The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-12-04
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fair as Enghshmen. The boys are noted
as being particularly handsome.
3 Ten thousand salmon fry from San
Francisco have been put into the Meuse,
at BIorick, Holland, and 10000 more
are expected.
DIR WILHELM SCHMOELE, q professor
at Bonn University, says he has discov-
cred that human life can be vastly pro-
longed by eating lemons.
BY order of the Gar, all the Armenian
and Turkish schools of that part of Ar
menia which was lately annexed to Rus
STA have been closed.
IN Russia, over 81 200, 600 roubles are
appropriated every year for pensions
and subsidies to retired officers, and to
the families of deceased officers.
PROF. DEXTER of Yale College re-
members the name and face of every
student Of the institution whose &C
quaihtanee he has made in the last 20
years.
AN embarrassed actor bounded on the
stage of Il San Francisco theater, in a
scene depicting robbery in hotel Of
flee, and shouted, q Gag the safe, while
l blow open the night clerk"
CETEwAYO says there were only 10 of
his men present when the Prince Impe-
rial was killed. A bold stand would
have saved his life, if the Zulu King is
to be believed and the fate of an En-
pire might have been changed.
THE Acknowledgement of Pitts
field, Mass, added 81 900 to his income
in a year by removing fresh postage
stamps from letters, putting on those
that had been used, and selling the
stolen ones. He used the money in
maintaining his social pretensions.
A WOMAN inmate of an asylum for the
insane, at Maysville, Cal, imagining
that she was imprisoned by enemies, and
that pen and ink were denied her, made
q statement of her case in needlewOrk
on piece of cloth and threw it. out of
the window.
IT is becoming a fashion in Europe to
travel in private railroad cars. The
Baroness n. de Rothschild owns one
that cost 10000, and the Countess Po-
tocka has ordered one at $4,000.
These vehicles are smaller than Ameri-
can ears, but are very elegant.
MoNTAUK POINr, the eastern extrem-
ity of Long Islund, will probably be
made a landing place for European
steamers, holding the same relation to
New York that Queenstown does to Liv-
erpool. Six hours viii thus be saved in
the transmission of mails, which is a
good deal in these days of hurry.
IT might be supposed that a deaf and
dumb man and wife would not quarrel ;
but Mr.. and Mrs. Goodwin of Green
burg, Ind, deaf mutes, lived four years
in noiseless disagreement, and finally
had a desperate parting fight, in which
he was scalded and her skull was frac-
tured.
EIGHTEEN of the States have civil
damage liquor laws. Their provisions
are substantially the same, making deal
crs responsible pecuniarily for all harm
resulting from the sale of alcoholic
beverages. New York, Maine, Massa
chusetts, and Illinois have statutes pre-
cisely alike.
THERE is young man in Cadiz, Ky,
of such susceptible and sympathetic
physical composition that he was forced
at one time to abandon a position in a
drugstore for the novel reason that he
could not handle any kind of medicine
without being affected with all the con-
sequences it was calculated to produce
on the party for whom it was intended.
Mrs MIX, who has a Connecticut rep
utatiOn for working miracles, travels
through that State processing to cure
diseases by the laying on of hands, and
crowds seek her wherever she goes. The
most wonderful stories are told of heI
powers. She charges nothing for hen
services, and accepts only food, lodging,
and conveyance from place to place
She is of pure negro blood, and de
vout Methodist.
THERE was a discussion among 6
party of miners at Leadville as to the
physical effects of hanging. Mr.. Ed
wards declared that, on a wager of So
he would permit his companions to draw
him up from the bottom of a shaft by
rope tied around his neck. His belle
was that, by throwing his head far back
the pressure of the rope would be wholly
on the back of his neck, and consequent
w he would not be choked at all. Hi!
calculation proved erroneous, for hC
was nearly dead when he reached the
surface, and it was with great difficulty
that his life was saved.
SOME of the shrewdest business mel
in Montreal have been swindled by
bold and original scheme. Two
strangers with glib tongues and digni
fled demeanor introduced themselves Il,
capitalists seeking to invest 100000
They lived extensively at leading no
tel, were accompanied by ladylike al
legged wives, and soon got footing il
fashionable society. Their next move
was to open an office and advertise mon
ey to loan. Those who applied for i
were required to submit the collateral
for examination. The sharpers go
about $4,000 into their hands, and sole
the securities and fled.
SUCH loss of life and property ha
followed the wanton cutting down o
entire forests, for years past, that sew
eral European Governments have APP
pointed commissioners TO interfere il
this, and instead of removing ut one,
the entire growth of forest lands, the,
now thin the trees out only when attain
ing their full growth, and in their prime
In this way, just as large, if not
larger, product of lumber is obtained
during a half or a whole century, ant
the roots of the trees left standing ant
the underbrush act as filters for power
full rains, retard their otherwise rapit
flow, and prevent their washing ava,
the soil. The streams in the valleys ar
consequently not filled so soon in day
as before in hours, and no destruction
of farms, villages, and their inhabitants
nerds and focks follows. Nothing i
more unsightly in n landscape than tn
thick stumps left on the ground afte
cutting off a noble forest. If the tree
be gradually thinned instead of cuttin;
all off at once, this ugly, depressin.
sight is avoided
THE newspapers of San Francisc
gave way to a little temporary deliriun
over Sharon's reception of Gen. Grant
The Post had a report of the affair tina
was 10 columns long. OF Sharon
mansion it says: Z" Between $40, 900 an,
$50. 600 was expended in this entertain
ment. The Belmont mansion, palatia