The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-08-28
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.


BY a new law the French Post-office
undertakes the collection of small bills
in the provinces.
FRENCH farmers, as a rule, know lit
tie about scientific agriculture, but a
good deal about thriftiness and self-de-
NAL.
A HORSE 20 - hands high and
weighing 400 pounds is being exhibit
ed in the towns along the lake shore,
Ohio.
THERE is a little miss at Long Branch
Just two and half years old who has no
less than six dresses which cost $50 |
apiece.
A CHINAMAN in native costume, whose
carriage is faithfully followed by a pet /
pig, is one of the attractions at Rye |
Beach, New Hampshire.
QUININE has gone up since the duty |
has been taken off. Two or three man |
ufacturers have done this, but the price |
viii probably come down as soon as com
petition can reach the market.
A SMALL boy recently picked up
pearl on the Little Miami River, near
Marysville, o. 1t was sent to New York
and sold for $780, that price having been
set upon it by large jewelry house.
REV DIR. WILLIS, pastor of the West
delphia,. is crack shot with rife or shot
gun. He has a handsome cottage at
Spring Lake, N. j., where he spends
most of the summer.
A LITTLE boy in Troy, N. Y, during
storm, was playing in the doorway
with his kitten. He put it down for n
moment, and while he was walking to-
ward an adjoining room stroke of
lightning killed the animal.
ZING-U-ZING, the Chinese giant, who
is over eight feet high, and % years old,
is now on exhibition at the St. Peters
burg Geological Garden. He attracts as
much attention as the Zulus did who
were lately exhibited at the same place.
INDIA has become one of the largest
wheat producing countries in the world,
and it is anticipated that the completion
Of the Indus Railroad, by cheapening
carriage, will make the Punjaub a won
derfully large exporting province.
DURING the year 1878 there were p
7OS medical students graduated from
the 50 colleges of the United States. As
the statistics show that in this country
an average of 500 people support one
physician, there must be a constant sup
ply of over $4,000 patients who must pay
the handsome sum of S1,976,000 a year,
in order to allow each doctor only 81 a
day.
Snow is shoveled out of a large gran
tie building in Boston every morning,
and the boys may play at snowballing in
temperature of 90 degrees, if they are
quick about it. This building is ware
house for the storage of perishable pro-
visions, and the air in it is kept at 40 by
refrigeration with ammonia. The snow
gathers constantly in the machine room.
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20 feet, ut Offham, England, and drew a
crowd of spectators, among whom were
his wife and daughter, by singing
hymns. Then he took a rope from his
pocket and said: "GOOd-by; l have
made a nice moose, and now l am going
TO tie the knot Marwood says that a
drop of six feet is necessary, but l am
only going to give myself three. l have
tied the knot and I am going to jump"
Then he hanged himself.
ANDREW FERGUSON of Louisville, Ky,
was born and brought up slave. Since
his emancipation he has made mon
ev and has learned to be lib
eral with it. A Methodist Church in
Louisville was put up for sale recently
under foreclosure. Mr.. Ferguson bought
it for "a, $50 and made a gift of it to the
Knox Colored Presbyterian Church.
cence. Mr.. Ferguson iswell educated,
and has spent several years in Liberia.
A sHIP-CARPENTER at Belfast, Me,
has concluded to spend the rest of
his life in chair. When wages were
reduced he declined to work any longer,
and seated himself in n rock
ing-chair near his sitting-roOm
window There he remains all day
long, only rising to 90 to his meals or to
bed His chair rockers have worn
grooves in the floor, and on the window
sill, where he drums idly as he rocks to
to and fro, are the imprints of his fin
gers. He is supposed to have some saw
ings on which he and his wife live
TIP MCLAUGHLIN was convicted of
murder in Sacramento, several years
ago. Immediately after the jury had
rendered n verdict, and before he had
been taken into custody by Sheriff,
having previously been at large on bail
he coolly walked out of the courtroom,
and escaped to South America. There
he was employed by Harry Meiggs, and
subsequently, made great deal of money
in speculations of his own. News has
lust been received of his suicide. He
grew tired, he said, of being a fugitive
murderer.
AT the close of n prayer-meeting in a
Methodist church at Acton, Ind, Broth
er Hamlin, Superintendent of the Sun
dav-school, announced that the services
on the following Sunday would be held
in a grove near by. This was really the
result of a division in the congregation.
Pastor Weaver said that, on the contra
nv, the usual services would take place
i'm the church, and at once pronounced
the bencdiction. The two then met in
the aisle, Quarreled fiercely, and then
had fight, in which the clergyman
whipped the Superintendent.
An apparently well defined case of
death from hydrophobia is reported
from Chicago. The victim was
lad who, while playing with
favorite dog, became innocu-
lated with the poison by contact of sa-
Iva from the animals mouth with a
fresh cut or scratch on the hand, and
died in great agony after brief illness.
An alarming feature of the case is the
fact that the dog was to all appearances
perfectly harmless, having manifested
no symptoms of rabies either before or
since the communication of the disease
in the singular manner described.
AN Iowa law RENTS certain percent
age of taxes for five years on every acre
of fruit, and for 10 years on every acre
of forest trees planted within the State
and kept alive. Under this stimulus
over $4,000 acres of fruit and forest
trees have been planted, and there has
been a remission of State and county
taxes to the amount of 100000. The
acreage of trees is about one-half of one