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Scranton asked Ira if the gun was
loaded. Ira said she was. sThen,
| said John, winking at the boys, TIL bet
/ yen basket of wine that You can't hit
my hat on top of that barrel pointing
/ to barrel about forty yards distant
At this Ira hesitated. He looked at
ScIanton's new beaver, and said that It
would be a cussed shame to ruin such a
hat as that. If some one would put up
an old hat he'd take the bet. But John
Scranton insisted on putting up his hat,
and accused Ira of trying to crawl ont
of it because he knew there were no old
hats on the premises. That fired Ira up
again. Put up your hat, lie said.
i II take a pop at it for a basket of
Here Mr.. Yeomans showed up his
sleeves, and mixed cocktails for Bishop
Farr, of Ogden, and Col. Woolley, of
Cheyenne. They were large cocktails.
After they had disappeared-the cock
tails, not the bishop and the colonel
he continued
50 So John Scranton went out. and put
his 6ftoen-oiollar lat On the barIei
When he came back he was nigh burst
ing with laughter. ALI the boys were
nudging each other, aud had as
much as they could do to hold in. Ira
he raised the gun, took good aim, and
pumped away with both barrels. The
hat jumped into the air about ten feet,
and then fell to the ground perfectly
riddled with snot. Everybody roared
but John Scranton and Hackett."
Here Mr.. Yeoman showed up his
sleeves, and mixed cocktails for War
rem Hussey and your correspondent.
They were small ones-the cocktails, not
the men. After they had disappeared he
continued
4" You see, it was a job put up on
Scranton and Hackett before they came
in. There were four charges in the gun,
and Schenek only drew out two of them.
Scranton only said, fLSly smoke and
ordered the wine."
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A Temperance League.

The ladies of Dayton, Ohio, recently
met in session, and formed themselves
into an association to be known as the
d" Woman's Temperance Praying League
of Dayton" After a debate Of some
length, they adopted the filIowing
pledge, thirty-eight ladies affixing their
signatures thereto Z" We, the women
of Dayton, seeing the growing evils Of
intemperance in our midst and the need
of active energetic work TO cOunteract
these evils, hereby pledge ourselves TO
unite our laboTs without regard to
church or creed to do everything In our
power to exterminate them. Among
the various means that We believe may
be used to benefit, we recognize First
The power Of God as the cisposer of
all events and the hearer of prayer.
Second-Privste influence in our fami-
lies and among our friends, discounten-
ancipg the making or using of domestic
wines or the use Of any intoxicating
liuucrs in our families unless presented
by reliable or competent physician.
Thirdly using our influences as be-
comes Christian wives, mothers, OF
daughters in all practicable ways for
the election of such men to our public
Offices as will justly and faithfully ad-
minister the laws, aud by aiding in
meeting fund to forward the interests
of the Temperance movement. Fourth
BY standing by and encouraging any
woman who shall prosecute the lsquol
/ dealer for selling to her husband, son
or relative"
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Postomce Statistics.

The traveller who passes on our great
lines OF thOroughfare from one city to
! another has no doubt of the fact that
we live IN an age of railroads and steam
boats. And yet, horses carry the mails
three miles where railroads carry them
! one. Even Massachusetts,, so covered
1 with network of railroads that there
/ are few towns in the state that do not
receive daily visit from the locomotive,
has 146 stage coach routes to 81 of rail
roads. Curiously enough, the cost per
mile in the two cases is almost exactly
the same; the average cost of the trans
portatiOn of mails per mile in the cars
being eleven cents and six mills; by
horse, eleven cents and eight mills. OF
course, the cars carry a mail many times
larger than that of the coach, so that
the cost per letter is much less.
Throughout the whole country, steam
boats carry the mails Is, 762 miles
railroads, e3,457 miles; and horses,
175, ,99I miles. But the railroad is
gradually gaining possession of all the
Important routes. In 1870 the clrs car
ried the mails 43, 727 miles; in 1873,
63, 457 Il lies a gain Of nearly fifty per
cent. in four years, And the mails are
increasing in weight and magnitude at
a yet faster ratio. Sixby-f1ve years ago
the mails for the south left the New
York postoffice carried by one man,
were rOwed across the ferry, and then
placed under the boot of the waiting
stage. To-day from ten to twelve tons
of mail matter enter and leave the New
York postoffice for the south It is but
a century since Postmaster-G General
Benjamin franklin so increased the
speed of the mails that, while il had
taken six weeks for letter to go from
Boston to Philadelphia and return, it
then took but three. To-day it takes
but one week for letters to pass from
the shores of the Atlantic to those of
the Pacific. If the postal service con-
tinues to expand the next century as it
has done the last, and science shall dis
cover no more rapid means of transmits
sion, passengers must be left out of the
mail trains. Letters and papers will
exhaust the capacity of the steam en-
gine.
Our oceanic mails increase at a yet
faster rate. Over a thousand tons of
letters and papers annually cross the
Atlantic gain of fifty per cent. with
in the last three years.
The differences between a sparse and
a thickly settled population is best
shown by the fact that, of three nations,
each having between thirty and forty
millions of population, Germany has
3, 100 postoffices, Great Britain less than
II, 600, AMI the United States 3,244
This sparseness of population, requiring
letters to travel long distances on un-
frequent routes, makes the cost of trans
portation far heavier here than in Eu-
rope. In England, the maximum dis
tance a letter can be carried is less than
seven hundred miles in America, from
Maine to Alaska, is five thousand miles.
And this is one of the principal reasons
why Germany nets a profit from her
postoffices of three mil ion dollars a
year, England profit of five million,
and the United States has a loss of
nearly six millions.
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Disease Among Workmen.

