The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-12-18
HOME AND FORRIGN GOSSIP.

A MorHERLY old lady in Michigan
pounded coffee for breakfast in a red
wooden rag, and it was a whole week be-
fore her husband could get out to pound
his yoke of oxen.
A WHITE swan, measuring Sc ID
inches from the tip of the toes to the end
of the beak, and IS inches across the
wings, and weighing / 1 ID pounds, was
shot recently near Washington, Pa.
THE smallest tea-set in the world be-
longs to Mr.. w II. Rilond of Reading
Pa. While he was prisoner of war he
whitfield out a complete set of tea things
from peach kernels. He has refused
$40 for the set.
PICKPoCKETs frequent all funeral ms
New York, and are only captured by
detectives shrewd enough to keep their
eyes on the members of the cortege who
seem to be the most deeply and solemn
~ affected.
SEVERAL girls were recently brought
before Justice in Scranton, Pa, on a
charge of stoning a peaceable old lady.
Their defense was that she was a witch
and They believed it to be their duty to
stone her to death.
The other day dispatch from White
River to Rawlins, 200 miles, went
through by pony express in the remark
ably quick time of % - hours, and this
time was subsequently excelled on 4
south-bound dispatch-26 hours.
The Toxic Times asserts that
English influence is declining in Japan
The English employees do their work
with diligence and fidelity, but do not
conciliate the regard of the Japs. Ac-
cOrding to the Times the Americans arc
the most popular foreigners.
Two men started from Minneapolis
on the same train carrying conflicting
deeds TO piece of land in Sioux Falls,
and each resolved to get his document
recorded first. As they approached that
city one of them climbed upon the en-
CINE, slipped the coupling, left the train
to take care of itself, and rushed on, Sc
curing a record of his title half an houl
in advance of his rival, who had to wait
for another locomotive.
GREAT excitement was caused in
Lima by the capture of the Peruvian
irOn-clad, the Huascar. Subscriptions
were at once opened for the purchase OF
another war vessel, to be called the Al
mirante Gran, and to swell the fund de
voted TO this purpose, Peruvian ladies
are reported to be contributing their
diamonds and their plate. One lady
sent diamonds valued at 70, 900 to
be converted into money for the ship
the day after the subscription was
opened.
THE celebrated pigeOn-roOst in Scott
County, Indiana, is now, as it has been
for IS years, the roost of millions of
pigeons. They fly away in the morning
to their feeding grounds, many of them
going to such II distance that they do
not return until midnight. The timber
on thousands of acres covered by this
roost is broken down badly, large limbs
being snapped off like reeds, by the ac-
cumulated weight of the birds. Thou
sands are killed nightly, but the
slaughter seems to make no diminution
in the vast fiocks that congregate there.
THERE is in the Royal Library at
Stockholm an immense manuscript,
which, when open, covers about a square
yard of surface, and requires two or
three men to lift it. 1t consists of 800
leaves of thick parchment, probably of
asses skin, and contains the Old Tesla
ment, the Antiquities and Jewish Wars
of Josephus, the Origines of Isidore, a
medical work of Johannicius Johannes
AleXandrinus, the New Testament, a
curious picture of the devil, and other
miscellaneous matter. 1t belonged to
small Benedichne monastery at Pod
lazic, in Bohemia, and tradition asserts
that it was written in one night, with
the DEVILS help, by an imprisoned
monk. The date of its transcription
may be ascribed to the period between
1924 and 1899. Late in the sixteenth
century it was taken to Prague, whence
it was carried off by the Swedes in the
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Since then it has been in its present
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