The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-11-06
HONE AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

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beech tree in Tennessee, near Jonesboro.
The centennial of the old tree has just
been formally celebrated.
EMELINE w. WARDwELL of Boston
has recovered 50, 20S damages from the
estate of T.. G.. Boyden, because Boyden,
an apothecary, put up laudanum instead
of rhubarb for her, two years ago. She
has been partially paralyzed ever since.
A PINE tree in England, 65 feet high,
has rocks nest at the very top, out OF
which grew this year three stalks of oats,
each carrying a well-flled head and
showing clear against the sky two or
three feet above the tallest branches.
The ex-Empress Eugenia is worth
more than $5,000,0O0 and yet earth
holds no more unhappy woman than she.
What's money to her, when she remem-
bers her dead son, the misery of lonely
widowhood and the loss of her throne.
A PERSON once asked Rosa Bonheur
if she did not regret being unmarried
and without children. She replied that
" almost any woman could marry and
have children. Few could produce pic
lures like Rosa Bonheur-they were her
children"
LOVERS of the grape viii be sorry to
learn that the wine crop in France this
year win be n bad one, as regards both
quality and quantity. From nearly all
parts the reports are unfavorable. In
the Bordelais, Charentes, Maconnais,
Bourgogne, Touraine, and Champagne
the prospect of bad crop is general.
1t is estimated that the total produce of
wine in France this year will be about
fifty millions of hectolitres.
On a recent Sunday at London, Ont,
a robin flew into the Methodist Church,
took up his position on the railing oppo-
site the minister, sang loudly and well
when the people sang, was perfectly 81
lent during prayer, chirped when the
minister said any thing good during the
sermon, seemed to re-echo the doXolo-
gy, and did better than many regular
church-goers by remaining until church
was formally dismissed.
THE President of the Wesleyan Con
ference in England has issued a circu-
lar to the Superintendent of Circuits
suggesting that day should be set apart
for % humiliation and supplication be-
fore Almighty God, on account of our
national sins, with especial reference
to the depression of our agricultural
and our various manufacturing interests
and the lamentable wars in which we
are engaged, as wetl as to the decrease
in the number of members in our soci-
eties.''
AT the carnival in San Francisco in
honor of General and Mrs. Grant, Mrs.
Grant was presented with a bouquet,
composed of the flowers indigenous to
the various countries she had passed
through in her tour round the world.
The flowers were placed in regular or
der, starting from Philadelphia and
ending with San Francisco. The bou-
quet-holder, five inches long, was OF
pure California gold, and inlaid with
quartz and a collection of other metals
found on the Pacific coast.
In new budget of anecdotes about
Bismarck, DIR. Moritz Busch says that
one evening the Prince complained that
his political achievements had given him
but little JOY or satisfaction. ''They did
not make any one happy" he continued
''either myself, my family, or any one
else; and they made many unhappy
Without me three great wars would not
have taken place, eighty thousand mel
would not have persisted, and parents
brothers, sisters, and widows would not
have mOurned.''
A PAINTER of celebrity in Paris, wher
his first wife-he is now married to an.
other-was sick unto death, was informed
by her of her great fear of being buried
alive, and thereupon promised to make
an incision in her neck when he thought
her dead. He, however, failed to rec
ollect it. Some months after he was
dining with a friend and paying court tC
the lady he wished to make successor &c
the deceased one. Out of a brown study
he suddenly exclaimed: "By Jove, ]
forgot TO cut my wife's throat" Il
needed long explanations before the
other took him.
SIGNoR BRUMIDI, the aged artist
who has so long been engaged in deco
rating the Capitol Mt Washington, was
nearly killed while working on the upper
part of the rotunda the other day. He
sat on a chair perched on a scafforld So
feet from the floor. In leaning over tC
give finishing touch to a figure almost
out of his reach, he caused the chair tC
slip and fall off, and he only escaped by
sudden clutch at the edge of the scat
fold. He has been at work upon the
Capitol for % years, and has lately
been so feeble that il has been found
necessary TO lift him to his fresco work
by a derrick.
SOME one truthfully SAYS that the
science of mechanics draws its vitality
from coal and iron. Coal emancipates
iron from its crudenesS and furnishes il
with power as an instrument of com
merce. The union of these two mine
rails has solved the question of produc-
ton and has rendered distribution easy.
The world is embarrassed only with the
difficulty of consumption. Coal fash
ions iron and drives the finished ma
chine. The dirty thing is the great We
hicie of civilization. Iron is an instru-
ment, coal is a cause. Iron is an agent
OF industry and coal is a master power.
THE son of a German farmer return
ing from military service, threatened to
commit suicide when he found that his
younger brother had supplanted him in
the affection of a girl. She laughed at
him and said she didn't believe he could
muster courage enough to drown him
self in the neighbOring lake. He said
he would kill himself i'm manner which
would make her hair stand GU end, and
on Sunday, Sept. Z, attached himself
securely to a young horse and put a
lighted slow match in its ear. After a
frantic gallop across country, the mad
dened animal plunged into the lake.
The young mans body was taken out
mutilated beyond recognition
HERR JOHANN Boon, a well known
painter of Germany, was killed by a
stroke of lightning some weeks ago
while taking a walk in the neighborhood
of "A Bavarian village, where he had been
passing the summer. 1t was beginning
TO rain, and he opened his umbrella,
which almost Immediately thereafter
WAS struck by a thunderbolt that killed
the unfortunate artist instantly. A black
mark, extending from the head down