The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-11-08
LynnvilIe.

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typhoid fever, it seems has only
light form and is recovering.
Mrs. j. M. Neil of Pulasl
spent several days here with b,
friend, Mrs. @. s. Tate, the pa
week.
The old Elk Ridge churc
which was built in 1910 has JIM
been recovered and repaired an
Rev. Fred. A. Thompson is holdin
protracted meeting there thi
week. Hope he may be able to d
much lasting good.
While A. ]. Griffis' wagon wa
unloading cotton seed Saturday
freight train struck the wagon
throwing it across the.track, crush
ing the forward wheels and tongu
into splinters. No one was hurt.
John A. Turner of Huntsville
Ala, was here last week and spen
several days looking for a farm t,
buy. He liked the land and com
munity very much. He was guest
of Mr.. w. c. Carter, for whose fin,
stock he expressed great admira
ton. If he buys he wants to &c
into the fine stock business.
John Jones reports that a ne
gro came into their store A. Gold
burg's and bought $500 worth OF
goods, suit of clothes, ladies' hat,
shoes, necklace, trunk, valise, sach-
ell, companion, account book, lot
lead pencils, 5 yards table cloth,
lot dress goods and sundry other
articles. He represented he.was Just
from Africa and was a big Meth
odist preacher, stationed at Old
Lyhnville to civilize the heather
Africans around here. He was
about to walk off with the goods,
when Jones threatened to civilize
him with fire arms if he did not
pay for them. He declared he had
not one cent and decamped, leaving
Jones with half his goods torn
dewn, the other half sold and no
money. The negro then went over
and duplicated his bill at Smith
d Wagstaf's. When they found he
had no money they took an axe
handle to him, A few negroes and
some boys caught him then and
mauled him till he was willing to
leave town in a hurry, since which
he has not been heard from with
his ciyilizing influence on our heath
en- negroes,
AS TO OUR HOG.
7 stated a scientific fact last
week, also one well attested by
when said hog that
weighed 100 pounds alive weighed
200 pound after being slaughtered
and bled, and then the editor re-
sponded to my Invitation to explain
by writing a long article full of rid
Icule and irony, accounting for it
Dy inferring that the evil spirit that
had animated your Pulaski scales
night be pervading ours, and vari-
1us other surmises, neither of which
s satisfactory. Your article made
good funny reading, but it totally
allied to grasp the fact. l find
many of our people have long
Known this fact and are surprised
hat any one should be ignorant of
t. An old gentleman who has been
l justice, q teacher and farmer
says he has known it for forty. He
claims that a mere casual observa-
ion of the oscillations Of the beam
If platform scales when weighing a
person will demonstrate it. When
,he lungs are inflated the beam
goes down, and when the breath is
expelled it goes up. 1t is clearly
with well-knoWn princi
)les of pneumatics. A balloon is
inflated with gas, and from having
800 pounds, it gathers up
is own weight and perhaps a thou
sand pounds besides and sails away
before the wind. The gas that
fits the balloon is carbonic (acid?)
gas. 1t is largely generated by heat
)ut of common air. Now the
at hog is full of carbon and when
The air is drawn into it's lungs il
comes in contact with this carbon,
,he gas is generated and expanded
oy the heat, and the hog becomes
inflated and is lifted by the power
If the gas as it exerts itself in the
case of the balloon. When it is
killed the generation of gas ceases,
,he carcass collapses and forces all
gas out, and it lies stark
md prone, heavier by exactly the
amount of ascending power pos
'essed by the gas that had been
in it. In our hog this
gas had % pounds ascending pow
sr. We can readily see why a poor
ank man or hog should weigh no
more. There is an absence of
and elaine, with conse
Iuent diminishing animal heat and
hence less gas-generating power.
No wonder an enaeiated, lank man
FEELS heavy and dull, and we have
doubted if such men could have
much soul It is patent to any OBJ
serving man that animals when
they wish to make extra exertion
always initiate their lungs. The
boy when he prepares to jump in
iates his lungs that he may be
light for the leap. A good race horse
must necessarily have good lungs.
The crow as he flies in depredating
tour across the corn-field grates
his lungs together ard emits a
''caw" and the emission of the air
causes him to sink in his fight. aud
as he gets his breath he rises again.
l might multiply instances to sup
port my theory, but desist for the
present. LYNN.
If you are troubled with aches. pains
and general weakness of the various
bodily functions, don't be deceived by
the advertisements OF bitters, kidney
ETC., whose certificates OF