The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-03-11
FACTS AND rANC1Es.

-" HELEN wss proud, said an Indi-
ana widower Of his late wife, g and she
was great worker. You ought to
have stood by and see her jerk n bed
stead down and go for bugs 2"
"A woman recently died in Alabama
leaving to somebody, il is said, an inher-
itance of no less than 2S7 hoop-skirts.
That woman was as well hOoped as an
imported barrel of French brandy.
"A Troy fool got q beefs heart, put
a golden arrow worth SIS through it,
and sent It to Troy young woman for
a valentine. The fair creature gave the
heart to her poodle, but viii keep the
arrow.
a silly fellow whose ears were nm
usually large once simperingiY asked
witty lady "a VIII not make fine
angel ?" 'sWeI, no" she replied,
pointing to his ears, a. think your
wings are to high.
New England seems TO be drying
up. AT Brattleborough, Vt, water
costs thirty cents a barrel, and at Graf
ton. n. H., one man asks Eve hundred
dollars for the privilege of drawing
water from his well.
A very flexible temperance pledge
is this, which is circulated among Bos-
ton fashionable ladies: promise
that no intoxicating hquor shall be
used in this house for cooking purposes,
and in sickness that it shall be given
conscientiously.
-1HE total receipts Of the trans
atlantic steamship companies plying
between New York and Europe were
only $50, I53. .SS5 in 1874, against $751;
ST., $50 in 1874, decrease Of S27, 49,
800.
-Murderous ARRAYS, buTglaries, and
assassinstions are of constant occur
renee in Port Said, Egypt. The resi-
dents are hardly safe in their own
houses. aud lady scarcely dare venture
to appear in the streets for fear of
insult.
The Pail Mall Gazette's cores
pondent at Berlin reports that the Ger
man government hiss received n memo
rial from the Protestant clergy Of Spain,
complaining that the liberty of wOrship
is threatened. Similar memorials have
been forwarded to other Protestant
powers in Europe and TO the United
States.
A Frenchmau, a gentleman farmer.
has discovered the singular fact that
when glass is heated to redness and
then cooled or annealed IN oil, its
toughness is greatly increased, or, what
is equivalent, its fragiiiy is greatly
diminished, while iis transparency re-
mains the same.
"A man IN Dakota writes to a friend
that the Thermometer has been ranging
from % to 80 degrees below zero; that
going to bed is a serious matter, and
getting up is still more so; that no
sleeps under six pairs of blankets, with
two pairs of socks and two wooleD night
gowns on, and has to cC nsume large
quantities of pork grease in order to
keep up internal combustion.
over her knee, over her knee,
How my old grandmother used 70 spank me,
Over her knee, over hor knee.
When / vas quito small boy
1t was spank, spank, spank
No use was it kicking, for on she went lick
ing,
With spank, spank, spank
The thing she used TO enjoy
Chofus-Then it's over knee etc.
They have a good desl of wind in
Holland and the people make a good
deal of money out of it. There are
IL, 600 windmills in operation, each do
ing a six or ten-horse power service,
the twenty-four hours. These
mills are kept up at an annual cost OF
81 600, 600, and they perform all the
service required of steam engines at
the cost.