The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-11-26
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.

potato crop.
WHERE to go when short of money
60 to work.
SHoRr DRESSES are coming into fash
ion again, and young ladies are expert
eneinR the old, old difficulty of getting
a No. foot into g No. shoe.
WHEN a man saves his cigar money TO
buv his wife a new bonnet and the
children new shoes, it indicates spell
of sunshine.
Nh. SHRKINs says he has been mar
ried sixteen years, and all the income
they have had to live on has been IL
compatibility.
OLIVE LOGAN poises a rolling pin on
the end of her thumb and demands to
know who FIRST uttered that expression,
"Logan's man Sykes.
PouYaANFY cannot be very unpopular
amcng the woman of Utah, when lO,0 0O9
nf them vote.to sustain it, as they did
at the last congressional election.
THE prevaient superstition that to
spill salt is unluclxy, arises from the
we'll known legend that Judas, the be
trayer, spilled the salt at the " last sup
per-
Gu1s. as you value your lives, don't
get up and get breakfast in the morn
ing. A young lady attempted 1t one
day last week, and was burned to death.
Show this to'your mothers.
FURorE is discussing the celebration
of one more centennial. This is the
centennial Of the potato, or of its in
PRODUCTION TO European tables. Al
though the potato, went to Europe
much more than a hundred years ago,
its introduction to the table of LOUIS
XVI, by ParmertieT, in IVA, Is the
date counted as the beginning OF Its
history beyond the water.
CHARLES H. WEBB, one of the most
amusing men on the planet, dedlcates
his forthcoming book "Fo the Bald
headed, that noble and shining Army OF
Martyrs" Entertaining the idea that
s'loss of hair is caused by loss OF sleep,
he offers them his books as IN intellect
ual pcppy, believing TO use his own
words) that in its wake shall follow
80 tired natures hair restorer, balmy
sleepP
TIE police boundaries of London
cover 576 square miles and population
of 1000. 600 inhabitants. Here are
gathered more Jews than there are IN
Palestine, more Scotch than there are
in Edinburgh, more Irish than there
are in Dublin, more Roman Catholics
than there are in Rome, and there is n
great variety in the languages spoken.
There is a birth in London every five
minutes, and death every eight min
utes.
PrrY the poor Celestials. They are
TO learn French after Oilendorfs sys-
tenn and 80 now, no doubt, the Young
Mongolians are studying in their Oilen-
DORIS such passages as this Have
you the old horse of your dead grand
mother ?" "No, I have not the old
horse of my dead grandmother, but i
have the small squirrel of my old step
father" As "Ollendorf" seems based
upon the principle OF using phraseb
chiefly 10 be met with in insane asy-
| lums, we presume the above IS a ialr
specimen of tho exercises "boned" by
young John Chinaman.
EVERY man who is in the habit OF
| getting drunk should read this touch
! ing. perhaps truthful little story from
the Detro Free Press, ans Immediately y
reform or get big dog " "Wednesday
afternoon half-drunken man named
/ Croy. living IN Canada, was wandering
/ around the Potomac, accompanied by q
big dog and having lots Of money. Yes
| terdav morning he was found in-an
! alley, sleeping a drunken sleep, and his
dog was keeping watch over him, and
would allow no one to come near until
/ the man shook Off his sleep. The dog
hnd been stabbed twice with knife
and there we're two extra hats IN the
alley. showing that thieves he'd come
to rob the man and that the dog had
fought them of.
E,NdLAND's marriage statistics have
been analyzed to show the probabilities
of marriage for women at different ages.
Supposing the sum OF a woman's chan
ces of marriage TO be one hundred, she
exhausts between the ages OF fifteen
and twenty years, fourteen and hall
chances. If she lives unmarried from
twenty to twenty-five, fifty-two more OF
her chances have vanished into thin air.
If she remains unmarried for five more
wears, she will turn thirty with only fif
teen and half chances ont Of her hun
dred left. After thirty-dve, she has
eleven and half chances, and at this
point the statistician gave up his calcu
lation, except that he assures us that
after q woman has lived unmarried sixty
years she still has the tenth Of a chance
of getting married ont OF the hundred
with which she is supposed TO have
/ efarfed life