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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-11-04
The American Girl,

The defects of the American girl
may be done away with by giving
less prominence to the purely intel
lectual or purely practical side OF
her education. For, while one class
of men is striving to solve the prob
lens of life by educating women in
tellectually, there is another class
which is shouting for education in
domestic matters. While the pro-
fessors at Harvard are rejoicing
over some girl who can take in their
PHILOSOPHERS or their mathematics,
the newspaper editor sings the
praises of her who can roast turkey,
bake bread, or make her own
dresses. Neither gives the poor
girl any chance to exist, but only
to work, with either hand or brain.
No one says 70 her: "You are not
only yourself, but possibly the fu-
ture mother Of other beings. Do
not, therefore, allow yourself to be
driven by either school of apostles
beyond what you may do easily,
comfortably, or pleasurably. The
healthy balance of your nervous
system is far more important to
you and your future family rela-
lions than all the mathematics, or
dressmaking, or even roasting of
turkeys. Occupy yourself stead
fastly, but without strain, without
hurry, and without emulation.
Find out first what you can do
best, and, even if it does not
come up to somebody else's stand
ard, learn to content yourself with
that" - Atlantic Monthly.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-11-04
Read This. Girls.

Learn to darn stocking neatly,
and then always see that your own
are in order. Don't let button be
off your shoes a minute longer
than needful. 1t takes just about
minute to sew one on, and oh,
how much better o foot looks in q
trimly-buttoned boot than it does
in lop sided affair with half the
buttons off! Every girl should
learn to make all the simple arti-
cles of clothing, and we know a lit
tie girl of Z who could do this, and
who also made the whole of blue
calico dress for herself, and pieced
q large bed-quilt. She was not an
over-taxed child, either, but mer
ry, romping, INDUCED only daugh
ter. But she was smart, and she
did not die young either. Indeed,
we have seldom known children
too smart too live. Very few die
of that complaint, whatever their
grandmothers may think. So new
er be afraid a bit of OVERRIDING the
business. Help all you can, and
study over the business daily.
Once get in the habit of looking
over your things, and you will
like it wonderfully. You will have
the Independent feeling that you
need not wait for any ones conven-
fence in repairing and making, but
that you can be beforehand in all
such matters. This relief to your
weary mother will be more than
you can ever estimate.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-11-04
Baths in the School-Room.

A mission school in Philadelphia
aas in its basement large bathing
and swimming department. There
are four great tubs, in which the
dirty little children are free to
cleanse themselves and TO take
aquatic exercise under prescribed
regulations. Each tub sccommo-
dates nearly two dozen children at
a time. The surrounding floors
and walls are Of brick and concrete,
so that no restriction is put on
splashlng. A man With a small
whip in his hand stands by during
bathing hours ready to castigate
any Of the young people who are
unruly or violent. To their credit
it must be said that he is seldom
compelled to use it. The girls
battle and swim on Monday,
Wednesdays, and Fridays, and the
boys on the other days of the week.
The rule is that no child be allowed
to enter the bath more than once a
day. Many of the boys dodge
this rule by exchanging clothes and
presenting themselves in such COM
binations Of costume that the man
with the whip does. not recognize
them.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-11-04
Ought to Seen Them Wasps SINCE.

Boys and wasps are natural enc
mics, Boys hate wasps and wasps
hate boys Generally the wasps
are victorious and boy who has
an interview with a wasp gets over
the GROUND much faster than the
boy sent on an GRAND. The boy
does the electioneering, shouting,
but the wasp does the real work Of
the campaign. 1t is so rare that boy
gets even with the wasps that when
he does so, the event is worthy OF
more than passing notice. Down
near Kingston, Ont, a boy had a
heated discussion with some wasps
and the latter got the better of the
least they made more
pointed applications. As the stings
burned, the boy thought about
fighting his Satanic Majesty with
fire. 1t was q brilliant success.
The next neighbours barn and
grain were the first to go, and the
people barely escaped from the
dwelling house. The woods and
fields OF wheat next went with
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-11-04
The Family Purse.

