The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-02-25
SAYINGS AND DOINGs.

SELF-aRAr1FIoATIoN is the high-press-
ure power that keeps man going, aud
duty is only the donkey-engine that he
works at intervals.
NEVER trust with q secret a married
man who loves his wife, for he will tell
her, and she will tell her sister, and her
sister viii tell every body.
DoueLAs JERRoLD used 90 say Of fem
inine writers, eff you once dip a
woman's finger in the ink.pot she will
go on writing forever"
SIXTY thousand japanese in YeidO
are studying the English language and
tearing their hair over its torturing
idioms.
THERE are 900 idiots in this ooun-
try, who are acknowledged as such.
The majority of people viii regard
these figures as being low estimate.
In three years two rats become 646,-
sos, and yet the druggists look with
suspicion ON a man who asks for
dimes worth of stTyehnine.
WHEN a young man in Patagonia falls
in love with a girl he lassoes her, drags
her home behind his horse, and that's
all the marriage ceremony necessary.
IT is time 10 stop talking about the
softening influence of woman. A Mas
sschusetts man who has four wives has
Just been sent to the penitentiary for
stealing horses.
A TOTAL eclipse of the sun will occur
on April 8. As the king of Siam is the
only potentate advantageously situated
to see the spectacle, he has kindly in
vited British, American, and other as
tronomers to dine with him on that day
and bring along their Instruments
ONE of the reasons why a fight fire.
quently occurs in Montana churches
is, while the preacher is praying, the
congregation sit on the backs of the
chairs and frequently calculate
"That's right, old hoss " Bully for
you /" "He's a book sharpl" etc.
Sometimes the ministers get rilsd, and
there's where the disturbance comes
in"
ASTRONOMER BARTLETT, of Battle
creek, is circulating this hit OF gossip
about the big dipper: Zone hundred
Thousand years ago the bright stars
which at present form this familiar con-
stellation were arranged in the form OF
a large cross and one hundred thou
sand years hence they will assume the
appearance of an elongated 'dipper'-
different in shape from the one now
seen-and stretching over a wide extent
of the celestial vault"
THE royal baby begins to notice
things, and to handle 'em, too The
other day he reached for the paregoTic
bottle and smashed it on his pas nice
center-table, and then tried TO make a
canal by running his finger in a circle
all round about" Then Edinburgh
went in and borrowed his wife's old kid
slipper, and when he came back there
was considerable excitement for q few
moments. Men do that sort OF thing
so awkwardly.-M Y. Mail
FIRST Lovely Being Ito clever pianist
after performance): 90, how charming,
Herr La Bemoiski There's such color
in your Fortissimoes /" Second Lovely
Being: "Such roundness of modelling
in your Pianissimoes ! Z" Third Lovely
Being "Sueh perspective in your
Crescendoes II !" Fourth Lovely Be-
ing (: " Such ehiaroscuro in your Dimin-
uendoesI III Fifth Lovely Being:
''Such anatomy in your Legatoes mr.
ETC., etc., etc. Clever is pianist be-
wildered, but not displeased. Punch.
THE present debt of Nevada is S84,
154. There is full treasury, school
fund of $3.50, 600, sn established credit,
and a reduction Of taxes the popula-
ton of the state is not more than Co.
900 nine tenths Of It's area is in desert
land. The cities are all supported by
miners and therefore not permanent, as
when the mines are exhausted they must
follow the course Of the Abandoned
towns Of. California.
Should the mines give out, the outlook
for Nevada is not fattering she has
neither commerce, agriculture. nor
manufactures to fall back on.-M =.
World.
SoME curious customs are still extant
in the Spreewald villages in Wendish
Prussia when the head of the family
dies. For instance, if the deceased
should have ehaneed to be bee keeper,
one Of the family win go to the hive,
a. d, striking the comb, will exolaim,
Bees. arise, your master Is dead
On the morning of the funeral, too,
the men proceed to the cattle-aheda.
and after causing the animals 10 get
upon their legs, and placing cheese be-
fore them, viii soiemniy announce 20
them that the body is about 10 be taken
away.
A REGENT letter from Lexington, Va,
to the Richmond Dispatch ssys: 81 Val
entine has been here for several days
conferring with the memorial committee
in reference 70 the final arrangements
for placing his beautiful sepulchral
monument over the grave Of Gen. Lee.
It is hoped that full arrangements can
he made, and the statue inaugurated on
the 18th Of October next-the snniver-
sary of Gen. Lees death-wlth an ora
LlGu EA-L AGbAAbns ASeAfAoa
pirate ceremonies, participated in by all
the old confederates who can gather
there. It will be matter Of general
interest to mention that fresh flowers
have never been wanting to deck Gen.
Lees tomb. From al parts OF the
country exquisite wreashs, crosses, an
chors. ETC., ara sent, and fair hands In
Lexington ars oontiaualiy fashioning
evereresns, immortelles, etc, into the
most beautiful decorations for the tonbs
Of the general, Mrs. Lee and Miss
Agnes. The beautiful custom Of having
a student-guard TO keep daily watch and
ward at the tomb is still kept up, and
the generals Office Is still preserved
Just as he left it On the day Of his fatal
illness.
NoTEs.-The commission sent cut by
sbe navy department 20 examine into