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a Suggestion.

Another dear little boy in pur-
suit of fun has come to grief. He
stood his sister up at one end of the
room, aimed his fathers gun at her
and put q couple of slugs into her
shoulder. OF course he was fright
eped-who wouldn't be? and de-
clared on his honor that he didn't
mean to, and didn't know the gun
was loaded, but there will probably
be funeral in that family all the
same. We cannot see any relief
from this kind Of fun. Every few
weeks some jocose boy commits
deliberate murder as the result of
what boys call real good time.
We should like to make q sugges-
ton here, which may possibly infu
ence the actions Of these funny lit
tie creatures in the future. Any
boy should be permitted to aim
his fathers gun at his sister on one
condition, wiz: He must look down
the barrel and at the same time
spring the trigger. If nothing hap
pens he may have as much tun as
he pleases. If anything does hap
pen we shall the: have consolation of
knowing that the right person rath-
er than the wrong one has his head
blown off. Make this a rule with
your boys; point to the tingling
birch within easy reach to empha-
size your remarks withal, and we
shall have less funny accidents like
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house when two smart young men
came into the dining-room and
seated themselves opposite the hap
by parties. They were telegraph
operators, and by delicate posing OF
their knife and fork they were able
to make sounds in close imitation
of telegraphy. In the mystic Ian
guage of the key one of them said
to the other:
"Ain't she daisy, thought
The party thus addressed replied
by clicking off:
"Wouldn't / like to hug and kiss
her, the fat little angelo"
"Wonder who that old bloat is
that she has married?'
''Some gorgeous old granger, L
reckon" replied the other.
The groom stood it until forbear-
ance ceased to be virtue, when he
also balanced his knife, and click,
click it went in rapid succession
1t was Ineligible to the very acute
twain that had recently made fun
of the old soldier. When interpre-
ted it read:
II am the superintendent of the
telegraph line upon which you
work. You will please send your
time to Headquarters and resign
your respective positions at once"
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Beating the Temperance Folks.

The town of Brunswick, Ga,
passed very stringent ordinance
against the sale of liquor, and en-
forced it so strictly that the trade
was broken up. Finally one Of the
grocers bought lot of cocoanuts in
Savannah, tapped them, poured the
milk out and filed them with bour-
bon. Shortly after the stock was
opened the leading minister of the
place went into the store and
wanted to buy a cocoanut. The
merchant was in dispair, but man
aged to convince him that the
nuts were unsound. The minister
seemed anxious to procure one, and
told the merchant that if they had
milk in them they were all right;
and shaking one was convinced of
their soundness. The merchant
could do nothing more, and sold
him one, hoping that he would get
out of the scrape someway. In
about half an hour after the minis
ter left,the merchant received note
from him saying: "Send me six
more cocoanuts exactly like the one
I purchased from YOU"
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TIE Sort of religion.

We don't know where the follow.
ing comes from, but it strikes US as
''to the point"
We want a religion that softens
the step, tunes the voice to melody,
and fills the eye with sunshine, and
checks the impatient exclamation
and harsh rebuke--a religion that
is polite, deferential to superiors.
courteous to interiors, and consid-
crate to friends; a religion that goes
into the family, and keeps the hus-
band from being cross when the
dinner is late, and keep the wife
from fretting when he tracks the
newly washed floor with his muddy
boots, and makes him mindful of
the scraper and the door mat;
keeps the mother patient when the
baby is cross, and amuses the chill
dren as well as instructs them;
cares for the servants besides pay
ing them promptly; projects the
honeymoon, and makes the happy
home like the Easter fig tree bear
ing in its bosom the glory of the
ripened fruit. We want religion
that shall interpose between the
ruts and the gullies and rocks of
life and the sensitive souls
that are travelling over them.
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An Obstinate Treasurer.

