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

Guatemala 1900. Across the isthnus.
Columbia supports ! ,42O; Venezuela,
5000; Ecuador, 1900; Peru, 4,67O /;
Uruguay, $500; Bolivia, 9, 600; ChiH,
s,5l2, and the Argentine Republic
6,4s2. Thus these twelve republics
manage to get along and keep up their
everlasting scrimmsges on a total of
30, ,Ss4 soldiers, while the United States
army lat year numbered only 80, $40.
The empire of Brazil is the only South
american state that supports an army
approximaiing ours, its number being
rs, ,2s2, while our neighbor Mexico mus
ters Is, 200.
Some interesting facts were shown by
the latest English census In England
and Wales the females of the popula-
zion outnumbered the males by upward
of half a million but about the age of
twenty five the males exceed the females
in number. While there were 400,0
widowers, there were 873, 600 widows.
About the age of ninety females num-
Sered two to every male. The number
of centenarians had decreased during
the last forty years, Notwithstanding
the increase in population. There were
iA the southeastern counties, with two
millions of population, 1 1.O86 nonageua-
rians, while in London, with three and
a quarter millions, there were only s34
and in Lancashire and Cheshire, with
similar aggregate population, only 585.
IT is now settled that the bard of
Avon did not write Shakespeare that
Columbus did not discover America !;
that Washington didn't write his fare
well address and now it is claimed
that the practicing New Years calls did
not originate in polite society. It has
been proved that long before the dis
'covery of this continent it was the Gus
tom among the marriageable Indian
maidens to go a-wooing on the first day
of each year, and by a profuse display
of their charms to endeavor to capture
mn eligible warrior for n lodge mate.
But the tyrant man has in this respect,
as in others, infringed on the privileges
of the weaker sex, and the young lady
who should to-day make New Years
calls might pine in loneliness forever.
GREATNEss does not bring content.
Bismarck, far from being the happiest,
is really one of the most wretohedly
unhappy of men. The correspondent
of an English paper describes him as
being perpetually annoyed by threaten
ing letters, and warnings of the police
to guard his life with especial care. 1t
is scarcely year since he escaped by
the strangest of fortunate accidents,
coming to his death by an assassin's
bullet. His devoted family are nearly
distracted by the perpetual danger he
runs, whether he stirs abroad or re-
mains at home, and their gloomy fore
bodings can but affect his own spirits.
The New York Evening Post main
tains that the last cotton crop was not
a large one, after all, and that if the
southern planters had taken it's advice
and not marketed their staple so soon
they would have got two cents a pound
more, amounting to some millions of
dollars. The post thinks that the crop
will not go over $3.50, 900 bales, ana
claims that larger portion of it than
usual was marketed early. On the
other hand, the Financial Chronicle
EhOws that the proportion of the crop
marketed by March l for the past five
years has averaged II per cent, and
never gone over 81 per cent.
SPnT communication has at last been
put to a practical use a few more ex-
periments of the same kind would re,
suit in giving mediums rush of busi
ness. 1t appears that at circle in
Scranton, Pa, communication was
received by believer to the effect that
on a certain day he would die, and ad-
vising him to take out an insurance
policy accordingly. He did so, and on
the appointed day his spirit passed into
space, leaving the widow with q claim
of $1,000 against an insurance com.
Pany. The company Iesists payment
on the ground that deceased committed
"moral suicide"
THE Freedmens bank is in a worse
condition than heretofore supposed,
and, therefore. the commissioners,
Cresswell, Leopold and Purvis, have
asked to be relieved for any further re-
sponsibility for or on account of said
trust, provided their bond may be re-
leased from liability after their retire.
ment, and new commissioners substi-
tuted in their places. They assign as
the cause of their action, the failure to
obtain from congress such legislation
as they deemed essential to tho proper
and speedy execution OF the trust re-
posed in them.
THE English lover who sued his
sweetheart for breach of promise met a
Daniel on the bench. The jury was
instructed by this said Dan that in
such cases a man does not suffer as
much as woman. He eau get a
living, remarked his honor, just as
well as before, and has suffered moth
ing that money can repair. More.
over, man is none the worse fer be-
ing kissed for series of years, as
happened in this case, while woman,
after being a long time subject OF
oseulatory exercises, is not so actively
in demand by other men afterward.
THERE is in Virginia a British asso
citation which is designed to promote
the settlement of that state by English
men. 1t has presented memorial tC
the legislature suggesting that Gov.
Kemper be sent to the old country te
make a statement of the case before
the yeomanry. The governor is a suave
afTabie man, and good speaker
Clothed with the authority and dignity
of his office, he would doubtless max,
a strong impression upon the laborinl
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