The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1893-12-22
or GENERAL INTEREST.


--Condagration in small stores, caus-
ing almost total destruction have for a
year puzzled the insurance companies
of Chicago. It has leaked out that
these fires have been the work of fire
bugs" Pigs bladders, filed With benz
zine, were scattered over each store,
and exploded with time fuse.
The flower badges of nations are
IS follows Athens, violet; Canada,
sugar maple; Egypt, lotus; England,
rose; France, feur-de-lis Qi1y); Flor.
ence, CYCLIC Oily: Germany, corn
flower; ireland, shamrock leaf Italy.
lily; Prussia, linden; Saxony, migno-
nette; Scotland, thistle; Spain, poms-
CRATE; Wales, leek leaf.
Jeanette Emory, negress, of Fort
Worth. Tex, celebrated her Tooth
Birthday recently. She never saw
George Washington, which marks her
as out of the common run of gentleman
ians, but she distinctly remembers
that when she was twelve years old
she heard her young mistress talking
about the preparations for Washing.
toms funeral
v
department received a document last
week in which n claimants name was
spelled in two ways. The Office sent
word to the claimant that he must make
an affidavit as to the correct spelling.
On Wednesday the affidavit came The
claimant spells his name in one way in
the body of the paper and signs it in
another Washington Capitol.
Now that the casualties of the
Louisiana storm have been footed up it
is found that only fifty three of the
zoos victims were negroes The Aca-
dams, whom Longfellow immortalized
in ''Evangeline," outnumbered all
other races, but there was a large
admixture of Austrians, Creoles,
Islingues, Italians, Manillamen, Chi
nese and Spaniards in the list of the
dead.
An amateur student of architecture
finds that many of the pillars that
beautify old doorways in New York are
made in absolutely faultless proportion
according to classic models 1t is just
this regard for right proportion that
gives these pillars their peculiar charm,
though ninety-nine men out of one
hundred who should feel the defect of
disproportioned pillar could not say
wherein lay the disproportion.
They don't call me trunk jug
gler any more" the baggagemaster
said as he laid his hand upon the han
die of the topmost of the pile of trunks
stacked up against the side of the car;
they call me now professor of trunk
ology;" and as he spoke he pulled the
trunk from the pile, swung it once
around his head like an Indian club.
and fired it through the open door of
! the cara trunk expert, indeed.
The Astounding faith in human ma
ture shown by the women who pro-
| jected and managed the creche in the
children's building at the worlds fair,
where babies were checked and cared
for while the owners saw the sights,
| just as wraps were checked in another
part OF the building, was entirely vim
dicated. Cynical people said the creche
would wind up at the close of business
with plenty of material for starting
"a foundling hospital But more than
10, 900 babies were cared for during the
fair season, and but one of the number
| was abandoned by the person who
checked it at the creche.
-Warburton Pike, a hunter and ex-
plorer, who recently returned from
| Nanaino, b. c., from fifteen months
| trip to the interior of Alaska, brought
a. poor opinion and account of the
country he passed through. He fol-
! lowed the Dease river to its junction
with the Willard, tributary of the
Mackenzie, explored the Pelly river
country, following the river to its
source, padded down the Lewis river to
the Yukon, and finally went down the
Kuskolxium river to- the coast. near
! Fort Alexander. He had very fine
hunting, but says most of the country
he traversed is worthless, except for
| hunting, and much of it is of no value
at all. He found great many mining
camps that were abandoned except by
men too poor to leave.