The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-09-15

posts asSfe5iste GFef one milton anu
a half.
Mustapha, the Tuaisan Premier.
has presented to President Grevy. the
Tunisan decoration set in beautiful
diamonds.
There is to be a Swiss national ex-
position in Zarieh infSS3. The Swise
confederation Will grant subsidy of
400, 900 francs.
General Grant has. it is reported,
sold his farm II St. Louis county No.
to Jay Gould for So, 900. 1t contains
200 acres.
Mr. Edward Burne-Jones, the Eng
lisn artist, who has had his fair 8hare
of praise and ridicule, was made
a d c. D. by the University Of Ok
ford, where he studied at Exeter Col
lege.
DR.. Schliemann has been graciousIy
recieved by the German Grown Prince
who takes the greatest interest IN the
archaeological treasures presented by
that learned excavator to the German
people.
At convention of Old Catholics re-
Gently in Ofenburg. it was resolved to
request Bishop Reinkens to appoint
commissariat for Baden, and to petition
the government for a ?change in the
method of parochial elections.
Van Opsterzee's Biblical Theology
of the new Testament" has lust been
published in japanese. 1t is believed
to be the first treatise on Christian the
ology ever issued in the japanese Ian
guage, with the exception of a few
tracts.
What was alleged to be a Russian
count at Narraganfct, last week. turn
ed out to be book agent in a shabby
suit of clothes The hotel men are
said to have been greatly disappointed
for they thought to open the season
with a sensation.
Some very elegant dressing is now
to be seen Mt Saratoga. The costumes
show to what extravaganza fashion has
gone, and the wonder is where all the
money comes from.
| Doctors differ about the coalition OF
the President as much now as at first
DR.. Bliss says the patients blood is
very pure:Dr. Boynton, on the contra
ry, says it is poisoned and that further
serious complications are probable.
He does not therefore advise sanguire
though he sees no indications of immc-
date trouble.
A traln-way has just been opened
from Mona to Milan. The cars are
propelled by steam.
a Lansinburg, n Y. youth who had
been out, got weary on his way home
and leaned his aching head on a pickle
fence to rest. His head slipped and
two rickets held him fast by the necl
til sunrise, when woman passing By
wrenehed of u picket and let the sober
ed victim free.
Prince Bismark, it is said, refuses t.
read German printed III Italic letters
and returns unread books or pamph
lets sent to him which follow the new
fashion in type which is steadily gain
ing ground.
1HE experiments begun ten or twelv,
years ago for naturahzing In certain part
OF India the best varieties Of the ciRchOns
on Peruvian bark tree have been at
tended with the most remarkable snc
CESS an6 there sTe now IN various stage.
Of growth probably millions Of cinchoni
plants already yielding the Peruvian
bark 50 plentifully and perfectly that Ia.
price Of quiniDe has fallen considerably
IN Ceylon and other parts. There
every probability that in BK or seveI
years the Indian production of Qilinlnt
will be so large aud the price 30 low Ina.
it win become considerable article q.
export
A SEWING machine agent, In driving
through Monroe County, Kentucky,
drew up before a cottage and asked q
beardless sixteen-year-old boy, standing
in the yard, if his mother WINS at home.
''She is, but she don't live here, he
answered. ''I'm the head of this house. >
Finding the boy married, the agent went
inside and encountered child, who said
ahe was the boys wife, and that when
she was married she was not eleven years
old. "Whst On earth did you marry
for ?" asked the agent What do Oth6l
folks marry for?" the child replied. The
boy safd he intended to buy sewing
machine for his wife when she got ole
enough to sew. 'sCOme around In three
or four years." he said, "snd III takt
cue"
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