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

NUMBER IL
Vile says there was no social question
that was not discussed to rags in E,ayl [.
ANCIENT AIDs TO VIsroS.-Cicero saia
that he had seen the entire Had, w.bici
is a poem as large as the New Tests
ment, written skin so that it eonl
be rolled mp IN the compass of e mt
she'll. Now, this is imperceptible e.
she ordinary eve. Very recently th,
whole contents of a London newspaper
were photographed on a p per half as
long "a the hand. It was put under
love's wing and sent into Paris, wher,
they enlarged it and read the news
This copy of the Iliad must have beei
made by some such process. PIiu,
says That Nero, the tyrant, had ring
with gem in it which he looked
through and watched the sword-'llay ot
he gIaaiators, more clearly than wiH
lie naked eye. 50 Nero had an opera
glass. AIauritius. the italian, stood az;
he promontory OF his island and cont.
sweep over the entire sea to the eCast a..
Africa with his 1allsen8ils which is
word derived from two Greek wnF,s
meaning to see ship. Evidently
Mauritius, who was pirate, Ia I =
marine telescope. The signet of n Iirc
N Dr. Abbot's museum, said to belong
to Cheops, who lived Ave hundred
years before Christ, is about the size @!
a quarter OF a dollar and the engraving
is invisible without the aid of glasses
In Parma is shown a gem once worn on
the finger of Michael Angelo, of which
the engraving is two thousand years
old, in which there are the figures of
seven women. A glass is needed to
distinguish the forms at all. Layarl
says he would be unable to read tho en-
cravings ON Nineveh without strong
speetacles, they are SO extremely small.
Rawlinson brought home 8 stone abnui
twenty inches long and ten wide, con-
tanning an entire treatise on mathema-
tics. 1t would be perfectly illegible
without glasses. Now, if We are I'M
able to read it without the all OF
glasses, you may suppose that. the man
who engraved it had pretty strol g
| spectacles. So, the microscope, instead
Of dating from our time, finds its
brothers in the Books of AIoses-and
! these are infant brothers.
OLD HINTS OF New THras.-Years
before Franklin's invention of the light
ning-rod, and before muskets were
hought of, the old soldiers on guard on
the towers, if spark passed between
hem and the spear-head, ran and bore
yarnag of the state and condition OF
lffairs. Solomon's temple, lofty and
situated on an exposed part of hill,
vas guarded by a system exactly like
Franklin's. The Duchess of RnrguD
" took necklace from the neck of
mummy aud wore it to n ball given a
,hs Tuileries, and every body said they
thought it was the newest thing there
4 Hindoo princess came into court, anS
her father seeing her said, $50 homo
you are not decently covered : go home;
and she said, Father, I have seyel
suits on ;" but the suits were Of muslin
so thin that the king could see through
hsIn Fur sl,ailrlrvtt and fifty year
lgo the spinning machine was first II
Toduced into Europe Yet we hav
evidence to show that it made its az
pearance two thousand years before
We have not an astrology in the star
serving only the kings and priests; "
have an astrology serving all thos
lround us. We have not n chemistr
hidden IN underground cells, strivin
ior wealth, striving to change evlr
hing into gold. No. we have chem
stry 1aboring with the farmer, an
Iigging gold out of the earth with til
miner. All this IS the nincteeth Ger
5ury, and of the hundreds Of things "
know, can show you ninety-nine c
them which have been anticipated. ]
is the liberty of intelligence and dii
fusion of knowledge that has sause
this authorization