-occupying Z
bowling wilderness of burned, SCARED
quilted, worthless soil living in huts il
squallid ignorance and poverty, the
despised of all this great sisterhood o.
states.
When we realize the great Importance
that the cultivation of the grasses bear
to the success III prosecution of all tn,
branches of rural husbandry, it becomes
cause of sincere regret that the intel
ligence OF our agricultural classes has 81
seriously neglected to place this i'm
portant element where it properly be
longs, and enable it to stand first il
value in all future reports of the sta
tistics of our state.
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OnIOns for PouItrx.

A lady writes to the Country Gentle
man: In 1860 / Joined my husband
down in southwestern Virginia, aud was
there during the war, and / was engaged
in raising poultry. / went into the
chicken-hOuse one morning for eggs, and
when l came out had to make COM
plete change of apparel. I recollected of
reading in the Country Gentleman that
the feeding of onions to poultry would
exterminate poultry lice l began at
once by chopping the onions fine, and
mixing with corn meal and hot water.
After standing a short time it was fed to
the poultry, and in less than three weeks
the little pests had entirely disappeared.
I used to take onion tops and cut them
up fine and mix with the meal, wetting
it with sour milk or clabber (wben
had it) to feed to the chickens
one or two days in the week, until they
were large enough to eat grain or
small corn.
never lost chicken with gapes dur,
ing the five years was there. asked a
Yankee refugee from the border in what
way lice on chickens caused the gapes.
He said it weakened them so that they
could not sneeze and throw out the
worms. The feeding of onions will not
NoAD Vic SdPCoJ OuU 10
My neighbors would say that because ]
was in new place was why had such
good luck in raising chickens. I told
them about feeding the onions, and they
found them very good. told them I
should lose many of my early chickens,
just as they did, if 1 followed their
example, in giving twenty-five chickens
10 one hen the LIST of April. There
would be a halfdozen or more little
chicks on the outside of the hen that her
feathers could not cover in cold, frosty
morning. Three feelings a week in the
spring and part of the summer is sufi-
cient. seldom fed the onions in the fall
or winter. One of your correspondents
thought the eggs would taste of the
onions, but they do not. have noticed
their flavor in butter early in the spring,
when the cows (down south) ate leeks,
which were more forward than the grass
but there is not particle of this taste in
the eggs from the hens eating the onions.
My neighhors have had the same good
results in feeding onions.
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g. Hamilton,s scaIping Cluh.

Gail Hamilton appears in last Satur-
days Tribune with a new club. It is
somewhat heavier than the old one, and
has a longer handle; it weights thirty
nine pounds dressed, has large iron knoD
on The end and five hgnum vite knots
down the sides, armed with little crooked
trident points to catch hold of human
hair. It is bad old club, and induces
a weird, sickly kind of feeling to steal
over man whenever he looks at it. Gailly
Is a nice, sweet girl, and we always did
like her, though she is 50 many years our
younger Hawkeye.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-04-11
GEO. BODENMILLER

Mothers! Mothers Il Mothers III Don't fail to
procure Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for all
diseases incident to the period of Ieething in
children. 1t relieves the child from pain cures
wind coGc,regulates the bowels, and, by giving
relief and health to the child, gives rest to the
mother. It is an old and well-tried remedy.
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THERE are now in the Massachusetts,
wemen's prison three hundred and fifty
five female convlcts, their ages ranging
from sixteen to sixty-eight years. In
the nursery attached there are forty
three babies, fourteen of whom were
horn in the prison. The convicts are
guarded. controlled and managed by
Women. and as a reformatory institution
IT Is making q good record.
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Eoatoa Tea bread.

To one quart of -four add two teaspoonfuls
DooLEY's YEAST POWDER, little salt,
butter the size of an egg rubbed in the -four,
one pint sweet milk, and the yolks of two
eggs beaten very light. Add last, stirring in
lightly, the whites of the eggs well beaten,
and bake in a square pan in quick oven.
Break in squares for the table.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-04-11
HIGHLY IMPORTANT TO FARMERS.

The manufacturers of Sheridan's Cavalry
Condition Powders inform us that their
powder will effectually prevent hog cholera
and all other diseases in hogs, and that they
will increase the size and weight one quarter.
Large discounts to persons owning two to
three hundred hogs.
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For circulars an full information address
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BEALS&FOSTER, General AgGllS,
American Newspaper Union,
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FOR DROPSY.

CENTRAL FALLS. R. L, Oct. Is. 1877.
DR.. H 4. STEVENS
1t is pleasure to give my testimony fOI your val
liable medicine. L sick for long time v 18th
DrOpsy, under the doctors care. He gaid il a.
ter between the Heart and Liver. received no ben
EFT until commenced taking the VEG ETlNE-in
fact, / growing Verse. I have tried many
edes; they did not help me. VEG ETIsE is the med
icine for Drop began to feel better after taking
a few bottles. ave taken thirty bottles in 6li.
perfectly we'll felt better. No feel
thank III than do. l am, dear sir. tefuily
yours, A D. WHEELER.
VEGETINE. When the blood becomes lifeIess and
stagnant eitherfrom change Their of climate
want of exercise. irregular diet or from any other
cause the yEGETINE Will renew the blood carry of
the putrd hUmors, cleanse the stomach, regulate the
bowels and impart tone Of vigor to the whole body.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-04-11

is DR.. Tobias celebrated Venetian LinimentI
80 years before the public, and ted to cure
Diarrhea, Dysentery, Colo, and Spssms taken in
ternaily; and Group, Chronic Rheumatism, Sore
Threats. Cuts, Bruises, Old Sores ahd Pains in the
Limbs, Back and Chest, externally. 1t has never
failed. family will ever be without it after once
VENETIAN HORSE EMINENT. in Pint Bottles,
at One Dollar, is warranted superior to any ether
or NO PAY, for the cure of Collie Cuts, Bruises
Old Sores, etc. Sold by all Druggists. Depot--IO
Park Place. New YorF
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RELIABLE Dry Goo<fs Houae.

