The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-22

In vain they sought Ter eectSe P55nf
And gave him peppermint and gin-
Yet louder did he havL
Beneath his petticoats his feet.
Like little mice who pussy meet
Did twist and twirl about;
And, OH he reared in such a way
No costard seller blitlae and gay
? Gives half 90 loud a shout.
His tears an instant cease to flow
Anon he wildly saueals. as though
Some flea had bit him badly
Poor pa. he rises Up in ne
Strong slgument does him inspire
Things end for baby sadly.
Go and buy q COW right away. A
Wisconsin COW came home the other
night with bag of gold on her horn.
Ohio has new religious sect called
the Eternalists, and they are eternaliy
fighting to see who shall lead them.
A fashionable Paris dress-maker
announces that s'ladies' shrouds are
now cut decollette.
A Scotch maiden, upon her lover
remarling. sI thiok I'll marry thee,
Jane, replied "I would be mncklo
obleeged to We if ye would.
The average masculine stomach in
this country Graves liquor, and society
must be revolutionized before better
state OF things can exist-kcte Field.
1t is said that nothing win cure
poets affection for his idol sooner than
to catch her at the dinner-tabie exca-
waiting the kernel of a hiekory-nut with
a..hair-pin.
"A postal card picked up on the
street ct Norwich, Conn, the other
day, bore this solemn appeal: 6 Deer
mary for Law of God send me pare OF
pants.''::
A Vermont lady tainted away at a
party, and, when a young man cried
out for some one TO saw her corset
strings IN two, she arose. drew pair OF
shears, ard said shed like to see EN-
sawi
"A wonderful exhibition has been
opened at Brussels. 1t is a collection
of about 100 landscapes of great merit,
painted bv bow named Fritz Ker-
chove, of Bruges, who died an idiot
at eleven years of aZe.
Hats are flarinq. with broad brims
turned up, or turned down, or raised,
so as TO display branches OF trimming
under the brin on one side. They are
picturesque end pretty, and are vastly
becoming to young faces.
"A MissouIian who cones home after
an absence of n week and finds that his
wife has been knitting tidy instead OF
splitting wood has n RIGHT TO tell her
that her folks always cid have tire name
of bsing the LATEST people IN the state.
From young lady in town to her
friend in the country: m sitting on
the latest spring style, Mary, And,
Judging by the number OF monstrous
buttons one sees in the fashion-plates,
a very uncomfortable seat it must be.
Too bad about sister Katurehi
She wanted to sit on jury;
Bot the men who had got on
Didn't wish TO be sot on;
I'm sorry FOR sister katurehl
Great preparations are afoat ct
Trieste for the unveiling the statue
erected to the memory OF Maximliian.
Invitations have been sent TO all the
companies who served under the en-
peror IN Mexico.
That mysterious muttering which
often comes to us on a southern breeze
has been finally explained. 1t is the
awful blaspbemy of the Louisiana car
drivers when the native belle plants her
majestic No. il on his toes.
Times.
Arizona hens are accustomed to lay
ing eggs worth S4a dozen; and the gentle
Susan B., lnclining her head little to
one side, and argumentatively flour
ishing her right arm. exclaims: See
what even the hens can do when they
have their rights i''5
Cardinal Manning, in accordance
with a usual custom, will take his title
from some church in Rome, and has
selected the church of st Gregory,
after whom he viii be called. If by
any possibility he sbould be elevated 70
the papacy, he would therefore become
Pope Gregory XVII
A gigantic swimming bath, COM
posed OF iron and rooted ia with plate
| glass, has been moored in the Thames
| At London. The water that is admitted
/ 10 it flows through thick bed Of char
coal, and is 50 effectually filtered that 1t
sparkles and giisbens as Il Il were drawn
| from an artesian well.
johnny saved himself trouble but
| lost marks in his definition exercise the
other day. He got bravely through
"presbyter," which he found, by look
| ing Il out, TO be one who had had the
lsYinR-on OF hands by the presbytery.
The next word was "dissenter," and in
an evil moment Johnny without turn
ing a leaf IN his dictionary, wrote,
Zone who has had the dysentery.
A large, heavy-set man who resided
near Indianapolis died recently from
| disorder which no Indian doctor could
make out. At the time of his death he
Was little more than a skeleton, his
flesh having wasted away. A post NOR
| tenn examination showed that MS llyer
was full Of abscesses, 80 that ms 1000
had not been properly absorbed, and
that he had actually starved 20 death.
The following harmless Of hard hit
ne find in one OF our English exchanges.
! The " doctor" referred TO, it VIII be
perceived, is a reverend doctor
s4I cannot praise the doctors eyes.
mover saw his glance divinei
| He always shuts them when he prnyai
Aud when he breaches he shuts mine
The present programme of the Brit
| iab arctic expedition proposes shat the
! two vessels shall leave Portsmouth
| about the latter end Of May, and taking
the usual route 20 Baffin's Bay en-
| deavor TO pass mp Smiths Sound. In
81 degrees OF 81 degrees north latitude
they viii probably separate, and Whiie
| one viii explore the northern coast OF
Greenland, the other viii push still
further northward.
in a murder trial at Bangor, Msine,
the other day, the skull Of the victim
was brought into court, where the ae-
cused caused e profound sensation by
taking IL into his hands, and rnoralzing
I thus: "This skull had tongue once
wish it had now for, II It could
/ sneak. Il would tell o different story
/ from what some Of these Witnesses told.
It would cay never 50 nuch es in
| iured a hair Of bis bead, by any word
or any deed Of mine.
The great Bessemer Steamship,
which was to abolish the horrors Of the
Fn0lish Channel, has been tried and is
only apartial success. The ship steamed
from Hall to Gravesend in q gale Of
wind and proved An excellent seaboat
and fast. Her two faults appear to be
an excess Of draught and the unstead-
insss Of her movable saloon The form
er is partly accounted for by an extra
supply of coal, and may be got rid Of
| IN one way or another-nust be got
nd Of before she can enter Calais on an
l as,aa "A 70 tha Eairou IL an