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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-03-29

second door, which differs from the
first in not being movable, and no ono
can quite explain how It then CON
trives to enter and leave its apartment
The common house spider is of livid
ash color; others are black, brown, red-
green, we low, or white. As n rule their
co. or is that which IS best adapted for
concealment, but come are notified. or
striped, or even marked like a tiger.
Many are very hairy. One species can
run sideways and backward, as well as
forward; q few kinds leap in the Same
manner as beasts OF prey. Many
spiders cast Their skins like serpents and
crabs, and it is said that, like crabs,
they can grow a new leg if one of the
original set be accidental ly broken
Spiders have enem cs rs we'll rs vie
Tins. Tiny parasites veN them exceed
ingly. A large winged insect of the
Sphinx order pierccs them with its
sting. and, carrying them off dead or
alive. bUrics them with its own eggs
that its offspring may nd meal ready
when they are Matched. Birds prey
upon them. They form an article of food
TO the Bosjcsmen of South Africa; and
the inhabitants of New Caledonia vii!
devour them as cheer,ully as hungry
boy bee steak pie. In the course of
nature mrst of them die on the ap-
proach of winter, though some live sew
eral years.
1t was once thought that spiders
webs might be useful in commerce..
Bon, of Languedoc, succeeded in max
ing pair of gloves. and also pair OF
stOckin IS of Sp,Ger silk. They were
gray colored. and as strong ms ordinary
silken goods But when the experiment
came to be tried upon a larger scale, it
was found that the creatures ate each
other up so greedily hat spidcr-breed-
ing would never pay.-W H. Woods,
la London CORgre5 atioHaiist.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-03-29
Youths Department,
BEAND-BY AND MEYER.

IA Spanish proverb says III "by, the road
Never
There's dangerous litus Afrite who accosts
Ursettng ae every 9i S1 purpose in soft, onticing
Saying: =; Rest from this, pray u, f. r to-
morrow you can try
If hard work is to be done, you can do 1t By
and by
Though ha tell you rot to do it.
Mind him not, or YOU will rae il,
For his words, so smooth AMI clever,
Take you 10 The house of Never.
His voice is like SIRENS, and he always aims
He's idle as zephyr, and he bids you take
If your spirits seem to faltor, at your elbow he
Saying: ''Wait a little, brother, you can do it
Though ho tell you not to do IL,
Min h IN not, or you viii rue It.
For his words so smooth and clever,
Take you TO the house of Never.
He commands an end 'ess fu 'ure, and bas youth
SO he ma 5es your little horo scope magnificent
" wide;
Quite disturbed by earn st plodders, ne ap-
peals with wltching ey
whats your hurry-Wa!t u ltttle-yOu can do
Though he tell you not to do it.
Nj nd him not, or you viii rue It,
For hi wCr Is, so smooth and clever,
Take you to the house Of Never.
Hes tr cky l,ttIo prompter, and ne always
fingers near,
Knowing just the proTer moment when to
whisper in yOur +;
He can span your pretty TainboWs, ana make
fancifUl your SIX =
With his mag cal provisO of the golden By
and-bY.
Though h tell you not II do IT,
Mind him not, or you will rue 1T,
Fc Ills words, so smooth ard clever,
Tnke you TO the house of Never.
On your eyes he p eSsCs pOppicS, on your
wi he puts brake
Just to keap v soothed and idle, any trouble
EcNv:ll take;
Whca ne trains you to his harncss-Oh, so mis-
chicVfus AMI s'y!-
Then you Il dozs away the Present in dream
Of By-1nd by.
Though he II yen not to do il.
Mind him not, or you W II rue It,
For his words. , smooth and clever.
Take yOu to the house Of mover
Joel Benton, in ifdTpeT'S Young PCOpLe-
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-03-29
A Dangerous Toy.

