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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-09-02
Household Hints.

In icing cakes dip the knife often
into cold water.
Vegetables should not be washed
until just before cooking.
Kitchen floors painted with boiled
linseed oil are easiest cleaned.
Wash colored hose in milk warm
water, rinse, turn and dry quickly.
If table cutlery is kept clean from
the start little trouble will keep it
in order.
To cleanse ornaments, rub them
with fresh butter-that is, without
salt-and put them ia the sunshine.
Salt provisions of whatever kind
are said to lose more of their salt
ness by being soaked in sea water
than fresh.
Dip new broom in hot water to
make it durable. To keep a broom
from getting stiff and hard hang it
in the cellar way,
Old wall paper can be very much
improved in appearance by simply
rubbing it well with a flannel cloth
dipped in Oat meal.
When milk sours scalding will
render it sweet again. The whey
separates from the curd, and the
former is better than shortening in
bread.
The best mode of washing gen
tlemen's neckties is to let them soak
a little, then wash with hot water
and soap, rinse in cold water slight
ly blued, dry them, dip them once
more in cold water, starch and
wiring them thoroughly; then iron.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-09-02
The Cat and the Bees.

Charles Kaiser, who had the only
hive of bees in town, says that
when he first got his colony, his
old cats curiosity was much ex-
cited in regard to the doings of the
little insects, the like of which she
had never before seen. At first
she watched their comings and go
ings at a distance. She then fat
tened herself upon the ground and
crept along towards the hive, with
tail horizontal and quiVering. 1t
was clearly evident that she thought
the bees some new kind of game.
Finally she took up a position at
the entrance of the hive, and when
q bee came in or started out made
a dab at it with her paws.
This went on for time without
attracting the attention Of the IN
habitants Of the hive Presently,
however, old Tabby struck and
crushed a bee on the edge of the
opening to the hive. The smell of
crushed bee alarmed and enraged
the whole colony. Bees by the
score poured forth and darted into
the fur of the astonished cat. Tab
by rolled herself in the grass, spit
ting, sputtering, biting, clawIng
and squalling as a cat never
squalled before. She appeared a
mere ball of fur and bees as she
rolled and tumbIed about. She
was at length hauled away from the
hive with garGen rakes at the cost
of several stings to her rescuer.
Even after she had been taken to
a distant part of the grounds the
bees stuck to Tabby's fur, and |
about once in two minutes she
would utter an unearthly yowI and /
bounce a full yard into the air.
On coming down she would try to
scratch her ear, when a sting on
.he back would cause her to turn a
succession of somersaults and give
vent to a running fire of squalls.
Like the parrot that was left alone
With the monkey, old Tabby had a
Dreadful time.
Two or three days after the adj
Tenture Tabby was caught by the
owner, who took her by the neck
md threw her down near the
No sooner did she strike
he ground than she gave a dread
al squali, and at a single bound
cached the top of the fence full
TX feet feet in height There she
lung for a moment, with a tail as
zig as a roliing-pin, when with an
'ther bound and squsll, she was
u: of sight, and did not again put
u an appearance for over a week.
Virginia City New Enter
rise.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-09-02
Farm and Home.
AND USEFUL INFORMATION.
Salt for Wheat.


