The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-11-04
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The wealth of Boston would give to
each inhabitant fraction above $4,000.
A cotton stalk is on exhibition in Gla-
weston, Texas, which contains over 300
large bolls.
| ried with it the chignOns OF Berlin. No
ladies wear them now in that city.
Common house flies invariably stand
| with the head downward, while biting
flles and mosquitoes rest with the head
| upward.
Among the premiums offered at eoun-
ty fair in Kentucky is one of SO for the
neatest patch put on an old garment by
an unmarried woman.
The most fashionable marriages now
a-days are the simplest. Several have
occurred lately in which there were nei-
| ther bridesmaids nor groonlsmen. cards.
receptions nor display,
a young couple at Paducah, Ky. have
been doing the State good sevrice since
their marriage five years ago. They
have now family of eight children.
There were twins four times in success
sion.
The roar of artillery at the lombard
ment of StrasbOurg was heard distinctly
at Stuttgart and Cannstadt, more than so
miles from the place of action, 1t could
JC AlCtlLN SlD d lllltCIl 8ECtltCf OlSleln &c on
the heights of the hill.
A wealthy New Yorker who lives
about ID miles outside of New York citv.
estimates that he owes the greater part
of his riches to the fact that he carries his
bundles home himself, instead of paving
messengers and eXpressmen.
OF the national debts that of Great
Britain is the heaviest, being SI32 per
head of the population, Netherlands, SIP
France, SO, and the United States, $50
per head. The only nation that is rapid
~ reducing both its debt and taxation. is
the United States
The highest mine in the world is the
silver mine of POtOsi, in the Andes Of
Peru, which is stated as being 1867 feet
above the level of the sea; and the deep
eSt mine IS the salt mine of NeusalZwerk !
(Westphalia), Which is said to be 2.OJO
feet below the sea,
a happy welded couple in Hendricks |
county, Indiana, weigh just one thous-
and pounds.
Marshal Bazaine, though not much |
over slYty years old, counts los wears |
time on the army register. This is eX-
planned by the fact that some military |
years Ill which there has been hard cam |
paigning count for several wears of or |
dinary service.
By emitting the letter = i'm a legal |
document an English attorney once in |
tucted loss OH his client of SljOOOO, |
lC was brought to his attention, he saw
MS DIunder, and, without any words, sat |
down and wrote his check for the full |
amount. Such man doesn't lose clients |
If he does make 4 mistake.
The very latest thing in the advertising |
line is a lady who, through the newspa2 |
pers' seeks for an employment as an or |
GH1av
ner or evening parties-by her grace, and |
W.T. ana beauty, contributing to the en- !
GerIdlnment of guests, and she will do |
everything in the highest styIe of the |
art-OnlY she demands that a fair com
pensation bCmade.-@
There IS a man living in Calhoun cOun- |
tY, Mississippi, who is supposed to have |
more strength than any three men in the |
State. lie is thiTty-fiVe wears of a0e.
weighs 225 pounds, and can walk two !
hundred yards with a bar of railroad |
IRON that takes the combined strength of l
five ordinary men to lift
The soldiers in Paris who took part in
the first sOrtie, but struck a Decline for
the Notifications at the first Yollev of the
Prussians were led through the streets
the following day with their hands tied
behind their backs, their caps and tunics
turned inside out, aud on their breasts a
card with the following inscription:
(The name.) Miserable coward. who
his post before the enemy.
All honest men are invited to spit i'm his
face
\ new form Of envelope has recently
become quite popular in Germany. and
possesses the convenience of enabling
one to open letter, when comDleteIT
sealed up, without the ordinary Difficult
ty of finding an entrance. The arrange
ment consists in introducing a thread,
which projects from one of the corners.
by pulling which the lower edge of the
envelope is cut through without injury
to the incIOsure, the address or the stamp.
Gen. TrOchu, i'll his work OH the French
army, states fact not generally known.
On the evening preceding the battle of
AusterlitZ two divisions of the French
army came accidentally into cOIIision-
and shot at each other, causing painful
losses and confusion, which might have
had serious consequences ifit had sDraad !
Few understand on how slender a thread
hung the crOwning victory of the first
Probably the fastest railway TRAVELLING
Dn record occurred last week, ON the
pennsylvania railroad between RoIIa and
ork. y heavy car of lumber cot away
with two mon in charge, ON the down
grade of 50 feet to the mile. With each
mile the speed of the fvinC
;ar became more terrific, and as it passed
-he tank five miles west of the starting
point the velocity was more than a hum
Ired miles an hour. Fortunately, an up-
grade arrested the car about six miles
west of Rolla, and the car was switched
ott at York just in time to prevent a
crash with the freight train east, which,
beng behind time, had not passed that
point.
Sing Sing was puzzled lately by the
escape OF a notorious convict, who pried
open the bars of his window and vanisl-
7d. No metallic instrument had been al
owed in his cell, and the keepers were in
Iuandary until they found the man had
been taking patent medicine so impreg-
mated with iron that he only had to open
vein in his arm to take out good sized
,rOWbar.
Mrs. PartingtOn is often very much
incensed over the difficulties of the
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