The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-01-22
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.


A sCHoOLMAsTER at johnson, Iowa,
has been fined for whipping a girl be-
cause she corrected his smispronuncia-
ton of a word.
SECRETARY THOMPSON is described
as being IS inveterate a smoker as IS
Gen Grant he smokes from 10 to 10
cigars day. He is a great joker also.
A STRANGER who - had left his bag
gage in another town, - wanted to put
up his false teeth against the price of
lodging, in Bloomington, H., the other
night.
To add realistic effect TO " Uncle
Toms Cabin" at Logansport, Ind,
live bloodhound was introduced, and the
brute heightened the realism by break
ing his chain and biting an actress seri-
ously.
A BIRD dealer at Des MOines sold a
parrot for $40, with the assurance. that
it did not know any bad language; but
the purchaser soon found that it swore
like trooper, and has sued to recover
the money.
PosTMAsTER-GENER KEY says he
can remember when Andrew jackson
used TO stop at his fathers, who was a
Tennessee farmer, and young Key
always had the job of polishing off Jack
sons horse.
DIR. BIRsCH of Belgium has Canary
birds of the Norwich breed. Before and
after they mott he feeds them with white
of egg sprinkled with cayenne pepper,
and their color becomes red. So he
says.
A WOMAN recently sold her baby in a
bar-room in Horsham, England, for
$4.37, to a man who had taken fancy
to the child. He left the place with his
purchase, but the woman followed him,
snatched the infant out of his arms,
slapped his face, and ran away.
NATIONAL debts were of little impOr.
lance until the French Revolution
They now amount TO about $2S, 900, 900,
600, mostly owed by European States
for wars incurred by disasters and il
which common people had no voice
These debts and standing armies are now
the cause of poverty.
CAN Boston beat this for aping "cul
chawP" A young lady at Louisville
hotel on one morning comes down IL
breakfast with copy of certain maya
zine in her hand. On another morning
she has different magazine, and on the
third morning still another magazine
She is governed in her choice by thu
LuC COlOI VI WuOSC cOT6E IdI
monies best with her costume.
WHILE Henry Cords of Baraboo
Wis, was showing a sled on which wa
seated three young ladies, the ice broke
He succeeded in saving his sister, whC
was one of the party, but persisted il
the attempt TO rescue the others. II,
was 10 years of age. When his bod,
was found he had young lady unde
each arm dead.
IN-Bavaria 1912 out of every 1O
births are Legitimate children; in Aus
tria, 1908; in Denmark, 1899; il
Scotland, S.87; in Germany, S.75; il
France, 7.21; in Italy, 7.07; in Eng
land, oil; in Roumania, 3.43; in Ire
land, 2.36; in Greece, LAB. The ex
cess in Bavaria and Austria is due +
laws prohibiting marriage except +
those with a certain income.
In 1875 tin box was fished out O
the Seine containing more than 800 LET
ters addressed to divers persons i
PaFiss This boX-set aAoat miles abov
Paris-had been Theoretically sealed
and was furnished with little metal sails
that it might catch the current of tn
river at every point; but it had faile
to achieve a successful voyage, and lai
at the rivers bottom for years with il
freight of letters for the besieged Paris
ians, some of whom, however, had tn
qualification of receiving them five yeal
after date.