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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-04-16
Q An in Taror Of the Dealer. ;,

They tell Of a jolly sugar planter
who, in the days of specie and slavery,
found himself In New Orleans witk the
proceeds of his crop in his pocket. aDx-
ious to invest them in the pursuit of
happiness. Having duly primed him.
self at the st. Charles, he was wander
ing along the streets In search Of faro
bank, when his attention was attracted
by an italian who was turning the crank
of his hand organ, on the top of Which
moved and danced a number of puppets,
one of which held plate for contribu-
tions. Taking this for a novel game OF
ehacge, the planter, wholly unsophisti-
Gated and more than half iuebriated,
resolved to buck the tiger, and placed
a 50 piece on the plate. The Italian
ground on, the figure dextriously tilted
the money into basket, the Italian sol
emily placed il In his pocket. Here
goes to get even" said the planter as
he plaDked a ten, which shared the same
fate. g Fifteen. cut here's twenty. =
The inperturbabIe Italian pocketed the
twenty and still turned tlea acrank. The
dizgusted planter departed with The re-
mark Well, never was lucky, but
blamed If ] ever see g game before
where all the percentage was in favor
of the dealer +"
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HOW STRANGE.


How strange it viii be, lOve-how strange. when we
Shall be what ali lovers become
You frigid and faithiess-I cold and untrue
Our pet names grown rusty with nothing to do
Loves bright web unraveled, and rent, and worn
And hfe's loom left empty-ah hum!
How strange it viii be
How strange it viii be when the wiiohery goes,
Which makes me seem lovely to-day;
when yeur thought Of me loses its "couleur de
when every day serves some new fault disclose-
When you find I've odd eyes and an everyday nose
And wonder you could for moment suppose ~ -
was out Of the commonplace way
All, me,
How strange u will bel
How strange it will be, lovo-how strange when we
With just chill touch Of the hand
When my pulses longer delightedy beat
At the thought Of your coming, the sound Of your
When watch not your going, far down the long
when your dear loving voice, nov SO thriilingly
Grows harsh in roproaoh or Command
All me,
How strange II VIII be
How strange it will be- when we willingly stay
Divided the dreary day through
ss 9 a Esm2isiy aiiey sphTt 55tng az gs nf5 i9 saw
Or coldly converse on the news Of the day
In a wearisome, old-married-folks sort Of way
shrink from the picture-dOnt you7
How strange II Will be
Dear love, If our hearts do grow torpid and old.
As so many others have done
~ we let our love perish With hunger and cold
II we choose tolive wretched and die unconsoled,
Twill be srangest Of ali things that ever were told
AS happening under the sum-
All, me,
How strange it VII be
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Comb Hnnuneture.


One of the greatest comb manufac-
tories ia the world Is IN Aberdeen. Scot
land. In this establishment there are
an immense number Of furnaces for pre-
pairing horns and tortoise shells for the
combs, and between enc and two hum
dred iron screw presses are constantly
employed in stamping them. Steam
power is employed 70 cut The cembs,
the operation being performed by this
means with great efficiency. The coarEe
combs sre stamped or cut ont. two be-
ing cut IN place ct one tims by ingen-
fous machinery. The fine dressing
combs and all HFnall-tooih combs are
cut by circular saws, somb so fine as 70
cut forty teeth IN the space Of one ineli,
and they revolve thousands Of tirnea IN
3 minute. There are about two thou
sand varieties Of combs made, and the
agcreoate number produced, Of al these
diiIerept sorts If combs, is about nins
millions annually. The annual con-
sumption OF OK horns, boots, fcrioiEe-
she'll and buffalo horn, IS, of ccure,
prodigious even the uast4, consisting
II horn fhavings and pariugs Of hoefs.
amounts 70 hundreds Of tons ia year,
and this becomes q valuable material IN
the manufacture Of pruesiate Of pot.
ash. etc
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Retainer and Refreshers.

