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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-08-03
Arabi Pasha's Activity.

1t is gradually being admitted by the British
journals that Arab Pasha is constantly re-
ceiving troops both from within and without
the city of Alexandria. He has already en-
listed large contingent Of Bedouins, who gave
in their adhesion to him as the Khedive's rep
resentative Nor is he always confined to his
camp. He has been heard from in various
other places. He makes long and rapid jour
neys in various directions, sometimes toward
Ismailia on the canal and not unfrequently, it
is said, westward toward the Libyan desert.
By this route he expects to be Joined by
FL Mehid, the sO-called false prophet This
person is said to be at least 1000 miles away to
the south of Alexandria, but to be advancing
northward by forced marches toward Cairo.
His arrival is, of course, eagerly looked for by
Arab who is stated to have thoI ough under
standing with him. AS the prophet advances
the rumors are that thousands of Mussulmans
fock to his standard. 1t is believed the
further north he presses, and thus the nearer
he comes to the more populous parts of
Egypt, that the whole Mohammedan popula-
ton wiz go bodily over to him, and either
force the Copts and other Christians to do the
same or put them to death. In the meantime,
the opponents of the Ministry in England, and
even the subordinate officers of the feet at
Alexandria, openly declare against the delay
in following Arab up and dispensing his force,
especially since it has been found that said
force is being so rapidly recrufted.-fI13cddc
MNTBtl0 Nelgss july 25
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Mink.

Amos Long lives on the farm next to
ours. One day in spring he caught n
young crow in the field. He took him
home and tanned him. He taught him
some funny tricks.
When the crow was full grown the
cat had some kittens. Mink, as the bird
was called, would take the tail OF one
of the kitties in his bill and drag her
around the room. Neither the kitty
nor its mother liked this and they cried
with all their might.
Mink used to steal thimbles, spools of
thread. gloves aud other things, and
hide them in out-of-the-way places. lf
he saw handkerchief sticking out Of
any ones pocket, he would snap at it
and dragit out Ono time Mr.. Long
felt tapping at Ills back, and found.
that Mink was filling his coat-pocket
with red berries.
When the men are milking Mink will
hop along and peck the cows noses.
Mink win not let any one take him up,
or pet him; but If any person holds out
a stick, no matter how short it is, he
will perch upon it. On this stick he will
let himself be carried about the house.
our Littte ones. :
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with a cage with its door thrown wide.'
Berry had her hand in the nest
Don't squeeze 'em, or -
"Oh-Oh my my Get away-oh-5
ohn' squealed Berry, jumping down
from the trestle and running to the far
side of the wood-shed.
There's something dreadful-sOme-
thing crasClV-in Biddy's nest" gasped!
Berry, with a shudder.
Terry, with loud "Shawr mount
ed the trestle, and inserted his hand I'M
the nest remarking, contemptuously; /
''You girls are Oh!-good gra-.
eiOus Keep off--for mercy sakel What
is itP'' and Terry was just about one
second joining Berry, his face every
whit as scared as her own.
And now papa, brought hither by the
racket, joined them, locked in the nest.
started back, and then commenced to
laugh, and laugh, and laugh, till the
children thought he would have gone
crazy.
Finally he took down the box, and
what do you think they saw? Four ~
tie, UgLy, 1Crtgg}iBg, S11dpplng titrtieSt |
"The mother turtle" said papa, aft
ter the excitement had somewhat sub
sided, "lays her eggs close to the shore
of the creek, in some sandy spot, aRd
then returns TO the water, leaving the
sun and the hot sand to incubate them !;
and when the little turtles are out they,
also scamper down to the water, which.
is just where we will take these fine fol-
lows
.'What is incubatep'" queried Ber:-
ry, an hour later. as with very rcd
face, she was tying up her bird-Seed.
ITO hatch, of course" said Terry
Grossly, as he gathered mp his bird
cages. ~ IOttti'S Companion
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She UnderstOO d.

A woman with market basket on
her arm and big bouquet Of flowers
in her hand, was waiting at the forry
dock when man of pleasant address
approached her and said;
Madam, that is a very fine nose
gay"
- Yes, sir"
II think it is the finest one | ever
saw, and / have been in twenty-seven
different States"
" Yes, sir"
There is the pansy hiding itself be-
hind the rose. According to the Ian
guage Of flowers, the pansy stands for:
Darling, cannot live without you. |
likewise observe the rosebud. The
language of the rosebud is: I'm look
ing Tor a husband Madam, do you
understand the language Of howersP'
- Yes, sir-"
What is the language Of that
tulipP''
fThe tulip says, sir, that if you don't
stump along with your brazen imPu-
dence Ill have you walked into the
coolerf' was her firm reply. lie
stumped. Detroit Free Press.
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ABOUT PINS.


