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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-01
Gun-Metal.

Frenzy, a distinguished writer on
chemistry and practical investigator,
has published a pamphlet giving his
discovery of a gun-metal which unites
the fe1ibility of bronze with the good
qualities of steel. He says the disiinc-
ton between irOn-mines and steel-mines
is imaginary any good iron ore gives
steel if rightly treated; he only ques-
tion is how to get pure steel. The only
iron of commerce which is at all pure is
the Catalan, owing to the prImitive ve
manner of separation of the ore by
bruising, and not melting, because,
once melted, impurities cannot be re-
moved. Equal to the Catalan, but ev. n
more expensive, is iron made by refiu-
ing with wood charcoal in the open air,
and tie result of the further refining
of either of these irons is fine steel,
which is nothing but iron in the purest
form. He advises the war department
to lay in a good stock of iron pigs, made
exactly as in a laboratory, that is, in
crucibles, because the purehess Of the
steel for guns is the first necessity. His
gun metal lies between iron and finely
tempered steel, and can be made by
steeifying iron incompletely, but IS
better if produced synthetically by care
full mixture of three parts of iron to
one of fue steel in a gas frrnace. 1t is
said to be elastic, returning Immediately
to its exact shape, and if it bursts, tears
rather than breaks in pieces.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-01
The Kangaroo.

That kangaroo should be able to
traverse the branches of a tree is SO ex-
traordinary fact that many people re-
fused to believe it's possibility until
positive proof was given of the animal
by living specimen at the geological
Gardens. Its cage was fitted with a
large tree branch. such as is supplied to
the leop2rds, and it was q very curious
sight to watch the animal skipping
about the boHghs as lightly and secure
" as if it had been q squirrel It re-
tanned many of the habits of its wild
state, notably that Of sitting motionless
for long periods as If asleep, but, when
reused TO action, leaping about with as
tonishing quickness. / imagine that
these habits tend TO its preservation.
The dark brown color Of the fur bears
so close resemblance to the bus of the
branches that, even when the animal is
in a cage, and the observer knows where
to look, be viii not at o. ce discriminate
between the animal and the tree. Its
habit of stiffness viii, therefore, account
for its preservation from the eyes Of
enemies, while its exceeding quickness
and sgility when IN motion will enable
it to escape from almost any foe except
man.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-01
"That &c Pianner HOwled.' >

Tue Fort Wayne (Ind.) Sentinel re-
lates as follows the experience of a
Hoosier who heard Nine. Carrena-Sau-
ret play After the concert WAS over
he quietly took us aside and gave vent
as follows TO his pent-up feelings:
told you, mister, she was a slasher.
Our Gennie couldn't hold a candle to
her. When she first set down she looked
kind a wild, then with howl dug her
fiuger nails into them ere rough notes,
and shut 'em like lightning mp into the
thin ones. Then she paused for re-
ply, mister. She then commenced at
the right hand side, went rippin' down
hand over fist, till she got clean down,
maxim a noise like thunder. She then
yanked handful out of the centre, and
planted them at the end, then wiggled
around with two fingers, grabbed up
another fstful, punched right and left,
went ripety hopety- scoichy up and
down, aud / tell you that ere piannt T
howled. She then gave another snort,
and when she went she busted IN like
mad, raised up off her chair, stuffed
three fingersful there, carOmed six more
in the corner, gobbIed up few more
tunes. and settled their hash IN abou5 a
minute. After that she tackled it with
her left hand alone. Between you and
me. mister, the man that owned that
ere pianner went shiftin' around on his
chair as though he had q carpet tack
under him. Good night, mister.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-01