Who would not be 40. Gin Eng
land? Mr.. Hawkins, for conducting
the prosecution against Arthur Ortois,
received a retainer Of 1,000 guineas and
reiresher OF 100 guineas for each day of
the trial. The trial lasted for eighty
nine days, 50 that Mr.. Hawkins received
IN ali S49, 500 He is now retained as
counsel IN six different electfcn peti-
tions. with aretaining fee IA each case
Of 600 guineas and 100 guineas refresher
each day. Each Of these cases will last
at least 3 week, 80 that AIr. Hawkins
fees will smsunt 70 ct least 81, 600.
Mr.. Gifard, @. c., has been retained ia
eleven election petition cases, Mr.. Ser
geant Bsllanfine in nine, ard mr. Pow
ell, .. c., in fve-sn with very liberal
fees. Mr.. Hawkins practice is said to
be worth about s2S0,O a year, While
there also danglss before his eyes the
almost certain prize Of a jldgeship
when he gets tired Of making money
and viii be CONTEXT with . modest $50,
600 q year for the rest Of his life.
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Vandalism.

Recent evidence about the last allied
war against China shows that at the
taking of the summer palace one build
ing was full of silks, the produce of a
tax which requires every manufacturer
to send in the first piece he makes of
each sort. A part of these was used in
stead of ropes, which were wanted to
picket the French horses. Then there
was a palace full of drawings, a series
of four thousand, illustrating the whole
history of China. The soldiers, ignor-
ant of their value, trod them under foot
and used them for kindling fires.
Scarcely two hundred were saved. Then
there was the carrisge palace, in which
were found the magnificent coaches
which were presented to the emperor of
China by the English embassy in 1918.
Since then they had never been used.
The iron work was loose, and the leather
had become IS hard and brittle as wood.
One palace was fall Of furs.
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The Grange Reform.

It is not at all strange that the Grange
movement should meet with opposition.
An enterprise Is hardly worth the name
of reform if it does not have this. Gov.
Carpenter, of Iowa, addressing last
fall a convention of Patrons, told them
they must expect opposition that they
had money and talent arrayed against
them, but that Notwithstanding this
they must go right on, trusting to the
business of their cause and the necessi-
ty that rested upon them. That II they
would do all this impediments would
be swept away, and the oppressor would
be left at his toll-gate with free road
around it, on which the Patrons would
90 singing because of a free road to
market and a fair return for their pro-
ducts. All great reforms In church
and state have hal to overcome great
opposition, and the labor reform against
the expressions of capitalists will not
be an exception. But If it presses on
wisely and perseveringly it will in the
end reap the appropriate fruits. Hon.
George Stephenson was opposed by the
aristocracy of England when he attempt
ed to get leave of parliament to lay the
first railroad track on her sacred soil.
s. Why, it would frighten every thing
to wildness the birds would leave the
island the COWS would dry up, and the
hens would cease to lay ; the land would
be ruined, and the whole order of things
would be broken up" When Mr..
Stephenson was presenting his claims
before parliament he was sneered at.
One member said, ''Well, Mr.. Stephen
son, see how absurd your idea is. tSup-
pose it were possible for you to run
your carriage thirty miles an hour on
straight rails, SO that it could not get
off-what if a COW got on the track and
Won could not turn out for her ?'' "Well,
nv lord" said Stephenson, cit would
be bad for the cow" So all reforms
have met impediments, but they must
get out of the way or it Will be bad Tor
them. Onto Farmer.
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Educational Statistics.

The report of Gen. Eaton, commits
sioner of education, for the year 1873 is
mostly in the hands of the printer, and
Washington correspondents are already
beginning to anticipate some of the
more valuable information it will con-
tain. The bureau in 1871 began col
lecting the facts in regard to gifts of
individuals TO educational institutions.
These facts resulted for 1871, in show
ing over $S00,000 so contributed in
1872, 50, $50, 600; and for 1873, 81, ,226, =
077, distributed as follows TO col
leges, IS, ,23S, 141 schools of science,
S7S0,65S schools of theology, S519,-
S01 medical colleges, ETC., S7S, 900; /;
superior instruction of women, 1852, :
005; secondary instruction, S575, 241 /;
libraries, S379,011; museums of nat
ural history S151. $50 deaf and dumb,
$4,000 blind, Sl5, 600 Peabody fund,
Sl35, $40 miscellaneous, S17,000.
Toe educational institutions of Ten
nessee received the following gifts last
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when Children should Begin school.