The money question between
husband and wife is one of the most
serious drawbacks to married hap
piness, and it is time it was adjust
ed on a more just and equal basis.
The life of utter dependence which
some women lead is crushing and
degrading. Men do not realize the
utter helplessness and vacuity TO
which the system condemns woman.
Now. does anybody believe that it
is necessary for the welfare of the
family that she should go t. him
for % cents every time she needs it
for car-fare or a spool of thready
Is 1t right or just TO take her imbe-
cility in money matters for granted
before she has been tested? Is it
not just such women, who are left
by the failure of some speculative
craze to their own resources, with
the burden of a family upon their
shoulders, who often
display wonderful powers of energy
and calculation, in addition to
thrift and perseyering industry,
which ought to put all such men TO
shame!
Women, as q general rule, can
make one dollar go as far as two in
the hands of men; and many con-
ceIted individuals, who now consid-
err the social system bounded
by four walls of their dwelling
would cease to revolve if they were
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-11-04
Veteran Clergymen.

The most prominent retired
clergyman In the city at present is
the senior Tying, who is now in his
eighty first year. 1t is fifty nine
FEARS since he entered the ministry,
in which fol-. half a century he was
so eminently successful. HIS style
Of oratory was bond and trenchant
In the pulpit, but when he appeared
on the platform lie occasionally
gave scope to his powers of sarcasm.
which were of the most puugent
character He has been in the ser
vice St. Georges Church for thir,J
five years. ami is now retired ON Il
pension of $4,000 year. His
three sons entered the ministry, but
the oldest and most gifted was early
removed by death, in the midst oil
very useful career. Two other 5
are still in the work. The olie t
of these, who bears the fathers
name, Is rector of the Church Of the
Holy Trinity, and has reached
marked distinction as a useful and
devoted man. He has, as has been
remarked, just returned from Eu
rope, tour rendered necessary by
failing health. Dix, the rector of
Trinity. Is filty-three. He is the
best paid among the city clergy,
having an elegant house and $1,000
month for very light degree of
service. Bishop Potter, who is at
the head OF the New York (Episco-
pal diocese. is now seventy-eight,
and is ill in the exercise of his
official duties. He has been fifty
three ears ia the ministry, and
more than a quarter century in his
present of1lce.-T N. Y. Sun.
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Bitter Almonds.

The way children are sometimes
poisoned is shown by the Materia
Medica Journal: 1t says:
We read in a daily paper of q
child suddenly attacked by severe
vomiting, which the usual remedies
failing to check, end in death, and
the causeis laid anywhere but at
the confectionery counter, where
the boy bought his candies and
cakes favored with bitter almond.
"The bitter almond is a powerful
poison" A single drop of the es-
sential old on cats tongue made
a dead pussy of a living one in just
five minutes, by experiment.
Some delicate organizations, es-
pecially among children, can bear
but little of this essence, the small
est quantity producing an eruption
like nettle rash, if nothing worse,
and yet macaroons are eaten with
impunity, while confectioners are
often now days using, not the bit
ter almond, but the essential oil, for
their favoring.
There is family connection be-
tween the bitter and sweet almond,
how close is not easily defined, but
sufficiently TO show that on some
persons the sweet nut on our tables,
if eaten, produces an effect similar
to that caused by the bitter al
moDd
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-11-04
Our Young People
JADE UP FROM THE BEST CLIPPINGS
The Kittens Dinner.