In q lecture by DR.. Mapother, that
distinguished authority classifies the
diseases pertaining TO the various trades
and industries under three beads,
namely, those due 20 the entranoe Of
dust into The lungs, those due 70 slow
poisoning, and those which constrained
positions or overEork in close rooms
engender. Stono-cutlers safer from
lung ahec. icns by inhsling minute par
ticles Of stone, which irfitste the lungs
nd excite Inflammation. The working Of
fax is also found very detrimental. Civ
ing rise constantly to asthmstic com
plants. At papsr-Works the tearing Of
shOddy, and the sorting and picking Of
rags, create q most sitting and hartfHl
dust. The remedy recommended by
Mr. n. foz dusty trades is. first. the use
Of q respirator which whittier the air
q very ehectRal one consisting Of wire
eauzs covering the nose and mouth,
lined with layer Of cotton
wool, 3 quarter Of an innh thick.
Other remedies are veatilatiOn
by means Of McKinnel's tube,
the action Of steam fans, and the per-
emptcFy exclusion from all labor re-
curing vigorous muscular and breath
ing efforts, Of persons under IS, the
gans NJ 70 that age not being strcne
enoughfo resist III usage.
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The Observations to be Made of Venus
I'm Transitu.

Dispatches relative to the sessions of
the transit of Venus commission are
calculated to mislead the public both as
to the personnel of the commission anG
what Is being done by them. The COM
mission consists of Rear-Admiral Sands,
president, aud professors Henry, Pierce,
Newcomb and Hardness. The points
considered at the last meeting were
some matters of detail respecting the
photographing experiments which aIe
not yet perfected, what arrangements
should be made in order to enable the
observers to have the use of the ocean
telegraph lines for det rmining longi-
tudes, and finally the arrangement OF
the personnel of the different parties.
The instruments to be used by parties
are all in state of great fOrwardness,
many of them completed and tested.
Portable observatories have been de-
signed aud a number completed. The
stations TO be occupied are ViadivCs-
took, in Russian Siberia Pekin, NRgas-
aki, Crozet and KergUeen islands, in
the Antarctic region; New Zealand,
Chatham island, near New Zealand, and
Hobart Town, Van Dieman's Land. In
each of these parties there will be FIVE
persons, two being astronomers and
three photographers. The southern
parties viii probably be sent out in q
naval vessel, Secretary Robson having
authority to do this by special act of
congress. The other parties will pro-
oeed by the ordinary mail routes. The
Observatory, coast survey, engineer
corps Of the army, the line of the navy
and some of the colleges of the country
vail furnish the persons composing the
expedition, none of whom Will leave be-
fore the end of May. Nearly all viii
serve without pay, being actuated only
by the desire to advance scientific
knowledge.
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Fooae,. Dael. Win Prenfias.

