The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-15
vAors AND rANc1Es.

A seel-skin sack and 3 cAmeIs hair shawl.
Diamonds, rubies and ernine
A brown stone house and marble hail.
/ And beau tc dance the uernsSn'
| A front row box at the opera.
| Whenever wanted to go;
| A neat coupa and landau, too,
| And meals a u Dsimonico.
Then IN summer go to Newport,
With dresses rich and manys
Aud to see nv name in the fashion report,
While pa hands out the money
Seven years is the time counted for
the construction OF the tunnel between
England and France.
Mrs. Svisshelm lays down as
broad principle regarding the male
portion Of the human race: Only IA
his coffin is It safe for a woman to kiss
any one man in thousand
Mr.. HaTlwell,. the ShskspeaEean
| enthusiast, has obtained leave to search
the paaeliug of the house of Lady
Barnard, the granddaughter of the
Bard, for Shakpeare's missing papers
"A Chicago man thinks that the
worst speller ought to get the oletion-
airy, ard the winner should have a
wreath OF sorrel, or some other garden
sass, like them Greeks.
The production of raisins from
California grapes is a growing business
and is strongly Trgsd as likely te be Of
great profit. The white muscat OF
Alexandria is named as the best raisin
grape.
As near as can be ascertained about
i twenty women ara making all the fuss
I throughout the United States about
women's rights, dress reform and kim
dred social topics. This is q remark
able illustration Of woman's power.
A prominent Detriot universalist,
some months ago, married red-headed
widow with four children, and lags
week remarked to q friend, " was
blind when believed there Is no hell.
1 see now"
-Messrs. Moody and Sankey do not
meet with entire approval in their re-
vival Iabors The London Ashenaeum
SAYS there is more curiosity than reii-
gion IN the crowds they attract, and
compares Mr.. Sankey's singing 70 9
costermonger's cries.
As an illustration of the limitless
number of combinations which the
three primary colors are capable Of, 1t
may be interesting to know that IN the
Gobelin tapestry manufacture ., 900
distinct shedings of yarn are employed,
each one distinguished by the praeticed
eye.
And he gave il for his opinion that
whoever could make two ears Of corr
or two blades of grass to grow upon
spot of ground where only one grew
| before, would deserve better Of man
kind, and do more essential service 10
| his country than the whole race of poli-'
ticians put together
A French soldier is to be punished
with death for insulting an upstart ofii-
Ger. This gives Victor Hugo an oppor-
tunity to thus compare the case with
that Of Bazaine: Having sold his nag,
having surrendered his army, having
betrayed his ccuntry-lite having
struck his corporal-death =
-Pereire got little tired Of return
ing the bows of an uncomfortable polite
man in his establishment, and finally
gave the polite man tlEs conundrum,
| at point blank range +: "Sir, what
| would become OF the hours Il the min
ute-hand stopped to bow to the second
hand every time they met.
The Parisians devour 00,000,0 600
i apples every winter. An eminent French
physician thinks that the decrease of
| dyspepsia and bilious affections in Paris
is owing to the increased consumption
: OF this fruit, which, he maintains, is an
admirable prophyaotic and tonic, as
we'll as very nourishing and easily
digested article OF feed.
Mr., Valentine, the sculptor, has
| nearly completed the hfe-size recumbens
statue of the late Gen. Lee, and It will
| be placed over the contemplated maui
/ soIeun1 at Lexington. Adr. Nalentiae
modelled q bust of the general from life
/ in 1870. and after the hero's death it
was determined that he should be se-
ected to execute the statue.
Scientists now tell us that the in
| roads OF orasshoppers into the north
west. OF late years, is due mainly to the
havoc made among tho prairie hens,
which are slaughtered by tens OF thou
sands every year TO crafty the epionres
OF this country and Europe, Inc
prairie chickens used to = ABSORB tne
grasshoppers before the latter reached
the settlements, bat they are no longer
equal 10 the emergency.
-Rudolfo Lanciani, commissioner Of
archaeology ct Rome, has written 8
long letter TO the New York Herald, IN
which he gives very fiattering promises
as to the finding of ancient treasures IN
tbe he'd OF the TIber when that stream
is drained. he cites Instances Of very
valuable discoveries of bronzes, mar
bles and rich it-bits Of the household
paraphernalia Of the old Romans which
divers have made, and which have been
nickel up in the ancient sewers near
The river BE thinks that the seven
branched candlestick which was borne
from Jerusalem after tue skcking OF the
temple will surely be discovered IN the
soft mud OF shat historic stream.
JEAN Vtr5rsx-
A merry wight. fond Of bis easey
While he sings his songs and strokes 5ia kneesi
And light as the air which swsye the leAfeHs
Il Jean Yaljeen, the cobbier.
I7,ros,,,h The summers day he sits and sings
OF the olden days and OF ancient things,
| OF tbe danes OF yore and Of hyRpne hngs-
. Sings Jean Vatican, the eobbisr.
The birds are singing in every tree
TIL the air r. filed with The melody
OF seng as light and gay aud free
A. Jean REliean's, the cobbler-
with The waning shadows che bird In its nest,
And Jesn in bis cot. each seek the rest
Which sweet sleep brings, with no cares op-
All happy Jean, Che oobblor.
} The literature OF horrors Is to be soon
enriched By the publication Of q work
that has tnaccountabEy hitherto escaped
the keen eyes Of translator and book
maker. the memoirs of Samson, the
hereditary French executioner, who Of
nciated At the decapitati0n Of Loaih
: XVI. It Is stated that Ssnson's son,
, who was also on the seaffold on the
memorable 21st Of January, had st the
restoration n secret interview with
Louis XVIII, 10 whom ne yecounted
] infinitely the death Of the last French
king. Tie memoirs have become very
! rare, even in Franco. They are written
! in the turgid and Valgarly sentimental
? style of q philantbropist whom fste has
: condemned to ofhciate at the gulllotine.
Before he died Samson founded per
Z netual anniversary mass for the repoee
, Of the soul Of Louis XVI
--Generai Spinner. in the course oi
Z a recent inteEvieE, said IN answer 20 4
Z question as - whether 4hers has mol
been stealing in the treasury: Yes
/. Recently there has been money atoleL
IA the national bank redemption
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