In a paper on the sanitary aspects of
primary education, read recently by
DR.. r. J. Sullivan, before the New
York Academy of Medicine, an i'm
portant suggestion occurs in reference
to the earliest age at which a pupil
should be admitted in orr schools. He
contends that seven years is a minimum
age, not because mental exertiOn would
be injurious to healthy intellectual
growth, but because school life under
its present hygienIc surroundings 10
very unfavorable to physical develop
msnt.
In other words il is TO be understood
that, although a pupil is capable Of
reasonable understanding and limited
amount of intellectual development
prior to the seventh year, such educa-
tion should De given it out ef school
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Dc Or ef TnhamalIon.

Apropos Of the subject Of burial, a
very curious tradition is said to exist
among the natives Of Abyssiuia IN re
gard to the origin Of burial. They say
that when Adam found the body OF the
murdered Abel he carried IL upon his
shoulders fox twenty days. not knowing
how to dispose Of il. The Almighty
took pity on him, ard sent forth crow
with its dead young ono on its back;
and tie crow few before Adam until il
came 70 a tract Of sandy ground, ia
which Il dug a hole with its feet and
buried its young one. And when Adam
saw this he dug 3 grave in the sand and
buried his lost boy il It.
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The pencil marks you 500 around this
paragrpph Cthusl mean that reuf sub-
seEiptior IS ont or unpaid, and that
you arg requested to pay up at once.
We voald take great pleasure in extend
ing credit to our friends and patrons,
bat cash alone viii pay. expenses, nnd
We are forced to adhere to a strict cash
rule. We hope you VIII comprehend
and appreciate the Necessity ol such
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. we solicit your favor.
81 We enter no new names on our
oooks without The money in aLly1.ce
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-04-16

SOME stingin' sarcasm from the ST.
Louis Republican If the big yailer
tom-cat that owns the board yard comes
inside your fierce and howls his joyous
peans every night beneath ,your lattice
until the bald spot on your head grows
red hot, and the wife Of your bosom
calls upon you to drive the invader frasn
your heartlIstone { die, and die noblv.
you musn't get mp snd pnt a head ON
him with handful Of buckshot, be
cause it's cruelty to animals"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-04-16

AT a Dubuque wedding. among the
presents ostentatioasly displayed was a
one-hundred-d dollar bill, present from
the doting father to his darling daugh-
ter After the guests had departed,
the old man ooolly rolled mp the bill
and put it in his vest pocket, and that
was the last Of it,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-04-16

THE Pilatka (Florida) Herald men
tions farmer by the name of Fitch who
has been compelled to move to the other
side of st. Johns river in consequence
of the depTedations of elligators- He
says his cattle have been thinned out by
an old bull alligator, which has been
the terror of his neighborhood for years.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-04-16

Cuba lies only 80 miles south Of
Florida. II has nearly %, 600 square
miles OF area and q coast-iine Of COO.
The Island is intersecled by range Of
lofty mountains, ranaiug east and west.
Eastern and Western Cuba are the po-
iitieal divisions, he former being the
home Of the rebellion. The population
of Eastern Cuba Is whites. 1oO. 600 col
ored, Ia, 600. Western Cuba whites
SIC, 600: oolored. 399. 900. OF these lat
tar, S05. 900 are slaves. Total popula-
ton, 1,02l, 600.
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and without the usual restraint. A
fact that renders DR.. SulliHan's views
valuable is that he was for several years
medical inspector of public schools.
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The following is a table of amounts
received as gifts by the educational in
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-04-16
ANCIENT HEBREW LADY'S TOILET.

