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

A HARD-wORKING girl who was re-
Gently married in Groton, n. Y, bought
the groom's wedding clothes, paid the
marriage fee and all other expenses.
PETER GOBLET, the New York mil
lionaire who died recently, owned q
large tract in the heart of the city which
he refused to sell at any price, and for
the last few years of his life used it as
pasture for an old cow that had been in
the family about twenty years. Pastur-
age on land worth 100000 per acre
is an exclusive privilege of milliOnaires.
AT Priests Hotel, on the road from
Calaveras Grove to the Yosemite, Cal,
is dog who one hour before the arrival
of the stage goes leisurely down The
road to meet it, then bounds back to the
poultry yard, catches chicken, chops
their heads off, and takes them TO the
cook. He takes one chicken for each
gentleman in the stage, never making a
mistake.
AN expert in antique coins in Paris is
a poodle. The money being placed
upon table the dog is introduced, and
after nosing among them will knock off
the table all the bad pieces with his paw.
After acquiring great fame it was found
the whole thing was trick. His mas
ter took care to handle only the bogus
coins, and the poodle's decisions were
arrived at by faculty of scent.
THE wife of Judge Paine of the Cleve-
land County Court has left him to be-
come a variety-show actress. He was
years ago, and she gained a luxurious
home, in which she was supposed to be
contented. As an amateur actress she
was successful, and this has led to her
choice of the stage as profession. Her
husband has begun proceedings for a
divorce.
IN Berlin, last month, a horse ran
away with a cart in which there was a
little girl. A boy of ID seeing the situa-
ton, rolled barrel into the midst of the
road, which half stopped the horse, who
was about to dodge the obstacle, when
the boy seized the bit and contrived,
with great agility, TO swing himself up
and clasp his legs around the animal S
neck, which very soon came to stop.
Then the brave little fellow slipped
away unknown and unnoticed.
THE scarcity of money is keenly felt
at Constantinople. 1t is said that some
times there is not a single para to be
found in the palace, and yet Osman
Pasha has discovered how to obtain his
$4,000 francs per month. He places a
stout sergeant before the entrance to
the Finance Ministers room, with orders
to confiscate every sum arriving until
the amount he requires is made up. The
grossest corruption prevails in every de-
partment of State.
a MAN living near Glen Mills, Pa,
was attacked by one of his cows the
other day Knocked down and gored.
He caught the beast by the nose and
roared for help, but none came, the cow
meantime stamping upon him and man
ifesting a determination to kill him.
Soon the other cows in the field saw
what was going on and rushed to the
spot, when, to the surprise of the man,
instead of assisting their companion
they violently assaulted her, knocking hel
down and finally driving her away
The COW died on the following day will
every symptom of brain disease.
NEW ZEALAND has for some time sui
fered from an over supply of rabbits
which have eaten up the growing crops
with comparative immunity. But /
short way with the deprcdatOrs has a
last been happily discovered. By aid o
an ingenious machine carbOnic oxide ga
is introduced into the burrows, after al
the holes have been carefully stopped
The rabbits are soon in the condition o
the Arabs whom the French smoked il
their caves. In n few seconds a grea
hubbub is heard inside, but this quickl,
subsidies. The burrow is dug open afte
n short time, when the dead bodies o
the rabbits are found huddled togethe
in a corner.
THE corps of skaters, a force peculia
10 the Norwegian army, has been latel,
reorganized, and consists now of fiv
companies, each of 10 men, which il
time of war can be reinforced by calm,
in 270 skaters belonging to the land
wehr. The men of this corps are arme,
with rifles, and can be Unanswered upoi
ice or over the snow-felds of the noun
tains with rapidity equal to that of tn
best trained cavalry. The skates the
use are admirably adapted for travelling
over rough and broken ice or froze
snow, being six inches broad and be
tween nine and ten inches long.
ascending steep slopes the men take
zig-zag course; lacking up the mountai
side as a ship does against head wind
AS an instance of the speed at whic
thev can 90, it is mentioned that las
winter a messenger dispatched fror
Rocrass at 8 O'Clock in the morning al
rived at Drontheim at 9 so in the even
inc of the same day, having consequent
accomplished 100 miles in eighteen an
one-hsf hours.