Two little girls, the older not yet
years of age, had a present of a
kitten the other day.
1t was the first slime in all their
little lives that a cat of snv age had
ever been in the house. and they
were as delighted as possible, and
as full of wonder over as if it had
been a rare animal from some for
.eign land.
"What shall kitty have for her
dinner, mammal asked Lula,
climbing down from her high chair
when dinner was over.
"Oh, you can fix her up some
thing on a plate" replied mamma.
hastily, as she went into the sitting
room, for she was very busy with
some sewing, and forgot that her
little girls knew nothing about
feeding kittens.
Five minutes later Bridget pok ed
her head IN at the door.
"Piaze, mem, do jist come out
and see thin children.
Mamma dropped her sewing and
followed Bridget. On the floor be-
hind the kitchen stove sat Lulu and
Ella,one:ither side of a large dinner
plate, by which stood the kitten, as
if puzzled whaD to do aboutit.
And what do you suppose those
two little ounces had put on the
plate for that kitten to eat?"
Well, there was a large slice of
wheat bread and butter, a generous
spoonful of cider apple sauce, a
huge pile of plum pudding fairly
drowned with sauce.
Mamma laughed, kitty ran un
der the stove, and the little girls
both cried because kitty would not
eat the nice dinner they had fixed
for her.
But Bridget went and got her a
saucer of warm milk, and the chill
dren forgot all their troubles in see
inp her Ian If nm
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Jelly tumblers of this great and
growing country, but winter is only
three months away. By and by
there will come an end to this ask
ing for another twenty pounds Of
that same kind of sugar" The
stock on hand in this country will
not allow any family to consume
over 5000 pounds in putting up
preserves. The woman who goes
beyond that must do so at her peril.
While the average husband feels a
thrill of exultation as he realizes
that plums are played, he must not
be plunged into despair to learn
that peaches will go down to fifty
cents before the last Of the crop is
in, and that pears were never known
to be so plentiful. No cellar can hold
more than it can. After the jugs
and jars and cans and pitchers are
stacked from floor to joice, the wife
has either got to lay off her big
apron and quit or else rent space
from the neighbors, and the chances
will be that they will have none to
spare. In two weeks more she'll
have to give up on peaches and
pears. Then she'll begin on tomato
pickles and catsup, jump to cucum-
bers-slide off on apple butter
work up a bushel of quiuces-boil
down barrel of cider, and then sit
down and give up the unequal
struggle. That is, she'll suddenly
remember that every can and jar
and jug must be lifted up or taken
down and opened and heated over,
and If perchance she finishes the
job before spring, the mince pie
season will serve to keep the house
stirred up. They were born that
way, and men must suffer and en-
dure.- Detroit Free Press.
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A Diseased Liver.

Duncan's Liver and Kidney Medicine
is cure for all diseases having their
origin in diseased state of the Kidney
or Liver, such as sick headache, dyspep-
STA, swimming in the head, loss OF appe-
tite, bad taste in the mouth, heartburn,
tenderness or fullness over the region of
the stomach, cramp collie, costiveness,
palpitation of the heart, pain in the back,
sides and limos, and all diseases pecul-
lar to females. We can say to our
friends that the above medicine is just
what it is represented to be, and is pro-
nounced by every one who has used it
far superior to any Liver Medicine they
have ever used. We know it gives bet
ter satisfaction than any we have ever
sold. Knowing it to be purely vegeta-
bic, we can recommend it to our suffer
ing friends. Price rs cents. For sale
by all druggists. For sale by Grigsby
& Anderson, south side square, Pulaski.
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The Glorious Annla.

The apple crop IS very abundant
all over the country this season, as
it is apt to be every second year,
the productive season being
known as the off-year. Tie origin
of this very widely grown fruit is
unknown, though it has been Guilt
waited time out of mind. AS the
apple is mentioned In the Bible, it
is presumed to be native of Pales
tine, although at present in Ca
naan and the surrounding region it
is of no value. 1t is now imported
into Egypt and Palestine from the
neighborhood of Damascus. 1t
was extensively raised by the Ro-
mans. albeit the Roman apple is
thought by some to have been very
different from the apple described
in the scriptures. Pliny says that
his countrymen were acquainted
with twenty two varieties. Ameri-
ca produces more than 200 varie
ties. The apple is very hardy. 1t
grows on soils free from excessive
moisture, except those of a peaty
or very sandy character. The tree
is noted for longevity, often bear
ing fruit for 200 or $50 years-the
finest kind of apples coming from
trees from so to so years old. The
orchards of the Republic occupy
about 100000 acres, and their
product is worth some S16,OO0,OOO,
most of the product being apples.
American apples are the best in the
world, and have a great reputation
abroad, commanding large prices in
Europe. They are used for dessert.
the Newton Pippin, Bald
win, Spitzenburg and Swaar, are
prepared in various forms for the
table, are made into jelly, cider,
wine, brandy, are dried and sold in
vast quantities. and are, on the
whole, used in more ways than any
Othar fruit NJ " rTipoao
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-11-04
The Much Married.

