The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-06-10
FACTS AND FANoIEs.


your husband till he died"
The Bible is now pripBedin no fewer
/ than two hundred and ten Languages
| IN 1854 it was printed IN only fifty.
| Another evidence of the shrewdRess
of American youths is that Winnie
| Ream has never been married. She
works on marble, and her muscle is as
hard as a harness tug.
in Germany thee are nearly one
million more women than men, and
/ wives do not lift the hair Of husbands
| so readily as in countries where the
/ supply of the sex is more limited.
Lewis remarks that most any wO-
man can sit down gracefully in a street
/ car, but not one in a hundred can de-
scend from the back end of a buggy
/ when tho horsa Ia running away, with
out feeling that she's going to ovsEdo
the thing.
IF properly gathered and preserved,
| beans will retain vitality ? y esi s; cab
bage, 4; carrot 3; sweet corn, 2; GU
cumbers, 10; lettuce, 8 melon, 10;
onion, 4; parsnip, 1 peas, r'adish,
3 squash, 10; tomato, z turnlps, 4.
When a woman is oare-laden and
hezvy-hearted, nothing shakes the me-
grims out of her quicker than for
couple Oh lAuACh W bNlH II AASAAN "a 49,
house loEg enough for her to examine
the trimmings on their bonnets.
-" Then you won't lend me that dime
novel, eh ?" inquired one boy of another
in the postofice on Saturday. No,
won't" "Au right, then next tame
our chimney burns yoH shan't come INTO
the yard and holler.
The Louisville Courier-Journal, IN
reply to the pathetic question OF
woman, " How shall ] keep my Las
band at home in the evening 2, says 1t
can be done easily enough by open
ing a irst-class beer garden in the
back yard.
The newest seaside umbrellas are
intended to shelter an entire family, II
we are to Judge from the size. They
are about the dimensions OF side
show tent" belonging to a circus, and
have pole ten feet high to stick IN the
sand, and they form a canvas house.
Weston is still walking. The an
nouncement calls up once more feel
ing of grateful appreciation OF the
Swinburnian assurance, That no life
lives forever that dead men rise mp
never; that even the wearlest river
winds somewhere safe to sea. 4"
"A countryman in Savannah observ-
ing gang of negroes laboring ON the
streets, each wearing a ball and chain,
asked one why that ball and chain was
chained to his leg. "To keep people
from stealing il. Heap of thieves
about here"
An Arkansas youth came to his
father and said: : Dad, they amt
knives enuff to sot the table" Dad
''Whar's big butch, little butch, the
case. cOb-handle, granny's knife, and
the one I handled yesterday? That's
enuff to sot any gentleman's table,
without you've lost 'em."
"A WiIliamstown boy became man in
this way: While hoeing corn one after
noon he turned to his father, who was
working with him, and said What
/ time is it, father ?" '' Hah-past two,
replied the senior farmer. Throwing
down his hoe, the son graduated from
his farmer life with this remark
Twenty-One gears ago, father, at half
past two in the afternoon, I was born
you can do your own hoeing after this
The English travelling public arc
enraptured with the Pullman sleeping
cars. The Railway World correspondent
saws that the next Improvement IN for
ei9n railway travel viii be the intro
duction of our sixty-seat passenger cars
in place Of the sixty-seat boxes now III
use, and that when adopted they VIII De
as highly commended as are the sleep
ers, which have been literally patron
lied in America for over fifteen years
1t is now possibly by she aid of
hydraulic machinery to bend iron shafts
of twelve inches diameter TO any re-
duired shape. Incredible as this state
ment may seem to an inexpert, crank
shafts are now 80 made, instead OF by
the slow, laborious, and expensive
metbod Of forging. The bent shafts
ara al, o much better than forged Oness
from the fact that the fibre OF the metal
rms In one direction continually
Whereas in forged ones 1t is often across
the line of strain.
After reading Sherman's book and
the violent comments upon 1T, one
might suppose that all military achieve
mentg are mere matters Of accident
and that no particular person is entI-
fled TO anv great amount OF credit Tor
winning battle. Won moltKe himself
Is said to have been little surprised at
the victories won by the Germans
who knows but the good time is close
at hand when the military hero IS TO be
politelv conducted to the back seat
reserved for him by an improved civil
zatioD?
Every duty brings its peculiar de-
LIGHT every denial its appropriate
oompensation, every thought its recon-
pepse. every love its elysium, every
cross It's crown; pay goes Wild perform
ance as effect with cause meAnhess
overreaches itself ; vice vltiates "hoSVeI
indulges in it the wicked wrong thelE
own soulg: generosity gTeatens virtue
ersits =. cbsTitv transfgures, and hoI-
meas is the essence of angelhood. ood
does not require us TO live on credit
ha paws ms what we earn as we earn Us
good or evil, heaven or hell, according
to our choice Charles MttdHldy.
The people on the coast Of Corn
vail. off which the Schiller was wreck
ed. have long had q bad reputation as
vreckers. When a ship was seen on
the rocks. on p Sunday, the minister
wonId give them "A holiday. One OF
their principal men, several years ago
was charged with having tied up the
leg of an ass, hung a lantern round lts
neck. and driven it by night along tho
cliffs, so that its hating motion would
initiate the plungiDg Of a vessel under
sail, and thus tempt ships 70 run IN
where they would suppose was sea
room. and drive them TO Destruction
their rocks.
Yesterday afternoon man Who had
been beateH IN lawsuit stood AZ the
corner of GEiswold street and Justice
alley, and cursed high and low. he
was spouting away IN vehement tones
when a lawyer asked : Are you swear
ing at anybody in particular : No.
blast YOU, no I" ripped the man
g Well, It is too bad to have ali that
wasted. wish you would use q few OF
the biggest and best Oaths on Hannibal
Hanlin, the man who raised the rates
on postage" The man gave 1t to Ham
lin right and left for clever minutes,
and then the police interferet.-DctTOst
Free Press.
The cure for this sleepless condi-
t;on Re simple. although the treatment
must be radical. The hrst essential IS
- abandon the particular class Of brain
exerSise which has induced or attended