The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-07-29
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Dickens left his library to his eldes

Dickens left his library to his eldest
son.
Alexander H. Stephens now weighs
but seventy-six pounds.
Milkmen are happy fellows. They
enjoy themselves at the watering-pla-
ces all the year round.
A French barberis sign-bOard reads
as follows: Tomorrow the public
will be shaved gratuitously."
Why is horse the most curious feed
er in the world? Because he eats when
he hasn't bit in his mouth.
Never listen to datterers, my dear, -
said mother to her daughter. "Why,
mamma, how should know that they
are t1atterers unless l listen to them ?'
Mr.. Dickens left fortune of S4OO, 900,
Which includes the value of the copy
| right of most of his books, which re-
mains with his family.
Dickens kept five Newfoundland dogs
and named them after characters in
| his works. His favOrite was called
Bundle.
A Vermont husband frustrated his
Wife's elOpement by locking up her silk
dress. She said she wouldn't be seen
| elOping in a shilling calico.
New York points to its police record
of 1000 arrests last week with pardon
able pride, and defies other cities to
equal it.
Detroit's last sensation is a man who
lay dead ten hours, was dressed for the
the grave, and only Wakened by the
fall of his coffin, which the men were
bringing in.
A Long Branch belle, named Annie
Welsh, dresses eight times q day, and
dashes along the beach behind four diff
ferent teams during each twenty-fOur
hours.
M Burritt proposes to publish a
book CSsdtaiuing all the newspaper no.
tices of Dickens death, and all the
pulpit illusions thereto, from all cOun-
tries.
A sovereign remedy for hydrophobia
is to immerse the head of the canine
under water for one half hour. He will
be little mad at first, but soon gets
over it.
Theremains of a young lady were
recently consigned to the grave in Troy
under the escort of eight female pail
bearers, who were uniformly dressed in
white dresses and wells.
DR.. Livingstone, the African explorer
,lslsupposed to be at Nijiji, two months
ings from him ARE looked for under
seven or eight Bonths.
A country poet, after looking about
over life, has come to tie following
rhyming conclusion:
'Oh, wouldn't live foreeer,
l wouldn't if I could;
But needn't fret about it,
For 1 couldn't If would. -
A wealthy parishioner congratulated
a good pastor on the good air which he
breathed in his parish; to which the
latter replied: "Yes, the air would be
good enough, if l could live upon it."
Not bad answer was that of pre-
cOcious boy in public school out West,
who was recently asked by his teacher
where Africa was located. He prompt
ly answered, "Au over the United
States"
A New Orleans street-car driver, ar
rested for running over man, said he
felt q jar and went back to remove q
rock, as he supposed, from the track,
when he found the man who had been
lying there asleep. 1t woke him up.
A Pennsylvania minister was re-
Gently given donation party, at which
the gifts were six rolling pins, q pen-
wiper, and two quarts of dried apples,
vintage of 1864. His flock all have
his next winters stock of prOvisiOn2
severely.
A New York girl, who ran away ;rfl
her lover to New Haven, bXAst n.
wasa .arised on LAM rher
fatIfe - he haVIf nv
rail and$ "a her. Sh dder
lIpassengeT Grain, which, ahg up,
badly bruised her ankle. She scream
ed, and her father took her home.
a machine has been invented by Mr..
G. w. Grader, of Memphis, called the
Linter," " and by it the waste from the
cotton gin known as "motes,u and
heretofore of no use except as a fertiliz-
er, undergOes q cleansing process. nv
Which iC is Ifeed from its impurities and
made into good ordinary cotton suit
able Tor batting or a coarse article of
goods.
A lady in Bangor, Me-, a few days
since, sent her Hibernian maid-of-alI-
work up stairs, with verbal instructions
to take out and clean the windows.
Shortly ai.er, the lady made a tour of
inspection, and found that Bridget had
dug ont every pane of glass and neatly
piled them on the floor.
a Chinaman at Stockton, CAL, with
blackberries for sale, got by accident
into the grounds of the insane asylum.
The inmates ate all his stock, and the
keeper then coming up elected him
from the grounds, Notwithstanding his
cry, "pay for blackberree-One dollar
halfee." ~r
ASnN2lthy old lady living in Brook
line s., called in her neighbOrs one
da y, and told them to take every
thing in the house. They went ener-
getically to work, and before any other
friends knew it,. there was not an ar
MIA did it, aIIdsSW legal force is trying
to get the furniture back again.
a recent storm at the East had it's
cOmical as well as it's serious aspects.
At Albany a lad, born a practical Joker,
threw large piece of ice from an upper
window into the street. 1t was imme-
diateIy seized by one of the spectators,
who took it for a hailstOne. 1t was
hurriedly carried to an adjoining store
and weighed, and its weight was an
nOunced to the crowd as seven ounces.
Comments on this remarkable hail
stone We're everywhere made. He con-
tinued this sport for some time before
being discovered.
FEMALE INTENIPERANCE.- 1t has
! been stated, and a very remarkable fact
it is, that the children of professional
! thieves are rarely thieves-thOse who
! have fathers, never SO-and it is diff
cult to have an instance of q man who
| has trained up his child to acts of dis
| honesty, bad as he may have been him
| self. With women, terrible as the
statement may appear, instances of
! their teaching their own children to
| thieve are not uncommon. In these
cases, however, the women are invari-
| Oh lr11rn L lr.llc cnlnnr,