The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-09-25
Who piakcs by force his merit muwn,
And lives TO clutch tha golden keys,
TO mold 6 mighty states derreoa,
And shEpe tho whisper or the thrones
And moving up from high % higher,
Becomes on fortunes rruwniug Hlofse
The pillar Of a peoples hope
The center Of a worlds af-rfraa- Tr5lsfss1ss

WHEN Jones's board-bill was presen-
ted, he said he did not have enough
money to pay it. opening his wallet at
the same time. His landlady, seeing
qnite n number OF bank notes, rather
doubted his word, and inquired what
denomination those bills were. "De-
nomination9" said Jones. Well, I
don't know; but 7 guess they must be
of the Unitarian denomination. Tor they
are all ones.
A GENTLEMAN who takes 8 buainesa
view Of most things, when recently
asked respecting person of quite po-
etio temperament, replied o be il one
Of those men who have soarings after
the infinite and divings after the uH-
fathenable, but who never pay cash.
A POOR little church-goer asked his
mother where the cattle with a thou
sand tails lived. .. Cattle with thou
sand tails, child r exclaimed the aston
ished parent, there are no such things
yes, there are, returned the boy 'tie
minister said the cattle with Thousand
tails were the Lords -
VoLrArRE had an actor. paulin, at
Fsrney. who played the tyrant in his
private theatricais Voltaire slept very
little, and passed half The night iii rnak-
ing changes in his pieccs, About three
o'clock, one morning, having Thought
Of a new speech for Panlin, he woke up
bis servant, aud ordered hifa 70 carry
it 10 the actor. But. sir, said the
servant, % the poor man isn't up At this
time r ''Go 20 him, cried the poet.
Immediately; tyrants never sleep"
A Man IN Pennsyfyania has invented e
rat-trap that is made 10 operate npon
the selfish passions OF the pooy rat, and
lure him into trouble. A mirror is set
in the back part Of the device, beyond
the bait, and a. bis ratahip is out on
foraging expidition he espies the bait
at the same time believes his own image
in the mirror 10 be another rat making
for IT on the opposite side. This is too
much for rat nature 70 stand snd be
cool over, 50 he rushas for the bait and
is caught.
When considef lie. ~ ~ cheat
Trtiai On. and thiak - aanrfps alli reraf.
To-udrltl94a fafsff Than the f1FE1eF das.
LES seorae, sna aise g safz - shall b. fle=t
win come rev i1fel citis eh wat ae lrssa4s.
Strange coca azei Eao Nnrld isve past ytars
sF4a7
Yet sl ho1.s pleasure iu ehhi se raiaaia.
And rfuHa tAs drfil - LIE i1il- 81 rraalfF
what the arsf apr.ehfiy runfline e.5fId l.5f Give
Tn tired ~ waiting Ter filie chr ma roid
Nhics taaas - yoHng sad baEgzFs pa ssan eis-
Br1ffea.
A sAoo woman. while putting down
carpet a few days ago. accidentally
spilled a paper OF tacts in q chair. and,
before che hsd timo 70 remove thsms
she was eaIied away 70 attend to q lsdy
visitor. who dropped in to iell herabost
q love Of bonnet she had seen over ~
Riddeford aud. in the excitement Of
listening to the description Of the bon
net. she forgot Ali about ths taeks.
When her husband oeae home at nisit
! ho sat dowa IN the chair to take 81 bis
boots. and thaa be got up again, with
ont wasting any tisaes snd made 8 speecai
and bis wife s esa8x q take her oath
{ that he csn qaose mere scripture in =
short spaes q time than any ether maa
( nov living