The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-02-12
GRAVE AND cay.

THH New York Mail states positively
that the Siamese twins we're much at
tashed to each other"
A JERszY paper describes g man IS
| being as sociable as q batch of can
didates two weeks before election
IT VAS an expressive remark Of 8
practical man regarding the women Of
the period recently: asShe don't know
enough, sir, to bile water"
A GEORGIA girl allowed three hun
dred men to kiss her at ten cents =
head. and then went, like a good girl,
and gave the money to the poor.
PATHETIC
Bring out the crane and ton the kneil
she's dead-s lovely Lcckport belle;
Her stomach failed away 70 get
With ninaty oysters ON bes.
A DISTINGUISHED preacher says that
pistY is the best cure for a sscoiding
wife but he doesn't tell whether the
wife must have it or the husband. Prob
ably he meant the former.
A NEW ALBANY youth horrifed his
teacher ct Sunday-schooi, by asking If
the slang phrase ''take him out Of the
vet, . did not originate when PhRraoh's
daughter took the infant Moses ont Of
the river Nile.
JULIA WARD HoWE says that " there
is nothing but dumb submission for the
women. There isn't. ell? She ought
to meander through this state and look
upon the spl intered rolling-pins and
battered potato-mashers.
An enthusiastic African, who had
spent de winter ia Jamaky," found it
an earthly paradise. he said he could
g lie abed, and, putting his arms out de
windy, pick oranges, pine-apples, and
Jamaky rum right of de trees.
OK the whole globe, at least ninety
million. speak the English language,
about seventy-five millions German,
fifty-fve millions speak Spanish, and
only forty-five millions speak the French
language. These matters Of fact may
serve 20 remove erroneous opinions.
A GOOD brother in a church Of Miami,
county, Ind, while giving his expe-
Fience, not long ago, said BretheEiH,
I've been tryin' this nigh onto forty
year TO serve the Lord and get rich both
at onct, and I tell yer, it's mighty hard
sleddin r.
Lows PLEA.-
n OF our affections none and grace
In sight OF heaven, then wherefore hath God
The world which we inhabit Better plea
Love cannot have than that, in loving iheei
NlOrT to that eternal peace - pal1r
Who such divinity to thee imparts
As kallows and makes pure al gentle hearts.
-Miehdei AnqelO.
The Cuban insurreotion has cost the
Spaniards ten TO fifteen Thousand sol
diers and so, 00O, 900 per year since the
opening OF hostilities. In other words,
in the last FIVE years Spain has wasted
5000, 900, 900, and lost between ffty and
seventy-five thousand troops by bullet
and disease, in q vain effort TO subduo
the CubRns.
A NEGRO prisoner, on his way to the
penitentiary for larceny, was asked what
he thought of his trial. He said
I" When de lawyer dat Tended me made
a speech, made sure dat was going 10
take my ole hat and walk right ont of
dat cot room; but when the odder
lawyer got mp and commenced talking,
I knew was the biggest rascal on top Of
de earf."
VIA CRUcrs, VIA LUoIs.-
AS, after death, our lost ones grow our dear
So, after death, our lost once come the near
They are not lost in distant worlds abovei
They arc cur nearest link in Gods own love
The human hand-clhsps Of the Infinite,
That life to life, spirit 10 spirit knit
They fill the rift they make, Ike veins Of gold
in fire-rent, hEBureB torture torn OF Old
With sweetness store the empty place they
As IL Wild honey in the rocks bare cleft.
-Gercid Massey
TIE PRICES paid 10 trsppers and
hunters for furs in the northwest are
nearly three times as high as a few
years ago. 10 Montana many who had
1uit the business for moro remunera-
i've employment, have again started IN
pursuit Of the beaver, mink, muHkrat,
iox, weaze1 and wolf. The high prices
seem to be caused more by an increase Of
demand than a falling of in the supply,
Tor the rivers, creeks and mountains Of
Montana abound with game valuable
Tor pelts.
TRIPoLrrE or infusOrial earth, being
worse cOnductorof heat than ooal-ashes,
md almost as poor as fax chat, and be-
nR refractory, is adapted for walls Of
ce-ceIlars and fire-proof safes, for cas-
ng steam boilers and pipes. etc, snd
,ossesaes the advantage Of efsording
protection against rats and mies. Its
ightnesa is also a great recommends
ion. One cubic foot Of Il weighs zli
o 26 pounds the same bulk Of dry
40l 70 42i pounds, and Of
Try earth, 81 20 12S pounds. For cas-
ng steam pipes is is mixed with oSiisd
iaxBeed.