The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-08-20

/ ing during the past six months
IT is observed that at the fashionable
/ seaside resorts no ladies under one
hundred and forty pounds avoirdupois
are in bathing this season.
BALD mountain has got through shak-
ing, and singulariy enough the new
converts around there have commenced
playing cards aud setting mp again.
IT may be the right Of an American
citizen to ride around in wagon and
howl like Wild beast, but quiet people
wish that elections we're further apart.
"Ir costs less to take weekly pa
per-" argues the Cape Ann Advertiser,
than q diligent hen can earn in a
year, at the market price of eggs"
CHURCH services in Green Bay only
last three-QuarteFs of an hour, but Il a
Sunday dog-hght don't eontinne at least
an hour and a half everybody feels dis
appointed.
A MASSACHUSETTS, man has been in a
successful business forty nine years,
and never advertised. The business
consisted chiefly in lying about his
neighboFs.
Our in Wisconsin a horse kicked
book agent, whereupon the citizens
made q donation party for the horse,
and he now has oats enough TO hast him
a full horse lifetime.
WITH stupidity and sound digestion
men may front much. But What in
these duh, imaginative days are the
trsroTs of conscience to the disease Of
the liver ?--CarlgEe.
A YOUNG LADY asked clerk in the
Wisconsin News company's store If he
had q Festus- >" 50 No" replied the
clerk, "but I'm afraid boil is CON-
ing on the back of my neck"
A MICHIGAN girl was killed by light
ming while picking feathers FOR her
nUptial pillow. This seems to be fair
warning TO those young ladies who are
too proud to sleep ON corn husks.
THE Israelites have formed a univer
sal alliance for the purpose of aiding
the education of the INDECENT Jews.
They report over 900 pupils in the
schools of Adrainople. Smyrna, Bagdad,
and in Morocco and Belgrade.
TIE estate of the late Chief Justice
Chase, when iiquidated, viii amount TO
about S105, 600. The estate owes J.
Cook & Co., 20, 900, mostly advanced on
stocks, and Mrs. Hoyt Judge Chase's
daughter, 5000.
DEATHS take place, the world over,
at the rate of one every two seconds.
There Is a sense of profound relief in
the Thought that every time a man
goes out of the world, a baby and
half are coming into it.
TIE Grand Rapids Cdich) Post thinks
that to deny women the elective fran
chise because they can not bear arms
would not be one whit more Hnreason-
able than to deny men the ballot be-
cause they can not bear children.
THE Rev. Mr.. Murray says that it is
an erroneous idea that minister can
live on hfty pounds Of dried apples and
congregations know this and they
throw in three bushels of beans.
"BoY," said traveller 70 a disobedi-
ent youth whom he encountered, " do
yeu hear your father speaking to You p
''Oh, y-a-a-s, replied the youth, "but
don't mind what he says. Mother
don't, neither; and twixt she and I
we've about got the dog so he don't"
THE PHILADELPHIA LEDGER doesn't
write obituary poetry for children out
side of Philadelphia. This is the style
IN which it mentions the death of a
small boy of Lowell Lowell-Satur-
day. Two little boys and n pistol. Now,
only one little boy and pistol"
On, the skeeter, the beautiful skee-
ter, filling the air with melodious me-
tire. Under our hat, and tickling our
nose, taking a bite through a hole il
our clothes in through the window,
opening the door, filing our chamber
and singing the sweeter, ever is found
the untiring muskeeter.
THE English exports TO this country
show great falling of in all the lead
ing manufactured staples for the past
six months. Copper and iron wares,
and nearly all descriptions of textiles,
except silk, show a marked decrease,
and the total reduction for the six
months is 81 per cent.
IN the time OF the second Emperor of
the Ming dynasty. some learned China
men began to make a digest of a num-
ber OF Chinese books. The digest was
fourteen hundred years ago.
and has never been printed, because it
would make twenty-five thousand eight
hundred and seventy seven volumes, n
work much larger than the Chicago
tax-list.
AN ingeniousfellow in Lewiston, Me-,
has been selling keg, supposed to con
tain ten gallons of liquor. BY an in
genious arrangement ia the kegs a pint
Of rum was sealed up inside these kegs
and so placed that, taking out & small
cork, the purchaser could test the liq-
nor, but while there was o pint OF iia-
uor there were nine gallons a0d several
pints OF water separated from It.
MORE than fifty women applied for
III
ikese. Only seven women offered them
selves this year for examination at Har-
ward. Apparently there is a difference
between studying Of a scientific school
open to men and women and passing an
/" examination for women" under the
auspices Of celebrated univerHity. Bot
the former seems most popular.
Az EHaLIsH writer in a recent article
gives a cooling description Of Iceland.
After stating that there are no trees, no
vegetables to speak Of, no town except
the capital, no inns, no hens, no pigs,
no roads, no shops. no manufactures,
no army, DO navy, no criminals, only
one policeman, and two lawyers. be in
quires Of himself, What, then, is
there ?" and himself replies. % Snow
mountains, glaciers, hot springs, earth
quakes, volcanoes, northern lights, cav
eFns, naorasses, and, above all, deserts"
This is hard on Iceland.
As though it hadn't enough on les
hands already, the German government
has undertaken TO regulate dueling in
the army. Boards OF honor are TO be
formed, and without the sanction Of
such a board and the presence Of its
president no duel is hereafter 20 be
fought. Officers complying with these
conditions are TO be exempt from Grim
inal prosecution for casualties occurring
on the field Of honor, except in peculiar
" fragrant cases OF unprOvoked inauit.
The old emperor is quOted in the L0ns
don Times as saying: " VIII no more
tolerate IN the army an officer who wan
tonly attacks the honor Of a ecmrade
than an officer who docs not know how
20 guard his own hsBor.
THE queen Of England, though theo-
ietically head Of the CEnglish) church
and titulary defender Of the faith. is
not a very good church woman. She
lets her children get married in Lent;
she gives drawing room and state con.
certs on the Fridays Of that holy season;
she gives her yearly bail TO her servants
on Good Friday itself when ia Scot
land, she goes TO the Presbyterian
meeting. and seems 70 enjoy i recent