The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-09-25
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men With ten thousand dollars a year
suffer more want of means than others
with three hundred. The reason is, the /
richer man has artificial wants. His in
come is ten thousands, and he suffers |
enough from being dunned for unpaid |
debts to XIII a sensitive man. A man
who earns dollar day, and who does
not run In debt is the happier man of
the two. Very few people who have
never been rich viii believe this, but it
is true. There are thousands and thou
sands with princely incomes who never
know a moments peace because they
live above their means. There is really
more happiness in the world among
working people than among those who
are called rich.
PRoF. PAINTER of Naples, the gallant
observer who, it viii be remembered,
enjoyed himself on the slopes of Vesu-
vius during a recent leng-continued
eruption, has lately constructed an cleo
trical apparatus of great deicacy and
ingenuity, the object of which is to de-
tect the admixture of other oils with
that of the pure olive. The instrument
is founded on the fact of the variability
in the powers of conduction possessed
by the,various oils, olive being lowest
in the scale. The wires of battery
are brought to a small elongated vessel
containing the oil to be examined, and
an electroAeter being attached, the de-
gree of conductivity can be read off on
a scale. The instrument, it is said, can
detect any of the usual adulterants with
the utmost nicely. 1t has also been ap-
piled to the detection of wooden or cot
ton fibres in silk fabrics with equal
success.
AN English technical periodical points
out an easy way of testing whether
water is good and fit for general use. 1t
says: Good water should be free from
color, unpleasant odor and taste, and
should quickly afford lather with
small portion of soap. If half pint
Of water be placed in perfectly clean,
colorless, glass-stoppered bottle, few
grains of the best white lump sugar
added, and the bottle freely exposed to
/ the daylight of the window of a warm
room, the water should not become
! turbid, even after exposure for week
or ten days. If the water becomes tur-
bid, it is open. to the grave suspicion of
sewage contamination but if it remains
clear, it is almost certainly safe.
A CASE is concluded in Indiana in
manner to indicate that when railway
company sells a ticket it is with the
understanding that the passenger shall
be supplied with a seat. A passenger
in Indiana lately refused to give The
conductor his ticket until he was sup
piled with a seat. The train being
crowded the conductor could not comply
with his request, and put the passenger
off the car, throwing his baggage after
him. The latter entered suit against
the company, and he was awarded 50, 900
damages by the jury which tried the
case.
IT IS stated that by a careful analysis
it has been found that apples contain a
larger amount of PHOSPHORUS, or brain
food than any other fruit or vegetable,
and, on this account they are very i'm
portant to sedentary men, who work
their brains rather than their muscles.
They also contain the acids which are
needed every day, especially for seden-
tary men, the action of whose liver is
sluggish, to eliminate effete matter
which, if retained in the system, pro-
| duoes inaction Of the brain, and, in
deed, of the whole system, causing
jaundice, sleepiness, scurvy and trouble
some diseases of the skin.
EIGHTEEN million suns furnish the
light for the milky way, which is the
greatest feature of our heavens. How
far Sc parate these suns may be we know
not, but they are so far distant from us
that light travelling with its incredible
speed, is ages in reaching the earth.
One astronomer said he had gone back
in the milky way SO far as would require
100000 years for the transmission of
light. Whether the telescope has al
lowed the human eye to guage it more
or less, the fact stands that the bounds
of creation are unreasonable as their
eternal Creator.
SAYS thatwalking syclopediao health,
DIR. Hall When persons are feverish
beyond what is natural, indicated in
some cases by a metallic tante In the
mouth, especially after drinking water,
or by whitish appearance of the greater
part of the surface of the tongue, one
of the best " COOLER" internal or ex-
ternsl, is to take lemon, cut eff the
top, sprinkle over it some loaf sugar,
working it down into the lemon with g
spoon, and then suck it slowly, squeez-
ing the lemon and adding more sugar
as the ascidity increases from being
brought up from the lower point. In.
valids with feverishness may take two
or three lemons day in this manner
with the most marked benefit, mani.
tested by a sense of GOODNESS, comfort
and inauguration. A lemon or two thus
taken at tea-time, as an entire substitute
, for the ordinary supper of summer
/ would give many comfortable nights
sleep. and an awakening after rest snG
+ inauguration, with an appetite for break
p fast to which they are strangers who
will have their cup of tea for supper Of
relish" and cake, and thcir berries
or peaches and cream.
+ THE little republic of Switzerland
which has reposed so TRANQUILITY in tn,
Alps for the last half century, unmind
full of the great wars which have beer
= waged all around it, is at last impressed
D by the necessity of arming itself witt
= the view to future contingencies. TIL
D government has commenced reorgani
a zing the army and fortifying NOR
. strongly its strategetically importan
places. The alliances which have latel,
4 been made have alarmed the govern
! ment, and it is now firmly believed tina