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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-02-20
Useful if Old
Scientific American


The following simple rules for preserv.
ing health and promoting comfort, if
not new % some OF our readers, are none
the Iess important tO every one:
The object of brushing The teeth Is TO
remove the destructive particles OF fOOd
which, by their decom position, generate
decay. To neutralize the acid resulting
from the chemical change Is the object
of denirifce A stiff brush should be
used after every meal, and q thread Of
silk floss or India rubber passed through
between the teeth To remove particles Of
iood Rinsing the mouth in lime water
neutTalIze5 the acid.
Living and sleeping in room IN which
the sun never enters Is slow OTm OF
suicide. a sun bath is the most refresh
ing and lie giving bath that can posi-
biY be taken.
Always keep the feet warm, and thus
avoid colds To this end, never sit in
damp shoes OF wear foot covering fitting
/ or pressing closely.
/ The best time to eat fruit Is half al
/ hour before breakfast.
A fuil bath should not be taken less
than tree hours after a meal. Nevel
drink cold water q ter bathing, Do no
take q cold bath when tired.
Keep a box Of powdered starch on tn
washstand and after washing, rub
pinch over the hands. 1t viii pTeven
chappi0g.
i II FEELING cold before going to bed, ex
ercise; DO not roast over fire.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-02-20
MISCELLANEOUS.

A popular bill to allow the same reward
for killing stage-rObbers as for capturing and
cOnvicting them has Just been defeated in
the Nevada legislature.
Virginia is preparing to present a
clam of $1S0,O0O, and Maryland E. claim of
$40, ,OOO, with 80 years. interest, for moneys
advanced to aid in the original building Of
the federal capitol.
Canada is getting one feature of a great
nation, and that is great debt. She owes
about $780, 900, and has just arranged for
a new loan of $500 800. Her debt is prob
ably larger, IN proportion to her means than
that Of the United States.
The territory Of Alaska has a great
navigable river like the Amazon. 1t is
named the Yukon, ana risesin British Amer>
lea. At a point 60 miles from the sea, the
Yul1Sn is more than mile wide. Untortu-
nately, this fine stream IS too near the Arctic
circle to be an aid to commerce.
There will come to this country from
Russia this year $4,000 MennOnites to settle
in the great west. These people are German
Baptists who have conscientious scruples
against fighting. Their ancestors settled in
Russia long ago, having been guaranteed
immunity from military service. That
guarantee has been Withdrawn, hence the
exodus.
Ireland has Just got to the end of a
Jarndyce and Jarndyce case, arising out Of
the game played by a clever knave, whose
over-reaching ambition brought him to sui
| cide-Johu Sadler, from whom Charles Le-
yer drew his character of Davenport Dunn
| with a weak, vicious fool, Lord Kingston,
/ who owned the magnificent demense and
property of MitchelstOwn, County Cork.
| 1t took thirty years to unravei the web VIII Oh
/ the wicked legal spider had spun. One
/ counsel spoke for nine consecutive months
/ and the agent of the estate was examined
| four years aud half. The Tichborne case
was Joker to this. MitchelstOwn castle
and estates have now passed into the hands
| of strangers.
Rabbi Yigdal, of Jerusalem Hera
| Skolem, writes to the New York Her aid
The Chinese are not all heathen. In Foo
Chow Foo there Is large population of Jew
! who sincerely believe in the Lord s annOint
ed, and, like all the Jews, are looking 10
the coming of q savior. A Chinese Jew cal
be seen almost every night IN a cigar stor,
in De ancy street, who talks Hebrew and /
! circumcised, and, like ali Jews, has heard O
and believes In 8 Christ. These Jews ar
also ostracIzcd in the United States becaus
they are among the Chinese. Are the peI
secuted Jews to have no resting-BIace il
this free republic If they come from Chin
and are born there!
A somewhat novel sensation in tn
criminal line was occasioned in New Yor
city not long since by the discovery of
newborn babe on the front doorstep OF
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-02-20

