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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-06-04
Hmgo,s strange nelIer.

Victor Hugo was always con
WINGED that he would meet all his
friends in future world. He was
equally sure that he had always
existed from the antediluvian times
when the Creator placed him ON
earth. He believed that he would
exist forever, inasnuch as he felt
in his soul thousands of hymns.
dramas and poems that had never
found expression. When the athe-
lists would say TO him: "The proof
that you will not exist in the fu-
ture is that you did not exist in the
past" Hugo would answer: "Who
told you | did not exist in the past
centuries? You will say that is the
legend OF the ages. The poet has
written: Life is a fairy tale twice
written He might have said a
thousand times written. There is
not an age in which l cannot
not find my spirit
81 do not believe in the doctrine
OF surviving personalities for the
reason that you do not recollect
your interior existence. But how
can the recollection of vanished
ages remain imprinted on your
memory when you do not remember
a thousand and more scenes and
events of your present life2 Since
1902 there have been ten Victor
Hugos in me. Do you think that
can recall all their actions and all
their thoughts2 The tomb is dark,
and when L shall lave passed the
tomb to emerge into light once
more all these Victor Hugos will be
almost wholly strangers to me, but
it will always be the same soul"
III. Viennet, a wag, asked Hugo
one day who was the greatest poet
of his time, whereupon Hugo drily
answered; alfred de Musset is
the second greatest poet"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-06-04

"You ought to have your baby
baptized 'Rastus," said a member
of the church to q colored father.
eyes, sab, but l can't afford de
cost"
cit dosen't cost anything"
81 know it costs nuthin' 70 de
meresact OF. baptism, sab, but yo'
see l owe de minister So for per-
formin' de weddin' cer'mony a year
ago, an he mought object, sab, to
baptizin' baby dat hadn't never
been paid fo',"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-06-04

A Berlin school contains at pres
ent scientific novelty of particu-
lar interest, namely, a monster
movable globe, made of copper, the
world of blind clock-maker, on
the construction of which the ener-
getic man spent seventeen years of
his life. The globe, which repre-
sents the earth, turns on its own
axis by means of mechanism. An
artificial moon moves around the
globe in % days and 6 hours, while
a movable metal band, on which
the hours are marked, indicates the
mean time in the different parts of
the earth. Round the upper part
Of the immense globe, which
weighs ton and q half and whose
surface measures no less than 12G
feet IN diameter, spins a railroad
car Capable ofholding six persons)
which serves to give a better view
OF the regions of the north pole.
The painting OF the globe is done
In oil, and necessitated the employ
ment Of two men during one entire
year. The sun is represented by an
apparition lighted by an immense
Drummon calcium light, which en-
ables the spectator to catch the
origin and change of the different
portions of the day and early dawn,
the twilight eclipes Of the sun and
moon, etc.-Artisan.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-06-04
Nnrristnmn Herald: A snnrtinr

Norristown Herald: A sporting pa
per contains an article entitled: allow
to prevent accidents in the game OF
base ball" This difficulty may be
overcome by the substitution of gar
den-digging for baseball. A young
man who is digging the garden never
gets injured by running the bases or
by the bat flying out ofanother players
hand, though when he gets through the
game ne may be induced to think he
has exchanged back with man 1877
years old,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-06-04
A STRAIGHT Verdict,

A coroner's jury returned a YER
dict to the effect that a certain
prominent man had died Of alcohol
ism.
"Your verdict is absurd" some
one said to the coroner.
"Why sop
because he was never known to
drink"
That's fact"
"He never went into a saloon"
"You are right"
"Then why do you say he died
from the effects of alcoholism, when
we all know he was shot?'
That's all very true" the coro-
ner replied, "but the man who shot
him was drunk. Don't talk to me,
if you please. 1 understand my bus
mess. Deceased was killed by whis-
Traveller.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-06-04

An Indiana law student was caught
in the act of vigorously arguing an i'm
aginary case before a saw-horse and
twelve sticks of corkwood, the latter
representing the jurors ana the former
the Judge. He "allowed" that he new
er appealed to "a more intelligent jury,
nor ever argued before a more impair
tail Judge.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-06-04

Says Mr.. Montgomery of the
Southern Live Stock Journal: Re
Gently we have been using ink made
from Diamond Dyes" One pack
age, costing only ten cents, and
which can be had at almost any
drug store, will make one quart of
ink. We use a violet color. Ills
ink does not oorrodo the pen as ia
the case with black ink.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-06-04

