The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-06-14
PERSONAL AND IMPERsoNAL


"A popular St. Louis girl recently
received during a short spell of sick.
ness five hundred roses and forty-eight
pounds of candy.
More than one thousand empty
patent medicine bottles were found in
the house of a rich bachelor who died
at Knoxville, Pa, lately.
Hon. Allen G. Thurman believes
in territorial extension, and thinks
the United States will soon annex
Canada and all the continent.
Mr.. James Laurenson, who ad-
ministered the oath of office to Mr..
Wanamaker, is the oldest postal clerk
in the service of the Government and
has sworn in twenty-four Postmaster
Generals.
Baron Maximilian Washington, a
relative of the immortal General and
the present head of one branch OF the
family, resides in his Castle OF Poels
in Styria. He is nearly sixty years
old and resembles in personal appear.
ance his great ancestor.
A colored teacher in the public
schools at Atlanta, Ga, named Graves,
who was dismissed several years age
for refusing to march with his pupils
in a procession in honor of JEFF Davis,
has been made a clerk in the Governs
ment service at Washington.
Mrs. Leland Stanford dresses
elaborately, but she is one of the most
democratic woman in Washington
society. Her charities are. it is said
numerous and COSTLY" and she gives
away about twenty thousand dollars q
year in trying to make her less favored
friends more happy,
Postmaster Van Cott, of New
York, never forgets a face. In the
Seventh senatorial district, which he
once represented, he is occasionally
called hand-shaker Van Cott, because
of his habit of shaking hands with his
friends whenever he meets them.
Much of his success as politician has
been due to his courtesy to rich and
poor alike.
According to the New York Sur
Herr Won Bulow has won one triumph
in America that has as yet been un
chronicled. One afternoon while the
! crowded audience was listening silent
| Is to his wonderful shadings, all ovel
the house, up in the galleries, down ii
| orchestra, on either side of the bal
cony, mice come running out to heal
| him play, as their ancestors came Ou
| to hear the great master, Mozart, lope
ago.
George Bancroft is very particular
to remove his glove before shaking
hands, whether at a simple ''call'' or 1
chance meeting on the street. Victor
Hugo would never kiss lady's gloveC
hand, and if the hand were Offered
with the glove on the aged poet yer.
coolly unfastened the glove and foun'
the desired place. Ladies knowing
his adherence to the. tenets Of pas
generation took the precaution whel
going to pay their respects to the poet
to wear loose gauntlet gloves.
= Justin S Morrill,, Senator
Vermont, is one OF the most ST
figures in the United States Senate
/ His great height is scarcely diminishe
| by slight stoop of his shoulders
bowed by the weight of seventy-nin
years, and his luxuriant, wavy gra.
hair and clear-cut features, so stTongl
suggestive of Charles Sumner, alway
attract the attention of strangers
He has taken leading part in all tn
important legislation in the plls
twenty-four years, having divided tho
time in Congress and the Senate, bu
prides himself chiefly upon being th
author of our present tariff laws.