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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-08-13

The pearl fisheries off Lower Cal
ifornia are said to have produced
fifteen million dollars last year.
Placing goldfish in salt water for
a space Of thirty minutes will kill
the fungus which often aftiicts them
to such a great extent.-Chicago
Herald.
The Juice of the Bartlett pear, in
some medical cases, is used in Call
fornia, both as food and drink. At
first the invalid grows thin upon the
diet, but in a few weeks gains
strength.
Last year 3,427, 3O9,O17 cigars
and 994, $4,000 cigarettes were
manufactured in the United States,
requiring over 81, 100000 pounds of
leaf. In 1872 not 100000
pounds were used.-N. Y. Sun.
The Irish jaunting car, which has
been under ban since the Phoenix
Park tragedy, has again come into
favor, the Prince of Wales having
used one on his recent visit TO the
Lakes of Killarney.
Mr.. Arthur L. Shumway writes to
Cleveland Plaindealer that fifteen
mines of magnetic iron have been
opened in Cuba within the past six
months, by Cubans, Spanlards and
a second American syndicate.
A prominent New England farmer
predicts that Massachusetts, farms,
which were titled by the Pilgrims
and their immediate progency, are
tending toward wilderness, and may
some day form a proper field for the
new settler.-Boston Post.
The city of Los Angeles, Cal has
a population of about $4,000. Its
streets are lined with eucalyptus aad
pepper trees, and with handsome
business blocks, which are more
numerous and costly than in most
American cities Of five times the
population.
A child with two tongues is said
to be living at Yonkers, N. Y. The
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TOp-Dressing,

1Op-OIOool41
Where the soil is known to be
poor, or scantily MANFRED, a top
dressing of phosphate, at the rate
of 200 pounds to the acre, will often
increase the yield the first season
enough to pay the cost Of its appli-
cation. Wood ashes, at the rate OF
ten or fifteen bushels to the acre,
will produce equally good results
upon some soils, particularly such
as need potash, and upon others
plaster gives a large increase of the
crop, but more particularly of the
clover crop. The result obtained
from plaster differs greatly upon
different soils, and no rule can be
given for determining where it will
do well and where it will not, yet,as
a ton (enough to top-dress 10 acres)
can he bought for $3.50, and in
mlny localities for much less, and
as it can do no injury when used to
that extent, each farmer should try
for himself whether its use will be
profitable to him or not. All top
dressing Of grass land, except such
as may be done with the nitrates or
ammoniacal salts, should be accom-
plished as early in the spring as the
grass begins to start, or even before
that time, but not while the ground
is frozen. Nitrate of soda, or those
Fertilizers which contain it in con
siderable quantities, give best re
suits if used later in the season
The profit of buying fertilizers for
top dressing grass land depends
very much upon the cost of break
ing Up and reseeding the land and
the objections which there may be
TO doing so. Fields have been kept
in grass many years by such top
dressing about one year in three or
four, and have paid fair interest on
cost of land and fertilizer; but not
every field will do this, and where
land can b. broken up and reseeled
without more expense than the usu-
al cost of such work, it will usually
pay best to let it go until fall, and
! then do the work thoroughly.
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.
In these dull times many are
longing for a change, to leave che
farm and engage in something with
less labor and more profit aad pleas
ure. But where shall it be? Will
it he to the city, with its din ana
dust, or to the plains of the far
west, or to the exchanges and un-
certainties of speculation? Nay
none of these. True, in these times
of dull markets and failing crops,
farmers bank accounts are not in
creasing very fast; but does this
depression in business extend only
to the farmers? Surely it affects
the merchant and SPECTATOR just as
well. But, says one, we cannot have
as nice homes, nor time for pleasure
as they can in some other vocations.
Well, let US see. The farmers
home need not be a palace nor yet
howell, but a good house finished in
good taste and well painted. The
farmer can have his Lawn, full of
shrubbery and flowers, with neat
paling fence, at much less cost on
the farm than in our towns. And
as for amusement, we can have our
| croquet ground, or if no suitable
ground, we use the barn floor (20x
30) which answers very well. With
a few parlOr games for winter, plen-
ty of books, papers and magazines,
and with the daily mail which we
get as fresh in the country as they
do in the city, we certainly fare
well.
But, says one good sister, we
have no time for all this on the
tarm. Well, home, like life, is just
what we make it; but / think it not
right to use our time in all work
and no play. 1t is said that work
well planned is half done. Perhaps
some of US work too much and don t
plan enough. This might be the
reason we have no time for pleasure.
There is no business that will allow
OF more pleasure and affect its in
come less, than that of the farmer.
/ have no nelp, do all the general
house work, milk, ohurn, wash, iron
all my clothes, Zone lady could not
find time to iron the bibs and
aprons) clean house, and still have 4
little time to practice music.
1 think II. F." of Hartford,
speaks to the point when she says,
let more of us write how to amuse
our children. l would say let US
make our homes the most pleasant
places in the land to them, not on
ly allowing them the time and little
cost for harmless games, but pa
rents joining them in their sports.
Then | think they will have no de-
sire to 90 to the rink. Then last,
but not least, Is our Sunday drive
not in the park, not on Broadway
or some fine avenue, but two miles
on a good country road to church
not in livery gig" but in our own
family carriage. o, there are pleas
ures plenty if you wish them. Who
wouldn't be farmers wife?
JEN.
Charlottesville, Pa.
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Feeding and Care Of Swine,

