The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-03-25
FACTS AND Paroles.

after paying S11 charges his voice was
heard clear over in the next county.
A lady at Memphis says she doesn't
want any iewelry, hasn't looking glass
in the house, and wouldn't take a silk
dress as a gift. Memphis has another
living enriosity--a eross-eyed cat.
! The city of New York has charm
ing municipal debt. 1t amounts to
/ Sll5 for every man, woman and child
/ in the city. Think OF the number of
! people who haven't got SIl5 where they
can lay their hands on 1t
/ Our life is but a winters days
/ Some only breakfast. and away
Others 60 dinner stay, and are fun fed;
l The oldest man bat sups and goes TO bed
/ Large il his debt who lingers through the day;
/ Who goes the soonest has the least 70 pay
The sudden eruption of the small
pox in China, simultaneously with the
transit of Venus, has solved the prob
lem. The Heather says there was no
transit. The sun had the smallpox
thst day. Science must defend its
claim.
-Schoolinspector(t TO urchin)- "Now,
Johnny, how many csn you count p
johnny" One, two, three, four, Ave.
six, seven, eight, nine, ten. 4" Inspector
-'' Good, Jehnny, 90 on" Johnny
queen, king, ace"
The contractors who have under
taken to furnish 240. GOO headstones for
the national cemeteries, cut the names
in their works at Rutland, Vt, by
means of the sand blast. This cuts
meme in four minutes, and they COM
plete 500 stones daily.
Several passengers on the lower
Mississippi we're attracted by the alli-
gators bRsking in the sunshine. g Are
they amphibious, captain ?" asked
looker-on. t Amphibious, thunderf'
answered the enthusiastic officer,
'' they'll eat hog q minnie.
A lady sends us some lines COM
meneing:
"A bird is singing in my heart"
And asks that they be published. II
she takes our advice she will wiring
that birds neck, cook it and serve 1t
up on toast for some sick friend
Brooklyn Argus.
"A corps commander in the French
army has notified the soldiers who are
so unfortunate as to have to serve under
him that those of them who commit
suicide shall be buried at night, with
out military honors. 1t must be very
trying to a corpse 60 be buried without
military honors.
Simplicity OF purpose begets sim
plicity of life. This is manifested not
in one way merely, but IN every way.
There is no double dealing in business.
There is no praying for the salvation of
souls, and then, for the sake of making
money, helping them down to he'll in
the ordinary avocations of life.
Austria seems TO lead the world in
recognizing the rights of women. The
employment of women in the Austrian
telegraph service having given satisfac-
tory results. the minister of commerce
has adopted the system in the postofiice,
and the railway boards have been
asked to report on its extension to rail-
ways.
The Boston Post makes the rather
alarming assertion that four babies at
a birth are getting common" The
press should be careful about publish
ING this kind of news. An epidemic
can never be checked by talking about
it, and we ought to beware bow we
frighten the already overburdened COM
munifies of this country into quadruP-
ling their population with little immi-
grants who bring no money with them.
They're having a delightful little
discussion in the east as to who wrote
No Scots in Heaven" We cannot
undertake to decide between the con-
tending authors, but wish to remark IN
a general way that the other place
dosen't discriminate between sectH,
either, and that some of the disap-
pointed claimants might tune their
harps 20 that grand theme - Chicago
Times.
Ordinary mixed putty has been
found by Mr.. Courvall TO be the softeBt
and most useful medium for treating
excreseenees Of tumors OF various kinds
where compression is desired, as it
noulds itself 20 neatly to the skin He
believes it to be superior to dextrine.
silicate OF soda, or plaster bandagea.
It is a cheap and always attainable ma
terial.
IF the Bonaparte Prince Imperial
should marry the Danish princess, 1t
would be q great stroke, as IL Is IN
- grand alliances" that French states
men put their trust for the future Of
their country. But he will hardly get
her. Probably the empress Of Russia
will be an inslperable obstacle. Her
objection TO 'eJlcTTsaftterGft' herself
was made against this family.
"A mother-in-l law has sent n cOmmu-
nication to a Milwaukee magazine, do.
noancing "the vile rsbble of coarse,
low bred journalists, who make para
erapba about mems wives mothers.
Wen bet that woman keeps her son-in-
law within the traces. Perhaps she
even stood over the poor devil and
made him write her communication Tor
her.
-Our revolutionary fathers used TO
see tough times. An old Virginia book
tells how two Of them received fifty
lasheg each for being absent from roll
call. and It speaks of another who re-
ceived one hundred lashes for "misbe-
havior." For one months pay soldier
of the patriot army received So, ,OOe,
but hs had to pay. q. 600 yard for
cloth enough 70 make a coat ana MS
buttons cost him 81, 800.
"A Texas editor is trying to keep
society straight In his town, and when
he sees enything he doesn't ike ne
speaks about It. To one young Wonien
he saws " We suggest 20 a certain
vouup woman OF our villa 10 hold her
peace, unless abe can talk without try
ing, or seeming to try. TO shake her
chiqnon of when she wags her tongue.
Tt adds no force to her words, and looks
out Of place to as.
One Of our young ladies whose
company is much priEed by an enter.
prising young merchant took charge OF
. elsss Of little girls the other Sunday.
After the lesson she told the children
that If they wiahed to ask her any ques-
tiope she would answer them. hhl
Won answer true p asked bright-eyed
eherub. "Certainly," said the teacher
g Well, then, % said the little one. hesi.
tatirs ", "do-do you love Mr. B--g'
The teacher collapsed.
The blarsted English papers think
il the height Of absurdity for congress
to pass an act with a view to permitting
a Young lady to accept q marriage pres
ent from the Egyptian viceroy. This
exeess Of republican delieeey, they
say, "is Heisher more nor lees thsn
siraining ct a gnat, while the existing
condition Of politics in the United
States demonstrates that the great re-
nublie has no difficulty about swallow
/ ing any number OF canels.