The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-10
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.

The manner in which manv French
households are organized Is said to be
first, the furniture ; second, the dress of
/ the wife and daughter, and then the
necessaries OF life.
WHY should man pay q thousand
dollars for ticket to 90 round the
world when by Just standing still the
globe itself viii take him the same dis
tanee for nothingP
THERE is female student at Woos-
ter, Ohio, who can jump over broom
handle held fve feet from the ground,
and the faculty warrant equal educa-
tiOnal progress TO all newcomers.
THEY that deny a God destroy mans
nobility, for certainly man is Of kin to
the beasts bv his body; and. IL he Is
not kin to God by his spirit. he is a
base and ignoble creature.-Bdccn.
The little mind that loves itself will
write and think with the vulgar but
the great mind will be brevely eocen-
trie, and scorn the beaten road. from
universal bsnevolenoe. - Goldsmith,
ssTHERE viii he no newspaper in
heaven, said a Brooklyn clergyman,
exultiRgly. {" Then you can't give mo
the first proof Of IL. retorted man in
the congregation. He was an editor.
SPEAKING of engagements, there is a
lovely little blonde. aged ten. at Sara
toga, who wears a diamond solitaire on
her engagement finger, and is actually
betrothed to young man OF nineteen.
"HAvE You got little Indian there?"
said the engineer. as we passed young
Rduaw with q papoose, standing at
depot on the Pacific railroad. No"
said she "hslf Iniun, half IniuIeer =
THERE is one recent decision of the
treasury department. in which thank
full public, or the adult portion Of 1t at
least, viii readily acquiesce. 1t is that
children's whistles. tin horns, etc, are
mot musical instruments"
A FIRST 1NmREssIoN.-
recoilect nurse called Ann.
Who carried me about the grass,
And one fine dav n flnc young man
Came up and kissed the pretty lass.
She did not make the least ubiectioni
Thinks L "Ah
When I can talk I'll tell mamma, ~
Aud that's my earliest recollection.
WHEN they told an Indiana woman
that her husband had been sliced up
by reaper, she impatiently replied
" Well, take the pieces to the barn
can't leave the gooseberry sauce just
now"
THE expression of a nervous woman's
face, upon getting into dentists chair,
is something that no man can initiate
until he gets n letter from his mother
in-law, sharply inquiring il that spare
room is ready.
HERE is n recipe for getting up a
fashionable summer bonnet Let the
lady run her head into a sheaf of oats,
and afterward stick in a few feld-how-
ers here and there 10 light mp her Golf
fura and tho thing is done.
An Irishman fonnd a government
blanket, and rolling IL mp put it under
his arm and walked OFF. saving Yis,
that's moine. u for Patrick, and s for
McCArty be me sowi, but this learnin'
is n foine thing, as me fayther would
say for If I hadn't an edication
wouldnt have been afther fndin' me
blanket"
THERE is a time in the going to sleep
of weary men when n noise, continued
for fifteen minutes, deprives the would
he sleeper of an entire nights rest.
With sagacity which is of the devil
himself, the dog in the next yard hits
upon that particular time to do it's
barking, and only its thick-headed
owner can rest.
THERE is still trouble as TO the sort
Of statue that shall he placed on the
Vendome column in Paris. Some want
the Imperial Napoleon, others prefer
the-Iittle Corporal, others would like
the Goddess of Liberty. One Of the pi-
quant suggestions is that a magnificent
political weathercock would be both
and useful.
THE TitusviUe Herald wants TO know:
90 Is there anything in the world more
irving to the soul of a man than TO find
- Il .ea hill nwnannu the
highest figures his prolific imagination
had whispered ?" Yes, there IS. IT is
to have your wife come home from the
country and find thst bill, and sniff ont
a remark TO the effect that lyon said
that you went to bed early while she
was away"
THERE is such a thing az having too
many children il Your memory il Door.
The other night Spriggins counted his
brood, but could only make mp fourteen.
g How is this ?" be asked his wife, Il
thought there were fifteen Of them at
the last census - 80 there were"
she answered, ssbut one of them died
since that" 'Indeed r. said Sprig-
gins, meditatively, "why, IL seems to
me I heard Of that at the time.
The following testimony 10 the virtue
of a patent manure was received by its
owner "Dear Sir-Tbe land oompOs-
ing my farm has hitherto been 40 poor
that a Scotsman could not get living
off IL, and 40 stony that We bad 10 slice
our potatoes and plant them edReways
but hearing of your manure, put some
on ten-acre field surrounded by n rail-
fence, and in the morning found that
the rock had entirely disappeared, q
neat stone wall had enoircled the field.
gv.N. a. WwTfRd
and piled mp systematically in mysback
yard"
CoaGIA's comet has scarcely dissp-
peared before another erratic celestial
visitor dawns upon the world. M. Boz
reli. nc Marssiiles, has discovered a new
comet. It's position il reported in right
ascension, 15h 25m, and its polar dis
tance 80 deg. It can be seen IN our
latitude, and Il Is described as "moder-
stely bright" and having a movement
toward the northwest. Borelli Is very
astronomer, and, like his
CoRgia, has made, hereto
fore, some important Astronomical dis
coveries. Whether his present comet
will rival Coggia's is yet to be demon
strated.
A WICKED fellow couldn't or wouldn't
nav his bill at one Of the summer resort
hotels IA Pennsylvania, whereupon the
proprietor sent him from
office 10 lawn-a distance Of thirty feet
with a rapidity suggestive only Of an
air gun. And what does the impecuni-
ous youth do IN the revenge line but
tell the nurses there we're two cases OF
whOOping-cough in the house The
nurses told the misfreRses, the mis-
tresses toIled the bell ITO send for their
bills), and in ten hours only fifty out 0f
one hundred and ffty people remained.
A chrome is now offered for that young
man.
The Real Rich Man.
Many a man is rich without money.
Of men with nothing in