81. LoUIs's sFoUST6IE.-The st. Louis
Globe Democrat says Of the public
drinking fountain which is soon to be
erected on Olive street in that city
The fountain will be constructed OF
Knoxville marble and galvanized irons
and the mountit gs and ornaments Of
silver-plate and plste-glsss. Its height
will be fifteen and q half feet, with
diameter Of three aud q half feet. It
viii be surmounted with sn ornamental
spray fountain and urn, beneath which
viii be a gas lamp. The cups are made
Of nickel silver. siiver-plated and gold
lined. The style Of architecture is en-
tireiy at variance with every p1Dlie
drinking fountain In this country. rms
fountain will not only meet the water
demand, but will be supplied WitR
clocks. thermometer, and barometer
in fact, il viii prove comoinstion ot
public convenience, the present want
/ of which VIII be made apparent Vheii u
/ is placed ia position and IN running
4 order. The litter, through which she
water passes, has capacity Tor z 05g
/ gallons per diem, and It is calculated
| that 50, 600 pounds Of ice viii Be used
during the summer
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-01
Making Glass Elastic
a wonderful Invention that is Kent
Profound Secret.

Wonderful Invention that Hs Kent a
Profound Secret.
At meeting of the New York soad.
emy of science, Prof. Thomas Ep1Ieston
of the school OF mines, gave a brief ac-
count of his experiments with III. La
Bastie's new elastic glass. The process
which removes the brittleness of ordi-
nary glass consists in immersinP itat red
heat into bath of fatty substances.
which the inventor keeps secret, and in
slowly cooling the glass therein. The
lecturer threw three pieces of prepared
colOred glass on the floor, as well as
some watch crystals, neither of which
broke, although thrown vigorously ten or
twelve feet. Various glass plates sim
llarly projected remained entire: but
the professor showed the only wav of
breaking them, by spinning one four
teen feet high in the air. and allowing
1t 10 impigne horizontally and with its
whole surface, when il shivered into
thousands of pieces. In the expert
ments recited by the lecturer it required
thirty-six shocks of a pointed steel
cylinder falling from ten TO twelve feet
high on the same point of a prepared
glass two-ounce bali TO break il. On
prepared glass placed at an les in hot
houses the falling cylinders had no
effect.
In resistance to direct pressure the
prepared glass far surpasses the best
ordinary, strips OF the latter on knife
edges bearing at the utmost weight of
twenty-seven pounds, while narrower
strips OF the new did not break under
sixty pounds weight, but often required
much higher pressure. With ordinary
supports a hRlf-inch tempered glass
three inches long broke only at 21O
pounds. The resistance of the new
material to fire is remarkable. A plate
on which a heat of 5000 degrees was
brought to bear only began to bulge
after three and half minutes of such
intense heat, while ordinary glass broke
within five seconds. It's applicability
to optical purposes has as yet not been
fully tested. but, although extremely
elastic, La Bastie's glass is SO hard that
it resists the diamond.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-01
Cotton and wheat for Liverpool.

On June II there were one million
two thousand bales Of cotton IN Liver
pool, of which SOS, 900 we're American.
The receipts of the week we're 5000,
of which 40, 900 were American. Stock
526, 600 bales, including 161, 900 Amer
ican. These figures show that 365, 600
bales OF cotton not from the United
States are on their way to the Liver
pool market, mostly from India.
Cheap cotton from the Ganges IN vast
quantities will soon be met by our cot
ton growers in all the markets OF the
world.
of the 2OS, 600 bushels Of wheat
which arrived 10 Liverpool on the three
days preceding the 11th of june, 1872
900 we're from the United States.
Wheat growers in California and else
where are using improved machinery
for the production of this grain with
remarkable success.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-01
{" AS DnlI as a Hoe. >,

The expression should never have
passed into an adage. There are as
good reasons why hoe should be sharp
as why an axe or a scythe should be.
All are used for cutting, and conse-
quently all should have a sharp edge.
If hoe does not have q sharp edge,
put one on it before it is put in the
ground. Use gTindstone, whetstoDe,
or a file to take off the bluntness. For
use in most sorts of soil hoe needs TO
be shaTpeped every day before com
mencing work. It is also q good plan
to have a file along in ones pocket to
use in sharpening the hoe "between
meals,'' or whenever it is dull It re-
duires sharpening as often as a scythe
or an axe.
1t may be said that this sort of usage
will wear out hoe. So does grinding
and whetting wear out any cutting in
strument. Hoes are cheaper than men,
and one or the other viii be worn out
in work Supposing hoe is worn out
in work. There is economy IN keeping
it sharp, for q man viii do at least q
fourth more work with il, and do il
better and easier. Hoes should be
made of the best of steel, and kept
sharp and well polished. There is q
poor economy in using dull hoe or q
| dull scythe or q dull axe. Many farm
ers do not know what il is to handle 6
| hoe in the condition it should be before
it is put in the ground. II they did
they would not be so reluctant to use It.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-01

