The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-02-12
NO. a..
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Prof Landmark, Chief Director
/ of the Norwegian Fisheries, asserts
that salmon sometimes jump perpen-
/ dicularly sixteen feet
Scorpions, spiders and various in-
sects have been observed to remain
mOtionless if any person blows strongly
] upon them in vertical direction.
Canon Farrar came to this country
for a rest and took away twenty-five
thousand dollars. He will take the
rest on his next visit.-PhttGdelph
/ Call.
A burglar in Weld, Me-, was de-
tected by a snOSball from the heel of
his boot, which corresponded precisely
with a similar SNOWFALL found in the
store after the robbery.
The New Orleans creoles make a
/ sleeping draught of lettuce leaves
! boiled TO form tea. The lettuCe-leaf
tea is administered in large quantities
before going to bed to cure sleepless-
ness.-N. Y. Times.
"A New York negro pleaded not
! guilty to a charge of highway robbery
with such fervOr that he might have
escaped had he not pulled out the COM
! plainant's handkerchief to mop his
! perspiring brown Y. Herald
To stop a runaway horse the Rus
SLAMS have a light cord with q slip
moose in it about the horses throat,
| with the cord running through the sad
/ die ring and over the dasher, at hand
for the driverto pull upon at the horses
first attempt to run. A little choking
stops him.
"A miner on the head waters of the
/ Columbia River, in British Columbia,
/ has found, so he alleges, a deserted
mining town, where the billiard tables
/ still stand in the saloons and letters are
/ lying in the post-oflice bearing date of
/ 1856, Not a soul has been near the
/ place for years Chicago Times.
Some twenty colonies have been
/ established in the Santa Fe district of
/ the Argentine Republic. Their terri
tory occupies ninety-five square leagues,
/ and the settlers number ], 1863 families.
/ During the last thirty years the district
/ has grown through colonization until
it has population of 10000 souls.
At Trieste, on the Adriatic, they
say the wind is so stable and enduring
that you might accept a bill on it, and
George Augustus Sala says the breezes
of Wellington, New South Wales, have
such steady habits and are so strong
that he frequently uses them as a desk
on which to draw a draft on London.
Massachusetts, registered over six
thousand insane persons in her asylums
and hospitals during l8S5-an increase
of two hundred over the previous year.
! The annual cost to the State of this
form of relief exceeds $1,00O,OOO, not
reckoning the S350,0 600 of interest on
the value of buildings, etc.-BOstOB
Herald.
The telegraph system of the Brit
lsh Islands, under control of the post
office, now amounts to one hundred
! and tifty-six thousand miles, and en-
/ plOys seventeen thousand instruments.
The standard rate is twelve words for
sixpence, address included. Press
messages alone now average one mil
lion words day.
Sir said the wanderer, as he
entered the sanctum, 81 come to ask
your assistance. l have lost my right
leg" ''Advertise for it" said the
busy editor, without looking up from
the paper Especial rates in lost and
wanted column, and half money re-
funded if article advertised for is not
recOvered.-N. T. Star.
The blind Mr.. Fawcett, late POST
master-General of Great Britain, was
an enthusiastic angler. He performed
if anything better than the seeing"
says his biographer, whether because
he waited more patiently to strike until
he felt his fish, or because he was more
docile in following the directions of
his skilled companions. He had great
success in catching salmon and trout,
and in trolling for pike in the winter"
One of his trophies was twenty-pound
salmon.
A great deal is being said about
hydrophObia that would be better un-
said, and the dog will be charged with
the killing much oftener than he
should be. The work of Odd rusty
nails, whose wounds have healed
months ago, and the many other pro-
ducers of tetanus will all be laid at the
kennel door Of innocent sold dog
Tray" In all the United States, with
it's fifty-two millions of people, there
have not been in the entire year over
twenty-five deaths from hydrophobia
by the agency of three million dogs.
1t was only two months ago that
Mrs. Sharpe's hired girl left her TO get
married, and yesterday Mrs. Sharpe
was much surprised to receive call
from her former lady of the kitchen.
81 want to come back to work for yez
agin," said the latter, with an air Of
resignation. "Why, Bridget, what's
the matter? / thought you were going
to get marriedP' "An', please mas am,
so ] did. But, you see, John he struck
luck in the lottery, and so we hired a
cook An now, please ma am, I'd
like to come back an be boss once
more Boston Post.
He was only a stray waif of a yell
low dog with no ancestry to boast Of,
but as he sat upon the wooden seat in
one of our city parks with little
child's tiny arm lovingly entWined
about his ugly thick neck, and a sweet,
cooling voice saying in his ear, II love
you, little doggie, he was as proud as
any prize setter in the land. ''Is that
your dog, little boyP" asked a police
man, as he passed the happy couple.
'.No, he doesn't belong to me, only
Pm acquainted with him. answered
the affectionate friend Of the little
tramp dog g.-BOst0n Home Journal.
There is an allusion Of local inter.
est in a book Of verses recently printed
in London. The verses are by the late
William Mcguire, who, whatever may
be said Of his poetry, was an expert
rhymster. One jingle goes:
Why do you cry, my sweet Mrs. Flanagan,
When you will soon have your own dear
whom the arst wind viii bring home from
the Delaware,
He is driven into some port TO the west Of US
"a thing that might happen dear, 70 the best
where he i signing, sobbing aud chatrerins
Night and day long OF his own dear Gath
crime.
Distinctly Philadelphia street cries,
collected by a local reporter, contain
some melodious calls Besides the
music of the rag man and oyster man,
there is heard the negro patriarch sing
ing, "Hominy man. come out to-day,