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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-09-23
The FIg Trees of shasta Citr.

AS rode in the other day thunder
storm fell, and got down and led my
horse%lnder the nearest porch by the
| roadside, The porch was half hidden
with grape vines. Down the steep bank
stood the largest and finest fig trees 1
ever saw. These fig trees, the owner
told me as l stood there waiting for the
rain to cease, bear three crops each sea
son.
They lie so thick on the ground, these
figs, he said, in their black, waxen
honey, that they kill the grass, and you
can not walk about under the trees or
near them without your feet being sealed
to the ground. Sell them. So l insisted.
But the old man told me that he could
only sell few. He is two miles from
the railroad here And then, as you
must know, the taste for figs is like the
taste for opera, acquired and rare. Yes,
he dries some of them, but people prefer
to buy the little boxes from Syria. He
told me, however, that he could make a
little money out of dried figs by selling
them to the Cinnamon. l asked after
the process practiced in curing them,
and he told me he merely put them in
fiour-sack, tied it tight and let them lie
around till dried.
There is a fortune for Shasta City IN
this one single item, figs, to say nothing
of the grapes, oranges, and other fruits.
In New Orleans two young Jews from
Bohemia started factory for preserving
figs in cans three years ago. They are
now rich. And so rare and delicious are
those fig preserves that 1 believe they
have never yet been permitted to reach
Chicago or New York. At least, have
often asked for them in New York in
vain. l first found them in Louisville,
Ky. They are eaten with cream, and
are the consistency of wax. And the
taste? Well
Every washed-out and worn-out ola
gold mine in and about these red foothills
of the Sierras can be made garden of
Eden. In fact, am told that it is hard
to keep the fig trees from taking posses
sion of the place. And such figs! full
three inches in length, some of them.-
Joaquin Aillers Letter in Chicago Times.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-09-23
He Liked Children.

Judge Pennybunker, an old bachelor,
who has a decided aversion to children,'
during a visit to the Fizzletop family
took little Johnny on his knee and fondled
him.
formerly didn't take much stock in
children, but now l like to see little chill
dren grow up this way. 1t cheers me
up" remarked Pennybunker.
"But why does it cheer you up more
now than formerly!" asked Mrs. Fizzle-.
top.
Last week bought some stock in tho
Austin Street Railroad company, and
after child has reached its 4th year &c
has to pay full fare. How 1 love to see
the little dears growing up to be useiub
men and women" and once more the
the old wretch fondled Johnny.
Siftings.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-09-23

lures, large rect ana nands anu strUnE
lungs. Among hundred other ques-
tions she asked the judge without giving
him any opportunity to answer one had
his most earnest desire been to do so,
she wanted to know why she had been
brought there, how he dared to treat an
honest woman SO and what he meant by
it,. Perhaps he fancied he was in Russia.
| 81 beg you to be seated" said the
judge at last, land to prepare yourself.
for have terrible news to break to you.
Your husband is not true to you!"
''What !" cried the wife, ''he deceives
me?"
eyes, indeed" said the judge, ''and
he has done so for a long time past"
ut is impossible. Last year we had
our silver wedding. Oh, it is impossible
-false-i5 can't be-"
''But it is, madam. Your husband
| left yesterday with his mistress, taking
with him the 10000 forms which he
| should have carried to his employer"
"The 10000 fiorins! But he never took
| theml"
"What?" thundered the Judge
"He left them in the strong room. He
drank a little more that evening than
was necessary to quench his thirst and
he forgot the leather case. The next
day the cashier discovered the oversight
and telegraphed Dionys Saragiqui."
"Very possible. You have only to ask
his lordship if you don't believe it. Per
haps that would have been wise thing
to do in the first place" said Madam
Cato.
The belief flashed upon NJ. Heveder
that he had unjustly accused two women
and two men, but he took the precaution
to telegraph to Dionys Saragiqui, who
confirmed Madam Czato's statement.
Then the victims of robbery that had
never taken place were restored to lib
erty.
However" said the judge, looking
out of the window as he saw them
walking away, "my system is excellent.
Find the woman. She is the key that
unlocks secrets. did find her and the
mysterious robbery of the Agrad line
was Immediately cleared up."-Adapted
from the Hungarian by w. NJ. Taber in
New York Mercury.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-09-23

