The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-03-22
oE ogNERAL lNTEREsT.


-"Robert Elsewhere was the book
inquired for by youngster at the cir
culating library the other day.
There were 1887, 100000 bushels
OF corn raised in the United States in
1888, which sold for $666, 561, $50.
Statistics show that in New En-
gland seven out OF ten widows under
thirty-fve marry within two years.
1t is claimed that about five dol
lars worth of dogs have killed $4,000
worth of sheep in Michigan the past
year.
1t is now given out in Boston that
the cremationists have lost 10 per
cent. Of their strength in the last year.
and it is believed that another year or
two will finish them.
A well-known magazine statisti-
clan says that America has a popula-
ton of over 60, 600, 900, and working
power of one hundred and eighty thou
sand billions Of foot pounds per day.
Benjamin Franklin's watch is
owned by a Lancaster, Pa, gentleman,
who still carries it and says that it
keeps good time. 1t is Of silver.
shaped like a biscuit and has engraved
on its back: ''Ben. Franklin, 1776,
Philadelphia "
-''Underdonedom" is what N. 2.
Willis dubs the brigade of half
fledged masculines who crowd the
door-ways and blockade the entrance
to every ballroom, and are generally
too weary and blase to enjoy any thing
but the supper.
Statistics show that in England
business conditions really regulate the
number of marriages. When wages.
are good many more marriages take
place than when they are not, SO that
the marriage rate corresponds closely
with the great changes in trade.
A resident Of Lexington, Ca, has
in his possession the brand that was.
used during the days Of slavery for
branding slaves who were guilty OF
murder. It is a rudely constructed
''NIi' made OF iron, which was heated
red hot and applied to the person.
sometimes to the cheek, of the one to
be branded.
"A cat in Lee County, Ga, is said
to have committed suicide on account
of the loss OF her kittens The young
felines were drowned. In the after
noon the cat went around in great
grief, and that night ended her life
I by placing her head through a large
. crack in the crib and moving along
until she got to narrow place and
then letting go. She was found in the
: morning hanging stone dead.
There is water wheel in use al
! Bowdoinham, Me-, which is probably
: the only one of its kind in existence,
+ 1t is twenty-seven feet in diameter
= with foot of its rim out of water al
: high tide; the spokes are wide and SET
: diagonally, like the vanes of a wind
! mill. 1t turns eighteen hours Of the
: day by tide power, running one way
: with the flow, the other way with The
: ebb. With one foot fall OF the tide
4 this wheel gives about fifty horse
j, power.
-Bartolo Sepulveda, who was par
doned and released from the peniten
i tiary after twelve years of imprison
I ment, asked the Legislature to appro
, pirate $15, 600 to pay him for his loss 0
, time and damages by reason Of his i'm
~ prisonment, says the Los Angelo
70 Tribune. He proved an alibi aite
y twelve years had elapsed. His Grim
- was murder and his excuse for wait
n ing so many years to prove his limo
"a cence is that he was drunk when tn
r murder was committed and could no
/ take care of his interests.
IN Three years ago John Wright, G
v Pike County Ga, lost his sight, an
\, the oculists that he consulted agree
that there was no possibility OF hi
ever seeing again. The other day q
Mr.. Wright sat on the porch in tn
sunlight his eyes began to itch violen
ir ly. He rubbed them. and when b
isl took away his fingers he was consciou
ar that he could distinguish objects dim
ly. During the day his power Of visio
no | increased, and at last account the ol
is gentleman was in fair way 70 see q
,ly well as ever.