The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-09-11


her daughter, elf you are 50 stiff andre
served, you viii never got husband "
Yon have heard OF the snake in the grass, my boy
on the terrgble snake in the grass;
But now you must know,
Mans deadliost foe
Is a snake Of different class,
,ris the venemous snahe In the giassi
THE greatest benefit which one friend
can bestow on another, is to guard and
excite and elevate his virsues.--Llr-
johnson.
PRosPER1Tx is a great teacher, ndver-
sity a greater. Possession panPers the
mind privation trains and strengthens
it.-Haslitt.
Tmfirst ingredient in conversation i,
truth, the next good sense, the third
good humor, and the fourth wit-Str
William Temple.
FIND that successful exertion is
powerful means of exhilaration. which
discharges itself in good humor on
others.-DT. Chalmers.
AUSTRALIA last year produced $751;
5Of bushels of wheat, being an increase
of s90, ,sO9 bushels over the yield Of the
preceding year.
SOME interesting Shaksperean docu-
nents Rave been discovered, which con-
tradict the recent theories toliehing
Shakspeare's business with theatres.
Those kinsfoIk account our kind relations
whoso ready loans freqseut needs avail;
And take the oo1sequsncss when We fail.
"TALK1Ne about the jaws Of death, +"
exclaimed a man who was living with
his third seolding wife. ST tell you
they are nothing to the jaws Of life r
THE perfection Of conversation is, not
to play a regular sonata, bat like the
Holian harp, to await the inspiration
Of the passing breeze.-Bprke.
IT is when you come close to man in
conversation that you discover What his
real abilities are. To make q speech in
public assembly is g inack.--or. ,Iolsss-
son.
FIRST lesson in kissing-the gentle
man should be little the taliest. He
should have clean face, a kind eye, and
a mouth full Of expression instead Of To-
baeco.
A LITTLE boy horn very far north en-
treated his mother TO tell him sons stc-
ries about bad boys. and, upon her ex-
pressing astonishment, said he wanted
to find out how they got out Of sernPes.
TIE world viii still be able 10 make
shift. Is has been aseertained that ths
cotton supply annually increases four
per cent. faster than the cotton-consun-
ing population Of the world.
KATE FIELD says that for downright
unconscious impudence the Britisher
has not his equal on the face Of the
globe. The nasal ..tweng is moi an
American idiosyncrasy. Many London.
ers have it, while il prevails 70 al
alarming extent in certain counties.
An Indiana man claims to have sne-
ceeded in playing a thorough conf
denee-gane upon the potato bugs. He
planted q grain Of corn IN each potato
hill. and. as the corn came mp fret. the
bags thought II vas corn-held, and
started for other seenes-
TnR Herald and Journal Of Salt Lake
CITY think that Ann Eliza's suit sgainst
Brigham Is only E biack-maiisd opera
ton. and also that it wiz succeed, as
the prophet viii "hleed freely" rather
than have his domestic Affairs turned
wrong side out.
Fcn stern, close thought, the mind
must be schooled by habits Of close sP-
pIication, and this is more rsrs than one
would imagine; for notwithstanding
what is called applicatioH in our public
schools. tho mind is 50 little employed
IA II. that few men ever know how 70
isolsts themselves from present objects
enough 70 think really. and the habit is
easily lost.-O. r. oosusoaiifs.
TIrE first saws Of which we have any
any trace we're thiss-baeked, 50 that ths
cutting edge should work freely and
g pinehingv be avoided. Setting,
or pr0truding The seeth upon either
side Of the blade. Is Of q more resent
invention. The oldest saws new IL
preservation show thiok cutting edge
and thin back, vish tseth square in
front.
osH oould take down a book froIa
shelf ten times more wise snd witty
thaa almost any nnn's conversation.
Bacon is wiser, sWift naors numerous.
tbaa apv person one i likely 70 meet
with bat fhey caanot ohizns il with
the exact frame Of thought IN which We
happen to saks them down fsom o1ir
shelves. Therein lies the luxury o-
conversation, and when living sreakef
does not yield us that irxuEy, be BE-
comes only book on two legs. = Camp
ben.