What becomes of all the pinsP Can
any of our young folks inform usP
Used up" are theyP and how? We
scarcely ever see pin with the head
worn off, so none are wasted in this
way Surely none are broken, nor worn
to any perceivable lesser size, nor
shortened up" SO as to be thrown
away; and so where do these important
little objects hide themselvesP "Get
bent,n do they? Yes, come to think of
it, some do get considerably g warped y
in the using. But, girls, very few pins,
according to the whole number used,
get thrown aside as worthless on ac-
count of becoming "bent. Somehow,
pins get out of sight-utterly lost in a
mysterious manner Occasionally, a
pin is "picked up" from the house
floor, or perhaps from the door yard,
but very few. indeed. are thus gathered
up for secondary use. We are not
going to attempt to tell just
where all the pins go, after filling
their too brief mission. But we are
certain that each minute, useful article
finds a place in which to "rust out
its slim, wiry body. Surely "paper
of pins - ought to last, at least, twice
as long in a household as it does. Last
ing longer. they would not get shorter,
noIf.lose their heads, nor become less in
thickness of body, but only a little
more bent with age; and so to what
place do they 20, after all? But me
thinks one brfght-eyed, tiny maiden
SAYS: 81 can tell you where lots of
pins go, and so are lost; some are swept
into the dust-pan and put in the fire ;
some are brushed out of the door into
the dirt; and many are lost in the
scheOl-room and church that are never
picked up, and roguish boys lose many
in the dust while playing pins, and
some are lost while we are riding out
and attending picnics; because every
few minutes some one says Give me
pin, for I've just lost one, and don't
wish to take the trouble to find it. y
Upon reflection we willingly accept
this solution of the problem.
But before we close, allow us to fig
ure little as to the probable number
of pins used in the United States in one
year, and we wish our young mathema-
ticians to reckon after us to see if
we have made any mistake. Now let
us estimate the population of our coun-
try at 81, 200, 600 at the present time;
and supposing six persons on an aver
age to a family, would make 800, 600
families, and three papers to family
on an average, yearly, would make 20
100000 papers of pins used annually.
Now, IA rows to paper would bring
500, 400, 900 rows! Again, 20 pins to
the row gives us 7,30S.OOO, 600 pins
% used up" in our country every year.
Allowing an inch IS the average length
of pins, long and short, and they placed
in a continuous line, would reach 600,
600. 900 feet, or SO, 909, $50. 1911 rods.
or lis, $40. 10-11 miles, which would
reach more than four and a half times
around the earth. Surely pins are very
useful little articles, and people could not
well do without them. IN. W. Christian
AdUOcdte
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Short story of Terry and Berry.

"Oh-ohr' squeaked Berry. "rve
found bird s-nest."
Nest said Terry. "Girls don't
know anything. It's no nest at all-tho
eggs are laid right in the sand.''
. And such long, thin, dirty-colored
eggs" piped Berry.
Z Such bird as laid those eggs don't
deserve to be mother" observed Ter
nv. ITO put them right where one
would be 1ikely to step on 'em, and
without any nest, at all. I'll tell you,
Berry, we'll take 'em home and set EN-
under the brown hen, and when they
hatch we will have six little birds all to
ourselves. And Biddy is a magnificent
mOther!"
Thereupon each gathered up three of
their treasures, and scampering away
to the wood-house, clamDered up TO the
soap-box nailed upon the weather
boards, and placed them under Biddy,
who was setting therein.
For fortnight two very eager young
people daily frequented that wood
shed.
Six bird-cages had been prepared, and
six pounds Of bird-seed laid in.
one day as they were playing in the
ward, the children were startled by a
series of most appalling screams and
cackles proceeding from the precious
she'd. On rushing there they discovered
that Biddy had forsaken her nest. and
with distended eyes and crimson comb,
had perched herself on q neighboring
pile of wood, and was giving vent to a
volume Of wild and terrified ''cut-a-cut-
cuts"
"Oh. I see, exclaimed Terry.
'She's hatched the dear little birds,
and she's scared of EN-; she's been
used to chicks, you know"
1.-The blessed little BIRDS" cried
Berry, scrambling upon the trestle by
which she was enabled to just reach
the box. Terry rushed to the shelf,
and now returned with the six cages.
Now instructed Berry, "as ]
hand 'em to you, put each dear little
bird in a cage, and mind you, fasten the
door well.
BE careful said Terry, standing
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WIT AND WISDOM.