Tho inventive genius Of young law
student OF st. Louis is apparently of
ICh dangerous chlTa ter that meas
ures ought to he taken, in behalf Of the
publ e veal, TO coniine his enc gies To
Blackstone, Chitty and kind ed writers,
or ut least to divert them into the harm
less channel Ot legal pugilish. This
embryo barristcr, says the Boston Her
aid, tel a let m tO the toy-pistol mania
some time ago, and for the past half
dozen years he has been racking his
rams and wearing ont his chest Of
tools in the effort TO produce = pistol
supcrio- that is more de5tructive-tO o
anything Rt present known. Several
pstents on different forms of his toV
pistol have been taken out at different
tines, but IL has only been within day
or two that he has invented the ne plus
ultra in this weapon of carnage, and
fled pape in the United States Patent
Office protecting him in the invention,
from which many citizens will doubtless
seon be praying to be protected.
A reporter called upon the inventor,
who proudly exhibited his latest pet IN.
vention. The toy resembles an ordina-
ry pistol in gener j size. but is somewhat
smaller and lighter. a peculiarly al
iusted spring furnishes the propelling
power and eXplodos the paper caps
used, the spring being rele sed by the
pull ng of an ord nary trigger Marbles
are the miniature cannon balls used
for ammunition, and they a'e held in
place by n second spring The distance
10 which the marbles can be shot is
regulated solely by the strength OF the
spring, but the in entor at present will
content himself with discharge of lif-
teen feet in straight line. Broken
glass i'm mirrors and over pictures in the
inventor room attest the merits o. bis
invention. The safety Of the weapon,
however, is insisted upon by its oriRi-
natOF. d" It's dc. tn on caps, and IT. 3 Il
good shooter, too, but no one can be-
harmed by it. Ladies using it Will get
accustomed TO the explosion and be bet
ter able to defend themselves with
genuine pistols. 1t will make marks
mon Of the youngsters. The pistol
can harm any one. Why it hasn'
power enough to break a hOmeopa hic
medi.ine bottle at four Yards. The boys
are crying for il already. Half dozen
to whom ] have shown this model have
been around 10 find out when j am
going TO begin manufacturing them.
They all want 70 set up shooters ga
leries in their coal sheds. There are
three Eastern manufacturing companies
figuring upon the purchase OF th p
patenS and beginn ng thom at once. 1
don't believe / will sell, though. They
can be made 10 sell for twenty-five
cents and have big margin for p o. T.,
and l am thinking Of beginning TO put
them upon the market. SAFE or not.
they will take with the boys, and that
is all that is necessary"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-03-29
Sfraight PatIs.

Some of my readers, no doubt, never
lived out on the prairie; so perhaps they
would like to hear a short story about
some Of the little folks who live on the
prairies of Western Iowa.
When l commenced teaching, my
school consisted OF tuite number of
BOYS and girls who were always busy;
i'm fact, | never knew one OF them 10 be
id e. The time of which | s eak was
early in the winter, and cold weather
had just begun. One ening a light
snow fell, and next morning the chill
dren were very b sy making snow-balls
or snow men, and were all having u
very good time, when Johnnie cried
out
- cts n AXE a wheel"
So at il they went Selecting hazel
bush as the cente they all 5 arted out
in different directions, each taking
twenty steps from the bush. This being
done, they looked behind to see ther
paths, which were to be the spohes Of
the wheel. But alas! there was only
one straight track.
Charlie" " said the others, chow did
you keep your track so straightP"
why, that is easy enough to tell,
said Charlie II took that pole for my
mark and kept my eye on it, and never
/ looked down Once.'
But" said Joe 81 took that bush
for my mar'l, and didn' getmy path ~
straight as yours. v by was thisP'
"Because you kept looking at us, ~
said the others, instead of keeping
your eyes on the mark
So remember this, boys, and girls
too Nou all have path TO make, and
/ the steps are your actions They wi
show more plain than YOU III nix. Bet
! ter begin right, then, ana make deter
mination to live n good life. Then you
will make straight paths in life, as
/ Charlie did i'm the snow. Instead of
/ looking at others imperLectons, keep
your eyes on sour own perfect work. -
Ne1OSboys Appcm.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-03-29
NEWS IN BRIEF
Compiled from Various Sources.
Personal AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
THE French Chamber of Deputies has
adjourned for one month.
THE Democratic caucus in Rhode
Island has instructed for William Sprague
for Governor.
EFFORTs were being made recently to
have the Arkansas Legislature extend the
time OF taX-payment to planters who had
lost heavily by the overflow.
LORD CARLINGFORD has assumed the
duties Of President OF the Council and MIN
lster OF Agriculture in the British Cabinet.
TIE New York Senate has passed a
bill compelling the New York aud Brooklyn
telegraph companies 10 place their wires
underground in two velrs.
TIE Rhode Island Democratic Con-
vcntion,in session at Providence on the 10Th,
indorsed denomination OF William Sprague
for Governor.
JUSTICE Cox, of Washington, has
issued mandamus to compel the payment
OF a portion Of the award made by the
Mexican Claims Commission in the case OF
BGujamin We'll.
DUKES, the Pennsylvania Assembly,
man who was acquitted on trial for the
killing OF Mutt has net occupied his seat at
any time during the session, and a resolu-
tion has been adopted not to admit him tin
the report OF an investigating committee was
received.
New York's Aldermen have granted
the Governer's Room for the reception OF
John Howard Payno's remains, and the
New York Press Club would escort them
from the ship.
The Tennessee Legislature has passed
that State who lost an eye during the late
war, and also TO Federal soldiers not pen
stoned by The United States Government.
TIE Secretary of the Treasury has
called for detailed statement OF the condi.
tion of the Treasury, with a view to acting
upon the various prop ositions which have
been submitted TO him in regard to he fu.
tUrc financial operations OF the Gov
orument.
TIE capital punishment bill recently
passed by the Maine Legislature failed tC
specify n mode Of execution, and is there.
fore imperative.
The Director of the United States
Mint has decided that an officer of the Mint
could not accept any other Office without
Nacating his Federal office.
SECRETARY FOLGER had returned to
washington on the 2lSl, after a pleasant
cruise. OF the Chesapeake Bay and Potoma,
River. lie gained strength 10y the trip, bu
great deal OF business had accumula, cd OF
his desk and some OF his friends feared ht
would again break down under the burdcr
OF official work.
THE remains of Charles Zoehner, s
noted German reYolutionist from Indianap
oils, were cremaled at Washington, Pa,
few days ago.
lr was reported from Washington OF
the 22d that a correspondence was in pro
grcss between the State Department anC
the British authorities relative to the eX
treme utterances Of prominent Irish leader
now in this country regarding the recen
dynamite explosion and attack in London.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-03-29

