The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-06
FACTS AND FANoIEs.

ing, II the grain IS very ripe.a
-Dio Lewis says "1Iet a woman
teach school five years and no man eai
| live with her as a wife.
The way they manage 1t IN England
| is to dismiss any person IN the employ oi
the civil service who may give the news
| papers an item.
The latest novelty in dairying con
| sists in the use of the stomach OF the
pig instead of that of the calf in the
manufacture of cheese.
Mr.. Abel Conant, the inventor OF
| the process of raising bread by cream
tartar and other acids, died recently at
Lowell, Mass, ninety years of age.
Somebody sent to lady in London
an Easter egg which contained an Afri-
can scorpion, by which interesting IN
sect the lady was bitten SO that she viii
probably die.
-"I loved Charles, +" said she, wiping
her eyes with the hem of her overskirt
&c loved Charles as much as any wo-
man conld love a man: but when he
commenced wearing spitcurls 1 dropped
him."
There is no man, but for his own
interest, hath an obligation to be honest
There NAV be sometimes temptations to
be otherwise but. all things considered.
he shall find it the greatest ease, the
highest profit, the best pleasure, the
most safety, and the noblest fame, to be
honest.
San Francisco has the champion
religious idiots, who dress as children,
act as children, and play marbles and
leap-frog, because they believe g Ex-
cept We be converted and become as
little children, We shall in no wise enter
the Kingdom of Heaven.
We always thought the last st.
Louis directory little fishy, but now
it is evident that it has been cooked up.
1t contains the following 1 Oyster, l
Rave, 13 Frys. 8 Fish, 4 Salmon,
Trout, / Shad, Maekerel, l PoTges, 8
Pixies, 2 FoWles, 2 Chicks, z Hams, 80
Lambs, 4 Pickles, ] Pudding. ? Pyes,
2 Figges, 2 Nuts, ? Cofiees' : Segsrs.
-Barnum said in his inaugural at
Bridgeport last week; There are too
many soft hands (and heads) waiting
for light work and heavy pay. Better
work for half a loaf than beg or steal
whole one. Mother earth is always
near by, and ready to respond to reason
able drafts on her never-failinag treas
uFy, A patch of potatoes raised 'on
HAAAIGns 10 IASlNAHbAo ~ =
pate earned in a whisky serimmage.
-'' Five cents fare for that child,
madam" said a street-car conductor
yesterday, as he opened the door and
put his head into the door. Very
well. she replied, feeling in her pock-
ct ssThis Is an orphan child and I'm its
guardian. / must have receipt for
all moneys paid out, and as you write
one I'll drop a nickel in the box" He
shut the door and leaned over the brake
like one in deep thought.
The fact is our eyes deceive ua
most ridiculously, even about the com
monest things. At first thought, which
should YOU say was the taller, 3-year-
old child or flour barrel? And could
ANYTHING but actual measurement con-
vince YOU that the same child is half as
high as q six-footer2 There is an old
saving that a child at years old is
half as tall as he ever will be, and after
few experiments in measuring one
can easily believe it, but not before.
in the Iynchburg (Va.) News there
is an obituary notice of Mr.. Charles
Henry Lynch, who, it is stated, was the
grandson of Charles Lynch, the orlgi-
nator of the famous Lynch law" The
old tree is still standing in the yard OF
the family homestead from which Judge
Lynch's victims were suspended. This
statement is confirmed by the authority
of Webster, who says, 4" the term Is de-
rived from a Virginia farmer named
Lynch, who thus took the law into his
own hands"
At a recent sale in London n letter
of Queen Mary brought s4O5; one OF
Queen Elizabeth, $40; an autograph
oflATary Queen of Scots, s225 and one
of Burns, $500. An autograph letter
of Lawrence Sterne was recently sold
in London for 800. It was sent No
vember IL, 1894, with two volumes OF
81 Tristram Shandy," and contained this
reference to them: 3" You viii read as
odd a Tour thro' France as ever was
proposed or executed by traveller or
travell writer since the world begun -
'tis a laughing, good tempered satyr
against travelling (as puppies trayelI."
The coal area of the United States
is sectioned off in square miles about as
follows Illinois QarRest OF all) $4,000,
0r about two-thirds of the whole area
Missouri basin, 26,6S7 Iowa, 49,
Kansas. 1890; West Virginia section,
5000; Ohio section, 10, 900; East Ken
tucky section, 1888; Pennsylvania sec
lion, 1882; Pennsylvania anthracite,
f72 New England basin, 500; Mary
land section, 550; Tennessee, ., 100
Alabama, 1880; Indiana, 6, 40; West
Kentucky. 8. .sSS Texas, 800; Michi-
gan basin, 6. 700 Nebraska, 5000 Ar
kansas, 9,043 VirPinia, 1S5, and North
Carolina, 80. The great bulk of the
general coal deposit is the common soft
OF bituminous coal, the exception being
the seni-bituminous, the anthracite aud
the camel coal found largely IN the
Kanawha coal fields of West Virginia.
"A letter from Maiorca TO the Lon-
don Times gives an account Of the open
ing of the FIRST railway in that island
and, speaking Of the starting OF the first
train. it saws "The religious ceremo-
ny over, the priests and gentlemen took
their seats, and many of them for the
first time in a railway carriage. But
why are all these priests ROingY inno-
Gently asked one of the bystanders, who
had not been invited. They are going
to give absoIution to the killed and
wounded replied mis- neighbor. And
the doctors, too, why are they goingF
8 Ahi they 60 to cure the msimed, was
the reply. don't believe it Will go
without mules exclaimed a country
man, in jacket and blue calico moorish
drawers. How should it9' said his
companion; don't we put FIRE on our
heaFths all the winter nights, and did
any Of as see the kitchen start of L
don't believe in IL a bit. We have
none OF us been allowed to go near the
train. What viii you bet that the
mules ara not concealed between the
Bhesls2'"
About one In five Of all the prison
ers in the United States are boys, from
ten to twenty years Of age. They are
boys who we're early deprived Of their
right to be compelled to respect the
rights of others. Almost every person
who viii read these lines labors under
some one great disadvantage because in
his childhood he was deprived of a
right. One secretly bewails the power
of bad habit another bushes at his
ignorance another laments a bodily
inEirmity /; another deplores q grieEouB
fault another regrets neglected tall
ent. Many more suffer IN body and
mind as well as inhict frequent suffering
upon others, without knowing the
cause. Some have a bad temper, m