The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-08-19
FACTS AND FANoIEs.

Fifty dollars was what il cost an
American IN Liverpool for carrying a
loaded revolver in his pocket.
The progress of knowledge is like
that of the s1n--so slow that We cannot
see it, but so sure as to change night
into day.
There are few Wild beasts more to
be dreaded than a communicative man
with nothing to cOmmunicate.-M. De
Donald.
What men want, said Bulwer, is
not talent, 1t is purpose; IN other words,
not the power TO achieve, bnt the viii
to labor.
He was one of those men, more
over, who possess almost every gift
except the gift of the power to use
them. Charles htngSlcy.
For a fit of idleness-Count the
ticking of clock I; do this for an hour,
and you viii be glad to pull of your
coat tho next and work like negro.
To know a man, observe how he
wins his object, rather than how he
loses it for when we fail, our pride
supports us when We succeed, 1t be-
trays us.
pGLltAltG hNGEs n NlNaA nNuulAs
but fools viii learn in no other, and
scarcely in that for 1t is true we may
give advice, but we cannot give con-
duct. Franklin.
b The Rev. Father Remy. a mission
ary, has Just arrived in Paris from
Thibet, where he made conversions
under peculiar circumstances. He was
to be chartered, aud his legs and arms
were duly attached to four horses of the
country. The abbe is said to be a very
powerful man, aud his limbs must be
uncommonly strong, or the horses en-
ployed were uncommonly weak, foI he
resisted all their efforts. His persecu-
tors, We ara told, struck with admiration,
embraced the martyr and Christianity.
The grange is worth to-day almost
as much to the agriculturists of the
country as the common school. 1t is,
in fact, the only primary school We have
which is devoted to agricultural educa-
ton. It is there where our sons and
daughters are first taught the heimportance
of agricultural instruction it is there
where they are taught to love and take
a pride in their calling it is there
where they are made to see possibilities
in AGRICULTURAL industry which past gem
erations have never dreamed of, and it
is from thence that an influence is to go
out which in q few years will fill up our
agricultural collsges with young men,
and young ladies, too. with a class OF
students that will not turn their backs
on the farm or seek other professions
because Cf their supposed higher re-
spectability or utiiity.-Pdcifc Rural
Press.
-Twenty-three specimens of carp
have been placed in the breeding ponds
at Druid Park Hill Baltimore, from the
waters of the Danube. This fish in
habits the fresh water streams of Con-
trail and Northern Europe. 1t is of a
golden olive brown color, with darker
fms. It lives to a great age, and is
exceedingly prolific, it's weight varying
from one TO eighteen pounds, aud it il
in season from October to April. These
were the favorite fish of the monks in
the middle ages. IL is said they fat
tened their fish as they did their poultry,
giving them the same tid-bits thoy gave
their choristers for improving their
voices. Gen. Lafayette took great in
terest in the carp at the Castle of
LeGrange, and could identify certain
patriarchs of the tribe in his mOat as
easily as he could any horse IN his
stables, Some of these aged carp
counted more than sixty years, and were
carefully preserved as breeders. They
need excellent and peculiar cooking,
with n sauce, sayS the Turf, Field and
Fam, ''of that superiative excellence
which might induce, as Frenchman
observes, a hungry man TO eat his grand
mother "