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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-09-04

Ohio Farmer: The absorptive
power of charcoal is well known in
the arts. Its capacity in this direc-
ton is most remarkable, Accurate
experiment has proved that in twen-
ty-four hours it would absorb nine
ty times its own volume of ammo
niacal gas, eighty five times its vol
ume of muriatic acid gas, and sixty
five times It's volume of sulphurous
acid gas. 1t is this remarkable
quality that makes it so valuable in
destroying cdor, color, taste in
many instances and preserving
meats, vegetables, and fruit from
rapid decay Its use as a filter in
cisterns is well known, and its val
ne here depends upon the same
qnality. 1t separates and appro-
PIRATES to itself the decaying matter
and other impurities in water, rem
dering it pure and sweet. If placed
on the surface Of the soil, it will
gather from the air moisture and
gases and impart them to the grow
ing plants. On the same principle
its value in the back yard, stables
and barnyard, and hog pen, as an
absorbtive agent, is incalculable.-
When used for this purpose to form
the basis of manure, it should be in
a powd cred state.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-09-04
Classieally Drunk.

Providence Journals Pawtucket
Letter: The lights were out, the
streets were still, and all other pres
ences were silent in the presence of
the peaceful night. And at this
time the soft but slightly unsteady
tread of a man was heard ap-
preaching the station. He took a
chair near the door, dangled his
legs over the chairs arm, hung his
peaked hat on the toe of his boot,
and in q low voice addressed the
officer. 81 was here year ago and
listened to the song of your cricket
under the mat there, and / want to
hear it again. That cricket comes
into my life exactly. He sings and
all his green-coated comrades sing
of the dying summer. There are s
million of these little mourners un-
der the leaves tonight, and they all
have one song of pensive sadness.
There is a cricket in my heart.
There used to be summer there. 1
am a sort of an old cricket myself.
/ crawl into the natural formed
grape grottoes on the highway and
sing my own sad songs there.
Speaking of cool, wild graperies
reminds me that / am athirst. Say,
Sergeant, can't you send . sleuth
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-09-04
The Story Of the Doxologies.

DIR. f. Hatfield sends a letter to
the New York Observer, contain
ing some information as to the dox-
ologies most commonly used. The
Long Metre Doxology, now sung
every Sunday, all over the English
speaking world, in ten thousand
churches and more:
"Praise God from whom all blessings hew,"
was written by Bishop Thos. Keer,
of the Church of England, and pub
lished in 1897. The other popular
Long Metre Doxology which still
retains its place among the ortho
dox as a tribute of praise to the
Trinity:
"To God the Father. God the Son, Pete,
was written by the Rev. DIR. Isaac
Watts, and was first published in
1907, ten years later. Watts wrote
also and published at the same date
the Common Metre Doxology, in
common use everywhere
"Let God-the Father. and the Son." etc
The only other Common Metre
Doxology that rivals IT,
"To Father, Son and Holy Ghost, y etc.
was published in 1896, by Tate q
Braay, s-.>d ruas yxrietsr- by one oi
them, probably Tate. The Short
Metre Doxology and most generally
used n our churches
"Ke angels round the throne," etc.,
was written by DIR Watts and dates
from 1907. John Wesley in 1919
gave to the churches an excellent
Short Metre Doxology, much used
by Methodist Episcopal Churches:
"To God the Father, Son." etc.
Charles Wesley in 1879 wrote q
useful Doxology:
''sing we to our God above,'' etc.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-09-04

