The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-06-17

Horse-racing is dying out in Virgin
ia, and the Richmond papers mourn
the degeneracy of the times.
a Sacramento hen has taken charge
of q nest of kittens, and won't allow the
mother to come around.
There were over 10000 convictions
for offences against the game laws IN
Great Britain last year.
Tennyson is said to be jealous of
I LOngfelloW's reputation in England,
! where the latter has many warm ad-
| mirers.
The Society for the Suppression Of
| Cruelty to Animals in Paris has made
movement against frying small fish
and eels alive. e+-
A man living on Dennis Lake, Flor
ida, aged 81 years, is the the father of
81. children the youngest Of whom is 10
months old. .-.
An Indian woman in California, 100
years old, has declared in a trance that
San Francisco is to be destroyed by an
earthquake in 1878.
The Empress Eugene has for the
past 15 or Is years annually paid up
ward of 100000 from her private purse
to Catholic churches in Paris.
Batesville, Arkansas, with popula-
llOiA VI --jOOOI HIS OIllN Ol1C ly6lCldIit
whose practice extends fifty miles.
DR.. G. B. Barry, of Mobile, has grown
q pineapple that exceeds in size and
fragrance any that has ever been i'm
ported from the West Indies.
A society has been formed at Paris,
the members pledging themselves to
bequeath their bodies to the medical
colleges for dissection.
General Lyman Beeman, who was
made Major General in 1845, is still
hale and hearty at the age of 80. He
resides in NeOshO, Mo.
Gerrit Smith said before q large au-
dience at the Cooper Institute, few
days ago, that wars would never occur
if rulers drank water instead of wine.
Over 10000 600 persons have died of
the small pOx in Russia since the be-
g of the century. Vaccination
HpulsOry in the Cars domin-
has had over $50, 900 bushels
rom Virginia and Maryland
tx months past, and has plant
poo bushels in her harbor for
use. ....
e WOwan Suffrage Convention
0rk the other day, Mrs. Haz-
chigan, said that but few
W. rTied their husbands because
they "a them.
Several mice came out, a few evenings
since, in q house on Fourteenth street,
New York, while a canary bird was
singing, and riYaled the bird by the
sweetness. of their notes.
In Alaska, if a native murders his
wife, her relatives won't be satisfied
until he gives them a lot of blankets.
NJ L, l. r., Il
in the Summer and 20 in the winter.
One of the oldest defences on record
has just been made at Hamburg by
man who had murdered his wife from
motives. of jealousy. According to his
own account he had not murdered her,
but hal killed her in fair and hon.
orable duel LAS he had placed q pistol
in her h Rnd told her to shoot at
him.
The IN public is not general
ly for each half ounce of
matter it is now paying
9 as much to Paris, or any
snce, as to London, or any
md. This is owing to the
postal relations with
mending of which there
immediate prospect.
21aha hS~-slt man who lives with his
IdullEy III one OF JIG large iron UuDoS
used in the construction of the bridge
He was too poor to buy or rent even
the humblest frame cabin, so he adopt
ed this singular expedient. He has
constructed a neat stone fireplace in
his house, and here the wife and two
children manage to live and get their
frugal meal.
Bismarck is tall, elderly, awkward
person, clad in military uniform, with
the star of authority hung upon his
breast, and a plain sword dangling un-
gracefully beside his long legs. His
face is q curious mixture Of humOr and
sadness; it is in perpetual unrest, the
the eyes sparkle and burn, and the lips
are now compressed, now wide open,
with an air of humorous satisfaction.
a man went up in balloon at Nc
Gregor, Iowa, on the evening of the 23d
Ult., and sailed off in the direction of
Prairie du Chen. When about half
way across the river the balloon drop
ped to the water, and the aeronaut be-
coming frightened, left the car and
struck out for the shore, but soon gave
out sank and was drowned within so
feet of a boat that had started out to
his rescue.
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