The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1888-11-30
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

seven brothers and sisters living.
"A gentleman in Portland, Ore, has
succeeded in training young elk to
drive in harness.
The annual value of the wool crop
is from $50, 900, 900 to $50, 900, 900, vary
ing with the market value.
A wonderful real estate dealer
does business at Gladstone, Mich. He
won't sell a lot unless the buyer signs
forfeiture contract not to allow
whisky selling on the premises.
One of the most prosperous farm
ers of Cuthbert, Ga, is a Hebrew.
He began business there as a baker,
then became a merchant, and finally
took to agriculture, which is very un-
usual for jew.
Twenty young men in Pennsyl-
Vania town formed a football club.
In three months fourteen of them had
broken bones, three were crippled for
life, and one druggist sold them $18
worth of ointment.
Aunt Til Ruley, colored woman
who lives in Marion County, KY, is
said to be one hundred and twenty-one
years old. She never nursed George
Washington, but she recently walked
from her home to Lebanon and back,
twenty-eight miles, to attend a circus.
in Cuba woman never loses her
maiden name. When married her
husbands name is added to her own,
but she is always called by her Chris.
tian and maiden names. Children
take the name of both parents, but
place the mothers name after the
fathers.
The telephone was put to a novel
use in Toronto. A citizen who had
been summoned to appear at the po-
lice court for breach of a bylaw, find
ing that he would be unable to appear
in person, telephOned the facts to
headquarters, admitting his guilt, and
was fined one dollar and costs through
the same medium.
William Watson, an old settler
living eight miles northwest of Wind
sor, Ill, died at his residence, at the
| age of seventy-six years, and was
buried in a coffin that he made sixteen
years ago for himself It is of walnut
wood and he has kept it in his house
ever since, and two weeks before his
death had it brought into his room and
placed at the foot of his bed.
"A hen in Canada scratched up $500
in old coins few days ago, and about
the same time an Ohio hen was dis
| sected and found to have dug up some
where in her wanderings and swallowed
a quantity of gold dust. These facts
indicate that a new career of useful
ness and honorable distinction is open
ing up before the humble barnyard
fowl. Long may she scratch.
The room where the Court of APP
peals sits in the capitol at Albany is
described as the most gorgeous in its
| appointments of all the court rooms
in the country The wood work is
beautifully carved and panels are of
mahogany and onyx. The carpet was
woven to order across the water. Por-
| traits of all the judges that have ever
sat in the court are placed in panels
| about the room.
According to the census of 1880-81,
the last one taken, there were at that
time 20, $50, 626 widows in India, of
whom 100000 were under nineteen
years of age and 278, 300 under four
teen years. According to the native
custom, none of these widows are at
! liberty to marry again. The same
census gave the total female popula-
ton at so, 100000, and of these only
| 200, 900 were able to read.
"A physician giving bit of his
own personal experience, and having
! constitutional tendency to sleepless-
ness, says that nothing has ever given
| such decided relief as eating heartily
| just before going to bed. He objects
to the use of the customary night-cap
as a remedy against sleeplessness,
| both because alcohol is injurious to an
! empty stomach, and because it does
not induce natural sleep. But he
| thinks that adults should be like
| babies, who sleep best with a full
stomach, without nightmare, or othef
unpleasant results.
"A Turkish police court in Con-
stantinople was investigating the cause
of the death of young and beautiful
Circassian slave, found floating in the
Bosphorus, with her hands and feet
firmly bound with thongs. The court
| had the body identified as that of a
girl who belonged to a wealthy Turk.
! Then it rendered the decision that the
| deceased came to her death by drown
| ing, she having cast herself into the
sea with the purpose of taking her
own life. The firmness of this pur-
pose was shown by the solidity with
which she had bound her own hands
and feet before throwing herself into
| the water.