The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-03-13
GLEANINGS.

GLEAElNGS.
DExvRn has a population Of 1884,
against Io, ,s32 a year ago.
THEY are giving balls in Wisconsin
town TO raise money 20 start news
paper.
boo teams on She ice are All the rage
at Duluth, aud they 90 10 miles an
hour, too.
CHtoAeo university IS trying to raise
800, 600 for a special department for
the education of ", men.
An Omaha bride was married bare
foot. because her lovers linsfolk dress
ed that way, and she did not wish to
seem proud.
A BILL to enable a married woman to
sue and be sued. aud enjoy other rights
of '.f mme sole. is before the Iili-
nois Legislature.
TIE result of a critical inquiry INTO
| the health OF Oxford aud Cambridge
rowing men, from 1929 10 1865, is seon
/ to be published.
PARsoN Newman and wife went to
bali in Washington, the other night.
and some old-fashioned Methodists talk
of diseiphning them.
A La CRossE (Wis,) girl rubbed her
cheek against her sisters husbands
hand TO get up a healthy glow for
ball, and she has been turned out Of the
house for it.
| A NASHVILLE reporter Is said to hive
such large hands that he wears no
iewelrv here below, but expects, when
he gets 70 heaven. 10 be allowed to wear
one o. Saturn's rings IS a eenapensa-
ton.
SUSAN B. ASrHofsY says she never
swore but once IN her life. Ia the ex
citement OF the illegal voting investi-
ration she forgot she " + Quaker, and
swore. really swore, she was a citizen Of
he United States.
CH1oAeo's gas meter Inspector reports
that the majority Of met r., instead Of
registering more, register considerably
less than actually passes through thCm,
but most Chicagoans find II rather hard
10 believe him.
AND now WiIkie Collins Is convicted
of plagiarism. His .'BIown Up With a
Brig. sailors story" happens TO be
word for word the same as story Ia
Dickens S'Haunted House" entitled
"A Gbost in the CdPboard-room.'
THr Legislature Of Illinois haa been
debating on a.resolutiop 70 pay $500 for
set Of surveying instruments ones
used by Lincoln, to be placed in the
state library, until the time speslt
amounts to several times the worth of
the set, and still it is unable to decide
whether It is worth more than 500 or
not.
sEYMoUR, Ind, doesn't propose to be
''ravaged" by smaii-pox, or anything
else. Her council has passed an afdin-
ance requiring citizens whose families
are afflicted with any Contagious disease,
such as measles. ehiclSen-pox, VhooP-
ing-cough, mnmps, etc, TO hang ont a
red flag, the sick one 70 stay IA con-
finement, and. on recovering, 70 burn
all Of his or her clothing.
Tnr latest little joke on Cincinnati
{ coming. ofcouree fromSt. Lsonis-isihat
the Pork city is building a Brob6gua-
gian sausage for the vienaa exhibition.
II viii require the Great Eastern t. toss il
across The ocean, after it has bren float
3 ed down the Mississippi 70 the Gulf 1t
. "a to be made in sections ia railroad
tunnel, the hogs being driven IN by the
b hundred aud then subjected to hydraa-
p lie pressure.
+ so1rgBoDY played nice hoax on DR..
d ! Cuminfs. an Engiish lecturer, few
} nights ago. He was to lecture st
! Folkenstone on .erhe Pope and His
: Work IN England" but, jusi as be
b mounted the pissIoFin. a Telegram was
placed IN bis hand infoTming HIM that
I lhs pope bad died at 10 o'clock that
Z morning. The lecture was soiteued
!, down into a mild comment on the
!, solemn event. aud it was some TINS be
i fore the sell was known.
= THE commissioner appointed iIy the
u governor Of Minnesota 70 nialea pcrst,issl
2 examination into tie number OF gntaii.
4 ties attending the late storm has report
] cd the total deaths IA the 4 counfies
:. where the storm was feregat 70 ite %
- There we're many cases 81 frozen limb'
lr that required ampntation. and many
n pairs Of oxen aBd horses wers frozen
lt bat the loss ot hnusan life was, a. ap
" pears from tliis report. gea II exag
u eerased - the first accounts. Some q
% the bodies 11sve not yet beca found.
Ia W1soossIs has bssn nicely Isiannin
Ih some very god amendments - heF jar
he laws, abolishing the provision by vhie
al except Bataral born fools snd othe
Is people Who don't read The newspaper
n are rendered ineiigihle for jury servie'
IN and punisliag men found guilty OF COZ
be spring to get on a jury with view to
,st specific verlics. regardless Of evidence
re. bat whea the bill vas brought uPln th
a, Legislasare, the other day, FOR hnl
e; astioa. there vas ''hitoh. and It VI
~ consigned 70 the lasting oblivion Of II
definite Postponement.