house on east Sixteenth street. Persons
who happened 10 be abroad between and
O'Clock observed two men and two women
stop suddenly IN front of a house, one OF
them seeming to be sfiicted with severe at.
tack OF illness. Helping their female COM
paniols to the top of the steps, the two men
hurried of, and returned in a few moments
with a cab Meanwhile the invalid had
given birth to a child, but her heartless at
teniants dragged her away from it and
pushed her in the carriage. One Of the men
jumped up behind her, while the other man
and woman walked off toward Third avenue.
All this time the naked and unwashed infsn
lay on the cold, hard stone but seon its
piteOus cJies attracted the attention of an
old colOTed woman living next door, whs
carried the little sufferer into her house and
sent for tbs police. Then the Wrstehed out
cast was transported to Bellevue hOsPit Il.
Through the fundamentally of the cab
driver, the miserable father and mother
were traced and arrested, the former pre-
tending that he had forced his paramour to
abandon their inegitimate OESpring, in the
belief that it was dead. He was loCkeO up
IN cell, while the wOmsn Was taken to the
Emergency hOspit /, where her child is being
cared for to remain until able to appear in
court. The waif is a vigorous bit of human
iiy, and wears heavy crop of dark brown
hair. Her father acknowledges that he is a
married man, but refuses to give his wife's
address
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-02-20

Iavee bill was taken up. Mr.. Reagan I'd
vocated an amendment which he offered,
directing the commission to consider and
report on the EHacticability of improving
navigation, deepening the channel, and To-
deemiDE the alluYiRl lands OF the Mississippi
by means of outlets into the Gulf of Mexico.
After debate Mr. Sparks offered an amend
meRt, striking out OF the bill all that alludes
to the protection Of the asiuYial lands. The
committee rose and reported the bill, and
the house adjourned.
In the house, on the 5th, the speaker
announced the regular order to be the con-
sideraiion OF the Mississippi levee bill. An
amendment was adopted striking out the
clause which gives the commie sioneIs a life
tenure of office. Also an amendment direct
ing the comm ssioner TO complete the sur
vey of the Mississippi river between Alton,
Illinois, and the passes az the mouth of the
rlver. The bill was Pagsed-165 TO 73.....-
The house then went into comuittse of the
whole on the army appropriation bill. The
number of aids-de-camp to which the
general of the army shall be entitled was
increased from three to four. Adjourned.
In the house, on the 9Th, Mr.. Hayes
introduced bill sppropriatiug $500,000 for
the improvement of the Illinois river. BE.
ferred. d......Mr. Cummings presented a resON
luton calling On the commissioner of pen
aions for statements in relation to the
amount required to pay the arrears OF pen
sions. Adopted. Mr.. Eden, chairman of
the committee on war claims, reported back
the bill making an appropriation for the
payment OF claims reported allowed by the
commissioners of claims. The bill passed.
| The house went into committee of the whole
Mr.. Carlisle in the chair, ON the army ap-
propTiation bill. The pending amendment
was Mr.. Whites, which comprised most Of
the features of Mr.. Beebe's bill II was
adopted. Mr.. Hewitt moved to amend sec
tion 2OO2 of the revised statutes, so to Ak
punge thsrefrom the provision that the army
shall be allowed to be at the polls elee~
ton days to keep the peace. Adopted-eS
TO 80. Pending discussion, the house ad.
jOurned
In the house, on the 9TH, the senaJe
smendmsnts to the naval appropriation bills
were nOn-csncurred in...... Mr.. Acklin SUBJ
mitted a resolution calling on the secretary
of the interior for copy Of the report made
to his department by special agents Adams
aRd Hale in regard to the Calcasieu log
seizure. Adopted The evening session
was given to the consideration Of the bill
authorizing the United States treasurer TO
receive coins of the United States in ex-
change for government notes. Adjourned.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-02-20
A fast Hound.
Chicago IDter-Oos-n.