The latest puzzle is; 'If a man
puts 800 in bank the day he is
twenty-one years of age, what sum
must he add to it yearly TO have
$4,000 on the day he is fifty years
of age, receiving six per cent. com
pound interest on his money" This
puzzled some of the best arithme-
ticians.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-06-04

l. To cure or prevent chicken
cholera, keep a water-trough near
the roost with a poke root in it.
Shell a little corn in it. If the
chickens drink this water, or eat
the corn, they will have no cholera.
2. To cure calves or colts Of the
scours, give two or three raw hen
eggs, one at time.
3. To prevent lice on hens, make
their perches Of sassafras poles.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-06-04

Let times be good or bad, money
be plenty or scarce, production fall be-
low or exceed consumption, that farm
er is most successful, other things be-
ing equal, who has the most to sell. 1t
matters but little how the gmarkets
range, if one has nothing to put on
them ;-if the country if full of money,
if one has nothing to offer in exchange
for it. There is no ground for the farm
or to expect to secure a full purse I'M
less he has full grAineries and well
stocked pastures from which to sell.
Low prices afford no reasonable pre-
text for diminishing ones individual
production. Indeed if more be re-
quired to secure the same cash returns
there is the same reason to make every
acre increase its contribution to the to-
tai of production. In short, let cir
cumstances be as they may, he who
would best thrive by agriculture must
bend his energies to securing the great
est possible yield from every branch OF
farm work.-National Stockman.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-06-04

Opposition to slavery was very gen.
eral among enlightened southerns fifty
or sixty years ago. The early anti
slavery sentiment in Virginia is we'll
known. The planters Of the upper
districts OF South Carolina held con-
vention in 1916 to devise measures for
putting an end to the slave trade and
for the abolition of slavery. The pre-
amble and resolutions passed by this
convention were as emphaticias any ev-
er adopted by northern abolition con-
vention. But the people of the south
were not allowed to nip the institution
of slavery in the bud. II was greatly in
the pecuniary interest Of the owners of
the northern commercial marine to en-
courage the importation of slaves, and
under such condition it was difficult, if
not impossible, for the southern states
to roll back the black wave.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-06-04

The activity everywhere notieea
bic among the farmers tells the sto
~ of mans faith in the divine as
surance of seed time and harvest
There may be a backward spring
and this may be followed by drouth
or excessive rains. There may
come pestiferous insects to devour
the grain, or there may come un
timely frOsts to blight and other
wise destroy the ripening cereals.
In the face of all these possibilities
farm work goes on, and will contin-
ue to go on until the harvest is
shouted home. What practical les
sons are taught the church of God,
by these sons Of toll, as they turn
the furrow, scatter the seed, cult
vate the soil and garner the fruits
of their industry. The word OF God
comes to US, "Be not weary in well
doing for in due season ye shall
reap if We faint not" What do the
discouragements signify in the face
of this divine assurance of ultimate
success. Let Paul go on planting
and let Apollos go on watering.
There is no occasion for any man,
diVinely commissioned to work in
the great fields of God, to borrow
trouble over a prospective failure OF
a spiritual crop. God will give the
increase, and that in His own way
and measure. Let us have faith in
the Great Head of the church, and
quit ourselves like men, knowing
that our labor is not in vain.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-06-04
PA = EN S

Obtained, and eli PATENT BUSINESS
attended to for MODERATE FEES.
Our Office is opposite the U s. Patent Once,
and We can obtain Patents in less time than
those remote from " ASHINGTON.
Send MODEL OR DRAWING. We advise
Us co patontability free of charge; and We
MAKE NO CHARGE UNLESS PATENT
Is SECU RED.
We refer, here. to the Postmaster, the
Sups. of the Money Order Div, and to OH
eials of the o. s. Patent Office. For Circu-
lar, advice, terms and references to actual
clients in your own State or County, WrIte TO
G.. A. SNOW 81 CO.,
Opposite Patent oaice, Washington, D. C.
decI1-tf.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-06-04
SEASON OF 1885.
Johnson Denmark