messenge to the Club of the Purple
Cluster and tell the vinous triumvi-
rate that are crowning their chaste
and marvellous brows with beautiful
chaplets to send me, not an old Ro-
man punch, nor a GrecIan amaran-
the julep, but tod, mere modern
tod. Tell them am always with
them, and 1 often commune, when
on my promiscuous pilgrimage,
with their Observation-Disclosures
me, mean Observation-Disclosures; 1
see their faces rapt and purpling
with the blood of the broken-heart-
ed grape of the Garter. But say,
Sergeant, my blood is turning into
the channels OF melancholy. This
must not be. Here are three CONS.
l put one into wine, and the world
fushes up for me; a second coin,
and l own that block there, 1 am
Mayor of Pawtucktt, l walk on
thrones; third. and hear raptu-
rous music, float on fair rivers,
my old coat becomes as the garment
of great ruler; / put my warm
heart against the cold marble of the
world, and warm it with its gener
Gus glow. The world is no longer
a marble tomb to me. 1t opens,
and enchanting forms come forth
and embrace me and bid me go on.
The gates of eternity open with a
majestic welcome to the man who
defies fortune and dares to grandly
live it out" "But those are not
coins," said the officer, "they are
buttons" "Well, buttons, so let
them be-ah! that song again, the
song of the cricket. Officer, let me
sleep here under the magnetism of
the mighty midnight heavens, and
let the lady crickets serenade me-"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-09-04
An Exciting Moment.

New York Sun: A man ran into
the Central Park police station, IN
the Arsenal, last evening. He held
in his hands a lady's dress, rolled
into a bundle, and he grasped 1t tight
ly, as though he feared something
might escape. He was greatly ex-
cited, and he suffered terribly.
sc gig gigger. gimme kik-kik-
kelub," he gurgled at Sergeant
Wood. 49,
What for2 What's the matterr
the Sergeant replied,
"Big r-rab in this dr-dr-dress.
Wuh-wuh-want to ker ker-kill it. =
"How did it get therer
81 wuh wuh was sittingon a bnh-
hench with my gig gig-girl, and it
oot in her clothes. She's outside
in her pet pet pet petticoats." the
Sergeant procured a long night club
The man laid the bundle carefully
on the floor and pounded it herceiy
with the club. No squeal was
heard. but the clubbing continued
until the most hardened rat would
have succumbed.
"K-k-ker-catch hold of an end,
The man said to the Sergeant. The
Sergeant took an end. and the two
spread the dress out.
There was no rat there, dead OF
alive.
"Gig gig-guess he's got away.
aMsybe it's ia the pocket"
"Yeh yeh-yes. / per feel It,
He thrust his hand in gingerly ane
drew out bunch of keys, but moth
ing more dangerous.
@Ber-ber blowed if 1t amt go
away after AL" SAID the man as h'
rushed out into the darkness tC
DIN his companion.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-09-04
About Nails.

Many persons are puzzled to un-
derstand what the terms "fourpen-
n.y." "sixpenny, and "tenpenny'
mean as applied to nails. The Sci
entific American explains this by
saying that "fourpenny" means four
pounds to the thousand nails. or
''sixpenny" means six pounds to
the thousand, and so on. 1t is an
old English term and meant at
first ''ten pound" nails 1.-THE thous-
and being understood). but the
English clipped it to ''tehpun," and
from that it degenerated until spen
ny" was substituted for pounds" "
When a thousand nails weigh less
than one pound they are called
tacks, brads, ETC., and are reconed
by ounces.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-09-04

whirl those driving wheels with an
invisible velocity, so that their fat
spokes get up in those granite walls
a breeze that makes your very coat
tails flap. The long steel shaft that
runs the five stories of machinery
that weaves 10000 yards of cloth a
day, is not bigger than the calf of
nv leg. The first band wheels are
of leather, ] inch thick and feet
wide, and they run mile a minute.
In addition to the $4,000 yards of
cloth, they also make 1000 pounds
of sewing thread and 1900 pounds
of rope day. The mill devours 45
bales day, and the dye-stuffs alone
cost little over 100000 a year.
There are forty three Thousand
spindles, and the fabrics woven are
so superior that the Factory en-
ploys no agents and every bale of
goods that goes outside the door
belongs to some one else.- And
they cannot supply the demands It
is great and successful enterprise
that shows what Southern energy
can do. B.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-09-04
Stopped His Paper.

An exchange says: A certain man
got mad at the editor and stopped
his paper. The next week he sold
all his corn at four cents below the
market price, then his property was
sold for taxes, because he didn't
read the sheriff's sales: he lost ten
dollars betting on Mollie McCarty
two days after Ten Brock had won
the race; he was arrested and fined
eight dollars for going hunting on
Sunday; and he paid three hundred
dollars for a lot of forged notes
that had been advertised two weeks
and the public cautioned not to ne
gotiate for them. He then paid a
big Irishman, with a leg like der
rick, to kick him all the way to the
newspaper office, when he paid four
years subscription in advance, and
made the editor sign an agreement
to knock him down and rob him il
he ever ordered his paper stopped
ags.n.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-09-04
What Southern Energy Can Do.

