The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-04-15
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the expenses Of COURT
Paris has, according
timate, / 100000 inhabit
1t is said that Francis ].
most prOtane monarch OF II
\ Boston druggist, who
mum instead of rhubarb, and
man, has been fined $3.50.
The Massachusetts Legislat0r
petition one hundred feet long aga
horse racing.
The New York MasOns are TO ere
an asylum for aged MasOns and q
phans, to cost 500, 900.
In some French cities there are wine
shops for women only, and drunken
ness among working women II said To
be on the increase.
The French Prince Imperial i suid
to be clever with his pencil, and has
drawn portrait of himself for his god
father, the Pope.
The city of Moscow has 500 public
schools, attended by l5,099 children Of
| both sexes, being one child for every
! eighty-five inhabitants.
y Florida negro was two years ago
50 terrified at the cars that he had to be
| blindfOlded to get him aboard. Now
he is Senator and director of the rail
! road.
! Frogs are easilypIeaSed. \ German
! professor has discovered that if YOU
/ take out the brain, and then rub wet
| finger down the frogs back, the crea-
/ ture will crOak with delight.
A squire in indianapolis married
couple the other day, adapting the SER
vice to modern times by prOnOuncing
them man and wife "until separated
by law"
A Frenchman in BOndsville, Mass.
recently gave the hand of his daughter
in marriage in consideration of forty
dollars in money and one months ser
vice from her youthful suitOr.
An indianapolis grocer has been
married three times and divorced twice
within year, and now has the same
wife he started with.
Several Chicago merchants have en-
gagged handsome young ladies to collect
their outstanding accounts. The plan
is said to work well, only the bachelors
rather like that kind of dunning.
Saoking clubs are becoming very
pOpO institutions in England. One
of the\ Adest clubs is called the Angels
SmOking[ Club, curious combination
of names. A smoking angel has IA yet
not been conceived by tile most imag-
inative beings.
The will of james Fieldcm, cotton
spinner, has been sworn at Manchester
under 81, 100000. 1t is very lare for
personality in England to exceed eI,-
10000. The will of Morrison Dillon 4
MOrTisOn), of Fore street, WAS "a, 10000
the largest yet.
AIanfrini, Il famous Venetian, made
great fortune by a monopoly of tobaC-
co. The following anecdOte is told a.
an instance of his magniticence in COM
mon affairs: Washing is bad in Venice,
for there is no fresh water, except what
Is brought from the main land. Man.
frini had four thousand shirts; and used
10 send two thousand of them at a
time to be washed in Holland.
Austria Possesses "a costly stah-I6g
superior field officers in active service,
and 319 on halfpay. Among the for
nler are three marshalS, seventeen gen
erals of artillery Or<cavalry, tifty-fiVe of
infantry and ninety-fOur major gener-
ais. The retired 4ISt consists of thirty
general of tha 5Ve name category.
l4Ssfthe g and POI of the third.
y fe Ible case of rpSu~citation i.
reportesSfrom Montpelier, France \
young man asphyXiated 10y charcoal
was touched on the SOleS of his feet with
red-hOt iron without avail EIecticle
batteries WereY then brought to bear.
and, after eight hours O: effort, ami
nation was restored.
An English bishop, who was fond Of
shooting, in one Of his excursions met
with friends gamekeeper, whom he
sharply reprOved for inattentiOn to his
religious duties, eXhOTting him siren
4ously to ''gO to church and read his
Bible The ke per, in an angry
mood, responded: F'Whv, I do readmy
bible. sir, but l don't find in it any
mention of the Apostles going a shoot
ing" mo, my good man, YOU are
right said the bishop; "the shooting
was very bad in Palestine, 80 they
went fishing insteady--
-, GIANTS. - The Roman F,nuaro,.
MaXimus was eight feet and a half i'm
hight, and OF corresponding bulk. He
wore his wife's bracelet as a ring for
Hls thumb; his shoe was a foot longer
than the foot Of an ordinary man. PHI
ny saw man who was nine feet nine
inches high. John Middleton, of Lam
cashire, England, born 175S, was nine
feet three inches high. Patrick Cotter
the famous Irish giant, born in 1851.
was eight feet seven inches i'm hight.
The palm Of his hand measured tWeIy.
inches, and his shoe seventeen inches.
He died in 1905. Big Sam, the porter
Of the Prince of Wales, was near eight
FED &gh. One of these, John Middle
tonAWas presented to James l. dressed
inTery fantastic style, and was after
ward employed in one of the, Lbrarie2
of the University of Oxford: he was
only six inches shorter than Cioliah,
and could have whipped him, probably,
in a fair fight. Many of our readers
will recOllect the Kentucky giant; NJ.
Bihin, the giant, and the numerous
worthless of the same kind who have
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