The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-08-24
CURRENT DoTs.

OF good sense.
Mean souls, like mean pictures,
are often found in good looking
frames.
When a Young man begins to go
down hill he finds his former friends
greasing the way for him.
He's a polished gentleman, said
she as she gazed fondly at the bald
head which showed her handiwork.
II you are in love and don't know
how to make it known, go to your
tailor. He will press the suit for
you.
Florida alligators are getting so
dainty about what they eat that
when baldheaded Northerner falls
overload the reptiles sniff around
him long time before taking him
out of politics.
A despairing swain. in a fit of des-
peration, recently declared to his
unrelenting lady-lov that it was
his firm intention to drown himself,
or perish in the attempt
a man in Michigan snapped his
horse for a-swife. An old bachelor
acquaintance said he'd bet there was
something wrong with the horse or
he would not have fooled it away in
that manner.
1t wasn't loaded onondaga coun-
/ ty preacher who recently said;
"Brezzerin, szeasier for a commit
hic-tgo srough re knee of an idol,
zan for-hic-a rich man to live
hic-peazably with his muzzer- in
law"
The lightning struck Patehogue
darkey on the head, on Sunday
morning last, but he refused to
bulge an inch, and muttered dog
gedly: dat makes free times Ise
been hit, and now shouldn't won
der eff it lufr me alone"
Fear guides more to their duty
than gratitude, for one man who is
virtuous from the love of virtue,
from the obligation which he thinks
he owes to the Giver Of all. there
are ten thousand who are good only
from their fear of punishment
Goldsmith.
"Sure," cried an Irishman, 81 am
heir to a splendid estate under my
fathers will When he died he
ordered my brother to divide the
house wild me; and, by st. Patrick,
he did it-for he tuck the inside of
the house himself, ard gave me
the outside"
"Pve stopped to get bite, said
yagabond TO lady in her garden
| in an insolent manner "Here,
Tiger~ cried she, and as huge
mastiff came bounding to her side,
she said to the tramp: "If you
don't leave at once you'll get one" +"
He didn't stop to expostulate.
Queen Victoria lately sent e3 TO
little boy who had been run over
in the streets, and a writer say s
that since this incident was made
public the London cab-drivers have
found it impossible to get through
the city for the crowd of small
boys waiting TO be run over.
A recent advertisement contains
the following; "If the gentleman
who keeps the shoe store with q
red head will return the umbrella
Of young lady with whalebone
, ribs and an ivory handle TO the
slate-roofed grocer's store he will
hear of something TO disadvantage,
as the same is the gift of a deceased
mother now no more with the name
a engraved upon it,
She, sentimental widow, OBJ
serving some sea guils flying about
: the vessel, remarks. "What a
charming subject for a poem; a
d swallow lost at seap' He, just re.
{ covering from severe attack OF
Z sea a-siclzness, replies, looking at the
u subject from his point of view,
= "Yes, madam; but there are 80
! many swallows lost at sea- She
chooses a more sympathetic listen
e er during the remainder Of the trip.
Laughing may make man grow
fat, but you've got 20 mix 1t might
ily with bread and meat and quiet
|, conscience, if you want it 70 stick
! What mon want is moi talent, il
is purpose; in other words, not the
q power to achieve, bat tho viii to Ia
II Dor
y aAfoody and sarkeyp quadrilles
le containing Hold the Fort" and
J. other hymns, are set 70 dancing
{, music.
D. Good tables and palatable foee
N have much to do in rendering home
d. happy and attractive.
% The world swarms with good Eel
y lows who harm nobody, and beneii
y only themselves.
~ A man in Oswcgo recently ha'
e one hundred and twenty-fi
:, pounds Of Warts taken of bis hands
= A young man named Wright mai
- - ried her-and that warts the mattel
Ia
IN The Republican Congressiona
+, Convention of the Second District
c, which met in Knoxville on Tue.
e day. nominated Col. J. 81. Thorn