At Gloucester, Mass, the loss Of
those dependent on the shcr.es by tho
Virgins storm scare is $3.50 II
is a great loss TO business interests a.
well as fishermen themselves. Over
three million pounds Of fish might have
been taken. Boston Post.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-03-29

When cooking a large fowl or joint
of meat. il may be covered with a but
tered paper TO prevent its be ng
scorched. Il .L,ag0 Jon nal,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-03-29

Special rates given on application.
a8-Au business letters must be addressed 20
GEORGE w. ARMISTEAD.-
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-03-29
TERMS OF ADVERTISING.

one square of eight lines sl.5o for the firss
Insertion, and 70 cents for each subsequent
fua
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-03-29
ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE LADY
DIXIE.

Lady Florence Dixie Assaulted by Masked
Men in WOmen's Apparel at windsor
She SwOOns Away, but, Protected by a
Faithful Dog, Escapes without Serious
Injury-DeniaI that Any Irish Organiza-
tion Had Anything to Do With the As
sauIt.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-15

You have father? You have moth
er2 You love them But once in a
while YOU grow impatient, and the
neanuCss of your nature crops out; il
wreaks itself on innocent father and
mother, perhaps and they suffer the
punishment of cross word called up
by another's annoyance The hard
word is spoken. Il may be regretted,
forgiven and forgot, but it can never
be recalled Father and mother will
sign and forgive, but
Some day It viii come back TO YOU.
Yesterday, maybe, a little one ran up
20 Won smilingly, and with the innocent,
heaveu-born confidence of childhood,
clappine its little hands, that would not
harm q fy. in your face. The childish
action delighted its author, but it an
moved you. You were busy and re-
proved the little one. Two pearly tears
stood in her great blue eyes, her lips
faltered. and she turned away from you.
The era of childhood, with its happy
feeting hours, will erase the unkind
word, but
Some day it viii come back to YOU.
A beggar stands at your door. The
rain is dashiug in torrents through the
black atmosphere Of the night, and the
sharp vivid lightnings only intensity bY
their violent contrast the awfulness Of
the darkness The beggar's plea for
shelter is punctuated by the blast that
howis forth its anger, and YOU turn
your brother Of
This will come back to you, some
day.
Ifyou are impatient testy, ill-bumor-
ed. spiteful, malicious, cowardly and
mean, yourwhole life viii be a constant
reckoning with evil actions whose
cnormity is only equalled by the increas-
ing wickedness Of the future; and an
unatoned past is always the precursor
Of a more repreheusible future a bad
heart is boomerang OF passions,
whose evil consequences always fall on
the head Of their iuckless author. On
the other hand, all good deeds work IN
4 similar way, with the rules that gov
ern promises and conclusions, causes
and effects. Il either good or bad, the
result will be in conformity with the
nature of the deed. Your bad deeds
and good deeds AFRO juries that SD upon
the destiny Of your life and decide the
verdict Of happiness or despair.
Some dag they win come uacS toyou.
WtsisoHlsp1rt Rvs ikfast lqbic
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-15
A Dream Of Love Almost Wrecked.

