The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-22


FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 22, 1866.
Brevities and News Items.
he man who could mt stand it any long
, has taken seat, and feels better.
Some author tells us chat much is said
out the tongue. True, the thing is in
Ferybody's mouth.
THE inventor of the popular street toy,
En as the "return ball." has realized
1000 from sales during the past year.
Seither false curls, false teeth, false eyes
even false calves, are as bad as false
CUES.
A wag wrote on the back of our fat re-
rider: "Widened at the expense of the
OrpOratiOn."
Keep your dog away from me! said dsS-
dy to butcherboy. Durn the dog, he's
always after puppies.
A COW died in Maine and a piece of hoop
skirt was found in her throat. It is sup
posed she swallowed the milkmaid.
The man who dont'take a newspaper re-
fused to take a one dollar bill the other day
because it might be altered from a ten.
The man who can't take the paper, pre-
fers stage travelling to railroads. The for
mer, he says, rides him eight hours for
dollar, while the latter only rides him one.
A Substitute for butter.-Get tie girl you
love best to prepare and partake of your
breakfast, and then if you are a reasonable
man you will not want any bit her.
If our town constable, in approaching his
end, sOares cold, and gives up his aS5, what
will become of his sole, if he cannot breathe
his last?
AN editor congratulated himself that his
ad was safe from donkey's heels His
opponent gave as a reason, that he was
never able to make both ends meet.
A Young man advertised for wife thro'
8, and received eighteen hundred
from husbands, saying that he
ve theirs.
man who refuses to'take a newspaper
Time, and drinks whisky at a quarter,
pie to die at any moment Better take
ing from friend
here nOw,'' said a little girl, while
rumsging drawer in the family bureau,
'there now, grandpa has gone to heaven
Hithout his spectacles."
pscript being told that it was sweet
his country, tried to excuse him
he ground that he never did like
Things.
he easiest way to get living says
gabond poet, is to sit on a gate and wait
II good luck In case good luck don't
come along, you are no worse off than you
were before.
IF an earthquake were to engulf Eng
land tomorrow, said Douglas Jerrold,
the English would manage to meet and dine
somewhere among the rubbish, just to cele-
brate the event.
Where do you hail from? asked Yankee
traveller.
Where do you rain from? was the reply.
Don't rain at all.
Neither do hail, mind your own bust
ness.
THE available coal supply of England,
Gladstone estimates, will last only 1O4
years. That may alarm some people; but
there is no reason to be scared. Water will
be used for fuel before that time, and men
will wonder how people got along in the
nineteenth century with such costly, IN
handy and dirty material as coal.
PH1LANTHRoPY--Geu. B. Butler took
from Gen. Dick Taylor's plantation two
hundred and seventeen negroes while he
was in command in New Orleans. and there
are now but ninety three of these negroes
living Of the negroes who were living
in 1862 but one-half are now alive This
is an established fact-a record. Washing
ton Union.
Who Wants Him?
A practical printer, who is competent to
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