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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-04-22
MAKING A HEADFoREMosr LEAP.
An Ingenious Arrangement in Use on the
Stage-Jumping Into the Water.

An Ingenious Arrangement in Use on the
stage-Jumping Into the Water.
In play now running in the east an
actor leaps headlong from the walls of a
prison into apparent water. He actually
falls twenty-three feet clear in the sight
of the audience. The device by which
he escapes injury is ingenious. A an
vas cone is fixed under the stage, with
its large end even with the stage, which
is arranged to represent water. This end
is covered with rubber cloth, also painted
to represent water. The rubber cloth is
cut acr)ss in its center, the cuts reach
ing half way from the center to the
edge. The ring or edge of this circle is
hung on thick rubber springs. As the
cone narrows to its apex three other
rings are disposed at proper intervals,
covered with a netting that easily breaks,
affording only slight resistance.
Now, when the headforemost leap is
made, the leaper covers first twenty
three feet of clear space unresisted. He
then strikes the center of the diaphragm,
and the rubber cloth, partially giving
way, still offers some resistance, and,
clinging around his shoulders, retarde
his progress without harming him at all.
The next and the next, and still the next,
or last, ring in turn offer enough resist
ance to check the fall until the apex of
the cone, by its narrowing, holds the
diver in close embrace about the shout
ders, with his head protruding from the
opening. Thus far the diver has not
hurt himself. Commercial
(Iazatta
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-04-22
Fatality froln piphtheria in EngI.nd.
in England.-Chicaeo Journal.

Diphtheria Is shown by official reports
to have increased almost double in IA
tally during the past four or five years
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-04-22
SERVANTS OF THE ARIsTocRAcY.

Some of the Observations Made by Badeau
A Labyrinth of Labor.
In a great house thirty or forty indoor
servants is a common number, and often
there are as many more in the stables,
and still as many others in the gardens,
or the glass, as the Conservatives are
;alled. One nobleman whom l knew
was master of the hounds and kept sew
snty horses, and for every two horses
nan. At an entertainment in the coun-
Ty-a sort of pageant or play-I heard
some one say that 100 of the servants
came into the great hall and stood behind
5he guests. The remainder were ON duty
elsewhere. Several times, in large estab-
ishments, asked permission to visit The
offices; and the kitchens and still rooms
and sculleries, the larders and laundries,
the gun-rooms and plate-rooms and
Orushing-rooms, the housekeeper's room,
the pantries, and the servants hall, made
labyrinth of labor difficult to explore.
In making the rounds was taken to
The nurseries and the school-rooms, for
tutors and governesses are only higher
sort of servant in England. They live
and eat apart from the gentry, and often
get less wages than Wallets and ladies'
maids. 1 saw, too, the bedrooms where
the maids were making up clothes, all
rising when their mistress entered. 1
visited the stables and the carpenters
shop, even the butchery and the brewery
for many of the large proprietors kill
their own meat and brew their own beer.
Each servant is allowed beer money, as
well as wages. or else supplied with SO
many glasses, or sometimes literally
horns of beer.
Usually the servants of the aris-
tocracy are allowed five meals a day.
Their early breakfast is at z, before the
family has risen; there is lunch for them
at IL, dinner at o'clock, tea at 6, and
supper at 8, At most of these meals
meats are provided, and at two or three
of them beer is served. The food is well
cooked and savory; they sit down to
soup and pastry, to fruits and vegetables
in their season; and altogether table is
spread better than many of what is
called the middle class can afford. In
deed, servants in England can hardly be
said to belong to the lower class-cer-
tainly not the retainers of the aristoc-
racy. The attendance in the servants
hall is excellent, decorum is maintained, |
and the more punctihous perform among |
themselves many of the ceremonies they |
have watched from behind the chairs of |
the nobility. Badeau's Letter.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-04-22
The Constantinopie Fire Department..

Whilst walking along Tramway street,
there was cry of "yangoon var! yangoon
varI" there is fire! there is fireD and
three barefeoted men, dressed in the
scantiest linen clothes, come charging
pell-men through the crowded street,
fourishing long brass hose MOBILES tc
clear the way; behind them comes
crowd of about twenty others similarly
dressed, four of whom are bearing on
their shoulders a primitive wooden
pump, while others are carrying leathern
water buckets. They are trotting along
at lively pace, shouting and making
unnecessary commotion, and lastly
comes their chief on horseback; canter-
ing close at their heels, as though to
keep the men well up to their pace
Tor
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-04-22
The Northern Pacifio's Big Tunnel,

The big tunnel on the Northern Pacific
railroad is the largest in America except
the Hoosac, 1t will be $3.50 feet long.
1t is located on the Cascade branch
about half way between Columbia river
and Tacoma. The tunnel will be bored
through solid rock. The summit of the
mountains is !, $50 feet above the tunnel
so that there has been no possible chance
to make an air shaft and the work is
prosecuted from both ends. The tunnel
will enable the Northern Pacific to cross
the same range of mountains at an ele-
walton of 1850 feet that the Central Pa
cific crosses at an elevation of 1890 feet.
New York Tribune.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-04-22
The Habit OF Eating Tobacco.

