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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-08-30
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Up in Houston county there is a
young man who has heretofore
borne the reputation of being the
wickedest fellow in that section
where he lived. A very interesting
revival took place not long ago and
much interest was manifested.
One Of the ministers approached
the young man and asked him if he
had bible and he replied mega
lively. The good man advised him
to buy one and take it home and
read il. He said he had no money
to throw away on bibles. Then
the minister offered to give him one
and he refused to take it. He went
home and repaired to his farm.
While in the field an angry rain
cloud came, and soon vivid flashes
of lightning, began to play around
in the neighborhood OF the young
man. Soon a bolt came along and
knocked him winding over the cot
ton rows. The falling rain drops
in his face revived him after a few
minutes, and he proceeded toward
the house, but just before entering
the gate he received another shock
which laid him PROSTATE and help
less on the ground. Reviving
again he went into the house and
related to his wife the ordeal he
had just passed through, and how
near he had approached death.
Next day he went into town, bought
a bible, attended church during the
gracious revival, embraced religion.
This is one instance where a man
got religion by electricity
Montezuma (Ga). Record.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-08-30
Will All pav

Jackson Dispatch: The question
may be asked what enterprise will
pay? The statistics show that nearly
any manufacturing enterprise found
ed on a sound basis will pay in the
south, and as one succeeds there
will he demands for others. That is
the reason manufacturing towns
grow SO rapidly. Here in this Sec
tion where we are blessed with a
climate that will grow nearly any
kind of plant or product that can
be found between the tropics and
the frigid zone, we should not be at
a loss to select great many enter
prises that would pay.
A Rockford, Ala, girl gets up in
her sleep and goes out in her back
yard and chops wood. According
to local paper her father regrets
her somnambulism, but he always
leaves the AK handy.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-08-30
LOVERS BoREs
AROUND THE WAIST

A married lady, in whose house
hold the little god of love certainly
makes his abode, says the only sue
cessful proposition of which she
knows anything was made without
word being spoken. "John and l
sat looking in the fire a long time
without saying anything, when all
at once he put his arms around me.
When father came in a moment later
he said: Major, I'm going to steal
your daughter
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-08-30

Fashion Is the race OF the rich to
get away from the poor, who fol
low as fast as they can.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-08-30
ADVERTISING RATES /;

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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-06-21

There are certain characteristics con-
nected with 4 lazy man which are adj
mirable. They excite in the twanging,
jingling breasts of the nerv0tIsly fidgety
n feeling which borders on respect and
is akin. to awe. Your d0uble-geared
iidgety man viii spin all day like s. top
and run down in the cool of the evening
on the identical spot on which lie start
ed off after breakfast. The man suffer
ing from chronic lassitude will keep
still, keep cool, keep in the shade, put
ID full days work resting himself, and
arrive on time at sundown, cool, calm
and collected, without having once
sweat under the collar or laid hair.
The professional lazy man seems to
eat, drink and sleep with as much gusto
and sang taoid as his fidgety brother
with the high pressure anatomy and
patent double-cylinder, fast, perfecting,
hygenic apparatus who gets hot in the
box and wears and grinds and cuts his
life away like a piece of misfit machin-
cry. The fact of the whole business is,
the man of hustle and confusion wears
his life away for the want of the oil OF
rest. The professional lazy man just
soaks along through this vale of tears
like handful of cotton waste in the oil
cup of a bOx-car axle.
We have not the least doubt in the
world but that we could be profession
al man and not half try. If we had to
try very hard it would break the spell.
The charm would have flown, and
things would be sadly mixed. The mot
to of the man afflicted with chronic las
situdo is Give us q rest-Or rive us
death The professional lazy man
gets to the graveyard on schedule time
the same as the nervously tidgety gen.
tleman who worries along the pathway
of life like Texas mule fighting sand
flies. And the moral of all this is to the
effect that it is far better to be born Ia
zy than crooked, deformed, and as Rich
ard the LII. says, ''Sent into this breath
ing world scarce half made up" And
we have made up our mind that, to
slightly paraphrase Blackburn, of Ken
lucky, he who worries is worsted, and
he who frets is fried.-Te1Gs Sift57ags
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-06-21
John MCCULLOUGH and ]. Wilkes Booth

