The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1895-04-19
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

AT the opening of the Wayne couu-
ty circuit court in Lyons, n. Y, Judge
Adams instructed the grand jury to in
dict all persons who allo wed nickel-in-
the-slot machines to be operated upon
their premises; also church members
and all others who conducted for what
ever purpose lotteries and drawings.
The colossal figure of Progress
which is to surmount the dome of the
city hall at San Francisco, three hum
dred feet above the street, will be
twenty-five. and one-half feet in
height. and represents female figure
holding aloft a torch. The model has
been completed by Marion Wells, the
sculptor, and will soon be cast.
March 10 bears several different
dates with the different peoples repre-
sented in the population of New York
city. To Russians it is Mendo z, to
strict Israelites it is Adav % of the
year $685.; to the few New York Mo-
hammedaDs, whether natives of the
east or converts of ex-ConSul Webb, it
is Ramadan % of the year 1912, while if
there are among New Workers any gen.
uine French red republicans it is the
2Sth day of the month Ventose in the
103d year of the republican era.
Common salt is one of the most val
liable remedial agents the world con-
tains. Used as tooth powder, alone
or with little prepared chalk, it
whitens the teeth and makes the gums
hard and rosy. 1t is a good gargle for
sore throat, and if taken in time will
benefit, if not cure, diphtheria. 1t will
stop bleeding of the mouth, and in
warm weather is a good emetic and
remedy against several poisons. There
is nothing better for sore feet and
hands than salt and water, and for
ordinary sore eyes, though painful
application, will often effect com
plete cure.
"A looker-on in Washington says
that poker is all the rage just now
among the younger element of society
women in Washington; but, of course,
it is played under the rose, and only
those in the swim are permitted to sit
at the green cloth and daily with the
seductive chips. The ladies play like
men-that is, they put their money up
before they sit down, and cash their
chips at the end of the game, accord
ing to the rules and regulations pro-
vided. There has been a good deal of
comment and gossip recently about
the stiff games played by some of these
women, and it is predicted that if the
practice keeps up a scandal of huge
proportions will be the result.
New York refuses to be baked of
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and takes ugly revenge on those that
attempt to balk her. The condition of
a block in East Twenty-ninth street
illustrates this. Part of, perhaps all,
the houses on one side of the block were
built distance back from the street
so as to give each deep door-yard
Since then nearly all have been turned
into yard houses" by the erection of
tall tenementS on the vacant ground
in front. The newer houses front on
the street, while the older ones front
on a narrow alley. Half dozen houses
still have in front of them the original
yards, now robbed of their fences and
presenting an unsightly desert of mud.
-Bizet's don Procopio, which was
found lately among Auber's papers, is
the work that he was obliged, as a
Prix de Rome, to send to the govern
ment as evidence that he was studying.
The story of its discovery is curious
Auber had intended to leave his music
to the Conservatoire, but just before
his death, during the commune,
changed his will and left it to his
family. His representatives recently
offered to sell it to the government,
when, in examining it to ascertain it's
value, the librarian of the Conserva-
toire found a number of works which
properly belonged to the state, among
them Bizet's opera. Auber had re-
ceived them as a member of the COM
mittee to decide on their merits, and,
after sending in his Judgment, had for
gotten to return the books.
Washington belongs not with the
conquerors-with Alexander, Caesar,
Napoleon, but with the great unselfish
patriots-with Timoleon and Epami-
nondas, with Cincinnatus and the
Catos, with Hampden and William of
Orange. 1t is useless to compare him
with Napoleon. 1t were better to con-
trast them. The great Corsican and
the great Virginian were entirely dis
similar. They belonged to different
races, and we're cast in different molds
The physical men were wide apart III
appearance. Washington was tall.
straight and commanding, with the
large bone, the forid face and the blue
eyes of the Anglo-Saxon. Napoleon
was short, and in his later years corpu-
lent and dumpy, small of hand and
bone, with the sallow, olive complex
ion and dark. piercing eyes of the Latin
race. Washington was slow, retiring
and dignifed; deliberate and calm in
speech and action. Napoleon was
quick and restless of movement, i'm
petuous of speech and sometimes I'M
dignified in manner.
New Woman's Preserver.
She threw her round, white arms |
about his neck and kissed him full on /
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