The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-11-18
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AAs6toSlLg 0uEAtlG bl4S 4&loJ year Has us
covered 10000 different varieties of the
fly.
London claims the honor to be the
first to invent soap.
The census of 1870 will cost the gov
ernment 81, 10000.
4 memorial tablet TO Burlingame
has been placed in the great Pekin
(China) Temple.
A willow tree was blown down at
Paterson, n. J., lately, which was plan
ted l60 years ago.
Goldfish, to the number Of lac, ,O0O, 900,
are caught annually on the coast of
New FOundland.
The deepest excavation in the United
States Is copper mine near Lake Su--
perior. 1t is ] $3.50 feet deep.
The number of newspapers and Pc
riodicals printed annually in Massa-
chusetts is over 125, ,0O0, GOO.
When women get to be letter-carriers
it will be time enough for them 10
come ont in mail attire.
It is announced that Olive Logan will
close her lecture season in this country
next April and then go to Europe.
The newly discovered slate region in
Minnesota extends twenty miles, and
is the only deposit west of Pennsyl-
vauia.
A correspondent OF Luad and Water
writes Of q gray parrot in his posses
sion over sixty years old, who recently
began laying.
Mrs. Amelia BI0omer first introduce
ed the style of dress that takes her
name, in the town Of Seneca Falls, in
Seneca county, New York.
7.
across the plains to California at an
early day in wheeI-barrow, lectured
in Sacramento lately.
Merchants who advertise only once
in three months, forget that most folks
cannot remember anything longer than
about seven days.
The word caterpillar" was spelled
seventeen different ways by sixty teach
ers at a recent institute in Penobscot
county, New Hampshire.
The oldest piano in existence is said
to be in the possession Of Professor J.
b. MeVinski, OF Lancaster, Pa. 1t WAS
made in Germany in 1741.
1t is estimated that America, when
her productive power is fully develop
ed Will be able to feed four times as
many persons as there are now ON the
earth.
The Governor-Gcneral Of Canada
wants more salary, it only being $780,
600 per year DOW.
Mr.. John Cotton was recently mar
rled to Miss Christina WOoley-sug-
gestive of satinet.
In Connecticut and New England
generally, that Of 1870 has been the hot
test July for 90 years.
4 vein Of yellow Ochrc has been dis
covered near Usage City, Kansas, of a
Very pure quality.
The police of New York returned Isl
lost children to their homes during the
month Of September.
Mr.. Darwin has a book in press enti-
tied 1.-The Descent of Man, aud On Se-
lection in Relation to SEX
\ Mississippi man has Just pulled
knifc-blade out of his back that was
stuck there 80 years ago.
The New York Crystal Palace build
ing will be $500 feet long and $50 feet
wide, with central area of IL acres.
It is the opinion of the doctor that the
lawyer gets his living by plumber,
While the lawyer knows that the doctor
gets his by pillage.
It is said that manufacturing tobacco
raised in Southern Illinois is worth five
cents pound more than that grown
anywhere else i'll the country.
Australia has an import and export
trade of $50, 1000, 900 annually, and last
year there were $4,000 first-class pas
sengers between England and Austria
Iia.
\ man was arrested in San Francis
60 the other day, on the charge of pour
ing cOal-Oil on living rats, and then set
ting. it on fire and burning them to
death.
An observer of human nature reports
that he has seen some people possessing
the popularity of three hands-a right
hand, left hand, and a little behind
hand.
The American Scientific Association
has resolved to ask Government aid for
the establishment Of an observatory OH
one of the highest points on the Pacific
Railroad.
Lockwood 6, Co., the great Wall
street bankers, who failed about a wear
ago, have anticipated and paid their
second settlement of the installment
due November 18th.
Patience IS exemplifed in the man
balked, sat on stump, and read the
war telegrams ill the horse was hum
cry enough to so homo.
OF Josh Billings Farmers Alminax
for 1871, the publisher has received a
single OFttCr for 100000 copies-the lar
gest number ever sold at one time of
any work in this cOur Try.
\ little girl, in Nevada, recently
5tumpted her toe against what seemed
10 DC rock. She picked il up, when
SISz,arx-C,-c,F II. 4
gold quartz, and was worth $50.
Scientific men in Europe have dis
covered that the sun IS getting rid OF
some loose fragments, which are fast
approaching the earth. In about %
years time 4 serious collision may be
looked for.
An East Tennessee woman stopped
q railroad train by waving q red flag,
and wished to know of the enraged con
ductor if Sally AIelvina Thompson was
abOard--which the same was her sis
ter.
To make man ! dTunkard, give him
wife who will scold him every time
he comes home Ecct0ngc. To make
woman scold, give her a husband
who comes home drunk W0Bad1s'l
Journal.
y pilgrim to Mecca once complained
to the caliph Omar, because he had re-
ceived a severe injury from the hand
Of Jaballah, king of Gassan. 'But I
, am king" replied Jaballah. proudly,
and he is but a peasant" "Ye are
both AIoslens," answered the fearless
Omar, "and in the sight of God. who
Is no respector OF persons, We are
CquBl.H
One drop of ink will blacken a whole
glass full of pure water. So will one
evil communication make the whole
heart foul. o. beware OF those evil