Farmers Review: In the Review
of July s, we made a brief extract
from the Drainage Journal, upon
this subject. In the August num-
Der of that paper we fad the sub
iect again. taken up. The wheat on
NJ. McMurry's farm has been
threshed, and the result of the ex-
pertinent is known. We quote
again.
Mr.. McMurry bought his salt at
a cost of so cents per sack of $50
lbs. each, which was sown as fol-
lows: Upon one portion of the field
$50 pounds per acre, another 800
pounds per acre, another 1000
pounds, and the remaining portion
of the field no salt. At the time we
saw the field the wheat treated with
salt was sufficiently ripe to cut
The remainder of the field indicat-
ed at least five or six days more be-
fore cutting. Eight days did inter-
vene before il was cat. The entire
field of thirty acres was good, but
the portion treated to salt gave an
increased yield CT probably one
sixth. We say probably for the
reason that, in running the wheat
through the thresher, there is but
little chance to get definite results.
The berry Of the sailed wheat be-
ing the largest, so much so as to
be selected readily from that not
saited We have n sample of each
in our office and have had it exam
iaed by several parties, and they
never fail to select as the best and
largest. the sailed wheat, notwIth-
standing the berry of the unsalted
is very full and round. Each par
eel of wheat has been weighed, In
a weight of So pounds per
bushel of sailed and unsalted.
One important point indicated in
this experiment is the earlier ripen-
ing of the wheat. Five or six days
very frequently insures the crop;
early maturity protects against
rust. Another point gained Is the
yield. Four bushels in
creased product per acre in field
Of thirty acres gives 40 bushels,
which at 80 cents, the price at
which the wheat was sold from the |
thresher, gives sos, a very snug
sum. And still another sum is the /
size of the berry, com
usually the better price.
Another fact that is important in |
this experiment, which needs to be |
Kept in mind. is the effect of the
salt on young clover. Mr.. McMur-
y sowed the field to salt about the
same time that the s< was sown.
On the portion treated to $50 lbs,
If salt per acre the clover stands
veil. On the portion treated to
100 lbs. the clover stand is not
,ood, and on the part treated to
900 pounds there is no clover to a
inc. The set of clover on the por-
ion of the field not sown with salt,
II sown with $50 lbs. is very good.
t follows that salt in too great a
uantity is injurious to clover.
Since cutting the field with wheat
Ir. McMurry has sown plaster upon
portion of the field to test the eff {
,ct upon the clover; though ten
avs only have elapsed since the
laster was sown he says the effect
apparent.
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A Genuine Tribute,

The horney handed miner, says
derrick Dodd," may lack aesthetic
culture-whatever that is-but his
heart is generally fonnd to be in
the right place-wherever that IS.
Booth used TO say that the most
genuine compliment he ever receiv-
ed was on the occasion of his play
ing Iago for the first time at Grass
Valley, then new mining camp
The audience which had not seen a
play for years, was so much in
censed at his apparent villiany,
that they pulled cut their shooters
in the middle Of the second act and
began blazing away at the stage.
Othello had the tip OF his nose shot
off at the first volley, and Booth
only escaped by rolling up the stage
on his stomach and disappearing
through a trap door. A speech
from the manager som ewhat Gained
the house, but even then Booth
thought it best to pass the night in
the theatre, as a number OF the
most elevated spectators were max
ing strenuous efforts TO induce the
vigilance committee to turn out
and lynch "the Internal, sneaking
cuss," as they called him.
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Feeding for Pork,

One of the mistaken policies oil
stock feeding, especially hogs, is to
feed them upon some one unChang-
ed diet. AS the matter of feeding
is made a scientific study, the idea
of an exclusive corn diet IS being
abandoned, the results pointing un-
mistakably to the fact that it is un-
healthy; and, if so, it cannot be
classed as profitable, and our veter
mary authors are now claiming that
scourge Of hog breeders, had its or
IGN in districts where corn was fed
to the exclusion of all other diets,
and if the system is persisted in it
will be noticed. that preyentives,
either of the farmers own invention
or an advertised nostrum, are de
manded, which the hog, to satisfy
some craving that the one diet does
not supply devours with unsuitable
greed.
Upon this subject the Western
Rural says that corn is principally
carbonaceous, hence exclusively fat
forming, and to keep up a healthy
and growing state, the hog must
have mixed food, such food as will
develop s.ll parts of the system, and
for this purpose the turnip is very
valuable as a diuretic, and with the
more heterogeneous foods, such as
wheat, middlings, etc, the growth
will be continuous and the fattening
process will be thus extended, and
while health will be promoted, there
will be far less complaint among
the stock feeders that the hogs are
not fattening, and that the feeding
to await a favorable stage of the
market is one of outlay without
any compensation or return for the
corn consumed.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-09-02

