The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-02-19
NO.25.
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Fourteen widows and eight W1d-
overs live near each other in q single
block in Railway, N. j.
Years ago figs were served on
aristocratic tables in Greece with salt,
pepper, vinegar and aromatics.
-Danbury, Conn, makes One-fourth
of all the hats worn in the United
States. 1t turns out hourly on an
average one thousand three hundred
and forty three hats.
One firm in Western Massachusetts,
last year made 10000 drums, using
half million feet of lumber, $4,000
sheepskins, 2,200 pounds of cord and
tons of other fittings Journal.
"A man in Friesburg, N. J., leads
the big hog record so far, with
an animal that weighed eight hun
dred and fOrty-five pounds and was
suffocated in its own fat while being
moved in wagon.
AT Sacramento, Cal, q drunken
undertaken was put into a hack and
then all the hacks in town fell into line
and followed him. The burlesque fu-
neral procession excited great amuse-
ment.-SG41 Francisco Chronicle.
DIR. Talmage believes that bad men
live short lives. That may be true; but
there seems to be a process of oyer
production going on to take the places
that always keeps the supply in excess
of the demand.-PittSburgh Dispatch.
"A New Haven medical examiner
states that he found starvation to have
been the actual cause of death in the
case of an infant that died in that CITY
a few days ago, The infant had been
fed on some sort of patent food.-HGrt-
ford COtTG1t.
An Oregon old-timer says the first
''poem" ever ''indited" in that country
was by Yamhill woman. It reads:
"The Willamette Valley is the prettiest
place that ever was made; 1t lies be-
tween the Coast range and the Cascade;
In the spring of the year, just after bhe
rains, There are lots of wild geese, and
few blue cranes"
The weeping willow, says the Gar
den, seems to have had a romantic his
tory. The first scion was sent from
Smyrna in box of figs to Alexander
Pope. General Clinton brought a
shoot from Pope's tree to America in
the time of the Revolution, which,
passing into the hands of John Parke
Custis, was planted on his estate in
Virginia, thus becoming the prOgeni-
tor of the weeping willow in America.
IL see the papers have good deal
to say about Jay Gould leaving the
street" said Mrs. Fangle. Eyes, they
have" replied her husband. "Well, /
think he did just right, and l wish a
great lot of other men would leave the
street. This thing of having to pass
between two files of loafers every time
a lady goes down town is disagreeable,
and / hope that others will follow Mr.
GOuld's example. - Pittsburgh ChTOn-
tcle
Americans are the third highest in
point of number of the foreigners re-
siding in Japan, according to statistics
published in a native paper. The Chi
nese stand at the head of the list with
2,471 residents, followed by the English
with 648, the Americans numbering
1877. Although the Americans are far
less numerous there than the Chinese
or English, they occupy more houses,
in proportion to their number, than
either.-N. Y. Tribune.
At Los Angeles, Cal, recently,
pens were so thoroughly magnetized
that one of them, on being taken from
the box, would attract and sustain from
three to five other pens. There had
been a wind-storm the day previous.
A local paper accounts for the phenOm-
enOn in the assertion that the earth had
passed through magnetic storm, and
t&ds fault with the omission of Gov
ernment officers in not recording the
fact and giving it TO the public San
Francisco Call.
The stone pavement in front of the
late William II. Vanderbilt's residence
in New York is made up of the largest
slabs of tagging stone ever put in a
single pavement. The stones we're
taken from the quarries in Pike
County, Pa, west of Port Jervis, N.
Y, and the Bigelow quarries in Ulster
County. The large slab Immediately
in front of the Vanderbilt residence is
the largest piece of tagging ever trans
ported from the quarries. 1t cost nine
ment cost forty thousand dollars.--N
Y. sun.
"A Maiden school-mistress thinks
that some of her pupils compositions
are funnier than any thing of Mark
Twain's. From an essay on Fashions" !"
written by a boy of twelve, she cites
the following. Sensible people wear
sensible fashions, and insensible people
insensible fashions" Another hope
full of hers, writing on the subject "a
Rainy Afternoon" evolved from an
inner consciousness deeper than that
of Josh Billings, the following sem
tence: at rained hard, and I could
not 90 owdocrs. And so l went out in
the shed and sod some wood. "--Boston
Record.
"A woman applied at the railroad
office in Bangor, Me-, recently for
tickets for herself and child to Montana.
She was unable TO tell to what particu-
lar point in the Territory she desired to
go, but informed the ticket agent that
she was en- route to join her husband
and had forgotten his exact address,
sure it was Montana. The
agent then named all the cities and
towns in the Territory that he could
possibly think Of, but it was no use
She was unable to designate the right
one, but was determined TO start for
Montana, and she accordingly received
a ticket for Naturalization Post.
The waste of food in hotels and
says the Chicago Times,
is something enormous. In London
this waste is partially utilized by the
Sisters of Mercy, who keep some one
constantly in the kitchen TO save all the
scraps as well as the articles that are
from the dining rooms. These
are carefully sorted and put in covered
baskets. The soups, chowders and
gravies are placed in cans or buckets.
At night a covered wagon comes and
takes them away. Some of the articles
are taken to hospitals and asylums, the
others are distributed among those Of
the sick and poor who are deserving.
The Germans. who have always
been celebrated for heavy eating.
furnish us with some curious culinary
items. In the middle ages the goose
was the grand dish among them, but
they also ate crows, stoTks, cranes,
herons. swans and bitterns-these last