When an Ohio county treasurer
came to hand in his books and
vouchers the other day for settle
ment, the chairman of the commit
tee received them and observed:
"Mr. White, we want to get
through tomorrow, if possible"
every we'll"
"And it would greatly facilitate
matters if you could tell us the ex-
act amount Of your embezzlement." "
,,"My embzzelement! Why, sir, you
will find my accounts right to a
cent" was the indignant response.
ooh, well, if you don't plead gull
ty we may as well settle down for q
months work before we discover the
amount" sighed the chairman, and
he called the meeting to order
Wall Street News.
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"Look heah, boss" said a negro
prisoner to the jailer, 81 doan think
it's right ter put us members oh dc
church in hear wild desc sinners.
Heah is long side oh a man what
neber 'fessed 'ligion. 1t amt right,
an dar oughter be a law put in force
agin it" "You were put in here for
stealing a COW, believe" said the
jailer. dat amt de pint 1t amt
right ter make us 'sociate wild de un-
rejubernated." swell, worry along
with the sinners a week or so, and
we'll send you to the penitentiary,
where the society is better" -
Prison Record.
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The Rapidity of Motion.

@AS bdE@04ty VI "HOG4SA'
The rapidity of the movement of
the globe has been strikingly stated
by Charles Morris in the American.
He says that if we stroll along the
street at the rate of step per sec
ond it may seem like a slow pro
gress, and yet the speed of the ia
nous seven-legged boots hardly
surpassed the rate at which we
are really going, for every such
step really takes us eighteen miles
forward in space. Between the lift
and the fall of the foot we shoot
forward this great distance, and in
ordinary breathing, each successive
breath is taken fifty miles away
from the locality of the last. In
the short period in which the sec
ond hand of watch completes one
revolution and marks a minute
gone, we dart LOO miles through
space, so that a distance equal to
the enoted tour of the earth in
eighty days is travelled by every
one of us in every twenty-three
minutes of our lives. This, thus
barely presented, seems incredible,
yet it declares nothing more than
is involved in the annual revolution
of the earth around the sun. We
are, in reality, shooting constantly
in three separate directions through
space at speeds to which that OF
the cannonball is but a snaiPs pace.
In one direction we are mo ing for
ward at a rate Of sixteen miles per
minute. In a second direction we
far surpass this speed, and dart for
ward 500 miles per minute. But
the third line of motion is at the
extraordinary rapidity above men
toned, of LOO miles per minute.
The first of these motions is that OF
the earth on its axis; the second is
that of the movement Of the whole
solar system through space toward
the fixed stars 1.-THE third is that of the
revolution of the earth around the
sun, which carries us onward near
ly 600,000,000 of miles every year.
And yet the train which bears us
at this rate through space moves
with such smoothness that we find
it impossible to realize that there
has been any change of place
New York Star,
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LlNIM En- ].

This preparation is now being used by
and has the highest endorsement OF, the
leading stock dealers Of the South, many
of whom have given. voluntarily, strong
certificates of its wonderful merit in tho
treatment of stock to which it is specially
adapted. No farmer or owner of horses
and mules can well afford to be without
it, as the timely application of this Lini-
ment will save many valuable animals,
and restore them to usefulness. In con-
junction with it should be used the
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-06-07

The first case of the kind now on
the docket of the supreme court of
the United States, as to the rights
of a state to regulate freight and
fares of railroad companies within
its boundaries, is that of the Hi
nois Central Railroad Company.
It claims that under terms of its
charter it has the right to fix it's
own rates, and that the state can
not interfere. 1t is held by the
other side that the right of regula-
ton is a part Of the inalienable pc
lice power the state, and that so far
as the charter conflicts with this
power, it is void.
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What Drunkenness Does.

In days past 1 have seen drunk
enness and the effects thereof. i
have seen the dead bodies of women
murdered by drunken husbands; 1
have seen the best men in America
go down to disgracful graves; and 1
have seen fortunes wrecked, pros
poets blighted, and L haved perused
a great many pages of statistics
There are crimes on the calendar
not resulting from rum, but were
rum eliminated, the catalogue
would be so reduced as to make it
hardly worth the compiling. Di-
rectly or indirectly, rum is charge
able with a good 80 per cent. of the
woes that inlet our country.
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Too Much Haste.