A worthy wife of forty years.
standing, and whose life was made
up of sunshine and peace, gave
the following sensible and impress
sive advice to a married pair of her
acquaintance. The advice is good ::
preserve sacredly the prIvacies of
your own house, your married state
of your heart. Let no father or
mother, sister or brother, ever pre-
sumo to come between you two, or
to share the joys and sorrows that
belong to you two alone. Build
your own quiet world, not allowing
your dearest earthly friend to be
the confident of aught that con-
Germs your domestic happiness. Let
moments of alienation, if they oc-
cur, be healed at once. Never, no
never, speak of it outside, but each
other confess, and all will come out
right. Never let the morrow's sun
find you at variance. Review and
renew your vow-It will do you
good; and hereby your souls will
grow together. cemented in that
owe which is stronger than death,
md you will become truly one.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-09-02
BE sure of Bread and Butter.

Marry, by all means, young man.
Marry the girl you love; but don't
marry her until you can give her
bread and butter. You have no
business to do it for many reasons,
which you will discover after you
are married. One of them is this /:
A married woman Is not the free
agent that a single woman is; en-
barrassed with the cares that come
with matrimony; she is helpless,
and you have made her so. There
fore, you must be sure that you can
take care of her, or you are risking
her happiness and comfort by mar
rying her.
1 don't mean that you should wait
to be rich, but only to be able to
have food and clothing and shelter
sufficient for all needs-to be as
sure of honey for the hive as we
can be of anything in this wicked
world.
It never hurts young people TO
"wait a vice." Counting days are
as far happier than any others can
ever be, as hope is always brighter
than reality, and you can always be
looking forward to
ga little farm well titled,
A little house well filed,
And q little wife well wlled,"
until you have means enough to be
sure of all three.
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Derivation Of Wcman,a Namas.

Anna-bella is not Anna bella, or
Fair Anna, but is the feminine or
Hannibel, meaning gift for grace
of Bel. Arabella is not ArabeIla, or
beautiful altar, but GrabilIa, a day
ing woman. In its Anglicised form
of Orabel, it was much more com
mon in the thirteenth century than
at present. Maurice has nothing
to do with Mauritius, or a Moor,
but comes from Amalric--himmel-
reich-the kingdom OF Heaven.
Ellen is the feminine of Alain, AL
an, Allan, and has no possible con-
nection with Helen, which comes
from a different language, and is
older by about thousand years at
least. Amy is not from aimee, but
from annie. Avice, or Avis, does
not exactly mean advice, as some
seem to think. It comes from
ed wis, and means happy, wisdom. |
Eliza has no connection with Eliza |
beth. It is the sister of Louisa, |
and both are the daughters of Hell
Disc, which is the Heelwis, hidden |
wisdom. There is, indeed, another |
form of Louisa, or rather Louise, |
which is the feminine of Louis, but
this was scarcely heard of before
the sixteenth century. The older
Heloise form of the name, Aloisa,
Aloisis, or Aloysia, was adopted |
into medieval English, as Alesia-l
a name which our old genealogists
always confuse with Alic. Emily |
and Amelia are not different forms |
Of one name. Emily is from
the name of an Etruscan
gems. Amelia comes from the |
Gothic Amala-heavenlY. Regi-
nald IS not derived from Regina,
and has nothing to do with queen.
1t is Reinalt-exalted purity. Al
ice, Adelais, Adelaide, Alisa, Alix,
Adeline, are all. forms of one name,
the root of which is adel-noble. |
But Anne was never used as iden-
tical with Annis or Agnes (ofl
which last the old Scotch Annas is
a VARIETY, nor, ss l sturdily main
tain, was Elizabeth ever synony-
nous with Isabel.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-09-02
A Bad Girl to Marry.

