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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-15

get so short they can no longer be used. |
Two csrbons, each twelve inches long,
will burn tor eight hours. An arrange
ment is now being perfected by the man
utacturers Of the above machine by which
double carbons may be used, which viii
burn for twenty-five hours.
The intense heat between these two
cartoons may be known when it is stated
that no fire save that generated by elec-
tricity or chemical process will burn
them. A copper cent thrust between
them will burn in two in an instant.
They are made from the carbon taken
from gas retOrts, which goes through 8
rather complicated process before it is
ready to be used as the electric light.
First it is ground up and made into 8
paste. 1t is then put In nolds aud made
into sticks, round and square, after
which the hardening process begins.
How hard the sticks are made will be
understood when it Is known that they
are put under a hydraulic press and
pressed with pressure of one hundred
tons to the square inch. After this they
are baked TOR forty-eight hours, and then
put through g chemical process and
thoroughly cleansed. Lastly, they are
electroplated with copper, after which
they are ready for use.
AS has been said there is no flame or
smoke, only a fierce, dazzling bsll Of
flame between the points of the eatbons
| like molten metal. Wind or storm or
rain can not affect the light one bit. Fed
! by the powerful electricity, it burns and
! defes the power of the elements. The
| light will-burn under water as well as
| above the water. Cooper & Bailey are
having strong glass case made for the
purpose of demonstrating this. It is
said that q single electric light of the
size and power of this one described, if
sufficiently elevated, and with s reflector
large enough, would make the darkest
night almost as light as day for the space
of fifty miles.
There are eighteen electric lights to
this machine altogether, ten of which
were in operation on Saturday night
The eighteen are equal to $4,000 gas
jets. Mr.. Cooper states that their saving
on gas by their new purchase will be not
less than $40 per hour, which is about
one halt of the gas bill per hour. The
cost of running the engine is the fue
used and a smoke-burner consumes al
the sparks. Only two men are required
to run the machine, the engineer anC
the man who has charge of the battery
and lights. The machine is on the same
principle as that of John Wanamaker' g
though much larger.
. In the eastern states the machine
, have been introduced in a number OF tn
, large manufactures, which have don
away with gas completely. At Will
| mantle, Connecticut, a certain larg
thread mandatory, it is said, saves 81
; an hour on gas by the electric light. i
| Lowell and Lawrence, Massachusetts,
most all the lsrge factories have dis
peused with gas, and are using the cleo
. trio light. Its great feature in the cot
8 ton and thread factories, aside from tn
r saving of gas, is the fact that with
? operatives are enabled to distinguish tn
color of cloth or thread by night.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-15
FACTS AND FIGURES.

THE taking of the census next year
viii cost about 81, 600, 900.
CHINESE "rice paper" is not made
from rice, but from wood pitch.
THE Massachusetts, Historical Society
has property valued at $40, 1000.
EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND base-balls
sre made in this country each year.
TEE average business lite of a Boston
street>car horse is about four years.
The total amount of lumber cut last
season is set down at 4. 3S4, 2I6. 220 feet.
UNITED STATES 4-per-cent. bonds are
worth more than 4 psr cents. o the
Empire OF Germany, in the German
markets.
BOsToN's sixty-oue National Banks
represent a paid-in capital stock OF
$52 800 coo. and they report q surplus
Of $40 $50, 537.
hangings for murder in New Hsmu-
shire. The first two were wemen, who
were hanged IN 1879 for child murder.
THE European Messenger of st. Pc
| teFsburg, in an article on the Russian
clergy, says that the total number of
persons in holy orders in the Russian
I
BY a census taken in December last
it appears that the popul Stion OF Japan
now numbers "a. 33S, SO4 souls, Yeddo
which at one time hsd the reputation
of being the most POpulous city in the
world, contains 1,036.771 inhabitants
and 236 951 houses.
WHEN Iowa is as denseIy populated
| as New York state it will have 9,eOO,-
/ sr6 ~ - u
"a Massachusetts, it will have Is .OOO,-
900 inhabitants But when as dense
as Belgium it will have q, 900, 0OO.-
Iowa State Register.
In Mississippi there are 348, pa pupil
childTen-158, 156 white, and 100, OSS
colored OF these, 100,6 white and
104, 779 colored attended school. The
school fund for the Psst year amounted
TO 1926, 268-per cspita in average
daily attendance, 50 ~.
, IN San Francisco there are 1902
{ voters or Irish nativity and GA o
German nativity, and the two together
, are about equal to all the native Amer
lean voters. OF the latter 4,416 ar
T from New York, 1851 from Massa
} chusetts, and 1929 from Pennsylvania
5 REMARKABLE electric storms ar
sdAu W OCCuI OH Tic suHltut' VI IKE
S Peak. Little thunder accOmpanie
q tn, m. but the whole mountain seems t
be on FIRE, and the top one sheet c
: flame. Electricity comes out OF ever
b rock, and darts here and there with IN
K descTibable radiance.
S The total number of paupers in Lor
c don on the last day of the fourth wee
in March was Sc, 253, of whom A, OF
q were in wo khOuses, and 1912 re
q ceived outdoor relief. Compared wit
Q the corresponding weeks OF 1873, 1877
and 1876, these figures show an il
crease of 20.93, 521 and 284 IespeC
s lively.
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In addition to its tonic and cathartic prop
critics, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters exercises
bladder, when they are inactive, by stimulus
ting them to renewed exertiou, thus reopen
ing, as 1t were, a sluice for the escape of i'm
puTiues, whose regular channel Of exit is the
organs of urination. Among these are certain
abnormal and inhammstory elements, pro,
ductive Of iTreparable injury to The system
if not entirely expelled. The kidneys and
bladder themselves are also benefited by
this stimulus, as their inactivity is usually a
preliminary to their disease and disorganiz T.
ton. They also experience, IN common with
other portions of the system, the potent in
vigorative effects of the Bitters, which fur
thermOre cOrrects disOrdered conditions of
the stomach, bowels and liver.
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sOUTHERN FARn AMI HONE.
nomell.lnr Ahent Cetton.


