The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-09-23
SUNDRIES.

A Tren
died of del
VanderbiltA4ls
first wife, II of theh
A son of Lord Brou gil..lss- = elpt
away his fortune and is a bankrupt.
A shark II feet long was captured off
Atlantic wharf, Charleston, lately.
An Ohio census-talzer has found a
/ woman of 24 owning nine children.
Dan Rice. the Snowman, has given
| Nashville $4,000 towards house for
| fallen women. ~
An Arkansas paper anXiously adver-
tises for two compositors who can adju-
! dicate grammar.
Comic singing is on the decline in
England, and negro minstrelsy is said
to be losing its popularity.
| Troy boasts of a woman sharpshOot-
who can hit the BULBS eye of target
! every shot, at distance of forty rods.
A MIR. Johnson has introduced a bill
| into the Georgia Legislature making
dissatisfaction" a cause for divorce.
1t is announced that, out of respect
to. the Sabbath, the New jersey camp
meeting adjourned on Saturday night.
Blank forms of proposals are used by
Minnesota ladies when their young
men are slow in coming to the point.
a graveyard inscription in Kenne-
bunk, Me-, reads thus: " Poor 10 ! his
head is level now, if it never was be-
fore" ava
The war correspondent Of the Pail
Mall Gazette calls England s'that coun-
try of first,rate frogs, and secondhand
sermon"
It is sta flour Presidents of the
United StaCe&heyer visited New Eng
land-MadisOn, Harrison, Taylor and
Buchanans
A swimming match, open only to
One-legged contestants, was one OF the
features of recent soldiers picnic in
Pennsylvania.
A cotemporary thinks it sad that
Memphis, with u, 600 dogs, has not en-
terprise enough to start a wholesale
sausage facsory.
Sophie Sparkle, of the New Yolk
Mail, says that the persons who. spend
the most money at Saratoga, are the
old men with young wives.
A Troy hod-carrier has inherited
$4,000. He was half way up a-ladder,
when he heard of it, and he Just let 90
of the hod and said he'd have to be eX-
cused.
Mrs. Steel, sister of Hon.aRoscoe
Conklin, has been appointe spect-
ress of Customs at New Yor BY Col
lector Murphy, and is discharging the
duties Of her office.
1t is estimated that America, when
her productive power is fully developed
will be able to feed four times as many
5persons as there are now on the face of
the earth.
The German population of Paris ex-
eeeds that of any city in Germany, with
the exception of Berlin, Vienna and
Hamburg. 1t has German popula-
ton of over two hundred thousand
souls.
Ten days bS-5re the first battle, Bis
marck'S organ announced that all was
ready, and that German territory would
be spared the direct inconvenience and
burdens of war operations.
The population. of the Sandwich Is
lands is steadily diminishing, the deaths
for the last three years having been
8, 4S9 against 6,024 births, or an aver
age annual excess of deaths over births
of l, ,155.
A clergyman in New York. only a
few days since, explained thaeseienee
must stop or religion go on. The New
ark Advertiser suggests ,thE Ete stop,
and allow some wiser tea to oecu-
py the pulpit.
In addition to the long list of scienti-
fic, medical and chemical periodicals,
London now has a Food Journal, de-
voted especially to the task of showing
what should be eaten, and in what
'part of the world it is produced.
A wild cat attempted to take baby
out of its cradle in cabin near Man
katO, Mimi, but a little black-and-tan
dog attacked the catamount and fought
it until the mother came in and drove
the wild beast out with brand of fire.
Vaccination is not compulsory in
Russia, nor would it seem to be very
generally practiced voluntarily. The
result is seen i'll the fact that Is, $50, 900
persons have died of smallpox in that
country during the last 20 years.
Rusl1in, in one of his recent lectures,
says: Though England is deafened
with spinning her people have
no clothes though she is black with
digging for fuel, they die of cold; and
though she has sold her soul for gain,
they die of hunger"
A country doctor is so penurious that
when he goes to make call in the
country he takes hen in his gig to eat
up the oats his horse scatters when eat
ing. The hen knows her business so
well that she gets right out and goes to
work without being told.
The report that a young man at AL
leghany, Pa, lost his speech by the ex-
plosiOn Gf fire-cracker on the Fourth,
bothered the eminent doctors. They
all went to writing about the different
organs of speech that must have been
affected by the explosion; and now it
turns out that it was a written speech
that he lost, which was in his pocket,
and took fire from the fire-cracker.
Plato entertained some of his friends
at dinner, and had in the chamber a
bed neatly and richly furnished. Dio-
genes came in, got upon the bed and
trampled it, saying, "I trample upon
the pride of Plato" Plato mildly an
swered, But with greater pride.n
Napoleon and King William.
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