There is only one portrait of Abbe
Liszt with which, he is pleased, and it
came to be made by accident. One even
ing, in Rome, Liszt was performing one
of his compositions with unusual i'm
petuosity and power. The piano, says
an eyewitness, sang and wept alternately
under his charmed hand. When he
finished, the audience burst into a rap
turous shout of "Encore!" At this Liszt,
pale and looking inspired, brusqueiy
leaped from his seat, turned around to
the audience, with his back leaning
against the piano, his arms crossed on
his breast and his head thrown slightly
back, and gazed at them unmoved for a
moment with stern severity. 1t was
while the master was in this superb at
titude that Layraud, who CHANGED to be
present, seized his pencil and caught the
picture before him. When Liszt saw it
afterwards he was delighted and he re-
peated the pose, though he could not re-
peat the look in the artists studio next
weelt.-Paris Letter.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-09-23
Emigrants Sent to South Africa.

Eighty emigrants, all abstainers, are
being sent out to Kaffraria, Each Of the
number is to have 120 acres of land and
other help, and the little band has been
selected with the greatest care. If one
of the most beautiful and richly gifted
portions of south Africa be any aid to
the success of this enterprise, the pros
poets of the expedition are virtually as
sured. Kaffraria is beyond question the
most favored spot in South Africa. 1t
abounds in wood, grass and water, and
is eminently adapted to the raising of
stock, as well as for agriculture. CHI
caoO Herald
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-09-23
Yhv He Preferred It.

Il wouldn't think of going by that
route, if were you, said railroad man
to tourist. Longer than the other
lines, 1 suppose?" exclaimed the tourist.
Not only longer, but passes through a
poor country, and has no dining-car
service" Dangerous, too?" SWELL
yes; it is positively dangerous; you'd bet
ter go by our line" well, I'm sorry,
but I'll have to go by the dangerous
route The fact of the business is 1 have
a pass over that line. st. Paul Globe.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-09-23
Formation of Fog in the Air.

1t has recently been demonstrated that
in perfectly moist air no formation of
fog is possible, however much the
temperature is lowered, 50 long as the
air is absolutely free from dust, and that
the more air, sufficiently moist, is
charged with such foreign particles, the
more intense is the formation of fog. If
filtered and completely moist air in a
glass ball have it's pressure diminished
only a few particles of fog will reveal
themselves to the most careful inspec-
ton. But if a few cubic millimeters of
ordinary house air be now admitted into
this filtered air very fine, silvery, trans
parent fog at once forms itself, of such
slight density that even in the case of a
considerable area of it the transparency of
the atmosphere would be but very
slightly affected. At the first moment
of its formation if a reflected image of
the sun, OF the reflected light of an cleo
tric lamp, be viewed through it the inn
age will be seen surrounded by an in
tensely luminous blue or greenish light.
-ChicaoO Herald
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-09-23
Chinese Pirates and Their Customs.

In attacking a foreign ship a favorite
weapon of the pirates is the stink pot,
more elegantly known as the "asphyxia-
ting vase" 1t is an earthen pot or vase
filed with most villainous and evil
smelling compound; the vase breaks
when it is thrown on the deck of a ship,
and the stuff scatters about and puts in
its fine work Immediately. The Euro
pean nose cannot endure it, but the Chi
nese nose is not specially disturbed. The
Europeans are driven from the neigh
borhood of this odor-laden shell, and
thus the pirates obtain their opportunity
of mounting to the deck.
Two or three years ago an English
steamer, lying peacefully at anchor in a
bay in the Lin-Chow peninsula, was cap
tured in this way. The pirates came
alongside unsuspected; few of them
mounted to the deck and threw stink
pot where it would do the most good, :"
and then the rest followed, and the
steamer was captured without the she'd
ding of single drop of blood. The fact
was that the steamer was on a smuggling
expedition and in place where she had
no legitimate business. As the
crew had made no resistance the
pirate captain was kindly disposed
and permitted them to retain their
heads. He gave them a small junk in
exchange for the steamer and started
them on their way to Hong Kong. The
steamer was plundered, but not burned.
Notice, was sent to the Chinese author
tiles at Canton and a gunboat went down
and took final possession. There was no
attempt to pursue the pirates, as their
offense was greatly mitigated by the
illegal business of the steamer.-Thos.
w. Knox in Cleveland Leader.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-09-23