As a general rule 100 pounds of seed
cotton viii yield 8S5 per cent. of lint,
33A per cent. of hull, and S31 per cent.
of kernel. In the growth OF the whole
plant, lint, seed, roots, bprrs, leaves and
stems, in order to make a bale OF 500
pounds of cotton, about the following
amount. Of mineral matter, says Pro.
lessor White, must be taken from the
soil: FhOsphoEic acid, 80 potash, 40 /;
line, so SO msgnesia, 10 so; sulphuric
acid, d %; oxide Of iron, 978; chic
rine, II "a soda, 20.50, and SILICA ID %
per cent. To grow the greatest amount
of lint there must be 2 strong and Wig
orOus plant, with room 10 branch well,
and good. culture at the right season. In
other words, 10 order TO make plenty OF
cotton we have TO grow vigorous plant
to get it. The. above elements furnished
to the crop at the growing period, make
a strong plant, and, it is said, will insure
q bale of lint to the acre. The three
elements seemingly the most important
in the above, viz: phOsphOric acid, lime
and potash, are required in large guam
titles, and if these are supplied the rest
may generally be left to the natural re-
sources of the soil. For cotton, then,
the farmer should apply fertilizers that
COubdln largely % luSnC. LhOAO aAO SUtOn
fertilizers made especially for cotton, and
for the home supply (if the farmer
could get enough of them) bones and
ashes will fill the bill.
Every cotton planter ought to begin
long before the season of planting tc
manufacture compost especially fol
this crop. Make the foundation of the
compost heap By tumbling down geveTa
loads of rich mold from the woods, form
ing the pile,i the shape of basin tC
catch the rain, and continue to throw
on all the bones, hair, old leather
feathers, old mortar and plaster, leacheC
ashes, and such like material that may
from time to time be gathered, haviDl
at hand mould to cover each addition t
the pile. When the bones are added, pu
them in contact with strong ashes, tina
the latter may reduce them to powder
Cotton seed, lime, burnt shells or mar
would be useful additions to the othe
ingredients In this way the farmer vii
get a very good cotton fertilizer. Whel
the commercial article is used, get sue
rs are said to consist of large amounts @
bone spd phogphates from which tn
plantmAy derive phosphorie acid, potash
lime and ammonia - RttrdL Messenger.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-15

