The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-06-26
NUMBER 26.
GLEAN1NGs.

Henry Grinnell has spent $500, 600
in Arctic expeditions, and believes firm
ly in the Polar Sea
The average business of the New
York pick-pockets is said to amount To
from S15, 900 to $4,000 per week.
The Columbus, O., journal advocate
the abolition of the jury system and the
substitution therefor of a state-hip-
per-" who shall srbitrate all cases re-
ferred to him by the courts by Tipping
a copper.
-Shad fishing on the Hudson results
in an average daily catch of 29, 900 fish.
One hundred and ninety-txo boats val
ued st SIG, 459, 204 nets worth S3l, GA,
and $50 men to manipulate them, are
employed in the fishery.
The national board of underwriters
at their late meeting in New York re-
solved to raise a fund of $780, 600 for
the detection, conviction and punish
ment of parties engaged In lncendi-
arism and arson.
A drunken fellow emulated the ia
nous Sam Patch, q few days since, by
jumping from the bridge at Passaie
Falls, n. J., into the foaming water so
feet below. He came out alive, but 20
frightened that his drunk was all gone.
The first woman to hold a profess
orship in a Mexican college is Senorita
Isozano, who lately, obtained, on her
merits alone, and In competition with
three men, the vacant chair of English
in the female college of Gale Santa
Catarina.
An exchange remarks that it is ore
of the peculiarities of the boy, that he
g., l. I-.,.-,If t1a -, hoAhn
so to speak, at the top of the lungs.
The bathing boys paradisaic uncon-
sciousness of nudity Is also q curious
matter of remark.
The French nursery maid is fast
displaeing Bridget in that capacity in
New York, and with her neat dress,
white cap, pretty face and black eyes,
forms fitting escort to the groups of
neatly dressed children met with on the
fashionable avenues every fine after
noon.
The police of New York have re-
auested all citizens intending to leave
their homes for a summer sojourn to
give their names and the numbers of
their city residences to the central Office,
that their household goods may be
more vigilantly guarded during their
absence.
A Young man who was attending a
night writing-school at Danville, Ind,
was smitten by the charms of "A lady
present, and at the close of the school
pressed forward and asked if he might
escort her home. Eyes" said she, "if
you will cary my little boy. He
wilted, and the young matron walked
home alone.
One of the young officers at the
lava bed received n letter from the girl
he left behind him, which contained
this tender paragraph; And If any
thing should happen to You, do make
some arrangement TO have your hair
recovered and sent on. Tt is the exact
color of mine, and l cant get pair OF
! the right shade anywhere here.
a-Leprosy has turned up in New
Brunswick. A member of the Domin-
ion Parliament informed his iucredu-
lous colleagues, recently, that it had
existed in a certain district of that
province for sixty years, and the local
authorities could not do more than con-
fine it in certain narrow limits. Ade-
duate Accommodations for those afflicted
are still wanting.
The Chinese-haters of S1n Francis
co, who desire to avoid patronizing
" cheap labor" complain that the shoe
dealers, while exhibiting their goods in
cases bearing the American manufac-
turers' trademarks, constantly replen-
ish the cases with shoes made by Chi
namen. Manufacturers are therefore
called upon to adopt a system of
''marking" each boot and shoe that
they make for the tradesmen-