The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-04-30
SAYINGS AND D0INGs.

/ NEARLY tiftg carloads OF oysters 1aFt
/ Just been taken across to California fol
/ planting in the Pacific coast waters.
ONE OF the incest ways Of committing
( suicide, aud of revenging yourself on
youI neighboE at the came time, is e
] jump down his well.
Ir's a good time to get married now,
when butteris forty-flve cents per pound,
as bridal couples dent requiEs any solid
food for the first niionth.
THE Suez canal appears e. be doing
a good business. During the month oi
January III vessels passed through,
paying tolls to the amount Of sst3S, goo.
PEoPIE who didn't draw anything in
the Louisville lottery VIII now swear of
forever, and in about six weeks VIII be
hunting after tickets in smother drawing.
GEKMAST has number Of experiment
tai farms, where ali new theories con-
nected with agriculture or cattle-raisine
are tried and their merits pronouI ced
upon.
TWENTY THOUSAND persons, lt Is esti
mated, have been drowned in Lake Eric
during the present century. This is the
most formidable argument the crusaders
have yet had TO combat
THE Chicago Trisuno prints a poem in
which the writer wishes that she had "a
heart full of sweet yearlings." How the
prosecuted author must have yearned TO
tumble among that compesitor's hair.
TIE disease known as trichina IS
causing terrible havoc among the hogs
along the Kaskaskia river in Illinois
Not less than ten THOUSAND hogs have
died already, and the fatality iE still
unchecked.
FROM Cape Town it is stated that the
diamond fields are under cioud. They
have not only suffered from floods, but
their value is depreoiating, and the de-
cline in price has caused commercial
embarrassment.
A sfAaNEFg0ESF gambling hell, like
that OF Baden-Baden and at Homburg,
as they were when at the height of their
popularity. is talked of as one Of the fu-
ture attractions OF Cairo. The khediye
is said to favor the plan.
Two HuEoEED people in a Colorado
town recently turned out IN body to
look upon bedstead with oastors, it be-
ing the first ever seen IN the county. The
possessor had his hat ever his left ear,
aud was for time greater man than
the mayor.
TIE American Register, of Paris, in-
forms us that ditpcing is going out of
fashion in Europe. and says: If men
and women could flirt as conveniently
and as pleasantly withoutits protection
it would be given up altogether in evil
lied countries"
MEarPms is looking TO another rail-
road connection with the great west.
The Appeal states that the extension of
the Iron Mountain road to Memphis is
now under survey and will be located in
q few weeks. when thswork viii be push
ed rapidly to completion. This branch
is directly on the line 10 Kansas City,
besides giving a new connection with
Sc. Louis.
A BRooKLYS lawyers four-year-old
daughter is marked as a diplomat ia the
future NyoueR's erR. Recently her moth
er, returning from church, found her
marshaling long array of toy soldiers
on the nursery floor. care you playing
with soldiers on Sunday, Louise ?" said
mamma. "Oh, these are the army sf the
Lord, was the quick response Of their
curly-headed commander.
THE rivalry for the emigrant travel 10
the west, between the Erie and New
York Central railroads, is progressing
hercely. The Central leads the fight now,
and has put down the rates to 81 from
New York 10 Cleveland, 8 to Chicago,
81. 55 20 st. Louis, $40 to Kansas City
and sI4 20 Omaha. This is about as
cheap as they would carry PIGS, and We
fear the accommodations viii not be
much better.
A FTsE distinction was that the preach
er Of the Richmond First Baptist church
made I" NY brudders. " said he ''when
YOU were all slaves dar might ha' been
senae for cnttin' a slice of the mssr'g ba-
con, or hoolzin' handful o corn meal,
or robbin' de hen roost for you all work
hard den, my brudders. and ron earn il,
my brudders and sisters. Bat now you
is all free men dar amt no 'scuEe what
ever you's all on yer Own isponaibility."
THE smallest postoflice in the world il
kept in a barrel, which swings from the
oEtermost rock of the mountains over
hanging the Straits Of Magellan, oppo-
site Terre del Fuego. Every passing
ship opens it 70 place letters IN or 70
take them ont. Every ship undertakes
to forward all letters In IL that II is pos
sible for them to transmit. IL hangs
there by it's iron chain, beaten and bat
tered by the winds and storms. but no
locked and barred Office on land Is more
secure. It is not in the track Of mail
robbers.
Texas Is developing an inexhaustible
supply of salt. Her bayous are yeri-
table mines Of wealth, il properly
worked. One OF these-the Laguna
AIadre-is one hundred and twenty
miles long. and from three to * miles
broad, and not more shan eighteen
inches deep. The water is rapidly
evaporated, and the salt settles in great
quantities in the bottom The amount
OF salt from this source IS estimated at
1000. 600 bushels in the season, which,
It is said, can be placed on navigation
at ten cents per bushel.
IT is stated that the Patrons Of Hus-
bandry in lows have perfected al organ
izafion for the capture Of horse-thl6ves.
Each grange is to have Ave riders,
who are. on = robbery Of stock being re-
ported, 20 mount and follow the cuiprlts,
To this end the grange is 70 furnish them
with funds not less IN amount than sos,
and on giving the hsiling sign Of tue
Patron, all other oranges viii entertain
them free of cost, turn out 10 them, or
lend them fresh horses. Similar organ
izaliona in other states would render
stealing horses q very Improbable bust
ness.
THE smoldering OF the fires in the
burnt district OF Chicago continued Tor
a great length Of time, and il was re-
marked by a gentleman that he had
lighted cigar in the ruins months at
ter the confederation. Instances are
not rare where fires have smoidered for
years. At Singer, Nimiek < Co. 3 Shelf
field steel-xorks, Pittsbarg, al extern
sive smoldering FIRE. that bafhes the
best esforte to extinguish It, has been
discovered, dangerously near the new
Westinghouse. The groand fronting
on the river has been formed by the de-
Dosit Of cinders from The Fnili, and may
have been q hidden mass Of IRE Tor one
or two years. The dFm lost consider
able from q FIRE some time sinca- Vari-
ous other Pittsburg rolling mills have
had such dres-in one instance known
10 have existed for two years, and in
another for soma eight or tan months.
WHEz Napoleon the Great died as Sc.
Helena, an English pkyFician took
charge Of his heart, depositing il N
silver hasin filed with water. Two
tapera burned near it. bnt the Custodian
felt neryously anxious while Naiezslng
it through the night. and did not sleep.
in che silence Of midnight be heard a
- - fAass a rfFfH "a into Ann