The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-06-04
SAYINGS AND DOINGs.

YOUTH is genius DisraeH.
PUBLIC opinion is a second conscience.
Atger.
The two colors which are indiscerna-
bic are invisible green and blindman's
buff
THERr is one town in Connections
that is not afraid of the measles. IT'S
Haddam.
HUsBASDs and wives in Illinois. under
the new law, may bring civil suits
against each other.
THE subject of cream-ation, says the
Graphic, might with prcpriety be dis
cussed during the berrying season
CouoRADo prefers cross-eyed womeE,
as they have better facilities for per-
ceiving the approach Of Indians.
If the wicked flourish and then suf-
fer. be not discouraged. They are fat
ted for destruction tissss ''As Ssi~'eS ~
heRlih--FSttler-
THE Worcester Press speaks OF con
temporary who hires > small BOY 10
somein at intervals with = step-iadaer
an dust off the tops OF his ears
TlesrAs THusrB and wife have set ont
on thcr annual farewell tour around
the cOuDry, and will wind up the show
business II about twenty years more.
WoNES sse fast becoming familiar
with politics. We have heard "a = Wo-
man who bellows so thoroughly IN in
fiation that she Bows her husband up
three times 3 day.
GETTING up in the night to give the
baby dose Of soothing syrup Is not
what one cares about, but it's hitting
fellows nose on the halt-open door that
corrugates his feelings.
THE Mobile Register asks why
should not the federal government build
and keep mp the ievees on the Missis-
sippi river, as well as build breskWaters
on the Atlantic ocean
A pARKEY gives the following reason
why the lored race is superior to the
white: All men are made OF clay, and,
like the meerschanm pipe, they. arc
more valuable when highly colored-
SMALL Aberdeen child, being asked
bv her Sunday school teacher, What
did the Israeiites do after they crossed
the Red sea +? answered, do not know
ma'am but perhaps they dried them
selves.
THE Rev. Adirondack Murray says he
doesn't believe in horse-racing, but II
any fellow comes dashing mp behind
with the expectation of passing him on
the road. he will find himself most
-nably mistaken. r,.t1E
SIZE lives in Douglas county, Oregon;
has been married eight times, has eight
living husbands, and resides with none
of them. Her daughter, aged twenty
three, with energetic emulctlon, mas as
posed of-three husbands.
DAWN
There is solemn stiffness in the air;
The moon attended by single slsr
Shines high In placid ether; eastward Tar
Along the horizon's edge, there is a glare
OF orange brilhance, aud above y fair
And paly blue the aBy without n bar
or streaky cloud the pure eNpanse TO nHrt
Il tinctured with the coming eplendoT. Therel
The fulgent head springe, and million rays
Dazzle my study-room IS charmed With ight,
A golden picture OF its window PLAYS
on the green bookcase, and shadowy wight
Behind me sits, and as I turn my gaze,
Mocks all my motions ike an eshah sprite-
CHAR1.Rs AUGUSTUS, who was married
to the daughter of very honest but
somewhat impecunious parents Just
after the panic, says he did not hnd it
half so hard to get married as be dsd 10
get the furniture.
A BosFoN millionaire offered q man
tive dollprs and half tie other day for
stopping q runaway team ard saving
the life of his daughter. He can't hope
to be a millionaire long if he is going
to squander his money in that way.
ADELrNA PArr1, the fair Marquis of
Caux, is said to be growing enormously
fat. Several cabinet councils have been
held at st. Petersburg about it, and the
car offers a liberal reward for the dis
covery of any means to thin her out,
To arrive at perfection, man should
have very sincere friends or inveterate
enemies because he would be made
sensible of his good OF i'll condact,
either by the cen ures OF the one or
the admonitions Os the Other.-Dto-
genes.
A Sr. LosIs lawyer asked a witness in
court, 't Did you ever Know Mr.. Suther-
land to 90 back on n bargain ?" The
opposing counsel objected to the ques-
ton on the ground that it was not gram
maticaI, and the judge sustained the
objection.
If YOU suppress the exorbitant love
of pleasure and money, Idle curiosity,
iniduituous pursuits and wanton mirtbs
what stiffness there weuid be in the
great cities The necsssaries Of life
do not occasion at most q third part OK
the hurry.
WRITERS Of every age have endeav-
ored to show that pleasure Is in us and
not in the object offered for our amuse-
ment. II the soul be happily disposed,
evsrything becomes capable Of Afford
ing entertainment, and distress vail al-
most want a aname.-GOtdsnstth
A RETIRING Virginia editor says; +"
have never been horse-whipped, revolt
vered, knitted. kicked, licked, brleked'
pumuelsd or cnssed for any thing have
| said. written or done OF left undOne as
an editor, and in ceRsing 20 be one ! ain
/ hlled with a melancholy sadness.
Ma. G1.ApsroSK tells his private co
/ quaintances that he regrets having
/ given go many years to politics. How
/ little" said he, the ether day, to an ad-
nnirer. edo politics affect the life, the
/ moral life. of a nation One single
/ good book influences the people vast
deal more"
A Missouri clergyman stopped his
discourse to cut OF a liberal piece OF
plug tobacco for his mouth, and when
/ one Of his hearers reprcved him, the
preacher started for Kansas, where the
folks aren't 50 particular, and where
plug tobacco and patriotism go hand IN
hand.
CoNFmMKD old topper 'solilOquizes ;
"They say whisky is q curse. And
they say brandy is a curse. And they
/ say tobacco is another curse. Well, I
wish all those curses would come home
to roost, and roost low, at that, so ~ 1
eoEld pull 'em down whenever want
ed en-"
MISS LESTER, Of Baltimore, has sent
| to Tennyson q Wild daisy picked from
Poe's grave. The package was tied
! with q white satin ribbon, upon which
was written, s'Tbe only blossom from
the nameiess and neglected grave Of
Edgar Allen Poe, 1871" II was the
only flower to be found on or netlr She
desolate place.
PARroE, IN his " Life Of Thomss Jef.
fers0n, epitomizes ths present tisne ac-
cording 10 his notion "a follows - Thus,
to-day, throughout ohristendom. ignOr-
ance is master and knowledge its hire
ling Ignorance controls capitol and