None of our farm animals an
swers more quickly to, or yields
more profit from good treatment,
than swine; and, in many localities,
none are more neglected than these
homely, but useful animals. In the
west, where hogs run at large and
follow the droyes of feeding steers,
their management after they are
weaned is very simple, but where
hogs are kept in yards or pens and
are expected to subsist mainly on
skinned milk, OF the refuse Il ON
the kitchen, more care is necessary
and they must be carefully attend
ed to, or they will not thrive as
they ought The most important
thing TO remember in feeding hogs
is, that there is no such thing as
"stock order;" the pig that is mot
so fed that it gains in weight con
tinuaIly and rapidly is not profita-
BILE animal, and soon eats more feed
than it is worth. Many farmers
keep a pen of stock hogs in low con
dition through the winter, at a dead
loss; the pigs do rot grow, and yet
eat as much as the fattening hogs.
Here, again, we come to the food
of support" The larger part of
the pigs food Is needed to keep him
alive, and prevent him from going
backward; and q very little more
food, judiciously applied, will make
all the difference between profit and
loss in keeping pigs.
The cheapest pork is that made
from hogs which have been fed all
they would eat. iii does not pay
to make pork by liberal feeding, 1t
does not pay to make it all, and it
had better be given. The care OF
pigs should begin as soon as they
are boru; some sows are very saw
age and if not prevented, will eat
the pigs as soon as they appear.
If a SOW shows this disposition
she should be watched and the pigs
taken from her. When her labor is
finished, they should be carefully
put down beside her and she will
generally take up with them at
once. The pen for breeding sows
should be roomy and warm, the
floor nearly level so that the
weight of her body will not settle
down and crush the pigs.-EX.
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The Senatorship.

The gossip about the senatorial
lace at the capital involves some
gentlemen who were supposed
to be completely out Of politics 1t
Is whispered that Mr.. Vertrees and
Gov Bate are not now the warmest
political friends, while it is said
that Mr.. Vertrees will push ex Gov.
Marks for the senate. 1t is also
believed by some that he will not
refuse to come in on the heels of
Marks in case that gentleman
should meet with i'll luck. 1t is due
Mr.. Vertrees, however, to say that he
is said to deny very positively being
candidate for anything. 1t will
be very pretty fight with Senator
Jackson in place, and the field
against him with Gen. Bate in the
lead, and Whitthorne, Marks,
House and a few more In hot pur-
suit, and Vertrees in the back
ground looking on and pulling the
lines.-EX.
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"What is there in a mince pieY'
asks a household journal. We
should like TO answer this question
but have not time to get out sup
plement.
Jenkins sent two dollars to get q
''sure way to raise whiskers." Now
Jenkins the world is all hollow
hollow ! hollow!! because by return
mail he was told to put them on an
ascending elevator.
Junior partner-"Our travelling
man ought to be punished. He
told one of our customers in Alba
ny that 1 am an ignorant fool" Sc
nior partner-'I shall speak to him
without fail and insist that DO more
office secrets be divulged."
A teacher was illustrating the
process of evaporation to class of
young scholars! Suppose I
should set basin OF water out in
the school yard in the morning end
let 1t remain all day, what would
happen?' cit would get upset"
was the practical reply.
One sultry Sunday a. minister no.
ticed many of his congregation nod
ding from drowsiness. He effectu-
ally awakened them by saying: 81
saw an advertisement last week for
five hundred sleepers for a railroad.
l think could supply at least fifty,
and recommend them as good and
sound"
what are you going TO do when
you grow up, if you don't know
how to cipherP' asked an Austin
school teacher of rather slow boy.
Il am going to be a school teacher
and make the boys do all the CT
phering," was the impudent reply.
The next thing that boy had to
sigh for was a soft seat on the
bench.
A minister forgot to take his SER
mon with him to church, and his
wife, discovering the mistake, sent
it to him in charge of small boy,
who was 20 receive ten cents for the
job. Presently he returned for the
the money. "You delivered the
sermon, did your she asked. Il
jes' guy it to him; he's deliverin' it
of himself.
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VOL 27
Diabetes Cured.

