The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-27
FACTS AND FANoIEs.

| Would YOU know the baby's skies
| Baby's skies are mamma's eyes,
Mammals ewes and smile together
Make the baby's pleasant weather.
| Mamma, keep your eyes from tears,
Keep your heart from foolish fears,
| Keep your lips frsm dull complaining,
Lest the baby think tis raining.
! The man who insists upon pro-
nouncing Don QuixOte " DonkeyhOte"
| shows a disposition to Obtrude his own
| name that is not commendable.
-TennysOn's price for lyric is said
| to be $500. but thousand of budding
poets on two continents are endeavor-
| ing to break down his monstrous mo-
nopoly.
If rumor be correct, the Princess
| Clotbilde will be shortly separated from
| her husband, Prinoe Napoleon, at her
own urgent request. 1t was a mar
Tia0e dc cOllUe1lG7lce.
on why should a fellow feel sad
When it's easy enough to feel gay
Oh. why should he go for TO die
When there's every Inducement to STAY p
"A genius thus defines the difference
between men and women: man
gives forty cents for a twenty-five cent
thing he vents, and a woman gives
twenty-five-cents for a forty cent the
thing she does not want.
An English Justice fined boy ten
shillings for whistling while a clergy
man was passing the gate, and that's
the sort of little man John Bull is.
IL the boy had been humming tune
he'd have probably been executed.
1t must be rather binding on n man
one hundred and ten years old to pick
up his favorite paper in the morning
and find a quotation like this IN the
leading editorial
The good die young
But those whose hearts are dry a. summer
dust
Burn to the socket"
An editor, who is evidently man
of family, sagely remarks that boy
who will yell like Tartar If drop of
water gets on his shirt band when his
neck is being washed, will crawl through
a sewer after a ball and think nothing
of it.
At Pompeii they recently found a
curious record. 1t was scratched on the
stucco of a kitchen wall, and has been
thus translated: Lighted the FIRE,
cooked his meals, and swept his house
for him 2S, 900 times to this day, and he
refuses to take me to the circus" Be-
meath this, in a different hand, is writ
ten: "WOmen are never satisfied.
The Parisians say that they have
had enough of the high heel boot fash
ion for ladies. They assert that it filings
them too much forward, hurts the
sDine and reduces the size of the calf.
The doctors recommend the reverse
fashion, very low heels indeed, and
high soles, for q time, so as TO fling the
body backward from the hips upward.
Prof. Huxley, DIR. SandeIson, Mr..
Darwin. and other eminent biologist,
intend to petition parliament on the
subiect of vivisection, in case 1t comes
up for discussion. While they are anx-
ions that useless cruelty should be
11revented. they are extremely deslreus
that no obstacles should be placed by
legislative action on research, and these
views will be embodied in the petition.
-"There is a dog" This trivial
phrase was used by an instructor OF
actors in Paris as the vehicle of an i'm
nortant lesson. He taught them TO
give it in the sense of various impress
sions, as, fear of the dog, love of the
dog. contempt for the dog, astonlsh-
ment. regret, etc, and so exhibited
that il mattered less what words an
actor had to give than how he gave
them.
-BsId-headed men are only living a
little in advance of their time. Accord
ing to Darwin, We are indebted TO our
frisky ancestors, the ape, for our hair,
and men with long boards and prolific
scalps have no reason to feel that they
are particularly superior to their less
lovely fellow-men. It may be e1tinc-
ton to the barber business and blow
to human vanity, but the coming man
is to be bald-headed.
-" Arrah, me darlint," cried jamie
O'FIannigan to his loquacious sweet
heart, who had not given him an OPP
portunity to get In a word edgewise,
during a two hours ride behind the
little bay nags IN his oyster wagon
:" are We afther KNOWN why your cheeks
are like nv ponies there? Shure
and it's because they are red, is II ?"
ouoth the blushing Bridget. Faith,
and a better raison than that, mavour-
neen. Because there is one o'them
aich side of a waggin' tongue.
The Mecklenburg declaration of in
dependence might never have immor-
talized North Carolina il 1t hadn't been
for the unhinchinR love OF matrimony
shown by the ladies of the tar-heel
state. The royal governors allowed
the county clerks to charge SO Tor
marriage license this extortlon op-
Grated as a damper on the ardOr of the
swains. but reused in the female breast
the vengeance which blood alone can
quell. Independence was the newt
able result Chicago Tribune.
The trade in "blooded " dogs
is An item of no little amount. The
value of these principally pointers,
brought to this country from England
during the last two years, is stated 20
be 500. 600. The furors about Lave
rocks red Irish settlers, Gordon's and
kindred breeds, Is now as great as was
ever that in japan abont spotted RAD a6c
bits. No dog that costs less than 81 'OOO
is now considered worth owning. lhese
valuable animals have their Pedlgrees
preserved with as much care as tho
nobility of England.