The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-03
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.

rs THEM the common dog sassage ?
inquired a venerable looking lady, a
she surveyed a bunch of bananas ovel
her spectaeles the other day.
Con. EaERTox, in the house Of Com
mons, said philanthropy is so energetic
| that ''it requires 8 good deal of infiu-
ence nowadays to get hanged"
GREAT efforts are being made 20 in
| duce Iiiszt to visit this country. One
manager offered him ], 900, ,OO0f. for one
season, but the Abbate politely declined.
A GERMAN at Terre Haute, Ind, sold
last year, 16,O00pounds Of grapes raised
on land, which, the same season, would
not have produced 60 bushels of corn.
'I SHALL awaken in heaven, +" wrote a
Boston girl before taking arsenic. But
she took too much for q death dose, and
swoke with stomaoh-pump down her
throat"
/ An going-l know l am, said a
dying NissisEippian, g and believe I'd
60 easier IL Jim would get down the
fiddle and plRy tSore-heei Sally onCe
more" Jim did.
A WESTERN postmaster writes 10 the
postmaster general "that hell will be
full Of country postmasters b fore long
lowed this Office"
GEn. NORM has just exhibited before
the French academy, bottle contain
ing eight kilogrammes of osmium, the
most poisonous metal known. "This is
enough" he exclaimed, TO poison the
MoGRATH has had an operation per-
formed on the feet of Tom Bowling.
As the operation wss radical and Sc
= A.. 1t tha
mighty son of Lexington and Lucy
Fowler will not appear upon the course
in a race again this season.
FROM recent camp-meeting sermon
"Be not content with the hope of mere
ly getting into heayen-of being driven
on to the heavenly shore, like n batter
ed old hulk but strive TO go in like a
grand vessel, with every sail set, the
colors of your redeemer flying at the
mainmast, and freighted with a pre-
cious cargo"
THE WHOLE police force of Jefferson,
Texas, were recently arraigned before
the Mayor of that thriving city on the
charge of vagrancy. The charges were
preferred by the families of the police
men on the ground that the officers had
no visible means OF support, as they
had received but SO from the city in
the last five months.
HERoDoTUs. nv son, what time is
it p" inquired Mr.. Spilkins of his son,
who had Just come home from college,.
"Well, father, replied the youth, pull
ing out his watch, "let Z represent IL
O'Clock and equal 10 minutes, and Z
2yi is the answer" Spilkins pondered
for a moment and then said he thought
IL rnust he about bedtime.
SOMEBODY has been finding fault with
tho natural philosophy In Poe's Raven.
He asks. Chow could the raven, sit
ting lonely on that placid bust OF Pal
las-not only on the door, but above IL,
and of course right against the wall
by any law of illumination thrown his
shadow on the floor for the poets soul
TO float in and be lifted nevermore p
Our TREAsUREs.-
Nothing il our own we hold our pleasures
Just a little while, ere they arc hedi
One by enc life roba as of our treasures
Nothing ia our own except our dead.
They are ours, and hold in faithful keeping
Safe forever, all they took away.
Cruel life can never stir that sleeping,
Cruel time can never seize that prey.
WHAT can be more startling, asks the
Washington Star, than'to see a delicate
and fascinating young lady, with long
train, suddenly turn around, without
giving the unsuspecting individual be
hind her any warning whatever, gently
stoop, reach back with her right foot
and kick desperately? She is going
across the street, and is merely switch
ing off her train in new direction.
e HUSBAND and wife who have tonight
the world side by side, who have made
stock with Joy or sorrow, and
grown aged together, are not untra-
duently found ouriously alike in per-
sonal appe rance, and in pitch and tone
Of voice. He has gained something
feminine which brings his manhood in
TO full relief she has gained something
masculine which acts as a foil to her
TIE house at Kissingen, occupied by
The L" Iron" Prince, as the German
papers style him now. is distinguished
bv seven bombs, which it received from
Tie Prussians in 1866, and which were
eft immured in IL. A peasant Of the
snvirons, TO whom the Prince, incog-
aito, showed the proper way OF moving
has, since the thing got
abroad. refused large sums offered for
.he scythe withIwhich the Chancellor
sxemplifed his practical knowledge Of
farming.
THE NIGHT clerk Of Burlington ho-
.el was startled about IL o'clock the
,ther night by the following o0nversa-
ion. at a time when he supposed he wes
lIone in the Office; Gone along, you
let's go up stairs. GO
lothin'." was the gruff TeTly, "lets
wait till the midnight train comes IN
here's nothing you can get blOed out OF
10 the house now" And the amazed
nd Mortified clerk could see nobody in
he room except two old. gray nosqu1-
toes, dozing on Saratoga trunk.
The BEsT THTNas.-
The sweetest songs are those
That few men ever hear
And no mon ever eing.
The olearest skies are those
That fEFtheHt on appear
To birds OF strongest wing
The dearest loves are those
That no man can come near
With his best following.
HEEK, now, is q bit of frescoing that
Is quite fresh. A negro woman living
near Carlisle, Kentucky, for the last
forty years-Jane Young, black az the
ace of Epades-began about four years
ago TO change color, and gradually
vrev white. until she bleached out 70
! toleratly fair complexion. Within
few weeks past her original black color
return. showing itself in jet
black spots at different places on her
face. Men who understand about cut
iole are looking over the old lady's fea-
lures to see what they can make out Of Il.
BAILEY, Of the DanbaFy News, relates
q story Of an American IN London who
could not find in any Of the London
shops genuine Yankee chewing tobacco.
he was an inveterate chewor. and was
nearly driven 70 distinction at not being
able TO find the weed. Finally he called
upon the American minister, and asked
for chew That gentlemen informed
him that he did not use the stuff in any
but cigar form. The disappointed man
sailed for home the next day. This re-
calls the cid lady rho called upon Mr..
in Paris and asked to look
At the Brooklyn directory
Miss LEIGH, an English lady living
is engaged in the benevolent at
tempt TO secure n building in the French
capital as a home for poor English girls
Who 20 there with the desire OF per-
fecting themselves IN the FFenoh Ian
guaee. without which they are often uh-
able TO hold situations IN England es
gOvernesses or shop-Eomen. IN Far1s
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