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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18
Fashion Notes.

Sicilienne warmly wadded is
chosen for redingotes.
Heavy ribbed silk is the most
elegant material for wraps for old
ladies.
Cocks feather fans painted by
hand are novelties.
Etruscan vases of the most grace
ful forms are copied in red and gild-
ed wicker for scrap baskets.
Cedar red is the new shade for
kid gloves, and heavy lines of en-
broidery in black decorate the black.
Moyenage necklets of silver or
enameled gold are replacing the
muslin crayats that have been so
long worn.
Long matinee sacques for
mornings in the houses are made of
plush, and worn over a blouse waist
of satin surah.
Black dresses of fine camel's hair
or shoodah cloth have collar, cuff S,
vest and panels of black velvet, with
cord of gold ON the edge.
Russia sable trimmings are made
of the tails of the animals, in per-
pendicular rows that form stripes OF
darker brown than that of the
bodies.
Moonlight-blue satin with EN-,
broidery of silver threads and foun
ces of white lace is one of the mos
elegant materials for reception
dresses.
The Gretchen tunic, caught up OF
one side by velvet ribbons that sus
pend and almoner's bag, is new fol
young ladies' cashmere and WOO
dresses.
The moon with a face in it, 6
Gorgon head with snake-like hair
Toothbrush patterns, feathers anG
rings are the newest designs FOL
matelesse satins for cloaks.
A gentleman's cravat of terra
Gotta satin, striped with gold, anG
a scarf-pin to complete it, is worr
by ladies with double breasted
Prince Albert frock coats of olive
green cloth of velvet.
Very elegant costumes are made
of broche velvet combined will
Sicilienne. The broche velvet forms
the skirt, and the long pelisse is O
plain Sicilienne with a border O
sable or otter fur.
The chasseur hat of green o.
brown felt, with high, sloping crown
and long cocks plumes, is a favor
lite with blonde young ladies, who
wear it pushed back from the brow
to show all the front hair.
The favorite visite has square
close sleeves and two thick boz
plaits with long fronts, tied will
ribbons to form a tassel near tn,
foot. Branderburgs across the from
and in the back are the trimmings
Sergent-green with golden tinge:
is one of the colors most fashion
able for velvet or plush suits, and s
slight CLINT of terra Gotta enhances
its beauty. Black Spanish lace
with thickly-colored designs, is the
richest trimming, and with these
two old shades make unique color
ing.
Mastic- Gray cloth paletots are
fashionable for children. They are
semifitting, and are long enough
to cover the child's dress. They
are braided in rings of large size
and have square pockets and wide
collar of brown plush. A mastio
beaver hat of the great cart-wheel
shape is worn with this cloak, trim.
med with brown plush drapery.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18
Live for Something.

Thousands of men live, move and
breathe-pass off the stage of life
and are heard of no more. WHY?
None were blessed by them; none
could point to them as the means
of their redemption not line they
wrote, not u word they spoke could
be recalled, and so they died; their
Lis bit went out in darkness, and
they were not remembered more
than the insects Of yesterday. Will
you thus live and die? Gilman. live
for somethingl Do good, anCkleave
behind you a monument of virtue
that storms can never destroy.
Write your name by kindness, love
and mercy on the hearts of thous-
aDds you come in contact with year
by year and you never will be for
gotten, No; our words and your
deeds will be as legible upon the
hearts you leave behind as the
stars on the brow OF the evening
Good deeds viii shine as brightly
upon the earth as the stars OF
heaven.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18
a wcmsn's opinion Of Trousers

Trousers positively excite my
wrath, they are so outrageously
ugly. Take pair and hang them
mp anywhere a nail or the back
OF chair. What mean, contempt
bic looking things they are! Look
at those long helpless dangling
legs ?One almost expects to see
them run off with themselves tie hide
their conscious ugiiness. Of course.
they are soiled and slovenly; the y
must for they are too tight to be held
up like our poor, much abu sed
skirts, and quite long enoxgh to re
ceive all the mud of the boot-heels
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

OF all Gods gifts to man air and
light seem to be the only ones that
are not made the subject TO some
extent of monopoly. The soil, the
water we drink, the coal we burn,
are all more or less 'cornered."
There are corners" in oil, in grain,
in medicines, in bacon, in fish and
in almost all the neeessaries of life.
One OF the most heartless of these
schemes is upon rs Now in the
shape Of combination to raise the
price of coal in nidwinter.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18
Sex of Eggs.

