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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-08-20
Indian Tree-eIlmbing.


In South America even the weakest
may be, not uneOmmonly, seen pluck
ing the fruit at the. tree tops. If the
bark is so smooth and slippery that
they cannot go5rlimhing, they use other
means. They make a hoop of wild
vines, and putting their feet inside
they use it. as "a support in climbing.
The negro of the west coast of Africa
makes larger hoop round the trees,
and gets inside of it and jerks it up the
trunk with his hands, little at time,
drawing his legs mp after IT. The Tahi-
tian boys tie their feet together, four or
five inches apart, with a piece of palm
bark, and with the aid of this fetter go
up the cocoa palm to gather nuts. The
native women in Australia climb the
gum trees after opossums., Where the
bark is rough they chop holes with a
Ratchet; then one throws about the
tree rope twisted as long as will go
around it, puts her hatehet on her
cropped head, and placing her feet
against the tree and grasping the rope
with her hands, she bitches it up by
jerks, and pulls herself up the enor-
nous trunk almost as. fast as man will
climb q ladder. zevr 20 -zEa 40 '.r.f
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Proving GatIing Guns.


An inspection and test of the first in
stallment of Calling guns for the navy
was in progress at Colts factory, Hart
ford, Connections, under the supervis-
ionSof Iietenant Commander Persons.
The Times says: ."One thousand
rounds were fired from each gun, max
ing $4,000 rounds. The proving was of
a severe and thorough character. These
guns are of the new and improved
model, Orders for them have been re-
ceiyed from China and Japan, and the
works are run night and day to get of
the Chinese contract by July 81. To
illustrate the capacity of the Calling
for long continued and rapid firing, we
may mention the fact that it has
been tested at Fort Madison, Annapolis,
by firing $4,000 rounds at the rate OF
400 minute, from the same gun, with
out stopping to clean the gun. DR..
Calling was present, and witnessing
this unequaled result was interested in
the discovery of what seemed to be
almost a new principle in gunnery. 1t
was found that up. to the 4,000th round
the gun kept; fonling, but that after
that point it began to clean itself and
after the 6E,0OOth round was fred the
barrels were found to be as clean and
bright inside as they were when they
were first POLISHED. - .--
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-08-20
Breeding Camels in Nevada.

On a ranch on the Carson river, eight
miles below the mouth of Six-mile can
on, is to be seen herd of twenty-six
camels, all but two of which was born
and raised in Nevada. But two of the
old herd of nine or ten brought here
some years ago are now living. It
would seem that the original lot fell in
to the hands of Mexicans. who treated
them very badly, overlooking and abus-
ing them. The men who now have
them are Fr9nchmen, who had formerly
some experience with canels in Europe
They find no difficulty in rearing them,
and can now show twenty-five fne
healthy animals, all of Washoe growth.
The camel may now be said to be thor
oughly acclimated in the state. The
owners of the herd find it no more diff
ficult to breed and rear them than would
be experienced with the same number
of goats or donkeys. The ranch upon
which they are kept is sandy and ST, rile
IN the extreme yet the animals feast
and grow fat on such prickly shrubs and
bitter weeds as no other animal would
touch. When left to themselves their
great delight, after filling themselves
with the coarse heritage of the desert,
is to lie and roll In the hot sand. They
ire used in packing salt to the mills on
he river, from the marshes lying in the
desert some sixty miles to the eastward,
the yhave animals that easily pack
seven hundred pounds.
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Art in America.