John Mccullough replied to some
questions 1 addressed him here during
last week, as follows: 81 presume l
have seen the entire band of mon John
Wilkes Booth was drilling for his scheme
to kidnap President Lincoln, yet he new
er introduced me to any of them, but
would turn aside when he might &C
cidently fall upon them at his room and
say: John, you don't want to be bored
with those flats. Come alongn think
the simplicity of my devotion to the
stage and my desire to rise on it saved
me from his confidence. He saw no po-
litical mettle in me. His own tempta-
ton sprang, perhaps, from not loving
his art enough to be satisfied with it.
Actors in all times have been very close
to the spirits who make conspiracies.
Shakespeare could have been in the gun
powder plots, as he was only 40 years
old when it was discovered in that circle
that frequented his theatre. Booth once
took ME riding, much against my will,
on horseback, to show ME, he said, a
good way to get out of town. Said l.:
John I'm sore as a hard-boiled egg and
want to leave by the train l found
him once in boots, spurs and gauntlets,
with a knife, pistol, and map of Mary
land before him, and hesprang upon mo
like Watchdog. Another time he bor-
rowed 800 of me to come to New York
and get some rebel friend out of prison;
he was poor and 80 was I, and l had to
rake to get the money and he to pay it
back. I found his wardrobe in Canada
and sent it to his mother; he had ship
ped it to Nassau and the vessel had been
wrecked l think he had little money,
though he did make some in speculation.
His mind was very intense; he always
was a Southern man. When his name
came out as the assassin, the scales fell
from my eyes and l interpreted what l
| had seen.-N. Y. Tribune.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-06-21
Ine UOIugO.

In the forests of the islands cOnstitut-
ing the Indian Archipelago is found a
curious flying animal that forms the
connecting link between the lemur and
the bat. The natives call it the colugo,
and also the ''fiying-fox, but it is more
like flying monkey, as the lemurs are
cousins of the monkeys. Like the bats,
these animals sleep in the daytime,
hanging from the limbs and branches
of trees, head downward; but as even
ing comes ON, they sally forth, often do
ing great harm to the fruit on the
neighboring plantations. In some parts
of Java they are so numerous that it is
found necessary to protect the fruit-trees
with huge nets. The extent of their
tonishing. They sometimes drop to the
ground and hop along with shufliing
kind of leap, but if they are alarmed,
they spring to the nearest tree and in a
moment reach its top eby q series of
bounds. Out upon the branches they
dart, and with rush are off into space.
Sailing through the air like some great
bird, down they go obliquely. swift as
an arrow, q hundred and fifty feet or
more, rising again in a graceful curve
and alighting safely on a distant tree.
In these great leaps they carry their
young, which cling to them, or some
times follow them in their headlong
flight, uttering hoarse and piercing
cries. The colugos live almost exclus-
lively on fruit, preferring pIantains and
the young and tender leaves of the Co
coa-palm, though some writers aver
that they have seen them dart into the
air and actually catch birds. The flying
lemurs are perfectly harmless, and so
gentle as to be easily tanned. They
have lovely dark eyes and very intelli-
gent and knowing faces.-C. T. Holder,
ia ST. Nicholas.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-06-21
A Transformed Rnttnrclln.

To look at these queer, irregular blue
flowers, growing on a long and hand
some spike in the old-fashioned garden
border, nobody would ever dream of
saying that they were in reality altered
and modified buttercups. And yet that
is just what they really. are, with all the
marks of their curious pedigree still
clearly impressed on their very form.
Pull one of the blue blossoms off, and
pick it carefully to pieces, and you will
been distorted by insect selection.
Monk s-hood Is most essentially bee-
flower, and in examining it we see the
results of bee action plainly set forth in
every organ. If VIC pick common
meadow buttercup for comparison with
it, we shall be able to see exactly where
in the two tlowxs differ, as well as why
the one has gained an advantage in the
struggle for existence over the other
Popular Science Monthly.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-06-21
What Ia Worko