New Orleans Picayune, Jan. 90, 1884.
Mr. Matthias Doll, business place No.
23 North Peters street, residence Royal
street, between Jeanne and Bartholomew,
New Orleans, has been most intense
sufferer from kidney trouble (diabetes) for
the last six long and weary years. He
said to us: Even earlier than that fire.
quently suffered from pain in the back,
and frequent making of water, but gave it
no thought until about the time stated,
when the almost constant desire to make
water became uncomfortable. The pain in
the back, and sometimes in the legs, made
me so lame at times that 1 could scarcely
walk. I consulted one of the best doctors
in this city, and was under his constant
treatment for one entire year without de-
irving the least benefit. 1 then consulted
from time to time, during the last five or
six years, six other physicians, each one
standing in the front rank of the medical
profession in New Orleans, and though
sometimes was little relieved of some
excruciating suffering, yetupon the whole
l was not only no better, but in many re-
spects much worse. My limbs became so
swollen and sore that I could not cross
my legs when sitting on chair-all OF
which, they said, was caused by diabetes.
/ then tried some highly lauded patent
medicine. But they all turned out to be
humbugs. 1 had given up all hopes of
ever getting relief, much less being cured,
when I noticed in the papers some won
derlul cures that PERUNA had made in
this city, rs prescribed by DIR. Hartman,
giving the name and address of each per-
son treated. l called to. see him; he at
once prescribed his PERUNA, which is not
over three weeks. ago. 1 am SO much
better that if l would not improve any
more, would not for any amount that
had not placed myself under his treat
ment. All my pain and lameness Is gone.
The swelling and stiffness in my legs has
disappeared, and instead of making water
every fifteen minutes, now make it once
in three hours during the day, and only
twice in n whole night. / am, indeed,
quite well again. Don't hesitate, don't,
say humbug, but get the PERUNA at once
and take it as its printed label directs, or,
if YOU think this is only an advertisement,
and not strictly true, call and see me and
see for yourself"
Mrs. Huldah RIPPLE, SmethPort Nc
Kean county, Pa, writes: DIR. s. b.
HARTMAN, & Co, Columbus, O. l have
used your PERUNA and it has done me a
great deal of good. Have recommended it
to many of my friends, who have since ex-
pressed themselves as wonderfully pleased
with its virtues"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-08-13

The hogs are a necessary part OF
the farm stock, and no farm is well
stocked which has not at least a few
of these animals, as well as cattle
and sheep. There are many bush
els of grain, and other feeds also,
on every farm which other stock
will not eat, ON account of being a
little spoiled in some way, but which
make excellent feed for the hogs.
Then there are always milk and
slops of one kind and another
around the house which make good
hog feed; and it is the part of econ
omy to keep at least enough hogs
to consume all these grains, slops,
milk, ETC., which would otherwise
he wasted.
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County Court Sale.

