The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-02
No.31
oE oENERAL INTEREsT.


Key West has one hundred and
thirty-one cigar factories, each en-
ploying from ten to three hundred
hands.
Germany devotes nine million
acres to the cultivation of the potato
The yield last year was twenty-three
million tons.
The story comes from Paris that q
sausage-maker there displays placard
in his window announcing: every
link carefully inoculated by Nj. Pas
teur."
Ordinary everyday English speech
employs only about twelve hundred
words, according to a stenogrRpher
who has made a careful examination OK
the mastery T. Times.
Pale young celery and eucalyptus
are tho names of two new tints OK
green. The former is almost like the
pretty linden green; the latter is very
soft sea green Chicago Mail.
The Popular Science Net0s asserts
that the average length of life is con-
stantly increasing. and the time may
yet come whGE persons one hundred
years old will excite no more curiosity
than one eighty years old at the present
iuue.
writes Potomac pcnciler in the Troy
On. Y Times, ''is a great disappoint-
ment to visitors. While the structure
is in reality 555 feet high, it does not
appear. in the eyes of the average
mortal, to be over 250.
There ia one fishing town on the
Maine coast where, if you should shout
out "Captainn' on the public street, ten
out of every dozen men within reach OF
your voice would turn to you and asks
''Wcll, what yer wantP" They ara
captains of fishing Vessels.-BoStO7s
Transcript.
One of the largest trees ever put
into the water by a Skagit logging
camp was one that was at jackson 8, a
few miles above Mt. Vernon. The tree
contained three twcnty-four-foot logs
which scaled as follows: Butt, 7,5l2
feet; second, 5,732; top, 5,S26-a total
of 20,070 feet Of lumber in the tree.
The diameter at the small ends was 7S,
II and "a inches, respectively. y.-Chs-
caQO Enterprise.
The Queens birthday present to
the Crown Princess Of Germany was d
''full-dress" carriage, and it has been
dispatched to Berlin. The interior is
lined with blue silk damask, with gold
fringe and tassels. The outside is of
claret color, with lines of crimson, and
alI the mountings arc of brass. On the
doors and panels the English and Prus-
sian arms are em0lazoned in relief
London I'rltth-
1t is some time since we saw bet
ter condensed piece of reporting than
the following paragraph from medi-
cal paper: ''In the Solferino mine,
Nev&daville, Col, loose rock knocked
A u 80 bn A
of iawbonc was found at the twelve
hundred-foOt level and piece of skull
and his coat at the thirteen hundred
foot level. These comprised the recov-
erablc effects. IN \. Independent.
The population of London now ex.
cecds every other city, ancient or mod
ern, in the world. New York and all
it's adjacent cities combined are not
equal to two-thirds of it. Scotland,
Switzerland, and the Australian colo
nies each contains fewer souls, while
Norway, Servia, Greece and Denmark
have scarcely half as many. Yet at
the beginning of the present century
the population of all Londun did not
reach one million.
The Paris Figaro has published an
article on the Manufacture of Skele-
TONS" in which the writer says that
Just out Oh Il arts LnBIc ~ Al CSihDIlSH-
ment where human bones of all sorts
are collected and, after being carefully
prepared, are fastened together with
wires, and when tho work Is done it is
impossible even for the scientific eye to
detect anything wrong in a skeleton
that has been made up from the bones
Of several different individuals.
The electric bell system has been
developed to such fine point in New
York hotels that by moving a pointer
upon a dial and then pressing the bell
the guest can indicate TO the Office his
desire for his bill, coupe, n carriage.
writing materials, chambermaid, mes
senger, boots, water, porter, fireman.
ice-water or hall-boy. At one hotel
the dial is divided into three sections;
one for eatables, one for drinkables
and a third for ordinary hotel service.
IN. Z. Tribune.