The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-08-27
SAYINGS AND pnTNaS.

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, ngton seminary.
A DELAWARE man thrashed his wifi
almost to death because their bab,
didn't get a-prizs at baby show, an,
then he offered to trade the hady for
ipig.
/ A GENTLEMAN, on presenting a lac,
I collar to his aaored one, said, carefully
g Do not let any one else rumple It.
" No. dear" she replied, "I'l take i
o6.''
AMONG the modern improvements il
Persia which the Shah has ordered is {
Suillotine, a gallovs and 8 corps of bal
let-girls to be shipped to him from Eu.
rope.
A Missouri writer speass Of one oi
| his contemporaries as " poor old skin
ny-bony, whose knee aud arm joints
/ have been held together for twenty
years with cotton twine.
THn Detroit Free Press mentions a
Kansas farmer who declares that a
! grasshopper sat on the gate post aud
| threEteuineIy asked 4" William Bryant
where in thunder is the balance of that
cold meat ?"
To ERR is hunari. No lives are passed
without errors. The best and meanest
/ of Gods human creatures can, without
/ a great stretch of memory, recall the
| time when they got hold of the wrong
end of the poker.
OMAHA has n mysterious and ghostiy
20 Woman in White. She ftequents
the oemetary, hits the sexton on the
back. asks where her children are,
aud sinks into q grave. She has been
twice fred at without effect, and the
sexton talks of resigning.
MILWAUKEE SENTINEL Notes of
the storm still come in. visitor
from Louisville was struck by the
wind, and as he flew mp Wisconsin
street with his ear unfurled, a gentle
man remarked, I knew that wind
would fetch the circus-tent.
EPIGRAM-
A waggish wight a shrewd one, too,)
Once told me that he really knew
A girl that put her hum0rH on,
And ceased TO scold, 90 laugh I'd scoh,
To woep and sorrow DER romances.
And went no more 90 plays and dances.
1 doubted long-at last he said,
1.-The reason Is, the woman'a dead
THREE giraffes just from Abyssinia
have reached the garden OF plants in
Paris. This animal threatens to be-
come extinct. he is taken now in
very small district, and has resisted all
Africa, though these efforts are partly
successful in European renageries.
A MADRID letter srys " Conoha died
poor. He left behind him little but his
great name. His will declares his only
child, the Marquesa de SardaOl, heirt'sH
of his little residue. He had for years
been a great patron of agriculture, and
had spent his fortune in sugar growing
experiments in the neighborhood OF
Malaga"
CIVILIZATION and christianity are ev-
cry day penetrating into Japan. One
of the latest signs of the times is the
offer of various idols for sale. The
journals of the country contain many
on the subject. Here is
enc: "For sale, at KRma-kuras very
fne idol, with six arms. 1t is fifteen
feet high. and was cast in bronze--at
Sheffield"
During the official life of Police
Chief Savage of Boston, that city has
had at one time free rum, at another
license law, at another n prohibitory
law badly enforced, and yet again for q
time a prohibitory law vigorously en-
forced, and vet he says there is no vari-
alton in his statistics furnishing the
least indication of when any one policy
prevailed
Now THE best way in the world to
seem to be anything, is really TO be
what we would seem to be. Besides
hat, it is many times as troublesome
20 make good the pretense Of good
quality as TO have it, and II man
rave it not, it is ten to one but he is
discovered to want in, and then all his
pains and labor TO seem to have It at
ast. TgtlotsOn.
DURING these warm days, the temptad
ion always is 10 drink mere hqui-
han is best for us. A good way TO OBJ
rate this. and at the same time 10 Rlake
he thist fully, is 70 take water, lemon
lde or iced tea. through n small gisas
ube-the smaller the better. BY this
method tho liquid seems to reach the
,aiate more directly, and certainly
luenches the thirst with half the guam
ity taken after the ordinary manner.
number of personsof our acq=sntances
Who have been in the habit Of drinking
10 much water in summer az TO render
themselves uncomfortable, have tried
he tube. and been surprised at the re-
lueed quantity needed. and at the in
'reased satisfaction gained. An OLD
ashioned straw will answer the
purpose well enOugh.-Scrfb7eTs
THE fact that Patagonia abounds in
ich gold mining diEtricts has been
,nown for years ; but 1t has been 700
an undertaking for miners
o 90 and get in. Information has been
eceived from the party sent out Dy the
argentine government 20 explore Pata-
,onia. They went up the Salinas river
.bout fifteen miles and then followed
", the Santa Cruz three hundred miles
o its seurce-a lake twenty-ssven miles
on0 and one hundred IN circumference.
The river is navigable ita entire length,
md az low water has not less than nine
lset fn depth. The lake has another
,utlet that empties into the Paclhe
,cean, which is but thirty-tHo miles
listant. They br0ught back with thsn
uch samples Of gold dust and coal. and
& last accounts had started on 10 e1-
,lore the Gslegos river.
AT OLD Orchard Beach, on the coast
Il Maine, q quaint old custom il still
observed with annual regularity. a
belief prevails among certain Glasses OF
he country folks in that vicinity that
he water Of the ocean possesses some
oecial virtue on The 26tb day Of June
ior the curing Of chronic diseases. Ana
30 on that day there may slways De
seen a constant stream Of odd-looking
country vehicles, filed with the "lsme,
the halt, and the blind, all going sea-
ward 10 avail themselves Of the tradi-
tional benefit OF bathing on that par
Ecular day. This custom dates back
10 1903; and the legend is that one
Mrs. Dormer then recommended sea
bathing on the 26th Of June for some
children afflicted with q bad humor.
They went into the salt-wate-, and
we're cured. This established the eus'
Tom.
ANNIE FRANKUsf IN court It wasn't
her first time, and when recognized by
the Judge che didn't seem to feel nat
tered. - Got drunk, sh p he asked
% No, I didn't get drunk, eh 2 she
meered. The officer said Il was the
mesnest case Of drunkenness he had
ever seen, and he had seen about three
Thousand cases. Whereupon Annie al
hrmed that his father Was b pirate, his
mother a smueg1er and all bis retatixss
were horse thieves from Texas Ais
Honor said he feared she hsd an esil
disposition. She said he was So
wslrus, a hipp0potarnus, sturgeon,
rhinoeeres. 4 giraffe. buffalo, an ana
conds. 4 aamingo. an ostrich, Rocky