The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-06-06
MISCELLANEOUS.

Next to Too le, John 5. Clark is said
70 be the most popular eccentric comedian
on the English stage.
The Philadelphia Press prints a cal
eulation to show that the electric light is 2t
times cheaper than gas.
Tool steel is generally first hardened
by heating it to cherry-red and then plung-
per is drawn by moderately heating the steel
again.
A firm in Richmond, Va, has ready a
second steam fre-engine for the citv of St
Petersburg, Russia. This same firm inst be-
fore the war built the first engine used in
the Museovite capital.
An epson salts mine has been discoy~
cred about twelve miles from Chattanooga.
Tenn. The deposit is two feet thick, and
easy OF access. 1t is pure, and only requires
crushing to make it marketable.
David Pulsifer, of Boston, bought an
old Hebrew Roll of the Law at a second
hand bookstore for a nominal price. Rabbi
Harayon, of Jerus tlem, inspected it, and
pronounced it 2 500 years Old--the most an
cientrelic of the kind in existence.
The Medical ard Surgical Reporter
notices theory lately put forth by the emil
nent DIR. B. w. Richardson, of London. to
the eff ct that in the future preventive med>
iclne will have the aseendancy, and "cura-
tive medicine " will take its proper place in
the background. In other words, men will
be taught from childhood how to live so as to
avoid disease, and the state will more thor
oughiy do the sanitary work which devolves
upon it.
Itappears from the report made to the
International Sunday, school convention at
Atlanta, that there are 76, $50 Sunday schools
in the United states. with G, ,423 2S5 scholars
New York stands at the head of the list of
states, with 90S,S9 scholars; Pennsylvania
lsnext with 7S2, OBS; and Ohio is third, with
621, ,792.
Says the Richmond State: The failure
of so many New England cotton mills and
the strikes in Old England among the opera
tives must lower the price of raw cotton, and
raise that of the manufactured article. It
should admOnish the south that it is not only
her policy to grow, but to spin and weave the
cotton also. Let us profit by the experience.
New York Independent The magni>
tude of the army of the unemployed was
curiously illustrated the other day A bank
in this cILy advertised for two or three clerks,
and the applicants numbered nearly five
thousand-most OF the applicants being com,
petent bOOkkeepers and aceOun tants, thrown
out of work by The hard times.
There will be opened in Paris on July
10, an institution known as the Tisserand
Home. 1t was founded by a rich real estate
owner of MOntrouge for the accommod alton
OF thirty old men born at that place, and his
legacy was augmented by his widow. In
England institutions for old men prove so
little satisfactory for those for whom they
are designed, that at Greenwich hospital
they have done away with indoor pensioners,
and give them an allowance for food instead.
A serious attempt is aboHt to be made
in London to introduce horsefesh as an ar
ticle of food. 1t will be remem red thatin
1868 grand banquet was held at the Lang
ham hotel, at Which the chief dishes at least
of every course consisted Of horseAesh
| dressed in variety of WAYS. The dinner
| was pronounced to be success. The board
of works having sanctioned the establish
| ment of slaughter houses for horses intended
for human food, hippophagy may be expect.
| ed to have fair trial in England.
A short general summary of the vital
| statistics of France for 1876 is published.
| The births amounted to 966.682. exclusive OF
| those stubborn, and the d. aths to S34 O74 SO
| that che increase of population was 1872, sos
| persons. The stillbOrn numbered A, $50
| and the marriages 29I, ,S66. These figures
/ show that while France with population OF
| $4,000 ,0OO, that is, half as much again as
that of England-namely p, ,600 000-had an
increase OF population amounting to 132,'
000, the increase in the latter country reac ed
205, ,003, half as much agaiu as France. While
in England there is one birth 10 % inhab
itaRts, in France there is not quite one birth
to SO.
King Humbert, of Italy, is pTofuse il
his gifts. In general his present is 3 watch
gold or silver, according to the rank of tn,
recipient, with the crown and stem upon the
| back of it, and chain with locket at
tached. On the anniversary OF his birthday
he called all the cOrdzzieTi who had assisted
in guarding the body of Victor Emmanue
into the hall OF the Swiss, and when they
were ranged in order the little Prince O.
| Naples presented each of the thirty with ,
watch and chain in the name of his father
| To the six chiefs of the cd11abiniere he CAV,
horses which they selected Irom the roya
stables, having previously looked these gift
| horses in the mouth.