The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-07-01
SUNDRIES.

DUNDBAEos
Mr.. H. I. KimbalI. who is erecting
magnificent hotel in Atlanta, Ga, &
expected to offer handsome prize e
suitable name to be given it.
A Chicago church has a dozen pey
deaf people, connected with the
ed desk by rubber hose and
4 trumpets.
A darkey gives the following rea
| why the cOIOred race is superior to Ia.
white: +" All men are made of CLAW
and like the meerchaum pipe they are
more valuable when highly colored. -
A writer, dwelling on the Importance
of small things, says that he always
takes notice even of a straw, especially
| If there happens to be a sherry cobbler
at one end of it."
Recently, some one sent to a South
ern paper an extract from the song of
solomon as original, and the editor
published it " as q fair specimen of the
pOetical effusions which are daily
thrown into our waste-basket."
An iowa paper having inserted an
item relating that a woman of that
State had helped her husband to raise
seventy acres of wheat, and noticing
the item copied by its exchanges under
an evident interpretation of facts,
now explains that the way she helped
was to stand in the door and shake a
broom at him when he sat down to
rest, and terrifying him in other ways
A Scottish clergyman, happening to
go into the churchyard while the bea-
die was employed neck deep in dig
ging a grave, thus accosted him:
" Well, Saunders, that's a work you're
employed in well calculated to make
an old man like you thoughtful. I
wonder you don't repent Of your evil
WaysW The old worthy, resting on
the head of his spade, and taking q
pinch of snuff, replied: az thought,
sir, ye ken'd that there was nae re-
pentance in the grave"
A firm in York, England, several
years since, undertook to make a %
inch telescope, something astronomy
has never accomplished. 1t is now
nearly completed. The tube, including
the new cap and eye end, is 80 feet,
and its diameter at the object end q
inches, and where largest, 81. The
object glass has a clear aperture of 25
inches nearly, and its focal length is
25 feet.
A wonderful discovery has been made
in Algeria. An artesian well lately
sunk at Ain Sela, tn the depth of forty
four meters, threw up not only large
body of water, but ali innumerablc
quantity OF small fish, which are dcs-
cIibed as being on an average half an
Hch III length, and resembling whitebait
in appearance and taste. From the
of the sand extracted from these
ssellS being identical with that which
EOrms the head of the Nile, it is cOniec-
Gured that an unde. ground cOmmunica-
jon must exist between them.
There is a young lady of vast wealth,
sesiding in the vicinity of Union square
this city, who employs her leisure
pocket money buying cloth, mus
and calico by the wholesale, and
cutting it into garments. She takes
her carriage, and goes into lanes and
by-ways, giving work to needy people;
and when finished and literally paid
for, she generally bestows the comfort
able garments on those poor men, and
their wives and children, "who fought
and bled" " in the late war. None are
turned from her door without the help
that maketh the heart glad. She is
said to be highly accomplished, agree
able, modest, and seeks happiness in
doing good to all. She is devoted to
her work and dear relative, and has
refused the hand of some of the leading
men Of the nation.
"OBEY. .n-According to the New
York Express the Methodists therea-
BOUTS I'VE -expunged this word from
the iage ceremony, which will
cOJ hem to revise the Scriptures
bress such texts as the one i'll
Pd chapter of Genesis, where the
Says unto the woman: ''Thy
nd shall rule over thee.n 1t is
senseless and fit" that having
rded what st. Paul says about
speaking in public worship, by
them to preach, lin addition
urtain lectures,) they should
wipe oCesuch an incOnvenient word as
9 obey" which gives the tyrant
man " the right to rule over his house
loId.
The fair sex of Fsance have always
leen, noted for their bOok~keeping.-
Not unfrequently, in rapidly making
)ut your bill, in a hotel for example,
you will experience the evidence Of
dOuble-entry," which you will smile
1t, beg to have re-eXamined and re-
,eive corrected, with heart overflow
ng with apOlOgies-the creatures sin
with such grace. A master, like all
Frenchmen, who only believe in the
safety of their gold when lying upon it,
lOGlceQ MS - pie getting smaller Dy
degrees. He marked some coins-they
too, but his servant had
hem. Calling her to account, she adj
nitted she had helped herself, and to
show her " honesty" produced her ac-
count book, where each sum stolen was
luly entered and dated, the total sum
icing 5000 francs. Baltimore Gazette.
According to the French statistician,
aking the mean of many accounts, a
nan so years of age has slept 5000
lays, worked $500 days, walked 800
lays, amused himself 4, 600 days, was
eating l,500 days, was sick 500 days,
etc. He ate 1900 pounds of bread,
5000 pounds of meat, 1900 pounds of
eggs and fish, and drank
900 gallons of liquid, namely, water,
coffee, tea, beer, wine, etc, altogether.
This would make a respectable lake of
loo square feet surface and feet deep,
IN which aSmall steamboat could naVi-
rate. This estimate is, however, made
rom a Frenchman for an American,
We have to modify it, by lessening the
number of days he devOtes to amuse-
nents, and, in place of this substi-
ute ] 200 days for quietly specuIating
low to get more of the almighty dol
ar, 900 days for travelling by steam
md horse power, and 200 days i'm wait
ng for means of transportation.
Singular Case.