/ have heard about labor saving
machines; but the other day, in Co
lumbus, Ga, saw nine little boys,
with a couple of mules, spin ont of
carded cotton rolls as many broach-
es as ten thousand women with
spinning wheels could have spun in
the same time. Each of those boys
was extensively multiplied TO be
sure, yet he did it precisely as a
woman does with her wheel. This
was in the Eagle and Phoenix Fac
tory. They employ 1,500 hands.
These, with their families living
around there, make 5000 people
that get their living out of that one
Factory. Its main building newly
finished is 20 yards wide, a hun
dred yards long. five stories. high,
and cost SS0o,o00. They harnessed
up Chattahochee river and its waves
do the work of 5000 horses, and
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-09-04
The Knight of the Pencil.

st. Louis Times Journal: How
manifold are thy works, o, reporter,
and how dost thou compass the
people of the earth around about.
Thy name is legion, thou art
everywhere at once, thy fat is Joy
unto the printer and thy lean hang
eth upon the hook until it be dead.
In the day dost thou gird thyself
and travel into far countries and sit
with the lawgivers and money
changes ia the temple; thy hand is
against every man and every man
is against thee.
Thou clinbest the stairs at night,
yea, even seven flights of stairs
thou climbest up and maketh thy
self to sit in a chamber whereunto
the reaches and mosquitoes do ap-
pertain.
If so be the son of man prevail
eth upon thee to look upon the wine
when it is red, 1t being but the third
hour of the day, thou art full as q
tick and thy masters do dock thee
as to thy wages.
The foolish reporter saith in his
heart, My work albeit being done
will tarry awhile hereabouts, lest
happily there being a fire or a muir
der, the paper shall be scoped of an
item.
And as he tarrleth, 10, there
cometh fire and he hustled out on
the war path and they squirteth
water upon his raiment and entreat
him sore, but he writeth up anon
and sweateth much, for he is fool
ish reporter.
But the wise reporter, wbensoevey
his task Oe done, sKippeth for home
and ieth upon his couch and sleep
eth the sleep of a righteous man.
And when the fire cometh and the
murders descendeth, he laugheth
them to scorn and no man saith un
to him go and he goeth or come and
he cometh or scoop this and he
scoopeth it.
For he is a wise reporter and he
maketh merry within himself and
all his ways are ways of pleasant
ness and his paths are peace.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-09-04
A Big Hotel in a cornfeld.

Washington Star: One of the
effects of the panic of 1873 was to
defeat certain railroad projects in
Virginia and suddenly check the
growth in its infancy of grandly
laid-out city near Quantico, in
Prince William county in that State,
about thirty miles down the Poto-
mac. Anson Bangs and Jesse
Hoyt, two well known New York
capitalists, the former the advocate
Of cheap transit rail and steam
routes, with others about ten years
ago, conceived an idea of railroad
from some point on the Potomac to
the Kanawha river. They procured
charter for such a road, and after
having examined many locations
finally selected the neighborhood of
Quantico as the best site for the
terminus on the Potomac. Accord
ingly they purchased there a tract
of land-about seven thousand
acres-extending from Quantico
Creek to Chapawamsic Creek on
the Potomac river, running back a
distance of about four miles to the
Telegraph Road. This tract they
laid out IN streets, avenues and
squares, and named it Potomac
City. Mr.. Bangs was so confident
of the success of the enterprise that
he Immediately had erected near
the intersection of Potomac Avenue
and the railroad a large hotel. I his
is a concrete building of four sto
ries, containing 122 rooms, and
cost $6S,OO0. 1t is well arranged
and finely finished. This building,
now occupied only by some one to
care for it. has long been a wonder
to those who have caught sight of
it from passing cars or steamers.
The enclosure surrounding it hav-
ing once or twice been cultivated in
corn gave it a still more singular
appearance-a hotel in a conield.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-09-04
WHERE THE WORM DIETH NOT.