A correspondent of the London
Journal of Horticulture says in ref
erence to the question last win
ter ALI old poultry keeper told me
he could distinguish the sex in eggs.
laughed at him, and was none the
less skeptical when he told me the
following secret: Eggs with the
air bladder on the center of the
crown of the egg will produce cock
erels; those with the bladder on
one side will produce pullets.
The old man was so certain of the
truth of this dogma, and his poul-
try yard so far confirmed 1t,
that / determined to make expert
ments upon it this year. have
done so, carefully registering the
air bladder vertical or bladder on
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

The Secretary of War his sent to
the house a list of about one. hun
dred little creeks and mud-puddles,
included in the big river and har-
Dor bill of last year, which he de
cides would amount to nothing il
improved by the millions appro
priated for them. There is 40 doubt
that the secretary is right. The
money would be literally thrown
away by such expenditures c. j.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

Since 1865 Tennessee has ac-
quired nearly 100000 additional
population, and has made crops
every year of an average annual net
profit of $27, 100000. Since 1860
Memphis, in spite of the war and
three epidemics, has grown from
$4,000 to 1900. while Nashville
has crept up from 1900 to $4,000.
Tie growth of Chattanooga. Knox
vile and other towns has been at
proportionate rates.-Ex.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

Fulton's first boat began running
between New York and Albany in
1907 In 1910 Francis James Jack
son, then Envoy Extraordinary to
the United States, writes: Having
passed four months at New York,
II I have accepted
the offer of a gentleman, Mr. Hogan,
to lend me his country house. 1t is
very good one, on the banks of
the Hudson.
One of the curiosites that we daily
see under our windows is the steam
boat, passage vessel with accom-
mediation for near q hundred per-
sons. 1t is moved by q steam en-
CINE, turning a wheel on either side
of it, which acts like the main
wheel of a mill and propels the YES
sci against wind and tide at the
rate of four miles an hour. As
soon as it comes in sight there is a
general rush of our household to
watch and wonder till it disappears
They don't at all know what to
make of the unnatural monster that
goes steadily careering on with the
wind directly in its teeth as often as
not. I doubt that I should be
obeyed were / to desire any one of
them to take q passage in her.
When first this vessel appeared in
these waters it excited great conster-
nation. Some of the simple coun-
try folk were pretty well frightened
out of their wits, suspecting, / am
told, it was some diabolical convey
ance that had brought his satanic
majesty from the lower realms to
visit the United States. I am in
clined to look with favor on this APP
plication of the propelling power of
stream Not improbably it is des-
tined at no distant day to produce
great and beneficial
changes in our mode of vOyaging."
In 1872, or somewhat later, after
terrible earthquakes had shocked
and frightened the valley of the
Mississippi, the first steamboat de
scended the Ohio. It's awful
brought the inhabitants of
the Shawneetown. country to the
river shore. They saw the coming
steamers breath of flame and heart |
of fire and heard its sterterous
breathing. 1t was at night. The
trembling, awe-stricken spectators
thought they beheld the earthquake
on its travels. They fed, and the
growth Of Shawneetown, thus
stunted by pitiful terror, has never
bssn reproduced. Such ia the ira
dition.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18
The Indian Problem.

