The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-05-06
sUyDRIEs.

I en- Sl0IOUV 10 the AIOaDS Meulcssi W
/ lege.
\ Connecticut man has worn tbe'
same hat to church for forty ycafs.s~It
has been i'm style seven times during
| that period.
/ Thirty thousand natives are said to-
/ have perished from cholera i'm Zanzibar,
! during six weeks, last year.
/ Mr.. Bonner paid Mr. Grcely $40, 800
for his RecollectiOns, " the sam6 that
/ he paid Mr.. Beecher for his Norwood
story, according to a recent coTeSpon-
/ dent.
/ Madam de Stael defined happiness to
/ be a state of constant occupation upon
/ some derirablc object, with Il continual
/ sense of progress toward its attainment,
The population of New York is csti-
mated at q million, yet there are only
/ about 5000 real estate holders i'm the
/ city. This gives 9S3 out of every 200
persons occupying hired property.
An old maid went to one of the life
/ insurance agents at Columbia, Mo,
few days ago, and DESIRED TO insure her
/ life When she found that she would
/ have to tell her age before she could in
sure, she abruptly turned on her heels
and left the Office.
! Mr.. Hewlett writes to the London
! Times that OH March 25th spot was
/ visible on the sun, indicating disrup-
/ ton of the solar philosophers to the
! enormous extent of not less than l6,OOO~
| COO, 600 square miles, or eight times the
superfices of the terraqueous globe.
DR.. Thayer, the circus man, who
/ busted up so regular last fall, and had
! his monkeys and things sold by the
/ sheriff in Cincinnati, has organized an
other circus at Erie, and Is on the war
path again. Those circus people don
/ Stay failed any more than newspaper
men.
The bone of a deer has been found
imbedded in the solid wood of large
poplar tree, near BridgetOn, IND. IN
/ converting the tree into logs the saw
came in contact with the bone. 1t was
4 is feet from the base. The tree Waa
three feet in diameter, and supposed to
be 100 year old.
. A girl only four years of age, resid
ing with her parents in Marion, Va,
! has a muesache and whiskCrs, the hair
| upon the ehead extending to the eye
brows, and-a very heavy head OF hair
exceeding black, extending below The
shoulders. The child is quite sprightlX,
with full developed limbs and we'll
formed body.
a poor young man has been kept
four Years and a half in the maSsachu-
sets State Prison for crime of which
he had no knowledge, yet he was con
yicted uDon what appeared to he the
clearest evidence. His Innocence was
discovered by the confession of the real
culprit, who found his way to the same
prison for some other offense.
OF the causes of suicide, mental dis
order is the most active, one-thIrd OF
all cases that occur being tracablc to IT;
onc-ninth to physical suffering; one
eighth to loss of property; one-tcnth to
remorsc. shame, or fear of punishment;
One-eighth to family troubles; one
ninth to gambling and other vices, and
f a very small proportion to disappointed
!; love.
The bull fights at the Agricultural
Hall in London, have been discnHtili-
ued. The bulls were 50 very small in
f size and so exceedingly mild and mot
feusiyc i'm conduct, that the agility and
address Of the pica and the maIa- at,
, dnrp>, .,,,.s,rf. az bwn away. The
oIeIs tas wanting, and
&c sped Ad OF getting rap
= turously g only laughed.
An Indiana temperance orator says {;
The drams paid for every year IN in :
diana amount to enough to erect rs
such buildings as the State University
IS in each county in the State. 1t would
endow SO such universities. II would
defray the expenses of the institution
for ,, IA years. 1t would defray the
expenses of all the students now In at
tendance for 240 years"
4 paragraph is going the rounds
about girl in Chester, Vt, dying from
tight lacing. An editor commenting
OH the fact, says:
These cOrsets should be done away
with, and if the girls can't live without
being squeezed, we suppose men can be
found who would sacrifice themselves.
As old as we are, we would rather de
vote three hours day without cent
of nav, as q brcvet corset, than see these
: girls dying of in this manner. Office
hours almost any time
\ Baltimore correspondent writes =
Thunder sours milk and kills oys
> tcrs. You may load vessel to its ut
: most capacity, start for market, and
one good round clap of thunder will
kill every oyster in the vessel immedi-
alelv Pounding with an AK upon the
deck of a vessel when oysters are there
on or pounding upon the sides of Ncs-
! sci with a heavy weight, will kill every
,. oyster that feels the jar. But thunder
rctches them the first pop"
-. Dr. Talmage thus cutogizc-
They are worth more than an
eagle any ud1- nave bCClCl ilp' ,'i7' "Ai'
i pluck more nutriment out OF tie muo
+ than eagles do out of the sun. Save iol
: Fourth of July oratiOnS, eagles arc o
Z but little worth-hlthy, cruel, ugly III
e the beak, fierce at the eye, lOathSOmt
= at the claw. But give me Il flock %
=. geese, white-breasted, yellOw-bil Jet
d coming up at nightfall with military
tramp, i'm single file led OH, till, ncal
!, the barnyard, they take wing, and
c with deafening cIanG, the flying artil
It IcrV wheel to their bivOuacS for the
5 night.
= The present consumption of wood n
y the United States is enormous. Of'
Il hundred and fifty thousand acres OF th'
/ best timber is cut every year to supply
the demand for railway sleepcrs alon"
:: For railroad buildings, repairs, and caT~
q the annual expenditure in wood l. N'iN
e 900, 900. In single year the locUm"
e tives in the United States consume SNi-
c OOO, 600 worth OfSwOod. There are, il
l. the whole country, more than lu",W'
= artisans in wood; aRd if the value q
o their labor is II ,OOu 4 year each, th'
II wood industry of the country repre-
II sents an amount Of nearly 500, ,VboHF
d per annum.
q The markCLmcn of Boston have
). bad habbitof putting old hOrC>ho"- an'
II other hca-y articles inside of fowls e
10 make them weigh more. y gentle
J man, in carving a turkey lately at din
> ner, cut into a horseshoe with a pICc
= Of the horses hOof nailed on. He rep
u rCmandCd the cook for not washing Tn
- shoe.