The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-10-16
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

SOME three thousand pilgrims set out
the other day from Paris for Lourdes,
many of them being pauper invalids who
are being taken to the miraculous grotto
by charitable persons.
A FRENCHMAN has invented a tiny
gold lamp, small enough to be sus-
pended from a watch chain, which will
actually burn for 20 minutes, giving
sufficient light by which to 90 to bed. 1t
IS carried more by gentlemen than la
dies.
WILLIAM BoULsTER of Oppenheim,
Fulton County, N. Y, was born Dec.
%, 1775, and is therefore nearly 104
years old. He has lived so years in Full
ton County, and is in good health, but
is beginning to lose his sight and hear
ing.
A LADY living near Little Britain, Pa,
received a piano as a wedding present
several years ago. She has no taste for
music, but says it attracts the cows in to
be MIXED, and the children pound upon
the keys at the proper hour for that
purpose. 1t has, accordingly, been
placed in the spring house.
A NATIONAL pilgrimage of English
Catholics to st. Winefride's Well, at
Holywell, Flintshire, is TO take place
early next year. Pilgrims from all parts
of the United Kingdom visit it annually,
bat the proposed pilgrimage viii be on
n grand scale, like those of Lourdes or
to the shrine of st. Anne, near Quebec.
In Heligoland, which is only a mile
long and few hundred yards broad,
there is neither horse nor wheeled car
riage, barrows excepted. Society, con-
certs, the theater, and bathing, attract
at this season crowds from Berlin, Ham
burg, etc. Gambling was abolished in
1871. Steamers run thrice n week from
Hamburg.
IT is rather novel, if not unprece-
dented, thing for q grandmother to at
tend the school taught by her young la
dy granddaughter. Such is the case,
however, near Bellefonte, Ala, for Mrs.
Daniel Martin, having arrived at the age
of IS, having been married four years,
goes to school to her step-grand-daugh-
ter.
COMMANDER CAMERON of the British
Navy says that the Morse system of tel
egraphy, as far as it depends on the
length of sounds, has long been in use
in Africa. He has found tribes that, by
stationing drummers at intervals, carry
intelligence for miles with great rapid
ty, the beats of the drum being made in
accordance with previous arrangement
of signals.
u. G. COwLEY, an aged bachelor of
Wyoming, n. Y, advertised his desire
to correspond with lady of suitable
age, with view to matrimOny." Mar
garet Backus, 60 years old, maiden
inmate of the Rochester pOOr-house, re-
sponded with letter, in which she en-
closed photograph of herself taken 1C
Il
followed by wedding.
BRIGHAM YOUNG mixed the Mormon
Church property with his own in way
that, in law, left it all at his death as one
estate. The executors, who are Nor
mon dignitaries, undertook to separate
the two equitably, but the heirs, con.
sisting of the original and only Lawful
Mrs. Young and her children, have had
n receceiver appointed, and it looks as
though they would finally get the entire
amount.
In Central Africa lives king, who
according to Commander Cameron, de.
mands divine praise for himself, and
proclaims the DEGREES of the deity OF
deities which reach him from the mouth
of an idol which he consults, and which
nobody but himself and single priestess
is ever allowed to see. Like many an
other sovereign in Christian lands, he
religiously keeps matters pretty much il
his own hands.
THE foOlhardy performance of Capt
James Swan, 90 the man crocodile" a
the Theater Comique in Providence, r
l., came near resulting fatally, the othel
evening. He was III large plate-glas
tank of water with an alligator six fee
long, and, after stirring up the reptil,
= /,
and placed his head between them
Quick as flash they closed and Swan
death seemed certain. With almost su
perhuman exertion he freed himself
however, and sprang out of the tank, hi
cheeks being deeply gashed by the ALI
gators teeth. In moment he returned
to the water, forced the reptile int
submission and went on with his eXhibi
ton.
PRINCE BISMARCK is very fond o
farming. The soil round Varzin is nei
Their very good nor very bad; it produce
average harvests of rye, and the Baltic
sand, the bane of the husbandman
shows itself only here and there. Suol
pieces of ground have long lain fallow
1t takes six hours to drive round tn
estate. Chornitz, where there was for
merly giass-house with Bohemian work
neny also belongs 10 NdTZln. L ne w nj y
per flows through part of the domain
and forms its boundaries in other places
1t adds TO both its beauty and its value
rs the rapid stream, which is well Stoke,
with trout, is used to float the timber o
Pomerania to the Baltic.
ANECDoTE by ''Little johnny in Sal
Francisco ArgOnGUt: One day Bill
and Sammy were playing in a mud hole
and Billy said: " Now, Sammy, lie
play we was a barnyard you be the pig
and lay down and waller, and I'll be
bull and heller like every thing s.
they got down on their hands and knees
and Sammy he went into the dirt an,
wallered, while Billy bellered like dis
tant thunder. By and by Sammy h
came up muddy-you never saw such
muddy little feller-and ne said: " Nov
you be the pig and let me beller." Blu
Billy he said: g amt a very good pic
except for dinner, and it'll be time nui
for you to heller when your fathe
catches YOU
Gaa, Chav-rnanSs VfffIa G4Ov-u