The London Athen@um has a letter
from. New York, which it heads can
Amer leans View of American Art" Tt
is not Over-sanguine in tone, but it is
evidently written by cultured Ameri-
can observer, and makes several excel
lent points. After much criticism of in
dividual artists, the writer says "What
America most needs is art criticism
There is but one journal IN New York
the Tribune-thRt makes the slightest
pretension to criticism. The conse-
quence is, that artists do not find their
proper level. What is best fails to be
appreciated, because of the absence of
culture. Indiscriminate praise makes
one man as good as another In the eyes
of the general public, the worst pictures
fluid the readiest sale, and charlatans
who spread the most paint over the lar
gest canvas become famous. There are
wealthy men who pride themselves upon
their picture galleries, n few of which
are fine, but the majority do little credit
TO, their owners, who depend upon pic
ture-dealers or self asserting artists for
their collections. Even patrons pos
sessed of a certain amount of taste do
not take the amount of pains they
should to develop native talent. Con-
tent to be known as having purchased
well-known French pictures from the
artists studios, they ignore what lies
next them, merely because they do not
know enough TO discover it. Hence the
necessity for criticism. Now, when an
artist hears the truth in print, he howls
with rage, declares he is the victim of
personal malice, and straightway friends
fight his battles in rival newspapers.
The poor public reads both sides, wrings
its hands in despair, and not knowing
what to believe, valiantly sides with the
under dog, otherwise the artist. Such
state of things is destructive of art,
and cannot last much longer. The prog.
ress of America in all directions, the
erection of art-museums, must create
| sounder criticism and, when this good
time comes, America will not be found
wanting"
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BOTH SIDES.

Aman in his carriage riding along.
gaily-dressed wife by his sldes
IN satin and laces she looked like the queen
And he like king in his prime.
wood-sawyer stood on the street as they passed !;
The carriage and couple he eyed
And said as he worked with his saw on log
ssI wish vas rich and could ride
The man in the carriage remarked to his wife,
One thing wound give If I could;
I'd give al my wealth for the strength and the
health,
OF the man who is saving the wood"
A pretty young maid, with bundle Of work.
Who're face as the morning was fair,
Went tripping along with smile Of delight
While humming love-breathing air,
She looked on the carriage; the lady she saw,
Arrayed in apparel 50 hne;
Aud said in a whisper, - wish from my heart
Those satins and laces were mine"
The lady looked ont on the maid with her work,
So fair in her calico dress, :
Aud said, " I'd relinquish position and wealth
Her beauty and youth TO possess
Thus 1t is in this world, whatever our JOYS
Our minds and our time we employ
In longing and signing for what We have not
Ungrateful for what we enjoy
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AGRICULTURAL aLEANINGs.

All. grapes which are not suitable IoF
maket or table use shoaid be left on the
vine until thoroughly ripe before max
ing them into wine.
ANNALS will fatten better in company
than in isolation. Remember this II
they are alone, they viii lose not few
pounds of flesh In pining for company
To CURE bloody milk in cows give
one tablespoonful of sulphur in little
bran once a day. If very bad case,
give twice day; in dry bran, OF course
IF newborn calves are troubled with
bleeding at the naval, it may generally
be stopped by fastening string around
the cord which hangs suspen6 ed from 1t:
LET your stable be light, dry and
well ventilated. Dark stables help to
bring on blindness. Moisture and bad
ventilation encourage CHAMBERS, farcy,
and many other diseases.
AT great trial of farm implements.
the crowd had for a drink IN the field
buckets of cold water with oat-mea
stirred in, which was found to be botE
victuals and drink, and exceedingly re
freshing.
REPORTS from northern Indiana show
a yery bad condition of things. Pear
and apples Will be far below the aver
age. Grapes are reported just fair
being good in quality, although not
very large crop.
NO depart ment of farming is NOR
pleasant and profitable than that o
raising stock. The farm is CONSTANT.
growing richer and better where stool
kept in large numbers,
In dealing with animals, untimely o
unreasonable whipping, angry or bois
ferrous words are always out of place
always do more harm than good. Tn
dnllest animal appreciates kindness
The most celebrated hOrse-tamer in thi
country is said to have made thes
words his motto: &c Firmness an
kindness, and he never failed of suC
cess
: Nh. j. HAHR1s. of Rocher, New YorI
says, in the American Agriculturist
that we talk about raising wheat enoug
for the world, but our own populatio
, il increasing so rapidly that the tim
will soon come when it viii wax on
skill to RAISE wheat enough for on
selves. We shall do it, of course, BIT
we shall have to farm better than man
of us do now. And he is the wise ma
: who Is getting his land cleaner an
: richer.
3 MANSFIELD, the celebrated statist
L clan, has demonstrated that within I'll
: last twelve years the money value of tt
3 the annual yield of farm products
I Ohio has increased fifty millions
2 dollars, and that the producing capaeii
of the farms has increas ed. The infe
ence is that the farmers of Ohio hav
made great progress in business ma
: agement, and have, while realizing GOO
profits, kept their farms up to Il
. 4 standard Of fertility
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A Brave Little Girl.

