The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-08-19
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Adhesiveness is a great element
of success. Genius has glue on his
feet, and will take hold of a marble
slab.
Suggestion Gratis Changing the
name of some of our popular re
sorts from watering" 20 "hquur-
ing places.
A woman can not become a sue
cessful lawyer. She is too fond of
giving her opinion without pay.
Alexander II Stephens astonishes
The Chambermaids at w hite Sulphur
Springs by calling for a comforter
and feather bed on the hottest
nights.
During a storm last month at
Norance, in Switzerland, lightning
struck one Of two little girls sleep
Ing in the same bed, and instantly
killed her, without even touching or
awaking the other.
Ifyou are quiet, honest citizen,
how did these skeleton keys and
brass knuckles happen TO be In your
coat pockets2' al reckon, Judge,
me aud the policeman must have
changed coats in the scufiie. We
were very much excited"
Now it is a yankee, Mr.. Samuel
Bromley, of Mystic River, in the
State of Connecticut, who an
nounces his ability to 1.-Two for ten
hours with his nose and mouth her.
metically sealed. Where is this
thing to stop?
The Galveston tramp continues.
to wrench admiration from ali ad
mirers of cheek. This time he
wanted a good square meal. The
gentleman said: "Why don't you
do like DIR. Tanner does? Get fat
on nothing but water" ''Sirrah ~
replied tie tramp, sticking his hand
inside his breast pocket, edo you
take me for a id mounteoank2
The proprietor of the grocery
went of tor half an hour, and left
boy in charge Of the
store. 1t was not long before a
man wanted to buy one of the wa
exposed in front OF the
door. "Are you sure they are ripop
he asked. "They are bound 20 be
ripe by this time. They have been
lying out here in tle hot sun tor the
last five or six days"
Certain Dutch naturalsts are
testing the ability of the domestic
cat TO act as postman. Selecting
LUX as their headquarters, they
thence dispatch q number Of cats,
securely tied up IN wooden bags, TO
che neighboring villages, whore
they are freed from confinement
and turned loose, with neat pack
cts Of letters firmly strapped TO
their hacks. At once their domes-
tic instincts come into full play.
with answering dircctness. or
thirty. seven cats thus constrained
TO serve their country, not one has
hitherto failed TO fulfil it's postal
functions with excellent punctu-
atty.
As an illustration Of how an un-
suspecting public is frequently
'sold" by travelling venders Of pat
ent studs, the clerk of q North
Mass hotel relates that
not long ago a young man came TO
that town on the ten O'clock morn
ing train, bought seventy five cents
worth of something in drug store,
mixed it up in the sample room Of
the hotel, bottled it, and went odC
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wonderful properties OF his psnacea,
and before l o'clock ne had sold
500 worth Of it at $3 a bottle. He
left town on the O'Clock train.
Browns landlady passed him a
dish of vegetables at the dinner Ia
BILE and he helped himself to about
two spoonfuls, almost bankruptlng
the dish, when she said TO him, with
a smile on her face and ire in her
eye: "Those are new potatoes, Mr.
Brown, and some of the other board
ers may want some" "Beg your
pardon" choked Brown, in sur
prise, as two or three effected an
lodgment in his wind
pipe; 81 thought they were peas"
aud then he finished his dinner,
hurriedly. Brown is now hunting
around for another boarding house.
A natural ice house is one Of the
curiosit,es Of northern New Jersey.
II lies behind the Blue mountain.
The ice gorge is several hundred
Yards in extent, ten 20 thirty feet
deep, with caves ard clefts in the
rocks where the ice lies. The shade
1T the gorge IS very dense, the sun
apparently never penetrating 10.
The bottom OF the gorge and the
little caves and creviccs are filed
with ice. A few feet from one end,
A spring Of the most delicious spark
ling water bubbles up. The water
IN the spring stands at thirty-four
degrees.
A man was saving wood IN n
back yard. He severed two sticks
rs thick as your wrist aud then
went into tho house. "Mary," said
be TO his wife, "my country needs
ne, there's 10 use of talking; we've
ust got 20 slaughter ali these In
uns; no true patriot can be expect
ed 70 hang around wood-pile these
lays" John" said his wife, III
you eight Iniuns as well as you saw
wood and support your family II
would take lis like you 70 capture
one aquaw, and you'd have TO catch
her when she had the aguc and
throw pepper 10 her eyes" john
went back 10 the wood-pile wonder
ing who told his wife all about him.
Stephen Allen was so III at Jack
sOnport, Miss, that he could hardly
stir in bed. when he was fold that
Henry Melville was on his way
there TO kill him. Melville was
known to be desperate and vindic.
tive, and there was good reason 20
fear that he would carry out his
threat. Allen told his young son
10 stand at the door and endeayor
TO dissuade Melville from his pur-
pose. The boy begged the assassin