Did you ever hear of drought,
A regular Texas stewl
Mol then l'll invoke my painting muse
And issue verse or two,
Thermometer ninety at nine,
One hundred degrees at four,
And ninety again at nine p. m.
For full month or more.
So hot that you fall asleep
Over the news by mail
That q COW can't low or a chicken crow
Or watch dog wag his tail.
So hot that men don't speak
In healthy, natural tone,
But greet as they meet in the dusty street
With scarcely an audible groan.
A staggering rooster reels
After a sunstruck hy,
And q hog ilst winks at an ear of corn
Which chances to lie near by.
Not a drop of dew by night,
Not drop of rain by day;
The wells and cisterns going dry
And the creeks have run away.
- Galveston (Texas) News.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-09-04
WHAT IT MEANS.

Arrayed in snow-white pants and vest
And other raiment fair to view,
! stood before my sweetheart Sue
The charming creature love best.
"Tell me, and does my costume suite
/ asked the apple Of my eye,
And then the charmer made reply
"Oh, yes, you do look awful cutel"
Although frequently had heard
My sweetheart vent her pleasure so,
l must confess l did not know
The meaning Of that favorite word.
But presently at window side
We stood and watched the passing throng
And soon donkey passed along
With ears like sails extending wide.
And gazing at the doleful brute
Ny sweetheart gave merry cry
! quote her language with q sigh
go Charlie, amt he awful cutegn
st. Louis Journal.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-09-04

Those new turned up hats that
the girls wear now are very handy,
as they hang down so far on one
side that the wearer can wink at a
fellow on the other side of the
street without the fellow who is
with her knowing anything about
it Cleveland Banner.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-09-04

A man may go fishing and catch
a handsome string of fish, and lose
them out of the back of the wagon
coming home, or have them grabbed
by the dog at the house where he
left his team, but he can never tell
the story and have it believed.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-09-04

A little religion is a dangerous
thing. That is well illustrated in
the case of the fire eating Virginian,
who, while returning from a camp
meeting, held out his hand to an
old enemy and exclaimed: Give me
your hand, Sanders; I've got relig-
ion, and feel mean enough to shake
hands with q dog"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-09-04

A young girl in Paris died last
week of hydrophobia. She is sup
posed to have contracted the disease
by wiping her mouth on handker-
chief which she sometimes used to
i-;;;sYo +: ~ the froth from the mouth of b
HIIle pOouIo 80 s-s. ,slau worry
ford of. The dog had to bee l<nIiass. M Z
several days before she showed any
bad symptoms.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-09-04

The beauty of summer dressing
is its lightness and freshness, and
cottons are so exquisite that they
rival silk in appearance, and, when
made up after a good model, they
are as attractive as those that cost
double
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-09-04

A young lady pupil of high
school put on a mass of false hair,
penciled her eyebrows, rouged her
cheeks, ETC., and then went to the
commencement and read her essay
entitled deception a Prevailing
Folly. ."-NorrIstown Herald.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-09-04

America is drawing large quanti-
ties of gold from Europe. The sup
ply of the Bank of France has been
nearly exhausted, and considerable
inroads made on the Bank of Eng
lands reserve.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-09-04

James Bullock, of Walton county,
Ca, while hoelng in a cotton field,
found concealed in a stump $4,000
in gold and silver and a pile of
greenbacks. The paper money had
rotted.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-09-04

He was about to kiss her. when
suddenly he drew back in evident
alarm. 90, George, what is it2
said she anxiously, "Onions," was
all the reply he made as he glided
on in the moonlight.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-09-04

According to the London Lancet
it is, doubtless, in the first instance,
as the cause of a local skin disease
that paper collars prepared with ar
senic in some cuticle has been re-
moved the toxic effect may become
general, because the absorption then
is very likely to take place, and the
whole system may be poisoned. 1t
is impossible that arsenious acid
can be used unwilling ly. AS.
matter of fact, white paper is often
prepared with this poison, and if it
is brought into close contact with
any absorptive surface evil conse-
quently may terioare delebut when
form us; once the ensue. It's time
that the process of manufacture
should be placed under official in
spection, if, for the sake of cheap
ness or to give artificial luster to
their goods, makers will use danger
Gus dye and dressings, regardless of
every thing but their own CONNER
cial success.-[AlI the Patent Out
sides.
The Potent editor dou Dtless wrote
this before he left Memphis while
scared. It's mixed like hotel hash.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-09-04