J. A. Ford, of Battle Greek, Michigan,
owns a heavy built rnsstif hound. Bus
in-gs one day called him to Ceresco,
small village eight miles distant, and the
dog accompanied him: On his return ne
oof ON hoard the train and did not dis
cover the absence CT his dog until the
train began m wing, when he stepped TO
the back platform OF the car and there
saw that the hound had just started
The dog overlook the train, but as the
sDeed of the train was constantly quick
eDing, Its end avors to JUMP on board
were fruitlegs. Then the train bryan to
wbiz faster. and the dog quickened bis
pace, and until within mile or two OF
this city kept up with the cars, which
were going at the ate OF eighteen miles
an hour. He arrived few minutes at
ter the CATS, his eet sore and bleeding
from contact with the splinteTs on
the ties, having made the distance of
eight miles in half an hour.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-02-20
The Adventure OF a Poor Immigrant
in the Far " est

San francisco News Letter
About two weeks ago, as the overland
train WAS passing Cheyenne, the sttsn-
ton of the passengers was attracted by
the lamentRtiOn OF q poor Irish ImUll-
giant, whose berth had besn robbed
during the night, and every penny of
his scanty savings stolen, and whose
taInily would, therefore, arrive beggars
in n strange land. The charitable pass
ell gers n. once began q subscription,
which finally amounted TO something
over $3.50. When the money had been
handed TO the sufferer, pious, plaus
a-ioOkiDg man, dressed in black and
adorned with a white cEavat, drew him
aide At one Of the stOpping-plAces, and
said hy poor man, / am truly
sOTTy for you. YO1r sad case touches
me deeply. ] am myself well provided
with this worlds goods, however, and 30
will give you $3.50 more Here Is a $500
gold note. Give me the $3.50 you have,
and keep the rest. May heaven bless
you'll
Tne poor IrishmRn did as requested,
with many blessings on the generous
stranger, who insisted that his gift shOnI d
not Be made known. When the passen-
gers reached this side OF the bay the pi.
| Ous-looking philanlhTOpist WAS nowhere
! To be lOund, he having evidently gotten
| of at Oakland, for reasons of his oBn.
The next morning the immigrant re-
! paired to q bank to get his note chsne Ell
The teller picked up the bill and began
narrowly examining it.
There there Is nothing wrong with
bill, is theTe2' gasped the poor fellow.
Now, the clever reader has seen al
along what was going TO happen. Ht
has read lots of just such incidents a
this. 1t Is the oId-Old story. Well
well s. about that.
Nothing In the world is the mattel
with il" said the teller quietly, and h'
handed the man fiIty tens. That ended 1t
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-02-20
WITH CLEARER VISION.
sARL0ITA PERRY,

( say tonight the man 7 loved
Three little yeaTs ago,
I did not think sn shOrl a time
Could change.a mortal so!
There we're none Ike him ing those day.
20 strong, so true, so vie;
ks had lofty, marble brow
And tender, soulful eyes.
A voice Of u usie hair by hlch
be rEvSn's wing would seem
But pale, indee q iGee and form
70 haunt scul ulptoI's dream.
But when loot Ell al him tonight
/ sas no siDgle LTaca
OF the ola glory only just
A very common face.
No msrhla brow 10 soul-Iit orbs;
The fHOe was round and sleek
That ouce to ay Iove-h&Unl ed eyes
Was so intenSely Greek.
know full wsll he has not changed
50 very much An, NE
But was blind in those dear days,
And nov, alas l see.
'Tis very dreadful to be blind,
OF course and yet Tonight
I should be happier far If
Had not received my sight.
One little thought will trouble me-
oaly wish / knew
Whether be still is b ind, or If
Bis eyes are omen too.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-02-20
Revenue from Advertising.
Now York Times


AS to what revenue comes from ad-
verJising, there can be little said, as this
Is a part of the private business of the
concern, ana figures are not easy to ar
rive 81. London and New York papers
however head the list, and the London
Times and New York Herald euioy the
largest patronage of any newspapers in
the world. What these papers receive is
unknown, but it is said that the pro
pIietor OF the London Times gave the re-
ceipt of one department of his paper to
his wife 1Or pocket money, and it amount
ed To four hundred thousand dollars Der
year. Several Partisan papers are re-
ported as receiving one hundred thous-
and dollars per year on advertising, and a
number Of American papers can equal
and excel this amount. Whatever the
amounts, the que stion is decided by more
than two hundred years of fair trial
that advertising pays, and the thorough.
going business man of the nineteenth
century consideres s. knowledge of the
best means OF advertising almost as nee.
essary in business as a knowledge of the
goods he has To sell.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-02-20

