The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1872-04-25
NUMBER II.
m!ScELLANEOUs TEmS.

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SO slowly does laziness travel
that poverty soon overtakes it.
Memphis has clergyman, 4 doe
tors and Is gamblers to every Loco
people.
Lemon juice is used BY physi-
clans to effect a cure for some at
tacks of rheumatism.
Scientific experiment lnakes the
extreme velocity Of the wind TO be
93 miles an hour.
Rousseau says: "afen can bet
ter philosophise on the human
heart, but women can read it better.
The average depth of the Atlantic
ocean is three miles; the Pacific four
miles.
The Alsatian how is the latest
novelty OF the day in trimmings,
land IS used on dresses, cioaks,
saeques and bonnets.
Mrs. Myra Clark Gains last week
g9t two important decisions in her
favor in the United States Circuit
Court at New Orleans.
A Milwaukee lover, dying lately,
left his sweetheart a poor maiden,
a fortune Of $4,000. There are
few such lovers to be found.
Christopher Christison, aged sc,
and Elizabeth Baker, aged 75, were
made one the other day. That enc
must be very aged.
Jet is all the rage this season,
and many of the handsomest bon
nets are trimmed with jet fringe, or
leaves and flowers composed en-
tirely Of small jet beads.
Itis the proper thing, we hear, for
a baby to wear a diamond neck
lace and sleeve clasps, on state oc-
easions, such as a mammals recep-
tion day or at its christening.
Tie r.isanthrope of the St. Louis
Times says: They actually pro-
pose to hang two men at Louisville
who are too poor to pay for bein~
acquitted Of their crimes"
What can be a more wretcheu
sight than to see a starving miscl
m0rtify without reiigienI-to sub.
nit to such voluntary hardships to
no purpose, and lose the present
without providing for the future.
Some entcrprising chemist has
discovered that the seeds Of aspara-
gus, when dried, parched and
ground, make a coffee but little in
ferior to Mocha, and that III y con
tain In common with tea aud coffee
the principle called theme.
A New Fairfield, Conn.,, man has
invented torpedo, in the shape of
kerue' of corn, which Is designed for
the beguilement of crows. As sOt n
as the offensive bird takes hold Of it,
it eXplodes, and blows the top of is
head Off.
How many toll on, disquiet, and
harass themselves, as if desperately
struggling against poverty, at the
same time they are surrounded with
abundance; have not only enough
far more in fact than they actuA.-
" enjoy.
Speaking Of the election of del :
gates to a Radical convention, the
Philadelphia Press says to its read
ers: "Yote for ne man that you
would not trust in business, or as 10
whose character there is the Slight
est suspicion
An old gentleman in Pcnns' l an a
walked forty miles 10 pay his sub
seription TO a newspaper. This is a
severe rebuke to the many men who
would walk forty miles to keep from
paying their subscriptions CoAy-
Ter Journal.
1t is stated that in the United
States two hundred and eighty one
soldiers lost both eyes, one
hundred and eighteen who lost both
legs, eleven who lost both feet, five
who lost both hands, thirty-iiye who
lost both arms, and sixteen who
lost an arm and a leE.
As the sun ripens and swectens
fruit hy shining upon them, without
which they would be sonr and nnsa-
worry, so it is the sunshine OF Gods
love and favor that sweetens al
earthly blessings, without which
they would be but crosses and
carscs to them that profess them.
One Of the laws Of Russia ordains
that any one found in q state Of in-
toxication upon the highways are
condemned, without regard to their
social position, to sweep the streets
for one day. tits said Ia be nO un-
usual thing in st. Petersburg 10 sce
well dressed persons thus employed.
In Mexico tile custom Is, wbeE o
duel has bcen fought, TO erect
cross on the spot, and every one
that passes by throws a stone at
the cross. Some ingenious Yankees
have taken advantage Of the cnstt N
to clear stony land by erecting
crosses whore there has been no
duel.
The Richmond Enquirer 10 view
OF the number of applications for
Virginia colonelcies. suggests that
''if the General Assembly, would iB
corporate in the tax bill a provision
making commissions IN the State
militia saleable. and charge a moaer-
ate price therefor, they could raise
enough money 70 paY OF tho public
debt in about three year,
a Missouri eenius has recently
taken out a very novel patent. Tho
i0velti0n consists in so combining
and arranging q poultry roost with
the gates of one or more bcehiyes.
that the perehing Of the poultry ul-.
on the roost win seive automatically
70 close the hives. The object is to
ensure the closing Of The hives at
night. 50 as 20 exclude the bee moth.
and the opening of The same in the
morning 20 permit the passage ~
the bets IN aud cut during he day
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