The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-03-12
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/ CENSUS officer" What age, madam,
shall I put down ?" Madam (after me-
ture reiieciionl- -" What have yoa put
down fer the lady overhead ?"
TEE Oldest fireman in Utica died the
other day, and he wanted TO be buried
with his red shirt on SO as 10 be ready
for an alarm.
An English isdge, Baron Anderson, on
/ being asked TO give his opinion as to the
/ proper length of a sermon. replied.
. Twenty minutes, With leaning 20 Tia
/ side Of mercy : ---.-'" -
THn world Of spirits, We are told, Is
sixty millions Of miles distant, which
viii be some comfort 70 those who are
/ blamed for taking all the spirits they
can get in this world.
/ In seventeen years Spurgeou has re-
/ ceived IS, 600 persons into his church,
erected thirty-s six chapels IN London,
/ and supplied the same with ministers
trained N college Of his own found
ing.
j AnnuDrNa to the death of citizen
recently, She Danbury News remarks;
$ With the single exception of twenty
/ three years ago, when he took few
lessons on violin, his life has been
/ blameless.
LOVES LAND
! In the south Is loves land,
Where the roses blow,
Where the summer fingers,
Fearless ef the Snow.
There no winter chiils II,
| sl.,is 81 ~ ,ii.s iils IS. is i3as- 9a9; :,
Ago but makes 1t strong.
Nay, fresh roses vither
Whore the sun q hot
Not in torrid regions
Blooms furget-me-aot.
loves q tender blossom,
Which THE winter ohiils,
But too eager summer
with its kisses kills.
FoR pure grit and long-continued pa
tience you ought to so to Toledo. A
Young lady in that town has sent one
hundred and sixteen pieces of poetry 10
the newspapers, aud though ali have
been rejected, she is struggling with an
other.
"Do You go TO Sabbath-school, my
lad2" kindly asked city missionary of
depraved little Dubuque urohin.
g Nary" answered the innocent child,
'fbut I've got a hgktin' cock that can
walk over any bird in this town that
wears gaffs.
GLOOMY and dissipated youth (who
has discovered that life is not worth
having)-eI hope shan't be alive after
thirtyP' Unsympathetic elderly party
"a Is there any particular necessity
that you should be alive till thirty p
THE Illinois Central railroad is about
to insugurate the planting OF trees to
furnish a supply of ties for the road.
The particular portion of the line on
which the work will begin this season
/ is that part OF the - branch between
Chicago and CHAMPAIGN.
/ M. MULLER states that in series Of ex-
periments recently made, frogs that were
! frozen in brooks If ice for eight hours
were alive and bresthed normally as
soon as the ice was thawed. OF two OF
| thsse creatures of equal weight, tho
most vo acious consumed the most OK
ygen.
A PEORIA naturalist, in attempting 10
warm the ears of frozen wasp over
gas jet, discovered that the tail of the
insect thawed out first, and worked with
/ n rapidity that was as astonishing as
/ the nideous profanity of the natural
| list, who held the insect by the tail
while thus experimenting
Two of the edible dogs of China are
now on exhibition at the geological
gardens in Paris. II il be found easy
to acclimatize them, it is proposed to
introduce this new article of food. The
dogs in question are small and hairless
and enormously fat. They are fed
solely on vegetable food, regimen
which impaTts a rare delicacy to their
flesh.
IT is n circumstance worth noting that
the native British regiments who are en-
gagged on the gold coasts have been
found to Withstand the climate much
better than the West Indian troops. all
of whom are colored. The facility with
which the British race becomes accli-
matized has long been well marked end
recognized by authropologists but the
contrast afforded in the present in
stance has not often, If ever, been OBJ
tRinable before, and it is of some scien-
tific value.
THE philosophers Of India once pos
sessed a book so large that IL required
a thousand camels to carry IL A king
desired TO have IL alb idged, and certain
scholars reduced il 30 that it could be
carried by q hundred camels. Other
kings came, who demanded that is
should be diminished still more, until
at length the volume was reduced to
four maxims. The first of these max
inns bade kings to be just the second
prescribed obedience 50 the people the
third recommended mankind not 10 eat
except when they were hungry; the
fourth advised women to be modest.
A PANS letter says the Empress Eu-
genie has aged sadly. There are deep
lines at each side Of her mouth, and her
whole face looks drawn and hagRard.
The little Hat Grape hat which she wears
pushed back from her temples, seem too
youthful for her worn face. but IL is a
relief not TO see her lips set in that stih
smile, artificial as the gold Of her tress-
es or the roses in her bonnet, wherewith
she used 70 greet her subjects Of Paris
in other days. The young Prince I'm
perial is her very image, but the slight
moustache Just budding on his upper
lip viii soon mar the present perfection
Of the resemblance.
Foote's Daels with Prenfiss.
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