The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-07-12
FoREIeN eossIP.

'--hald Mclean a OcOtcAIhtbh' 70
Commander-in-Ch Chief of the army OF
the Sultan of Morocco.
Statistics just published show that
there are 2,272 soldiers six feet or over
in height in the British army.
in 1888 the Italians residing in
France numbered almost half Million
having increased seventy thousand
from the previous year.
The Oldest living peer is Lord
Teynham, who has just completed ms
ninety y-first year. He entered the army
only few months after the battle OF
Waterloo, and retired more than sixty
years ago.
The Lord Mayor of London's dress
suit for ordinary evenings is OF black
velvet, with point lace frilL tights
| silk stockings, diamond buckles IN the
shoes and a diamond-hilted sword.
-Leprosy is increasing in Russia
During the last ten years fOrty-nine
patients were treated in the st. Peters
burg hospital, half of whom were
natives of the city. The Baltic prov
inces suffer most from the disease.
Under the present police rule in
Russia an officer can enter any house
at any hour on the excuse that 'he
suspects a suspicious person may have
entered there to talk seditiOn." He can
arrest the whole family, keep them in
prison a year, and then turn them
loose without the slightest apology
English women are getting into the
habit Of smoking tea cigarettes. Only
I 1S If
and the smokers think they find their
nerves greatly soothed for time. Inc
inevitable reaction takes place alter
ward. however, and they are apt to be
somewhat excited
The Emperor of China is seldom
, disturbed in his sleep. A Pelkin paper
announces that ''strict surveillance Is
r kent bv the gendarmerie around the
. palace to prevent the imperial repose
! being broken by firing of crackers,
1 street cries or wrangling voices, the
S blowing of horns or noisy marriage or
9 funeral professions. y
l The British matron has at last
zlccumbed to the attractions of her
5 own music halls. Those most agreea-
I BILE places of entertainment, where the
singing of old ballads and new fancies
" is so delightfully."- done, have always
, been regarded as highly improper
5 with sufficient reason, perhaps. But
: now women have begun to go, in the
d boxes only. But they are still there,
= wives, daughters, and sisters OF re-
Il spectability unquestionable.
d The Queen Regent Of Spain is fond
of n game of whist. and frequently in
vites members of her cabinet to pass
an hour or two in a social rubber
- The Queen plays cavendish, five points
n for the game, the play being for stakes
- of a Quarter dollar a point She al
"a lows the gentlemen to smoke cigar
i cites on such occasions, and endeavor
n to soften the royal Spanish etiquett'
r as far as possible.
n One of q recent party OF convict'
b. bound for Siberia was a Baroness and
+. her husband. formerly her foOtman
of sentenced each to twenty years servi
90 t,1de. The Baroness was married whel
G. Young to an old man. and she fell II
al love with his footman. She poisoned
te her husband and was arrested. but thu
ID footman escaped. She subsequent,
o. escaped from the hospital where sh
of was confined, sought out her footmal
a lover, and married him. They settles
IL in Kovno, and were only recently dis
id covered there, living in abject pov
IS erty.
d. -Ex-King Milan, says Belgrad
re correspondent, is well-educated mar
ed He talks French smoothly, Germa
IS slowly but almost without mistakes
,er He is also rather good in English. bu
ed does not know Russian. Young Kin
ief Alexander L is mentally very deve
5ts oped. He speaks French, German,
,es little English, and has learned asgoo
lat deal of Russian from his mother, VIII
always calls him Sasha Ga Russia
if abbreviation for Alexander). At pres
ly- ent the young King is taught privatel
,rn at Belgrade, according to the PR
is gramme of the German gymnasium