The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-03-22
PERSONAL AND IMPERsoNAL


Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, when
she gives dinner parties. uses a solid
gold dinner service set with uncut
gems and with some courses Dresden
and Sevres plates worth more thar
800 apiece.
The young men are coming to the
front in New York State. The Speaker
of the House is only thirty-two and the
Speaker pro tenn. of the Senate thirty
five. The Oldest statesman in the Leg.
islature is only fifty-fye.
Old Mrs. Baker, of Cairo. took-s
new departure on her sixty-fourth
birthday. She ate an orange, a fig
and date for the first time in her
life, but concluded not to try glass OF
lemonade for fear it might be danger
Gus.
Robbins, the circus man, is con.
sistent Christian He never swOre il
his life, and never allowed any of his
employees to swear. Whenever he saw
one of them getting mad, he would
say: Here, now; get outside the
ropes if you are going to cuss.
Mrs. Newton, of Toronto, is on
of the four women who were given the
Crimean medal, Queen Victoria her
self pinning it upon them. Mrs. New
ton went all through the Crimean wal
as nurse, and on that memorable
day and night when the French cap
tured the Malakoff and the Englisl
assaulted the Redan, she was in tn
third trench before the Redan attend
ing the wounded. and was there sho
/ through the knee.
London boasts of a musical prodig,
in the person of a young girl who cal
play with extraordinary dexterity ol
the single string of the violin. She i
the daughter of a rich city merchant
and her fathers opposition has pre-
vented her from appearing inpublie.
Mrs. Lfvermore, of New York
says her husband is a Republican
while she is a Prohibitionist; he is
protectionist and she free trader; h
has a pew in one church, she i
another; he has one doctor, she eanothel
and yet they are happy and harmoniou
and never dream of quarreling.
A member of the New York A
sembly is related to the Astors b
marriage. Visitors to Albany ask
have him pointed out to them, and al
pear very much surprised to find he
a. plainly dressed man, who nev'
makes a speech, always behaves hin
self, and doesn't seem a bit proud
his relationship to the leading fami
of the New York 400.
A shoemaker of Atlanta, Ga
finished the largest pair of shoes eve
made for actual use. 1t took a pies
of leather containing 1,040 squal
inches to make the uppers, and l,9
to make the soles. This is 80
square inches altogether If tn
leather were cut into two strips I
! eighth of an inch wide, and made in
: one long string, the string would
$4,000 inches long. The soles weiG
[ 81 pounds. The soles are IA inch
: long, 81 wide and 81 inches dee
: That doesn't count the heel, whi'
would add another inch to the dept
Colonel James A. Wood died r
Gently at his homo in Bloomfield, Ky
aged seventy~four years. Col on
, Wood went to Texas in 1885 and to-
D part in the rebellion against Mexic
I, He was at the massacre of the Alan
: and, with two others, escaped, tn
being the only survivors of that bloc
3 event Colonel Wood, in his accou
. of his escape, said that when San
}, Anna ordered the prisoners to be sh
I ne dropped to the ground as if he b
been killed at the first discharge.
: began to roll over and continued 70
ing until the river was reached, VIII
he sprang to his feet and got awS
: He never stopped travelling from
= Alamo until he reached Kentucky.