The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-09-11
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

A sAWFIsH weighing 6OS pounds and
bearing a saw four feet long was recent
" caught in Charleston Harbor.
The Sergeant-at-Arms of the British
House of Commons has held his Office
for 43 years.
IT is proposed to convert Manchester,
England, into a seaport for the largest
steamers, at a cost of 100000.
ONE writer estimates that English
sportsmcn spend more than $4,000, 900
per annum in connection with hounds.
A SEvENTH-DAY Baptist at Newport,
r. l., has been sued twice for keeping
his market open on Sunday, and an
nounces that he intends to keep it open.
IT is said to be common practice in
France to quiet an - irritable or wicked -
horse with two ounces Of laudanum in
pint of brandy before exposing for sale.
A LADY's maid at Saratoga showed
her lacerated fingers and said they We're
cut by the cords with which she had TO
draw i'm her mistress.
GOOD looking and apparently re-
spectacle girl frequently appears in the
streets of Windsor, Canada, with light
ed cigar between her cherry lips.
MIR BEECHER has taken to beer. He
recently said that after 60 years of total
abstinence he had learned that glass of
lager beer was n good thing to take be-
fore going to bed.
THE Atlanta (Ga.) Post brags Of hen
in that place that has been laying every
day since June 5, and is still ut it. Up
to the date of the papers issue she had
turned out two hundred and sixteen
eggs.
The London newspapers tell of n
belle who paid S25 to have the initials
of her lovers name tattoOed on her arm,
and later, having quarreled with him,
was offering $500 for means of oblit-
GRAFTON.
NEW HAMPSHIRE has law against
quack doctors. No person can practice
medicine in the State without n bona fide
diploma from a medical college in good
standing. Several prosecutions are now
going on under this law.
REMEMBER that the sunshine is a
good medicine, but that it is liable to
Kill in over-doses. A cabbage or a
plantain leaf in the hat of laborer, or
u sun-umbrella in the hand of one not
used to out-of-door exercise, may pre-
vent sun-stroke. DR.. Foote's Health
Monthly.
A GOOD joke is told at the expense of
a Jamaica Plains (Mass.) sexton, who
DfOcuItu lllt communion WHO lOI Ills
church. When he made his last pUr-
chase he also bought some whisky for
himself. The two demijohns got mixed,
and on the following Sunday the COM
municants received whisky instead of
wine, some of the sisters being consider
ably choked by the strong liquid.
MARTHA ROGERS, who died a few
days ago ut Middletown, Conn, for 90
Years possessed fortune; but she was
constantly dreading poverty, and regu-
larly spent part of her time gathering
rags and other discarded things in the
streets A room in her house was filled
with such rubbish. Yet she gave money
literally for charitable and religious
purposes, while she lived, and by heI
will left S25, 900 to various institutions.
MIR. NICHOLAS KISS, formerly mem
Der of the hungarian Reichstag, possess
es a hotel at Paris. AT the foot of the
staircase he has placed an elegant save
all or tirclire, surmounted by parrot.
When any one comes down or goes up
the staircase, the parrot screams out
''Szegedini" The visitor looks around
astonished, sees the tirelire, and puts
something in it. The parrot has already
collected more than 5000 francs.
A FARM-LABoRER at Ardle;gh, Eng,
overpowered by lunatic in his charge
and in danger of being killed. He was
absent from work an hour and half
and was prosecuted by his employer fol
IS. damages on account of loss of serv
ices, and the Court decided against him
for not getting permission from his EN-
ployer before going to the rescue of /
man who was liable to he killed at any
moment.
AN innocent-ooking young man, trav
cling on n train from st. Paul to Chica
90, was observed suddenly to reach W
and pull the bell-rope. The train, o
course, came ut once to a standstil
while conductor and porter rushed iutC
the car to ascertain the cause for thu
detention. Gentlemen" exclaimed
the Young man, 'syou must excuse me
I.wanted the porter, who was in thu
'forard end of the car, TO make up m!
bed, and thought that if | pulled thu
rope that would fetch him."
Miss MAGGIE MURRAY of Waterloo
Iowa, was sitting near a sewing machin,
at the residence of her aunt, when shi
felt something mt her feet. She paid III
attention to it at first, but feeling it again
she looked and saw n snake coiled upol
the floor beside her. She didn't do wha
nine out of every ten would have done
scream and faint away-but she as
sisted her aunt to kill the intruder. On
examination, it was found to be a spot
ted snake about four feet in length.
THE following record shows the mark
ed improvement in the speed of trothns
horses within the last 60 years In 1872
the best mile time was ) 100; in 1880
, 40; in 1910, the best record by Dutch
man, :2S; in 1850 Lady Suffolk made
a mile in , 20; in 1860 Flora Temple
made u record of 2:19 81 in 1870 DeX
ter trotted a mile in IL ii; il
1876 Goldsmith Maid completed a mil
in 2:14; in 1873 Rarus against time
made mile in 2:13 Ii; and quite re
Gently Bonncr's Edwin Forrest is said t
have made a mile in the unparalleled
time of 2:11 81.
A WESTERN gentleman recently tool
his little girl into the highlands of TIN
Hudson, says the ChriStiGla Union, where
for the first time in her life, she saw
mountains. They were sitting on thu
piazza of the West Point Hotel, looking
on the finest mountain and river view
that is to be seen east of the ROCKY
Mountains, and the little girl had beer
standing reverently, with her hat IL
hand, for some Misunderstanding now
at the river, now ut the mountains, nov
ut the clouds-when, with a sudden in
SEPARATION, she waved her hat above he1
head, and cried out, - Hurrah for God y
1t was an act of genuine worship;
true answer to David's call on every sou
to make joyful noise unto the Lord.
THE nicknames of the citizens of tn,
several States are rs follows Alabama