TIE CHEAPEST TRANSPORTATION on
REcoRD.-It is stated by the Chicago
Tribune that wheat was taken at 1Oa
cents per bushei, last week, at that
place, under contract, to be delivered j n
New YORK The quotations for freight
IN Montreal. for the transportation of
grain from Chicago to Liverpool EeE8
103 cents per busnel from Chicago te
Montreal, and 49, CENTS from MoRtreau
to Liverpool; total, q cents from Chi
cagO to Liverpool These are the fig
ures in gold. Contracts have been made,
it q said, for moving grain from Chicago
20 Liverpool, via New York, for 45 cents
per 100 pounds, in coin. Taking the
latest rate of jog cents, currency, pei
busbol from Chicago to New York, via
Buffalo, It is found 20 be about three
tentbs Of e cent per ton per mile com
puting the distance by the shortest rail
/ route. II is about tEO-tenths Of q cent
per ton per mile, computed by the actual
distance Of the route taken,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-01

IsouIsv1LLK's RIVAL DIscoTEnKD. -
Mr.. Green Bolts IS the owner OF farm
at Peeled Oak on Slate creek, noted
section of Bath county, and this spring,
in plowiBg up about sixty acres oi level
land, he discovered the ruins Of a city
3 city Of regular streets ourbed WITH
stone, and evincing q higher order Of
architectural knowledge, and greater
civilization than any other prehistoric
remains yet found IN this country.
Many years ego faint trace Of simi-
lar city Was noticed in Montgomery
county, near Mount Sterling. but the
owners Of the land having little taste
for backward researches, almost or en-
iirely obiiteTated the evidences 10 make
room for corn growing. This being
fresh discovery. Ue have no doubt y
VIII be visited by Professor Shaier and
the arcbRologists, and pEehistoTians o.
the country at large. The land ad
joins large tract belonging to Gen
eral Wm. Preston, Of Lexington
FF0HkfoFf YeOnGn.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-01

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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-01

CoNcERNINa the probable effect of
the English failures on the cotton mar
ket, the New York Bulletin says ''This
bleak down IN English credit argues an
unsound state of trade in that country,
which can be remedied only at the ex-
Pense of an inevitable collapse of gem
eral business, resulting in the return 10
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-01

According to G. W. p. Curtis's
recollections, the grooming of Washing
toms white horses was something sur
prisIng. The night before the horses
we're expected to be ridden they were
covered entirely over with q paste, oi
which whiting was the principal compo-
nent part then the animals were
swathed in body clothes, and LETT to
sleep on clean straw. In the morning
the composition had become hard, vas
we'll rubbed in. and curried and brushed,
which process gave to the coats beau
tiful, glossy and satin-like appearance.
The hoofs were then blackened and pol
ished, the mouths washed, teeth picked
and cleaned, and the leopard skin hous-
ings being properly adjusted, the white
hcargers were led out for service.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-01

The whales have had comparatively
easy time since petroleum was discov-
cred, but it seems that they are now
going to suffer again since whale oil is
coming in demand, for some cause or
other, and the New Bedford whaling
people are fitting out large fleet for a
regular old fashioned whaling cruise
For years the business has been as dead
as it well could be, but the old New
Bedford wharves are now said to be
alive with busy preparation. One hun
dred and eleven ships will soon be
started out.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-01

The drinking water furnished the in
habltants of Washington must be sort
OF eannibal soup, thirty-one bodies of
infantile humanity having been found
in cleaning out the sediment of the res
ervoir last week.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-01