On Sunday last 4 certain young lady
and gentleman, who are By the way,
engaged to be married, were enjoying the
pleasures of q carriage ride. That ride.
however, came very near being the last
they would ever take together. In fact
for the space Of about fifteen minutes
there was q strong prospect of the match
being declared of. They had been
riding toward the setting sun for about
an hour. Suddenly the lady elevated
her nose and glanced toward the man.
He in turn began TO get uneasy and
puckered up his nose. Finally they be-
gan TO act suspicious of each other and
both edged apart to their respective end
of the seat. Something had to be done,
rs the case was getting desperate. She
finally remarked she smelt burnt wool
EN-. He remarked that he had noticed
a strong odor of burnt rags for some
time himself. Then began an inyesti-
CATION. They looked each other over
thoroughly and felt of each others good
clothes, but found no fire. No match
had ignited. no cigar stub had been
dropped. Then they looked in a half
insinuating, half accusing manner, at
each other. but had presence OF mind to
hold their tongues, 1t became unbear-
able. She could stand it no longer and
politely but FIRMLY informed him that
She wouldn't have gone riding with him
had she thought he would treat her so
shamefully. The case became desper-
ate. Finally a small boy shouted out
rs they drove past. Your buggy S
afre.e Both started to jump out, but
they were ierked back into their seats
with n thud rs the horses jumped to
dodge a tramp piece Of paper rolling
along the street Then his eyes saw the
smoke, he stopped his team and found
the wooden flowers inside the side lamps
had been ignited by the rays of the sun
shining through the glass of the lamp,
and condensed to focus on the artificial
bouquet He didn't call out the fire
department to extinguish the confagra-
ton, but just spit on it, saying, well,
this is much ado about nothing" The
fire over, confidence between the two
was again restored, but they had no
idea that the reportorial bird was OBJ
serving the whole performance and con-
graduates them on their narrow escape
from arrangement PecE's san.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-15

engaged in inventing new names Tor old
colurs in ladies dress materials for next
season. One man, after working six
teen hours day for two weeks, has
succeeded in evolving new names for
two tints-viz: ''toper's nose and
clicked dog" The latter is weller of
course.
1t makes a farmer crazy to look up
into an apple tree to tell his son, who is
up at the top, bow to shake the fruit
down, and suddenly get an apple on the
nose so hard that it knocks him down
and rolls him around. and causes the
boy to descend and seek safety in the
woods.
A darky on the Pecano plantation
not long since was much tried by the
obstinacy of mule. After much urg-
| ing and kindness toward the brute he
broke out with: Look hyer, now! meb-
by you think cause jined the church
! last Sunday that | can't use big words,
but I'll hab you know I'm gwine to
make 'ception in your special case.
An Irish lawyer having addressed
the court as ''gentlemin," instead of
eyer honors, after he had concluded
q brother of the bar reminded him of
his error. He Immediately arose and
apologized thus: MAY it phase the
coort, in the hate OF debate | called
your honors gentlemin. l made mis-
take, your honors. The speaker then
sat down.
Keeping up appearances. AT the OPP
tician's. Baroness: BE good enough
to show me your best thermometers "
Optician: "Will your Ladyship please
look at this one? The finest Venetian
glass, the very best quicksilver"
Baroness (anxious to have everything
in accordance wit her rank; Quick
silver, did you say-silver? Haven't
YOU any with quick go}d2'
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-15
How Bananas are Raised.

