The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1872-11-21
DRIFTINGS.

The devil is most devilisa when
he is respectable.
Dies are engraved now; in Cu-
Sars time the 0ie was cast.
No one breaches better than the
ant and she says nothing.
Most men employ the first part of
their lives to make the other part
miserable.
Would you expect TO find a sweet
eyed girl among the Mis- souri,?
The word impossible is tbs
mother-tongue OF little souls, said
Lord Brougham.
"a thing of beauty is JOY forev-
ar" Is it, my boy? Marry it, and
you'll find it very much the reverse.
Punch.
The abundant city hardwa is
ak, and the abomination Of tho
custc m house is, "Due-yoar duty
He that wrest'es with us strength
rs our nerves and sharpens our
skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Burke
A Spartan mother in Kansas,
when her son goes out to battle on
election day, gives him wheelbar-
row, with the terse injunction TO re-
turn with it or within it. The
young man has obey,d her for scv
eral years.
David Ross, a Macon, Ca, boy,
who went to New York soon after
the war, has Invented a match
which promises to supercele all
others in use, and he has already C.
fused $4,000, for his invention:
The Wisconsin marshes are Weld
ing alternate crops of Intermittent
fever and cranberries to the extent
Of from two hundred TO three hun
dred bushels to the acre. Shaken
together-Scripture measure.
The experiment at Westville,
Conn, Of factory for the extrac-
ton of oil from cotton waste has
proved a decided success. BY this
process old grimy, greasy rags and
waste cotton are rendered perfectly
pure, Odorless and merchantable.
To natter people adroitly one
must know three things: What
lhey really are, what they think
they are, and what they want other
people to think they are.
It is easier to pretend to be what
you are not than to hide what you
really are; but he that can accom-
plish both has very little to learn in
An honest old farmer, on being
informed the other LAY that one OF
the judges owed him a grudge,
growled out, "No matter; he never
pays anything"
He who sedulously attends, point
edly asks, calmly speaks, coolly an
3wers, and ceases when he has no
more to say, is in possession Of
some OF the best requisites of man.
-LaVatsr.
Spinks is not going to do any
more IN connundrums. He asked
ais wife why he was Ike a donkey,
md she said because he was born
50, and nc says that the answer is
very different from that.
Laziness grows on people; it be
yins in cobwebs and ends in iron
;hains. The moro business a man
las to do the mnre he is able to az
for he learns to econo.
nize his time.
Said n friend to a merchant who
vas trying to collect some outstand-
ng bills, "You have good deal Of
money coming TO you, haven't
'oug' Yes" replied the merchant,
and I can't help wondering why /
lave to run so often after what is
coming to me-"
A Western farmer recBlessIy pub
ished the following challenge: Il
viii bet 1925 that my hired man
an take longer to go to the harvest
eld, get back to dinner quicker,
at more, do less, and bear down
arder on a panel of the fence, than
ny other hired man within fifteen
Giles Of the flagstaff in Jefferson"
We never knew a cabman with an
yeglass, or a chimney-sweep with
pectacles. We never knew a lady
ny a bargein at 8 show sale and
OF afterwards regret It. We never
new a man propose the toast Of
he evening without wishing that il
al not been placed in abier hands.
We never dnew a waiter in a hurry
{ a chop house who did not say
nat he was "Coming, sir" when
sally he was going. We never lost
game TO = professional at billiards
.ithout hearing him assign his trl,
mph chiefly to his scratches.
The Detroit Free Fross says: just
, q passenger train going vest on
ie Detroit and Milwaukee road
was clear Of the city, and
inning ct the rate Of ten or twelve
lies an honr, an old man named
ixon, living ia Ionia county, sud-
snly leaped from his seat, rushed
the platform aud bounded oil.
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