The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-03-26
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.

NEXT to a diary lead pencil Is the
most difficult thing 10 keep.
NEw YoRK brides are introducing the
london fashion of wearing bonnets at
the ceremony when it is to be performed
IN church.
The gas made in Erie is Of twenty
four candle power !: that is, you have
to light tEenty-fGur candles to see hen
tho gas is burning.
A Sioux CRY hotel has q black.and-
tan dog that killed a Thousand rats in
month. This is a good puff for the dog,
but hard on the hotel.
IT is a rule of etiquette in Arkansas
that no true gentleman will eat with his
legs thrown over the bsck of his neigh
bor's chair, if he can help it,
SIsOE the Temperance crusade COM
menced one man in Ohio has signed
forty-two temperance pledges and
sworn of fitty-fonr times.
IT Is singular that the most garrulous
speakers, no matter whether in public
or private, are invariably those who are
IS unaceustomed to public speaking.
FRoM SEA To SEA.-
We glide through golden seas OF grain;
We shoot, shining comet, through
The mountain range against tho blue,
Afiu NnEn nDAtM the walls OF SNOW
We blow the desert dust amain;
We brush the gay madrOna tree,
We greet the orange groves below
We rest beneath the oaks; and We
Have cleft continent in twain.
Joaquin Miller.
THE oyster beds Of Virginia cover an
area equal to 64O, 600 acres, aud those
great mines of submari wealth are
estimated TO yield an annual money val
ne of S1S, 0O0, 600.
THE nan who ans ycred an advertise.
ment to the following effect had hiscu-
riosity satisfied - II you would learn
to make home happy, senG fifty cents in
postage stamps to A. B., etc. Upon
receipt of postage Stamps, A. B. replied.
" Your home woul be more happy IL
you were less frequently there.
A YOUNG lady has the letters Y. M. q.
A. engraved on one corner of her visit
ing cards, which she hands to certain
gentlemen visitors At first they sup.
pose she belongs 10 the Young Mems
Christian association, but it is not long
before they rightly construe the letters
to mean, You may como again.
LiBERTY or THE PREss.-
Around her waist I put my arm
It felt as soft cake
" Oh dear" says she "wliat liberty
You printermen do takol"
"Why yes my Sal. my charming gal,
q squeezed her some, / guess.
Can you say augbt, my love, against
The freedom CT the press y
kissed her some-I did, by gum
She colored like beet
Upon my living oul she looked
Almost too COOL to eat
gave another btsss, and then
Says she, II do confess,
rather kinder stTter like
The freedom of the preBs."
A FRENCHMAS, condemned to death
for numbering his wife and child with
out extenuRting circumstances, demur'
red to the sentence, because capital
punishment had been abolished in
France for political Off noes, and no
had killed his wife and child for no
other reason but because thay were
legitimists.
AT a juvenile party young Aberdeen
gentleman, about seven years old, kept
himself from the rest of tho company.
The lady of the house called 10 him,
" Come and play aud dance, my dear.
Choose oneof those pretty girls for your
wife" Not likely cried the young
cynic. "No wife for me I Do you think
/ want TO be worried out Of my life like
poor papal
From the fact than when the body Of
n man OF average size IS reduced inter-
ally TO ashes by fire, only about ten
pounds of said ashes remain, II is shown
that the human system contains seventy
per cent. Of water. In the remaining
thirty per cent. twenty is carbon, which
disappears in gas at the burning, even
rs the watery seventy eVaporates. Thus
your "solid man possesses really
about ten pounds OF solidity.
IT is suggested that the Centennial
be spread out all over the
country like an ordinary Fourth OF July,
and not c Jnfined TO Philadelphia There
is no reason why it should not be so.
The country is wide and great, and
Oregon has as good a right to celebrate
rs j, nnFylvania or New England, for
The hardy pioneers Of the west include
many descendants OF the men Of '76
Let the rejoiciDgs and the fun be IA
ional, and not cramped up.