1t is usually considered a note
worthy circumstance for a man or
woman to have been married
three times; but, of old, this num-
Der would have been thought little
of. st. Jerome mentions a widow
that married her twenty second
husband, who, in his turn, had been
married to twenty two wives-sure-
ly an experienced couple. A wo
man named Elizabeth Mai, who
died at Florence, 1768, had been
married to seven husbands, all of
whom she outlived. She married
the last at the age of seventy.
When upon her death bed, she re
called the good and bad qualities OF
each OF her husbands, and, having
impartially weighed them in the
balance, she singled out her fifth
spouse as the favorite, and desired
her remains to be Inferred near his.
The death of soldier is recorded in
1884, who had five wives, and his
widow, aged ninety, wept over the
grave of her fourth husband. The
writer who mentioned these facts
vainly added, "The said soldier was
much attached to the married state"
There is an account of a gentleman
who was married to four wives and
lived to be 1l5 years old. When
he died he left twenty-three 'chil-
dren" alive and well, some of these
children beiDo three To four scora
A gentleman died at Bordeaux in
1872, who had been married six
teen times. In July, l76S, a couple
were living in Essex who had been
married ninety-one years, the hus
band being 107 and the wife 103
years of age. At the church OF st.
Clement Danes, in 1872, q woman
of eighty five years was married to
her sixth husband.
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Soda Cake.

Take one pound of -four, six
ounces of butter of dripping, six
ounces OF sugar, half pint of milk,
one teaspoouful of carbonate of
soda, and add one or two eggs,
with halt pint of currants or cara
way seeds; mix the soda thorough
ly with the -four, rub ia the butter,
and beat the whole with a wooden
spoon for twenty minutes before
putting into a well-greased cake
tin. Bake for a full hour and a
half
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-11-04
Don't Marry a Twin,

A correspondent writes the Gin
cinnati Enquirer's Household De-
partment" some words of warning
about twins, which illustrates the
way the thing worked with him:
''Let me give some good advice
to Boys in Love" My dear boys
for mercy's sake have nothing to
do with that twin. l married a
twin. 1 was a twin. My father
and mothers were twins, and so
were the parents of my wife.
Consequences: We have been
married eight years and we have
already four pairs of twins. Young
man! find a girl, if you can, who
never heard of twins"
G.. ID. MAX
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Special Notice.

To all persons who are troubled with
old ulcers, boils, cuts, burns, piles, ring
worm, letter, frost bite, chapped lips or
hands, and all eruptions of the skin can
be cured, instantly, by using DIR. G. p.
Duncan's Ointment with carbolic acid,
possessing the most wonderful healing
power of any salYe that has ever been
made, and so pronounced by all who
have used it. Its effects are like magic.
Horses with sore backs, shoulders, or
scratches cured instantly. Try it.
For sale by Grigsby & Anderson,
south side square, Pulaski.
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TRY DR.. @. p. Duncan's celebrated
Vegetable Liver Pills-a sure cure for
headache, swimming in the head, bad
taste in the mouth, pains in the side,
back, chest, and limbs. Nothing better
for constipated bowels, sour stomach
and tenderness over the region of the
stomach. One box will 60 further than
two boxes of any other pill. VIII act
on the liver as well as blue mass or CAL
omel. (Warranted). Try them,
For sale by Grigsby g. Anderson south
side square, Pulaski
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They Can't Help It.