The Paris Kentuckian is reminded by
the recent wordy duel between Henry
s. FoOte and Jefferson Davis, Of the ne-
count VII ch fhe late Sargent s. Prem
tiss gave Of the causes Of the tEo dueiB
between him and FoOta. A friend Of
Prentiss was at the point Of death from
an attack Of mania pOtH. For q
week his physicians had essayed every
known remedy 10 put their patient 70
sleep, but in vain. Prentiss knew that
Foote had made q visit 10 Texas. He
was hunting his sick friend, when q
consultation Of the doctors was held.
and they announced that the case was
hopeiess, unless the patient could be
put 10 sleep, but that they would ex-
haust ali means known 20 the pFofcG-
sion. Prentice sprang from his Esst,
and said 70 the doctors. g Dammit, give
him Foote's book On Texas 70 Eead, and
viii insure ils soporifc efisct. The
remark Of Pre1tisa vas too good q joke
20 be kfpt, and Il reached the sarH Of
FOote, who challenged, and Prentice
was too much Of o southern cavalier 20
decline, and they met, and Foote vas
wounded and the parties made friends.
II happened that the nesting was so
notorious that q very large collection
crossed the river at VicksbGrR 90 Wit
mess e, and among them g number of
boys, who were 80 anxious - get fail
sight, that climbed up many trees about
the grounds. When ihe seconds hsd
planted the parties, Prentiss looked
around and saw Che boys IN the trees,
and fesringly remarked Boys, you
had better take care Foote shoots
mighty Mid. This remark Ees puts-
lished ia the papers, and sDnoyed footo
70 such s derree fhzt be again elial-
Ienged Prentiss, who met him q second
time a. a qenflemaniy soiaee to Ecoio's
wounded spirit At tho meeting Ftoss
ercd ard missed, and Prantias fred Lis
pistol IL Che air, aud the parties were
again reconciled.
Foote's Texas dropped stlll-aora
from the press. and it i believed ~
would be hard 70 hBd g copy. valuable
81 it might prove as Eazeot5e.
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It was eight o'clock on the following
morning, and DIR. Reed sat alone in his
Office. A thoughtful look was on his
face, as, leaning forward on the table, he
ran his fingers through his brown, curl
ing hair, making it fall il heavy mass
on the broad, white brow.
'sI have it at last just the thing
There will be some fun in it, too.
Taking his hat, he started for the door
at rate that brought him with force
against a person just entering.
- Hello, Ned Just the man want TO
see-had started out TO End you.
Ard you found me, as this knot on
my forehead viii testify TO for q week. "
And Ned Bowers rubbed his head dole
fully. /" But what's up? Got case for
me2 Business is rather dull, just now
be glad to serve you. "
g want you 70 help me Pisy high
way@9easn-". :,
Ned sprang 70 his feet in startled
surprise.
''There, keep cool don't get excited.
as IN that case you can be of no use 70
me. I said play iiighwnymG and
/ Fant to start out in half Ha hour. So
be quiet, while detail facts, aud ex-
plain Why such q course might be e1-
/ cusable."
go on; I am all attention.
Five years ago, q fellow led q girl
q mere child, into the folly Of cores
ponding with him and All the years
since he has kept her letters. Now ne
is in our little village, keeping her n
mortal terror lest be gives those letters
publicity threatens 70 do 90 Unless she
/ gives him her hand In marriage. She
/ now believes her only eecaPe froE1
trouble is an immediate and secret re.
moval from this place. ] only learned
this much, last night, from q friend
who believes that i could and Wouid
/ help the lady N this dilemma
"Tu help you, said Ned.
"Thauks. But IL must be doue Sc
erelly and quietly. This Is the thing
propose. When Warren Clifton ride
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-03-12
Propagation of Cholera.

NJ. Teller, one of the most acute of
French observers, adopts the theory of
the propagation of cholera by invisible
germs conveyed in the air or in water
He places no great reliance upon the ef
feet of antiseptics upon the air itself,
their action being, to say the least,
doubtful and, moreover, he considers
the action of the germs unavOidably
taken in respiration as comparatively IN
nocuous, because those taken into the
lungs do not reach the intestines, and
because such as are thus swallowed, be-
ing taken as it were in small quantity
at a time, the vitality of the system is
able to resist their action, IN like man
ner as It overcomes the action of poison
taken in insignificant doses. NJ. Teller
thi5ks that it is by introduction of the
germ into the alimentary canal, where
they find conditions altogether favora-
bic for their rapid multiplication and
development, that the disease is most
frequently and most fatally c0mmuni-
Gated. He cites fruit as being especi-
ally calculated, some by their downy
covering, as the apricot or the peach,
others by the gUmmy or glutinous coat
ing which most of them possess, 20 ar
rest and retain the germs carried by the
air. Fruit should therefore be carefully
washed, or the skins removed IN the
time OF epidemic cholera
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MILE. LKvAsUER, q leading tragic &C
tress IN Paris, was once playing q most
foucbiBg part in which the heroine @ m
mits suicide by taking poison. At the
most pathetic passage. while she was
bidding adien to life and making every
boiy in the Hleater sob, she suddenly
changed her tone, and shrieked, =" Dam
nation. what has been put IN this
bowl p Imagine the effect Of this
homelv prose delivered IN 50 energetic
a manner IN the midst Of stately pOei ~
The actor. Baauvallet, who loved .
practical Joke, had sueared the beakeT
With asafetida.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-03-12