A gentleman who was on the Inflated
Pat Rogers states that while he was
standing on the forward part of the
boat, making ready to spring into the
water, he heard one of the officers of
the boat tell lady, who was standing
near him with little girl, that the time
had leone when she must trust herself to
the water. The lady, turning to her lit
tie daughter, inquil ed if she could sum-
mon the courage TO jump into the wa
ter. The little girl glanced at the ap-
preaching flames, then at the water, and
responded in firm voice that she would
Jump if her mother would follow. The
mother assured her that she would leap
in after her. The officer threw a mat
tress overheard and told the little girl
to Jump towards it. Without a mo-
ment's hesitation the heroic child
leaped into the dark and swiftly gliding
water, the mother instantly followed /;
but both at once sunk to rise no more.
There were grown women and even
strong men who shrank back from the
whirliDg water, almost pTeferriDg to
perish IN the flames to trusting them
selves to its treacherous embrace. But
this brave child saw the situation, and,
appreciating the only means of escape
presented, babe her mother follow and
boldly flung herself into the raging
flood. Such heroic resolutions Is not
often exhibited, and the world has l. st
a courageous woman in his dead child
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lonel's uniform. We knew each other
directly. Embracing me in the genu-
inc Mexican fashion he drew me into his
room to present me to his wife, more
charming than when. she occupied q
cabin on the prairie. We all three had
long and confidential talk. Miguels
rise in life was nothing uncommon in a
country where revolutions are so fre-
quent, but the union of these persons
was something wholly incomprehensible
to my mind. Before the steamer was
ready to sail, Colonel Aguero's leave
was countermanded, and he was ordered
to the interior, as a formidable rising
had taken place. I, therefore, reluc-
family bid them good-by.
/ Z Since then 1 have heard that Seniors
Arguero left her husband, or he left
her, and that she may be daily seen II
public on the piazza at Havana, where
She is famed for her transcenden'
! heauiy. I--a
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The Piutes.

The Territorial Enterprise thus de-
scribes the Piutes of Nevada ''What-
ever may be the case with other tribes,
the Piute has no notionof passing away.
They are remarkably healthy people.
They are seldom sick, and there appears
to be about 100 births, to one death.
Hardly a squaw that is over sixteen and
and under sixty years of age can be
seen who has not PaPpOOse sIuDg on
her back. What shall be done with
these people will one of these DAYS be
a question that must be answered in
some way,as Their seems to be no like
hhood of their dying Of Among the
Piutes to work is considered no dis
grace, and their biggest brave is not
ashamed TO be seen handling an axe or
saw. The women are quite industrious
and the men are always ready to work
when coin is shown them. Their great
est vice and their ruling passion is
gambling. They play among them
selves, and when they have money cards
are never out of their hands"
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Preserving Butter.

