The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-01-14
FACTS AND rANC1Es.

Why is a side-ssddle liks e four
quart iugP Because it holds a gallon.
DIR. Mary Walkers life is one con-
tinuaI struggle to keep her pants hitch
| ed up without the aid Of suspenoera.
Judge Walsh, a judicial despot OF
Brooklyn, has decided that & woman
has no right to open her husband 8
letters.
TON Hood, at lord mayors din
ner. once leaned back at about the mid
die of the feast and requested the waiter
to bring him the rest in money.
One by one the roses fade. 1t is now
boldly denied that men who wear long
hair are possessed OF any more talent
than men who have it shipped close.
in Texas they hang s man when he
refuses to marry the girl whose hand he
has sought, and the poor devil rs gen
orally very glad 20 get of so lightly.
A Young fellow in Grundy county,
Iowa. wanted to charge his girl 20 cents
for his picture, informing her at the
tine that it originally cost a quarter.
Bones of Robert Bruce were quoted
in Edingburgh at 81 los apiece, which
is not much of a bonus considering the
length of time they've been accumulat-
ing interest.
-Ahdueting children ought to be en-
couraeed. After awhile, when the crop
of small boys had become exhausted,
some Of the big boobies who fire on
pistols on Christmas might be taken.
The other day Binghampton girl
offered co let n countryman kiss her for
five cents. "I gsd," exclaimed the
bucolic youth, "that's darn cheap II
fellow only had the money"
French officers are not allowed to
marry unless the bride bas fortune OF
not less than $1,000. The limit was
formerly s., 900, but the price has been
raised.
"A Kansas gentleman has thought-
fully put his front-gate ia tho parlcFs
so that his daughter and young man
can swing on it without taking cold
during the cold weather..
-"Tbe child has since died " is the
laconic remark which a Pennsylvania
paper afixea to an account of n twelve
vear-old Riri who had already mastered
logic, rhetoric. geology, botany and the
mysteries of mental and moral science,
They have a new test for intoxica-
ton in Canada. When a man can pro-
nounee reciprocity" without tripping,
test is " Erastus Richardson, and
"rassis risson'' is deemed conclusive.
The New York World describes
hell as a place where everybody be-
longs to fire company. We suppose
that New York and Boston men monop-
oiize the positions of foremen and
tFeasurers.
1t is said that at three years old we
love our mothers at six, our fathers
at ten, holidays; at sixteen, dress at
twenty, our sweethearts at twenty
five, our wives at forty, our children
and at sixty, ourselves.
"A Leavenworth man told lie, and
then said. ''I hope TO be struck dead
if 1 have not told the truth" BE had
scarcely ceased speaking when he fell
to the hoor-a man having knocked him
down.
"A western paper says dealers IA
butter classify it as wool-grease, cart
grease, soap grease, varlegated, tasse-
lated COW. grease, boarding house break
fast, inferior tub, common tub, medium
roll, good roll and gilt-edge roll The
terms are strictly technical.
Experiments made within the past
six months have developed the astound-
ing fact in natural magic that four mes
sages can be sent over a single wire as
readily IS two, and that through mes
eages and local ones can be sent With
out interfering with one another over
the same wire. While, for instance
me essages are being simultaneously ex-
changed betWeen Boston and New York.
two moEe can be sent on the same wire
between Boston and Worcester two be-
tween Worcester and Springfield, and
two between Springfield and New
Haven or New York, making in all
eight separate and distinct messages
crossing and recrossing on one wire at
the same moment of time.-Okd ana
MeaR.