DURSUANT to a decree Of the County
i Court in the cause of Jno. o. BoatTight
ct ais, VS.. Jas. w. Boatright, ct ais, will
On Saturday, August %, 1885,
sell to the highest bidder at public sale, be-
tween the hours of eleven and twelve o'clock,
on the premises, the Il act of land belonging
the estate of W. E. BoatrIght, dec'd, being
the same place upon which said Boatright
was residing at the time Of his death. Said
land is situated in the 10th civil district OF
Giles County, on the waters of Blue creek
two tracts; The home, or Kellum tract,
and the Caruthers tract. The Caruthers
tract contains by survey lis 109-l6O acres,
and adjoins F. A. Kincaid, A. p. DOggett
and others, and will be sold separately. The
Kellum tract, containing 80 los l6O acres,
will be subdivided into two email tracts, and
sold first in two tracts, and afterwards q
whole. Plat and surveys of said land and
the subdivisions will be exhibited on day Of
sale.
TERMS OF SALE:-Said land will DO sold
on a credit of one and Two years, free from
any right of REDEEM ption. Notes with good
personal security required, bearing interest
from date, and retaining lien for the pur-
chase money.
augG At. WILL. s. EzELL, Clerk.
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ALITTE NONSENSE.

The emperor of Austria, it is
said, has a private circus. So has
many a married man who isn't an
emperor when he gets home late
from the club.
"How long does this train stop
for refresh mentsY' asked a traveller
as he entered a railroad restaurant
in Georgia. 1T depen's how hun
CRY de conductor am" said the
waiter.
Boosting of her Industrious hab-
it's, an Irish housemaid said she
rose at five and made her fire, put
on the kettle, prepared the break
fast, and made all the beds before
any one else was up in the house.
An Englishman, in looking down
a list of American towns, came to
those bearing the names Of Paw
tucket, Shetucket and Nantucket.
''Haw! hawr he exclaimed. Bless
me if the whole family didn't take
itn'
A Pennsylvania school girl aston
ished her teacher with the follow
ing composition: George Wash
ington was the first president of the
United, States born in the year.
When George was a little boy he
would never tell lie. Because he
thought it was not nice. 1t tbs not
nice neither. He studied all kinds
OF things to be a president.
There's a great deal of money in
the house tonight" said the head
usher. "Nonsensep replied the
manager; more than three quar-
tiers of them are deadhead."-
THAT'S the idea was trying to
convey" said the head usher; Il
supposed there must be a good deal
Of money IN the house; know that
very few of them left any at the box
office"
Husband (at the dinner table y
1t strikes me, my dear, that the
cook is not as good as the old one"
Fashionable wife-''No, her cooking
is very bad. For the last day or
two poor little Fido has displayed
signs of distress and / attribute it
all to her having eaten improperly
cooked food. Unless the dear little
thing improves very much within
short time, shall certainly make
change"
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Improve the farms and improve
the focks and herds with equal
care. Let no means of higher cult
walton of the land and the securing
of abundant crops be untried. Let
no method, means or system of i'm
proving the farm animals go with
out earnest consideration as to the
propriety of adopting it if it really
proves to be an improvement. Crops
big in quantity and of the highest
quality should ever be the farmers
ambition. Stock of the most rapid
maturity and greatest size compati-
BILE with quality only should be tol
Grated on the farm. The farmer
who has no ambition TO be constant
ly advancing in his business may be
satisfied with a poor farm, poor
crops and scrub stock; but the pro
gressive farmer should be satisfied
with aiming at nothing less than
the best.
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The Cholera RaHaged Country.

Of all the provinces of Spain on
ly fourteen are free from cholera,
which visited eight new provinces
last week. Refugees are swarming
over the Pyrenees, dismaying the
French, who are doing all that is
possible to prevent the invasion by
enforcing quarantine and confisca
ting baggage by the wholesale. The
suffering in rural Spain is heart
rending. From Marseilles there is
a report that it is the medical be-
lief that numerous places are in
fected, but there is a grand con-
spiracy of suppression and silence.
The physicians are counting the
hours now before the outbreak in
the south of France becomes G
serious to be concealed.
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One thing that should be kept
prominently in mind is that plant
lite cannot be sustained without
proper food, any more than animal
life can, and that the growth of the
plant will be directly in proportion
to the amount and suitableness Of
the food furnished it. Then in
planting out crops it is best of wis
dom to see that each one has suffi-
cient vegetable food, and to plant
no more than can be supplied with
this necessary element of plant
growth, if it is not already in the
soil
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Chancery Sale of Land.