WILL mako the season at Jno. W. Fry s
w stables between Old Lynnville and the
station, at $40 to insure, with the usual re-
strictions. Pasture or grain feed furnished,
This celebrated horse was sired by Jas. ?.
Sohnson's Fayette Denmark; no by Wash
ington Denmark; he by Gaines Denmark;
he by the race horse Denmark. Fayette
Denmark's dam was by Gray Eagle; End
dam by Imp. Chorister; Cd dam by Imp.
Hedgoford. Johnson DEHnARK was ont of
tho celebrated Fleming mare, Nellie, show
ing that he descends from the best saddle
stock of kentucky, backed up by thorough
breds. .
Ho is u years old this spring, full sixteen
hands high, dark bay, style unsurpassed,
perfect model in form, with splendid, weight
and tremendous power, muscle and bono of
race horse, with an eye like an eagtes he is
a Saddle and Harness Horse am ,oUh lete in
one volume This Denmark -5SGniiY were
celebrated in Kentuekylfeg6 number of
years as saddle stock and row outrank any
other for saddle purpcseso He has proven
himself an extraordinary fine breeder, his
colts showing foB themselves.
If FRY * GARRETT.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-06-04

In Arizona any persO who uses pro-
fame, indecent, vile, or abusive Ian
gusge or threats, within the hearing Of
women or children, is held liable by
law to fine or imprisonment.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-06-04

An old government clerk at
Washington asserts that fully 1000
lottery tickets are bought monthly
by employees of the various depart
ments, and that the female clerks
are as persistent buyers as the
male
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-06-04

True diplomacy is the art of hid
ing your money where your wife
cannot find it, and then to lie in bed
pretending to be asleep as you
watch her go through your clothes
in an unproductive hunt.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-06-04

A little salt in the food given the
fowls is acceptable to them. 1t
should not exceed in quantity the
amount used in food for the table.
The writer lost a valuable Wyan-
dotte hen one year ago by giving
too much salt at q time.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-06-04

In the United States circuit court
at Cleveland, o., Judge Baxter pre-
siding, it has been decided that
losses on margin speculation can
not be collected, on the ground
that such transactions are gam
bling.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-06-04

The nutmeg state is now report
ed to have recently flooded the
Australian colonies with cigars
made wholly of paper, carefully
colored and veined, and favored
with nicotine.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-06-04

melted lard, and brush that in.
The lard is necessary to reduce the
strength Of the kerosene, for if ap-
piled pure it. would be too strong
for the cattle. Some mix sulphur
with lard TO apply for lice, but this
is apt to make little sores on the
skin, especially in cold weather. II
cattle are kept in good flesh, lice
rarely attack them; if they get on
calves they retard their growth
badly and otherwise iniure them.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-06-04

New York Sun: Country editor
TO minister 81 hear that you
preached yesterday on Save My
Lambs Mr.. B."
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-06-04

Country editor-"Would YOU
mind giving me q synopsis of the
sermon for this weeks issue. We
have just added an agricultural de
partment to the paper and it's
catching the farmers both right and
left -
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-06-04
Cheap Saw MIL.
PRICE $500.
HOUSE FOR SALE.

I WANT to sell my new residence on East
j Hill-will soil on reasonable terms. APP
ply to me on tho Premises or at the South
ern Express Co. J. L. PEARCY.
feb5-tf.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-06-04
Ruby's Visit.

IJT Ell her come to the farm, :"
said old Mr.. Ennis. "She'n
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-06-04
Holmes mi ment
MOTRER'S FRTEND.

Ia an INESTIMABLE BOON 60 all child
bearing women; u real blessing to suffering
females; truo
Smyrna times., 1885-11-25

KISSED BY MAIL.-A young post
master of a village post office was hard
at work when a gentle tap was heard
upon the door, and in stepped a BASH
full maiden of sixteen, with money
order, which she desired cashed. She
handed it to the official with bashful
smile, who, after closely examining it,
handed her the money it called for.
At the same time he asked her if she
had read what was written on the
margin of the order.
No, have not" she replied, for l
cannot make it out. Will you please
read it for me?"
The young postmaster read as fol-
lows: Il send you SO and dozen
kisses"
Glancing at the bashful girl, he said /:
Now | have paid you the money and
suppose you want the Kisses"
Yes" she said, If he has sent me
any kisses want them, too"
1t is hardly necessary to say that the
balance of the order was promptly
paid, and in a scientific manner at that
and eminently satisfactory to the coun-
/ try maiden, for she went out of the
office smacking her lips as if there was
a taste on them she had never encoun-
tered before. After she arrived home
she remarked to her mother "Eh,
mother, but this post Office system OF
ours is great thing, developing more
and more every year, and each new
feature added seems to be the best
Jimmy sent me g dozen kisses along
with the money order, and the post.
master gave me twenty. 1t beats the
special delivery system all hollow"
Smyrna times., 1885-11-25

