The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-10-16

year OF matr1mony Will sober you up.
Too much of a good thing, as the kitten
said when it fell into the milk-pail.
IF a streamlet is a small stream, is
Hamlet small hamf
ACCORDING to the National Repository
magazine, Mormonism is not dying out
but increasing.
A MINNESOTA man has invented a
machine for brushing potato bugs of the
vines into a receptacle.
AFTER friendship and love come be-
nevolence, and that compassion which
unites the soul to the unfortunate.
SCENE: Recitation in Mental Science.
Professor" How do you know that you
know anythingT Senior-"I don't
know"
FRANCIS MURPHY is said to have lost
in San Francisco by mining speculation
more than he made by his temperance
revival work in that city.
WEsroN's creditors are said to be as
numerous in England as in this country.
He went through bankruptcy last year,
but has since been borrowing industri-
ously. %
Mr.. HENRY SMART, who wrote the
hymn From Greenland's Icy Noun
hundred dollars from the British Gov
ernment.
SoMEs person move through life as a
band of music moves down the street,
hinging out pleasure on every side
through the air to every one, far and
near, that cares to listen.
A GIRL, thirteen months old, of.North
Perry, Me-, weighs seventy-fve pounds
There is boy waiting for her in Mendo-
cino County, Cal, whose weight is two
hundred and seven pounds and his age
fourteen years.
THE Prince of Wales owes something
like $3,0O0,0O0, but if everything goes
well his sons will reduce the debt con-
siderably. They are now getting
thirty-seven and one-half cents per day
for their services in the navy.
DEAN STANLEY says: "Our leisure
hours are among those that have the
most importance in molding our charac-
ters. Our working hours are very inn
portant, but our leisure hours are those
that form our tastes and our habits"
In Podolia, Russia, a servant girl
lately brought suit against her mistress
for defamation. The presiding Judge
was the latter's husband, and he con-
demned his wife to pay a fine of fifty
silver rubles.
FRANCIS J. CRUMP, now upward OF
eighty years of age, threshed field of
sixty acres of wheat, Immediately adjoin-
ing Columbus, Ind, on White River,
twenty measured acres of which threshed
out an average of sixty bushels per acre.
RoXBURY, CONN, has an eccentric
tramp who lives in cave during the win
ter and spends his summer in making
begging excursions to neighboring towns.
He never says word, and his dress con-
sists entirely of old boot legs fastened to-
gether with leather strings.
FRANK DAVIDSON, Missouri muir
derer, was taken twenty miles by rail-
road to be hanged, in order to each " a
favorable spot for such a spectacle,
situated in valley, surrounded by bold
hills, affording a view of the gallows to
about five thousand persons"
A LOWELL lady, sending a basket to
her daughter in Boston by express, was
so solicitous that it should go through
expeditiously that she inclosed a note in
the basket requesting her daughter 10
leave an 1rder for the expressman to
meet the basket at the depot.
NTEN EkAL LANE ICCeuIlJ 4MO
years ago l looked over the old Army
Register and found only five of the
seventeen American Generals who en-
tered the Mexican war surviving. Since
then, Pillow, Cadwallader, Gushing, and
Shields have passed over the dark river"
ONE of the institutions of London is
the charwoman, or chorewoman. Does
a woman fail as a servant, does the eye
sight of a seamstress give way, is the
wife or widow of an artisan or laborer
overtaken by adversely, she falls into
the great army of charwomen. Some
are trustworthy, and are employed for
years in the same family and take care
of the house. Their pay is from fifty to
seventy-fve cents day, with food.
4 PARIS beauty recently won a hus-
band in three interviews, being, it is
understood, greatly assisted by her
gowns. The first time she saw him she
wore a water-green muslin, with short
skirt and short sleeves. The second time
3 short silk polonaise over frilled skirt
of India muslin, and straw hat trimmed
with pink clover and a white feather;
and the third, a gown of Wedgwood,
blue foulard and Rubens hat,
THE lawsuit instituted by the heir of
the late Dictator ROsas against Buenos
Ayres, to recover sequestrated property
valued at $1O,000,O00, has been finally
decided in favor of tho plaintiff. This
decision was quite unexpected, and is
looked upon as creditable to the purity
and independence of the bench. The
suit lasted fifteen years. Mrs. Terrero,
daughter of Gen. Rosas, is the successful
Iit;pant