The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-08-12
FACTS AND FANorEs.

There are forty-one American firms
who are getting rich by making better
IS imported liquors and wine than can
be made in Europe.
| Nothing cheers q man so much as
TO sit on a crackeF-box in the shade Of a
grocery awning and read an item about
the terrible scarcity of harvest hands.
The sultan has 500 wives, and de-
votes to his own and their use g, co.,
600 out of the e7, 900, 600 that consi-
tutes the whole income OF the Turkish
empire.
Since tight dresses are worn the
street car conductor can tell just how
many he can get on seat, and how
many he can't. He don't say "shove
up any more.
Carl Schurz is a lion among the Ber-
liners. In Prussia they believe in sue
! cessful men, especially in those who
jump out of prison and achieve fame by
dint of energy and intellect.
-Geologists have discovered that the
| ground of Southern Indiana, Kentucky
| and Tennessee is slowly rising at the
rate of about q foot every twenty-four
years.
At Vincennes, France, recently, during
fell out. which so frightened the bride
groom, a worthy tailor, that he made
the sign of the cross. rushed off like an
arrow, and has not since been heard OF.
The Maryland democrats held their
state convention in Baltimore on We'd
nesday. Ex-senator Hamilton is said to
be the favorite candidate for the nomi-
nation for governor, though Governor
fIN0uV,,s hos v.aur,yr oHharRufg
New Orleans has a haunted cell.
Three suicides having occurred IN 1t,
and several other prisoners have been
prevented in the very net and when
questioned about it, the answer lnvari-
ably is " A woman in white bade me
do it.
There is a row OF ten graves in the
cemetery at North Egremont containing
the bodies of members of the Milliard
family, the average of whose ages when
they died were over eighty, the Oldest
being John Milliard, who was 81
Boston AdU.
1t is the divine attribute OF the inn
agination that 1t is irrepressible, uncon-
Unable that when the real world ia shut
out, it can create world for itself, and,
with n necromRtic power, can conlure
up glorious shapes and forms, and
brilliant visions to make solitude popu-
lous, and irradiate the gloom of dun
geon.- Washington lTUing.
Few footprints OF the great remaino
in the sand before the overfowing tide.
Long ago it washed out HOmer's. Gu
riosity follows him in vain +; Greece and
Asia perplex MS with rival Stratiord-
upon-Avon. The rank of Aristophanes
is only conjectured from his gift to two
poor players in Athens. The age Etade
no sign when Shakespeare, its noblest
son, passed away IVitlnlOH
"A new invention for preventing
railway accidents by an improved sys-
tenn of signaling, was exhibited IN Lon
don several weeks ago to large num-
Der of engineers and inventors. 1t con-
sists of an insulated rail beneath the
four-foot way by means of wbica station
masters can telegraph to a train while
in motion, or one train can communicate
with another.
On the day of the last annual
parade of the Dunkirk (N. " fire de-
partment, 1.000 kegs of beer were
absorbed in that town. Next morning
a newspaper correspondent saw thirty
Young persons, some of them not more
than eight years old, and none of them
more than nineteen, stretched along
the sidewalks and in the road, sleeping
off their debauch.
Hair is the most delicate and last
ing of our materials, and survives us
like love. It is so light, so gentle, 80
escaping from the idea of death, that
lock of hair belonging to a child or
friend. we may almost look mp to
heaven and compare notes with the an
pelic nature, and may almost say, L
have a piece of thee here, not unworthy
of thy being now. w."-Lejgh Hunt.
At Atlanta, last autumn, negr
built a coop, six feet by seven, into
which he put dozen partrldges, the
ground being first covered with grass.
During the winter they thrlved, IN the
spring they mated, laid eggs, Matched
ont several broods of young, and the
negro now has about sixty young par
tridges. all doing well. They are large,
healthy. and seem to be cOntented.
There is in the French political
world a man OF considerable Importance,
bnt who ia not remarkable for quickness
of thought or perception. His young
con has lust recovered from the typhoid
fever. The family physician did not
conceal the serious nature OF the boy 8
illness. ''Oh, yes" said the father, II
understand that. When was a ehlld'
I had the typhoid fever and the doctor
said to my parents, it is very serious
Tbev either die of it, or become idiots.
We'll, you see, I am not dead"
As the stream gradually wears the
channel deeper in which il runs, and
thus becomes more surely bound TO its
accustomed course, so the currents OF
the heart and mind grow more restricted
to the course in which habit has taught
them to flow. These intellectual End
moral habits form many peculiaritieS OF
character, and chiefly distingulsh one
individual from another. Ihey arc
therefore, of the utmost importance
S. q. GOOdrich.