The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-08-06
THE PAPERS SAY

From many sections Of the country
the oat crop is represented as being
the best known fol- years.
Paris Post: 1t is estimated that
twenty five per cent. of the men in
Paris will weigh over 200 pounds.
A lady in Stafford county, Kansas,
named Lynn, is the mother of five
pairs of twins, all boys, and all living.
In Rochester $4,000 people gathered
in one day to see the coffin in which
Gen. Grant is to be buried.
1t is singular fact that but one boz
gus 500 gold piece has ever been dis
covered, and this bears the date of 1850.
1t IS claimed by the newspapers of
New York that the business outlook in
that city is growing brighter.
A man may thoroughly believe in
the faith cure for snake bite, but at
the same time he will take the whisky
to brace up his faith.
Mr.. C.E. Osborne, of Gallatiu, Tenn.
has been appointed Indian agent at the
Pauka, Pawnee and Oteo agency, In
dian Territory.
Acid destroys the life of the cholera
germs, and for that reason lemon juice,
dccOctions of ginger and the external
use of mustard were recommended.
A Washington physician has exam
ined several hundred young cigarette
smokers. He found that one fifth OF
the number had heart disease.
Geo. w. Baker has arrived in Boston
from ST. Louis on his bicycle, having
covered the distance of 1854 miles in
nineteen days of actual riding.
1t is estimated that 100000 men,
women and children wake up in New
York every morning wondering where
and how they will get their breakfast.
The Memphis Appeal says Gen.
Grant believed that Mr.. Tilden was
elected president, and said so to G.
w, Childs of the Philadelphia Ledger.
Count de Lesseps' Panama ship canal
will cost $500, 100000, instead of $780,
100000, as originally estimated, and
cannot be finished before 1892.
Since March 4th $500 fourth class
postoffices have been filled by the APP
pointment OF democrats.
A reformed burglar delivered lee
ture to large and sympathetic audi
ence in Oregon, and a confederate
picked eleven wallets while the crowd
was filing in and out.
lit AuCIACau mlSSlOudIy De-
gan work in Japan only sixteen years
ago. Now, there are in that country
12O protestant churches, with a mem
bership OF 5000.
Two hundred and fifty persons in
MurfreesbOrO have united themselves
with the different churches of that city
as the result of the recent meeting
held there by Rev. Sam Jones.
As an evidence of how much whisky
is sold in Nashville it is told that one
firm alone in the city pays into the rev.
enue collectors Office an average of
81 800 day.
The people of Atlanta will erect a
soldiers monument $50 feet high, to
cost 100000. Near the base of the
column will be INCHES for the names of
Grant, Lee, Johnston and Sherman.
Ell Mahdi was i'll only two days.
There were no doctors present at the
time of his death, which occurred on
June 20. The Mahdi enjoined that his
successor continue to wage war with
the christians.
Willie Sprague, son of Kate
Chase Sprague, and a grandson of the
late Chief Justice Chase, has married
his fathers wife's sister. He is, there
fore, brother-in-law to his father.
If Mr.. Roach had piece of pie az
large as the base of the new Washing
ton monument, and Mr.. Whitney hadn't
been to dinner in six weeks, Mr.. Roach
wouldn't give him bite.
A mean paragrapher says ''it's fun to
stand on street corner on fine after
noon and watch the men all rushing
around trying to make money, and the
women iall floating around trying to
spend it.
Nine hundred and fifty-five farms in
Iowa are owned by women, and twenty
dairy farms are managed by women.
There are 125 women physicians and
five women attorneys-at-law in the
state,
Nebraska has Joined Kansas and
New Jersey in passing law to make
the mothers legal right to her child
equal to that of the father, These are
the only states out of thirty-eight in
which this is recognized.
The dairy products OF the United
States are potent factor in the agri-
culture of the country. They exceed
the oat crop $350,00O,000, the wheat
crop l00,000,000, the cotton crop
1920, 100000, the product of iron bars
and steel $257, 000, 900, and pig iron out
put $419, 100000.
A balloon railroad is to be construct
ed in the Austrian ryrol. The balloon
will have grooved wheels on its car,
and these will run on nearly perpen-
dicular rails, the gas providing the lift
ing power. GraVitation will be util-
lied on the down trip.
Gen. Julius Caesar Braxton Braga-
docia Bragg says that if the city au-
! thorities will institute whipping post
in Columbia, he is willing to take the
first ten lashes just to get the thing
started. This he will do free gratis.
Two of Cornelius Yanderbilt's sons
are aspirants for distinction and fame.
They are learning the art of type-set-
ting, going on the printers maxim,
"To be truly great is tirst to be devil"
The publishers of the personal Me-
moirs" OF Gen. Grant say that Mrs.
Grants profits will not be less than
| 100000. This with other incomes
will secure her competency lOr the
remainder of her life.
The war department ought to order
general disarmament of tile Mormons,
who defiantly thrust their weapons un-
der the noses OF the Salt Lake gentiles.
Disarmed and diswived, the Mormon
might be more agreeable person than
at present.-ChicagO Times, Ind.
Despite the cavaliers, the malcon-
tents, the constitutional oarpers, and
the whole feeble army of discomfort on
the whole earth there is no other spot
so favored OF heaven, so generally pros
porous, so secure in happiness and in
hopefulness as this land of oWrs.-Bos-
ton Advertiser, Rep.
Dixon c. Williams, the Tennessee
evangelist, was taken sick during a
meeting he was holding in Kirksville,
No, and had to return to his home in
Lebanon, Tenn. AS soon as he suffi-
GENTLY recuperates he will go to Tex
as, and from there to California.
A novelty at d Milwaukee convent
commencement was an exhibition of
cooking on the stage. Oil stoves were
used, and the curtain rose upon very
pretty young lady in the act of taking
loaf of bread from the tin where it
has just been baked. Another equally
pretty and expert, put newly .kneaded
rusks i'll the oven to bake, while the
third furDad har otfantiOn m Dranor