A bad daughter seldom makes a
good wife. If girl is ill-tem-
pered at home, snarls at her parents,
snaps at brothers and sisters, and
"shirks" her ordinary duties, the
chances are ten TO one that when
she gets home of her own she will
make 1t wretched. There are girls
who fancy themselves so far supe-
rior to their parents that the mere
privilege of enjoying their society
in the house ought to be all the OLD
people should have the assurance
to ask. While their mothers are
busy with domestic duties they sit
in the easiest chairs or lie on the
softest sofas, feeding on cheap and
trashy novels, and cherish the no
ton that they are very literary in
dividuals. The household drudgery
is too coarse FOR such fine ladies
as they. Girls of this sort are gen
orally very anxious to be married,
that they may escape the disagree
ableness of a home where they are
held more or less under subsection.
A caller who doesn't have a chance
to see how they behave as daugh-
ters, may be excused for fancying
them lovely and loveable beings;
but one who does see it, is fool
ish If he commits himself by offer
ing marriage to girl of this sort.
III she will not assist her mother IN
the domestic labors, is she not hike
ly to be slothful and ill-tempered
when she marriesT If she now
thinks herself too fine TO work, is it
safe to expect tsat her views, as to
that matter, would radically change
IL she became a wife?
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Our Young People
MADE UP FROM THE BEST CLIPPINGS
Terrible Scene in a Menagerie.

A thrilling incident recently oc-
Cured in a travelling menagerie at
Towanda, Pa, which Is thus related
by a local paper: The animals in
one cage, two lions and tiger,
we're fed at that time, being sepa-
rated by swinging doors, which
were fastened during the feeding,
and afterwards lifted, throwing the
animals together as happy family.
These doors were lifted after it was
supposed the animals had finished
their meal, but large piece of
meat had been left by the lioness.
This tie. tiger saw, and was about
to spring upon it, when the lion
covered it with his paw Prof.
Mcdonald, the trainer, spoke to the
lion, but he refused 20 move, and
he then tried to force the meat
from the animals paws with the
feeding fork, but without purpose,
as the lion held and growled N def
ance. To the horror Of those stand
ing around, the Professor opened
the door Of the cage and sprang al
most upon the beast, which in turn
sprang upon the man, striking him
a powerful blow on his chest, that
staggered him and lacerated the
flesh. An attendant, thinking to
assist the now pOwerless trainer,
caught him by the foot and pulled
him near the door. The lion again
struck him, tearing the flesh in his
thigh. The situation at this time
was one of terrible suspense to
those who were involuntary wit
nesses of it. Ladies tainted, chill
dren screamed; but the trainer,
who seemed to suddenly recover
his senses, was on his feet in a mo-
ment. He looked the big beast
squarely in the eyes, and met him
half way, maintaining the steady
gaze. He said in a firm yet affec
tionate manner, med, what are
you doing? Do you want to kill
me, your best friend?" The Tow
anda paper says it really seemed
that the king of the forest under
stood every word that was being
said to him, for, dropping his eyes,
he went to the piece of meat and |
showed it to his his keeper. He
theE approached his trainer and |
looked very penitent for what he
had done, lying calmly down at his
feet /
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a California Dairy Eousa.

On the dairy farm of f. S. Clough,
San Gorgonio Pass, Los Angeles
county, there is a model dairy
house. 1t cost $1,000. 1t is1Sx36
feet in ground dimensions
The butter room, an apartment
l0x15 feet in dimentions, is carpet
ed and as inviting as a parlor. The
apparatus for handling the milk
and making butter is complete in
every detail, and is designed
throughout for the saving of labor.
A receiving vessel, fitted with a
strainer, is located in the milking
yard, and this communicates by q
pipe with the dairy house. The
mixers pour their milk into the rer
ceiver and that is the end of thei-
duties. The fluid passes down
through the pipe TO a 200-gsllon
tank in the dairy house, whence it
drawn by the dairymcn, undergoing
meanwhile, a second straining pro-
cess. 1t is then placed in pans to
cool and raise the cream. Water Is
brought in pipes through the house
from a mountain spring. The
churn holds % gallons o: cream
and turns out from 100 to 125
pounds of butter at each churning.
1t is worked by goat power, the sp
pliance being a treading wheel eigh-
teen feet in diameter, which con-
meets with aad operates a shaft
running into the dairy house, and
this, in turn, connecting with cog
wheels working the dashers.
The rancho embraces about 1900
acres of plateau and mountain land,
fifty acres OF which are in alfalfa,
at least 200 tons OF hay
per season. and 80 acres in beets.
There is a herd OF $50 cows San
Francisco Bulletin.
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LADIES COLUMN.
How Can Girls Tell Whom to Trust!