As everybody knows who has eaten
a banana, the luscious pulp is seedless.
The plants, are propagated from
other plants. so that the stock is not like
ly TO run out The plant requires for
vigorous growth a deep rich soil. album
dainty watered. With these conditions
present there is said TO be no risk of a
crop in the hot regions where alone the
fruit is produced. Nine months after
a cutting has been planted a purple bud
appears in the centre of the unfolding
leaves that shoot out from the parent
STEM The stem on which the bud APP
pears grows rapidly above the main
stalk As the bud increases in weight
the stem bends down by u graceful
curve, on the extremity of which this
bud continues 10 grow till, the purple
blossoms falling of, little shoots appear
as the embryo fruit. Each fruit has
yellow blossom at its outward extremity.
AT the end of from three TO four months
the fruit has grown TO maturity, and is
picked long before II is dead ripe to
preserve it in marketable condition.
From the roots of the parent
stalk other shoots appear, which
are trimmed ont or left to grow, as the
cultivator may deem best A single
stalk, therefore, bears only one bunch
or crop as its life work. Spaniards
have a religious reverence for the BAN
ana, believing it to be the fruit of which
Adam partook.
This fruit has long been regarded as
extremely nutritious. It's reccomend-
ed above an others for inyalds who arc
unable to swallow harder food. An
estimate by Humboldt claims that l4,00C
pounds OF bananas can be produced on
the soil that would be required for 1,00l
pounds Of potatoes, and that the same
area that would be required to raise
wheat enough for one man would pro-
duce enough bananas to feed twenty
five men
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-15

structed in England and subjected to
trial which the inventor declared to be
wholly satisfactory 1t is propelled by
steam, first on the land until velocity
of thirty TO thirty-iivc miles is attained,
when it is, by means of fan lever,
projected into the air. The machine is
made of light wood. with frame like
that of - four-whecied carriage, and
has two large wheels in front and two
small ones behind with q ninc-bladed
screw for the air The inventor thinks
he can easily travel ut the height of one
mile.
A eoat-herder on one of the at
stock ranges in Colorado drove about
zoo goats TO water in the river, and
while they were drinking Just below
bend in the river a mountain rise came
down like solid wall OF watep from
ten to fifteen feet high. On one side of
the stream was perpendicular blum
and on the other a gradual incline, but
before the active goats could get ont of
the way 200 of the 700 were drowned.
and the herder only escaped by swing
ing himself into u tree, where he was
compelled to remain for twont, four
hours. when the river went down as
rapidly rs it had risen.
Last winter the board Of school trus-
tees Of Trenton, n. j., made change
in the grammar in use in the schools
Tho change met with great deal of
opposition, and parents of scholars re-
fused to eXpond any money in buying
new books. The majority Of the board
finally concluded TO transfer $500 from
the furniture account to the book ac-
count and SO procure the money need
ed for the new grammar The matter
went into the courts, and Judge Scud-
der filed paper reversing the action,
forbidding the change OF grammars.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-15
Some More An ,cdot,s Of JUDI, Black.

hollir muIS An Culk'S u Jul-f DtANht
DR., Lichty. personal friend OF the
late Judge Black saws:
He was remarkably careless about
his personal appearance. DOMINIC the
first garments that came to hand, with
out n thought OF their effect or appro-
priateness. His wife, on the contrary.
was very neat and tidy lady. and her
chief pride lay in seeing the Judge well
dressed, and to inspire this she used TO
lay out his clothes for him and look to it
that he put them on. One Sunday
morning, being busy getting the child
rem ready for church, she said to him:
Now, Jerry, I've laid out Your clothes
for you. See if you can put them OF
right, The Judge remarked that he
guessed he could. and went TO his room.
When he came down he placed himself
in front of his wife and slowly turning
around, said in satisfied tone OF
voice: Well Mary how do look?
Mrs. Black looked him over for a
moment and then replied: Well, Jerry,
you We done very we'll this time, but
think YOU would look little better il
you didn't have but one vest on. The
Judge had put on not only the vest she
had laid out but also the other one he
had removed.
In 1851. when he went to Washing
ton, it was proposed by Mrs. Black that
they give their piano to n neigbor's wife
and he went out to arrange Tor its re-
moval When he came back he was
accompanied by sixteen men, whom he
had hired Four of them carried the
piano and the other twelve marched in
procession behind.
Like many others. Judgc b lack, &c
use a common expression. mad n0ear foI
music, but, also like many others, he
imagined that he appreciated itfully
Once he heard his daughter Becky, whC
is fine pianoiSt play piece that
pleased him, and inquired its title. She
replied that it was Lucy Neal, and tn,
Judge ever after declared it to be hi.
favorite. Whenever Becky would bC
playing for visitors, the Judge would
say, 'Now Becky give us my favoritC
Lucy Neal and Becky silly winkine
at the guests, would play Old Oar
Tucker or Old Hundred. As she con
cluded, the Judge would tip back in hi:
chair and exclaim: That my favoritel
and would wonder what tho people
were laughing at.