The department of agriculture in it's
cotton report for June states: The
TIN eatened reduction in area has not
taken place nor has the reduced area of
last year been much enlarged. The
comparison with last year is as follows ::
North Carolina, 100 South Carolina,
lO6; Georgia, 90; Florida, 90; Ala
bama, lO4; Mississippi, 1O2; Louisi-
ana, 191; Texas, 10S; Arkansas, 1OI !;
Tennessee, 90. The report of the con-
dition is the most favorable in the past
five seasors with the exception of that
of 1872.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-01

Now comes a FTencbman who defies
drought and proposes to make farmers
free end independent of the clouds.
His name is PaTaf, and the Monsieur
aud his plan depends on the fact that
chloride of calcium absOrbs moisture
from the air. BY mixing it with the
most unpromising soils, he has ascer-
tained that q judicious proportion of
the familiar compound will more eff
fec'ually irrigRte waste lands than any
present system of canals or wells. His
preparation retains moisture for three
days, where water application as now
plncliced would evaporate in one.
The compile ion of the new Atlantic
cable has led to tho recapitulation of
tslsRraphic and cable statistics of some
intert St, Hs pres entipg the rapid pro-
gress made in the application of the
cable as n means of communication be-
tween commercial countries. BY these
sta oments it appears that, aside from
the cables between Europe and the
United States, which are now five in
number, of an aggregate length of
9026 miles, there have been twenty
n'ne laid bet ween other countries since
1867 of total length of about 26, 661
miles. This gives grand total of
nearly 3S, 600 miles.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-01

AN immense falling of in expectation
OF commodities grown, produced and
manufactured in the United States is
exhibited by government statistics.
During the first ten months of the cur
rent fiscal year there was a falling off in
value of exports of breadstuffs alone
amounting to s31. 900, 900, as compared
with the exports of those commodities
during the corresponding period in 1874,
when they amounted to 1925, 900, 900.
Exports of wheat and Indian corn de-
creased Sl2, ,O00.oG0 The total exports
oi cotton this year amounted TO S167,-
100000 worth, or S25. 600, 900 less than
last year IN other words, the exports of
cotton decreased more than 131, 600, 900
pounds this year.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-01
TIMELY TOPICS.

AMONG the smuggling devices de-
tected at New York is the Illicit impor-
tation of ribbons hid in watch cases
$50 worth in each case. Other articles
have been smugeled in through Con
sular official mail-baRs.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-01

The government is going to send two
entomologists to the west to study the
grasshopper and his habits, with view
to e1terminaiing him. The people of
Minnesota seem to be mastering the
pest with clubs and other weapons,
without the aid of high science.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-01

GEORGIA Is very fast returning to
that prosperous condition of ante bel
INN times which gave her the enviable
title of the Empire State of the south.
LabOrers, both white and black, are
working with a will, and a very large
portion of the males of the latter race
make as reliable and trusty laborers
on the farms as they did when slaves.
Her crop prospects are magnificent.
There has been but little corn aud
bacon sold to her farmers this year, and
the slack demand from the south gem
bulls of the west to make a successful
corner in bacon aud CORD Union and
american.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-01

A HUNDRED end twenty Englishmen
propose to visit this country to shoot
buffalOes. How would they like to
have fifty Sioux and score or two of
Utes encamp in their parks, and kill
deer and rabbits and such things? Buff
faloes are growing scarce, and the wan
ton shooting of them should be prohib.
tied by law. The shooting of elephants
merely for the fun of the thiDgis almost
as inhuman as the murder of men.
RECENT statistics, C, implied by the
best authorities in Germany, shows
that Paraguay has actually decreased
in population nearly half million. So
much for the internal war waged by
Brazil and the ATgentiDes on Lopez.
The ParaguayaDs ere declared by all
authorities TO be the most enterprising
and moral people in South America.
They are now nearly obliterated from
the earth.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-01

KENTUCKY stands No 8 as regards the
number of Oranges, having 1, $50. In
diana heads the list. with 2, OPT oranges;
Missouri has 2,O26; Iowa, 2,OO4; I'LL.
nois, 1854. The total number of
oranges in the Omitted States is %. 500.
The official aggregate membership is
100000. The official history Of the
order, Just published by the secretary,
shows that the total receipts from 1868
to 1871, inclusive, were less than 81, 900,
while the receipts last year we're S216,-
SSi. The order at present has sos. 900
invested in government bonds, aud
$4,000 in cash on deposit at the finan-
cal agency in New YORK.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-01