A well-to-do veteran ofthe late war
recently married and started on his
bridal tour. The happy couple were
break fasting at station eating
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LININIENT.
HAN Nj ER S

If your Horses or Mules are troubled
with Splints, Calls, Sprain, Bruises, Flesh
Wounds, Lameness, Swellings, Stiffness,
Bighead, Windgalls, Fistula, Poll EVIL,
Ring Bone, Sprain, Mango. Cracked Heels
Callous, Sitfast, Collie, Ring Worm, and
external injuries, use Hammers
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A country merchant visited the

A country merchant visited the
city few days ago and purchased
from a dollar store a table caster,
which he took home with him, and
after putting a tag on it marked $14,
made a present of it to a Methodist
preacher, whose church his family
attended. The reverend gentleman
took the package home, opened 1t
and examined the contents. The
next day he took the caster with
the tag attached) back to the
groceryman, and said to him; II am
too poor in this worlds goods to
afford to display so valuable caster
on my table, and if you have no OBJ
lection, [ should like to return it
and take $14 worth of groceries in
its stead" The merchant could do
nothing but acquiesce, but fancy
his feelings.-Cincinnati Gazette.
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A farmer writes that a patch of
corn upon which salt has been
spread was not so much affected by
drought as another patch upon
which farm manure was used. The
yield wasalso larger.
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Fools and their money soon part.
Fourteen years ago four New York
youths inherited an estate of two
millions, and nov they have less
than half.a million left to show for it.
They lived like princes and will
probably die like paupers.
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STOCK

Powders, which are Invaluable in the
treatment of sick or injured animals.
They possess a great tonic power, and
will give strength when other medicines
have no effect. They have for the past
twenty years efcctGally cured in all cases,
Founder, Hide Bound, Loss of Appetite,
Yellow Water, Indigestion, Influenza,
Coughs, Colds, etc. They produce beanti-
ful, glossy hair, and should be used with
all stock occasionally, even if well.
WIN. LITTERER & CO.,
Sole ProDrietOrs,
NASHVILLE, TENN.
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The reason somany married women
keep pet dogs is because their hus-
bands are absent so much from
home. They don't have CANNES
for protection. It's because home
doesn't seem natutal with no growl-
ing about, and the dogs growl du-
ring the time the husband ought to
be attending to that duty,
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Philadelphia News: A southern
paper says no northern man can
gain correct ideas of life in the
south by talking with bar-room
loafers. No, indeed! The only
way is to move down there and try
to raise chickens or watermelons
without Calling gun.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-06-07

The census proves that the num-
Der of persons in a family in the
United States is a small fraction
over five. In some families the
husband is the small fraction over.
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THE CITIZEN.

zee NorthoassCOrncro rthe Square. Upstairs
rERas or SUBSCRIPTION;
TWO Dollars PER Anaum, always IA Advance
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Commissioner West occupied his desk quietly
and comfortably to-day with but few visitors
When asked what the news was for the nress he
replied 1.-THE Same old budget"
PERMITS TO BUILD.
Building permits issued by Inspector Entwsle:
Or. r Reyburn, repair frame, s3d street, between
yffessata avenue and street north west; g.
Chas. c. Gaaoapson, erect three three-story and
basement dwellings. q. ber~sen 9th aud 10th
streets northwest; s15.Oeo. Robert Sersey, erect
frame, Broad Branch road county; $500
PROPOSALS ACCEPTED.
The Commissioners to-day notided Mrs. Eleanor
T. Needs, A. j. Bentley, W. w. Corcoran and Mr..
ThoS w. Fowler that their proposals for selling
lots OF ground for the erection OF new school
houses had been accepted.
PRECAUTIONS AGAINST SMALLPOX.
DR.. Lattimer, in charge OF smallpox patients,
reports that everything in the way or precaution-
airy measures have been taken to prevent the
spread OF smallpox from any exposures that might
have arisen IN the case OF the little Wagner girl,
who died on Maryland avenue Also that Mr.. Sor-
refs family, where she lived, have been very pru-
dent and discreet Ia the isolation of the from
the public.
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The Resurrectionist Jansen.

SENTENCED TO JAIL FOR NINE MONTHS
To-day In the special criminal court the case Of
Vigo Jansen Ross, convicted OF grave robbing in
moving the body OF Charles Shaw DANCED at the
jail January 19th) from the potter's field in which
case motion In arrest OF judgment had been filed
by MIR. Mayne, was called. The court said this
was an interesting case; that the counsel, MI
Mayne, was right when he said that Blackstone
did not put it down an onense at common law.
Blackstone wrote in l745, but In the court OF
the kings bench 1t was held otherwise,
ana he read a number OF authorities sustaining
this view. He held that this was an indictable
offense, and it was not sufficient to show that IL
was for the advancement of science The court
asked was there case worse than this7 The body
IS stolen from the grave. taken to medical col:
lege, then stolen from the medical college and
carried round the streets IN a faa.aaer which
would disgrace quarter of beef. This nude corpse
In a carriage with two men and two horses, and
the bruteS were not outside.
Jansen said that he had never, in his twenty
five years residence here violated law. In this
case he thought DIR. Crook had the right to take
the body and he acted under the Doctors SuggeS-
tlOn He knew that the superintendent Of the
pOtter's field had been told to shut his eyes II he
had thought that he was committing q crime he
would not have done 1t.
The court said that there was some force in what
he Said but 1t an offense and he imposed a
sentence OF nine months in iail
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SOCIAL AYPAfn