Only a few families know how to
keep fresh butter sweet and finely tia-
vored for any length of time, whether
they make or purchase it. Hence with
such there is a necessity of speedy con-
sumption, or having to eat ar inferior
article. Assuming that the cream was
good, the bUttermilk properly worked
ont of the new butter, and pure salt
used, how is nice fresh butter to be pre-
| served in this stare? Answer; By ex.
I Gliding the air and keeping it In cool
I place. Pack new butter in sound stone
| Jars or crooks wet with strong brine !;
and be sure to keep the brine an inch or
| two over the butter to exclude atmos-
| pheric air.
If the crock stands in cold spring
| water, in a spring house or cool cellar,
| the butter viii not become rancid in
/ several months, finely favored butter
| put up IN this manner sells In New York
at this time. at from IS to Is cents a
] pound. $3.50
i The practice of having SO much dam
| aged or inferior butter is great mis-
take which ought to be corrected partly
by manufacturers, and partly by deal
ers and consumers, In the first place,
COWS should have plenty of green fresh
feed like grass, clover. green corn, COW
peas or mlllet,i 60 yield sweet butter. a
steady supply Of rich yellow milk is
needed 200 ~ Z
Ia the. south, corn forage will be our
main dependence, as we can raise il
early andtlate IN the season by taking
Fp8ins; and It makes excellent hay when
Y al the Tndtfiment in the grain is re-
tanned il the blade or stalk. There are
over one thousand million pounds Of
lard in the 1shaTle of T1Ork and hacor
consumed in the, United States every
year, and the tendency is to substitute
butter for this hog's grease. The COW
is a better, and a. more economical ma
chine to extract oil from plants will
her capacious stomach than any swine
Hence the rapid increase Of well organ
lied butter factories and of dairy cows
In less than three days time the Gov
enables MS TO transform corn shuck
leaf and stalk into healthy human blood
! No hog can IDEAS much,
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Making in the aggregate 10, 492 sub
ordinate oranges on the first day of
June. Oranges are being organized at
the average rate of twenty-five per day,
which, up to the present, would swell
the number to 20.0 900. These oranges,
on an average, number fifty voters, and
It requires no figuring to show that to-
LOCO. 900 voters who are patrons oil hus-
bandry,
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Not Quite so East, Mr.. JODesI--A horss-
doctor IN PkIIsdslphia caught changing the
celebrated Mexican Mustang Eminent into other
bottles, and using It as his own recipe. Honesty
is always the best policy. These medicine men like
to follow MP such fellows. II cured the lame horse
all the same; but it damaged tbs Doctors reputa-
ton, sad benefited the proprietor in proportion.
We have heard Of so many Rheumatic persons and
lame hotses being cured by the Mustang EAnimeni
tkat we RdYise every hoJlsekeeper, liveryunan and
planter to invest in 50 ct OF 81 08 bottle, against
accident Beware Of counterfeits. II Is wrapped
in steel engraving signed " g. ". Westbrooki
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TIE passage of the ear is closed by a
thin membrane, especially adapted to
be influenced by every impulse of the
air, and with nothing but the air to
support it internally. If any one de-
signed to break or overstretch the mem
bTane he could scarcely devise a more
efficient means than to bring the hand
suddenly and forcibly down upon the
passage of the ear, thus driving the air
violently before 1t, with no possibility
for its escape but by the memb ane
giving way. Many children are made
deaf by boxes on the ear In this way.
There are better ways Of punishment
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-08-20