the juice of a lemon IN a dish or bowl
and pour the cream upon it, stirring it
till quite cold.
CARAMELs.-Onec cup of grated choc
oiate (Baker's), one and One-half cups
molasses, enc pound sugar, one cup Of
milk, butter size of an egg; boil until it
hardens when dropped into cold water
add one teaspoontul vanilla marx in
squares with knife.
OATMEAL SAMP.-Put q pint of Oat~
meal to soak in warm water a few hours
before cooking 1t; just water enough to
cover il, then pour this mixture into
boiling water, little at a time, with q
good pinch of salt, and let it cook slowly
the same as q coTnmeal hasty pudding
for half an hour or longer. a pudding
can be made of it by using eggs, milk,
sugar, raisins and cinnamon, the same as
for other puddings.
BEEF EXTRACT Chop a pound of
lean beef (the round is the best); put in
a wide mouthed bottle without water !;
| place the bottle in cold water and let it
| come to a boil boil slowly for two
hours skim all PARTICLES OF grease from
| the top when done. It may be given
cold or warm. a pound of meat will
| furnish about three or four tablespoon
! fuls of extract which will contain all the
nutriment of the meat.
| LEMON MINCE MEAT.-Take one large
lemon, three large apples, four ounces
! beet suet, One~half pound currants, one
| half pound stoned raisins, four ounces
white sugar, one ounce candied orange
and citron; chop up the apples and beet
sUet; mix them with the fruit and sugar
| then equeeze the juice from large lemon
into a cup; add glass Of sherry well
mix the whole; it is fit for immediate
use. tF
RHUBARB PIE.-Pare your plant by
peeling and slicing, put in q tin vessel
and pour ever enough boiling water to
cover it; let it stand on the stove until
the color changes and it begins to gel
soft, but not long enough. to fail to pieces
drain off all the water, fill your pie dish
previously lined with paste, add three
iourths of pound q sugar and q goOC
lump of butter, dredge with -four anC
cover, wetting down the edges Of you
crust.
SWEET RUsKs.-Cne pint warm milk
half cup of butter, one cup of sugar
two eggs, one Tablespoonful salt, TIVE
tablesI oonfuls OF east; make 3 spong
> with milk and yeast add -four for THU
batter; rise over night; in the mornini
add butter, eggs and sugar beat vel
together add salt and -four enough 70
soft dough: mold with the hands int
balls let them rise very light and bake
wash the tops with q soft cloth, dippe
| in molssses and water.
, FIG PUDDING.-One pound -four, ST
: ounces fresh beef sJ.et, with half tes
] spoonful of salt, and one pound fig
|. with one tesspoonful of baking powder
! Chop the suet as fine as possible, remoV
: all strings; mix well with the flour, sal
and baking powder make this into
, paste with iced water, and roll out in
sheet; cut the figs into long slices, cove
! the paste with them, tie in a cloth an
E boil in fsst>boiling water for two hour
! Eat with a sauce.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-15
a UsefuI Dog.

Every State does not have girls grow
ing up with the country as in Wiscon-
sin. 1t is told of one of them that she
put on trousers and started through the
deep snow to walk six miles to a village
or provisions, the family iarder being
empty. She soon became tired out, be-
sides losing her way, and the cold was
intense. A big Newfoundland dog
which accompanied her was the means
81 saving her life. She scooped out a
hollow In the snow, lay down In It, and
made the warm dog lie on her, shifting
him about so as to successfully cover
She coolest parts of her body. In that
way she passed whole night, and was
aot very severely frost-bitten. I" With
two or three more dogs" she said, {"
would havo got along verylcomfortably."
Exchange.
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UeIery as a Cure for RheumaaIa.u.