NARcorIzED MEMORY When the ell
der Disraeli called tobacco ''the tomb
Of love, he may have meant that what
deadens remembrance must necessarily
have a similar effect upon tender senti-
ment. After all that has been ignor-
antIy preached and written against the
tohacco-habit, It appears to be generally
conceded at last that its excesses surely
impair the memory. Heavy smokers.
particularly, have this experience of it
very often, and men whose professional
duties neeessitate trust worthy TecolIec-
ton of facts, names, dates, etc, cannot
be too temperate-with the insidious
pipe especially.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-03-12

A wONAs applied to the police Justice
IN Detroit the other dag tor a warrant
for another for slsnder. The justise
stated that il was q cese for the record
er's eoGrt, but asked her what she
Woman said. ''She called me q liar, {"
replied the female. "Did she qualify
did-look a-hsre. replied the com
piaiuant. shoEing a ssalp-xound four
inches long. " Shed 4 qualified ne
again Il ! hsdH't Knocked hef over With
5 brick 4"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-03-12

A LITTLE girl asked a minister, Do
you think my father viii 60 20 heaven p
. Why. YES. my child. Why do yOu
asl, 81 ss Wei, because If be don't
have his own way there, he won't stay
Iong, was thinking
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-03-12

Iris now the practice OF some Tx man
ufacturers 10 weight their silks with q
solution Of lead acetate. by which means
poisous properties are impaired to the
silks, ss ven Is an increase IN weight.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-03-12

ABsoLUTELY pure iron is said to have
been prepared by Russian chemist bv
means Of the galvanic battery. During
The process a large quantity Of hydrogen
vas disengaged from the ordinary iron
used. The pure iron is n silver white
metal, very mallOable and ductile, and
~ - soft as to be readily cut with a pai1
.. scissors. It oxidizes rapidly, and
ra'er Is decomposed by it with a rapid
'osorphon Of oxygen.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-03-12

-. UNE might write a column obituary
sOeCS sOsce on an ofiioe-holder and then not
T+A the brief announcement in an
IVA paper: Harvey jackson, county
Si,L 0alrer, IL dead. He was lenient
b,is.t.he, 'iS the widowed, and his books always
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THE CENTENNIAL.
EEessage OF the President The Commits.
sfOners' Report 10 Congress.

EIessage OF the President The Commits
sioneEs' Report 20 Congress-
The president has sent the following
message to congress:
To the senate and house Of representa-
tiUes
I have the honor herewith to submit
q report of the centennial commissions
ers, and to add a word in the way of
recommendation. There have now been
international expositions held by three
Of the great powers of Europe. It
seems fitting that the one hundredth
anniversary of our independence should
be marked by an event that viii display
to the world the growth and progress
of the nation devoted to freedom, and
TO the pursuit of fame, fortune and
honor by the lowest citizen, as we'll as
the highest. A failure in this enter
pri Q would be deplorable. Success can
be assured by arousing the public to
the importance OF the occasion. To
secure this end, in nay judgment, con-
gressiilnaI legislation IS necessary to
make the exposition both national and
international. The benefits TO be. de-
rived from a successful international
exposition are manifold. 1t will neces-
sarily be accompanied by expenses be
yond the receipts from the exposition
itself, but they will be compensated for
by cOmmingling of people from all sec
tions of our own country, by bringing
together people of different national
tiles, by bringing into juxtaposition for
ready examination our Own and foreign
skill and progress in manufactures, agri-
culture, art, science and civil station.
The selection of site for the exposi-
tion seems to me appropriate from the
fact that one hundred years before the
date fixed for the exposition, the declar-
alton of independence, which launched
US into the galaxy of nations as an in
dependent people, emanated from the
same spot. We have much in varied
climate, soil, mineral products and skill,
of which advantage can be taken by
other nationalities to their profit. In
eturn, they will bring to our shore
works of their skill and familiarize our
people with them, to the mutual advan-
tage of all parties, Let us make com-
plete success of our centennial exposi-
tiOn, or suppress it in its infancy and
acknowledge our ins bility to give it
the international character to which our
self-esteem aspires. .. s. GRANT.
Executive Mansion, Feb. 25, 1874.
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DARwIN's SHORTCOMINGS. The French
scientific critic, NJ Leveque, criticises
Darwinism sharply. Crediting Mr..
Darwin with an express belief in God,
he arraigns his system for a dispropor-
ton between affirmation and proof, within
which atheism and materialism may
find ground for ali their sophistries. 1t
is in seeking the new more ardently
than the true that the great English
naturalistic philosopher is unPhilosoph-
ical
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-03-12

TIE most appalling case Of deafness
that we ever came across outside OF an
asylum was an old lady who lives Just
across the street from thenavyy yard. Ihe
other day they fred salute of twenty
one guns. The old lady was observed
70 start and listen as the last gun was
fred, and then exclaim, "Come iR'
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-03-12

Thanks But IL must be doue Sc
crelly and quietly This Is the thing i
propose. When Warren Clifton ridea
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