The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-11-12
SAYINGS ANDsDOINGs.
Our on rHE'FET.-

Continually were peeled;
he made a splendid umpire and
A beautiful left field.
His hair was red and 'tshingied" close;
Much sunburnt Was his face
BE never shcne with more euect
Than on the second base.
Though not matrimonial man,
He dearly loved a match;
And, like his sister, had but few
Superiors "on the catch"
Our of one hundred men you run
against, Won viii fnd ninety-five worry
ing themselves into low spirits and in-
digestion about trouble that viii never
come.
IN Savoy the rivers Arne, Dranse and
Fer have been poisoned to kill fish,
which the queer fishermen, who operate
in this style, gather mp dead on the
surface.
EVERY year of our lives we grow more
convinced that It is che wisest and best
to fix our attention on the beautiful
and the good, and dwell as little as pos
sible on the evil and the false.
ADrRoNDAoK MURRAY hasn't put much
spirit into his sermon lately. The fact
is, when a man has to take care Of eight
fast horses all the week he can't put IN
many heavy licks for the Lord on Sun
day.
AT a recent meeting OF a society COM
posed of men from the Emerald isle,
member made the following motion
"AIr. President, / move yees whitewash
the ceiling green, in honor OF the ovid
flag"
WINE growing is an important indus
try In the colony of Victoria, Australia,
and the government has forbidden the
importation of European vines for fear
of introducing some of the prevailing
diseases.
The editor of the Guardian Of Health
writes, go for the fire OF our grand
fathers 70 Most men nre satisfied with
the unsettled coal bills of the present
without sighing for grandiather's fuel
to owe for.
AoooRnrNa to an official report, there
were no less than 4S3, ,295 cases of chol-
era in Hungary last year. OF tins NUM-
ber 237, 71s recovered, 1S2, 549 died, and
the remainder were under treatment.
The deaths were therefore about 4S per
cent.
III the old man will insist on taking a
smoke after going to bed at night, the
sooner the house is insured for twice It's
value the more complacent will be the
feelings of the relatives who stand by
when the firemen hunt among the ruins
for his bones.
AN extraordinarily large turnip was
dug in a garden at Salt Lake the other
day. which, on being cut open, disclosed
q large-Fized frog, we'll and hearty,
which tumbled out and hoped on, Just
as il he was not the creature OF won
derful phenomenon.
NINETEEN years ago q Tennessee faith
ar refused to let his young daughter 60
TO a candy-pull, and she disappeared.
The other day she returned, lifted elev-
en- children out of the wagon, and en-
tered the house and took Off her things
as coolly as IL she had not been gone
over day.
SEWING MACHINES are opposed in
China on the score that they cheaper
labor. Several tRilors il Hong Kong
who tried to introduce them were
mobbed. In America Chinese cheap
labor is derided, and in China Amerl-
can cheap labor by machinery is forci-
bly, repudiated.
NJ. DEoRoIx, chief veterinary surgeon
Of the French army, gives the equine
population of Europe as follows; Eus-
sia, 1900, 900; Austria, 3, 100, 600; Eng
land, 2,666, 200; Germany, 1900, 600
Turkey, ], 900, 900; Spain, 600, O00i Hol-
land, 800, coo; Belgium, 26O, 900; Swift
zerlRnd, 110, 900; and Ftanee, 1888, 900.
ONE hundred years ago Louis XVI.
had lust ascended the throne of the
Capets there was no American repub-
lie: the colonization of Australia had
not begun there we're fifty years more
to wait for the first railway, and no.
body had disturbed the world with
such notion as communication by
telegraph.
AHoNa some notes on duels the New
York Post gives the following: Rich
ard Somers, lieutenant in the navy of
the United States, a gentleman OF mild
manners and of u kindly nature, in
duIRed in three duels in one day, and
lost so much blood from wounds re-
ceived during the first two that he was
Obliged TO remain seated throughout
the third engagement. BE is said
to have perished in the Intrepid IRE
sketch, before Tripoli, in 1904"
GAMBLING was invented by the Lydi
ans when under the pressure Of great
famine. To divert themselves from
dwelling on their sufierings they invent
ed dice, balls, tables, etc. 1t iB added
that, TO bear their calamity the better,
they used to play a whole day without
intermission, that they might not feel
the effects of the wRut OF food. The
invention intended as a remedy for
hunger is now a very common cause for
that evil.
SAID one girl to another, as they we're
going 10 school, "We're too early; we'H
have to loaf around there until the
doors are OPEN" loaf around p re-
piled the other, "that is not pretty
expression" ''Well, I'd like TO know"
said the reproved girl, "how I'm to
learn to talk proper, when ] have three
brothers barping about chin music
cheese it, 'whoop 'em mp, that is not
your racket, and all that sort OF talk
all the time.
THERE was a man in Oswego, Kansas,
who thought that he had fallen into fat
thing. BE discovered we'll full OF
medical water on his premises. lie had
it analysed, and il gave iodine, bicar-
Donate of potash, chloride Of lime, and
compound extract of buchu, with a
trace of old DIR. Townsend's sarsapa-
rilla. The fortunate owner began to
think Of building hotel, and in bis
minds eye he saw no end of rheumatic
aad dyspeptic patients from ali parts OF
the country playing bluh and drinking
the water. Alas an enemy examined
that well little closer. Two defunct
cats were there, and an equally defunct
~,lLfE adTaH 20 the TtotcuaW Yhg hotel