Mr.. BAYARD's GENEALoGY.-The
New York World says: "At a meet
ing of the Holland Society last night,
the members of which are all descend
ants by the male line from the Dutch
settlers In America prior to 1875, a
number of additional members were
elected, among them Thomas F. Bay
ard, Secretary of State. Mr.. Bayard's
first progenitor in this country was
Petrus B. Bayard, son of Balthazer
Bayard, who came to New York, then
New Amsterdam, with his widowed
mother, Anna Bayard, sister of Peter
Stuyvesant, first Dutch governor oft
province. This was in 1647, and in the
recorders office far New Castle county,
at Wilmington, Del, will be found the
record in 1851 of the purchase of Petrus
Bayard of some land known later as
Bombay Hook Island, conveyed to him
by Sir Edmond Andros, lieutenant of
the Duke of York, and Meckahissela and
his son, chiefs of the Indian tribe in
possession. The father of this Petrus
was a French Huguenot, who found
an asylum in Holland about the
time of the massacre of St. Bartholo-
mew."
Smyrna times., 1885-11-25

1t is now proposed to provide the
weather bureau with an oceanic annex
for the prediction of easterly gales.
The scheme cOntemplates the mOoring
of buoy raft and signal ship some
400 miles eastward of Sandy Hook, to
be connected by a telegraph cable with
Nantucket. The ship is to be provided
with an operator whose duty it will be
to warn all points along the coast of
coming gales. 1t may also serve as an
ocean post office, and as a relief ship to
any disabled vessels that may happen
along in its neighbOrhood. Ifthe plan
be found to work all right, it is further
proposed to establish similar ocean sta
tions off Newfoundland, Cape Hatteras
and Charleston.
Smyrna times., 1885-11-25

OUTWITTING THE SHERIFF.-A cor
respondent tells the story of an old
time Bangor sea-captain's escape from
a sheriff, many years ago. The sher-
if went aboard the schooner with a
warrant for the captains arrest. The
mariner received him cordially and in
Vited him to step into the cabin to take
refreshment This refreshment was
taken in the guise of drink of Santa
Cruz rum, which the captain had
brought from the West Indies, himself.
The sheriff took several drinks and
swapped a number of jokes and yarns
with the captain, becoming exhilara-
ted and forgetting his errand. At last
he bethOught himself of his duty and
told his entertainer, with an express
sion of regret, that he must arrest him
and take him before magistrate, hop
ing that the trouble would be ex-
planned and the respondent discharged.
"But, Mr.. Sheriff." replied the cap
tain, you are not within your baili-
wick-you can't execute that precept
now" Why" said the sheriff, 1--WE
are at Bangor, amt we?" Well, no, /
rather guess not" said the captain.
We've got pretty well down the bay
by this time. Do you want to go to
Baltimore with me?"
Smyrna times., 1885-11-25
Periodicals..

HdTper's MdgGzine.-Th Christmas
number of Hdrper's Magazine will be
strong in stories. Besides installments
of Miss Woolson's EAST Angels" " and
of Mr.. HOwell's "Indian Summer"
and the latter's farce, "The Garroters," :"
there will be Christmas story, Way
down in Lonesome Cove" by Charles
Egbert Craddock Miss Murfree); ;
another, "The Madonna of the Tubs"
by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, said to be
the strongest short story she has writ
ten third tale Esther Feverel !" by
Brander Matthews, and ghost story,
"Wyvern Moat," by Geo. H. Brough-
ton. All these are fully illustrated.
Frank LesIie's Sunday Magazine for
December closes the eighteenth volume
of this well-known favorite magazine
with table of contents which is at
tractive and timely. 1t is especially
rich in portraits, containing the Rev.
r. I. Thornton, the English cricketing
parson; the late Earl of Shaftesbury !;
Bishop Maclagan, OfLichfield, England,
and a view of the Cathedral Bishop
Wordsworth, the new Bishop of Sails
bury, England; the Rev. Moses A
Hopkins, the newly appointed colored
Minister to Liberia the late Bishop
Henry G. Lay, of Easton, Md, and
the late Cardinal McClOskey, of New
York, each with biographical skecth.
Published by Mrs. Frank Leslie, SO. 55
and 81 Park Place, New York city, at
25 cents a number, or $3.50 a year,
postpaid.
an Excellent Paper.-It seems almost
unnecessary for US to call attention to
a paper so well and favorably known
as the Youths Companion, of Boston.
1t has been for fifty-eight years a
weekly visitor, and each year has
shown more clearly it's wonderful use
fulness to the class of readers for whom
it is prepared.
1t would be interesting to trace its
influence in the case of two families
one of which began, we will suppose,
twenty years ago, to provide it for theiI
children to read, while the other fur.
nished the more sensational publica
tions. The contrast would no doubt be
a striking one.
Parents can give their children few
things of more value and Importance
in their growth of mind and of charac
ter than a wide-awake, intelligent
wholesome paper into whose manage
ment the publishers put conscience
and moral purpose as we'll as money
and ability.
Smyrna times., 1885-11-25

