The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-08-19
CURIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC.
Every good book untolds that beauty
which lies unthought of in the SOUL and
innarts q charm TO our character.

Every good book untolds that beauty
which lies unthought of in the soul, and
imparts a charm to our character.
LIQUID SULPHUR-A mine of liquid
SULPHUR is now being worked near Pal
ermo, Sicily-that is, the sulphur Is
being removed as It runs from the tis'
sures iE the rock, at the rate OF some
forty or fifty tons day. The sulphur
proceeds from a mine in the interior OF
the mountain, which interior Is IN
molten state. The labOrers, 1t appears,
are often obliged to stop up the assures
from which the molten sulphur runs,
so as to give it time to cool sufficiently
to be removed, after which the assures
are unstopped. It seems that on re-
cent occasion on opening one OF these
assures no sulphur was found ana the
idea entered the heads of the Workmen
to reopen the hole by blasting. Ihey
succeeded in re-establishing comma
nication with the interior, but the pres
sure had become so strong during the
obstruction that the expansion of the
gas produced a terrific explosion, IN
VolYiDg a serious loss Of life.
THE PoTATo BEErnE.-The Colorado
potato beetles have appeared IN full
force in Delaware, New jersey, and Mary
1 land. From statistics gathered at the
agricultural department it is ascertalned
| that at the rate of advancement east
ward of the Colorado potato bug. that
| destructive insect will have reached
Connecticut and Vermont by next year,
and it is estimated that it viii cover the
| New England States before the close of
the year of 1877. They first appeared
near the base of the Rocky Mountains,
and reached the Missouri river in 1865,
travelling at the rate of from sixty to
eighty miles year. Being of northern
bug cap not stand the heat In states
further south than Virginia and Ken
lucky. The states most severely threat
ened this year are Delaware and New
Jersey and western New York, and &C
counts are received from these sections
detailing devastations by the pest.
HANDLING CoBRAs.--A correspondent
of the London Times who was present
at the Geological Gardens when about a
dozen Indian cobras were removed from
the box in which they had travelled into
a clean, though narrow cage, describes
the mode in which those deadly reptiles
ware handled by the keeper as truly
astonishing. With his long handled
wire hook he from respectful distance
managed to draw out a snake tail first,
and, catching it by the tip, let it gently
down, head foremost, into its new cage,
the lid of which, glass slide, was open
Just wide enough to receive it. One
after another eight cobras were thus re-
moved and safely housed, some dilating
their ''hood" and angrily kissing as
they tried to strike whatever object they
could reach. Snake-charmers and Indian
| iugglers thus handle the cobras with
impunity. Suspended by the tail they
are powerless to raise themselves and
wound the hand that holds them but
care must be taken lest the creatures
strike at the limbs.
A SAD DIsCovERY.-A very curious
case has been discovered at the treasury
department by the examination of some
old accounts. A few days ago an officer
of the war department received notice
from the treasury that there was a
balance of 81, 600 in his favor on an old
account. This officer knew no such
balance was due him, and caused an ex-
animation of the origin of the account
to be made. The discovery was then
made that, by an error in accounting
many years ago, this amount has been
deducted from the account of an officer
in another department, where 1t proper
ly belonged, and credited to this officer
of the war department. This discovery
explains a very lamentable suicide which
occurred about the time this original
error was made. The officer from whose
account this sum had been wrongly de-
Quoted was charged with a defalcation
of that amount. He was not able to
prove his innocence, and took his OWL
life. The accounts are said to clearly
show that the suicide is due to the Grim.
inal error of some clerk in the war de.
partment. Chicago Tribune.