Holy week pas. ssry quietly. The opera oamo
In as sort OF an agreeable aiscSap TO those 20.
pie who wanted light amusement OF I-c. sao 0n-
ful nature for the last week Ia Lent But other.
wise IL was very dull Therefore, Easter Monday
was seized upon with an nviiity thai resulted
from forced inaction, and the social world started
on again with rush that VIII carry IL far into
the summer Sc ason
The fashionable costume for women now is very
trying. To be really attractive a girl must have
nsure tnat Is Wen rounded without being
plump, and willowy without being thin. Sue
must be able 10 wear cloth dress made hy a
tailor, VIII Oh hts her Ike jersey. aud her face
must be well formed and every feature regular
ami striking so she may wear her hair a Ia CIRQUE
or n Ia Lanytry Her feet should be well shaped.
as the dresses are worn saOrt and her arms must
be symmetrical, else they VIII not be attractive.
IS their contour f. shown fully Hy the tlght-rttIne
sleeves. plain girl has little chance OF passing
for pretty one now dsys n she keeps In the
fashion. when skirts are v0luminous ana hair
could bc worn in any one OF the dozen different
coinares, she could conceal many or the less at
tractiVe points in her rsys,gQe, and bring into
prominence only those watch were g,-,.!. But
now, when simplicity rules the Gay and ndrlity 70
good ami bad points in a woman's makeup are
Drought out prominently.
Mr.. FAwcETT ON "TuH NOVEL,
Eigar Fawcett Is decidedly amusing character.
He was Invited TO make some sort OF a contr1bu.
ton TO the evenings entertainment at Mrs Court
land Palmers last week. when the Nineteenth
Century club listened 10 lecture on "The Novel,"
by Mr.. Julian Hawthorne. Mr.. Fawcett was ex-
pected TO read his own contribution but he sent it
instead. After IL had been read his wisdom in
staying away was at once apparent IL was A sort
or dlrge sung over the modern novel, and am
very much afraid that IL was guy on some OF the
members on the Nineteenth Century club and the
literary asprants who throng Mrs. CORTLAND
Palmer's parlors- But IL was received with great
applause, ana only a few listeners saw that sar.
casm was concealed beneath the surface OF the
Wen rounded and musical poem. Fawcet. often
does things OF this sort The man has
enough means TO live on, is member OF
Two OF our best clubs and deyotes
himself TO gossip and occasional writing
When he does write he produces effect il Is
not always good effect, but he gets talked about
and that Is all he cares for. The PLAYS he has
written have been so abominably bad In con-
suucton that the brightness OF the dialogue, and
the many sharp epigrams that they usualiy con.
talned were unnouced. This peculiar faculty of
his OF writing clever little things and spelling
their effect by surrounding them with n mass a
rubbish, or putting them In uncongenial places,
has done much towards making him an unsuc.
cesSful man OF letters He Affects 'languii air
and dresses fashlonahly.
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News Briefs.