Every man is occasionally what he
ought to be perpetually.
One of the best rules in converse
ton is never to say anything which any
of the company can reasonably wish had
been left unsaid.
Fond wife: How strange! Every
time Peter comes home from his lodge
he comes to bed with his hat on. But /
suppose it is some more of those Mason
ic doings.'
An exchange says that our navy is
still in its infancy, which would Justify
the assertion that the vessels are seldom
seen out of their slips. Yo1EeTs States
man.
When the man averred that be had
seen a trotting match they didn't mind
it much, but when he said "A lemon
neighed'' - they threw him under a grip
CHICAGO Times.
When a doctor who claims to cure
by laying on of hands reaches Missouri,
he either quits business or starts for the
woods with a crowd after him. There
are some swindles Missouri can't abide.
Detroit Free Press.
Cause and Effect: Eminent Provin-
cial Tragedian-Come hithorr, sweet
onel Your mothorr tells me that you
shed teorrs during my soliloquy in exile
last night. Sweet One: Yes, sir. Moth
er kept on pinching me, cause was so
gleepy!-Punch.
1t is reported that English detect
ives have proved useless in ireland, on
account of their accent. We should
think so. It rather gives fellow way,
baiove, when he walks into a Land
League meeting in a damp cave and
asks: BEG pawd'n, y know, but ave
We seen such thing as a suspect about
'ere, v know ?''- Chicago Times.
I'll can't smoke that cigar much
longer" said Chowder, as he worried
with stub. "No," said some one
present, land you can't smoke it much
shorter ChOwder gave the imbecile
one plying glance, and then hailed a
streetca and went home with sad
heart. BY the way. when it comes to
hailing street-cars, isn't it dangerous to
be out of doorsP
When he was eating fast and furi-
ously, piling in the food as farmers do
hay into the barn on the eve of thun-
der shower in June, the head waiter
stepped up and said: " Beg pardon. sir,
but there's no train out tonight" Il
know it." said the man with his mouth
full, and that's Why I'm hurrying to
catch a good nights sleep!'-HoteI
Mail
An old story in a new form is go
ing the grand rounds. and tells about a
young man at table d hote at one of the
rural hotels, where lady walters are
employed. He wanted beverage with
his roast, and summoned the maiden, TO
whom he said: "Have you any porterp'
Yes" she said, eve have three or
four, but they are all colored." Where
ignorance is bliss it is the height of abb
surdity to be intelligent.
"A county rector called rather early
in the morning on one of his parish
toner's. One of the children saw him
coming, and ran into the house to tell
his mother. The little fellow soon re-
turned to the front and resumed his
play. The clergyman inquired: " Is
your mother at home?'' mo, sir" re-
piled the child; - she is out at pres
cnt - Tell her when she returns that
called, " said the clergymen. Il did
tell her" replied the little boy CHI
eaqo Tribune.
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Turks and High schools.

II wasted" said an old Turk, . ten
years Of my life in one of the high
schools. In consequence OF tins know
notbing Had gone to the schools Of
the Sofas might have become great
teacher. A high school teaches moth
ing that people want to know. ,,I FOR
instance, they teach botany. 1hey
amend weeks in explaining to n young
man that rose is a rose! hat earth
Iv use is that to any one? # a man
knows a rose when he sees II, he knows
il without having learned IL in a book.
n he docs moi know that il is rose, no
book will ever make him care to know
what IL is. High schools never did good
TO any body in this country" Lhe
Turk was partly right. As in every
tbino, else. so in education, the methods
adopted by the Turks are mere apish
limitations of what is found in Europe
and always remain uDmeaning forms
of exercise, a wGariness TO both teacher
and scholar. -'' Turkish Life IN Var
Z INES ''--DDiqht
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ssHelIO, Baby!"

