The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-07-15
UEDRIES.
ls heart ossifies, or turns
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49, words. turns to stone.

written and no one will be permitted
| to finish it. = ~ t
The idea of National Catholic
| Church is making progress in Bohemia.
| The grand celebrations lately made in
| honor of John Huss have added to the
| popularity of the movement r es
Frenchmen, of suicidal turn 'of mind,
| take to hanging as the most preferable
means of self-destruction then comes
drowning, then suffOcation by charcoal,
and hasty poison. -r.-er- s.. -z
There is a small vinyard in Paris near
the ancient arsenal garden which has
buds and leaves, blossoms and grapes
four days in advance of any other vim
yard in the region.
A bronze automaton at Venice, re-
Gently knocked out a curious travellers
brains with q hammer. The traveller
got his head between the hammer and
the bell just as the automatol1 struck
the hour. ..- ...s----..-... "a
Mamma ~ said AN intelligent little
girl, "what is the meaning of book
being printed in I2mo?' q Why, my
dear" replied the mother, sit means
the book will be published in twelve
months" - s a
Recently Mr.. John Coleman, a most
estimable citizen of Marshall, Texas,
attempting to jump from the platform,
was thrown under the cars, and had
both of his legs badly crushed below the
knees by the wheels. The amputation
of both limbs, it is thought, will be
necessary. a..--. .7-s.s- --
OconOmOWOc, about thirty miles from
Milwaukee, is called the fisherman's
paradise. 1t is situated between two
lakes, one emptying into the other
a fall of TfiTlfa orr fnro orN6 yTyfth
in a circuit of a dozen miles are about
twenty lakes, from one to three miles
in length.
An acrobat at Davenport, England,
who was in the habit of allowing a
stone to be broken on his chest with
hammer tried one stone too many.
The stone broke without being noticed,
and the second blow fell on his chest
He was buried next day. ss-..s
The sntess Yolsomachi, who mar
ried, a first husband, the ceIebra-
ted BisIe5 Heber, died recently in
Eng and, in the eighty-first year of Der
age, She was the youngest daughter Of
Dean Shipley, of st. Asaph, and
niece OF Sir. William Jones, the Orien-
tai scholar.
In st. Paul, Mimi, little girl while
drawing her baby brother about the
y
and the baby was slightly hurt. Fhe
girl was so terrified that she dropped
down as if shot, and her parents found
her dead.
A teacher, wishing to explain to a
little girl the manner in which a lob
ster casts its shell, when it has out
gown it, said: What do you do
when you have outgrown your clothes?
You throw them aside, don't you ?"
ooh, nO,n replied the little one, "we
let out the tucks." E ..-r
In the case of Hill versus Ribbetts,
where the inheritance of the property
Of the late Mr.. White. of Yorkshire,
amounting to 100000, was claimed by
a daughter born in New York, the
claim was barred by proofs of a valid
Scotch marriage of deceased previous to
his marriagesin New York.
A Calif6Enian was boasting in the
presence Ae Boston excursion party
in San SEQ, the other day, of the
ipf'ss of the seals in California
ws,.S gAh," replied one of the par
ty; y;S be OutdOne by the Californian
eve-s We matter of seals, "but you
shoT great seal of Massachu-
settA
LaWyo2s have q ludicrous habit of
identifying themselves with their cli-
ents by speaking in the plural number
4" Gentlemen of the jury" said Wes-
tern lawyer, "at the moment the po-
iceman says he saw us in the trap, I
will prove that we were locked up III
the station house in state of intOXica-
tion.n
Miss Mulock says to parents that the
time must come in every family when
it is the children's right to begin to
think and act for themselves, and the
parents duty to allow them to do it;
when it is the Wisest gradually to slack
en- authority, to sink 81 commando
into " WISH" and to grant large free
dom of opinion, and the expression of
Dickens is said to have given, in Mr..
Wilkins AicaWber, q playful and eX-
traYagant portrait of his father, Mr..
John Dickens, an impecuniOus clerk in
the Navy Pay Office, whose overdue
notes " Charles collected and paid.
If that is true, we would think less of
Dickens no true man make the world
merry by laughing at the foibIes of his
father.
Master Charlie, aged four years, was
not pleased on being reprOved by his
mother for some mischieYOus prank,
and showed his displeasure in his face,
when his mother remarked, " Why,
Charlie,I am astOnished to see you
making faces at your mother ~ Char
lie frightened up at once, and retOrted,
" Why, 1 meant to laugh; but, mann
ma, my face slipped" ..s--E--a
"NIy son." said a gentleman the
other morning to six-year old urchin,
/" l wish you to go on an errand to your
grandmOther's house to-day" 1t is
impossible" was the reply, IT belong
to the Highfyer and Tiger ball clubs,
and both play match to-day, the one
in the morning and the other in the
afternoon. Give me forty cents for
ball" -
Professor S., of Hartford, said the
other day that he felt uncOmfortably
stiff and sore-caught cold, perhaps
and he lay down on lounge and re-
questedhis friend w. to knead and rub
him after the movement cure style.
w. gently beat him on the chest. ''How
hollow it sounds" said X, who was
looking on. "That's nothing" said
w; 4" wait till get to his head"
A resident of Chelsea, Vt, named
Andrews, has been arrested for alleged
cruelty to a faithless lad for whom he
was guardian. The boy ran away to
| the village and Andrews after him.
On their return, when beyond the ken
of the village, it is alleged that An
drews took the boy out of the wagon,
hitched him up beside the horse, and
then drove him home, a distance of
about four miles, giving him a crack
with his whip whenever he failed to
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