The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-09-11
THE MAN FROM PULASKI,


| HIS Bs7ct'dcriap Antics m he French QUdfJTH'
| at Long Branch.
A practical humorist from Pulaski
has been doing Long Branch. He gets
off good burlesque, but the fashion
able todies don't seem to ksow it.
They think he is a greeney. Who Is
he? We clip from Olive Logan's Long
Branch letter to the Chicago Times,
written July %:
Moltenhauer was slashing away at
| Girofle Girofa quadrilles, and six poo
pie had struggled upon the vast floor
and were looking disconsolately around
for another couple to complete the
set. They were about to give it up i'll
despair and return to their seats when
u middle aged man who had arrived
that Gay, and who somebody said cam F.,
from Pulaski, Tenn, stalked into the
parlor with an elderly woman hold of
his arm. He made a bee line for the
fourth place in the quadrille, the six
people looked more satisfied, and held
their ground, and the music grew
triumphantly louder.
THE MAN FROM PULASKI.
he was a m1ddle-aged man, this man
from Pulaski, and tall, and slim, and
long-legged, and if there was a living
personifcation of the pictorial news
paper idea of Brother Jonathan, it was
he. His trowsers were full short,
and pair of trowser- straps were plainly
observable on either side of bis boots;
long-tailed coat and very high stand
ing collar, a figured satin vest and an
undue preponderance of plaid silk in
huge necktie, were the other most
striking articles of his attire.
No one knew where his companion
came from. It was enough, perhaps
more than enough, that she was there.
She wore rusty ALPACA gown without
a particle of trimming, and white
handkerchief laid around her throat and
fastened with Lair pin. When L say
q hair pin mean not pin for the hair.
but one of those touching and very ugly
memento-mori brooches, made of the
locks of the dear departed.
The minute the man from Pulaski
reached his place in the quadrille, he
clapped his hands violently together
and the lady gave little cough. They
were side couple: and after perform
ing very low oLeisances TO right and
left of them, they waited patiently till
the others went through the opening
PAGES.
Then they began. The man from
Pulaski grasped his partners hand, and
with a step like cradle under full rock
he waltzed himself over to the other
side; landed there, he faced the old
girl, and, the music favoring the move
ment, he executed the heel-and- toe step
which the niger minstrels use for the
polka. This served him nicely to place
again-and then he got ready for the
next movement.
"Ladies chain ~ he cried out, all in
hn
of his vis-a-vis he gave the astonished
young lady Ga well known belize such a
whirl that her very boot-tops were dis
closed, all tied back as she was. To
finish the figure there yet remained the
''set TO partners" and what he himself
called out ''dosey doe." His set to
partners was a very vigorous break
down and in the ardor of the dosey doe
he came into collision with the back of
the woman in alapaca with such an
unexpected bump that she calculated
"My"
The music now ceased for minute
and the man from Pulaski reposed.
Little groups had gathered around the
windows to look at him, for the word
had gone from mouth to mouth that
there was man in the parlor who was
doing
SOME TALL DANClNts
Then the music was resumed, and |
''forward four" and ''hands over the
lady T. was followed by gentlemen |
This, of course, you know, is nothing |
more nor less than the cavalier seul of !
the French quadrille, and Oh it the
Partisan can-canist 1avishes his ex
tremest execution, and for it, toe, the
man from Pulaski had seemingly been
all his energies. Gathering
his coat-tails under his arms he started
forward with hop, skip and jump, and
having arrived in front of the three who
stood opposite, he began, go to speak,
20 dance them down. He swung on one
egg then on the other; skipped back
ward and cut the pigeon-wing three
lines, he lifted his right leg and hoped
IN his left; finally he whirled around
ill everybody but himself was dizzy,
md then Selling his partner by both
hands he annihilated space with her
Up and down the whole length of the
loor. He was off now for good. The
music waxed fast and furious and the
nan from Pulaski was aroused. Sweat
poured down his forehead. and his
BOSOM heaved no matter, this was his
moment and he improved it.
One by one the other quadrillists
Iropped away with awe depicted on
heir countenances, they stood and
ooked at the man from Pulaski. The
musicians, who could hardly draw their
VOWS, or foot their horns for laughter,
into the spirit of the thing, and,
Though the quadrille was finished.
ontfhued to play for the advantage of
he lone dancer from Tennessee. One
amiliar melody after another foated on
he evening air the favorite morceaux
f the "Grand Duchess" .'La Peri
hole" and "Barbe Bleue," the "MIon-
lie Musk" and "No One to Love-"
Way Down upon the Swanee River"
nd ''Champagpe Charley" and final
he band struck up Dixie. This seemed
o attract the Pulaskian's attention. He
eased dancing !; looked about him as if
omewhat surprised to find the dance
7as over SO soon and strolled out on
he piazza quietly humming to HIM
elf,
Oh. 1 wish WAS in Dixie,
Away, away, |
In DMIe's land I'll take my stand,
To live or die in Dixie.
Inseparable said he was glad this in
ident happened, because it shows
that if dancing is survi-
Ill ~ WILL piODdDlJ pu1t 1fO Do tS |
be man from Pulaski is survivor.
SOUND COMMON SENsE.-If you are
7ell, let yourself alone. One of the
,reat errors of the age is, we medicate
he body too much. More persons are
estroyed by eating too much than by
rinking too much. Gluttony kills
lole tn an drunkenness in civhized soci-
~. The gymnasium is a wood yard,
clearing or q cornfeld. A hearty
lugh is known, the world over, to be q
ealth promoter it elevates the spirits,
nlivens the circulation, and is marvel
usly contagious in q good sense.
;odily activity and bodily health are
If the bowels are loose,
lie down in bed, remain there, and eat
othrng until you are we'll. The three
,est medicines in the world are warmth |