The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1888-02-24
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

over CEat OF last year.
A novel scene was presented on
Grand Traverse boy recently. A tug
and an ice boat were out on the bay to-
gether The ice was about two and
one-half inches thick and the ice boat
had the best of the tug as far as speed
was concerned.
Mrs. Mulligan, pension agent at
Chicago, reports Sc, 509 pensioners on
her rolls, of which number two are
widows of soldiers of the revolution,
thirty-fiye survivors of the war of 1912
and 452 widows of veterans of that war;
Last year she dispersed nearly 81, ,OO0,-
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1t is curious fact that one out of
every nine persons you meet on Broad
way is a Hebrew. They number in
New York City about 120, 900, and with
their wealth and intelligence, if ever
organized politically as a party, would
exert Il strong, if not controlling in
fuence, ON local politics.
The young folks of West Deer Isle,
Me-, have organized the Tongue Guard
Society, whose object is to guard
against saying any thing improper to
or about any one. Each offense is
punished by fine of one cent, to be
placed in box in the church, the fund
to go towards buying circulating
library.
in the United States arsenal at
WatertOwn, Mass, there is a machine
for testing the strength of iron and
steel substances, which is looked upon
as a wonder of mechanical skill and
power. 1t can test to a nicely, and
with equal ease, the tensile strength of
pOnderous iron or steel bar, or of a
wire, or even of a single hair.
1t is said that there are two sisters
living near Delta, whose ages are
between fifty and sixty years, who
have not seen each other in six
teen years They live only four
miles apart. and are on per-
fectly friendly terms. No cause what
ever is assigned for this seeming in
difference.-Daltoe (Ga.) Citizen.
Mrs. Joshua Snow, an old lady who
was present at the birth of Daniel
Webster, exclaimed in strong, emphatic
language: "This is an uncommon
child! Look at his great size! His
large head! His eyes! I tell you, here
is wonderful child! l never saw his
equal before! He will be worth rails
ingr' And he was worth raising as
the event proved.
in the district court at Waco Tex,
Andrew Miller, negro preacher,
charged with the theft of a COW, when
brought for trial, wished to open the
court with prayer. The judge re-
quested the sheriff to take the prisoner
to the judges private office and let him
pray. After prayer the prisoner was
convicted of theft, as charged in the
indictment, and given two years in the
penitentiary.
The average watch is composed of
175 different pieces, comprising up
wards of 2, 400 separate and distinct
operations in its manufacture. The
balance has IS, 900 beats or vibrations
per hour, 1880, $50 in thirty days,
157, $50, 600 in one year; it travels one
and 43-100 inches with each vibration,
which is equal to 81 miles in twenty
four hours, 2923 miles in thirty days,
or 3,5583 miles in one year.
- ne 1dUOSJ -1du duOu2 WGdlIuN
families is to burn "driftwood'' in open
CRATE fires. This wood is gathered
along the seacOast by Eastern parties,
packed in barrels and shipped through
the country. 1t is mostly wreekage
A great part of it has once been the
material of ships bottoms, and was
sheathed with copper plates. The cop
per salts have impregnated the wood,
and when burned it gives out most
beautiful green and peacock blue
flames.
In parts of India wild elephants
give a great deal of trouble to persons
employed in road improving frightening
the native worImen and destroying
their work and knocking down their
houses. A herd will come along the
newly made road, and reaching u
temporary bridge will send their
lightest member across to test it. Be
ing made to support bipeds only, it
will generally give way, whereupon
the herd will express its disapproval of
such workmanship by promptly de-
molishing it.
During VIOLENT thunder and light
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an immense ball of fire was seen to fall
in the forest near ihe town. Searching
parties were sent out, and parties of
negroes found it, but they were too su-
perstitious to handle it. 1t struck a
big pine, demolishing it and splitting
the rock into two pieces. One weighed
about two hundred pounds and the
other twenty-five. 1t sank into the
ground nearly eight feet. 1t appears
to be of iron ore covered with opaque
white cystals.
The total population of Iceland APP
pears to be threatened. A scheme has
been set afoat in Manitoba to trans
port seventy-fve thousand Icelaaders
still remaining in their native country,
together with their focks and herds.
This would be an exodus as complete
| as was that of the children of Israel
from Egypt There has been a steady
flow of Icelandic emigration to Canada
for the last fifteen years. yet the popu-
lation is said to be still too large for
the resources of the island. Several
| fiourishing towns peopled by Iceland
ers are already found in Manitoba.
At 1890 O'Clock on recent even
ing the people of MiddIetown, Pa
who had not retired at that hour were
startled by their natural gas lights
and fires suddenly springing up a
distance of a foot or 50. Then
the lights leaped to the cell
ing and the stoves roared like fur
naces. The people rushed through the
streets warning their neighbors, and
but for the prompt action taken the
town would have been sacrificed. The