The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-02-01
PERSONAL AND lMPERsoNAL.

PERSONAL AND iMPERSONAL.
Mr.. Hertenstein, President Of the
Swiss Confederation, died from the
effects of ill-treatment Of corn.
Pine City. w. T., claims to have
the smallest living woman. She is
twenf7-seven years old, twenty-nine
inches tall, and weighs thirty-three
pounds.
One of the presents to Mr.. and
Mrs. Seth Wight, Of Bethel, Me-, at
their golden wedding recently was q
gilded egg, with fifty bright gold dol
lars for yelk.
"A man in New Hampshire who
was sued for a debt of four dollars
made oath in court that he had never
been worth over seven dollars at any
one time in his life, and that his in
come was not one dollar per year.
-Micajah Henley, the man who in
vented roller skates, lives in Rich
mond, Ind. He was a poor woodsaw-
yer and it took nearly his last dollar
to pay for the patent, but the craze
for skating that spread over the coun-
try made him rich.
"A young Frenchman of Chicago,
says that although his hearing is per-
fectly good, still he is able to so manip-
ulate the drums of his ears at will, that
he can make himself stone deaf Emile
can't prove this, but his friends say
that there is no doubt that he can do
just what he says he can.
Ferdinand Schumacher of Akron,
Ohio, is known as the Oatmeal King in
the milling world. 1t is told of him
that he is a Prohtbitionist of such fixed
opinions that when one of his mills
was destroyed, he distributed 10000
bushels Of scorched grain among the
farmers for chicken feed, rather than
sell it to distillers to be made into
whiskey.
General George A. Sheridan, the
lecturer, political orator and wit, has
a superstition, at which he laughs and
SCOTS, hut which is as inf1exible as law
in its regulation of his habit. If he
happens to don stocking or garment
wrong side out he will wear it in that
manner until the close of the day, or,
if it be an outer garment, exchange it
for another.
"A resident Of Whitewater, Wis,
forty years of age, and a steady, indus
trious man, determined to give up to-
baccO, which he had smoked and
chewed almost necessarily. Sickness
followed. and the physician recon-
mended Sherman to use tobacco again,
but sparingly. He wouldn't take the
advice, but vowed he would get the
better of the habit if it killed him.
His health continued to fail, he became
| peevish, then mOrose, and then, a short
time ago, violently insane.
Rev. DIR. William NJ. Taylor.
| Of New York, has in his study chair
which he uses instead of riding horse
back. 1t is moved by working two
handles, and gives the rider, or the
sitter, about the same motion as that
of galloping horse, only little more
| violent. It has some advantages over
| a horse: it never eats its head off, and
it can be kept in the drawing-room II
necessary, but it could never be ridden
in the park. DR.. Taylor finds the ex-
ercise of this chair very beneficial after
a long pull at his desk.
-Wah Lung, a rich Chinaman OF
New York City, bestowed upon his
| young lady Sunday-school teacher the
following Christmas gifts; Twenty
| five pounds of nuts, Lychee; twenty
five pounds of black tea; ten pounds OF
dried fruits; one ivory fan; one dozen
silk (red) handlxerchiefs; twelve dozen
oranges; five pounds of yams; twelve
Chinese plates; twelve cups and sau-
GERS; two jars of ginger; a brand-new
J cooking-stOve; half a dozen hams;
several chickens and many eggs. Wah
Lung loves his teacher very much and
says that these few things are only 8
small token of his great regard, and he
hopes to be able to do better by the
| next Christmas.