Society is Ike a glass of ale-the
dregs go to the bottom, the froth
and scum to the surface, and the
substance, or the better portion, re-
mains about the center.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-09-04

The pencil marks you SEQ around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub-
scription is out or unpaid, and that you
are requested to pay up at once. We
would take great pleasure in extendi1g
credit to our friends and patrons, but
cash alone will yay our expenses, and
we are forced to adhere to n strict eash
rule. We hope you will comprehend
and appreciate the necessity Of such a
course, and renew your su scripiion
without delay. We solicit your favor.
W- We enter no new names on our
books without the money in advance
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-09-04

A little four year-old girl going to
church with her mother for the first
time, the other Sunday, saw the
long handled contribution boxes
passed around. With great wonder
in her face, and to the great amuse-
ment of all about her, she broke out
in the loudly whispered exclama-
tion: mamma, mamma, what
makes them pass those corn pop
pers around forY'
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-09-04

Titles and degrees conferred by
country colleges are about as use
full to man as pair of side whisk
ers that do not indicate the quality
of the brain.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-09-04
He who blackens others does not
whiten himself.

The fish that you pull just to the
top of the water and then lose, al
ways "weighs just seven pounds"
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l.. W. McC0RD, Proprietor.

nice NOrtheastoorner of the Square. Upstairs
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NO $40
TIE EYES.

IT,
The eyes show character. The eyes Of
great warriors have almost always been gay
their brows lowering, ike thunder clouds.
Inventors have large eyes, very fall, PlriIps-
ophers, the most illustrious, have very lafae
and deep set eyes aud musicians eyes Ill
large and lustrous.
Button considers that the most beautiful
eyes are the black aud the blue. We think
we have seen black and blue eyes that wers
far from beautiful. Byron says the gazellc
will weep at the sound Of music. Tho gas
zelle's eyes have been called the most beau,i-
full In tho world, and the greatest compliment
an Arab can pay his mistress is to compars
her eyes to a gazele's. Tho power Of tho
eye was we'll illustrated In Robert Burns. lie
was taken to Edinburgh very much as sam
son was take to the temple--to amuse iha
Philistines He was brought to the PLACES
where the great men of Scotland were to be-
entertained, and was put in back room nm.
til the time should come when they should b.
ready for him. Whom they were, hc was
brought, and having measured the company
with his wonderful eyes, he recited his inn
mortal poem, +" Is There, for Honest Power
ty Carlyle says that when he finished.
the mobiles and gentlemen covered and shlank
before his eyes. We think his words had as
much to do with it as his eyes.
Cleopatra had black eyes. Mary Queen Of
Scots had liquid gray eyes. Dark eyes show
power; light eyes, gentleness and gray eyes
sweetness.
There is great magnetic power in the eyes
OF several of the lower animals. The lions,
the tigers aud the serpent's eyes are all mag
netic. 1t is well known that the serpent w,l
charm birds that are flying above it, until in
great circles they will sweep down to the dc.
struction that awaits them.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1879-05-21

A GLOOMY PnosrEcr.-A Woodward Az
enue druggist, says the Detroit Free Press,
put up prescription brought by boy, and
rs he handed over the bottle the boy asked
g Did you put any sugar In it9"
:" don't think did, was the reply,
Well, then, Idon't believe mail touch a
drop of it. ] got scfuc medicine here 'tother
day, and pa couldn't even hire her to take it,
cause it wasn't sweet She's purity sick, but
she's down on medicine"
Well, how does your father manage ?"
q He don't manage at all. He tries to hire
mother, but you ses she's too old to care for
candy and peanuts, and too young to want
sreetacles or a snuff box, and there we are,
you see. If them Uiion drafts ON her feet
don't do any coed, I'll bet I'll have a step
mother fore FALL