Any one needing dry goods of any kind will
consult their own interest by sending to B. F.
Devices, 725 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, for
samples of their goods, as they have but one
price to all, and that price is always below
the market. Samples sent free on application.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-04-11
THE little captive gi

THE little captive girl told mighty
man of war, who was suffering from leprosy,
to battle three times in a river to be clean,
and he did and was clean, so we say use
HOME STOMACH BTTTERS and be healed oi
all liver disorders. Prepared by the Home
Bitters Co., st. Louis, Mo.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-04-11

IF there is a person in the United
States who does not know of Jchnson's
Anodyne Liniment, we hope this paragraph
will reach that persons eye, and that he Will
write US for particulars of it. 1t is more
valuable than gold, silver, or precious stones.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-04-11
CONSUMPTION GAM BE CURED.

PULMONA is certain remedy for the CURE of
CONsUMPTION and all diseases of the Lungs
and Throat Try it and be convinced. Price One
Dollar per bottle at Druggists sent by the PrOpTe
tor receipt of price. pamphlet containing yalu-
able advice to COnaumpltyes, many certificates of
ACTUAL CURES, and full rectious for using with
each bottle. sent free I any address. OSCAR G..
MOSES, IS CortlRndt Street New York.
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EUROPE'S WAR STRENGTH.
The Armies and NavIes Of the Great
Powers.

FOWeFBs
In view of the belligerent aspect of
affairs in Europe we give below an
interesting statement of the relative
forces of the great powers. The esti-
mates are derived from an English source,
the statesmen's year book, and may be
accepted as accurate as far as they go.
ARMIES OF THE GREAT POWERS.
The armies likely to be involved i'm
mediately in the coming struggle are
those of Austria, Russia and Great
Britain, with probably Italy and Greece.
France and Germany have too much to
do to watch each other to think about
engaging in other wars.
Austria-The Austrian war budget
for 1877 was 10, 40, 600 forms, or about
$55, 000,000 This was intended to pro-
vide for the following forces:
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These figures do not vary much from
the actual returns made by Sir Garnet
Wolseley in his article in the Nineteenth
Century magazine. The Indian army,
besides tie 81, 652 regulars above enum-
Grated, comprises native army of Tegu~
lars of 125, 123 men, and a combined
native army under the command of
hereditary chieftains of 3I5, 900 men and
5, 800 guns.
Great Britain in case of war, could,
besides the above forces, control the army
of Egypt of &c, 900 men, and in case OF
stress and danger could recruit 10000
men in her various colonies all around
the world.
NAYIEs OF THE GREAT POWERS.
The English navy is, of course, the
most powerful in the world. OF first
class battle ships she has the Inhexible,
Il, , 65 tons and four S1-tOn guns, with
from 16 to "a inches of armor plate;
the Dreadnaught, 1880 tons and four
SO ton guns, IA inches arnIor plate :;
Devastation, 9,190 tons and four 35>ton
guns, y to IA inches armOr plate; Thun-
dereF, 5000 tons and two 38-ton and two
35-ton guns, and eleven other iron clads
ranging from to 1000 tons, and all
armed with the heaviest ordnance.
Germany has six battle ships; France
eight, and Russia two, while Turkey has
| eight, built in Crest Britain and SPLEEN
didly equipped. This feet is now in
Greek waters. commanded by an English
man, Hobart Pasha, and, it is thought,
will be turned over to England at the
! proper time.
Austria has seven battle ships, and
Italy two, the Duillo and Dandolo, the
heaviest armor plated vessels in the
world, % inches, each with four 100-tou
guns, and 1860 tons displacement
--pertect leviathans of the sea. Russia
has one II inch vessel and one 12-inch
vessel which rank only with the second
class battle ships of the British navy.
| The fighting power on the sea of Russia,
| Austria, Germany and Italy combined
would not be equal to that of Great
Britain and Turkey, or of England alone
leaving France out of the combination
altogether. OF coast cruisers Italy has
four armor-plated vessels, Great Britain
twelve-all first class, splendidly armored
vessels-Germany four, Russia four
| Of coast defenders Russia has five
iron plated vessels, one of them, the
Admiral Bopoff, with armor plate Is
inches thick and two 40-tons e,:z.s, FUR
key five, Italy eight, France six, Great
Britain five. It should be remembered
in this connection that England hai
recently purchased several powerful
vessels, and that others are in course o.
construction.
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Ten yearslhave proven their efficacy in all biiis
disorders. They restore the liver, stomach aai
kidneys to healthfu action; give appetite, good G
gestion and Yigor to body and mind
Rev. R L. Simpson, Louisville, Ky saws
Tatt's Pttts are tcOrth their freight iaf
gOLd.D
sayre Co., Druggists say: 81 We SELF fTfSs
eoDes TUFTS PttIs to five of all Others
Price, IS cents. Once IS Murray ST, New YORK