The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-03-18
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

THE Boston ulster has pocket deep
enough for an umbrella.
THE latest fashion in London is to
have music during dinner.
A CALIFORNIA SNOWFALL, made to hit
4 Chinaman, has a rock inside it.
AND now a Boston physician says that
long walks before breakfast bring on
dyspepsia.
SEVERAL young lawyers of Boston,
who live in suburban towns, ride to bus
mess in fair weather on bicycles.
LEATHER petticoats are worn for
walking by English women. They look
like satin and wear forever
PHILADELPHIA has a society for
Outstanding the Jews at yearly eX-
pense of about $4,000. During the last
fiscal year the Secretary baptized two
infants and two adults. In five years of
its existence it did not report a single
conversion.
Mr.. ALLEN, the American accredited
as Hawaiian Minister to the United
States, appeared at the recent dip
lomatic reception decorated like his
peers. He wore across his chest the
Hawaiian grand order of knighthood
and its broad blue ribbon.
Mrs. URSULA HUMPHREVILLE, of
Mortified, N. H., is a centenarian who
reads without spectaclcs, and last au-
tumn, to show her energy, drove now
ing-machine round a meadow at a coun-
ty fair. Her descendants of three gen
erations number forty-six, and twenty
nine of them are living.
BEN HALLIDAY is for the twelfth win
ter before the United States Senate with
his claim for 100000 for losses sus-
tanned by Indian depredations while
carrying the overland mail. His route
was l 200 miles in length through the
Indian Territory, and he used to employ
$50 men and ZOO horses.
The Chinese are not so generally adj
dicted TO the use of opium as is com
monty supposed. The Chinese ReUtetC
makes calculation on the subject,
based on the amount of opium imported
and grown in the country, from which
it appears that not ten per cent. of the
adult males can possibly smoke opium.
BALD MOUNTAIN, North Carolina,
has again become an object of dread to
the residents in its vicinity. Seven
shocks and rumblings were felt and
heard on the 2Sth and Doth ult., and on
the 10th inst. the noises were heard at a
distance of seven miles. The people
pieces very soon.
A LITIGANT at Owen, o., said to his
counsel, "Abuse the defendant, and I'll
take all the consequences. So the
lawyer spoke of the enemy as periured,
thieying, murderous villain, and got
soundly whipped for it as soon as Court
adjourned. He has now sued his client
for damages, on the ground that the
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THE new census win show that, while
there has been an increase of population
in Lewiston, Biddeford, Portland, Bath,
Auburn, Saco, and one or two other
large towns and cities in Maine, there
has been a decrease during the last ten
years in every county IN the State
except AroostOok. The county towns
have almost all lost, some very heavily
Mr.. DUDLEY A. SARGENT, Director
of the Harvard gymnasium, says that
of the large number of students he has
already examined at least one-hali
suffer to considerable and in many
cases an alarming extent from palpita-
ton and other affections of the heart,
caused by excessive cigarette smoking
and drinking strong coffee.
THE daughter of Spotted Tail, tall,
ungainly young woman of Is, is study
ing in the Government school for
Indians at Carlisle barracks, Pennsyl-
vania. She has lately married the half
breed interpreter employed at the
barracks, and when sent to do some
scrubbing, the other day, her lordly
husband interfered. His wife was OF
royal blood, he remarked, the daughter
of a chief, and he wanted her to learn
only what the white ladies do.
A NEW method of reward for those
who are diligent in the business of the
Government has been established il
Japan. 1t consists of no decoration OF
gift of money, but takes the form of !;
great national portrait gallery, in which
those who sufficiently distinguish them
selves in the opinion of their superior
win. henceforth, have the privilege o.
seeing their likenesses placed. The per
functOry and lazy win have no habita
ton there, but only those who are noted
for zeal and energy. Already a vas
number of applications for place have
been made with the result. in the opin
ion of the "Hochi Shinbun," that tn,
gallery will have "more of quantity thar
quality in it."
SAMUEL, one of the New Lebanon
On. W Shakers, was killed by light
ming. Mary, a Shaker spirit medium
says that she met him few days after
ward, and that the following converse
ton was held: Samuel What il
the world does this meanP' 81 do no
know. l go to the shop and the board
ing house, and no one notices me
What is the meaning of all this, MaryP'
"Why, Samuel, don't you know tina
you are deadP" "Deadi why, no,
am not dead" ''Surely you are. Yol
were struck by lightning a week ag,
last Thursday and killed, and we burieC
you in the yard yonder.'' "Mary, i
that really SOP" Certainly it is
'Then good by, Mary" He disap
peared, and Mary has never seen hin
s nee.