nj. B. Curtis aud his wife have q pet
parrot which is their constant travelling
companion, and which speaks the
Kings English with amazing luency.
The loquacious bird caused quite panic
at the Windsor Hotel last night Itseems
that the Curtis family occupy rooms
directly adjoining Governor Tabor
apartments at the hotel, and last evening
as the Governor was entering his apart
ments he heard what he thought was a
female voice saying: Hello, baby"'
The Governor was q trifie startled. He
is a very gallant man, but he could not
for the life of him imagine what he had
ever done to warrant any female IN adj
dressing him so familiarly. The saluta-
ton appeared to be intended for him,
and it came from the transom over the
door of the room directly across the,
hall. The Governor was nOnplussed.l
"Hello, baby-pretty baby" said the.
voice again. and the Governor blushed
as he stroked his fierce mustache and
tried to brace up and look dignifed.
won't you come and kiss your baby!',
called the voice again, in deliciously
seductive sort of a way. Now the Gov
ernor seldom takes a dare of any kind!
To do him justice he is brave man, and
at this particular moment he felt big
enough to tackle an army. He crept
softly over to the door and asked: "Are
you talking to meP" "Nice baby" said
the voice; but no sooner had the voice
spoken than another voice from in
side the room--a big, burly man s voice
called out: $50 away from that door.
and let the parrot go to sleepp II was
Mr.. Curtis who spoke, but he had no
idea It was Governor Tabor outside. /
Governor Tabor slid quietly into his
room, but he thought it was such good
Joke he had to tell the boys about it
after supper. and in the opera-house
lobby last night IL was all the talk
De2lT,er Tribune.
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CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

THE naval bill was read for action in
the Senate, ON the 2sth, and the Chair ruled
out Of order all amendments made by the
Senate committee changing the House gem
eTal legislation. Committee changes in ap-
propriatious were agreed to. In the House
the Senate bills passed establishing ports OF
delivery at Kansas CITY and St. Joseph.
In the British House of Commons on
the 2Sth Gladstone read, amid cheers, an
extract from the instructions forwarded TO
Lord Dufferin, British Ambassador at Con-
stantinople. after the Cabinet meeting Of
the day previous, saying England was glad
Of the corporation of any pswer, but call
ing upon the Sultan to state the dates for the
dispatch Of troops, and before their dispatch
to issue proclamation uphOlding the Khe-
dive and denouncing Arabi Pasha as a rebel.
THE Ohio brewers have resolved that
beer is not only wholesome but healthful,
and that its use promotes the cause of true
Temperance. While they will aid the pass
age of Wise and Just laws for the suppress
sion and prevention OF inebriaton, they pro-
test against enactmeEts that can only result
I'm the destruction of vested interests or in
driving capital and labor from the State.
FRED. PETERsoN,. 16 years old,
Jumped into Spring Creek, near Piqua,
Ohio, the other evening. to save a compan-
ion named Gramm, who had got beyond his
depth, and both were drowned. The bodies
were recovered.
AN open switch sent 3 Columbus &
Hooking Valley passenger train into bank
of gravel at Courtright's Station, Ohio, on
the 27th. Mail Agent Byers was seriously
injured Fand the express messenger was
bruised.
Mrs. ISAAC FINES, aged 45, was killed
by train at East Palestine. Ohio, on the
27th, while attempting to cross the track.
A DESPERATE but unsuccessful at
tempt was made on the 18th to assassinate
the Recorder Of the City Of Dublin, Ireland.
A tutor named Fitzpatrick, nOnsuited as
plaintiff on a civil bin process, fired at the
Recorder in open court, and was seized by
the defendant and policeman.
ISAAC TURNER, colored, was hanged
fVT murder at Lexington, KY, July 2s.
FRANK MULATTo, a Mexican, was
/ lynched near Tascosa, Texas, July y, for
the murder of Deputy Sheriff Henry Nc
Cullough.
| F. A. LAWRENCE, son of the lato
Judge bingham Lawrence, committee
suicide at Flushing, n. Y, on the 2Sth.
Two masked men stopped stage
near Clark's Bayou, La, the other morn
ing. Four passengers were robbed and the
mail pouch was rihed. The highwaymen
then made the driver unscrew the nuts
holding two OF the wheels, which they car
ried of into the woods,
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$1.5O per Annunl.
Youths Department.
MAUD S PROBLEM.

don't want to think,
And I'm tired of play:
There's everything crooked
And wrong to-day.
And the cats run of,
And Bose is forlorn;
And my very best dress
is Wrinkled and torn.
And I'm not bit hungry,
Or I'd eat and eat;
So what can 1 do
But swing my feetf
wish was big folks,
And naughty, too;
There's no one to whip them
Whatever they do.
Bat they must have been whipped
When little and bad,
If they stole jam and things,
And got naughty and mad.
Wen, then, who whipped them2
/ can't, can't see.
Why, their fathers and mothers,
As mine do me.
Well, the fathers and mothers
Who whipped them2
Why, Mrs Noah did
Japhet and Shem.
Well, then, who whipped Ever
Why, Adam, / guess,
For she stole apples
An cried for a dress.
But Adam wasn't punished,
Not single bits
There wasn't anybody round
Who could dolt.
Oh deari my head aches
Thinking it out:
When is my turn coming
To keep stick boutf
oh, I know now,
The very thing, tool
III grow up-oh, awful fast,
AS other folks do.
Then I'll buy little girls
An lots, an lots of boys,
An I'll whip EN- for each bad, bad thin
An every speck of nOisel
WIDE AEdke.
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CRINIEs AND oAsUALr1Es.

