The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-12-25
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.
THE White House is 70 years old.

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weighing five pounds, were found IN a
cavity in the center of the log.
IN nearly all cases smaI-boned AMI
mails are good feeders, viii mature ear
~ and possess fine flesh. On the other
hand, coarse bones and large joints indi-
cate late maturity, poor feeding quality
and coarse flesh, with a large proper
ton of offal.
FRENCH history in the past hundred
years exhibits three women who have
perhaps experienced more splendor and
more bitter grief and modification than
any other three women in the world
Marie Antoinette, Josephine, and Euge-
ME.
CALIFORNIA apples are not seen in the
markets of the Eastern States, and it is
not generally known that good varieties
of the fruit are produced on the Pacific
coast; but the fact is that they are very
fine and are monopolizing the markets
of New Zealand.
THE shrinking of the water in Tulare
Lake, Cal, has uncovered a prehistoric
settlement, stone buildings, traces of
canals once bOrdered with planted trees,
and other evidences of former occupa-
ton by an unknown race, are being
clearly defined as the water subsidies.
CARDIRAL MANNING, in a recent lee
ture, condemned the employment of
married women outside their house
holds, saying that "when a woman
married she entered into a solemn con-
tract for life that she would give her
time to her husband, her home and
her children; and if she did not do SO
it destroyed the whole domestic life. +"
THE King of Holland is connoisseur
in trees and such, having the largest
private conservatory in the world. 1t
contains two immense palm-trees, the
smaller of which weighs two and half
tons, besides a wonderful collection of
tropical plants. The glass dome of this
huge greenhouse is 80 feet high and $50
feet in diameter.
GEN. BIDwELL is one of the richest
men in California. In his plantation
are 40 miles of drives, lined on either
side with trees, either fruit or nut bear
ing. His place is a Spanish grant of lao
miles. Mrs. Bidwel is a woman of
great culture, and their home is the rem
devious for all savants from the States
or Europe who visit the Pacific Slope.
THE new French cable, which con-
meets Brest, France, with North East
ham, Mass, is said to be superior to any
now in use. It's central wire of copper
Is surrounded by 10 other copper wires,
thus insuring its use in all states of the
weather The company engaged in this
enterprise, the success of which viii Sc
cure lower rates for cablegrams, is COM
posed OF both French and American
stockholders.
A PRACTICAL joke played by one an
gler on his companion at Clchy, III
France, terminated in tragical man.
ner. They were fishing near each other
on the banks of the Seine, when one
laid down his rod, threw two big stones
into the river, and then hid himself be-
hind tree. The other, hearing the
splash, turned round, and, not seeing
his friend, thought he had fallen into
the water and sunk; he jumped in to
save him, but was carried away and
drowned.
SOME fiend in human shape went into
the electric battery-room of San Fran
cisco hotel the other day and turned
the whole force of the AS Humpkoff
coils on the reverse way at once. In
SANITY Loud shrieks resounGed through
the corridors, and in the next 10 min
utes the walters found over 60 guests
hanging by their thumbs to the electric
buttons in their rooms, capering round
like maniacs and yelling for release.
One old lady was drawn up into such a
knot that two doctors haven't got her
hattened out since.
THE late inundation of the great plain
of Murcia, in Spain, washing away four
fifths of the surface soil, cutting it into
assures, destroying orchards, buildings,
vineyards, and gardens, and drowning
5000 people, might, it is asserted, have
been avoided if the range of mountains
to the north had not been denuded OF
their trees. Had the original forests re-
manned, they would have absorbed a
large portion of the sudden rainfall and
saved the plain from overflow. The
floods last summer at Szegedin, in Hun
gary, are traeeable to the same cause
The neighb6ring highlands were left
shorn of trees, without the power OF
either attracting or absorbing rains.
II. c. LONG of Delaware, who recently
married for fun, has done the thing
again in a serious way. In 1875, when
he was only Is years old, he was walk
ing in Philadelphia with Miss Lucy
Robinson, a young miss of Is, when he
. proposed that they should be married
She agreed, and in ten minutes the joke
was carried into effect. He took her tc
the house ut which she was visiting, and
they did not meet again for a year OF
mere. They subsequently became
aware that the jocular marriage was
binding, and, as both had formed other
attachments, a divorce was applied for
and granted.
THE ex-Khedive of Egypt has just
lost one of his wives from his harem. A
handsome young Italian painter named
d'Elia went sketching through the ha-
rem grounds. He noticed a beautiful
odalisk at one of the windows, and in
some way managed to establish a tele-
graphic communication with her, which
was soon followed by romantic elope-
ment and marriage. How he managed
to get her out of the harem is a mys-
terry. The young couple are now living
happily at Foggia, and since they are
man and wife the Khedive can't clam
his former favorite. He is determined
in future to keep his wives from the
windows for fear of more Opponents
The young lady in question is said to be
a French woman.
ICELAND has been making progress in
various ways since her great festival in
1874. Prof. Fispe says they are making
new roads, cultivating wider spaces, and
their increased trade is shown in the fact
that there are now two lines of steamers
running to Scotland instead of one,
They are making great efforts to relieve
themselves of their ancient bondage 10
the Danish importers. The Danes have
for ages supplied the Icelanders with
commodities which the. latter can only
REPAY in produce, not'in money; in this
way nearly every family in the island is
in debt To Denmark and they have No