The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-13
FACTS AND rANo1Es.


connection with free masonry in Eng
land because the Prince OF Wales is to
be grand master.
Germany is now furnishing Russia
with large proportions of the manufac-
tured goods formerly supplied exclu-
sively by England.
They have got so Low that they
blow up whales with torpedoes, and It
won't be long before the women will
get hold of the invention and scatter an
! intoxicated husband all over the ceiling.
Julian Hawthorne, in his Saxon
Studies" saws: ITO be a thorough
German cook requires only a callous
| conscience, a cold heart, a confused
head, coarse head, coarse hands, and
plenty of grease"
"A portland chap, who during court
ship sent his girl some poetry begin
ming, ''Was it CLEAN of golden hair p
was mortified after marriage to see her
hang that /" CLEAN over the back of
chair.
TIE faults of our neighbors with freedom We
And tax not ourselves, though we practice the
Words are like leaves, and where they most
abound,
Pope.
A country youth, who desired to
know how to become rich, sent a quar-
ter in answer to an advertisement, ard
received the following valuable recipe
% Increase your receipts and decrease
your expenditures. Work eighteen
hours day, and live on hash and cat
meal Cruel.
The pasha of Egypt has offered to
the Hon. George Il. Batcheller. of Sara
tOga, the Office of judge IN an Egyptian
court, to be composed of representatives
of the principal civilized nations. he
has accepted the place, and will leave
for Cairo about the middle of May next.
Mr.. Batcheller has been member OF
the New York legislature.
"A sentimental young man of Chi
cago went to see his girl the other day,
and found that his letters had been
pasted over the tops of preserve cans.
Those beginning with MY Daring
Susan" went over the peaches, and those
commencing with ''My Own Darling"
were put over the apples. This wes too
hatteringly sweet TO allow the engage
ment to remain substantial.
News comes from sources entitled
to credibility that the marquis OF Lorne
and the Princess Louise will visit the
The flying rumors of the intended ap-
pointment of the marquis as the sue
| cessor of Earl Dufferin IN the governor
generalship of Canada are, however,
without foundation.
"A correspondent of the New Yor
Tribune states that the tail and part
of the name and flank of the leaden
equestrian statue of George Ill, torn
down by the colonists at New York at
the beginning of the revolutionary war,
are lying half buried in the ground at
Wilton, Connecticut, whittier the statue
was carried to be run into bullets for
the use Of the continental soldiers.
WIN. Cullen Bryant turns an epi-
| gram as neatly still as if he were but
| thirty Here is his excuse to the Echo, the
! little journal of the homeopathic fair
at New York, for not furnishing the
| poem it had claimed
gave nv word dear madam, Il is true,
At your request to write a verse OF two;
| l gave il Won as frankly twas sought,
| And now you chide because keep Il not.
/ Talk not OF honor ! am hOnor's slave
None but a rogue would keep the thing be
gave.
"A prominent citizen of a Connecti-
cut town, who is the proud possessor OF
q handsome daughter, went home to tea
the other evening, and said to his wife +:
Mother, 1 have finally succeeded IN
nv petition Cor a street lamp on our
street, and it is going to be set directly
in front of our gate" A sudden scream
and heavy fall sounded from the next
room. The Rffrighted parents rushed
in there. Their daughter lay prostrate
on the floor. She had tainted.
For the first time in twenty years
Mrs. Thompson, of New York, scrubbed
out the city hall. Twenty years ago
she married man who became a mil
| lionare, took the contract, before the
war, to supply A. T. Stewart marble
| for his new residence, was ruined IN
| trying to live up TO it when a slight
sacrifice by the merchRnt-prinee would
have saved him), and died an insane
| pauper, leaving his wife TO resume tho
! scrubbing business where she left Oft
Some one writing to the st. John
| IN. B. } Telegraph says that while look
| ing down in the waters of the Bay Of
| Fundy from the lantern OF the light
house at Digby, n. s., a height OF
| ninety feet, he saw flock of wild ducks,
/ known as sheldrake, which suddenly
| dived down TO an apparent distance OF
/ fifteen feet, spread ont like ian, and
began literally to fly through the water,
/
| tent motion, while tn II legs and feet
seemed only, employed for the purpose
/ of steering. In this way they darted
! here and there after small fish, which
they seemed to catch and swallow with
great rapidity.
VENTILATION DR.. Hamilton, of Buff
falo. says we need for our dwellings
more ventilation and less heat, more
outdoor exercise and more sunlight
more manly, athletic, and rude sports,
| more amusements, more holidays, more
frolie and noisy, boisterous mirth.
| IEote-These will result IN a greater
| abundance Of fresh air III our dwell
ings. A proper temperature as the
first condition Of mental activity, aud
the removal OF carbonic acid, which
lowers tie vitality, and kills with in
definite warning, are prime conditions
for the development Of nation that IS
vet to rule the world. Let rs abolish
the strangling Of innocent children in
our schools by viewless ropes OF poisoned
air.
Professor Strumpell, of Leipsic,
has written q work on the Mature and
Origin Of Dreams" in which he asserts
that s'no chain of logical atoms can be
linked together while we dream, no
conclusion can be drawn, no
argument can be followed mp, and moth
ing new can be discovered" Unfortu-
nately for this theory, the fact that per-
sons hnve solved mathematical problems
in their sleep has been eonciusively es-
tabiished. Men whos after long Efforts,
, have been unable 70 solve algebraic
problems have gone 10 bed aud worked
them out TO q successful solution while
asleep. One single fact Of this sort up
, sets the professors theory, but there
are scores of mathematichl students
! who can prove that they have reasoned,
drawn conclusions, and discovered so
/ lutions while dreaming.
: Five per cent, of the female popu-
lation of Belgium is engaged in lace
making. little girls being apprenticed
/ 70 the art at as early an age as Eve, and
often earning their own living thereby.
Q / About so an inch is paid for real Va
lenciennes, though the artist working