The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-04-16
SAYINGS Am DofNGs.

SA1iNUS AND BvlNOS.
TIE Jn,llSRsE are not a laughing peo-
/ pie, and dog going down street with
tin pail to his tail win hardly raise
smile.
A DREADFUL misanthrope is OF opinion
/ that, after ones relations, there are no
more dangerous enemies than ones
friends.
AFTER many failsIres, the introduction
/ of salmon into the rivers Of Australia
has at length been successfully accom-
phshed.
HEBEAFTER no portrait is to he placed
| upon any of the bonds, securities, notes,
fractional or postal currency of the
United States while the original Of
sueh portrait is living.
A RECENT lecturer on Food" gives
this laconic advice: "Ilet women feed
their husbands on oatmeal p0rridgo and
! apples" Possibly the husbands may
have a voice in this matter.
THEY were going to put a man out Of
San Francisco theater for creating a
Disturbance, when voice cried Hes
ell right, he's killed a Chianmanl = aud
they let the man aiene.
A DErRorr hotel.keeper writes his
own bill of fare, thereby saving the cost
OF printing. Il announces ss Coffee,
soupe, rosie befe, faide ham, boyled and
bakt potays, fride coul Puddin and MINIS
pie"
AfRs. MARRowFAT's Oldest son, John,
has taken 10 writing poetry for the
newspaperE-a vicious habit which she
attributes 10 the fact that he tumbled
down stairs, when meIe child, and
spTained his intellect.
Martineau have signed en- address to
Mr.. Disraeli soliciting him TO use his in
fiuence toward extending the right of
franchise 20 women in the British Is
lands. BE is thought to be favorable
to the project.
IL some natures the ioftiest unsel-
fishness is often strikingiy manifested.
There is a Brooklyn man who keeps his
family at a cheap boarding house IN or
de. to spare the means Tor bis motker-
in-law to travel abroad.
The Iowa legislature has enacted a
law against baggage-smashes. The PEN
atty for recklessly injuring baggage is
fine of not less than ffty-dollars, nor
more than one hundred, aud imprison-
ment not exceeding thirty days.
In the preparation OF epitaphs, says
Lord Kames, conciseness is quite as de-
sirable as truth. We do not remember
to have seen any epitaph in which
mans virtues are more coneisely stated
than that upon the late Mr.. Mink
The angels tonight, in their mansions Of Hight.
He Was faithful ard kind, ss any youn hnd,
And gin was his favorlto drink.
To MAKE an imitation of rosewood,
without using nitric acid Dissolve four
ounces potash in one gallon of hot water,
and four ounces red ssnders-wood; when
the color of the wood is extracted, two
and a half pounds gum shellac are add
ed, and dissolve over a quick fire. Use
this on a ground work stained with log
wood.
A MODEST young husband in New
York sent the following message over
the wires 20 friends, the other day
See ninth chapter Of Isaiah, sixth
verse" The dusty old bible washauled
down in an instant iand the above chap
ter and verse were hunted out and, found
to explain all. Thesverse. .reads:" For
unto us a child is born--unto us a son
is given"
THE American Register, of Paris,
speaks of the new temperance move
ment in this country as a curious and
amusing illustration of the extent 10
which fanatieism can be carried" aud
says that the ladies engaged in praying
at saloons ''show a lamentRble want OF
dignity and self-respect, for there is no
tyranny like that of fanaticism-"
TIE greatest bell in the world, the
81 Emperor William Bell, !" destined for
the Cologne cathedral, has just been
finished. It weighs about &, GOO pounds,
is Is feet high and II feet wide. The
first moulding of the bell proved n fail
ure, and considerable difficulty has yet
10 be overcome in transporting the inn
mense affair from Frankenshal, whore it
was cast, TO the top of the.tower Of the
Cologne-oathedral.
A FEARFUL illustration OF the mis-
takes OF Judge Lynch comes from Mer-
Ger county. o. In June. 1872, two men
naTed Mcleod and Kimmell were hung
by a mob OF infuriated citizens for be-
ing the supposed perpetrators of an
outrage upon Q thirteen year old girl
named Belle Secor. A few days ago,
Thomas B. Douglas Of Fort Wayne,
Iud.. on his death-bed, confessed that
he committed the Outrage, and after
ward participated in the hanging of the
two innocent men.
TIE SUBTLErY or SFRyoHfIEE. AT q
farmhouse about four milee from Du-
buque, Iowa, the other day, the remnant
~
had been used TO bait prowling wolves,
was cast into the kitchen stove. In two
or three minutes tho bottle burst yiO-
Iently. sending out the flames IN every
direction, and two women burned in
the face thereby were so virulently
poisoned also that only the promptest
of strychnine antidotes
suficed to save their lives.
TX ancient days, the people Of Grims-
by, England, formed an admirable mo-
ton of wisdom required FOR corporation
honors. The burgesses assembled at
the church, and Sc ected three Of them
selves as candidates for the mayoIaity.
The candidates we're conductedl with
bunch OF hay tied TO each OF their backs,
to the common pound, in which they
were placed, bIindfolded, with calf;
and he whose bunch of hay was first
eaten by the calf was thereupon declared
mayor Tor tho ensuing year.
MIS-. r. J. SoREvEs, Of Liberty coun-
ty, Ga, has sent 10 the editor OF the
Albany News e package of black tea Of
her o IN raising and caring. In her let
ter she describes the mode OF manipu-
lating and drying the leaves. and how to
raise and protect the plants, and says
that the tes plant grows beautifully as
high up the country as Athens, Ga, and
is more sensitive to beat than 10 cold.
She says that grove of tea plants, once
started, will last lifetime, and after
the roots are well established IN the
ground The plants require no more at
tention than any Of our fruit trees or
garden shrubs.