The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-06-05

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in the public schools from using to
bacco.
A st. Louis doctor relieves neu
ralgic pains by passing a tuning
fork over the course of the nerve
for half an hour.
Maury, in Tennessee, is the ban
ner county of the United States fol
mules. It's annual shipment is from
1000 to 5000.
Capitalists who invested in the
new towns, Oxanna and Admission,
Ala, are anxious to sell out at %
and so cents on the dollar.
A few days since a lot on Wall
street, New York, one door from the
stock exchange, twenty-one feet
front by sixty-seven feet deep, was
sold for $325,OOO.
Pennsylvania has an editor nine
ty-one years old. He attributes his
long life and excellent health to the
fact that he never expected to please
everybody and never tried to.
A bill has been introduced in con-
gress, providing that it shall be un-
lawful to collect fare on any convey
ance throughout the United States
when passengers are unable to pro
cure seat.
Every year $SOO,OOO,OOO are spent
for liquor and only $12O,00O,00O for
sermons. But it must be remem-
bered that there are sermons in
stones, and liquor must be looked
for in more costly substances.
In a recent western political con-
vention an ex-preacher, who is now
politician, offered the following
resolution: Resolved, That the
weak shall inherit the earth; and,
further resolved, that we are weak"
"Don't you think 1 have a good
face for the stageY asked a lady
with histrionic aspirations. 81 don't
know about the stage" replied her
gallant companion, 'but you have a
lovely face for a buss."
The perils incident to stock
gambling are well illustrated by the
fate of James r. Keene, Of New
York. Three years ago his fortune
was estimated at $7,O0o,0O0. A
few days ago he failed to meet his
obligations for $4,000.
If this government is to be turn
ed into charitable institution for
the Grant family a bill ought to be
passed to keep Ulysses and the boys
out of Wall street. Isn't it about
time anyhow to stop this begging
business for Grant?
Wall street retired Grant as a
bankrupt; then the senate retired
him as an ex- general, and now his
son retires him as q fool. At last
the old mans ambition for third
terms is in a measure appeased.
The senate gets nice little motto
es like this: Having neglected its
own business rather successfully,
the United States senate spent the
bulk of the day yesterday discuss
ing the affairs of the gentlemen who
gamble for a living on Wall steeet. "
President White, of Cornell Uni
versity, said the other day: when
young man leaves college he is
generally a free trader, but when he
comes to look about him and see
business interests Of the country
that have been fostered by protec-
tion, he generally modifies his the
ory."
The best thing to give to your
enemy is forgiveness; to an oppo
nent, tolerance; to a friend, your
heart; to your child, good exam
Pile; to your father, Difference; tC
your mother, conduct that will
make her proud of you; to yourself
respect; to all men, charity.
The Nashville correspondent o
the Louisville Courier--Joura-
states that '1ess than a year agt
Judge Frank T. Reid declared t.
several prominent democrats IL this
city that he was free trader, rail
road regulator, an ex-confederate
and was a member of the kuklu1
khan during its reign in Tennessee.
Aguero's adventurous little bant
of filibusters have not yet been cap
tured. Informatian from Cuba i
to the effect that he is receiving re
endorsements and that the insured
ton, if it can be called such, in
stead of being subdued is becoming
more general. 1t is hardly proba
ole, however, that Aguero will il
volve Cuba in anoth er rebellion.
The sun never sets on the Britisl
Empire, nor does it on our republic
1t shines on Alaska when not shir
ing on other of our possessions
We have avalanches of snow j
Colorado and Utah, howling bli.
yards in Montana and Dakot
fruit-trees in bloom in Texas, stray
berries in Florida, snow drops
Massachusetts, and wheat kne
high in California.