The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-03-19
NO.29.
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Swans live to the age OF one num-
dTed and ten years, and wild geese to
the ripe old age of one hundred and
fifty years. ChicagO Times.
Walter Besant says there is no
cookery in America. Did Mr. Besant
ever eat any cornfield peas, prepared
| in Georgia?-AHdntd Consultation.
AT Fredonia, which is only forty
miles from Buffalo. natural gas has
| been used for siXty-five years past, and
| is still so used. The first well opened
is still productive.-Buf Express.
A Philadelphia tramp who OBJ
tanned soup at the first house, two
boiled potatoes at the second, and cold
pork at the third, said he had obtained
a progressive luncheOn.-Phttadetphld
Press.
The Russian thistle is a new weed
introduced by Mennonite immigrants
from Russia with their first importa-
tiOns of seed wheat. 1t is spreading
rapidly on new lands of Dakota and
Minnesota, and threatens to become
troublesome intruder.
-GoSsamors are now manufactured
in steel blue and slate colors, which
glisten and shine when showered with
water, in checks and plaids of light
brown, gray and other neutral colors.
The effect is picturesque when dozen
or more ladies come in contact wearing
different coverings of this sOrt.-Cb Cha
cdgO Journal.
"They don't have much regard for
the law in West Virginia, said Quick
wit, looking over the top of his paper
at his wife. "What makes you think
SOP" she asked, There's a man down
there who has a foot thirteen and
half inches long, and the law only al
lows twelve inches in a foot, you
know. - Chicago Ledger.
when the city of Augusta was
built, says Congressman Barnes,
meaning the Georgia city of the name,
1.-THE finest plantation in the world was
ruined. / have never seen such soil.
1t will grow any thing from a water
melon to an orange. The most beauti-
full and luXuriant vegetation | ever saw
was on the truck farms about Augusta. "
The recently published report of
the English egistrar-General shows
that the clergy are the most healthy
people, while hotel servants are among
the most unhealthy. Plumbers and
butchers are short-lived, the latter very
generally dying of consumption. The
principal causes of death among the
plumbers are, of course, gout, and the
diseases resulting from high living
Boston has a new agony. When
ever a young woman goes out walking
in the modern Athens in slippery
weather, she carries with her a small
bag filled with ashes. When a side
walk is reached that is slippery, cor
ner Of the bag is torn open and, rs the
Boston AdUsrtjScr, with Scriptural am
IL
as triumphantly as the Israehtes did
over the Red Sea
Il see it stated" saws Mr.. Labou-
chere, "that while Englishmen drink
five times as much tea as coffee, Amer
leans drink eight times as much coffee
as tea. This in a great measure is due
to the coffee that is sold in the United
States being less adulterated than ours,
To certain extent it may also be ac-
counted for by the fact that Americans
are richer than we are, for there are a
good many more cups in a shilling's
worth of tea than in a shilling's worth
Of coffee
Wages in New York in 1886: The
clerk who now gets twenty dollars a
week then received seven; those who
now get thirty then obtained ten; and
those who now have three thousand
year were then satisfied with a thou
sand. On packing nights clerks were
sometimes kept up all night, and re-
ceived no extra compensation. Me
chanics received nine and ten shillings
a day, and if they mounted to a dollar
and a half thought themselves lucky
~. Y. Heratd.
-"My good common sense tells me
there is no such thing as devil, y said
young Thinkeasy; Il know there is no
such a creature, thing, state or con
ditiOn as the devil, and | am to show
my convictions in my life" And within
thirty minutes from that time he had
in earnest conversation with various
people expressed his convictions by
declaring: "Well, that beats the"
What the" How in the" "Why
the, - "Go TO the, - "He lies like the, "
Il was mad as the, and she's vicious
as the-devil." There's nothing like
bringing your creed right into your
conversation. If you believe in a fell
low keep his name on your lips
BrOohiyn Eagte.
The number of amateur actresses
who desire to 20 on the stage profess
sionally is said to be enormous. Many
belong to respectable families. Most
of them will prove failures. 1t costs
from two thousand to three thousand
dollars to make a debut in any first
class play since managers require a
handsome premium for the privilege.
A New York letter in the Troy Times
saws number Of amateurs are now
playing gratuitously, merely for the
benefit Of practice, and they find their
own costly dresses. In one theater at
least half Of the actresses are of this
class, and all belong to good families.
One woman of wealth, who believes
that she possesses histrionic genius,
has expended fifteen thousand dollars
in bringing herself before the public,
and yet. after all, has failed to win "A
position.