The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-06-11
SAYINGS AND DoTSGs.

BRET HARrE's last poem has to be
read nineteen times before its pathos
can be appreciated.
SOME lord in England has ordered
two numbered living prairie chickens
from Grundy county, Iowa, and wall
| try to acclimate them.
AUTOGRAPHS of George Washington
are selling in PHILADELPHIA at 81 apeice.
The manufacturers are about introduce
/ ing some improved machinery, and when
that is in they can be had at forty cents
E dozen.
AT a conference meeting in Salt Lake
CITY recently, Brigham Young, Jr., ex-
| planned his system Of praying for his
/ enemies 'T pray for our enemies,
brethren, but always pray that they
may GO to hell
! DANIEI. Book had a very brief relig-
| ious creed. 1t was simply to love and
/ fear God, believe in Jesus Christ, do
all the good to your neighbors and
| himself that he could, and as little
harm as he could.
Earl. RUSSELL is not with the Wash
ington treaty. He told the house OF
] lords the other night that it had "tarn-
/ ished the national honor, lowered the
national character, and sacrificed the
national interest"
A KALAMAZOO widow, who is not one
of the despairing kind, has the photo
graphs of her three departed lords in a
GROUP, with a viRnette of herself in the
centre. and underneath is the inscrip-
tion, ''The Lord viii provide" p"
"I WOULDN'T be a cook for the whole
world" exclaimed fashionable young
lady to her betrothed lover. "Of
course not. f" he replied: " If you were
cook for the whole world you would
never get through your work /; but you'll
be able to manage it nicely for our
little family"
"WouLD my little Ezra" asked q
fond mother, "like to be missionary,
and go preach TO the poor, suffering lit
tie heathen p Tears-bright, pearly
drops of feeling-glistened on little
Ezra's eyes as he murmured Nav, I
wouldn't; but I'd like to be on the per-
lice long enough to put tin roof on
the big lummax that stuck shoemakers'
wax on my seat to-day. You hear me. :"
REv. Mr.. WALTON, of Hightown,
n. Y, placed sealed can of beans
upon the live Goals in the stove to
to assist in the opening thereof. An
instant explosion followed, shattering
the stove, upsetting the tea-kettie,
scattering the GOALS over the carpet
and plastering the beans to the ceiling.
The whole family had a narrow escape,
and the dominic concludes that he
knows beans now.
THE Chicago Times chronicles the
fall of an enormous Rrolise in the VI
cinity of Farmersville, Livingston
county, Mo. The shock of its impact
~ - A,N. -, hazra hanFr
like an earthquake, and the molten mass
is described as fully twenty feet high
abve the soil, and some twenty feet IN
diameter. It presents the usual ap-
pearance of such bodies, being black
shining mass of meteoric iron.
From the account of the Sanders
Vile. Georgia, Herald il appears there
was something to laugh at in the escape
of the convict from the Washington
county gang hired for agricultural Ia
Dor. The overseer had some dogs that
he was training to catch any OF tho
gang who might escape, and he turned
this convict loose TO exercise the dogs
and instruct them in their parts. But
the fellow took his part in earnest. and
as the dogs failed 10 come up to what
was expected of them he was not
caught.
THE idea that Dickens intended a
nortraiture of his own thriftless sire in
The character of Wilkins Micawber sug-
gests to n sagacious London cores
Dondent that the latter name IS but
disguise of the literal expression,
- NV father" Change the "y" to
"i the "f" to &C, the ct to "W,"
and the "h" to " b and behold you
have Micawber at once ! This power
ful speculation reminds one OF the old
explanation of the derivation of Mid
dletown from Moses-you drop the
'oses and add the 'iddletown
THE old question, does lager intoxi-
cate {? came before a court in Dayton,
ohio. day or two ago. A Germ n
testified "If You drink five or SIX
Qlai;ses of lager in a little while you
will feel more pleasant as if you drink
five or six glasses of water in the same
time. and if you drink Eve or six glasses
of water in a little while you will feel
more disappointed IS IL you drink hve
or six glasses of lager in the same
time. The jury were out four hours,
and stood seven to tiye.
The value Of carrier-pigeons was so
plainly shown during the tranco-Gef-
man war, that the French government
has decided to erect q large house and
to keep constantly in it for th, next six
years 5000 pairs of pigeons for breed
ing purposes. Each fortress is 20 have
a pieeon-houRe, with a capacity for l.
600 birds. and tao general stations are
TO be established, with accommodations
for 60. 600 birds. The Germans too are
breeding earrier-pigeOna on large
scale for the use of the army.
THE spring FRAMEWORK has began IN
some of the principal newspaper offices
The st. Louis Democrat says: In
the spring, the spurs grow longer on
the raudy rooster's legs il the spring,
a bullets fancy lightly turns to thoughts
of eggs. The Minneapolis Tribune
says " In the spring, the yernal olub-
Der ripens in the FURNISHED whale IN
the spring, & tsdpole's fancy lightly
turns 10 thoughts OF tail. The Boston
Globe says F" In the spring, ia um-
breIla-owner gins to wonder which Is
his: in the spring, the soda fountain
lightly turns to thoughts Of hzz.
THE Pawnee Indians want boots with