PURE AND IMPURE MILK.-From
several tests made by scientific ex-
perts, the fact has been established be-
yOnd a doubt that living germs can be
introduced into the blood of cows
through the water which they drink,
and hence absorbed with the milk.
This shows that there is n close rela-
tion existing between good, pure water
and fine butter and bookkeeping dairy
products. From a sanitary standpoint
the lives and health of consumers are
to a certain extent dependent upon the
character of butter and milk. Radical
cleanliness only can be tolerated in the
dairy of 1856, and will be in the near
future imperative.
Smyrna times., 1885-11-25
Night Air.

"Beware of night air!" This is one
of Aunt Susan's solemn speeches.
"Close your windows when the sun
goes down." This another.
The other night when she was
saws, 1 said to her:
" My dear aunt, what can a man
breathe at night if he don't breathe
night air? He can't breathe day air,
can he? Do you mean he should get
a house full of day air, shut it up tight
and breathe it over and over all night?
My dear aunty, did you ever go into a
bedroom where two persons had slept
with, closed windows? Now, aunty,
you have sharp nose; what do you
think of that sort of air to feed the
blood and brain? A great many peo-
pie suck in that poison all night, and
next morning suffer from dullness and
headache. Aunty, did you ever sleep
out of dOors?"
Never, and I should expect to
wake up dead if I did"
my dear aunt, the young birds,
lambs, fawns, and all the rest of the
tender delicate young creatures sleep
out and do nicely, but they soon die of
consumption if we bring them into our
furnace or stove heat. Why, aunty,
saw when in southern California, a
family of parents and five children liv-
ing under a live oak tree, where they
had stayed three years with no other
cover than the tree, not even a tent.
1t was an intelligent New England
family; they left Massachusetts,
wretched from scrofula. When 1 saw
them they were in fine health. be-
lieve a great French author when he
says:
"' You may eat bad food, wear bad
clothing, and never wash yourself; but
if you breathe pure air day and night
you will never suffer from scrofula.
Impure air is the sole cause of
scrOfula.'
Aunt Susan, believe this is true.
If you live out on the open plains, in
an ocean of pure air, you may eat hot
saleratus biscuit and fried salt pork,
and never have scrOfula or cOnsump-
sumption"
Aunt Susan ended the discussion by
saying:
"Sleep out in the street if you wish
to; prefer a good bed in a nice room
Sleep with the pigs or the COWS if you
like it; prefer to sleep like a Chris
tian."
Aunt Susan is partly right. 1t i:
better to sleep in good bed than ouf
in the street or with pigs. But it i:
a sad blunder indeed to sleep without
an open window.
Smyrna times., 1885-11-25

For broken-down constitution the
first thing that an American resorts to
is what is generly known as a "gentle
alcoholic stimulant." The only really
reliable Bitters," known not to
possess baneful component parts, is
Walkers Vinegar Bitter. 1t is the
best remedy for impure blood, or for a
torpid liver, ever yet discovered.
Smyrna times., 1885-11-25
Intnresting Erneriences.

Hiram Cameron, Furniture Dealer of Column
bus, Ga, tells his experience, thus: For three
years have tried every remedy on the market for
Stomach and Kidney Disorders, but got no relief,
and am now cured, and think Electric Bitters the
Best Blood Purifier in the world" Major A. b.
Reed, of West Libery. Ky, used Electric Bitters
for an old standing Kidney affection and says:
Nothing has ever done so much good as Electric
Bitters" Sold at fifty cents bottle by James p.
HOhecker SMYRNA