The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-06-25
SAYINGS AND DeINGs.

SAYINGS AND D0INGS.
Do1nARs and sense do not necessari-
ly travel together.
WHx is marriage like a fat paying
JOB The ring fixes it.
HooD called the slamming of the
door by person in 6 passion wooden
damn.
VIRGINIA pays $40, ,0OO, 600 per annum
for whisky, but cannot meet the annual
interest on her debt.
PRUSSIA, since it's adoption Of the
Manser rife, has been selling it's old
needle guns to China.
WHAT are the most unsociRble things
in the world? Mile-stones. You never
see two of them together.
THERr is a Brooklyn man who wears
mourning for his mother-in-law. He
wears it on the lining of his coat
PRETTY good land can be boaght in
South Carolina for FIVE cents per acre,
but there's S24 back tax on every acre
of il.
THE Kentucky topers, who signed
petition to have whisky put down,
Thought it meant put down 60 Ave cents
a glass.
THERE is nothing more calculated to
weaken boys moral character than to
get his fishing-hook fastened to q root
in the river.
THE difference between perseverance,
and obstinacy is that one often comes
from a strong viii, and the other from
strong won't.
In life il is difficult to say who do
you the most misohief-enemies with
the worst intentions, or friends with the
best. st.-BuEtDer.
Mr.. KAvANAdH, q member of the
British parliament, has neither legs nor
arms He holds his pen in his mouth
when he signs his name.
In ENGLAND a man who spent ali his
money IN a dram shop, leaving his wife
to starve to death, has Just been con-
victed of manslaughter.
Mrs. GRANT cried, Nellie cried, Sar-
toris looked sad, the president blew
his nose, and then the newly-married
couple went aboard the steamer Bawl-
tic.
THERE is as much greatness OF mind
in the owing of q good turn as in doing
it and We must no more force a re-
auital out of season than be wanting
in it.-lSeBeod.
GAsooznNe" is a new slang word,
meaning 20 ''honeyfugle." IL any one
shouldn't know what honeyfugle is,
we explain that it is the synonym for
''hornswoggle.
TINS is a very rash spring. Nine out
of ten men who carry red noses lay Il to
something throwing ont a rash.
There's moro lie about this nose busi-
ness than there ought to be.
In Maine, recently, by the advice Of \
clairvoyant, body was exhumed and
rebxried with the face downward, as
means of staying the ravages of con-
sumption in the corpse's family.
LOOK AHEAD
pelican, flying home one day
With fine Fat fish from Oyster Bay,
Was met by a crow who bad sought in vain
For something to still his hunEer'a pain
And who knew that fish was good for the brain
So he slyly said, "Why, friend, what's Ia you,
To carry fish at a full neek's 1engthl
Is that any way 20 economize strength
call It a waste OF muscle and einew.
just throw your head over your shoulder. so
You distribute the weight over All your frame
You can carry doubie load OF game.
And thus, without tiring home you Eol"
The pelican did as hie false friend bade,
But striking bough he came 70 Wrucki
And down he fell with a broken neck
And the crow had royal dinner Of shad.
I wrote this fable for three little men,
Whose names are Willie and Arthur and Jack
And this Is the moral, clear and plain;
John Hay, ia 81. Nicholas.
TREY have dumb pianos in London,
for the benefit of thoge who wish to
learn Thalbergian lingering; and our
experience teaches us that they make
better music as a general thing than the
other kind.
THE expenses of the Tichborne trial
to be paid by a'the present baronet"
amount to coz, 600. This sum does not
include the expenses of the trial for
perjury, which are to be paid by the
The rubber which lines the tail Of
Iady's dress is q bad thing for a man
with weak lungs. It makes 50 much
noise over the brick pavement, that the
young man is compelled to whisper his
sweet nothings in voice OF thunder.
THE standard authorities on English
enumerate no fewer than
different kinds of men, be-
tween each of whom there is q peFoep-
tible graduation of rank-not counting
people, who have no rank st
all.
An ardent lover, pouring cut his
passionate devotion In verse, spoke Of
that night when, walking with his
sw eetheart, he kissed her under the
silent stars" In print he was made to
say that ne 'ckicked her under the cell
lar stairs.
ARIZONA territory, which Is popularly
believed to be wealthier in minerals
than California or Nevada, is fast reooV-
sring from the prostration caused by
Indian raids. Many Of the mines which
have lain untouched for years on
account of the Apaehes are again being
and the results are said 20 bs
wonderful.
CHICAGO is bound to keep ahead.
just look at this A large building,
divided into flats for housekeeping,
has been put up On the north side Of
the city. Ihs roof-which is very
strongly built and e1cellently drained
lis covered with earth and decksd with
come forty or fifty trees, which are
growing luxuriently. II is a garden on
4 house-top. Nobody not living IN the
house can go 70 il. There viii be mu-
sic there in the evenings and-Reed il
be added beer.
The Cars Eose.