The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-20
FACTS AND FANoIEs.

THE DEATH OF WILLIE
Willie had a purple monkey, climbing on
yellow stick,
And when he sucked the paint all OF, it made
him deadly sick;
And in his lstest hours, he clasped that mon
KEY in his hand,
ter land.
Oh, no more he'll shoot his sister with his little
wooden gun,
And no more hen twist the pussy's tail, and
make her yowl for fun;
The pussy's tail now stands out straight, the
gun Is laid aside,
The monkey doesn't jump around since little
Willie died
1t is only twenty five or thirty years
since Darwin, gazing into his mirror,
was suddenly struck with his idea of
the origin of man, and now he has an
income of $4,000 year.
Three thousand artificial bird
nests, designed so cunningly that each
variety eff bird will recognize its own
home, were recently put mp IN the
Jardin des Piantes. Paris.
The Viceroy of Egypt is a shrewd
manager, and he makes things come
around so that at the end Of the year
each member of his harem has cost him
only g.. 900.
mo Getting appuls in school ours, "
reads a sign on the blackboard of a
school. house in enlightened old Massa-
chusetts, where education is supposed
to sit on the top rail and make faces
at Ignorance.
Miss Baker, of Oswego county, n.
Y. publishes the following warning ::
/" March the Is 1875. I forbid Eny
One Marrying Henry Smith for 1 Was
Engaged to him March IL 1874 for II
he gets married he Win hafto Suffer the
Pently of the law 1 remain as ever his
intende wife Sophia Baker.
in Paris they believe that the flesh
of horses and asses is first-clGss brainial
food. In New York the people who
dabble in this hazy science have de-
cided that q good square meal OF tripe
and calves brains renews the phos-
phorous in the cerebral tissues. Dr.
Lambert entertained the Liberal Club
the other day on an experimental tripe
dinner. Most people OF brains prefer
good, juicy, roast beef.
The Honolulu (Sandwieh Islands)
Gazette says n violent snow storm visit
ed Hawaii on the % of March, covering
the three stately SUBMITS of the three
mountains of that island. On the low
lands It rained very hard, and the
lightning played brilliantly over the
| island, followed by incessant and ter
rife claps Of thunder. The next morning
| n grand and beautiful sight was pre-
! sented-the most beautiful ever seen
| in that region-throe mountains cap
/ ped with snow in the tropics.
Brigham Young has peculiar
notions. In the recent Mormon con-
| ference he said - am opposed to free
schools. Children should be educated
| under the care of their parents, and
parents should labor and pay for that
| educution, All the education child
wants is TO fit him to get his own living.
In the prisons, gambling shops, and
| other dens of infamy, you see the re-
| suits of the education of children IN
| the free schools and away from the care
of their parents"
He left the spelling bee at 10
o'clock, and stopped in a saloon on his
way home. Here he met several trienos
who aset 'em up divers times, and he
reached home about midnight with q
confused brain and very demorahzed
pair of legs. Then he swore that some
| body had stolen the key-hole, but his
wife. with fearful scowl on her brow
and a lamp in her hand, admitted him.
s'Drunk I" she exclaimed. "Dr-u-n-C
Chic) druncH. THAI eazynuM." ''Brutel
- B-r o-o-t Chic); Rive-us harder one.
"Idiotl" "'ThaTz harder (hic), but
I kin spellum. I-d-I-d-g-l-d-i-g-t t.
| Idiot. Now give us a sumner (hio).'
She picked mp poker and gave him 9
'stunner and the spelling-bee ad
iourned sine die.
"A curious structure is rapidly ris-
ing, or rather sinking, in England. II
is q church designed to accommodate
the crowded fishing population IN one
| quarter of the city. Land being diff
fcult to procure, it was determined to
build a church under the street. The
floor of this underground edihce lies
thirty feet below the surface OF the
road, and is reached by descending q
fight of stone steps. In form, the
church is long parallelogram, l32 feet
by so feet. The altar is at the north
end. opposite the base OF the stairs
The structure is to have an organ II
the west aisle, which is divided from
tbe nave by columns Of Bath stone
Attached to the church Is n vestry
room. also subterraneau. The cost o
the whole building eS,O0O, is borne bI
a clergyman of Brighton.
To understand the world is wisei
than 10 condemn il. To study th'
world is better than to shun it. To us'
the world is nobler than to abuse 1t
To make the world better, lovelier anC
happier is the noblest work OF man o.
woman. There are many lntelhgen
and talented persons who waste tn
best part Of their time IN useless dream
ing. Their years are spent IN tn
world Of fancy and unreality that thei
imagination creates about them. Men
tai phantoms render them insensible Z
present opportunities and prosperou
chances slip by them unheeded an
unnoticed until their youth and energie
are all gone. Then, in adversely an
old age they attribute their want O
} prosperity and worldly success to som
imaginary fate or destiny, even ye
blind TO the truth that their want
prosperity is simply the result OF OF
portunities wasted. PeteTstttd