The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1888-03-09
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


There are now 1000 theaters in the
United States. and $1,000, 900 day is
paid for amusements in this country.
The latest thing in the amusement
way is a project to buy the old Libby
prison building in Richmond and trans
fer it to Chicago. 1t will cost 100000
to do the work.
The academy at Pekin has got up
one of those treasures of human knOwl-
edge which leaves the Britannica far
behind so far as bulk is concerned, be-
ing in 160, volumes.
The Bradford oil field in McKeon
County, Pennsylvania, has since 1875
produced 140, ,0O0, 900 barrels, or 6, 964,-
100000 gallons of crude petroleum.
This has been the richest petroleum
field ever discovered.
At a colored Sunday-schooI in
Hayneville, Ala, the scholars are ex-
pected to bring either penny or an
egg every Sunday. As a result of this
the school last week was able to throw
nine dozen eggs upon the Hayneville
market
yellow House, Berks County, Pa,
a farming settlement among the Num-
tawney Hills, had a population Of
sixty-fve, according to the last census,
and has increased but little since then.
Among the inhabitants of the place are
twenty-six persons between seventy
and ninety-two years of age.
"A pipe connecting a New Haven
| house with a sewer was recently ex-
amined to see why it was choked up.
1t was found that roots Of large elm
in front of the house had entered the
pipe at the point of two sections, and
| then had grown so luxuriantly that for
six feet the mass of fiber-like roots
completely filed the pipe, rendering it
useless.
The owners of one of the largest
ranches in Texas have contracted with
a Chicago firm to have the top wire all
around their pasture fence charged
with electricity, so as to give shock
to all animals touching it and to enable
their cowboys to telephone to them by
attaching a portable instrument TO the
wire. A break in the fence win ring
bell at headquarters.
There is a chain Of prairie dog
towns along the Texas s. Pacific rail-
road for a distance of one hundred
miles. Some of the villages cover Eve
acres of ground. Hunters say it is al
most impossible to kill one Of the dog,
and get his body, so quickly does he
dive into his hole at the explosion of 8
gun. Deluging their holes with water
will not drive them out.
"A queer sight was witnessed At
Fort Smith, Ark, recently. There is
not foot of paved street in the city,
and when it rains it is almost impossible
to get around. Some ingenious resi-.
dents hitched a pair of mules 10 a skiff,
one drove the mules, another used the
oars and third managed the rudder.
The sight caused good deal of cheer
ing from the crowd that watched it.
1t is not generally known that
Washington is the most southern of the
capitals of the great nations Of
the northern hemisphere. Madrid,
Constantinople and Rome are
even further north, while Paris
is up in the latitude of New
Foundland, and London and Berlin are
on the line of Labrador. st. Peters
burg is on the same parallel as Green
land, and is one thousand four hundred
miles due north of Washington.
"A physician in the american nag
aztse describes February as the time
of saturnalia OF colds. He advises ex-
ira effort to guard the space between a
mans coat collar and hat brim. Be-
meath this exposed skin lies the cerebro-
spinal axis, whence proceed the nerves
that govern both heart and lungs. The
face is supplied with blood vessels
twice as plentiful as the neck, enabling
it to resist external cold in that proper
ton. For diet in February he advises
fatty food and fresh lettuce and spin
ach, anti-scorbutics, which should be
eaten freely.
S. L. Barret, an electrician, was
sentenced to Jail in Houston, Tex, for
period of twenty days for using a
pistol in the county court house. While
in Jail he invented an instrument which
he calls micro-detective While in
working position it will warn iailer II
prisoners are attempting to escape by
saving, filing, or using any other
adroit means. 1t was tested by a mum
Der Of citizens. they posting themselves
in front room in the back part of the
. prison with doors closed. A clock was
[ put in motion. Every click could be
distinctly heard in the room. A saw
was used gently on the bars and pro
, duced q loud, saving noise The in
strument is worked by electricity on 4
? single wire, the various noises Of tho
t cells coming over it distinctly.
, A postmaster in q small village II
, Mississippi has written to the Postmas
2 ter-General asking him to discontinue
t the Office. He explains that his neigh
z bors, who are wool growers, became dis
: trustful Of his rabbit dog, and in con
sequence, he states, lit turned VI
2 missing. So / am left here" con
| tinues the postmaster. pathetically
2 ''without the means Of sustenance. S,
J if you expect me to get up nights fo
the trains you will have to forward q
3 once some pork and beans or som'
} other nourishment. or new post
I master will have to be appointed a
this place" He added in postscript
! Mr. wants me to split him som
rails If / can get rid Of this office; s,
hurry up with the grub or the dis
! charge" The office was discontinue'
! in response to this appeal.