The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-01
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The daughter of President Arthur
is a blonde.
Miliais, the great artist, is a famous
angler.
Secretary Lincoln is not inclined to
be communicative TO newspaper men.
One of the richest heiresses in Ger
many is Countess Solmi, a baby only
year old.
Clara Louise Kellogg is to be mar
ried soon to Mr.. Whitney, a worthy
New york gentleman.
David Davis is hard man to inter
view, and viii never allow himself to
give away news if he knows it.
Victoria has reigned longer than
any other English sovereign except
George III, Henry III and Edward
III.
The French journals speak of Sarah
BernhaFdt's new toilets as among the
most remarkable that have ever been
made.
Secretary Folger was one of those
dull boys that make no mark in school,
but do not stop growing when they
lay aside their school books.
MacVeagh is garrnlous in conversa-
ton. When he once gets started on
his favOrite topic-the politicians OF
the party-there is no stopping him.
Mademoiselle Grevy cares nothing
for laces and puffings, and enjoys
nothing more than following
her father, gun in hand, on his shoot
ing excursions.
Queen Victoria takes her daily drive
at Balmoral with black straw bon
net upon her head, and with a large
shawl of small check shepherds plaid
upon her shoulders.
The Khedive of Egypt, who is only
twenty nine years old, is intelligent
and well educated, and a keen OBJ
server. He is simple in all his tastes
hates all parade, loves his home, and
is an excellent husband and father.
General Edward Beale, who is talked
of for Secretary of the Navy, is a gen.
tleman somewhat advanced in life
He has large possessions in California,
of which State he was once Surveyor
General. His home is in Washington
Bishop Corrigan, of New JERSEY
will not allow services to be perform
cd at funerals where there are more
than twelve carriages present. Car.
dinal Manning, in England, discOura,
ges lavish expenditure on such Occa.
sions and is opposed to Sunday fu
nerals.
Lord Truro is believer in SIMPLE,
ity of funerals. His wife was buried
| in a plain and light wooden box, con.
structed so as not to arrest the process
of natural decay, in a grave dug by
himself in the lawn fronting his res.
| idence, the spot having been selected
| by Lady Truro herself
Sheriff j. r. 8. Wilhelm, of Scot
county, Virginia, was during the war
| shot twice through the body. Each
time he was given up for dead, and
| his friend, Major Wood, had his cot.
| fin made and placed in their tent
! Whenever the sheriff is buried it will
be in his third coffin.
Mr. Barefoot Walker, of Colum
/ bus, Ga, so called because he had Ot
worn shoes for forty years, had beer
| laid in his coffin and was about to bt
/ lowered into his grave when, as th'
mourners were bending over him tC
obtain last view, the corpse arOs,
and asked ''What they meant by sucl
| treatment"
In Paris the percentage of civil in
| terments varies from 9.6 per cent. a
Passy to 37.4 at Menilmontan. Al
| the funerals become humber the rate
! increases rich people are buried from
| the church, but of the funerals of the
ninth-the lowest class-mOFe thar
one-half are conducted without relig
ious ceremonies.
The COmte de Barmi, nephew of th'
Duchess de Psrme and of the Cont;
de Chambord, has taken an odd fancy
| into his head. He has made up hi
mind TO live at sea, and has built anC
/ fitted up the most convenient O
yachts. He means to spend his win
! ters in the Mediterranean and hi
summers in the North. The Com
/ tesse, who suffers greatly from sea
sickness, refuses to share his wander
| ing life, and intends to remain il
Paris.
Carl Schurz is a capital converse
ZIONIST, but never deals in anecdote
He has a small appreciation of, an'
smaller capacity for humOr. He is ex
tremely susceptible to the charms o
the fair sex. He was a great admire
of Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague, and one
when that lady had her portrai
painted, representing her as standing
upon the lawn in front of her resi-
dence, Schurz craved permission to b
! introduced into the picture, leanin,
against tree and gazing pensiVely a
the beautiful woman. No breath o
suspicion, however, has ever sullie,
SchFuz's private life.
The late Mr.. John W. DWinelle, o
San Francisco, after prescribing al
the arrangements for his funeral
wrote as follows: 81 desire that theT
shall be no adjournment of court
desire that the hour for the funera
shall be fixed at l o'clock p. m, g
that the members of the Bar WIN
wish may attend it without interfer
ing with the business of the courts
The custom of adjourniBg the court
when a lawyer dies ought 70 beccm
obsolete. There is no good TeasOl
why the business Of twelve Courts o
Record should be interrupted for
day because lawyer, even the mos
distinguished, happens to die"
Too peer to Take a Paper.