The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-08
FAoTs. AND, FANORs.

Il
BEFORE MARRIAGE
/ Nv Maggie, my bcsutiful darling,
Creep Into my arms. my sweet,
Let me fold you agaln TO my bosom
So close can hesr your heArt beat.
i WHAT these little fingers been sewing
/ Ones been pricked BY the needle, see
These hands shall be kept free from labor
When once they are given to me.
All mine. little pet, viii shield you
From trouble and labor and care,
I viii robe YOU like some fairy princesa,
And jewels shall CLEAN in your hair
/ tn Sc slippers you gave me are perteott
That dressing-gown fits to i
NV darling, wonder that heaven
Should give such a treasure 20 me-
Eight-nine-ten--elven my precious,
Time flies 90 when I am with sou,
It seems but q moment Tvo been here
And now, must say It Adieu.
ArrEB MARRIAGE.
Oh. Meg. You are heavy-Tm tired;
Go sit in the rocker, pray
Your weight seems a hundred and ninety
You had better be mendinE my coat eleeve-
I've spoken about it before
And want 10 finish this novel,
And look ever those bills from the store
This dressing-gown sets like the ID;
These slippers run down At the heel;
Strange. nothing can never look decenti
I wish you could know how they feel
Whats this bill from Morgaas Why, surely
It's not for another new dress
Look here I'll be bankrupt ere New Year,
Or your store bills viii have to grow less
Eight o'clock Meg sew on this button
As soon as yen finish that sleeve;
Heieh-ho I ana so deucedly sleepy,
III pile on to bod, believe.
The French "Prince Imperial" and
the ex.empress will shortly leave Chls-
elhurst, and take up their abode In the
chateau of Arenenberg, in Switzerland.
"A colored woman in Augusta, Ga,
took the black veil last week. The
officers, however, locked her mp in the
station house on the charge of larceny.
Some one defines e real poet as ga
singer whose verses haunt your twl-
lights" This definition is undeHiably
s good one. It includes the mosquito.
-" Prohibition after all, " said a red
nosed fellow as he read the senate liquor
bill nobody allowed to sell before
O'Clock what sort of encouragement Is
that to early rising"
Mark Twain, apropos of new port =
able mosquito net, writes that the day
is coming "when we shall sit under our
nets in church and slumber peacefully
while the discomfitted flies club together
and take it cut of the minister"
A Frenchman has discovered 8
method by which he can bring down
rain whenever it is needed or, rather,
draw moisture from the air. he claims
that sprinkling Of chloride OF calcium
upon the surface of the ground Is en-
tirely effect We.
Here is an extract from letter
written to her lover by Montgomery.
Ala. girl " Fer your sake, darling, I
have quit using chewing gum. would
you have quit gum for meI would
not have quit gum for any other persen
in the whole world.
according TO the New York Mail
Mr.. Bunker, the early proprietor of the
hill of that name is not now living. lt
ia rather unfortunate that Mr.. Il. should
have been gathered in so soon. III he
could be here now TO see how lar his
hiii has got ahead Of old Breeds 1t
would do him good.
The most hideous women IN tho
world are said TO live IN the valley OF
Spiti. which is a mountain-bound,a Al
most inaccessible place. 1900 feet
above the sea, among the Himalaya.
Their features are large and coarse, the
expression of their faces IS usually
natural grimace, and they hang huge
rings in their noses. They dress IN
thick tunica and trousers, and their
heavy boots. coming above the knees
are often Alled around their legs with
-four for warmth.
To MAnaAREr J. PnEsToS or YIHoISIA.-
Mine eyes have never gazed in thine
Our hands are strangers; yet dlfhe
The deathiess sympathy whtch binos
Our hearts and minds.
,rtou singest along the mountain side;
Thy golden songs are tustihed
By the rich music OF their howi
l sing below
Where the lone pine-land airs are stirred
Tv notes OF thrush and mOcktng bird;
The heights befit thy ioftier strain
Mine courts the plain
And now with Joyous sylvan things
And round me mid the iiash OF wings
The rivulets lapse, the breezes pay
On this bright day,
FIushed like aryad's tender faeo
With early springtime's bappieat grace
This day Of soft harmonious hours,
Made sweet with flowers,
Nv lowiand nnuse Is bllsho 10 send
Fair greeting to her mountain friend,
And-yeaFning more for love than praise
These wildwood lays
"A singular illustration of She para
living sHect of the imagination under
some CIRCUMSTANCES was recently atioraec
Al Allentown.~ A bright boy OF
eleven
some cattle in a feld, and killed time
by swinging with rope from the branch
Of a tree. His brother, also small
bow. was near him. All at once the boy
with the rope dropped with his entire
weight upon the rope, but with his
knees almost touching the Brot1nd:
The brother. very much alarmed, at
once ran for assistance, bat before aid
came the swinging boy was dead. The
rome wac cut. when the loop fell from
the victims neck, indicating the iact
thSt there had been no knot, and that
the looping was but an accident; The
boy, imagining himself beyond al sell SELL
e ,ot ~ stand uron his fest. - he
Tnigbt have done, but had fallen for
ward. and so straagled- a saQEe slllk-
inc illustration OF the renafEaole niiiu-
epoe over reason sometimes obtasned y
the imagination could scarcely oe AZ