The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1893-07-28
or GENERAL INTEREST.

Edmund Law Rogers, of Balti-
more recently exhibited before an as
sembly of dentists a complete set of
false teeth that had been worn by
George Washington. The base plates
were of lead and perfectly fat. Some
of the teeth were of ivory and others
had been extracted from living per-
son.
The ways of at1ctioneers in differ
emit parts of the world vary greatly.
In England and America the seller
bears the expense of the sale, but
in France the purchaser pays the
cost, five per cent. being added to the
price he pays. In Holland it is still
worse, the buyer being required to pay
ten per cent. additional for the ex-
penses of the sale.
The beautiful marble bust of Har-
riet Beecher Stowe was recently I'M
yelled in the library of the women's
building on the worlds fair grounds
by Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker, who
placed on the white marble a choice
cluster of pinks and ferns. Frederick
Douglas was present and read several
passages from Uncle Toms Cabin, .
several copies of which, printed in many
languages, were placed near the bust.
All who were present were saddened by
the thought that the beloved authoress
no longer can enjoy the honors be-
slowed upon her.
-Azaleas of every hue possible to
azaleas make the wooded island in the
worlds fair grounds grand bouquet,
and those accustomed to see this deli
cate mountain flower in the pink-yellow
or white dress which it assumes in New
England Virginia or California are
amazed at the many shades of pink,
crimson and orange and the parti-col-
ored varieties produced by cultivation.
Rhododendrons of the tall and drawfed
varieties, brilliant Japanese peonies
and masses of lowly growing pansies,
contented to bloom wherever they are
placed, give the island festive and
summary appearance, attractive to all
pedestrians.
old chests and trunks have a high
value as curios, and are largely taken
by the dealers in the like. As paper
was costly in the eighteenth century,
many such articles were lined with
newspapers then current, and if pleas
antries of the period are to be trusted,
even with rejected manuscripts. A
curious old trunk with pentagonal ends
recently turned up in the shop of a
dealer in old furniture. 1t still bore a
weather-stained card showing that its
last delivery had been to somebody in
Pearl street. 1t was lined with Phil
adelphia newspaper of 1878, and the
pages exposed bore the tax-list of that
year in pounds, shillings and pence.
1t is only within few years, one
might almost say months, that the wide
effect of the warm, moist Pacific winds,
called chinooks, has been known in
British Columbia and Alaska. These
winds, corresponding exactly to those
that make England fertile country in
the latitude of Labrador, keep the snow
melted from the plains at the eastern
base of the Rockies, and they encourage
a magnificent growth of root crops,
cabbage, oats and grass a thousand
miles north of New York. Wheat does
not do well and berries are small,
though little attempt has been made to
cultivate fruit. The winters are biting
cold, but dry, and the summer, though
short, is SO hot that vegetation comes
out of the earth with a rush.
One class of people regard our fast
cruisers and our white-wa1led, thun-
dering ironclads with hearty disap-
proval-namely, the artists. A marine
painter, looking at the big feet that
recently lay stretched along the Hud-
son, exclaimed: Eyes, quite interest
ing, and ugly! Those are mere ma
chimes, and machinery is always ugly.
All the time that ships have been gain
ing in strength and speed they have
been losing in picturesqueness and
beauty. There is nothing in that lot
of tea kettles, as Napier called them,
to equal the old Constitution and the
old Vermont, with their three rows of
ports and the big towers of canvas.
To see one of the Old frigates bowling
along with all sail set-why, sir, that
was poem.
"A material lately introduced in the
construction of American warships,
though not yet effectually tested in
war or serious casualty, is called cellu-
lose A naval man in Washington,
speaking of the sinking of the Victoria,
says: 81 hardly think that just such
an accident could have happened to
one of our war vessels. Above the pro-
tective deck in our boats we place a
material called cellulose. It is six feet
in thickness all along the inside of the
vessels side, and is about seven feet in
height. When this material is. wet it
swells up and closes an opening. In
case a shot from the enemy should
drive hole through the ships side it
would swell up and close the hole,
keeping the water out. 1t would act
the same way in case of collision in
which the ships side was shattered. 1t
would have a tendency to prevent a
rush of water"