The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-11-27
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.
THE Order of st. George is the most
important in Russia, the grand Gordon
being given to those only who have COM
manded 100000 men in a successful war.
A DAUGHTER of the French COM
mandant at Tours has eloped from Par
is to London for the purpose of marry
ing son of Musurus Pasha, the Turk
ish ambassador there.
TEAMsTERs along the ella River, Ari-
iona, complain of the large herds of
wild camels that have of late taken pos
session of the main roads, to the con-
sternation of horses and mules.
Nor long ago a Maj. LissOvitch was
put in charge of the Nihilist prisoners
at the citadel of Charkoff. Now he has
committed suicide to escape the sight of
sufferings he dared not alleviate.
A CHINAMAN in Paris committed sui
eide because his tOrmentors had cut off
his queue. He fastened the cherished
braid with pins to the place where it
ought to grow and jumped into the
river.
THE trial of a copyright lawsuit in
Washington brings out the fact that one
printer has, within year, furnished
champagne labels TO put on American
wine.
THE QueenSIdndeT, published at Bris-
bane, Australia, recently contained the
following advertisement: al, Fanny
Harris, have not heard of my husband,
George Harris, for seven years,
and if do not hear from him previous
ly, intend to get married again in two
MONTHS
Two Chicago men went on a weeks
spree which involved an irregular tour
through the West. One morning they
awoke in a hotel, with dazed notion as
to what city they were in. One said ST.
Louis, and the other Cincinnati They
bet 500 as to which was right, and
neither won, for the bell-boy informed
them that the place was Milwaukee.
AN aristocratic Chinawoman has ar
rived in Winnemucca from Idaho, ac-
companied by her son and attended by
Tartar woman. The lady has regular
features and fair complexion, but the
great distinction between her and the
Tartar woman is in the size of her feet,
which are no larger than those of an or
binary 4-year-old child.
A SERIES of towers are being built
from Lake Michigan to the Gulf of Mex
of the Mississippi River and its tribu-
taries, with the object of determinino
the true water course from the lakes Ia
the gulf. One hundred and seventy-five
thousand dollars was appropriated by
the last Congress for this purpose.
THE little child of Postmaster John
Beckwith of Des Moines, iowa, while
playing about the house, found some
sugar-coated pills, and ate four. This was
discovered Immediately by his mother,
who thought them harmless. The boy
played about for an hour, when he was
seized with commissions, and died in a
few moments. 1t was found that the
pills contained strychnine.
THE Federal Council of Switzerland
warns the Swiss people against emigrat.
ing to join n colony at a place called
Alping, in the Allegheny Mountains OF
Pennsylvania. The Council saws that
emigrants are there exposed to all kinds
OF fraud in the purchase of lands, be-
sides finding themselves in a place re-
mote from larger settlements, and with
out adequate means of communication
and transportation.
BY the effect of the drouth a lake in
Caldwell Parish, Louisiana, which usu.
ally covers an area of many acres, was
reduced to the size of a slough 200 feet
in length and 40 in width. 1t appear,
that the lake full of fish, and that the
drying up of the water exposed great
numbers of them to view. Advantage
was taken of the opportunity and seve
raj large CARS were killed, one being
over six feet in length.
MRS. MARGARET ROBERTSON o.
Cooper Angus, Scotland, died recently
aged 10Y. She lived under three Brit
ish Kings and one Queen. She talked
with scorn of poor creatures who could
not live over so or 80, which she de-
clared to Sir Henry Thompson, the sur.
geon, was I" nae age at az" The clay
pipe was always in her mouth. "I'vC
smoked a my days. she said. ats
had plenty of time to dae me i'll, and It's
never socht."
Mrs. ID. +. SMITH, who lived neal
Legienier, Westmoreland County, Va
died recently. Her proportions were
extraordinarily large. She measured "a
inches across the shoulders, and weighed
within fraction of 61O pounds. The
coffin was necessarily of immense size
and before it was delivered two ordinary
men lay in it, side by side, on theii
backs, without crowding each other il
the least. When brought to the house
it could not be gotten through the door
and it was necessary to leave it outside
until the time set for the funeral, wher
the corpse was carried out to the
coffin.
The Eureka Sentinel proposes a new
style of leg competition. 1t holds thai
all of the misery attendant upon a prize
fight or n walking-match can be OBJ
tanned from standing-mateh, if it is
only protracted sufficiently. Surely q
dozen men can be found willing to stand
in row until they fall from exhaustion
for gate money. We have" it says,
% some talented ISLANDERS here in Eure-
ka-gentlemen who have been pacing
on the street corners for years without
any apparent fatigue-who would be
extremely formidable in contest of this
kind. They can at least find hackers
among those who have observed their
industry in this regard in the years gone
by"
A Confederate Relic.