New discoveries-or what claim to be
discoveries-O the healing virtues of
plants are continually making. One OF
the latest is that celery is a cure for
rheumatism; indeed it is asserted that
the disease is impossible if the vegetable
be cooked and freely eaten. The fact
that it is almost always put on the table
raw prevents its therapeutic powers from
becoming known. The celery should be
cut into bits, boiled in water until soft,
and the water drank by the patient.
Put new milk, with a little -four and
nutmeg, into saucepan with the boiled
celery, serve it warm with pieces of
toast, eat with potatoes and the painful
aiiment will soon yield. Such is the
declaration of physician who has again
and again tried the experiment, and
with uniform success. He adds that
cold or damp never produces, but simply
develops, the disease, OF which acid blood
Is the primary and sustaining cause, and
that while tine blood is alkaline there can
be neither rheumatism nor govt. Eng
iish statistics show that in one year 1870
three thousand six hundred and forty
persons died of rheumatism, and every
case, il is aimed, might have been
cured or prevented by the adoption of
the remedy mentioned. At least two~
thirds of the cases named heart. disease
are ascribed to rheumatism and its ane
tagonizing ally, govt. Smallpox, so
much dreaded, is not halt 80 destructive
"a rheumatism, which, 1t is maintained
by many physicians, can be prevented
by obeyiDg natures laws in diet. But
If you have incurred it, boiled celery is
pronounced unhesitatingly to be q spe-
cifc.- New York Times.
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Individually tn e best working the corn
crop gets is that given before it is
planted The better the condition OF
the land at the start, the easier the
after. cultivation and the more profitable
the return. The crop demands ana de-
serves the best treatment, tire best land
and the best manures at your command.
1t is truly said of it that is is " the
sheet anchor of American farming"
Large crops pay better, too, than small
ones, in a comparison of cost. While
corn Is largely potash plant, it requires
also abundant supplies of almost all the
inorganic elements, combined in the food
of plants. Available mineral supplies
must, therefore, be present in some
abundance TO supply the phosphoric
acid, soda, lime and other ingredients
essential to its complete growth and
maturity. Good barn. yard manure and
rich composts are equally serviceable,
and the crop is one taking grosser food
than the other more dainty cereals. The
seed, the distance of planting, whether
In hills or drills. vary in each locality !;
heavier applications of fertilizing mas
terials being required when close plant
ing is adopted. Drill culture is growing
In favor, the product being larger, and
the ease and facility of working greatly
Increased by the newly improved ma
chimes for planting.
For manuriDg in the hill mixture of
i've bushels-one OF salt, one of plaster,
and one OF fine bone dust--is admirable
to give the plant a start.
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why the Wedding Was Broken on.


Some time ago a prominent business
gentleman OF neighboriEg town be-
longing to the Hebrew faith lost his wife.
The diseOnsolate husband resolved to
take unto himself another partner. His
brother was in New York, and with due
care and diligence selected for the groom
lady whom he thought would be
agreeable to his brother. They were
personally strangers, but family con.
nection existed. The courtship was
done by proxy, and the lady's consent
obtained. The wouldNbe bridegroom
wrote to the lady to come to Macon and
be married. She replied that she would
be here on the day appointed. On Fri
day evening she came, accompanied by
two relatives. Magistrate M. R. Free
man was summoned to tie the knot.
The bride, as the ceremony was about to
be commenced, asked where her future
lord intended to reside. When told that
he lived in the country, she protested
and insisted that the man who claimet
her hand must live ia 8 city. She was
begged to consider the matter, and the
ceremony was deferred until Saturday
evening. When Saturday evening came
the bride still hesitated, and Just IS she
was about to consent, the groom refused
to have the ceremony performed, The
gentleman is in middle life, and the
young lady is in the bloom of youth and
attractive. She will return to New
York and heWill go back to his home.
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nonEs &c RECIPES.

PLAIN RUsKs.-One cup of yeast, one
cup of water, one egg, little salt, 3
large spoonful OF lard mix together :;
let them rise twice and bake.
FRIED Boil tender, scrape
off the skin, and cut in thick, lengthwise
slices, and fry in hot drippings of butter,
turning them over as they brown sat
and Pepper and serve hot.
CELERY SALT.-Ssye the root of the
celery plant, dry and crate it, mixing it
with one third as much salt. Keep it
in bottle well corked, and it is delicious
Tor soups, oysters, gravies or hashes.
WiDow's CAKE.-Two cups Indian
meal, three cups wheat -four, one pint
butteTmilk, four tablespoonfuls OF molss,
ses, two tablespoonfuls of saleratus. To
be eaten hot with butter for tea or
breakfast.
NICE BREAKFAsT DIsH.-Cold mashed
potatoes, made into little balls and
slightly hattened; dip them into al egg
slightly, so as TO mix the yolk and~white !;
roll them in cracker crumbs. Fry them
in hot lard or butter. Send to the table
hot.
SUPERIOR. SoFT GINGER BREAD
One cup OF sugSr, one cup butter, one
milk, tour cups flour, three eggs, two
teaspoonfuls (even) of saleratus, dis
solved in hot water.
DROP CAKE.-Four and half tea
cups of -four, two and a half cups sugar,
one-halt cup butter, one cup of sweet
milk. five eggs, three tsblespoonfuls
baking powder, cream, butter and sugar ;
beat the eggs separately; bake in gem
pans.
LEMON MINcE PIEs.-Boil lemon
about four hours, and chop it small; add
one-half pound of beef suet, one-half
pound OF sugar, one-halt pound of cur
rants, one-half pound of raisins, Eve
apples, nutmeg and lemon peel; the
lemon pael must not be put in before
you use it.
L ION CREAM.--Take a pint of thick
sweet cream, and put in it the yolks of
eggs well beaten, four ounces of fine
St., and thin rind of one lemon boil
up; then stir it till almost cold; put
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-15
4 Baby ID q Panther,s Jaw.


