The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-04-28

Out because 50 many pianos are made
here, that machinery is introduced on
a large scale to do the work of the
hand; and because the best workmcn
IN Europe come over to receive higher
wages than they could get in Europe.
None but the nobility and gentry buy
pianos in Europe, and hence but few
are made. In this country everybody
belongs to the nobility, and hence he
must have a piano.
In these days, when man needs
anything that has never been invented,
he offers a reward; and the invention
is forthcoming. \ billiard-balI maker,
finding ivory growing scarce, advcr-
tised for a substitute, and it was pro
duced. When ostrich feathers grew
scarce, some one donesticated forty
ostriches twelve years ago. aud now
there are one hundred and fifty thou
sand in South Africa, and they are IN
Producing them into Southern Cali
fornia.
/ Division Of labor has been so sue
cessfully applied to manufactures, that
hundreds of men are employed in
manufacturing pin, from the time it
IS dug out of the mine in Cornwall,
England, until it IS ready for the
wholesale dealers, and yet it Is then
worth only hundrcdth of a cent.
Queen Elizabeth was the most pow
erfuI monarch Of her day. But there
IS not q family in this country So poor
is not to have more of the real com
forts Of life than she had! She had a
block Of wood for her pillow, and for
window-glaSs she had scraped horn.
She wore the first pair of knitted
stockings that were ever seen in
England.
a hundred years ago, some New
England merchants, visiting New
York City, saw for the first time a
stove in q church. Pleased with the
sensation of warmth, they purchased
one and very secretly conveyed it to
the church on a cold Saturday night.
On the next morning, there it stood in
/ the presence of the entire congrega-
ton. And there was burst Of indig-
nation against the poor merchants, at
the idea that men and women had
grown 80 eHeminate, that they could
not sit three or four hours and listen to
a good sermon, just because the ther-
mometer was a few degrees below
zero. They could not remove it dur
fng service, but they began to throw
open the windows, and to fan them
selves with their hats and bonnets;
meanwhile wiping away the perspira-
ton that they could feel trickling
down their heated faces. After ser
vice they gathered around the devoted
merchants and began to upbraid them;
until they meekly replied, "Oh, there
has been no fire kindled in the stove
yet"
1 once preached in a church in
South Carolina, where 10 fire had ever
been kindIed. l asked them if they
did not suffer from cold? ooh, yes
they replied, 'but then we do not like
to be the first to use fire, when our IA
theirs have done without it for two
hundred years" The household com
forts that can be purchased at the
nickel counter would have gladdened
the hearts Of cur grandmothers.
One Of the earliest recollections of
my mother was Of the one pound Of
cotton which each child must pick
away from the seed every night after
supper. Now, an eighty-saw gin, run
by steam, viii do the work of fifteen
hundred persons, and requires only
three persons to manage it, thus leav-
ing the fourteen hundred and ninety
seven other persons to engage in some
thing else. This accounts for the fact
that so many more children attend
school than ever did III Il former gener-
alton. When it required the labor Of
even the children to gain a livelihood,
there was no time for them to devote
to acquiring an education.
10 be continued neat 30eek.