There would be no trouble with
the Indians if they could only be
organized on the system that pre-
walls in the United States army.
Fifteen per cent. would be off on
Is per cent. would be on
the sick list, and about 10 per cent.
more consist Of played out old bucks
who would be too decrepid to mount
their horses. As it is, the Indians
are not organized according to the
United States army plan of saliva
ton, and the result is that they are
always able to put large force in
the field and defeat our regular
army.-Texas Siftings.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

would be very brief. 1t would
only read, There are no atheist
martyrs" All, 10. When they had
a chance to be martyrs they hung
on to life, and died natural deaths
at the age of 80 or 81 or somewhere
around there. And now, when
martryrdom is altogether and en-
tirely out of fashion, it won't do for
them to affect & fear and willingness
for it. "Honor bright" Colonel,
at will not do Burlington
Hawk Eve.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

1t is very simple matter for a
man to claim that drinking habits
viii not injure him, either financial
ly or morally; bun when we trace the
careers Of some men to the present
day, we can readily see how utterly
futile are all such assertions. How
many of our readers can remember
the time when some one Of their
friends who are now perfect wrecks
held exalted positions in the social
or financial world? One very forci
Bile illustration of the power of the
demon of drink to destroy is found
in the history of John Tobin of
New York City who was once the
president Of a railroad and held as
high a position as Cornelius Van
derbilt or Daniel Drew The last
chapter Of his life is almost fin
ished; we now hear of"John Tobin
in police court" After so many
striking examples Of great and wise
men who have fallen because they
were an bic to refrain from the use
of liquor, is it not rather presumptu-
GUS for the young men of he day
to tamper with the wine cup?
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

one side, rejecting every one, in
which it was not decidedly one or
the other, as in some it was only
very slightly out of the center. The
following is the result: Fifty-eight
chickens were Matched, three arc
dead, eleven are too young to
decide upon their sex. OF the re-
naming fortyfour every one has
turned out true to the old mans
theory. This, of course, may be
an accidental coincidence, but ]
shall certainly try the experiment
again.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

Attorney-Gener Brewster was
called upon by a congressman a
few days since and asked about the
reports regarding the fees paid to
the government attorneys in the
star route cases. Brewster, the
coolest manner possible, informed
the congressman that Bliss had
been and was still being paid 500
per day for his services, and Kerr
and Merrick $50 each from the time
of employment to the present.
Brewster considered the fees were
reasonable. Bliss has drawn only
$4,000 from the treasury since he
came into the case Il year ago. The
CONGRESSMAN Thought it was out
ragcous, and the attorney general
intimated that he could make the
best of it.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

Thomas Schofeld, aged ninety
one years, walked nine miles to re-
new his subscription to New
London paper. 1t is the general
impression among publishers that
there are a number of subscribers
who are waiting until they are
ninety one. years old to come and
pay for their paper.-Athens Post.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

[Honolulu Press ]

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Last Saturday evening twenty
nine leper were sent from the branch
leper hospital to Moloka by the
steamer Mokolii. The steamer an
chored off the marine railway, and
the lepers were brought from the
hospital in drags, and taken to the
little jetty at the quarantine grounds
from which they were carried in
boats to the Mokolii. There was
one Chinaman in the lot; the others
natives, sixteen males and twelve
females. A large number of people
were gathered at the hospital TO see
their friends, and later, at 5 o'clock,
when the lepers were taken to the
steamer, they assembled on the
shore to bid the unfoFtunates a last
farewell There was considerable
wailing BY those on shore and the
parting scene was an affecting one.
The present penal system is evil
IDENTIFY defective, and yet it is difficult
to suggest an Improvement. Impris-
onment has little terrors Tor the Vi.
cious classes. inasmuch as they are
more comfortable in prison, espe
cially in winter, than they would
be out; and they come out at the end
of their term in high condition fol
resuming their old business How
often the record of the most daring
robberies or brutal murders is fol
lowed by the statement that the
perpetrator was Just a few days out
of the penitentiary. To build vast
quadrangles and then fill them with
prisoners to be maintained at ths
expense OF the state, or TO compete
hired workmen with free labor, Is
rather clumsy Continuance. The
object to be attained by penal in
fictionS is that no one who suffer,
them once would ever be willing to
incur them again. This object wa.
obtained by the tread mill in Brit
ain, but that punishment was found
to be too severe for MANY constitu
tions. The whipping post is perhap:
the best deterrent from crime anC
the least costly, but it should OILY
| be used in the case of such crimi
nails as have self-respect already
destroyed,sueh as-wife- heaters, gar
rotters, and few other of the mos
obscene kind of criminals.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