Andrew Hannah, Admir-, VS.. S. D. Collins
ct ais. and j. P. Brownlow Va. An
drew Hannah, Admir- OF ais.
DURSUA ANT to decree of the chancery
L court of Giles county in the above cause
will sell on
Wednesday, August 26, 1885,
at public sale to the highest bidder in the
town of Campbellsville, Giles. county, Tenn,
on credit of one and two years with inter
est from day of sale and free from the equity
of redemption and the right OF homestead,
the two tracts of land men toned in the
pleading as the property of X. s. Horn, SIT
uated in the 14th civil district of Giles coun-
ty on the waters of Big creek, one tract con-
tanning 80 4S-l60 acres and the other con-
tanning 126 2O-160 acres moro or less. Pur-
chaser will be required to execute notes with
approved security and lien will l be retained
upon the land for the payment of its Pur-
chase money. July 16, 1885.
J. B. STACY, G. 81 M.
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MOTTO FOR A WASTE-BAsKET.

If all the trees in all the woods were men,
Aud each and every blade of grass pen;
If every leaf on every shrub and tree
Turned to 8 sheet of foolscap, every sea
We're changed to ink, and all earth's living
tribes
Had nothing else to do but act as scribes,
And for ten thousand ages, day and night,
The human race should write and write and
write,
Till all the pens and paper were used up,
And each great inkstsnd was an empty cup,
Still would the scribblers cluster rolni us
brink,
Call for more pens, moro paper, and more ink.
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Grain is almost, if not altogether
as beneficial to young cattle when
first turned out on grass as during
the winter time. At least many
claim that II will give larger returns
at this time than in any other, in
the more rapid growth of the stock.
1t is very certain that some kind of
grain or dry feed is often very much
needed by all kinds of stock, at this
season, to coun teract the effects of
the too laxative nature of the ex-
tremely tender grass; and when
grain and grass are fed together
each will give better results.
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SCROFULA

can only be cured by thorough purifea-
ton of the blood. If this is neglected,
the disease perpetuates its faint through
generation after generation. Among its
earlier symptOmatic developments are
Eczema, Cutaneous EruptiOns, Tu-
mors, BoiIs, CarbuncIes, Erysipe1as,
Purulent Ulcers, Nervous and Ply
steal Collapse, etc. If allowed to con-
tinue, rheumatism, ScrOfulous Ca
tarrh, Kidney and Liver Diseases,
TubercuIar Consumption, and Yari-
produced by it.
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ed the timothy, and the late spring
has interferred greatly with the
seeding Of the clover AS rule,
it may be said that summer seeding
is more successful than fall and
spring seeding, but the ground
must be thoroughly we'll prepared.
The whole secret lies in this prepa-
ration. The following plan has
been found excellent. The stubhle
is well ploWed, not more than four
inches deep and Immediately har-
rowed in n thorough manner. There
are several new implements which
do this work in the best manner,
pulverizing the soil, leveling the
surface and smoothing it, so as to
get the land in the most perfect
condition for the seed. After all
this has been done, and the furrow
marks obliterated, the seed is sOwn
and the surface Immediately rolled.
If this is dore in July, nothing
more is required. If it is left later,
it will he desirable to SOW turnip
seed, at the rate of one pound per
acre, with the grass seed. This af-
fOrds protection for the young grass
and clover in the fall and winter.
We have found it a good plan TO
leave the turnips on the ground and
not gather them. They will be
killed by the frost, and the leaves
falling down, furnish protection 20
the grass during the winter, and in
the early spring, when so much
damage is usually done by the al
ternate thaws and frosts. The grass
will usually furnish one cutting the
same season, but it should not be
pastured, as the surface is not yet
firm enough, nor the plants sulfi-
GENTLY well rooted TO stand such a
ax-American Agriculturist.
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A correspondent of the Scientific
American states that he knows from
personal observation of the seventeen
year locusts having appeared in the
southern part of Massachusetts in 1918,
1885, 1852 and 1869. In 1918 they were
very numerous; in 1885 they were less
so; IN 1852 still less, and in 1869 they
were quite scattering in comparison
with 1918.