The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-01-15
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

n splendid manner
A CHINESE boy in Pekin has recited
the whole of the New Testament in his
native language.
TIE prettiest gold piece now circulat-
ing in France is the 20-franc piece bear
ing the head of Napoleon for the year
1905. 1t looks like the coin of an old
Roman Emperor.
Miss PAYNE of st. Paul became Sc
cret smoker. When two gentlemen
called she hurriedly thrust lighted CT
garctte into her pocket, and was soon
ablaze, receiving burns that were almost
fatal.
AN Auburn (NIe.) man, 33 years old,
dined Thanksgiving Day with his mother,
whom he had not seen before since he
was three years old, although he had
lived within 100 miles of her all the
time.
AN orchestra consisting of two violins,
cornet, base VOL and an organ, all
played by convicts, and a choir of y
prisoners, is n regular accompaniment
of the Sunday services III Auburn On. V
Prison.
THE oldest Masonic relic in the world
was sold for S176 in Toronto, Canada,
the other day. 1t is the Masonic certifi-
cate of Souter Johnny, of Burns's ''Tam
O'Shantcr, - and was issued by st. James
Lodge, Ayr, in 1893. Pinned TO the
corner of the diploma is 4 lock of High
land Mary's hair.
THE Waste Not'' Society is com
posed of Sunday-schoOl children at
Brighton, England. Itsmembers saved
in u months about 1925 worth Of refuse
paper, and sold it for the benefit of two
little girls, who were thus supported at
the orphanage.
THE schools Of needle-work, painting,
clay modelling, painting on porcelain,
wood carving, telegraphy, shorthand,
cooking and various other arts, are now
Offering opportunities for girls of every
variety of capability. The school of
wood carving and modelling, now estab-
lished at the Boston Museum of Fine
Arts, offers advantages to pupils at very
low rates. It's instruction is of a thor
ough and valuable sort such us not often
offered TO young men.
THE Sisters of Charity in the United
States number 1,179 in charge of LOG
establishments for the care of orphans,
infants, widows, patients, insane and
school children. All of these institu-
tions had their origin in the consecra-
ton and labors of one woman, Mother
Seaton, who began in 1903 in Maryland
the formation of a sisterhood in cOnnec-
ton with n school, and that was the
parent of similar societies, now widely
scattered throughout America.
CHARLES CARTWRIGHT, who died a
short time ago in an English Work
house, was an extraordinary character.
He had been well educated-and two
fortunes had fallen to him, one of $780,
600, the other of $500, 900. Both for
tunes were spent in ostentatiOus living,
50 that he became utterly destitute and
was sent to the Work-house. There he
lived many years quietly and cOntented-
ly; and the luXuries which he enjoyed
were obtained by writing poems fo1
country newspapers and sermons fOI
neighboring clergymen.
SIX boys at Hennepin, Iowa, organ
lied as bandits, on a plan suggested by
thrilling novel which they had read
They could not find natural cave, anC
therefore dug one in the side of a hill
Their first exploit was to rob all the
clOthes-lines of the neighborhOod on ;
wash-day night. Great excitement en-
sued, and several innocent tramps were
arrested; but the mystery was explained
when, on the following night, the young
amateur thieves stole II horse and wagon
and were caught taking a load of thu
clothes to the nearest city.
CAPTAIN BAssErT, the Assistan
Doorkeepcr of the United States Senate
became a page in that chamber through
the influence of Webster in 1881. {"
remember says the Caption, g on,
rainy day Webster told me to 90 anC
get hack. / hunted for long tim,
and came back wet and tired withou
finding any. Webster was always yer,
friendly with me, and so 1 came to b.
quite familiar with him. On this Occa
sion, being rather cross, l rushed up I,
Webster and said, with boyish rudeness
Il can't find any hack Webster jus
looked Mt me. But what glance!
would rather endure any thing than an
other such glance. l felt like sinkin.
through the floor. Then Webster said
$50 and get that hack 1t is needles
to say the carriage was found
A PORTSMOUTH IN. HI man has al
aquarium which contained an alligator
rs well as a number of goldfish, craw
fish and trout weighing three-quarter
of pound, but of late all but the ALI
gator have disappeared. One evenin.
the thief was discovered, and found +
be a large rat that had worked his wa
into the house through the drain-pipe
A loud rat-squealing and alligator
ing was heard, and the rat was found
dozen feet from the aquarium, where b
had succeeded in carrying the youn!
alligator up and down shelves filed wit
ilower-pots and plants. The rat wa
evidently surprised ut the fighting an,
noisy qualities of this new kind of fish
but he would probably have been tn
victor had he not been discovered an
dubbed. The alligator still lives and j
apparently not much the worse for tn
loss of blood and few pieces of hi
tough hide
THE Chinese Encyclopedia, to whic
the famed Britannica is a primer, ha
lust been completed under the imperia
sanction, and may be had at any of tn
bookstores complete for 4 matter c
81, 800. 1t consists of 1920 volumes an
is dirt cheap. Works of this characte
are by no means new in the Chinese En-
pire, and people who form their est
mate of the intelligence and culture {
its people by the specimens found i
America misjudge a race that, thong
not as progressive as the western pee
pies, are yet ingenious and curious. l
the geography and topography of tn
immense empire its scholars ar
marvelously well informed, even {
the minutest particulars, and no incor
siderable portion of the cyclopedia
devoted to information of this kind, wit
which Chinese are expected to be res
sonablv familiar The Chinese have a
WAYS been book-makers, and claim
have invented the art of printing Ion
before it was known in Europe.