The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-02-15
oF eENERAL lNrEREsr.


"A Scotch geologist claims to have
discovered In Scotland evidences to
prove that the earth lay for 100000
years in a liquid state.
"A curious sight near Ellijay, Ca,
Is the grave of a mountaiheers wifei
which is protected from the fury of the
elements by number of lightning
rods.
AT Monte Carlo 100 millions change
hands annually, and the banks peTa
centage amounts to $3.5OO,0O0. There
is where chance plays its big games Of
robbery.
in Chelsea, Me-, two sisters man
age a sixty-five-acre farm, besides
doing considerable of the heavy work
and attending to their regular house
hold duties.
Cats are held in high esteem in
Egypt, even to this day. In one of the
Khedive's palaces at Cairo there is
free ration distributed every day to
any cats that may care to apply.
"A year or two after he became
President, Abraham Lincoln said of the
night of his election: '.When finally
babe my friends good night and left
that room I had substantially COM
pleted the framework of my Cabinet
as it now exists"
Fifty pauper immigrants
were returned to Europe in one day
recently. Some of the unfortunates
| had not a single penny. and their
passage money was paid by the Secre-
tary Of the Treasury and the Emigra-
tion Commissioners.
The scholars in the Norwich
! Conn public schools were each re-
quested to give their teachers, on a
recent day, either potato or an apple
| for distribution to the poor. The re-
suit was that ten barrels of the veg
etable and fruit desired were divided
among the needy.
A hospital physician in New York
has found that young woman whose
occupation was that of telephone OPP
orator has suffered a slight shriveling
of the external ear from the constant
pressure of the receiver strapped so
tightly over it, so that now her right
ear is smaller than her left.
London tradesmen have adopted
the plan of supplying households with
certain articles of food at so much a
head. A supply of fish, for example,
can be had during the season at a
charge of six pence a day per head,
the customer having the choice of ten
varieties of fish. The scheme is said
to work well.
in a row at Terre Haute, Ind, a
negro known as Jasper" was struck
on the head by bullet fired from a re-
volver of heavy caliber held quite near
him. The bullet was flattened by the
mans skull and fell to the floor, leav-
ing only a sore spot on Jasper's head
to remind him that his thick skull had
saved his life.
Even ''real live mermaidsn find
little pleasure in working for nothing,
and one of them, who, for several
weeks, was exhibited in Cincinnati
museum, has taken the management
into court, because he failed to pay
her her salary of seven dollars per
week. The mermaid" as she ap-
peared in court, is described as fair
looking sixteen-year-Old girl.
in list of 1.-The greatest living
Englishmen," which has been com
piled according to the votes of the
readers of the Saturday Journal, Mr..
Gladstone heads the poll with twice as
many votes as have been given to Lord
Salisbury, who stands second. Mr..
Gladstone's number was nearly 1000
Mr.. Irving is between Mr.. Spurgeor
and Mr.. Chamberlain, who will be
pleased to learn that he received about
5000 fewer votes than the actor.
The London Hospital notes that il
would be interesting to learn how
many children whose parents are com.
paratively rich are starved to DEATH
not from underfeeding, but from I'M
suitable food. I'm some cases it is al
meat and no milk. and in others it i
all milk and no meat, and in either
case the child lacks some of the con
stituents of flesh, blood and bone
Many parents seem to think that same
ness in food is Identical with simplicity
and pride themselves on the virtue o.
a course of action which is nothing
less than murderous.