How strange it wiz be !
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-10-23
rhacadi,a Reuenra.

A terrible story comes to US from
Persia. In one of the districts Ia
boring man was sentenced to be
bastinadoed for some ofiense, re-
ceiving 12O blows on the sOles of
his feet. As lie sank down on his
knees after the sentence had been
carried out, and it was believed that
his injuries we're of serious char
acter. be called the Judge to his side
intimating that he had terrible Sc
cret to reveal. As he could only
sneak in a whisper, the Judge placed
his ear to the lips of the fainting
man, when the latter sized it with
his teeth, and in mis- agony bit it off.
In Persia the loss of an ear, no mat
ter under what circumstances, is
considered a lasting disgrace, and
the Judge so felt it. He at once
gave orders to have the prisoner care
fully cared for, assuring the pllysi-
clans that II they did not save MS
life their own should pay the penal
ty, and they succeeded. When the
prisoner was fully recovered, he was
sentenced to have his teeth pulled
out one by one, in presence of the
mob, and this frightful sentence was
carried out two days being exhausted
in the work. No pains were taken
with the horrible job, and the jaws
were broken and crushed until the
whole lower part of the mans face
was a mangled mass, and his suffer
ings were so great that many of the
men tainted in Witnessing the ope
ration. Two days after the little lifC
in the man was beaten out Of the
soles of his feet, and the Judge, hav
ing fully satisfied his thirst TO
vengeance, committed suicide
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HUMOROUS.
"a little nonsense now and then
Is relished by the wisest men,"

A bootblack painted in rude let
ters upon his box Centennial Shine
That boy is both patriotic and
shrewd, and he sets an example.
The Danbury Nel0s man says:
" There is nothing that will change
a man so much as great grief, unless
it is shaving off his mustache."
A custom house man writes that
he has heard ladies Of refinement,
wealth, position and education lie
customs officer out Of countenance-
The Ohio legislature has introdu-
ced bill fixing fine of from five
to fifty dollars for pointing any kind
of firearms at a person, loaded or
unloaded.
Are blacksmiths, who are making
a living by forging, or carpenters.
who do a little counter-itting, any
worse than men who sell iron and
steel for living.
A Chicago gentleman who recent
" travelled through Ohio says that
everybody he met called potatoes
"taters" except one young lady, who
called him "sman pertater."
"You must be a quarrelsome fel-
low" said a phrenologist to man
whose bumps he was examining.
"Say that again and I'll knock you
down." was the response.
If the cause of the redness of a
certain Chicago deacon's nose were
onlv discovered, a very important
theolo yical question in that city
would be at once disposed Of.
An English judge, Baron Anderson
on being asked to give his opinion
as to the proper length of a sermon,
replied, "Twenty minutes, with a
leaning to the side of mercy"
Victor Hugo is deeply in love with
the United States, and one minute
out of every hour, when he is awake,
is devoted to talking about this
country, and the other fifth nine
minutes being devoted to talk about
himself
A gentleman was complimenting
a pretty young lady in the presence
of his wife, "It's lucky I did not
meet Miss Hopkins before I married
YOU. nv dear" "Well, yes, it is ex
tremely-for her" was the dry re-
joinder.
A young man having put crown
piece into the plate in an Edinburhg
church by mistake, instead Of pen
nv, asked to have it back but was
refused. In once, in forever. "Awee
aweel," grunted he, 81 will get cred
it for 1t in heaven" ma, ma" sale
Jeems, the door keeper, "ye'l ge
credit only for the penny ye mean
to gle"
"Nothing," said an impatient hns
band, reminds me so much of Ba
liam and his ass as two women stop
ping in church and obstrneting th'
way to indulge in their eyerlastin!
, talk" "But you forget dear" re
: turned the wife, meekly, shat it wa
: the angle who stopped the way, an
r Balaam and bis ass Who oonpialne
~ itI'
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Antiua Ranauo1anoe

