The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-05-21
SAYINGs AND D0NGs.

TALBOT county, Georgia. last ysas
! produced 5, Se&2 bales of eottcn and 49,
500 bushels Of corn.
PIoUs fiirts are said to succeed best.
A heavenly smile viii tell on a mRn, be
he never so irrehgious.
A GEoR0IA clergyman has thirty-two
! children. His sermons are nearly all
upon the subject of q a better life than
this"
ArnAsr General Concha is going to
try the expedient of striking the Car
lists in the rear. just what they de-
serve.
THERE are twenty mills IN Montana
orus hing gold quartz. The silver ore is
nearly all shipped - Europe, much of
it going to Swansea, Wales.
To A norrLE.-
re very strange that you andI
/ Together cannot pull;
For Won are full when am dry,
And dry when am full
Ara revival in a western town, out OF
one hundred converts fully two-thirda
were males. which the wonen explain
by saying their own sex are mostly an
gels already.
IT IS astonishing how rapidly young
mans emotion viii change when a lady
relieves her waist from his encirelinR
arms by inserting about one inch Of
hair-pin in it.
INSCRIPTION on a tombstone in Co
/ iumbia, Tenn. " Escaped the tmliets
of the enemy to be assassinated by a
cowardly pup-a kind husband, an af-
| fectionate father"
| EXPERIMENTS have recently been made
| with dynamite as a means Of clearing
/ land OF timber stumps. The explosive
compound is said 10 do TIE work ef-
! fectually and with little trouble.
IT ONLY takes three hours and about
half q cord Of wood to put q millionaire
into very small glass bottle. The
only difficulty TO be apprehended is the
/ inevitable increase of family jars.
CORNELIUS O. LOGAN, minister pleni-
| potentiary of the United States to Chilli,
has consented to act as arbitrator in the
question between Peru and Chill Hris-
ing out of the liquidation Of the ac-
counts 0f the allied squadron during
the war with Spain.
You never saw such happy lot Of
people as we had here yesterday, said
a landlady in Indiana TO a newly arriy-
ed guest 4" there we're thirteen couples
OF them" So What Thirteen couples
just married ?" "Oh, no, sir thirteen
couples Just divorced"
GEx. JoHN @. BREcKnxRIDaE is slowly
recovering from his dangerous sickness.
It viii probably be some time before
he viii be well enough 20 read with en-
tire equanimity the Cincinnati Gazetts's
elaborate obituary notice Of him, under
the title of " A wasted life. "
con Mary, my heart is breaking,
said an Aberdeen lover to bis Highland
Mary. 8" Is it, indeed So much the
better for you" was her quiet reply.
ss Why. my idol p Z" Because, Mr..
McSmith, when it's broken ont and out,
you can sell the.pieces for gunhints."
HAPFDEss-
There is not in this wide world . happier life
Than to cit by the stoye-pipe and tickle your
To Kiss her warm liFs in your moments OF glss,
And twist the cats tail when she jumps on
your knee
A CHoAao paper speaks Of the great
American laQ-sotar as Sergeant Bates,
diced mind can contemplate the SER
geant's ears, towering heayenWard in
their pride Of place, without acknoWl-
edging the Well-merited character Of
the compliment.
FIRST RUFFIAN. .-'' Wot was hup for,
and Tot ave I gotp Well, hOor'd q
woman and took her watch, and I've got
two years and hogging." Second ruff
dan.-"Ah, I flung a woman out o the
top floor window; an I've only got
three months" First rufian.-" All,
but then she was yer wife"
SOME Of the planters in the inunds.
ted bottom lands of Mississippi and
Louisiana have had three crops washed
out in the last two months, and they no
longer feel interested in the question Of
- = l..
begun seriously thinking II il vii not
be mo cotton and still less coFn-
LAST year was s bad year for cham
payne. In 1873 thirty thousand dozen
less of the fashionable tipple were im-
ported into the United Slefes than
reached here in 1872. Nov that the
crusaders have got to work il may be
that 1874 viii show q still larger diminu-
ton Of the trade.
AIuCH Of the most valuable land in
Georgia was originally distributed By
lottery. and many oWnsEs OF real estate
have abstracts of tit q going back 70 lot
terry fiekets. The system is to be roviv-
ed. The legislature has authorized
scheme for the sale of lands by Lottery
and az Office is to be opened in Augusta
Il Is expected that che owners Of large
plantations viii subscribe.
THE blandness Of expression that win
spread itself over the countenaaoes Of
all good and true Temperance crusaders,
when they read the following, can not
be couutsrfeited - Wednesday last the
parents Of q by, ave years Of age, Nv
ing in Davenport, Iowa, celebrated his
birthday, and drank his health IN punch
and other interesting drinks. They
left q cup OF whisky. and IN the morn-
ing the child arose before the parentas
drank the whisky and died IN = few
hours IN great agony
THRoDonB r. TYsfHY, ths inventor of
the revolving turret battery, having hal
great experiences In machinery Tor weld
ing heavy ordnanca, Is contemplating
the con-tractio1 II she largest ae-cscope
lens. ever made. BE proposes = lens
more than twics the sire OF that recent
IL made lJy Alvin CLARK for the Wash
fnRton Observatory. Preparatory steps
10 casting lens Of I've feet IA diameter
have been taken near TarTytcSns New
York. II his experiment. proves ~ sue
cessfui as be has reason 70 hope, Mr..
Tymby's efforts viii place American as
Economical science far in advance of that
Of other countries.
A pI.ASrER IN Virginia. being dressed
for some special occasion, said 70 Uncle
Ben, an old family servant, =" Uncle
Ben, how do ] look p Why, you
looks splendid, mzrEier, epieadid.
Why. vou looks as bold as q lion.
- What do you know about hen :
You never saw one. Why, yes, ]
did. marster, Is often seed q lion
ofFea.'' % Where, Uncle Ben = Why,
down On Master Johnso1's plantation
they's got q lion, and y0u seed h1m.
too j know you has. Why you
old goose, you, that is not = ion it Ia
3 iackaas, and they have named hiE
Lion. 81 Wei, I don't care about dat
II don't care for dat. You locks Just