may perhaps be allowed to put the
opening question, What is workp The
common reply is, ''Any pursuit by which
man earns or attempts to earn a liveli-
hood and to accumulate wealth" This
definition is the more to be regretted
because it cherishes, or rather begets,
the vulgar error that all persons who do
not aim at the accumulation of wealth
are elders" In point of fact such
men may be doing far greater services
to the world than the most diligent and
successful votary of tradc or a profess
sion. Darwin, having a competency,
was Herewith content. To him, and to
others of kindred minds, the opportun-
ity of devoting his whole life to the
search after scientific truth was boon
immeasurably higher than any conceiv-
able amount of wealth. Shall we call
him an idler? Nor is science the only
field which opens splendid prospects to
men OF independent means. Art, litera-
ture, philanthropy, have all their de-
partments, unremuneratiVe in q COM
merciai point of view, or at least not
remunerative, and for all these cultiva-
tors are wanted. Therefore, reversing
the advice given by routine moralists, l
would say to wealthy young men of
ability: 'Do not take up any trade,
business, or profession, but do some of
the world unpaid work. Leave money
making to those who have no other
option, and be searchers for truth and
beauty" Every one who follows this
advice will contribute something to show
the world that the race for wealth is not
the only pursuit worthy of o rational
being. I should define work as the con-
scious systematic application of mind or
body to any definite purpose.-Frona
't BRAIN Work and Hand Work, >" IN Pop
NlGr Science Monthly.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-06-21
Enough Puppies until After Election

''Did you ever hear about John Os-
born and his setter pupsp'
On being informed that his listener
had not only not heard of them but, was
surprised that the man owned setter
pups, he began:
"John Osborn ran for Sheriff in St.
Paul, Minn., and while he was working
all the boys with his good nature he had
frequent calls at his house, and when
ever man with fancy for field sports
came the talk always fell upon a beauti-
full setter and her fine puppies.
"'Nice puppies John.
"'Yes, bully puppies, amt theyP'
"'They are the most beautiful setter
pups | ever saw anywhere.
''Then the candidate for sheriff would
take the man aside, and, in 8 confiden-
tial tone, tell him:
"tYou Just wait till after election
and I'll give you one of those pups
"This thing had been going on for a
couple of weeks, and one evening man
shut the door and left the house with
the promise of pup lingering in his ear,
when Mrs. Osborn asked:
John, how many puppies are
thereP'
"' Five. WhyP'
".Well, l was thinking that tonight
you had promised the twenty-third man
that he should have one of them
"'Oh, well, Mary said Osborn, don't
you think it would be mean man to
run for sheriff who wouldn't promise q
pup to his friendP'' Washington Re-
publican.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-06-21
How She Kent Him at Home

I heard good story the other day
about venerable ex-member of Con-
gress from Pennsylvania, who has boen
married twice, and has for his second
wife a lively young lady who is extrom
ely fond of social gayeties. Not long
ago she made an engagement to accom-
pany young naval officer to ono of the
fashionable balls, and told her husband
she was going, but neglecting to say
that she had secured an escort. He ap-
peared to be pleased and said that he
would accompany her. This was more
than she had bargained for, and she re-
sorted to various expedients to get him
to stay at home. The more reasons she
gave, the more he was determined to go.
Things were getting desperate when
bright idea struck her. She took the
old gentleman false teeth and hid them,
and when the evening came he was still
without those necessary adjuncts to
nrastication. He wondered and raved,
and raved and wondered, but it was
no use, he couldn't find them, and final
ly was obliged to remain at home, while
his wife tripped gaily to her carriage,
and spent most delightful evening
Correspondence Boston GTdUeler.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-06-21
Tit For Tat

Old Uncle Nose was hired to remove
load of rubbish from the house of Col.
Percy Yerger, ON Austin Avenue. The
old rascal piled on very little loads, he
being paid by the load.
'sLook here, Uncle Mose," said Col.
Yerger, ''if you had put q decent sized
load on that car you could have carried
it all off at one load"
81 know it, boss; but my ole hoss am
weak, and I has jined de sciety for the
perpetration Of cruelty to animals, and
it am agin my principle to put too heaby
a load on my poor ole hoss."
.'All right, Nose am glad you
have got such good heart. Do you
want a dramp'
The aged African worked his lips
convulsively, and calculated:
''Does want dram. Boss, Use
perishin' for dram Thank yer, boss;
thank yer kindly for dat ar dram you
am gwine ter glib me-
''Not so fast, Uncle Nose. l merely
asked if you wanted a drink. L would
like to give you one, but / know that
you are like your old horse, you are
rather weak, and have already got as
big load as you can carry. Besides,
am member of the Austin Temperance
Society, and it is against my principle
to encourage drunkenness"
'sCol. Yerger. 1 has always knowed
yer for a jayhawk lawyer. but now
knows yer for a mean man, and de wust
enemy OBJ de cullud race in Austin
Ter0S SjttiqaqS
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-06-21
Uf The Moman-KInd.

