The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-15
FAoFs AND FANcTEs.


Recent advices from the Sandwich
Islands state that rum is digging the
grave Of the Hawaiian race.
Mrs. CAibbles has great ideas of
her husbands military powers. For
two years, says she, " he was lleuten-
ant in the horse-marines, after which he
was promoted to the captaincy of reg
ular squad of sap-heads and miners.
Out of $4,000 of the last levy of
eouscripts in France %, 900 have been
declared exempted from both active and
passive duties IN the military line. It
looks had when so many men are not
even f. to be food for gunpowders
though the fact should be considered as
a good sign in behalf of p ace.
"A Swiss boatunan recently. pulled
would-be-suioide out of Lake Geneva.
An hour or two after the boatman dis
covered the same man hspginR by the
neck to a tree, but did not interfere tnat
time. The magistrate summoned him
to answer why he did not prevent the
suicida. Int he replied that he supposed
that the gentleman had only hung HIM
self up to dry.
Only two hundred years ago the old
moss-baek who was governor oi Virginia
cot up and said ST thank God that
we have no free schools nor printing
presses, and / hope we shall not nave
any for a hundred years for learning
has brougat disobedienee and hsreay
and scots into the world, ana prlntin8
has divHlged them and hbeled govern
ments. God keep us from both ]
1t is weI that parent should know
the pecuharity of the pulse OF each
child. The pulse of healthy aou!t
a -. rsssrnuta FhnHNFn
GOOD health may be enjoyed with isWer
Dulsations. But If the pulse always
exceeds seventy, it indicates disease, the
human machine is working itself out
there is fever or Inflammation some,
where. and the body is feeding on itself.
The college orator is now abroad in
the land. His voice is heard from the
fcur quarters of the earth, telling OF
the efforts he has made for dlsunctlon
in the past, and his. hopeS ana asplFa-
tions for the future. He Is sangnine-
far more sanRuine, than ne VII. pe
few years hepce, when hs sAsh heVe
encountered and been con 1Iiert-,l, ~, Dy
some Of the stern realitiesos ilie. 4hus
far his education has been only theoFet-
zeal in fine future It will be practical.
Whether the former shall ut the SUI
iects for the latter, the future alone can
determine.
It has been Justly said that the
greatest discovery of our lives is that
the world is not 50 bad as, in the hrst
6i apDointment of youths extrava8ant
cancellations, we are disposed TO regard
it. The passage from boyhOod to man-
hood is "over the bridge OF sighs and
our first experiences of life as NJ IS
resemble the flavor of the torblooen
spple-we are enlightened and mlsera-
ble. Gladly would we command the
secret of feeling as VS. once did buts
alas. every day takes from rs some
hapDv error-some charming lll1Hion--
never tn return. We are reasoned or
ridiculed ont of all our iocund mistaken
tilI We are inst wise enough TO be Tniser-
sble and we exclaim with Lady Mary
Wortlev Montague, "To my extreme
nortifcation / find myself growing
wiser and wiser every day. But
time comes. at length, when our views
sra more inst. We leave our imaginary
Eden with - ~solemn step and allow, ana
BEGIN to APPRECIATE the good qualities
Of those whose friendship we Thought
hollow. and the necessity OF that labor
which we deemed q curse. we ex-
change ecstasy for content, and, " tor-
getting the four rivers OF our Ideal
heaven omen our eyes TO the manifold
bosuties Of earth-its skies islandsd
stars. and its oceans starred by ISLANDS,
its snnshines and calms, and the goo !
ness of its great heart, which sends
forth trees and flowers and fruits Tor
our benefit aud exultation. "-fr0T TeSsoF
MdthetCs.