The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-08-05
FACTS AND FANoIEs.

"A belle NJ OhAabU6A "SttaI
on her shoes.
The Patrons of Husbandry Of Indi-
ana have res9 we'd that they Will not ony
certain agricultural Implements, Tor the
verv reason that the manufacturers re-
fnss IN recognize the grange agents, and
will only sell through the old established
agents.
The duks ofgSutherland is the
largest landowner IN Great britaln'
owning in one county--Satherlan ,d' a.
G7G 9I6 acres. while his wife owns 49,
$40 acres in the county OF Ssoss, ne
orybt to be called the duke of -Allthe-
land.
The oofFee-planters of Ceylon are
threatened with pecuniary rum, the
rats having seized their plantations,
o,rsssbopper style. Not being able to
import American music, they are trying
to frighten off the invaders Win the
tom-tom, q home instrument
There is an English paper which
thinks that in case of war the chleI
food producing nations, by combining
AGAINST England, could conquer her
without firing n shot or landing
soldier by simply declining to deal with
her.
The old superstitious idea that the
hand of n dead man is n talisman against
evil. once prevalent among southern ne
o,roes. seems not to have died out. a
9auIt in Greenville, Miss, was recently
broken open and a hand cut from
corpse.
ON one of the bridges of Paris
babv sprang out of its mothers arms
and fell IN the river, and the mother
iumped after it, but could not SWIM:
Another woman jumped in who could
swim and brought out both. The
mother was half drowned and the baby
was dead.
Some of the clergymen in Kentucky
,,,o,,npe to hang states in the church
!E1ast;hnIes so that young ladies on en-
ter;ng can register their names, tnus
saving a great expense for providing
seats in the vestibule for .yonng men'
and making a great deal of wa'tihs "n-
necessary.
Lightning plays some strange prankss
T., NTassocl nsetts it struck Deacon Kim
halI's bouse in New York it sent
tract DeddIer on his way to the shining
shore Now in Tennessee 1t has been
fooliuo with the hind feet OF mule.
The mule lost the game, for the lght-
ming melted his shoes OIL before ne
could kick
A farmer on the road between Chml-
ton and Worcester, Mass, having been
terribly annoyed by drummers, put mp
n sign "No sewing machines Wahteu
here. Got one." 1t was no use the
next drummer wanted 10 see the
machine. ssand perhaps he'd hitch up
t-ada1 - So the farmer put up: Got
the smallpox here" That worked Weli
for a little while, but then came along
drummer frightfully pitted with the
smaII-uox. who smilingly said ''Seein
you've got it bad here they've put me
on this route.
.AnE Enolishmap- OF course
-raiates that an American gentleman
who had at an early age gore the over
io,,S -o,,te "a California, told him this
we crossed the sandhills near the scene
Of the Indian mail robbery and massacre
Of 1876 wherein the driver and con
,Iuctor perished, and also all the par
saDoers but one. But this must have
bee1 a mistake, for at different times
a aFtervard on the Pacific coast,
I was personally acquainted win
ona hundred and thirty-thTee or
fo,,r DeopIe who were wounded
dnring that massacre and barely escaped
with their lives. There was no douDt OF
the truth of it i had II from 'IoI
lips. And one of the parties tod ne
fbat be kent coming across arrow heaus
in his system for nearly seven years
after the massacre.
"A popular theatrical manager says
he has been the means OF keeping be-
tween two and three hundred young
ladies of the stage within the space OF
five wears. Zone reason was, said ne
" because they had no talent, ana an-
other was because I knew that before
thew had been in the profession many
weeks thew would be heartily SICK anu
tired of II, The life of an actor Is
bard one. People come, said he, ana
see the actor walking around the stage
speaking a few lines, dressed IA mhE-
ni6cent clothes, and winning tine sP-
nIause of the multitude. How de-
tightfulP = they exclaim. Nothing "a
tbe world 10 do but to dress well and
iook prettv.' They do not know what
dog's life IL is. And travelling thTough
the country is the hardest work OF az
Ont tin twelve ana one o'clock at might,
spd ont of bed by four or fiye IN tne
morning 10 take an early train TO the
next town. Sometimes they do not get
to bed at all.