The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-04-05
PERSONAL AND MPERsoNAL.

Princess Virogna is severe on the
"dog women" as she calls those whom
she saw nursing dogs in New York.
George w. Childs, the millionaire
editor Of Philadelphia, began life as an
errand boy in book house. and event
ually became proprietor.
Miss Emily Faithful has completed
her thirty years of work for women,
and in consideration of this the Queen
of England has sent her an engraved
portrait Of herself with an inscription
in her royal hand.
The widow of Kersey Coates. of
Kansas City, has a fortune esti-
mated at $4,000, ,O00 which all came
from a successful venture in real es-
tate, a bit of land which cost her
husband 81, 900. It was then farm,
but is now twenty acres in the heart
Of Kansas City.
Prof. Seelye, of Amherst, o.,
boasts that he was once elected to Con-
gress at a cost of five cents. The FIVE
cents were spent for postage stamp,
a sheet of paper. and an envelope, with
which to accept the nomination.
| Times have changed since then.
"A red-cheeked, rusty-looking old
gentleman bought bag of shorts at a
Bangor, Me, store not long ago, and
/ the new clerk refused to let him take
| them till he had paid. He afterward
| found out that his customer was an ex-
| Vice-President of the United States.
The name of the Arab leader at
| Suakim is sometimes, but incorrectly,
called Osman Digma. It is properly
| Osman Digna; or, as the natives there
pronounce it, Dikna. The second
name is from the Arab "dikn," mean
| ing beard, and was giving to Osmau
on account of the heavy beard that
| adorns his chin.
1t is an interesting fact that the
majority of Presidents have had blue
eyes. Mr.. Harrison's eyes conform to
this rule. Mr.. Cleveland's eyes are
! brown, as were those of Arthur. Will
lam Henry Harrison had dark eyes.
President Pierce's eyes were intensely
black, as was his hair. Thomas JEFF
erson's hair was red.
Paul Loyal, who died recently at
Vallejo, Cal, went to California as
secretary to Commander Farragut
! when the latter took charge of Mare
| Island navy yard upon its establish
ment in 1854. Loyal was attached to
the Gulf squadron during the Mexican
war. He remained in California until
his death. He was the Oldest brother OF
the late widow of Admiral Farragut.
DIR. Anna Kingsford, who lately
died in England OF consumption, was
vegetarian, and strong anti-vivlsec-
ZIONIST. She would not make use of
animalA either for food or dress. Even
her boots were made of vegetable
leather. She left Legacy to Madame
Huot, who was more ardent, if pos
sible, in the cause of animals than her
self. Dr. Kingsford took her degree
in Paris, and was the author of q num-
Der of able works.
Max O'Reu recently lectured in a
Scottish town, and when he made his
invariable apology for his "defective"
English he was astonished to elicit
from an old Scotsman the encouraging
remark: "Hoot! monl Dinna apollo
geesel Ye can speak the English maist
as weel as oorselsp' It was with no
less astonishment that Andrew Carne-
gle recently read an account of his
personal appearance and manners in "A
Scotch paper in which the following
sentence occurred: ''Mr. Carnegie's
speech is occasionally marred by o
slight American accent"