Benevolence. is nota thing to be
taken up by chance, and put by at
once to make way for every employ
ment which savors of self-iDterest.
It is the largest part Of our business,
beginning with our home duties;and
extending itself to the utmost verge
of humanity. A vague feeling Of
kindness toward our fellow creatures
is no state of mind to rest ia. It is
not enough for US to be able to say
that nothing of human interest is
alien to Us and that we give our ac-
uuiescence, or, indeed, our transient
assistance, to any scheme Of benevo-
Ience that may come in our way.
No; in promoting the welfare OF
Others, we must toll; we must de-
vote to it earnest thought, constant
care. and jealous endeagor. The
few moments in the course Of the
each day which 4 man a6sorbs in
some worldly pursuit may carelessly
expend in kind words or charities to
those around him-klndness to an
animals is one Of these-and are
perhaps, in the sightof Heaven, the
only time that be has lived to any
purpose worthy Of recording.-AT-
thur Helps
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Houa-

L L4OACs
Best of all things to US is home
In hours of ambition and pleasure
We may sometimes forget its exquis
ite sweetness, but let sickness Of
sadness come and we return to it a
once. Let the hollow hearts thai
lfeign a friendship which they do not
feel, stand revealed before us-let
US know, as we must at such mo-
ments, that however important we
may be in our own estimation, our
places would be filed at an hours
notice, should we die tomorrow
tnen We whisper to ourselves the
magic word Home, and are comforted.
Hone, sweet homei" It does
not matter how humble it is; nor is
1t less a home for being palace. 1t
is where those we love dwell, where
ever that may be, where we are val
ued for ourselves, and are held in
esteem because of what we are in
ourselves, and not because of power.
or wealth, or what we can do for
other people.
Who would be without a homer
Who would take the worlds ap-
plause and honorin place of the ten
derness of a few hearts and the eozy
fireside meetings where the truth
may be spoken without disguise,and
envious carpings are unknown? In
life's battle even the hero finds many
enemies, and much abuse and Sian
der, and detraction; but into home;
if it is what it ought to be, these
things never find their way.
There, to his wife, the plainest
man becomes q wonderful beings
sage, a man who ought to be great,
successful, and honored, and who
would be, were his worth known.
And ifps says q thing is 80, tits so,
by a revelation to his children. At
home the memory OF vanished
charms clings to his wife, who,-ah,
if coquestes only knew it! remains
a fresh young beauty there long af-
ter she is a plain, middle-aged Wo-
man everywhere else. There grand
pas stories are never tedious, and
grandmG's receipts for cake are ap-
preciated, and the gaHky girls are
all beauties, and the boys, i'll used
beings elsewhere, are all embryo
heroes. As for the baby-oh! bless
ed baby!-it may be a nuisance to
the people next door, but it is a gift
from paradise at home, though it
does scream half the night, and. re-
quire one of the family to be under
marching orders for the rest of the
time.
Providence gives US no greater
worldly gift than the gift Of home;
for Providence knows how sorely
we need its rest, its peace, the calm
which love casts over US within it.
And if there is q being to be pit
led, it is one who has no home,
though the enchanted purse of fairy
land, and all it can buy, are his or
hers.
Home, dear home! If it only holds
q venerable mother, or a little child,
or any being who is dear, and fond,
and true, thank God for it, and cling
to it as to very life.
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Quetrr.
From the Atlantic Monthly for November.
VESTA.
sYJ.a. wH1TTrHR

BY. O. WHITTIER.
o Christ of God whose life and death
Our own have reconciled,
Most quietly, most tenderlY
Take home thy star-named child
Thy grace is in her patient eyes,
Thy words are on her tongue;
The very silence round her seems
As if the angels sung.
Her smile is as a listening Ohild's
That hears its mothers call;
The lilies Of thy perfect peace
Above her pillow fall.
She leans from out our clinging arma
To rest herself in Thine;
Alone to Thee, dear Lord. can We
Cur we'll beloved resign.
Oh, less for her than for ourselves
We bow our heads and pray;
He- setting star, like Bethlehem's,
To Thee shall lead the way.