The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-01
FACTS AND FANoIEs.


The stock of the Ophir iaine has
been reduced in price at San Francisco
from $500, which il was worth a few
months ago, to between $50 and $40 q
share, and yet the mine is worth just as
much as ever.
The London Builder suggests that
in order to prevent the wall of hospitals
from absorbing the miasma Of disease
and in time becoming saturated with
the fouiness, they ought to be lined
with thick glass, the edges of the plate
being cemented.
When one looks around and sees
hundreds of doughheads getting rich
doing nothing while he is working like
a slave for his daily bread, we tell YOU
what, it makes fellow feel as though
the butter OF this world was spread by
step-mother.
An exchange declares that "the
chief purpose of long dresses is TO en-
able their wearers to cheat in playing
croquet" That may be the chief object.
but we can't see how any woman of
taste euuld consider the concealng of q
gigantic pair of feet q secondary object.
A man rushed breathlessly into q
lawyers Office in st. Paul, and ap-
preaching the legal luminary, excitedly
remarked: "a man has tied hoop t0
my horses tall Can 1 do anything 2.
Yes" replied the attorney, ego and
unite it. That was good advice, and
didn't cost the man but five dollars.
Australia has a big tree, too. and
it is gratified to think that there is not
time for an American vandal to go over,
chop it down. and take il to the centen-
nial. It is $50 feet long-an announce
ment which will shake the midrif Of
hundreds with envy, hatred, malice and
all unchsritableness.
Nervous old lady-policeman pO-
hceman there's q strange dog that viii
stick TO me, and won't leave me, and /
cant get rid of himi Couldn't you take
him In charge, or sometbingP Police
man (who doesn't like the job)-Very
sorry, ma'am, but we cant interfere
with any dog so long as he's q follerin'
o'somebodyi
Motley, the historian, is still very
feeble from the paralytic stroke which
disabled his right side several months
ago. He is said TO be much changed
by his physical misfortune and the loss
of his wife. His friends fear he VIII
never be rble to resume his literary
pursuits. He spends his time partly at
his own house near the Hague, and part
ly at the residence of his son-in-law in
England.
Prince Gortsohakoff makes great
use of the ladies. BE is one of the
most polite men in Europe, and in the
midst of abundant small chat he may
be gathering in great information. In
his own country he knows every thing
that goes on in every family of impor-
tance. No mean spies, no policemen,
no vile paid agents impart the informa-
tion. It comes gently, delioatelys
doubly distilled in letters from innu-
merable lady correspondents.
"A young lady was standing on ths
wharf, waving her handkerchief at q
schooner lying in the stream. Know
anybody aboard ?" queries her compan-
ion, as he came along. No, don't
but they're waving their handkeFchiefg
at me, she replied. Hand Cha y ker
(hoo) chiefs |" he exclaimed, dropping
his basket, and leaning against a wood
pile why, them's the mems shirts hung
out to dry" She waved into ware
house.
-" No, grandmother it's all OF no
use I love him, I've loved him for
years, and he loves me, and they may
part us, and it may kill me but Pll
never care for any body else, and III
think Of nothing in the world but him.
morning, Hoon and night, until die +
" Poor darling Now, take my advice.
Come and spend few weeks alone with
me at Little Peddington, and lead g
quiet life, you know, and look after the
geese and poultry, and all that, and
you'll soon forget him !"
He said he had an original poem
for sale which he would part with
cheap, as times were hard and he
wanted money. The poem contained
twelve lines, and he would sell it at
seventy-five cents line. The editor
told him they weren't paying out much
for poetry Just at present, but asked
him to read IL. He commenced IN p
low, sad tone of voice, as follows
Dearest father, thou hast left us,
And thy loss we deeply feel"
And when he picked himself up ct the
bottom of the stairs there was ga
shadow on his brow"
They were standing at the gate.
The young man spoke sadly and sOberly
of hard times, high taxes, and of getting
work at the rolling mills. Her beauti-
full eyes filed with tears that giistened
like pearls in oceans depths, as she
SOFTLY answered: "John, let us get
married and trust in the Lord for ths
rest" "All right Mary" replied the
young man, bitterly, eff you viii buy
your hats and dresses Of the Lord, ]
viii stand the rest. A prolonged ST.
lence followed, and We went on our
way.
The following is a mans opinion
The female lip that has been profaned
by the touch Of any man, unless it be q
relation, ought to lose all honor and
respect What remains for the hus-
band IL the lips-the very outlet 70 the
sOul-have mingled their breath Of life
with others When lady becomes q
pEodigal OF her kisses we are instantly
forced into one of two conclusions, that
either she holds her virtue by q very
slender thread or that she is incapable
OF drawing the nicer distinctions,
which is one Of the characteristics Of
pure woman"
Mrs. Fawcett, in her new novel,
tells OF a precocious infant who devel-
oped a marvellous originality in extem-
pOraneOus prayer. When she said her
prayers at her mothers knee, having
been told that she was not 10 learn any
form of prayer, but to ask irem her
heart for whatever she most desired,
she prayed for ''a red cloak WiY velvet
buttons, 'Iactly like Amy Grey's. We're
is anover at ve shop" Then, when in
structed not TO ask for material, but for
spiritual blessings, her Interpretation
for a spiritual blessing was that there
might always be short sermons IN
church. When she had seaElatina, and
her mother bad begged her 20 pray for
her recovery, she having been told that
when she was beginning to get better
her skin would peel Of, and when il was
all of she would be quite well, joined
her little hands in bed, and said in =
oft voice, A" o God, peel me quick"