The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1872-08-01
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The ladies of Paris, Ky, are form
i2g an anti-speak-evil-of your-neigh-
Dor socie:y. Good thing.
The new leap year style of pop
ping the question is, do you
want me to wash dishes for your
Il am not myself at all to dav,"
saiu a bore to wit. NO matter
for that was the reply; whoever
else You may be, you are the gainer
by the change"
| An elderly maiden lady hearing
! that matches wer= made in heaven
declared she did not care how soon
she left this sinful world Tor a bet
ter land.
No characteristic Of man, no ex-
hibition of his mntd, takes such a
striking and placid illustration as
the quality of dicisFon from the his
tory of our species.
Dying persons are generally more
devOut than others, because they see
their misery; that nothing in this
world can help them, ard that God
is their only refuge.
An old maid suggests that when
men break theiI hearts it is all the
same as when a lobster breaks one
of his claws-another sprouts i'm
mediately and grows up in the same
place.
When VIC see thousands Of men in
a field, marshalled under their res
pective colors, all yielding exact
Obedieace, we infer that there is
General to whose orders they are
subject.
The following was q. speech by 2
successful competitor for the prize
of foot race. "Gentlemen, have
won this cup by the use of my legs:
/ trust that may never loose the use
Of my legs by the use of this cup!"
We are all sculptors and painters,
and our material is our own flesh
aud blood and bones. ANY noble
ness begins at once TO refine a mans
features, any meanness or sensuality
to imbrute them. a
Bartoe says: Private sincerity is
public welfare. A common faith is
a fortress we agree to defend, and
have to desert. How many creeds
once alive and swarming with
champions resemble the mouldy cas-
ties Of the Danube and Rhine?
Josh Billings says, 1--WE read that
Esau sold out hiz birth rite for soup
and meny wonder at his extrava-
gance, but Esau djsEivored arly,
what meny q man has diskivered
since, that it il hard work tcw live
on re ligree." s.. 4
A little four year old bcset his
mother to talk TO him and say some
thing funny. How can IT' she
asked; don't you see how busy
am baking these piesy'' "WeI you
might say, Charley, won't you have
a pieT That would be funny for.
yoar'
"How far is it to CIub CreekY'
asked traveller of a woman at a
tollgate. "Only shoost a leetls way"
as it four, six, eight, ten or twelve
milesY' impatientIy asked the fret
ful traveller. "Yas, dinks it ish. |
sir" serenely replied the unmoved |
gatekecpor.
In Mexico the custom is, when a
duel has been tonight, to erect !
cross on the spot, and every one |
that passes throws a stone at the |
cross. Some ingenious Yankees /
have taken advantage OF the custom
to clear stony land to erect crosses
where no duel has been fought.
War has been a terrible scourge |
to Paris. The last census taken in
that city proves that the population
has decreased 100000 and that
there are 10000 vacant apartments
in the city. The value OF real cs
tate is twenty per cent less than be
fore the war. !
The members OF the Farmers
Club-the illustrious savan Of the
august American Institute-are
holding long and repeated discus
sions rs to whether cows pluck of
the grass with their tongues, or bIte
it of with their teeth, and also
whether rabbits do or do not chew
the cud.
Dean Stanley recently said, in a
delivered before the printers
of London, that once Architecture
was the press, and told great
thoughts TO the world in stone, but
now the press was architecture, and
is building up the world of ideas
and usagos.
a Western New York miss un-
guardedly volunteered the remark
in the family circle that when gen
tlemen eat warm maple sugar it gets
into their moustaches and makes
them scratchy. Her father is curl
ous to know how she found out so
much.
Always avoid the company in
which you aIe willing to tell a coarse
est, because for you il is a demoral-
zing company. GrOssncSs IS is never
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