The frivolity of woman as well as her
mental inferiority is illustrated, says the
Boston Transcript, is an incident re-
ported in the New York newspapers, as
follows:
Mrs Susannah Taylor, in the Essex
Market Court, charged her husband with
having called her vi1o nanaoe, strucl, hnr
in the face and put her into the stree.
He was fined $40. The prisoner went
through his pockets and pulled out
So, 25. cit is all have" he said.
''Well, you'll have to pay the whole, ="
said the judge. ''Get it from your wife.
You've beaton her, but like most wives
she'll, no doubt, take pity on you. :"
Taylor, led toward the prison, was met
by his wife, who handed him $5.
II can't bear to see him locked up" she
said, her eyes filled with tears. Taylor
took the money rudely, paid his fine,
and then said to her, roughly: This is
the last time you'll see me. I'll take
good care to leave the city and you to-
night The woman drew tho little
child who accompanied her to her breast
and kissed it tenderly, but uttered no
protest against her husbands latest act
of unkindness.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-06-21

The most costly pair of shoes ever
made in the United States were made
for a young lady some years ago to wear
to fancy dress ball given by MIR. Aug
ust Belmont. Those who attended the
ball will recollect them, as they were
the cynosure of all eyes. The girl who
wore them had & most beautiful arched
foot They were made of yellow Span
ish velvet, with high Louis XIV. heels,
and laced up the side. The eyelets for
the golden cord to pass through were
trimmed with solid gold, and TO the side
of each was set a precious stone, first a
ruby, then sapphire, then an emerald,
then an opal, and over again in the
same order. The top of the shoe was
finished in tho same fashion, and in
front were sixteen tiny gold chains,
caught by a cluster diamond pin. The
girls mother, two aunts and q grand
mother all gave up their jewels and had
them taken out of the settings for the
whim of this beauty, who married well,
| long ago.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-06-21

Wharton J. Green, Congressman-olect
from North Carolina, at whose house
David Davis was married, is largely en-
gagged in grape-growing and wine-mak-
ing, and is proprietor of the Tokay vine
yard, near Fayetteville, which is claim
ed to be the largest single vineyard in
the United States, east of the Rocky
Mountains. Mr.. Green was at West
Point short time, when young, as q
cadet, but afterward graduated from
the University of Virginia, took the rebel
side in the war, was wounded at Gettys-
burg. captured, and kept a prisoner un-
til just before the Confederacy COLLAPSE
ed, and then took to farming and grape
growing, in which business he is an en-
thusiast. In 1882 he made $4,000 gal
Ions of wine, and this year, if the season
proves favorable, he expects 10000 gall
Ions.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-06-21

Fifty-nine years ago Mr.. Jacob Aug
ustine, the spruce young son of one of
the pioneers of Ohio reached his 21st
year, and his good mother gave him a
roll of homemade wooden cloth spun by
her own hands, and woven by neigh
Dor, wherewith to have wedding suit
made The happy day was set, but the
expectant bride was taken i'll and be-
came demented. Mr.. Augustine laid
his wedding suit away, and no one saw
it again till few weeks ago. MIR. Aug
ustine had died, and his executor, look
ing for the will, found laid away in the
bottom of n well-flled chest the we'd
ding suit, carefully folded and wrapped
in a sheet. Within it was the will, and
in the left sleeve of the coat (thus ao-
curate and careful in details is the local
chronicler) was found S625 in gold.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-06-21
RAvENNA, O., THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1888

Jack turned an eye of sadness on the
questioners. He answered in two dole
full words:
'EThe widy."
''The widyp"
Jack mournfully nodded his head.
''Them kids was her cosmetics she
said, and her brown wig and freezetts
were upstairs with-her sea-foam teethn'
Jack groaned and hurried on:
"She was walking In her sleep, you
see, and when she Weakened up there In
front of me, she poured out the greatest
lamentations you ever heard"
"WellP"
swell, gentlemen, 1 ran away. I
knew if I'd see her with them freezetts
and things on sgain. I'd be goner.
She WAS a-widy, you know"
"And you didn't marry herP'
mother, gentlemen.
With that solemn rejoinder. Jack re-
turned to his pipe and his meditations.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-06-21

Miss Snowball's love letter: Miss
Matilda Snowfall, having closed the
door, approached the lady of the house
in q most mysterious manner and asked
as favor that her employer write let
ter to Sam Johnsing. ''What do you
want me to writeP'' write him dat
was at de corner at de pointed hour,
and dat he didn't come" .'Well, I've
got that down" sDen add to dat ar;
4 consoles myself wild de fond hope you
was KEEP away by sickness. Your only
true lub, Matilda SNOWFALL
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-06-21
CHURCHBS.