Mosr boys believe that the humming
sound made by the telegraph wires is
caused by the messages hurrying along
to their destination. Most men believe
that this sound is caused by the vi>
bration of the wire ia the wind. A
writer in an Austrian journal. however,
calls attention to the fact that one who
gives close observation to both the wire
and sounds will find that the latter make
themselves obvious likewise when there
is a total absence of wind and in quiet
morning in winter, when the wires aps
pear covered with frost to the thickness
OF finger, they nevertheless carry on
lively vibrations and swinging, while the
air is totally quiet. According to this
writer, therefore, the vibrations are due,
net to the wind, but to the changes oi
atmospheric temperature, and especially
through the action of cold, as the lower,
ing of the temperature induces a short
ening of the wires, extending over the
whole length of the conductor. A con
siderable amount 0 friction is produced
on the supporting bells, thus inducing
sound, both in the wires and the poles.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-02-20

Mr.. SPURs roN is credited with this
design on hubby's happiness: When
l am marrying young couples ] geneT-
ally tell the young lady to let her hus-
band be the head, for that is according
to scripture and nature; but l always
advise her to be the neck, and twist him
round which way she likes"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-02-20

IT is pretty hard 10 find d believer in
ghosts. and it is also pretty hard TO find
q man who won't wobble little wher be
suddenly runs across q table>cloth flap
ping on the clOLhes-line in the dark back
! yard
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-02-20

The pIague-an enemy wore than
war is devouring its way slowly into
Russia, and 30 menscing has it become
that the Cars physician advises the
burning OF the villages where the disease
is infectious, but it appears that it
would be more profitable lust now to
draw sanitary lines across its apparent
pathway and arrest its progress. The
plague has crept up to the river Volga
from Astrschsn, at the north end of the
9 tspian sea, and reached Saratof some
weeks ago, and has proceeded up the
river. There is railroad running from
Saratof west to Koslow and Moscow, and
along this road the plague has already
advanced some distance. 1t has ap>
Peared near Mini -Novgorod, far up on
the Volga, also, and has thus secured
rail communication with western Russia
II is no wonder that all Europe is get~
ting frightened at this advancing horror,
snd that Russian authorities are looked
to to prevent its progress.-LCour
Journal.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-02-20

THE school textbook business in In
diana is big thing. The Indianapolis
Journal shows that such literature costs
the 100000 pupils OF that state $3 a
head, and the publishers make a clear
profit of rs per cent. on every book sold,
so per cent. of which is spent on agents
and school officers to get the trade, and
that 90 per cent. amounts to $3.50, 900,
which sum can be saved to the people by
some very radical reform in the method
OF supplying the common schools with
text books. In California they have
wtestled with this subject for years, and
the regulation now is that text books
must not be changed for four years. In
most states the publishers get whack
at the people every year. 1t is burden
some tax.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-02-20


