The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-11-05
SAYINGS AND pOINGs.


mind with awe, il is the expression Of
mans face who has just been aroused
from snoring in church.
THERE will be some young widows in
Utah before Christmas, If the astrol-
oyer who predicts Brigham's death on
the 9TH of December is not also false
prophet.
RFv. J. r. STANDARD, of Indiana.
sued q newspaper for libel and dropped
dead within a week after commencing
the suit. These fellows viii learn a
few things by and by.
THE son of an editor in Pennsylvania
has been recently convicted of arson,
beiuy prompted to commit the crime by
a desire to make interesting local news
for,his fathers paper.
LONDON Cossips are dealing in lively
way with the fact that Disraeh lately
had lilies and foget-me-nots in his but
tonhole. They say that marriage is
the least possible consequence.
WESTERN papers are combining TO
discourage the offering of prizes at fairs
for the best women equestriRns, as they
say the exercise is too trying and kills
most of the women engaging in it.
THE Paris Figaro SAYS that 40, 900
REREUuUGuGS hEb uAAuAANA NNAhF y -
France. to make them sing, and that
this cruelty is practiced generally by
the little boys, at the primary schools
WHERE did you learn wisdom ?" in
duired Diogenes of q man esteemed
wise From the blind" was the re-
plv. "who always try their path with
a stick before they venture TO tread on
it.
II YOU want to realize the heights to
which feminine eloquence can mount,
90 home and find your wife in company
with a table covered with jars of canned
fruit, and ask her why she has her hand
wrapped in a cloth.
IMAGINE the wrath of theyoung woman
who rises from her seat in the car to
give il to an old lady when she turns
around and gsees that the young man
opposite is looking ont of the window,
instead of gazing at her approvingly.
PERE HYAo1NTHE seems to agree with
Mr.. Disraeli as to the coming of great
war. In speech he delivered nc
Geneva lately he said he ''saw in the
horizon war raising its hideous head
international war, civil war, religious
war.
The Nashville reporters are aston
ished over a spare young man down
there who takes nine cups OF coffee and
a great quantity of sandwiches at sin
gle meal. The possibility of tape
worm does not appear to have suggested
itself.
The attempt to export young Ameri-
can shad to Germany for stocking the
rivers has proved a failure. Although
abundantly supplied with fresh Croton
water, all of the hundred thousand fish
died Of starvation before the end OF the
journey.
NoNE but those who keep up appear
ances against heavy odds can under
stand what servitude pretence imposes
upon the sensitive soul. The sting OF
confessed poverty is not nearly so burn
ing as is the reality of being poor while
seeming to be rich.
INTEMPERANoE is largely on the in
crease in Glasgow, Scotland, and the
authorities are very much troubled
about it. Saturday night thousands OF
factory hands-men and women-be-
come outrageously drunk, and remain
in that condition over Sunday.
DIRECTORY Man. How many reg
ular and steady boarders are there in
this bouseP" Landlady-'sWelI, there's
fifteen o. them in all, sir; but some
stays out more nights than like, and
only four is what yOu can call regular
and steady, owing to sickness"
BRICK vaults and safes are now manu-
featured so that any attempt TO reach
their interior breaks sundry bottles
filled with sulphuric acid into powdered
carbonate of lime. This produces in
simultaneously carbonic gas enough to
suffocate q regiment of burglars.
SfR ISAAC NEWTON, a little before he
died, said: "I don't know what / may
seem to tho world, but, as 10 myself,
seem TO have been only like boy play
ing on the seashore, and diverting my
self in now and then finding a smoother
or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst
the great ocean of truth lay all undis-
covered before me-"
yUbGARrrT means the exhibition Of
those peculiarities Of speech and man
ner which offend refinement. It makes
a naked display of coarse and unedu-
Gated humun impulse. 1t mostly lies IN
the absence of consideration for the
feelings of others, in narrow minded
self-assertion, and in a selfish want OF
control over anti-social propensities.
THERE are many evils that lurk
around the heart, and many temptations
prompting us to respond to their Calling
but none more readily cO-works with all
evil than profanity, and is ever ready TO
Law waste a moral and upright minds
with its deadly sting and poisonous ar
row. Profanity, we can truthfully say,
is the anchor of many evils arising from
an ungoverned disposition.
EXPORTS TO resch the gypsies with re-
ligious teaching, says the Christian
Union. have never met with much sue
cess-probabiy have not been prOsecu-
ted in the hope of success. There are
about seven hundred thousand of them
in Europe anu eighteen thousand IN
England. Their religion seems to ex-
tend no further than belief in their
annihilation at death. Converts, how
ever, are made here and there.
WrDow JoNEs' husband died far away
from homo, and it took 30 long TO reach
her that the relict had quite recovered
from her grief, and was giving large
lunch party, when the body finally ar
rived. A wagon drove mp 20 the door,
and a large box was handed out. Curi-
ositv ran high among the ladies at the
window, and with one accord they ex-
claimed, "Why, Mrs. Jones, what can
that bef'' Up went Mrs. Jones eye
glasses, and after glance she coolly
said, "Well, it must be old Jones come
home. Charley, run down and open
the door for your father"
THERE is a good deal Of wisdom to be
found in the by-wsys. A recent Eng
lish book mentions some lines, known
as the "Seven Conditions" which APP
pear beneath a series OF old designs 20
be found in almost every house on both
banks of the Rhine. The first is the
emperor, who says Ilevy tribute" ,"
Next comes the nobleman, who says
"I take tithes." The jew (medimval
type Of the trader) says: 81 live on
nv profits" The soldier says
pav Tor nothing" The begpar Bays
q I have nothing" The peasant says
" God help me, for these six other men
have all TO be supported by me-"
CAPrrA1 punishment has been totally
abolished in Switzerland. The new
penal code of that republic may be
briefly summarized Homicide, com
mitted voluntarily, is to be qualified as
murder, and punished with from ten to
twenty years of solitary confinement
Premeditated murder {" with malice
prepense'D is TO be classed IS assasslna-
ton. punishable with solitary confine-
mept Tor life. Murder by poisoning.