The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-06-08
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SN "'Sh ANA hSAte = SASS NOu y iook
to marigold."
That rain Of flesh in kentucky
was a regular meateoric shower.
A little girl who wanted to be
very good during Lent proposed to
give up going to school
James Gordon Bsanett has fore
sworn fast trains. Ne is saving up
money now to pay for siiken trains.
Why is a young lady like = bill
of exchange2 Because she ought to
be settled when she arrives at ma
turity.
Jones believes in policemen,
and thinks they are all square men.
AT any rate" he says, "they are
never round"
Why are cents separated from
dollars by point? To make sense,
of course. Don't you see the point2
Every married woman is person
ally acquainted with a man who
will sit right alongside of a stove
and let the fire go out.
Bristow says the country is get
ting short of currency, which is a
point in which we resemble the
country near enough to be twins.
Four hundred vessels sailing from
Liverpool at once? Mersev, what a
sight; it must have been we'll worth
going to sea.
After play young Frenchman
said to his friend, 81 could play the
lover better than that myself"
She replied, "then why in heavens
name don't your
Why is the letter IS like a lamb2
Because it's the beginning of a
sheep.
The times are SO hard that the
young men can't pay their al
dresses, so say the girls.
Debt is a trap which a man sets,
and bats himself, and then deliber-
ately gets into,-and catches a fool.
An absent minded girl the other
night blew her lover out of doors,
and then kissed the lamp.
what would you do, madam, if
you were a gertlemanY' Sir, what
would you do if you were one?
1t is with bachelors as with old
wood; it is hard to get them started,
but when they do take flame they
burn prodigiously.
Old bachelor Sheer would like to
know what kind of a broom the
young lady in the last new novel
used, when she swept back the raw
en- ringlets from her classic brow.
"Charlie, my dear, come here and
get some candy" 81 guess won't
mind it just now, mother replied
young hopeful; I've got in some
tobacco
A gentleman meeting one Of his
friends who was insOlveRt expressed
gGssG o0Bo.rb fst his Smharrass
menL 'You are mistakeA, my dear
sir" was the reply. 'Tis not ], It's
my creditors who are embarrassed.
"Is your father at homer inquir-
ed the man of the little girl who
admitted him. ais your name BillF"
she asked. "Some people call me
So" he replied. 'Then he is not at
home, for l heard him tell John il
any bill came, to say he was not at
homer
A Fatal Beth Petersburgh,
Virginia, Henry Hobbs, a colored
man, made bet of five dollars that
he could drink a quart of whisky at
a draught. He drank the whisky,
but Immediately fell into stupor,
and died in a few hours. Many
whisky drinkers reach the same re.
suit by a slower process.
Worries eat the life away. They
gnaw and bite wrinkles inte the
face, and bring gray hairs on the
head, and half the time they are not
only absolutely needless, but absurd,
Why, in the name OF all that is sen
sible, can we not wait until the
draught of sorrow is forced to our
| lips, and not run needlessly at the
cup ofgaIl and wormwoood?
A singular spectacle was witness
ed at Niagara Falls one day last
week. An ice bridge formed across
the river from shore TO shore below
the falls, something never before
known in the memory of man to
happen at such late day in the
year. In places the ice was piled
up to the height Of thirty or forty
feet.
A wedding party was on the
way to the parson at Covington, KY,
one day last week, when the pros
pective bride sincerely Informed
the groom that she loved another
The latter thereupon called a halt
the guests were dismissed, and the
girl released from her obligations.
7 No pistols, no tears, but any amount
of beer.
, Every year we see that public
sentiment recognizes more and
more the honor and wisdom OF the
farming business. Young men now
with fIourishing farms, are as much
: appreciated as popular young doc
tors, or accomplished bank clerks
were few years ago.
The ladies make first rate hands