did you ever hear how old John
Knight said his father came to Georgia.
remarked an Atlanta judge. "Old John
said that his father lived in the back.
woods of North Carolina, and the first
two-horse wagon he ever saw he took
after it. He became so absorbed in the
question of how long it would run be-
fore the big wheels overlook the little
ones that he followed it clear to Augusta,
Ga, before he gave out and had to stop.
He didn't know the way back and had
to stay "-Exchanee
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-09-23
OVERWORKING The BRAIN.
Brain Workers Should Have n Large Re
serve of Energy-Exhaustion.

Brain Workers Should Have n Large Re-
serve of Energy
Our article is suggested by one in The
Lancet on "The Wear and Tear of Lon
don Life" and we shall appropriate some
of its thoughts. Brain work, even in its
highest forms, involves purely physical
acts as truly as does that of the muscles
Of the stomach. Excessive thought
means crebral hyperRmia as inevitably
as excess in the use of a gastric stimu-
lant means active congestion of the
mucous membranes of the stomach, and
Just as habitual use of too irritating food
and drink may induce passive congestion
in the intervals, or the sequel of active
congestion of the gastric organ, so may
too persistent and excessive brain work
tend TO the production of a chronic en-
gorgement of the vessels of the enceph-
aIon" (the brain), with whatever the
physical fact involves or entails"
A perfect similarity of law governs the
development of disorders of brain and
body. Now, as some have inherited a
weak muscular system, and others a
feeble digestion, so still others, perhaps
in some respects brilliant, have a con-
genital inability for considerable or
prolonged brain work, and are almost
sure to be injured by a continued
strain. The times demand in this coun-
try, even more than in England, that
brain workers should have a large re-
serve of energy, and capacity for pro-
ducing force almost indefinitely to meet
the demands of exceptional exigencies. In
our country many enter the professions
who are naturally equal to routine work,
but are wholly unequal to the strains of
competition and TO the multiplied and
varied demands which so characterize
our times. They constantly and peril
ously strike the limits of their congenital
capacity.
1t is equally so in mercantile life. Not
few, who are equal to small business,
find out that they are not equal to
large one only after both physical and
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-09-23
Pedestrian PARTIES" Recent Inven-

Pedestrian parties" are another recent
invention of young women looking for
something novel and lively. Six OF
eight young people duly chaperoned will
sally forth as early as o'clock in the
morning and walk five or six miles before
breakfast Where the fun comes in does
not appear to finite mind; nor does
there appear to be any great amount OF
ecstasyconnected with that form of social
diversion known as going round the
road" This pastime consists OF forming
a party of a dozen congenial spirits,
storming an unoccupied grip-car and
riding a round trip. To @go round the
road" with the greatest amount Of en-
joyment, am informed that there must
be moonlight and that each escort must
be provided with box of bon-bons.
Stunning" has not found any great
amount of favor IN Chicago; but it may
be adopted. The fact that it is "just for
the fun of the thing" and "only on a
lark" seems 10 be excuse enough for any
sort of folIy.-Chicago Tribune.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-09-23
LET US REST.


So tired, dear soul. pray let us rest,
1t is not oft we fold our weary hands;
UnmindfuI of the working worlds do
mands,
Let's welcome peace, our seldom guest;
A cold, gray wall by care caressed,
Forbidding before US grimly stands.
When smiling Hope breathes forth heI
sweet commands,
The barrier at her glad behest
WIZ, like bad dream, fade away,
And golden sunbeams flood the whole
Iathway<,-f gloom. Yes, it is best
We cannot climb the wall to-day,
Then let us rest, dear, patient soul,
l pray thee, pray thee, let us rest.
lone L. Jones, in Good Housekeeping.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-09-23