How Can Girls Tell Whom to Trust!
Our courts abound with breach of
promise suits, though but a very
small percentage of the cases Of
this kind which occur, and which
Cause infinite disappointment and
sorrow, are ever brought before ju-
dicial tribunals.
The prolific source of this class
OF woes consists in the readiness of
/ girls to bestoW their confidence and
affection upon men of whom they
know too little, or of whom what
they do know is evil. When an en-
gagement is broken off we often
hear it said: "Well, she is not the
first one be has Tilted"
Now q woman deceives herself
when she allows herself to believe
that g. man who has been faithless
TO another will be true TO her. She
should never trust such a man; and
if she does put her trust in him she
is morally certain, in her turn, to
repent having allowed her affections
to go out to one whose fickleness
had already been established
A woman who, under ordinary
circumstances, marries a divorced
man, has no reason to expect that
she will fare any better than his
former wife. To marry a compare
lively unknown man is mourning a
great risk; but to marry a man who
has been tried and found unworthy
Of confidence, is sheer madness.
Somewhat of the caution and com
mon sense which are ordinarily OBJ.
served and practiced in business
might be advantageously intro
duced into matrimonial affairs.
Fashionable society in this coun-
try and in Europe was recently
greatly shocked at the announce
ment that a well-known, beautiful
and accomplished American lady,
residing in London, had committed
suicide iL consequence of a noble
man to whom she was engaged
casting her off and marrying an
other.
But what reason had this lady to
trust such lover? 1t appears that |
he had persuaded her to obtain a
divorce from her own loving hus-
band on the promise that if she
would do this, then he would marry
her. The simple fact that he exact
ed of her such a perfidIous act to-
ward one to whom her whole life
was sClemnly and sacredly pledged
should have warned her that he was
a villain unworthy of any woman's
love.
Girls: from such terrible exam
pie take warning. A selfish, I'M
,crupulous, heartless man will
make brutal, INSCRIPTIONS, soul
ess admirer or hus band.
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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. C. 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 6 Anderson,
south side square, Pulaski.
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old. If they had no children unit 4.
their sixty-fifth year, learned ply
stefan a&d calculated that the family
numbered one hundred and thirty
when Abel died. The children of
these children would have numbered
more than 100000. But if, as is
more likely, Abel died in his one
hundred and twenty eighth year, the
descendants would have reached
the enormous number of AL 900,
from whom Cain could have had no
difficulty in choosinga wife. These
figures are based upon the supposi-
ton that Adam had only two sons.
There may have teen many more,
though the Bible does not mention
them In that case the Inhabitants
of the world may have been twice
or three times as many"
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TRY CP. Duncan,s eel

TRY DR.. C. 2. 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 go 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 & Anderson, south
side square, Pulaski.
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Gains Wife.

Rev. VIM. +. Hatfield, of the
Washington Square NJ. f. church.
New York city, IN a recent sermon,
said:
"Of the many questions asked
about Cain, doubtless the one hard
est TO answer was, Who was Gains
wifcr That Cain had married there
was no doubt, and there was every
reason to suppose that the wedding
took place after the murder. Some
say tLat the bride was a sister, a
cousin, or a niece. but it is a mis-
take to suppose that there we're but
two or three people in the world at
that time. Adam and Eve were
then one hundred and thirty years
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Tobacco cultivation.

American Cultivator: Havana to-
baceo should be hand-hoed only
twice, and hIlled about one TO one
and a half inches at the second hoe
ing. The soil should not be dis
turbed near the plant, since by this
method it will be much less liable
to tip over.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-09-02

The wife of the governor of Cali
fornia wears 100000 worth of dia-
monds at a sitting. The simple
tastes engendered by the glorious
climate" of the Pacific coast are
worthy of imitation. No true lady
will hereafter appear in society with
less than that worth of diamonds.
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