The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-02-12
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The Bible used by Washington is of
tered for sale by the officers of Christ
Church, Alexandria, Va. They are
anxious to pay church debt.
AT Catti, near Freiburg, Switzerland,
tradesman named Wicky has just died
at the age of 80, leaving 168 descend
ants, viz: 16 children, 81 grandchil-
dren, and So great-grandchildren.
SHORTHAND reporting is getting to
be one of the recognized industries of
the country. The Iowa courts paid over
$4,000 for this sort of work during the
last year.
A LARGE elm tree stood on the spot
where man at Lewiston, n. Y, de-
cided TO build residence He did not
cut it down, but built around it. The
odd sight is presented of a treetop
growing out of the roof of a handsome
brick house.
A DAUGHTER of Mayor Prince of Bos-
ton died of poisoned blood, and an in
vestigation shows that the cause was
eating meat tainted by sewer-gas, which
arose through pipe into a refrigerator.
The house of Mayor Prince is on the
"made lands"
Miss YoCUMs, a school teacher at
iNiAlsAAtb eAlAtJg OitEOils Alslo LihCll up Il
land claim, fenced it, built house, and
this year raised 612 bushels of grain,
besides teaching school. She says she
does not mean to marry until she can
support a husband.
A YOUNG man in Hartford, Conn,
who incurred the displeasure of his kins-
people and acquaintance by marrying
German servant girl, now holds his head
very high when he meets any of these
critics. His wife has fallen heir to an
estate in the FatheTland worth $600,0
KEEPING track of freight-cars under
the existing system of car-recording is
attended with difficulties. A lost-car
agent for a Western road recently found
Il car for which he. had been searching
for months away out on the plains, quite
n distance from the track and occupied
by II sOuatter for a residence.
THE Savannah Theater was built in
1903, and is the oldest in America. 1t
is n massive building of brick and
stone. 1t has never been remodeled or
changed in any way. The architect of
this theater was an Englishman, brought
to America by the Blake brothers, two
wealthy rice planters of South Carolina,
who at that time had their residence in
Savannah.
THERE is a student of natural history
ut Chico, Cal, who believes that the
deer of Butte County know what day
the game law goes into effect He has
gravely read paper before the Cali
fOrnia Academy of Sciences, in which he
asserts that they stay on the foothills
every year until Nov. 2, and then, know
ing that on and after that date it is I'M
lawful to shoot them, 90 boldly down
into the inhabited valleys.
Mrs. j. j. Aston of New York has
sent out recently from the Office of the
Children's Aid Society a 60 New Year
party " of 100 homeless children to
homes in the West and South, at an ex-
pense of 81 800. This makes during sever
al years total number of 677 homeless
children whom this generous friend of
the poor has placed in homes, mainly in
the West, at an expense of So, $50. Many
of these lads have now grown up, hav-
ing farms of their own and doing well
in the world.
IF longevity, as a national character
istic, be fair test of the healthiness of
n country or the tough vitality of its
people, then Greece may claim to beat
the civilized world on the score of its
sanitary perfection. OF ali countries in
Europe it seems to possess the greatest
number of what may be called very old
people-that is to say, of people from
80 years of age and upward; out of a
population of ,457 1894, it has of these
veterans no fewer than 1898.
OLD HENs.-A very nice dish may be
made out of tough old hens by boiling
them till they are quite tender, in plen-
ty of water. When they lack about
half an hour of being done, make a
nice biscuit dough, roll it thin and lay
it over the top of the boiling fowl.
Boil fast till done Lay the dumping
on one platter, the chicken on another ;
add milk, butter, and flour to the gravy
left in the pot, enough to make a nice
bowlful, which serve with the fowl and
dumping.
A STRANGE incident occurred recently
in EastOn, Pa, which was witnessed by
several persons. Some men dropped a
whisky flask on curbstone, making
pieces of it. The bottle contained whis-
ky, small quantity of it remaining on
some of the pieces. A sparrow flew
down from a tree and commenced
drinking the liquor. In a few minutes
the bird began to stagger and could
scarcely hold up its head. Presently ii
dropped over dead-drunk The
little fellow was picked up by peanut
vender and properly cared for In a
short time it flew away, apparently so
Der.
A SHOCKING case illustrative of the
effects of opium is given in the Stoning-
ton, Conn, family of Paul Greene, wife
and daughter, the parents 20 years OF
age, the daughter about 35. They have
been sent back, paupers, from Hopl1in-
ton, Il. l., to Stonington, where they
formerly lived among the best people in
the town. The daughter was accom-.
plished in music, the father a leader in
the Baptist church, and the family was
respected. But the mother began the
use of laudanum to deaden pain, and
kept up the habit, and the husband and
father also became a slave to it. and ther
the daughter; and they parted with
their money, house, and furniture t.
obtain the noxious drug which has
ruined them.
SECRETARY SCHURz has recommend
ed to the House an appropriation Of
$500 to purchase the first patent evel
issued in this country. Accompanying
the proposition was a letter from Z. Z
Hall of Columbus, o., the present pos
SCISSOR of the document, in which he saws
il was issued at New York, July 81, 1890
TO Samuel Hopkins of Philadelphia, fol
an Improvement in making potash anc
pearl-ash. 1t is written on sheet OF
parchment in a round, old-fashioneC
hand, signed by George Washington
and certified by Ed. Randolph, Attorney
General, rs being conformable to til,
act of Congress TO promote the usefu
arts, and its delivery to the grantee i.
certified by Thos. Jefferson, with thu