The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-03

The Springfield, Mass armOry, which
| has been idle for year, is about to resume
| operations, and will give employment to 200
or 800 men.
Europe has, as near as can be Calcu-
| lated, 500, 900 miles of railroad, and America
225,CO0; India has Il, 900 or 1900, and
| Australia 10000.
The prevalence of diphtheria in some
parts of Indiana is alarming. It is epidemic
| in many localities, and schools have been
| obliged to close.
A Venetian has succeeded in making
| a violin, the box of which is porcelain, and
the strings of metallic wire. Upon it are
said to be produced tones of rare purity,
richness, harmony and power.
To remove foreign bodies from the
throat an English naval surgeon recommends
blowing forcibiy into the ear. Powerful
reflex action is produced, during which the
foreign substance is expelled.
John Bright said, lately, that '1you
might almost as well ask a spider to give up
| weaving his web, or to destroy that he had
woven, as to ask the great body of lawyers
to consent to a simplicity and publication
of the law"
Col. G. @. Long. an confederate
officer, who resigned his place in the Egyp-
tian army, has arrived in Washington, and
says that only about nine Americans remain
in the service of the khedive, and that ey
have but little influence.
The secretary of war has appointed
Gems. Barnard and Wright as a commission
of the engineer corps to make an inspection
or the Eads 1ettles, with instructions to re-
port at the earliest day posi- ale. Capt. Eads
is in Washington to facilitate matters.
Oak wood which has remained long
time in water finally acquires the appearance
and hardness OF ebony, Upon demolishing
the old sluice dam in the Rhine, oak which
had lain for 146 years was found to have be.
come possessed of the characteristics of
ebony. The modification is due to the
peroxide of iron.
English capitalists have raised money
to build an underground railway in New
York city, running under Broadway, from
the battery to City Hall park, thence through
adjacent streets to Union square, and through
Fourth avenue to FOrty-secOnd street. Sir
Edward Watkin, president of the London
underground railways, is said to be at the
enterprise.
Mr.. Darwin must look to his laurels
Japan correspondent says that he saw
wrought in inlaid wood on a door in the
great temple of Ligmoto, a scene showing
hrst monkey, then an ape, then gorilla,
and SO on up by gradual development until
the final one of the series was perfect man
surrounded by elephants and curious birds.
The door was several hundred years old.
In France each inhabitanU drinks, on
an average, three-quarters of a gallon of
spirits annually. Sudden deaths, the con.
sequence Of drink, are most frequent in
those departments in which spirit is drunk :;
they are rare where wine only is consumed
Cases of intOxication, sufficient to bring the
drinker under the notice of the law, are also
nve times more frequent in the departments
which consume much alcohol than in those
IN which wine is consumed. So, also, with
respect to alcoholic delirium; the number of
cases stands in almost direct relation to the
amount of spirits consumed, and particularly
to the amount of manufactured spirit " hich
is taken. Vendee and Charente present the
only exceptions to this rule, and there a
large quantity of white wine is taken-aI-
most as dangerous as brandy.
New VI rk Bulletin: The project some
time talked of, of opening up direct trade
between the northwest aud the West India
islands, we see has at last eliminated in a
practical step on the part of S me of the
southern and southeastern railroads that
promises to be rewarded with success. A
line of steamers has ust been established
connecting Savannah with Cuba, the boats
to leave Cuba every two weeks. The rates
on flour from Savannah to Cuba will be so
cents a barrel, and 40 cents per 100 pounds
on fourt4 class. To draw the attention of
shippers of the northwest to the business
possibilities in this direction, arrangements
have been perfected so that frei ghts can be
| shipped from Chicago and st. Louis direct
| to Cuba. The roads which have taken the
| initiative in this movement are the Central
| of GeOrgia and the Nashville and Chatta-
nOoga.