church-bells, .and an ordinance is under
discussion prohibiting the ringing of
bells of over FIVE pounds in weight.
That would silence several fine chimes,
and IL Is likely that compromise meas
ure will be adopted, restricting tie ring
ing to certain hours.
NORMAN LoCKYKR has been measure
ing with hig scientific tape>lins the
mountains on the sun. One hundred
and five miles is the height of their prin-
cipal peaks, while the people on the sun
look oH everything under Iorty or fifty
miles nigh as mere hills, and no doubt
they are in the habit of using mountains
4tke our tsliest ones for out of,door pota-
to cellars.
Now that we send beer to Germany.
1t may be interesting to know the amount
of that fluid consumed there. the
whole German Empire last year drank
S4l, ,O58, ,935 gallons of beer. The amount
OF beer sent to Germany in 1878 was
3 $685. Sl4 gallons. Bavaria consumed
more than fifty-three gallons per head
last year, and is probably the greatest
beer-drinkIng place in the world unless
Cincinnati claims that honor.
OF seventeen samples eff table syrup,
recently examined by r. @. Keddar,
professor of chemistry in the Michigan
State Agricultural College, fifteen proved
t. be made from glucose one sample
contained Al grains OF oil of vitrol and
724 grains OF lime to the gallon, and an
other which had caused serious sickness
to an entire family whom he knew, con-
tanned "a grains of oil of vitrol, 2s of
coPPeras, and SS3 of lime to the gallon.
TUE fashion OF " reversing" in the
valse is all the rage just now at dances,
and bids fair to deprive the may
valse'' OF much OF the elegance and
smoothness which the poet has described
as " the poetry of motion" Those who
are proficient in this somewhat difficult
accomplishment, and, worse still, those
who are not, career about ballroom in
all directions twisting and twlrling evi
IDENTIFY very much to their own sat
isisction, but greatly to the inconveni
ence and annoyance of the uninitiated.
THE hsmster is small, rat-like ami
NAL, with a pouch on either side of its
mouth, which it finds very convenient
Tor secreting grain. 1t abounds in the
sandy districts between northern Ger.
many and Siberia, and a single animal
has been known to stow away one hun.
dred pounds of beans. At Aachersleben
it became g, serious q pest that early
last Septembsc the town offered a reward
for these little animals, and over sixty
thousaUd were killed. The hamster Is
very tame, aud a savage fighter. Itt
fur, which is varicgated, is marketable,
\ SAN FRANCISCO leader warns all tc
prepare &" for hard, hard year ;" and ii
takes its cue not from the subsiding Of
the mining fever or the underbiddirg o.
Chinese labor, but from the brown
bleak and backward aspect of the arabic
surface of the state. And this from s
state which is shipping gold eastward 81
fast, according to the Denver Times, thai
a Chicago bsnk recently It fused to ad
vance the expressage on q 500, ,000 con-
signment from the latter city. So hap,
piness does not always lie in hard
money"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-02-20

ST. LOUIS is toFmented by the noise Of
church-bells, .and an ordinance is under
discussion prohibiting the ringing Of
bells of over Eve pounds in weight.
That would silence several fine chimes,
and IL is likely that compromise meas
ure will be adopted, restricting tie ring
ing to certain hours.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-10-02

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tai s5 bales cotton 3aB sacks GOTTEN seed n sacks Of
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rough ride Foersters Rice Mill~aot do g A rbitlipp
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FDarster-41 sAeks seed cotton Bush AZ Levart- and
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Receipts or Fsrodu 60.

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eggs q bills flour TO Glover d Olendahl-2Dl do 25u
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bbls aour w Mathews 4 Bro-s3i do to Gordon a.
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Ptefai-ioo Wallace, Fairohild &ep-in0 bills grits
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corn ~ hales hay Chas Pleasants-lal do Geo Heck
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4 RKApAtIs.

REGULAR --~~----- pAUK ET
Leaves EVERY -------. nj & o. m.
IT. m FOR ARKAPOL1S. GREENVILLE
- - VleAssurg and the Beuds--rhc pas
sepgar naGket
FRANK PAWGOUD,
=, j. w. Tobin master,
VIII leave as above, connecting mt Vieksbtire
with ParianPs Line for MI Joints on Yasoo and
Taliahatchte rivers. For freight or passage
@. q. WAYNE, BROCK Eft A. CARTER
G.. Z. WORK, r. W, ADAMR
:, Through bills OF hiding signed to Trenton.
Monroe and all stations on Veksburg, shreve-
nort and Iexas Railroad via Delta. La, : also to
Il. H., via Atkahois Ark. :
HHoCKETT & GARTER. Agents,
pe19 NO. 3s Magazine street.
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FROM THE PASSES.

Pour FAps. Oct 4. . II. M urometer g0:1s.
Wind east strong hreega. Weather cloudy,
Arrived: Steamship Hutchinson Talbot. mas
ter. Mt - ~. tn.. from New York
Sailed: Steamship Kniokerboeker for New
York.
houTuWEsTaPAss Oct. l. O Q. m.-Winl east-
southeast; good breeze Weather cloudy.
No arrivals or departures