The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1868-08-21

do parish, Louisiana.
The present Georgia Governor was for
merly an expressman.
Sweet potatoes are selling at 81 busheI
in Columbus. Georgia.
"There now" said little girl, while
rumaging drawer in bureau, ''grandpa
has gone to heaven without his specta-
cles"
a young lady who had lost or mislaid
her beau was advised to hang up her fid-
die. She said the advice did great vic
lence to her heart strings.
''Why does father call mother honey 90
asked little boy of his older brother
Cant tell 'cept it's because she has a
large comb in her head"
We heard of a minister the other day
who said that he preached without notes.
In moment he added that he did no. refer
to greenbacks.
The poor man of the country is made to
pay the taxes of the rich man by the pres
ent Internal Revenue Laws, passed by the
Radical Congress. Every poor man who
wishes to be relieved from this burden of
taxation, will vote the Democratic ticket.
SunstrOke, according tolGeneral Napier,
must be rather pleasant way out of the
world. The General tried it in Sciude,
once and wrote of it to his daughter, IS
follows: "The suustrok is staggerer, yet
my hope is to die by One.''
Rosa Celeste, the female Blondin of Cali
fOrnia, means to walk a rope across Niaga-
rs.-BOston Post.
And now let US see, when the feat comes
of, if Niagara will have the gallantry to
shut its i.-LOa. Jour.
The dog that wakes up from sound
slumber and looks about him for a better
position, turns round and round for doz.
en- times or more, and finally lies down in
the same place, is perfect type of thous-
ands Of persons whom we meet in the daily
walks Of life.
''Let us have peace" says Grant. The
Philadelphia Press repeats tie cry in it's
prose columns with a tiresome iteration,
while in its pOetical column we End the fol-
lowing:
"Shall the past be forgotten ?
No never while q tombstone stands
Above a soldiers grave"
"Fire your guns" said poor laboring
man in Detroit, while the Radicals were
ratifying Grants nomination. "You can't
fool me any longer. voted your ticket
until it takes three dollars to buy what
used to get for seventy-fvo cents, and now
think it's about time for change"
'DOes pa kiss you because he loves
you?" inquired a snub nose urchin of his
maternal ancestor.
"TO be sure, &c my. Wby7"
"WeU, think he must love the cook too,
for he kissed her more than forty times last
Sunday when you were gone to meedng.'"
A leader Of music in a church where
congregational singing was practiced selec-
ted tune with the wrong aetre to be sung
to the words:
"With hyssoP purge my soul, 0 Lord"
He tried it twice, when some old lady
cried out:
Il say, mister, you had better try some
other yarJ."
Flavoring extracts obtained, not from tho
fruit, but from certain chemical products,
should be carefully used. Recently, over
thirty persons who attended a strawberry
and ice cream festival given in one Of the
churches in Saginaw, Mich were suddenly
taken i'll, most Of them slightly, bat three
or four quite seriously. The illness, it was
thought, was occssioned by the extracts
used in ffaVOring the cream.
Orville Grant. respectable merchant of
Chicago, and brother Of Gen. Grant. re-
Gently gave q check Of 81, 900 to a Demo-
cratic Club Of that city. In consequence
Of the habits Of his brother, The now Gen
eral, be has not, for long time, been on
very familiar terms with him, deeming
him utterly unfit for the Office 10 which the
niger party have nominated him.
II the women Of America expect here
afseF TO escape the dTudgeries Of life, and
to have their sons and daughters live p
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