The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-01-22
oRAvE AND cav.

O'BRmS, Ia, boasts Of weather ''cold
enough to make 8 polar bear wear Arc
tic ove-shoes."
BRIeHAM YoUNa Is getting partioular.
BE dosen't want any women converts
over thirty sent to Salt Lake.
TIE straighten-np-AiaTy Jane-show-
your-breast-pin attitude has superseded
the Grecian bend in Georgia.
No man is safe these times. A con-
vict at Sing Sing has had notice of
breach of promise suit served on him
PosrAL-cARDs cost the government
81. .39E per 1000, and, according TO esti-
mates, 12o, 800. 600 viii be required in
1874.
JACK, who is at a boarding school in
the country, writes home, "Please send
me a good trap to catch a woodchuok
and piece Of carpet to say my prayers
on"
FoRTY pairs of hands flying wildly in
the air, forty mouths in distressful PAN
tomime. "What dc you want ?" asked
the teacher. ''YoEr hair is falling OF,
answered the chorus.
WHEN you have lost money in the
streets, every one is ready to help you
to look for it /; but when you have lost
your character, every one leaves you to
recover it as you can.
TIE following popular "sample" is
going the rounds: Broker-How are
you off for money this morning? CASH
isr-I am of with what little there was
in the bank. Good by.
TIE arrangements of nature are ad-
mirahle, exclaimed young lady dur
the late high winds. The same wind
which disarranges our dress blows dust
into the eyes Of the would-be observers.
"FELnow- CITIZENS, said n colored
preacher, ''ef had been eatin' dried
apples for a week, an then took TO
drinkin' for mont, I couldn't feel moro
swelled up than am dis mint wild
pride an vanity at seein' such full ten
dance har dis evenin'."
Speaking Of snow-ssThe beautiful snow,"
Look at Il, flying aud drifting beiowl
Filling the pavement and street with its slush
Making OF soil an aliu, iai mush'
Wetting our whiskers, mustaches, and hair,
Waking up chilblaias We had when child,
Blist'ring our corns tin they're angry and wild.
If all OF the authors OF Beautiful Snow"
Would take the snow with EN-, % regions bo-
low,
The snow and the fellers together might go,
At least they've permission, 80 far IS we know.
ALEXIS has besought his father not
TO send him around the world again.
The stern old czar consents on condi-
ton that he will break with the girl OF
his affections. She is a beautiful, high
toned, amiable creature, but there ap-
pears 60 be something She matter with
her "bloOd.
DID any of our readers, asks the In
terror, ever know of a congregation who
went heavily in debt for n new church,
and who did not soon thereafter snub
and ship their pastor The church
debt makes people cross, ill-natured,
critical, and the minister is the most
natural object in the world at which to
shoot splenetie arrows.
PRoF LE CoNTR, in the American
Naturalist, in his paper on economic
entomology, gives an instance in which
all the oRterpillers in a nine-acre piece
of woods were destroyed by a disease
which had been communicated to them
by silk-worm. The same prineiple
might be used in destroying the cotton
worm and others of like nature.
In FORMER times the government al
lowance given to the widows Of Scotch
clergymen was nearly equal to the
elergymen's stipends A minister OF
Cranshaws. parish among the Lam
mermoors, having wooed lass IN hum
BILE circumstances, the father Of the
damsel, when consulted on the subject,
said, "T TAX i'm, Jenny, tax i'm, he's as
guild dead as livin."