The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-08
FAoTs AND rANcIEs.

FACTS AND FANcIEs.
Samuel Wilhelm. OF Berks county,
Pa, eight feet high has applied for the
situation of the late Irish giant.
The woman who enacted the part
Of Katie King in the Holmes seanoes
in Philadelphia is studying for the
stage.
Careful observations have shown
that the average temperature of the
human body within the tropics is nearly
one degree higher than in temperate
climate.
In fox-chase IN England lately
the Rev. @. W. Wilkinson broke his
neck ard Lady Florence Douglas
smashed her collar-bone but the fox
was caught.
The pneumatic mail system has
been opened for public use in the city
Of Vienna. By this method letters and
packages not exceeding two ounces in
weight can be sent from one end of the
city to the other-a distance of about
eight miles-in something less than two
seconds.
Herbert, said a perplexed mother,
" Why is it that you 70 not a better
boy 2s "a Well, I" said the little fellow,
soberiy, looking up into her face with
his honest blue eyes, +" I suppose the
real reason is that I 3ozat want to be II
The child gave the real reason Why all
of us, big as well as little, are not bet
ter than we are
&c How is your church getting on p
asked friend OF a rigorous ScOtehman,
who had separated in turn from the
Kirk, the Free Church, the United
Presbyterian and several lesser bodies
9 Pretty weel, pretty weei. There's
nobody belongs to 1t now but my
brother and myself, and I'm nae sure
Of Sandy's soundness."
A hen-pecked Englishman, lately
deceased at Bath, has wreaked pOsthu-
nous revenge upon his widow by leav-
ing ESQ per annum to be expended il
having mournful dirges rung with muf-
fled clappers from the abbey chimes all
day long upon the anniversary of his
wedding day, and joyful peals to cele-
hrate the recurrence OF the date OF his
death, which released him from matri-
monial bondage.
Large apes of naturally intelligent
breeds are put TO good service in the
straits settlements of the east. They
are trained TO climb the cocoanut palm
trees, valuable for their fruit, which,
ordinarily, is difficult to reach, aHd not
only harvest the nuts but always select
such as are ripe. They twist the nut
round and round until 1t falls down
from the stalk, and at each success
testify their delight by jumps and
chuckles. Apes so trained are hired
out by their owners like so many field
hands.
The coast line of the United States
Al .,E Nl.n NSrrInk
house board, including the northern
lakes. is about 0,OO0 miles IN extent,
SURPRISING that of any other nation on
the globe. The number of lighthouses
and lighted beacOns along this coast
line is $50 light-ships, 25 I; fog signals
operated by steam or hot-air engines,
40; day or unlighted beacons, $50; to-
tai. I .065, being one beacon for every
10 miles of coast Besides this, there
are 3, 900 buoyH in position to indicate
banks, rocks, and other distractions in
channels of navigation.
Take man and pin three OF four
large tableclotbs about him, fastened
back with elastic and looped up with
ribbons drag all his own hair to the
middle of his head and tie it tight, and
hair pin on about five pounds Of other
hair aud a big bow of ribbon. Keep
the front locks on pins all night and let
them tickle his eyes all day pinch his
waist into q corset, and give him gloves
size too small, and shoes ditto, and
hat that viii not stay on without q tor
turing elastic, and fEill to tickle his
chin, aud little lace veil to blind his
eyes whenever he goes out tc walk, and
he viii know what woman dress Is.
The thieves OF Spain are gayly pur-
suing their mad career among pictures
and statues. The celebrated cartoons
of Goya at Madrid have gone after the
Seville Murillo-which latter, indeed,
has been recovered The Virgins
crowE IN Saint FeTdinand's chapel at
Seville has vanished. So has the
g Master DolOrosa" Of Alonzo Gano at
| Granada. The latest exploit Of these
/ enterprising fellows has beens 'umph-
antly carried out at Madrid. Their
/ Saotv is a small statue of the Virgin,
most excellent OF workmanship, and
/ dating from the end of the sixteenth
/ century, Its material is wood, gilt and
painted. The thieves got It safely into
| Paris. whore they borrowed round
sum upon it from NM. Andre and Mer-
/ euard, bankers. The Spanish legation
/ has claimed the statue.
The Punishment Of lepers is rigoE-
/ ously carried out in the Sandwich isles.
/ There was q recent official search for
persons affected with the ineurabie
malady, many having been secreted by
their relatives. Hundfeds were found
and put into vessel for transportation
70 the leper village. to be kept until
| they die. Their families gathered ON
the beach, and expressed their grief in
| loud lamentations. A talented half
breed, called Bill Bagsdale, has long
| held q high place in the regard Of Sand
| wieh Islanders. He Is an orator OF
great natural power, and leader IN the
/ district of Hilo, and man Of notorious
bad morals. He discovered that he was
leprous, though the indications were "a
slight that he bad escaped official no
tiee, and at once gave himself up to the
authorities. A. procession Of natives
singing and carrying flowers, escorted
him to the vessel which was 60 take him
aud the others TO their living graves.
He made a speech to the assembly
| urging submission 70 the measures fol
eradieatine leprosy by banishmeut, aud
I erf4rneeTuO his hatred oil IIflsUIrglI1sL