THE bodies of three American pros
pectOrs have been found near San Antonio,
I'm the Sonora Valley. The natives say the
men were murdered by Apaches, but il Is
believed the deed was com;nitted by Mexi-
cans found working the prospectors' claims.
THERE was collision on the Little
Miami Railway, near Fosters Crossing,
Ohio, on the 23d. Engineer Lyons was bad
" bruised Il. II. McCalb, Judge Advo-
cato General OF louisiana; j. w. Cock
sedge, Of New York; ID. A. Rindheem, OF
pittsburgh; J. w. Jones, OF Columbus,
were slightly injured. The engines were
wrecked and some freight cars were thrown
into the river. Two freight trains on the
Chicago & Alton colided near Blooming
ton on the same day. The engineer,
young man named Eli Fisher, was killed,
his body being terribly mangled.
SHERMAN MILLER, n hotel-keeper at
Millerstown, Pa, was killed the other night
by VIM. Wagner. A white man and a negro
were quarreling and Wagner took sides with
the latter. Afterward Wagner entered Mill
ler's bar-room and Miller attacked him for
defending the negro. In the fight which
ensued Wagner shot Miller dead. MnIer's
son tried to shOotWagnre.
THE mystery surrounding the disap-
pearance OF Ernie Spencer, son OF R. c.
Spencer. Of Milwaukee, Wis, has been
solved by the discovery of the body Of the
missing boy in the lake, near the pier where
he was last seen.
AT Oaktown, Ind, few days ago,
DIR. J. n. Merritt laid down in his office to
read and fell asleep. His lamp exploded,
burning all his clothes from his body. He
had the presence OF mind to put out the
flames, after which he walked home and
summoned help. His injuries may prove
fatal.
JEREMIAH MAHoNEY, for many years
teacher in the public schools OF Chicago,
and a ready and caustic writer, chiefly on
educational topics, took a fatal dose OF
Iaudanum the other day. The Press Club
passed resolutions Of respect TO his memory,
ana appointed a committee OF five 10 attend
the funeral
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Personal AND POLITICAL.

ALONZO BELL having resigned the
Assistant seeretaryship OF the Interior, Seo-
retary Teller has recommended the appoint
ment Of Merrick s. Joslyn, Of Illinois, to the
vacancy.
THE House Committee on Foreign
Affairs, by a unanimous vote, reconsfdered
its former decision in regard to statements
recently received from eX-Secretary Blaine,
in response to one submitted by Robert
Randall, and without objection the state
ment OF Blame was made part OF the record
OF proceedings in the Chill Peruvian inves-
tigatlon. The committee also decided to
permit Randall to submit an additional
statement II he so desires. Ex-Secretary
Blaine sent to the committee long letter in
reply to the supplementary statement made
by Randall.
EARL KIMBERLY has accepted the
Chancellorship of the Duchy OF Lancaster,
made vacant by the resignation OF John
Bright.
GENERAL II. p. KENNEDY will contest
the claims OF Speaker Keiter to a nomlna-
tion for Congress in the Eighth District OF
Ohio.
IT is rumored that Attorney General
brewster is TO be transferred to the Court Of
st. james, vice Lowell, to be recalled.
AT a Cabinet meeting on the 25th, in
discussing the question OF political assess
ments, President Arthur said that no person
in the executive departments declining to
contribute shall thereby be subjected to dis
charge or criticism, and no attempt to in
iure him will be tolerated.
SECRETARY CHANDLER is satisfied
that Rear Admiral Nicholson, commanding
the European Station, had acted in a dis
Greet and proper manner in all he had done
for the protection OF American interests at
Alexandria.
The new Superintendent of the Mint
in san Francisco has given the position OF
Adjuster TO Miss Sarah Brown, the daugh-
ter Of old John Brown, OF Harper's Ferry
fame.
"A COURT Of inquiry finds that General
sheridan was justified in relieving General
Warren OF his command at the battle of Five
Forks.
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commanders of Hudson River
steamers have been prohibited by the
Treasury Department from using the
products of coal oil or petroleum as
stores for illuminating or other pur-
poses An order has also been issued
prohibiting steamers from carrying hay
or straw as freight. Z. Herald.