Within two years, more than a
hundred millions of northen cap
ital has been invested IN the south
ern states and that is now forming
g very lasting chain, specially adapt
ed to binding together the hearts
of men, by binding in one their
seemingly diversified interests.
A new south--a manufacturing
kingdom-will be the result, and
what is grown here will be placed on
the market az manufactured fabric,
and every profit connected there
with will be retained at home. The
next five years will show a greater
addition to the wealth of the south
than has any previous twenty, and
the best outcome will be wealth
of harmony, which inevitably ac-
companies a union of interests.
# Times Democrat.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

A Washington special says:
Everybody thinks Sam Randall is
moving heaven and earth to be re-
elected Speaker, but he is not. He
has the presidential bee in his bon
net, and is aiming to make the fight
for the speakership a stepping stone
for his ambition.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

All my experience of the world
teaches me that in ninety nine out
of hundred, the safe side and inst
side of question is the generous
side and merciful side.- Mrs. jam
eson.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

Many farmers injure their farm
implements more by exposure to
the weather than by use on the
farm. An implement which with
good care will last twenty years,
will, when exposed to the weather,
become useless in five years or even
less.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

We ought not to go around sigh
ing and grooming because another
year has gone on, but we ought
to get down on one knee by the
milestone and thank God that we
arc 800 miles nearer home. You
must not live as though to-day
were the last; you must live as
though you were to live forever. for
YOU will.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

Certain kinds of wood of great
durability when used alone have,
when Joined together, a very de-
structive influence upon each 9th
er. If cypress is joined to walnut
or if cedar is joined 10 cypress, de-
cay is induced in both woods,
which ceases, Ehoweyer, as soon as
they are separated.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

The Chinaman, as cotton pick
er, is sadly needed in the south.
Thousands of acres of cotton every
where in Texas viii be lost to the
nakedness and thus to civilization
of our race, because colored fingers
have lost there cunning in empty
ing cotton patches while acqnir-
ing it in filling ballot boxes.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

A child having Sustained hori-
zontal Relations with His mothers
Lap, was heard to Philosophically
remark that Spankings not only De
veloped the Bottom facts of Slip
per's usefulness but also Afforded
the Spankee an admirable Oppor-
tunity of appreciating the Beauti
full and Wondrous Intricacies of the
Garnet nattern
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

Every farmer should keep book IN
which to Paste agricultural scraps.
Every one IN reading paper will
find a'numher Of things ha will wish
to remember. He viii perhaps see
suggestions the value of which be
will desire to test, or hints which
he will want to he governed by
in the future operations, and yet,
after reading the paper, he will
throw it down, and will probably
never see it again. In such case
all the valuable articles will be lost.
To prevent such loss every reader
should clip from the papers such
articles as he desires to preserve
and remember, and paste them in
q scrap book. Such a book at the
end of year or two will be very
interesting and valuable.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

Kansas City is very happy at pres
ent because Tom Allen, Paddy
Ryan and a champion bull dog
named Billy are tarrying in that
town for a time Inter Ocean.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

Browns IRON BITTERs
does not contain whiskey
or alcohol, and will not
blacken the teeth, or cause
headache and constipation.
1t will cure dyspepsia, indi-
gestion, heartburn, sleep
lessness, dizziness, nervous
debility, weakness, &c.
Use only Browns Iron Bitters made by
Brown Chemical Co, Baltimore. Crossed
red lines and trademark on wrapper.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

An Arabian Steed, having been
Endowed by Nature with long Ears
and Paint Brush Fail, did not Re
pine, but on the Contrary bore his
Lot with Philosophic FQrtitude.
"How much Better Fixed am /,
said he, "than Most Men, for Some
of them Live where there are no
Flies, while others, residing where
Flies Abound, have no Tails with
which to brush them away" BY
this Narrative of Cententment we
are Instructed that Nature Made
Mistake in Not Providing US all
with Tails, and Flies to keep them
Busy.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18
Boss Shepherds Millions.