Bishop Keane Will leave Richmond next Monday
for New York, whence he VIII 20 TO Rome. lie win
be absent about tour or i've months.
In Atlanta, Ga, Thursday night, several masked
men went 10 the home OF Mrs. Joshua Hill, aged
over seventy, and outraged her and two OF her
daughters. Two men have been arrested.
A furious snow storm prevailed in New York
yesterday, and In Philadelphia the telegraph wires
were broken by the sleet that formed upon them.
The suit brought by DIR. John W. Green, Ia New
York, against the New York Central ana HUDSON
River railroad company, TO recover $4,000 damages
for injuries TO his property 10y the defendant run
ming trains In front OF his premises, ended yestcr.
day In verdict for cents Tor plaintiff.
w. w. Gillis banker, or Clifton Springs NY.
has failed and fed. He Is said to have put out
$4,000 OF forged paper.
In Pittsyvania county, Va, few days ago, John
Hill, colored. and Buck and Fernando Walter
quarreled. Several shots fired one ball strtk.
Ing Buck Walter In the abdomen, tnnicting fatal
wound.
The police, in searching O'Herlhy after HIS ar
rest at Cork, found a letter purporting 20 come
from Mr.. OBrien, Mp and editor OF the Untte6
ireland
Three hundred and nfty emigrants left the sea.
port town OF BelmulleL County Mayo, yesterday
for America.
Perry H. Smith, a millionaire. OF Chicago, vs.
placed In the insane asylum IN Madison, Wis, yes.
tcrday.
Mr. Lewis r. DERRICK. of Ba umore. has pur.
chased Montpelier, the home or President Mad.
son, In Orange county, Va.
The Maryland court Of appeals has afYfrmed the
Judgment OF the circuit court for washington
county, which gave verdict or s. 900 State Sen
ator Joseph ii Farrow against the publishers Of
the Hagerstown Herald ana TOrci,ltgfa for libel
The body OF the man supposed 10 be Vim. Il
Fairfax, who committed suicide at the Mansio2
identified by Nj. Thomas, OF Frederick, Nd, e
his brother.
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Wills Filed.
Wits Flied.
REQUESTS OF CHAS. r, UTERMEHLE AND JANE Z.
ALEXANDER.

To-day the will OF the late Charles W. Utermehle
was filed with Register Ramsdell. He bequeathes,
during the natural life OF his widow, all his prop
erty her, and she Is to maintain his daughter 80
long oe as she remains SINGLE and IN
wife absolutely. At the death Of the widow his
daughter, Rose E. Freree, inherlts pit lot g. So.
407; another daughter, Ann X. Nixon, pit. So. 29l
Augusta L.. Utermehle, pit. SO. 291; Robert B.
Nixon, do, n trust to sell and divide between the
daughters.
The will OF Jane f. Alexander was also filed.
She leaves farm called Headache" in Prince
Georges counts, to BenJ F. Grey: to Jane E.
Mickle the Indebtedness to the estate; to Bette
Leitch certain articles at e34 Virginia avenue,
and the remainder of the furniture to b. F. Grey.
House No. 1912 ID street southwest is to be sold,
ana after the payment OF debts and funeral ex-
penSeS the balance is to be given Mr.. Alexander.
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RAILROAD ACCIDENT; SO PERSONS INJURHD.-
A broken rail near Mason. KY, on the Cincinnati
Southern railroad, yesterday threw the north
bound passenger train from the track. F1fty-threo
persons were injured, but none Killed. The cars
rolled down an embankment so feet high. Two
sleeperS were co mpleiely wrecked and one car wa0
burned. Mayor Mcdonald, OF enia, Ohio, We
seriously hurt The ladies car caught IRE, and for
a time the horrors or cremation Threatened those
who were imprfsoned I'm the overturned and spin.
tered cars. Fortunately the nre was extinguisho0
before ft had caught extensively, and thus an aW.
full calamity was averted- Most or the injured
were through travellers, number being from the
south The saddest cases were those OF F. q
Welsh and wife. OF ClevelandD Ohio, who had been
married only three weeks ago, and were returning
from their bridal trip from Jacksonville, Fsa Nj.
Welsh was very seriously hurt about the head ana
the ribs both sides were crushed. His wife sufS
fered severe internal injuries. Both are reported
to be In very critical condition.
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I'd Edition.
Latest kilograms kilograms to The Star.
Decision Against Claimants Of VaIua.
bic baltimore Property.

BALTIMORE, Nd, March 31--1n the city circuit
court to-day. Judge Duffy delivered his opinion In
the case OF Long ct al. agt Long ct al, involving
the title to several acres OF LAND In one OF the
complaint OF the plaintiffs. who Immediately took
an appeal Kennedy Long, who died In 1923, de-
vtSed to his children life estate In the property
in dispute, then worth only few thousand dol
lars, and at their deaths to their children. In 1893
IL was sold under chancery proceedings for distrl-
button, alleged in violation OF the provisions OF
erty. which IS covered with handsome and costly
residences, owned by many parties {all OF whom
were made defendantS} and is now estimated to
be worth over 81 ,OO0, 600 The case has occupie d
the time of the court for two weeks and been
fully argued by many OF the ableSt members of the
Baltimore bar, .