The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-12-10
SAYINGS AND DOINas.

! EelfCG- Spiritual ElA4CGllANA Save
but few sinners.
TIE last survivor Of the battle Of
Trafalgar has insisted on dying again,
which reduces the number 10 less than
twenty.
MARX TWAIN is failure as a drama
tist. but what is a dramatic failure to
man who is able 70 own a silver-plated
boot-iack.
TuF fancy for wearing little bunch
Of natural or artificial flowers with the
bow at the throat is on the increase with
the ladies.
DUBUQUE has lawyer who won't de-
fend q guilty client for love nor money,
but alas for sentiment, the lawyer is
gradually starving TO death.
CHEsrEUrs should always be cooked
before eating, as they are more healthy
besides, cooking imperts an improved
flavor to the worm, and stops its wrig-
Cling.
WHEN n young wife made her arst
boys pants precisely the same behind
as before, the father exclaimed Good
ness he won't know whether he's going
TO school or coming home"
THERE are said TO be half a dozen
American artists in Rome Who are starv-
ing for food, and yet they can't be in
duced to come home and go TO saving
wood.
IT is a matter of inquiry as to whether
the indemnity of half million taels
which China is to pay Japan IS to be
paid in pig-tails. The question IS q
curious one.
REv. TArafAaF says he shall not stop
until every theatre in America is leveled
to the ground. Where's that fellow
who said perpetual motion could never
be invented ?
TWENTY horses die in New York city
every day, which gives total Of more
than six thousand a year. Their car
casses are rendered to the rendering
companies.
People who saw him jump mp and
down and heard him swear thought
him crazy, but he wasn't. He had
merely delivered fifteen cords OF wood
at the wrong place.
EVERY year the population of France
is reported less and less. There is an
absolute, conatant and regular decrease,
and at the present rate of decrease the
country will be depopulated IN 1eS
years.
THE hair-brush which cost you a dol
lar last week, and which is now only nc
for kindling-wood, had bristles which
/
a wretched substitute for the genuine
irTitaRt.
TWELVE hundred men are at work on
new California hotel. The man who
gets the contract for furnishing that
building with bed-bug poison VIII have
no difficulty in marrying of his oldest
daughter.
'fVERTs," " is the word now applied in
England to persons who change their
i faith. Convert being in some cases too
respectful and perveTt in other cases
not respectful enough, the barbar1sm is
held to be iustifable.
THE citizens of st. Louis are proud
Of the residence in their midst OF bean
tiful poetess, Of a nature so sensitive
that she recently tainted dead away st
the sight OF her little brother with q hne
tooth comb in his hand.
AFTER a tongue has once got the
knack of lying, it is not to be imagined
how impossible, almost, il is to reclaim
it. Whence it comes to pass, that We
see some men, who are otherwise very
honest, so subject to this vice.-Ao'l-
taigits.
THE magnificent mansion OF LeGrand
Lockwood. at NorwaIk, Connecticut,
which cost over 81, ,000, 600, is for sale
az SI1O. 600, and the citizens of the
town are urged 20 buy it for a town
hall, using the spacious grounds for
public park.
WHILE workmen were sinking n we'll
in Ray county, Missouri, recently, they
came to what appeared to be the bed OF
lake, about twenty feet beneath the
| surfaca. which showed petrified stalks
of water-lilies imbedded in sandstone,
and a fish about four feet long, with q
very large head and prominent eyes.
TIE only evidence Of perturbation
which the president gave when mes
senger rushed in with the news that
| Massachusetts had gone democratic, was
/ to remove his cigar from his mouth and
| rest the lighted end of 10 on the back OF
| Gen. Babcocl's hand. Babcock's per-
turbation was much mere pronounced.
THERE are fourteen thousand people
/ in Damascus sick with the fever, while
/ brieanda are plundering the surround
/ ing cOun ~ 30 that agriculture Is inn
/ possible. and in Damascus Moham-
medan family, having gone over TO
/ Christianity, have been carried 70 the
/ iail and left there. The Holy Land
| is the general title for this vicinity.
81 HRRoDoTUs. my son, what time Is
/ it ?" inauired Mr.. Spilkins Of his son,
who had Just returned from college.
Well, father" replied the youth,
pulling out his watch, ''let K represent
] IL o'clock, and equal ten minutes
and x-2-y is the answer. bptkins
pondered for q moment, and then said
1 he thought IL must be about bedtime.
EpuyBuRaH's baby is laid in cradle
/ in silver fligree, lined with pink silk
pink curtains, and covered with white
/ lace, while his diminutive form Is wrap
/ ped IN a quilt Of white satin worked ~
/ Auntie Beatrice. The whole establish-
meut is so pretty that for its pEeserya-
/ ton tie youth Is under royal command
to behave, in certain particulars, difier-
ent from other and even royal babes.
WE give our washerwoman notice that
/ hereafter we want our own clothes Last
/ Sunday We put on another fellows
shirt. but couldn't wear it at ali. tt
was all rufiied around the top and
/ looked real handsome, but there was no
place for a collar, and Il hadn't any
/ bosom. though We are bound 10 say
/ there was plenty Of room for one. Yes,
/ Il was a handsome shirt, but We don't
have ours made that way.-laGE Adeter.
TIE Georgia state geologist reports
that he Is generally taken for q revenue
detective. and finds that character some
what uncomfortable. but the moment he
diseloses his real object, 4" every fellow
comes back with nii pochtt luii % LocAht
and wants TO know If that's what
want / met one man who thought he
had lead, petroleum aud silver, ali on
/ about one hundred acres. The state Is
exceedingly rich, but every farm dOeant
hold f0rtuI e.
PAUSE, rash youth. If you are in the
/ habit Of removing the postage stamp
from your sweetheart's letter and press
/ ing the under side OF the stamp to your
lips, under the rapturoua delusion that
the honeyed labials gave Il adhesion 70
the envelope-ob, pause, for Williams.
/ Of the Norristown Herald, detected, st
the postofIice ths otheE morning, his
Iady-lOVe's coaehman applying the
stamp 20 the last letter she sent him.
So perishes forever another Of loves
young dreams.
ALExASDRE DuzEAs Pere, when he
gave q dinner-party 20 eommeTcial men,
/ Esd n aor,o-vl,af afT5cyTalar method Of de-