The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-08-07
HAPPY THOUGHTS.
FooD for the imagination-Fanc,
bread.

| bread.
WHAT relation is door to the mat :
A step-father.
WHAT did Adam first plant in the gar
den of Eden? His foot.
A PLEASING figure is a perpetual letter
of recommendation bacon.
BEAUTY devoid of grace is a mere
hook without the bait.-T TalIeyraiad.
NAN is one thing in that he ''is;'
another, in that he is liable. ."-Altgsls-
tine.
WHAT is that which no one wishes to
have and no one wishes to lose? A
bald head.
In THIS world full often our joys are
only the tender shadows which our sor-
rows cast.-Beechcr.
WHEN he to whom we speak, and he
who speaks, DO not understaAd, that is
metaphysics. Voltaire.
THE beloved of the Almighty are the
rich who have the humility of the poor,
and the poor who have the magnanimity
of the rich.-Saadj.
A MAN with but one idea in his head
is sure to exaggerate that to top heavi-
ness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.
aaron HiU.
MONEY is only thus far standard of
value That which it can measure is
perishable that which it cannot is i'm
mortal. l.-BOUee.
LOVE, and you shall be loved. All
love is mathematically just, as much as
the two sides of an algebraic equation.
Emerson.
o MA said little girl who had been
0 the geological garden, I've seen the
elephant: and he walks backward and
eats with his tail.
THERE would not be half the difficult
ty in doing right, but for the frequent
occurrence of cases where the lesser vir-
tues are on the side of wrong.-J C.
Hare.
AN UNCONSCIOUS play upon words was
made, the other day, by little girl
while relating to a sympathizing lady
the loss of two pet calves. What
caused their death ? asked the lady.
o was the ans wer, one was hooked to
death, and the other died on its own
hook.
Now, Willie dear, says Fanny, do
have little courage when 1 have a
powder to take, I don't like it any more
than you do, but make up my mind
that I viii take it, and do. And when
have powder to take, replied Willie,
I make up my mind that I won't take
it, and don't.
THE Journalists are now the true
kings and clergy; henceforth historians,
unless they are fools, must write not of
Bourbon dynasties and Tudors and
Hapsburgs, but of stamped broad-sheet
dynasties and quite new successive
names according as this or the other
editor or combination gains ths worlds
ear Carlyle.
Two sparks from London once came
upon . decent looking shepherd in Ar
| gylshire, and accosted him with, You
have a very fine view here, you can see
a great way. Yu aye, yu aye, a ferry
great way. All you can see America
here, suppose? Farrar than that.
How is that? Gu jist wait tule the mist
gang away, and you'll see the mune.
HE THAT has delivered his country
| from oppression, or freed the world
from ignorance and error, can execite
the emulation of a very small number /;
but he that has repelled the temptations
of poverty, and disdained to free him
self from distress at the expense of his
virtue, may animate multitudes by his
example to the same frmness of heart
and steadiness of resolution. Johnson
IT Is my firm belief that every man
has his genius that is, a certain divine
gift of prophetic foresight in his inner
m, st soul to guide him; a species of
| light which, were we to heed it sufi-
cientIy instead of seeking to stille aLd
extinguish it by reasoning, worldly Wis
dom and prudence, would shed a sud-
den ray upon those obscure points ut
which two roads deviate.-Herder.
THE middle-aged, who have lived
through their strongest emotions, but
are yet in the time when memory is still
half passionate and not merely contem-
plative, should surely be a sort of natu-
raj priesthood, whom life has diciplined
and eonsecrated TO be the refuge and
rescue Of early stumblers and victims
of self-despair. Most of us, at some
moment in our young lives, would have
welcomed priest of that natural order
in any sort of canonicals or uncanoni-
Gals, but had to scramble upward into
all the difficulties Of 10 entirely without
such aid George Eliot.