" No bosh or nonsense about 1t. 1
tell you, Doc, if I ever was in love, I'm
In love with that voice. II the woman
who can sing so divinesy, sO-sO-wen I;
if any woman can sing Ike that without
being both beautiful and good, there is
no correspondence between qualities of
heart and their outward expression"
This might have been philosophical
enough, but the doctor was skeptical,
and scOffed at my romance, Just as ! ez-
pected he would. ''Her voice was fresh
and youthful, continued scarcely
developed yet, but capable of anything
1 must inquire about her. 1 must find
her. I shall see her before leave Wen
Ina !" And here my mapneF-0f-fact
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-11-01
PORT or .4LsxI.rDRIa, .,.Or.,R !
ARRIv ED.

ARRIVED.
Steamer John w Thompson, Cone river, to
F Reed.
Steamer New York, Philadelphia, to + A
Reed.
Steamer Pilot Boy, Currioman. to shinn
s Co.
ochrs l. A Van Brunt and W H Brand, from
Washington, to the ship yard for repairs
Ellen Tobin. H Skinner and W II Kenzsli'
for Georgetown
Schrs Emma Aery and Frank Walton, for
Washington.
Schr Belle Crowell Boston, to F A Reed.
Sehr Forward, Hsyre de Gracs, to II Me-
Schr Foamng Sea- Washington, to John
Agnew.
y SER Oliver Ames, Providence to American
Schr 4 Ford, Hsvre de Grace to TJMe
hatfey Il Go.
Steamer Sue, Baltimore, by Broders s. Co.
Coal Co.
rchr Foeming Sea, Norfolk, by j Agnew.
Schrs w Chester, G Harris and s
Lockwood, from Georgetown.
MEMORANDA
Steamer HArbinger, for this port, sailed from
Schr Kate Clifford, for this port, cleared at
Bristol 9th.
Schr White Swan, from New Bedford for
this port. at Newport 10Th
Schr K l. Tsy, from Salem for New York at
Newport Oct q, was run into of Chatham nj 1ht
OF 9th, while lying at anchor, by schr Sammy
Ford, from Boston for Alexandria, Carrying
away the 4 l. Tsy's jibboom and bowsprt cap;
the 5 Ford sustained no damage.
AGROUND.
Schr F Lockwood, from Georgetown, bound
out, ran aground off Fort Washington on the
ooh ult, but got off yesterday and proceeded on
her voyage.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-11-01

The gale of Saturday and yesterday appears
to have been pretty general over the country.
The storm was particularly severe at Boston,
Portland, Eastport and other points on the
coast, and several disasters to shipping are re-
ported. The sea was so rough IN Boston har-
Dor that the ferry boats had to cease running.
During Saturday severe storms occurred at
Louisville, Memphis, Little Rock and other
sections in the West aud Southwest, doing co.,
siderable damage to houses, telegraph lines,
&c. Snow fell yesterday slightly all the way
from Washington, D. G., to Bangor, Me-, be-
sides at points further 10 the interior. Five
loches of snow fell TT Syracuse, N Y. A great
gale swept over Lake Michigan, driving fleets
OF vessels to seek shelter.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-11-01

PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY ITEMS. From
the tact that many persons are building corn
houses this fall who never had any before, we
Judge there is very large crop grown. 1t is
selling at from 81 to - 25 and So so per bar
rel, according to quality aud demand for it.
MIR. Christian Mathis we'll Known and
highly respected citizen Of Manassas, died sud-
denly on Saturday last, 10 Washington, where
he was on visit. Mr.. Mathis was native of
Chur-Canton- GrisoD, Switzerland, and aged SIS
years.
From the quality of some of the butter
brought to this market We are led to believe
some COWS must eat damaged food
heV. b. T. Dulln has recovered from long
spell Of illness. Manassas Gazette.