The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-08-02
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

A dog down in Piedmont, w. Va,
has two tails, and he wags them in
different directions.
"A number of persons in Atlanta
recently responded to parrots cry of
fire and discovered that a house
across the way was in flames.
The coin and slot device has been
applied to children's savings banks.
When once set for action regulated
number of coins must be dropped in
the bank before it can be opened.
"A Kentucky man who was dying
alone left his will in lead pencil on the
head of a whisky barrel, and it is
held to be valid. The only thing he
left, however, was a gallon OF whisky
in the barrel.
Big sheets of cork a little less
than half an inch thick are used in
bathrooms because it is said they are
pleasanter than any other material
upon which to stand in ones wet bare
feet directly after coming from the
tub.
At Lewiston, Pa, what is called a
'thunderbolt" was found imbedded in
a tree which had been shattered by
lightning. 1t is egg-shaped, three and
one-half inches long and of metal so
hard that a file does not affect it.
"A man in Sedalia stole horse for
the purpose of getting a term in the
peniten tiary. He gave as his reason
for so doing that he might reform, as
had been running about the country
for three years and had grown very
wild.
"A sharp fakir makes good income
by advertising sure method of killing
all insects. When you send him fifty
cents you will receive a printed card
on which are these words: "Get your
insects to smoke cigarettes and they
will die within an hour. So long"
in one block on Main street iu
Battle Creek the other day a reporter
saw three one-legged men, four one
armed men and two other men who
were so lame they couldn't walk with
out canes. The reporter went home
and wrote up the item, stating that
Battle Creek is one of the greatest
railroad towns in the United States.
American engineers visiting En-
gland are chiefly impressed with the
superior solidity and finish of En-
glish engineering work and the extreme
| backwardness in the speed of elevators
and in the adoption of the electric
light But England is ahead of Amer
| ica, they think, in keeping clear oi
overhead wires.
"A respectable looking white wom'
an has been going about Louisville
for the last eight years telling people
| that her husband had just died, anC
that if she had a sewing machine sh,
could make living. She would thel
borrow ten dollars to pay on one
promising to return the money as sool
as she had earned it. She has taker
in a good deal of money in this wa.
from kind-hearted people.
At Summerside, p E. l., the othel
day man came into town and bought
complete funeral outft--coffin
plate, gloves, etc, when the clerk wa.
engraving the plate he asked wha
date should be put upon it. "Oh, hC
is not dead yet" was the reply. The
death of the person for whom the out
fit was intended was daily expected
and the idea was to have every thing
in readiness when required.
1t is an error to suppose that tn
JohnstOwn disaster is the greatest o
its kind in modern times. The grea
flood in the Yellow river of China i
1887 destroyed three thousand village
and the ''best informed European i
Pekin'' calculated the destruction O
life at seven millions. The loves
estimate was one million. In 1876
tidal wave overhOwed the island 0
an-Shahbazpore, in the Bay O
Bengal, drowning three hundre
thousand people.
E Randall, the mountain evange
list of West Virginia, some years ag
went over the State painting texts o
rocks and walls. He decorated a
sorts of waste places with the tex
what shall I do to be savedP'
patent medicine man came along late
and painted just below this. whereve
he could find it, 'Use Blanks cure fC
, consumption. The quaint combini
, ton got into the papers, and Randall
] seeing it, went back over his rout
} with his paint pot and added belo
the text; ''And prepare to meet th
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