The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-03-26
NO. 30.
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

come in India that they are now pro-
tected by law.
1t is said that of the sixty thousand
Hebrews in New York City not one is
the keeper of a grog-shop.
OF the thirty-four thousand men
Vermont sent to the war not over six
thousand are now living in that State.
Rutland Herald.
The Tucson Citizen assures its
readers that ''there is no place where
a fellow can find warmer friends than
in Arizona, especially in the summer. :
The revised statement of popula-
tion and sex in Massachusetts shows
that there were at the date of the GEN.
sus 932, 884 males and 1909, 257 females
in the State.
"A well-known gentleman of this
village, speaking of another very con-
scientiouS citizen, said Tuesday that che
was so afraid that he would do wrong
that he did not dare to do right.-ldid-
dteton Mercury.
California papers publish the story
of man from Lake County who says
the salmon were so thick in Cold creek
that he had to drive them away with n
club before his horse would venture
into the stream!
Charity is mistress of the human
heart, even in Ireland. The Castle and
the Mansion House-the Government
and the NatiOnalists-mc on equal
terms at the ball in Dublin recently for
the benefit of hospital.
"A new post-office with the curious
name of Sirrom has been established at
the residence of Morris Dawson, in
Emanuel County. Hon. L. M. Nor
wood reversed the name of Morris and
made it SirrOm.- Savannah Net0S.
On new fire alarm bell at Cuth.
bert, Ga, will be cast the names of the
mayor, council, and city officers, to-
gether with "Beck and the cart. ]" Beck,
the faithful mule, has served the city
for twenty years, and this is a memo
rial of her seryices.-Atldnta Co11Stitat-
tioR.
Mr.. j. T. Sunderlow. who lives
near Keuka, Putnam County, Fla,
while blowing, unearthed cedarches
containing old Spanish coin to the
amount of SO, 600. The exact sum is
stated, no doubt, to show that, though
orange groves occasionally freeze, the
inducements to Florida immigration
are by no means exhausted Chicago
San.
The Assyrians and Babylonians
were great students of astronomy. The
method of telling time by the sun and
of marking it by an instrument called
a sun dial was invented by the latter ma
ton. None of our modern clocks and
watches can be compared to the sun
dial for accuracy. Indeed, we have to
regulate our modern inventions by the
ancient Babylonian system, and a good
trade might be again run in pottery
sun dials.
The editor of the Boston journal
recently told correspondent that the
report that snow had fallen in the
West when the mercury was thirty de-
grees below zero is an error, asserting
that it is then .'too cold to snow. - The
st. Paul Pioneer Press denies the asser-
ton most emphatically, saying that in
Minnesota, it does Snow, and SHOWS
furiously, when the mercury is thirty
degrees below zero. These, the editor
adds, are terrible storms for the people
who are caught in them.
An Albuquerque On. NJ editor
who expected gang of lynchers to
come for him about the middle of the
night took himself to the cellar, leav-
ing pet grizzly bear in his place in
bed. The lynchers didn't bring any
lights, but made plucIly attempt to
get the bear out and lynch it, but gave
it up after three of them had lost an
eye apiece, two had suffered the loss of
thumbs chewed off, and the other six
were more or less deprived of skin.
That man now has a tremendous repu-
tation as fighter, and the bear didn't
mind the work one bit
Alarm clocks, as is well known,
after time lose their power over a
sleeper and fail to awake him, since he
becomes accustomed to the noise. TO
remedy this defect an ingenious in
ventor has added a cylinder, the base
filled with compressed air and the re-
naming space with cold water. A
perforated tin tube is attached, which
is pointed in the direction needed
When the alarm bell goes off the pres
sure on the air is relieved and the wa
ter in the cylinder is driven out
through the perforated tube over the
head of the sleeper, who is sure to be
awakened by the shower-bath.-N j.
Tribune.
"A fable: A dog, on a warm sum-
mer day, lay down i'm the shade, and
soon fell asleep. lie was awakened by
the noise of huge bull approaching
his shady resting-place. Get up
said the bull, 'and let me lie down
there! mo, replied the dog, you
have no right to the place; | was here
first ''Well, f" said the bull, looking
innocenhy at the dog, but with fero-
cious tweinkle in his left eye which
made the dogs spinal column run cold
and his lower jaw give way, "let's toss
up for it. "Thank YOU" said the
dog, politely, q never gamblei' and
he walked away. Moral: Discretion
is the better part of valor.-N T.