TIE SKEPTIoAL CoNvINCED.-EveTy
advance in medicine, every new remedy
has encountered an opposition which IS
the test of truth. Galen and Jenner only
were believed when they had proved
their discoveries against opposition. But
men are observing, and benefits always
make believers. No increduiity can
stand the silent argument of good re-
suits. When DR.. Walker proclaimed
that he had produced from the medicinal
herbs of California an elixir that would
regenerate the sinking system and cure
diseases not organic, the incredulous
shook their hea s. Yet his Vinegar
Bitters is now the standard restorative
of the western world. The truth could
4 not be resisted. Under the operation of
the new remedy, dyspeptics regRined
/ health, appetite and strength, the bil-
ious and constipated were relieved OF
every distressing symptom the con-
sumptive and rheumatic rapidly recOY-
| cred intermittent and remitte0t fevers
were broken up the faint of scrofula
was eradicatedl Who could gainsay
facts like these P Not even the faculty.
! Skepticism was routed. All doubts as
to the claims of the BitteTs to the first
place in the first rank of modern medi-
cines were silenced, and this wonderful
preparation is to-day the most popular
! tonic, Alternative and blood depurent
ever advertised in America. In COM
mon with other journalists, we are free
to add our testimony to this remedy. 1t
is a domestic medicine, and no house
hold should be without it.
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FooLIsHLY spent, money paid for
ehildren's shoes not protected by SILVER
TIPS. Two weeks is about the time 1t takes a
smart, active child to ventilste the tee Of a
shoe. SILVER TIPS the only preventative.
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The heat OF summer as well as the sudden
changes of temperature incident to autumn,
coupled with the use of unEipe vegetables and
fruits and other unwholesome articles Of food,
result every season in producing much suffer.
ing from diarrhoea, dysentary, cholera morbus,
collie and other arrangements of the stomach
and bowels. A remedy that VIII promptly re-
heve these suferings and restore tone and
normal action to the relaxed and debilitated
alimentaTy canal, is surely 8 boon to the afiict-
ed. Dr. r. V. Pierce whose Family Medicines
have acquired worldwide reputation, by long
study and careful chemical experiments has
succeeded in extracting, by a cold process,
from smart-weed or water pepper that mod
est little plant seen in wet grounds by the
roadside and in neglected grounds and pasture
fields, a remedial principal which, when skillful-
~ combined with the extract Of Jamsics ginger
and other pleasant modifying agents, in Whist
he calls his Compound Extract Of Smart-Weed,
forms 3 most reliable specific for all such de-
engagements and sufferings. It is pleasant and
safe to take, yet powerful to cure Its won
derful efficacy is further confirmation Of the
! Doctors idea that God has caused to grow in
each climate and region, those medicinal plants
best calculated for the cure of the diseases
those plants are found-that 4" the leaves were
| for the healing of the nations and that the
| fewer far-fetched remedies we employ the bet
ter, il we would thoroughly investigate and
understand those We have at home. The Doc
| tors Extract of Smart-Weed is sold by drug
| gists generally. -G 8 HrI lU ;.
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GooD advice never comes aniss. II
they have not got the Elmwood Collar at the
store where you are in the habit of purchasing
your goods, tell them TO get some for you at
once, and don't be put on with any other
goods
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BOILED Corn FOR PoULTRY.-In the
breeding OF poultry as in all other Iur-
suits, a little care and forethought inva-
richly return an apparently dispropor-
tionate result. In the rearing of poul-
try, where the expenditure of each fowl
is small and the material provided com
paratively inexpensive, we are apt to
overlook the small wastes which occur
in the transformation of the different
grains into poultry, but which aggre-
gate quite a respectable sum.
The opinion that corn is very nourish-
ing food for fowls is so universal that no
further thought is given to the mat
ter. IL any one should suggest that
corn would be easier of digestion if
soaked or boiled, he would very
likely receive the answer that corn was
not hard to digest for birds that swal-
low stones and other hard substances
without detriment. Amoment's thought,
however, will convince that the mill
stone and the grist are very different
things, and feeding hard grain, although
not exactly like feeding the mill stones
| with pebbles, bear a certain likeness
! to it. The trouble attendant on the
! preparation of food, if it is to be cooked,
may indeed seem very disproportionate
| to the advantage to be derived from
! such treatment; but, IN reality, little
time need be spent, as before going the
rounds of the nest a little hot water
may be poured over the corn, tight
cover put on the kettle, and the whole
placed on the stove, where, by the time
your rounds are completed, the corr
will have become steamed and mellow
and have lost none of its good qualities
Remember that each hen has a certain
amount of animal force to be expended
every day In some direction, and The
less she has to give to digest her fooi
the more she will have to give to be ex
pended in reproducing. The advan
tages of warm food In winter, Whel
much food goes toward producing ami
mel heat to Withstand the cold, are two
fold-the direct action of the warmth
and the slower action of the food itself
to say nothing of the fact that the con
tents produced by nourishing food vii
result in more eggs, for a hen thor
oughly at home will lay more eggs thai
a discontented one. We have performet
this experiment ourselves, and knov
that feeding boiled corn does pay; an
it is as a result of experience that W
offer this plan to our friends.-Ea
chance,
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Two sCoRE. years ago Signor Blitz,
who seems to flourish IN perpetual youth,
vas notified by the Mayor of Boston
and the town authority of Lowell that
he must not perform on Saturday :
while In Connections there was law
prohibiting his exhibitions. Now he is
regularly engaged for the entertainment
Of children in Sunday schools, Just as
lecturers are engaged for -1yceums
sometimes being allowed TO set his table
on the pulpit platform.