1
Maj. James Stevenson, the as
sistant to daj. Powell, the chief of
the United States surveys, has re-
turned from his summer trip in the
west, and is again at his post in
the Smithsonian His work with
his party during the past working
season was in northwestern Arizo-
ma, south western Utah, and in
southern Nevada in the section gen.
orally known as Colorado Canyon.
After the seasons work was over
Maj. Stevenson went south into
Mexico and visited Batipolas, the
mining district which has been
opened up and is being worked by
"Boss" Alexander Shepherd, who was
the former governor of this dis
trict. He reports that well-informed
Mexicans in the neighborhood and
at chihuahua say that Gov. Shep-
herd is now worth from ten to fif-
teen millions of dollars. Gov.
Shepherd said to his friends when
he left that he would ne .er come
back to Washington until he was
worth million again.
His mines are close to Folks.
------
The Rapidity Of American Life
Here are two incidents which
illustrate the rate at which we live
In this age One evening last week
a young lady of st. Louis, who had
invited her friends to an elaborate
soiree dansante, decided just before
her guests began to assemble that
she would he married that evening.
Accordingly clergyman was sent
for in haste, the wedding took place
at o'clock, and when the guests
arrived they were presented to the
lady and her husband Now for
the second incident. On Thursday |
last an actress, who happened at
the time to be playing an engage
ment in Chicago, filed a bill for di-
vorce against her husband. In or
der that she might leave the city
with the company, the judge before |
whom the case was brought was
willing 10 advance it on the docket.
it came on for trial on
Friday, and the divorce was granted
within twenty four hours of the time
when the bill was filed.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

Hamlet, it Sow appears, was IL
ar of the first water. He speaks Of
an undiscovered country from
whose bourne no weary Traveller
returns and that too just after he
had windy interview with his IA
theirs ghost that had but recently
arrived from the said undiscovered
count V. Some years ago a German
student was arrested for disturb
ing the meeting where Hamlet was
being played in his native land, and
he gave as his reason for so doing
that he thought that the actors
were burlesquing the piece. When
he saw the printed lines he said:
My veaeration Tor Shakespeare is
greatly diminished. Mr.. Shake
speare probably feels very badly
about it, but up to the time of go
ing to press he has not been heard
from upon the subject.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

The oldest stove probably in the
United States is the one that
warns the hall of Virginia's capital
in Richmond. 1t was made in Eng
land and sent to Richmond in ITO
and warmed The House Of Burg
esses Tor sixty years before it was
removed to its present location
where it has remained for thirty
years.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18
A New VTav 10 Paw old Debts.


1t is a great pity that no stop
can be put to the practice of pawn
ing, or giving women as security
for debts, among the Chinese in
Shanghai. A case occurred only
the other day in the Foochow road,
where a brothel-keeper, who was
being dunned by some tailors for a
rather large amount, handed girl
over to them as guarantee for the
sum in question. She went away
quite willingly, and is likely to take
no part in prosecuting either her
owner or her captors. 1t is by no
means an unusual thing for debt
or to trade upon his wife's virtue
for the relief of his embarrassments,
and the worst of it is the woman
in very many cases is . consent
ing party TO the arrangement
1t is a singular fact that fat men
never commit crime. No fat man
was ever hung, and very few are
found in the jails and penitentia
ries and reformatories throughout
the country. The lean and hungry
Cassius is the bad rnan, and the
fact is recognized in fiction as well
as in history. Who ever saw a fat
villain On the stage or read OF one
in a novel? "The most desperate
criminals are lean with light COM
plexion, ? says a famous detective;
'fat men are sometimes arrested
for swindling and kindred offenses,
but never for high-grade crime"
There is genera impression,
however that the most oily rascal
in the world is your fat man. The
oily ouality is, perhaps, what
him to slip through the
meshes of the law.
John M. Clay,th only surviving
son of Henry Clay, is now an old
man. and resides near the family
homestead, at Ashland,Ky. He dis
claims ever having had any taste or
n,b;tion for public Office.