There is limit beyond which the
housewife who has eagerly plunged
into the canning and preserving
cannot go. There are only 1900
known methods of putting up
peaches. 1t may take her some
time TO get to the last one, but
she'll reach it in time. The lat
est estimate places the number of
fruit jars on sale in this country at
so, 100000. No housewife can Sc
cure more than her proportion of
these. After she has asked her
husband seventy eight consecutive
times to "send her up another doz-
en- of those cans" there must come
a lull. She may then demand her
share of the crooks and jars and
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-11-04

But few people comparatively
have any idea of the amount of lum
Der used in the construction of Il
single railroad. 1t yearly takes
100000 acres OF forests to supply
cross-ties for the railroads of the
United States, 1t takes 100000
ties to supply the demand on our
railroads, for which on an average
the contractors get 80 cents apiece,
making in the aggregate, $5,250,Oo0
In building a new road the con-
tractors figure on 300 ties to the
mile, while it takes 300 ties to the
mile to keep a constructed road in
repair. Contractors, OF course, buy
pieces of cumberland as near to the
proposed line or road as possible.
paying for the timber an average Of
about $50 per acre, or giving the
proprietor of the land 10 cents for
every tie got out. The average of
a good piece Of cumberland is 200
ties to the acre and twelve ties TO
the tree.
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Better than Quinine.

For speedy and certain cure of all
malarial diseases, no medicine has yet
been invented equal to DIR. G. 2. Dun
cans celebrated Chill Tonic. 1t con-
tains no arsenic, strychnine or quinine
in any form; consequently it produces
none of the bad effects which so COM
monty result from the use of those min
eral and poisonous medicines. DR..
Duncan's Chill Tonic purifes and
builds up the impoverished blood, CIV
ing tone and strength to the whole sys-
tem-One bottle is equal to three dol
lars worth OF quinine. For sale by
Grigsby 81 Anderson, Pulaski.
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Butter Three Thousand Years Old.

A sample OF Irish Dog OutIeT,
probably 1000 years old. on analy
sis. yielded the following results:
Volatile fatty acids calculated as
butyric, 6 per cent; soluble fatty
acids, not volatile, AZ per cent; in
soluble fixed fatty acids, 99.4S per
cent; glycerol, minute traces. The
lnsoluble fatty acids contained
9 per cent. oleic acid and 9l.0 per
cent. stearic and palmitic acids
An older sample OF ancient butter
was taken some time ago from an
Egyptian tomb. 1t dates from
about 400 or GOO years before
Christ. 1t was contained in a
small alabaster vase, and apparent
ly had been poured in while in q
melted state. In appearance, col
or, smell and taste it corresponds
closely with slightly rancid butter.
Analysis showed that the sample
had not undergone any notable de
composition.
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stacks and other combustible mat
ter, while every now and then the
burning of house and barn added
variety TO the scene. The destruc-
ton was very great, but as the de
lighted boy afterwards remarked,
You ought to seen them wasps
since ~
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taken out of it, would find great
happiness and great pecuniary adj
vantage in putting the control OF
all the interior details of their
homes in the hands of their wives,
with division of the income equal
to the requirement.-LWom
Journal.
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While making a call at a neigh
boris young lady of Madison, Ohio,
said to q a cat that came into the
room:
"Why, pussy, haven't seen your
babies ETY.; are they pretty?"
The cat Immediately went out,
and returned with a kitten in her
mouth, which she laid at the feet of
questioner.
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Sion ThatPain

Cramp Collie, piarrhea, Flux and all
affections of the Stomach and Bowels
can be relieved by using DR.. Duncan'S
LiRimeBt. 1t never fails to cure Head
ache, Toothache, Rheumatism, Neural
gia, sprains and bruises in man. Horses
with collie, bolts or sweeny can be
cured instantly. For sale by Grigsby &
Anderson, south side square, Pulaski
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MILL & FACTORY SUPPLIES OF
ALL KINDS. BETTING, HOSE ana
PACKING, OILS, PUMPS ALL KINDS,
IRON PIPE, FITTINGS, BhAs9
GOODS, STEAM GAUGES, ENGINE
GOVERNORS, &c. Send for Prloe-i'st.
"a. n. DILLINGHAM; & CO., I@3 Main
Street. LOUISVILLE, Ky.
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FOR SALE.

/ AN axious 10 sell my store and dwelling
House at Odd Fellows Hall. The Store
Is a good substantial building and located at
. favorable point for businosL
Apply at once to
sep2s-5t g. K. DIsMUKEs.
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