The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-07-03

o could Won hear the music
That hear through the storm,
Or know what keeps me smiling,
Ny heart 80 rosy warm.
The rapsrrsof the evening,
When past the outer harms,
rest by my own heartl-fre,
And my child is in my arms
-Shiytey Dare
THE only ringthatshould be tolerated
The wedding ring.
PANN1ER-A waist basket " for back
Numbers Of old newspapers.
Why is a lovely young lady like a
hinge 2-Benause she is something to
adore.
CAS a gentleman who sees a lady
home under an umbrella be fitly desig-
mated as a rain beau?
A oYNIc describes marriage as an altar
on which man lays his wallet and wo-
man her affections.
4 YOUNG husband calls his wife
e Birdie, because, he says. she is al
ways associated in his mind with a bill.
A PEORIA man says that his wife's
tongue wears ont so many sets of false
teeth that the dentists bills have nearly
broken him up. s
Our hen-peeked remarks with surprise
that when his wife is well enough to
get round " she Immediately resumes
her wrangles.
Foor-BAIL, according to the newspa-
pers, is becoming a popular game all
over the country. Boston girls claim
to be the most slzillful.
A aooD-LooKINs female doctor has
settled in Charlotte, Michigan, and
every man in town is taking pills by the
quart, at two cents per pill.
TWENTY students of the Pittsburg
female college having become converted
declare their determination to firt with
none but young divinity students here
after. n
A CAIRO man warns people not to
trust his wife, and she retorts by saying
that he'll go without clothes all summer
before she'll take in Washing TO rig him
out again.
An honest lover in Massachusetts, has
given to his prospective father-in-law a
load of wood to replace that consumed
during his evening sparkling visits
last winter.
A BosToN paper tells this A lady
called at drugstore and breathlessly
remarked: s'There I have serenaded
all the way down here to get recipe
prescribed, and disremember the COM
bustibles p
SoME one calls the 'srace Of American
women indolent p whereupon one OF
them retorts g I wonder If that man
ever reflected upon the amount of shop
ping we do, and the Willingness with
which we do it ?''
A PEORIA girl, on her marriage, sold
her piano and bought sewing-machine
and material enough to make full suits
for her husband and herself, and
strightway went to work making them
up. Her sisters are already married.
THERE are people who still hold that
a woman On the battlefield would be an
absurdity but they never saw a brave
woman, In bloomer costume, going
through a crowded street and preserv-
ing throughout the walk placid coun-
tenance.
TIE audience at a Chicago theater
were disposed to be hilarious, the other
night, when the wife of a man who had
risen from his seat between the acts
and started for the door, cried out,
"Where are you going, John?" John
was disgusted, but kept on.
A sAUCY young widow out west said to
a clerical friend who asked her condol-
ingly, how long her tIamented had
been dead, CT am IN the honeymoon OF
my widowhood. (" That widow viii be
boasting some day about celebrating a
golden funeral
EXPERIENCE goes to show that girls in
school offer less excuses on account OF
sickness than boys. Many times it is
wonderful to Rnd how siclkly boys are
when recitation time comes. As to ca
pacity for laying hold of the higher
branches, the same experience has been
that the best students in differential
and integral calculus were girls. The
most pleasing demonstration Of geo
metrical problems have come from the
charming girls.
A GENTLEMAN of " elegant leisure, y
and bachelor at that, has been anus.
/ ng himself with matrimonial statistics,
and reports that out of two hundred
marriages published IN New England
journals last week, only two of the
ladies had old fashioned names, such as
Mary and Susan. All the others were
Mollies, Doilies, Poilies, Libbies, Tib.
bies, Biddies, Hatties, Patties, Matties
Ldzzies, and so on He says if he car
hear of some girl with familiar
christian name. he win start for her
An exchange says "an economies
lady in 0berlin, Ohio, recently engaged
an old man, who has SIX children tS
support, to dig and fix her acre garden
The old man worked about week, and
on asking for his pay the lady HANDED
him bundle, which she said contained
a valuable waterfall which he could sell
He took the fixin' 70 a hair-dresser
and found to his chagrin, that it wa
not worth a quarter, being an old jut,
concern which had done long service
He declined to 60 back to the lady, a
he said, for she might poison him 70
the purpose Of stealing his old boot 50
TEE young men are becoming ever.
day more discOurteous, 50 the girls say
They take their dogs instead of thei
lady friends out riding nowadays. Their
are advantages about a dog as q ridint
companion, we mast adnait. He dossn'
take up 50 much room He dOsen'
make remarks when horses ara acting Il
3 manner which requires your whole At
tention. and get enraged because yoI