There is no telling what notions will
not affiict the minds of wealthy young
men in these days. One man on Murray
Hill has passion for scientific studies in
general and chemistry in particular. He
has charming country home on the
Morris s. Essex division of the Lacka-
wanna where he gave avery pleasant and
very surprising hop the other night. The
guests were whirling in a charming
waltz on the broad piazza, when at about
midnight snow began to fall from the
ceiling over the center of the room. 1t
was a genuine snowstorm, too, although
it melted before it reached the floor. He
had arranged number of pipes between
the rafters where they would not be
readily seen, by which he forced tiny
sprays of some sort of freezing mixture
into the air. But the scientific talk to
which he was obliged to listen for the
rest of the evening must have brought
tears of bitter regret to his eyes. The
knowledge which the ordinary society
man possesses in things scientific is
beyond description. BROOKLYN Eagle.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-09-23
Horax asa Cho1era Preventive

An Italian physician recommends the
daily administration of about seventy
two grains Of horax as preventive of
cholera, his observation having shown
that workers in borax factories in cholera
districts always escape the disease
PHILADELPHIA Call.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-09-23
Use for t6e Tiber of Nettles,

a German abroad has sown an acre Of
nettles, which he proposes to reap for
the fiber, which he claims will equal
that of fax for coarse bagging, and has
perfected machinery to heckle and work
it-Boston Cultivator.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-09-23

two or three times a year TO tea; 1t was
a great festival for tkem-quite like go
ing to court. They wore their best bibs,
and only those were allowed sugar who
had won prizes for lessons or behavior.
Adam Badeau's Letter.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-09-23

Professor TreadweIl, of Massachusetts,,
has proved that half-grown robin will
daily devour more than once and a half
its own weight in caterpillars and beetles.
A young brood can not live on less than
seventy or eighty worms a day. A single
pair of sparrows will carry every week
to the nest 4, 300 caterpillars or beetles.
Evrbapua
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-09-23

dry sand. They should be placed in lay.
ers with sufficient sand between them t.
prevent contact with each other.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-09-23

ia Vitesse" is the name E-r-
cutter recently invented in France,
which will cut flat papers on four sides
at once. blank books on three sides, and
two bundles at time.-Chicago Herald.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-09-23
DoosD,t Like Railroads.

The old-time Mexican scorns to recog-
nize ANYTHING good in the devices OF
modern progress, and rather thah use
the railroad for the transportation or
freight, he will send it on the backs or
mules along the line of the railroad
Nav York Tribune. =
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-09-23

The temperatures of Norfolk, Charles
ton, Savannah, Mobile, New Orleans, ant
Galveston bear q striking similarity TIM
summer
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-09-23
7 LOTUS. zz5

I 1--we the lotu' blossom when it wreathes
It's painted petals in my sweethearU's
tresses.
And she, enchanted by its Odor, Breathes
Soft words of love, and soothes with soft
caresses.
| love the lotus blossom when it lies
On the white bosom of a sleeping woman,
And falls and rises as the dreamer sighs,
For that loves sake she yet has told to
no man.
love the lotus blossom for it grows
On lone grave beside silent river;
There my youths mistress takes her last
repose.
loved, hated, and now forgive her
Justin II. Mccarthy.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-09-23

DIR. Oppler, of Strasburg, considers
pulverized roasted coffee a superior anti
septic for surgical dressings. -.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-09-23
oirlIIzatlon,s vices in Japan.

Before the ports of Japan were opened
to the Christian nations of the world
there were only eleven Intoxicating
drinks known in the country; now there
are more than 200, and many horrible
vices peculiar to civilization are becom-
ing common in Japan. This is one of
the ways in which we show the besotted
heather what utterly inferior beings they
are--New York Tribune,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-09-23

De mo- good clothes you kin heap ON
yer back de less your bad grammar will
be commented on.-Brother Gardner.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-09-23

About 25, 600 deaths from typhoid fe-
yer occur annually in the United States.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-09-23
blossom when it lies
cities of the Argentine Repub1lc.

loved, hated, and now forgive her
Justin H. Mccarthy.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-06-13
Cremation of DR.. bio Lewis.
Ne.o York Trlbu

