The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-03-18
FAcrs And RANGES.

! What sort of grammar il it which
compels a psrson to say, a I saw four
deer IN one drove. Int won't let hlm
sly, there are ten hog In the gatden?"
"A tract on "The WioksdnF IS of
GluttoRv'e 3 said TO have been found
among the good things sent to the Kan
sas grasshopper sufferers.
L Il man at El Paso. Mexico, has put
in a claim against the United States
4 government for nine chickens destroyed
by. COYOTES from The American side.
Texas towns are peculiar. An ex-
/ asperated Dallas paper asks g IA
there no ordinance 10 prevent the firing
OF of pistols as means Of alsrm IN
clses OF art?"
-In an English town. twenty barrels
! Of enn-pevder were taken fiom a shop
and put in cart. The driver nlOunted,
sat on one of tho barrels lighted his,
! pipe and drove away.
IA inatter-of- fact doctors wife az
I tempted to move him by tears. =" All =
said he, tears are useless. have
analayze them. They contain little
| phosphate of lime, some chlorate Of
lime and water "
zSsntiment is nothing but senti-
ment. An ex-army captain, IN Col
ofado. when diving, asked the boys 20
wrap the OLD flag around him. They
had no dag, and SO they wrapped him
in a eOffee-sack. and be exclaimed
g AhI msy you all die as proudly l"
--Alexander Dumas, it is said, never
sketches a scheme for any of his pieces.
He takes for a four-ast piece seventy
seven big p1ges of blue paper. he
devotes twenty pages each 70 the hrst,
second and third aets, and seventeen to
the 1ass
lYou re right there. Tookey. There's
ailays two 'pinions. There's the 'piHion
a man has of himseu, and there's the
'pinion other folks have on him.
Ther'd by two 'pinions about cracked
bellif the bell could hear itself.
-Lenten dinners are becoming fash
ionable, the aim being to give ~ great
variety as. possible in the kinds and
cookery of fish. A ptiated bill Of fare
on one of these occasions mentioned
fifteen different fish served in q null
tiplieity of ways.
A dry goods clerk lately dropped
senseless behind the counter while
waiting. on customers. ] he female GUS
toner for whom be had pulled down
every bolt of calico on the shelves
quietly requested she proprietor to re-
move the ipcnmbranee and send on an
other clerk.
L -Anybody who wants young Eng
lisbman who parts his hair in the Md
die can get one in Greece cheap. Heis
held by Greek brieands' who only ask
twelve shillings for him. At last ac-
counts there we're no takers at these
figures. Persons Who are waiting to
get a little one for cent may slip IN.
When a girl crops her front hair
and pulls it down over her forehead ike
a Mexican Mustang, and then ties
niece of red velvet round her neck, who
can wonder at the number OF pale-faosd
Young men that throw away their am
biiion and pass sleepless nights IN try
ing to raise down on their upper hpsF
The Troy Times says At q party
ON Fourth street the other night a
young gentleman tried to coax young
iadv to play on the piano. She said
conldn't. why said he, "you can
plav the blue Danube waltz, can't
yo1 o. "No," said she, '' but can
r,lay I enny ante Just like a little man. >"
She is beautiful and accomplished.
-aYes, sir yelled preacher in q
Dakota church one Sunday morning,
f there's more lying and swearing aad
stealing aud general devil ~ TO the
soUare inch In this here town than all
the rest of the Amerioan country, and
then the congregation got mp ana
dumped the preacher out OF the win
dow. ...
lied spirit, that had been delightlng an
eastern circle Of the elect, got fright
ful whack on the head from cane IN
the hand of a muscular skeptie, ana tue
next day there was pasted on The shut-
tsTs of the officiating medium s store
bit Of paper containing the following
legend Closed on account OF death
in the family,
One Of the boys just. before retarn-
ing TO Cornell, the other day, sent
Young lady friend OF his a cake OF
I,abin's inest variety Of toilet soap,
With the Ieauest that she would draw
no Inference on receiving such a gift.
The next day the yonng man was some
what astonished when he received a let
ter from the young lady containing the
present of q fine tooth comb, with the
teouest that he would draw no infer
ences thersirom.
a novelty in the mode OF hanging
criminals was recently introduced at
NevQate. England. Instead OF erect
ING the usual scaffold above ground,
uiE was dug in the soil, and trap
door made level with the ground,
opening into the pit. The convict was
pinioDed by the ezeentioner on the tooP
of the trap, aud at a given signal the
drop fell, and the unfortunate ceased
to live.