The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1888-04-06
PARTICULARS PERSONS.

President CLEVELAND weighs S25 pounds.
TIE King Of Siam is thirty years old and
% reported to be the father Of thirty chill
5ren.
CHANG, the Chinese giant Of Barnum's
show and dime museum notoriety, is now a
Tea broker in Shanghai
TIE Jewish race made their-entree into
the court Of Vienna for the first time on
January 20, 1888, in the person OF Baron
and Baroness Rothschild.
NINE BARRIos, widow of the late President
Of Guatemala is engaged to DO married to
an English nobleman Of high rank. She is
worth several millions of dollars.
Mrs. CLEVELAND writes a stylish hand
says report, yet it is unlike the ordinary
fashionable scrawl, in that it is perfectly
iegible and offers no cOncealment for defects
in photography.
SAM JONES, the evangelist, says: I have
an orphans home in Georgia, where sixty
five children depend upon me Tor every bite
they eat. have boys and girls that am
trying to educate at different colleges. "
WHEN John L. Sullivan, the great pugil-
list, commenced operations in his particular
field he was so poor that on one occasion he
had to sit in his stocking feet in bar-room
while his shoes were being repaired at a
cobbler's across the street.
ADELINA PATTI is said to believe in the
superstition of the 81 evil eye,'' and will not
sing where there is a cross-eyed conductor.
Bernhardt places a similar credence in the
superstition, and refuses to play at the side
Of an actor whose vision is in any way
askew.
THE King of Norway and Sweden is said
to be the only crowned head in Europe who
refused to send congratulations to the Pope
on his sacredotal jubilee. According to the
census of 1880, there were only SO Catholics
in Sweden, and a proportionately small
number in Norway.
EX-SENATOR FAIR recently offered $40 00C
for San Francisco theater for one evening
in order that he might have an exclusive
theater-party. Mr.. Fair once gave a "rose
bud - party to twenty young ladies in Wash
/ ington at a cost Of s., 900 The next morning
/ he quarreled witha hackman who charged
him fifty cents for ride to the Capitol.
! PRINCE BISMARCK is still hard worker
and is becoming a rich man. The salaries
from his Offices are by no means extrava
/ CANT, but, added to the revenues of his es
! tates and the profits of his saw-mills anC
distilleries, they bring his income to be
tween 100000 and $4,000 year. And, as
the Prince is VIGOROUSLY economical, a large
proportion of this comfortable income is an
nually saved.
PAsCHAL PORTER, the wonderful child re
vivalist of Indiana, who is now only clever
/ years old, recently preached sermon IN the
/ Baptist Church at WilliamstoWn, KY, thai
astonished everybody who heard it. The
pastor of the church says that he has read
sermons on the same subject delivered by
the ablest preac hers, but not one of then
could compare in power or in elegance o.
diction with the boys exhortation.
THE death is announced Of "Count
Smith, chief clerk of the Palace Hotel, Sa1
Francisco. He had phenomenal memory
for faces and names. This faculty made hi
fortune. He amazed British globe-trotter
after saluting them by name several year
after former visits to the hotel, and asking
if they would have the old rooms they hat
once occupied, giving the number and floor
This fact may be appreciated when it
stated that the hotel has 800 rooms.
GENERAL SHERIDAN has four little chi
dren, who are his constant companions. i
Washington not long ago two of the Chi
dren were walking along with their father
while the two other little Sheridans trotte,
along Just behind him. a gentleman stopT e
the little girls of the rear guard and asked
care you all General Sheridan's childTenl
so, no. exclaimed one of the girls, demure
", and pointing to the children walking
with the General, "they are General Sher
dams children. We are the twins.''