It was about 2:30 P. NJ. when the party
reached the building. and in q few min
utes the body, wrapped in an alum sheet
and resting in the iron crib, was wheeled
out of the preparatory room into the
chapel. The furnace heat was intense.
The company had been making some
changes in the heating apparatus, and it is
possible to obtain a much higher degree
than ever before. When the iron door
was opened the inside OF the retort glowed
for an instant with a dazzling, white heat,
which was changed instantly by the rush
of cool air to q crimson tint, and into this
bath of rosy light the body was placed.
The door was quickly closed, but through
the spyhole the body could be seen gradu-
ally becoming incandescent, until at the
end OF an hour the whole surface was COW
cred with a pale-blue flame. In about two
hours the entire mass had been consumed,
and only a few pounds Of gray ashes re-
NAMED in the bottom Of the oven. These
were taken out later on and will be buried
instead Of being preserved in an urn.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-06-13
INSURANCE AND SUICIDE.

A decision destined TO attract q good
deal of attention in legal as we'll as in.
surance circles has been rendered by the
United States Circuit Court in Illinois.
The question was whether an accident
insurance company was bound to pay q
policy on the life of a person who had
committed suicide. The policy provided
for payment in case OF bodily injuries or
death caused by external, accidental
and violent MEANS" But it stipulated
that the insurance should not extend to
death or disability (which may have
been caused wholly Or in part by bodily
inirmities or disease;" and, further.
more, that no claim should be made un.
der the policy if death or injury should
be self.inaicted.
The jury found that the insured was
insane when he killed himself. The
question which the Court had to deter
mine was whether, "under such a policy
as this, death from self-destruction, &C.
curing when the insured is insane, may
be said to have been caused by bodily
injuries effected through accidental
means" This question Judge Dyer de.
cided against the insurance company.
Here is his reasoning: "When the de.
ceased took his life it was not his vol
untary, rational act. He could not ex.
ercise his natural powers of ~volition and
thereby control his judgment upon the
act he was about to commit. The phys
ical violence. therefore, which terminated
his life was the same as if it had come
upon him from sources outside of him.
self, and for which he was not respons-
ible. 1t was force, emanating not from
the brain and hand of Edward M. Gran
dial as a responsible, voluntary agent,
but force which was uncomfortable SO
far as he was concerned. The means em.
ployed to produce death were external
and violent" Judgment was accord.
ingly rendered against the company for
the full amount of the policy-namely,
GI0 00O.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-06-13

San Francisco Examiner: Even in de-
feat, the old Ireland centuries OF oppres.
sion and misgovernment passed away on
Monday last in the vote on the Home Rule
land OF kindling energies. OF courageous
possibilities. rising out OF the night Of
darkness into the light Of freedom. Her
victory may come slowly. but IL will come
Of last.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-06-13
New Departure-Prices Reduced

Having bought several new accessories
al the city while l was in San francisco
recently, / am prepared to introduce yari'
ous innovations and turn out still finer
results in regular "city STYLE" And In
consideration Of the stringenoy OF the
times | have from the LIST of May on re-
duced the charges on my photographs.
Call and be convinced by experience.
LOUIS MONACO, Artist.
Eureka, Nevada, May l, 1886.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-06-13
p r | G : LIST
wi. W.. LEY.

Cheese, from Ice. to zoe. and from $50. to
10 $50. per pound.
Pioneer Flour, SO IS to 81 12k per 100
pounds.
Crushed, Granulsted and Brown Sugar,
ION TO 12k cents per pound.
Oatmeal. %10.pound sacks, from 75c. to 90c.
per sack.
Corn Meal. %10-pound sacks. coo. to 75c.
per sack.
Eggs, 28c per doz. to 8 doz. for 81.
Bacon, lao. to l8c. and zoo. per pound.
Hams, tic. to zoo. per pound.
Butter, from 65c. to 90c. per roll.
Mess Pork, from lac. to 18c. per pound.
Coffee, from zoe. to 33c. per pound.
Tea, from 40c. to 81 rs per pound.
Rice. from SC. to 1850. per pound.
Coal Oil, from SIS per case TO 75c. per gal.
Beans, from 5kc. to Sc. per pound.
Crackers. from 12hc. to csc. per pound.
Eagle Brand Milk. 25c. per can.
Kirk Soap, from Sc. TO Zoe. per bar.
o1s.tf M. NJ. LEY. South Of Courthouse.