Last Thursday evening, about dark,
Mr.. and Mrs. George Campbell and
Dick Mannon were sitting on the porch
of the Soda Servings hotel, at Soda
Springs, on the Sacramento river, while
Mr.. CampbelPs little boy, aged about
three years, was across the road, about
fifty or sixty feet distant, amusing him
self by cutting bushes with little
Ratchet Those on the porch were star
tied and Mortified by observing a pan
Their spring upon the child, and at the
time supposed he was dangerously in
iured, which would have been the case,
no doubt, had not the child screamed
and those on the porch shouted ex-
eitedly, which prevented the panther
making deadly apring, as he was evi>
IDENTIFY watching aud fearing the parties
on the porch. As it was, the panther
seized the child by the chin, one of the
tusks of the upper jaw cutting his lip
and one in the lower. jaw cutting his
neck, while the paw of the beast struck
and scratched him in the breast. The
shouting and rushing toward the child
by those on the porch caused the pan
ther to make tracks up the mountain
speedily, and alter picking up the child
anu examining the wounds inflicted,
Mannon returned 70 the house for his
gun, and following it up the mountain,
soon dispatched the pan her, hungry,
lean looking custeme measuring five
feet from tip to Tip.
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Safety, efficiency and reliability are the
three cardinal virtues of q remedy, whether
in the bands ola physician or in those of the
people large. For the cure of all malariaI
or miasmatic diseases, such as Chills and Fe-
yer, or Intermittent Fever, Dumb Chills and
Chronic Enlargement of the Spleen, we have
such a remedy 10 DR.. T. WiIhofts Anti>Pe-
riOdic or Fever and Ague Tonic, the compO,.
sitiOn of which has been published by its
Wheelock, Finlay & Co., Of New
Orleans, and Is approved by the medical
profession, and for sale by all Druggists.
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The CuItiystion OF Rose
"Roses are hsr CHEEKS,

q
The best way for ladies to cultivate this
rare species of rosesis by studying and prac-
ticing the rules of hygiene, as taught in the
Peoples Common Sense Medical Adviser,
only $1.50 Address the author, r. Y. Pierce,
81. D., Grand Invaiids' Hotel, Buffalo, n. Y.
If suffering from those painful weaknesses
incident to the female organism, use DIR.
Pierce's Favorite Prescriptions never
failing remedy for these complaints.
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i" HERE" said the farmer, as he ex-
hibited broken jar to tte manufacturer,
" packed This jar full of butter, and the
jar split from top to bottom. Perhaps
you can explain the phenomena." "Oh,
yes, can" was the reply, tine butter
was stronger than the jar"
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Carefully avoid the use of rasping csthart.
les. They weaken the bowels and leave them
worse Of than before. Use instead that salu-
tory, non-irritating aperient and ambitious
medicine, DR.. Motifs Vegetable Liver Pills,
which will not only achieve the desired OBJ
ject, relaxation of the bowels, without eaus-
ing pain or weakening them, but promote
digestion and assimilation and depurate the
blood. The pills are sold by all druggists.
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Two darkies were Wanting their
eoursge. I isn't feared o. nothing, ]
isn't" said one. Den Sam, I reckon
you isn't feared to losn ne q dollar =
q No, Julius, isn't feared to loan you =
dollar, but I does hate to part wid al ole
fren' forebber.5'
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Austria-Huu.

. In comparing the figures of these lists,
it must be remembered that money hag
not the same value in all the countries,
and that consequently Holland, where
everything is dear, with seven dollars a
pupil does not do so much as some other
country with less, and so with other
considerations.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-15

Mason & Hamlin Cabinet Organs are GER
tainly the best of this class of instruments in
the world, aud at the prices a which they are
of very poor oTganE, they are also cheapest.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-15

The Mendelssohn Piano Co.. No. 81 Ess
18th street. n. Y, sell Pianos at Factor,
Prices. Write for catalogue.
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THERE axe over 1900, eco acres OF
puolic land IN Alabams subject to entry
or homestead.