UNTVERsALIsT- = Rev. ANDREW WIILsoN
Pastor. Services every Suaday at ~ :30 .. NJ.
rad 7:3O D. m. Sunday school at II % p m.
Pastors residence on Diamond street, nrstd door
north OF Main.
CONGRE,i ATIOEAL = REV, A: M HILLS;
Pastor. Services on Sunday at 10 30 A. M, ana
:sOP.A Sunday School at 2l5 p N. frayer
eIectIrg on Thursday Evening at so, =,
Mk1 HUDlST REV. IL. M. FKEsHWATEH' NJ
A. Pastor. Ser vices en- Sunday at lU ~ A. M
aud : 90 P N. Sunday School at IL 10 r N N
Prayer Meeting on Thursday Evening ae Z 'Ov'
DISCIPLE REV. M L; sTREAToR; P"stor'
services Sunday at 10 80 A, NJ, ana :SO +: N
sunday school at12-15 P. N. Prayer Meeting
Sn Thursday Evening at7 30. ,,, ~,
IMMACULATE COSCEPrION-CAIHO u y
-REv. J oS, ID, ,B0wLEs Pastor. Services ato anu
- 81 each alternate Sunday. Sunday School At
t:3OP q. High Mass, sunday. July 4. and eacn
8. .ternate Sunday thereafter. Mass every Week
ny morning ut z 80. =.
GRACE CuURCH-EPISCOPAL- 81.
Rev. j. w. GtLMAN. Rector. Services on
sunday at 10 so A. M, and sabbath School I'm :
~. iatel y after service. Evening Service at
the usual hour.
CkKWOODCHAPEL- street. Rev.
~ ". Bnrdick Pastor. Services Sunday eve
ming at 80. Union Sunday School at O'CLOCK
III M. each SundaI.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-06-21

DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes recon-
mends the planting of trees as monu-
ments. "If it is something" he says,
.'to make two blades of grass grow
where only one was growing it is much
more to have been the occasion of the
planting of an oak which shall defy
twenty scores of winters. or of an elm
which shall canopy with its green cloud
of foliage half as many generations Of
mQgsal SMmoStalitieS - 'ss''fs-'-,----zv-
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-06-21

els wealth monopolyP' asks the
Boston B&lietin, Thats depends upon
who has it, If it is you-yess if it is
We-no>-G GfdpkSG>
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-06-21
sANA ARsOR. MlOH7 Dee %. lesa.

RUSSIAN 'MULBERRY-HARDY beau
tiul, quick growing tree for the lawn while
the fruit is valuale for table use.s BY mail.
i2 20 Is inch szs, is cents each, 81, ,5 per dozen
q,l5 a1sss 8 ;.s:,sR ;.ss 1.H % Ts,. .;thon.ex
&c ptioH. the bes ia richest Peach wo arc esac-
gu nted Nish % tabls use andcanniD n z pur-
pose 81 Is &C oodaize, rel low sk n, and fetfl
a. ve7oas sxgo1ds sthic Fea tcdt small pity cry
hardy, and one of tho nIastsAbun6ant bearers OF
any sort known 1t reproduces itself every t'rne
from the pit One yoar old trees, by express, z
to3' feet IS Ceuts each; S5,5o per dozez.
WATERLOO pEACa.-sltos n IS CTS. eaca
he largest and beat worry carly peach grown
RipenS sbou. middle Of July.
"SH4 BOB THE COMING STKAwEEssY-
The Digkest and most uslforEa In siZe this kes;
Favored and most productive, and the vine, the
hardest, Price by Esil 8 60 per doz or $t
RaSenna. March sOi 1888 76a-sm
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-06-21

A black bare-a Hottentot, Against
the grain-rust and rats>--A miss-ht
Mysteries,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-06-21

Pennsylvania viii build more rail-
roads this year than in any recent
twelve mouths,