The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-10-30
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

A RUAIOR comes from Paris that bon
nets are TO be worn on the head hereaf-
ter.
A Boston druggist sold an ounce Of
laudanum to a boy who brought a writ
ten order for tincture of rhubarb, and
the widow of the man killed by the
blunder has obtained a verdict of 50, 208
damages. 4
PROF. GRYGLEWsKI of the CracOw
Fine Arts Academy recently committed
suicide at Dantzic, where he had been
drawing historical pictures in the Rath-
haus, by. throwing himself from the top
of that building.
A DRUGGIST in Savannah, Ga, has
young mOcking-bird that win 90 and
come as ordered, turn somersets, run
round in a circle, march, fetch and car
~, hop on one foot, pick up coin, and
do other similar triekS.E
PARTISAN theaters may now keep open
till y 80, instead of closing at y, and
cafes till 2. In London the sober can
get nothing 10 drink at a restaurant af-
fer y, because some people get DRINK
after that hour.
LARGE number of bogus female
pensioners have been arrested at Wash
ington. They were in the employ of
one George Brown, who has been doing
large business in procuring women to
personate the widows of dead pension
ers.
'" CXBUL, the scene of the massacre of
British officers, is represented as a most
disagreeable place to live in. 1t is said
Shat a more neglected and tumbied-
down collection of houses, without the
slightest pretense to any sanitary ar
engagements, could scarcely be found in
Asia.
fta AS an instance of misnomer The
Canada thistle is not a native of Cana
da, but introduced there by the Hessians
-Nduring the Revolutionary war Of the
2. United States. So the Jerusalem arti-
choke is not native of Palestine, but of
Brazil, and it is said has never been no
ticed in Palestine. $50.
Two young aligators, each about Il
foot in length, and very pretty speci-
mems of their species, were discovered
in the third class mail matteriR the New
York Post-ofiice the other day. They
were in separate boxes, and one was adj
dressed to lady at Vassar College and
the other to a lady in Brooklyn. The
Post-oilice authorities have the right to
destroy such objects when sent by mail,
but an effort will be made to forward
these to the parties.
TwENTY-sEvEN years ago Mrs. Davis
of Knox County, o., sold her two
dwarfed sons to a Snowman She did
not see them again for some yeBrs, and
when she did she wanted to get them
back again, and went with Sheriff to
recover them. But when the Snowman
saw the party coming he tucked one
dwarf under each arm and took to the
woods. Some property has been left
them now, and it is quite likely they win
turn up at home, though they haven't
been seen for some time
IT is reported in the British Medical
JO2tr7lqk that, in the course of a post
norton examination ut a lunatic asylum
in SaXOny, needle was found sticking
in the heart. 1t had passed through the
posterior wall of the left ventricle The
patient, man aged % years, had died
of peritonitis. He had always felt well
previous to his last illness, and never
complained of any cardiac troubles. In
what way the needle entered his heart
remains unknown.
TOBACCO has some distinguished
female deEotees. in Europe. Emily
Faithful, 1t is declared, smokes like a
Michigan tugbOat; the Duchess of Edin-
burg takes u quiet puff now and then,
and the Princess of Wales keeps a little
cigaret-case which she hides profoundly
from the smoke-abhorihg nose of her
Royal mother-in-law, while the list
might be extended by naming Elizabeth
Thompson, the artist, Nine. -Ratazzi of
Italy, and others.
A PECULIAR design has been made by
the Utica IN. \ } artist for the proposed
bronze statue of Gen. Herkimer, to be
erected in Oriskany battlefield. The
figure, in heroic size, of the General is
represented as seated and LEANING
against stump, one ankle resting upon
the knee of the other leg, pipe in his
mouth. 1t was in this position that he
gave orders to his men after being
wounded in battle. The pipe will be a
remarkable artistic innovation
A YOUNG Chinaman was brought to
Paris by French merchant who placed
him where he could learn the art of
cooking. The cook, his master, made
much fun of the Celestial, and, after
subjecting him to various other indigni-
ties, cut off his pig-tail while he slept
Soon the young Chinaman was found
dead, dressed in holiday attire, with his
amputated pig-tail fastened by hair-pins
TO his back-hair. He had committed
suicide according to the mode most pop
ular in Japan.
RATS did queer work in a South Had
ley house. In the passing year they
carried off 40 pairs of shoes and hid
them behind some boards near a CHM
ney in the attic. They also carried off
package of letters to stow away, one
of which was written by lady in Auro-
Ia, N. Y, to one of the BARRIERS at Gro
ton, Conn, about a century ago. These
BARRIERS were friends of Whitefield, and
that farmer divine used to preach from
the porch of their house to the crowds
assembled in front. These letters be-
came the property of descendants of
the BARRIERS, who moved to South Had
ley
IN certain sequestered parts of Eng
land an official called the Ale-taster is
still continued as a relic of last centu-
rvs laws. He tastes all kinds of malt
liquor sold in the neighborhood, with a
view OF aScertaining whether it contains
Objectionable ingredients. In old times
the use OF sugar in ale was condemned,
and the faster had q primitive way of
discovering its presence. A quantity
was spilled on a bench, and he sat upon
it, in his leather breeches, until it dried.
1t, when rising, the breaches stuck to
the bench, the presence of sugar was
evident. If not, the ale was pure.
The town of Havre was lately kept for
more than an hour in u state of excite
ment by the escape of an American OK
landed from an English steamer. The
animal ran through the streets, followed
by crowd, many persons firing guns
and pistols ut it until, rendered almost
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