The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-09-16
SUNDRIES.

! $4,000. - =
/ If q mans aim IN this world 10
! good, the chances are that he will
miss fire in the next.
1t is reported that Chief Justice Chase
/ is suffering from the result Of a paralyt-
| ic stroke, at the residence of Senator
| SpTague, in Rhode Island.
| Augustus Hemmenway and David
| Sears are the heaviest taxpayers in
! Boston, being assessed respectively this
| year 50, ,659, 600 and s., ,243, 600.
Fifty-eight cadets, recently gradua-
| ted from West Point, have eeen ap-
! pointed second lieutenants, and assign
ed to regiments.
Miss Esther Hedge, q Switzerland
county, Ind, farmers daughter, reads,
writes and speaks readily seven differ
ent languages.
1t is a rule among the German Jews
that every male shall learn some man
ual art or trade, by which, in case of
necessity, he can earn his living.
Chicago is humiliated over the fact
that the population is much less than
anticipated. 1t will not reach $50, 200,
although 400, 900 were claimed.
Since the foundation of the govern
ment 520,000,0O0 acres of public lands
have been disposed of-200, 100000 to
railway companies.
-, Foreigners say that American girls
he only women in the world that
Equal to the task of entertaining
frr9fe than one man at time.
It appears more and more certain
that the cutting down of forests in
France is rapidly decreasing the annual
rainfall.
The ladies (God bless 'em) keep faith
fully in mind that clause in the Con-
stitution, and their own, which declares
the right to bare arms shall not be in
fringed.
Mrs. Williams, late Mrs. Senator
Douglas, has commenced an action
against the executors of the Douglas
estate, alleging fraud in the manage
ment. She seeks to recover $3.50 900
wrongfully held.
There is a man in, New York WHO
has lived ninety-five years, though his
name is ID. Wemyss. JobsoB. He is
emplOyeds4s q Translator, butwill prob
ably get a job soon at something more
in Keeping with his a'otuberance.
The New York II ID says: g Ma
poleOn may at lass -be said to. have
found friends in knead. Bakers in
Brooklyn are making hard tack Bis
cult for his armies and working night
and day in the business. with steam
machinery"
The property of Gen. Sterling Price,
nearly all of which he left to his widow
and son, is valued at 81, 100000. The
widow and son were appointed eXecu-
tors, and have been required by the
County Court at st. Louis to give S2,-
O00,O 600 bonds.
A writer complains that the waiter
of IL period has the decidedly unpleas-
ant 1Iobit of treating his forehead, du-
ring the warm weather, as though it
We're plate, and causing his napkin
to perform those services which are
generally entrusted to the confidence
Of a ket-handkerchief.
A wild cat attempted to take a baby
out of it's cradle in a 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 a brand of fire.
"You don't work slough to earn
your salary" said the head ola depart
ment in the New Ysak custom house
to one of his cleI Work! ~ eX-
claimed the young g I worked to
get here; surely yotrdon' expect me to
work any longer"
In indianapolis, a dTy-goods clerk
has fallen heir to a million dollars. He.
was tearing off a piece of calico when
the news reached him, and he left it
half torn off, and said he would have to
be excused from further attendance at
the store. .as.
The question whether polygamy af-
fects the proportion of the sexes in the
births, has been carefully studied by DIR.
Campbell, of London, who concludes
that the proportion of males and fe-
males born are just the same under po-
lygamy as under mOnOgamy.