One Of the most distinguished citizens
Of Atlanta-indeed, one Of the most dis
tinguished citizens of the state in his
calling-has for years been in the habit
Of eating tobacco instead of chewing it,.
This gentleman is 60-odd years of age,
and is in the most robust health, with a
complexion as clear as that of an infant
and an eye as keen as that Of a hawk.
He has none of the ailments of his age
no pains, no aches. no indigestion.-At-
lanta (Ga.) Constitution.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-04-22

The prevention of decay in wood il
said to be effectively accomplished by
exhausting the air from the pores and
filling them with gutta percha solution.
a substance which preserves the woo6
alike from moisture, water and the ac-
ton of the sun. The solution is made by
mixing two-thirds of gutta percha to one,
third of parafine, this mixture being then
heated to liquify the gutta percha, when
it is readily introduced into the pores Of
the wood, the effect of the gutta percha
being, when it becomes cool, to harden
the pores.-Chicago Herald.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-04-22
cur,os,tIe, at the Naval Academy

There are many interesting sights in
the academy buildings. Among others
is full-rigged ship about twenty feet
long, absolutely complete in every par
ticnlar, even to the tiny hammocks rolled
up and fastened under the gunwale. In
the museum is a breech-loading cannon
which was originally carried TO Peru by
Pizarro. On the walls of the chapel are
tablets commemorating those graduates
who have lost their lives in the perform
ance of some act of heroism. Annapolis
Cor. Chicago News.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-04-22

He looked at her almost with tears In
his eyes. But he was patient with her
and said:
Very well, dear, as you like"
She drew herself up haughtily. could
have boxed her ears had she been my
girl, He was too gentle with her. Some
women don't value man unless he is
pretty hard with them, and poor Mr..
Hemphill wasn't hard enough for Miss
Gladys.
She set off by herself, and he followed
her; the doctor and all the stable.men
had already gone. BillSwain came with
me. Round in the farm-yard the men
were calling out for help; and the coun-
try was up.
All the men turned out-servants,
grooms, boys. laborers. Al hurried of
towards the plantation, where, beyond
the fir-wood, the flames, stirred by a
westerly wind, were already advancing
in their fiery progress. We had not got
clear of the high road before we could
perceive the flames high in the air, and
great rolling eurls and puffs of smoke
rising over the tree=tops. Men with
h,o7--"hes Of trees, and spades and forks,
were running -long the road and then
mn the lane towards rnt tuEze common,
which was well alight. The you @sSs
were standinG out dark in trout OF tho
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-04-22

The best herd dogs of the present day
perhaps are the Breton sheep dogs
rough, shaggy, uncouth-with an aspect
as if they had a little of the blood of
bruin in their veins, but highly valued
by their possessors, who are not to be
tempted into parting with them by any
thing under the price Of the best OK; and
the Breton dog is one Of the most saga
cious of his kind, watching and tending
his focks with an almost incredible zeal
and DEVOTIONAL the Year Round.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-04-22

The nomadic Thibetans do not bun
their dead, but throw them to the wild
beasts and birds of prey. In the capita
of Thibet the clergymen decide as TO tn,
disposal of body, whether it shall b.
buried or thrown into the river, burned
or left as prey for birds and beasts
PHILADELPHIA Record
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-04-22
summer Drinks Taken in Winter.

Summer drinks are taken largely in
winter also. We keep our soda fountain
in operation the year round Vichy and
other mineral waters are called for by
regular customers, and quite trade is
done in them. Besides, special summer
concoctions are sold in bottles and cases.
Invalids purchase them, and many strict
believers in hygienic matters drink these
beverages at home, They taste as well
in winter as in summer, and of course
are just as efficacious. They are much
nicer thing to take than beer, and leave
one feeling better and clearer.-Dr.
Addington in Globe-Democrat.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-04-22
THE PAssINe OF LETTERS.

The mail from the east, and the mail from the
west
A thunder of wheels-a rushing blast;
But the sleeping travellers never guessed
What voices arose as the two trains passed.
''Tell him you met me, tell him fyI"
''That will tell her l stay not nor rest I"
Thus greeted loves messengers speeding by,
One from the east, and one from the west.
Edith NJ Thomas.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-04-22
HOW to Mark Tools Inde1ibIr

To mark tools, first cover the articles
to be marked with thin coating of tai
low or beeswax, then with a sharp in
strument write the name in the tallow.
Clear with leather; fill the place writ
ten, the letters, with nitric acid; let it
remain from one to ten minutes, then
dip in water and rub off, and the marks
will be etched into the steel or iron.-
Chicago Times
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-04-22
How Hollands Horseshoes Are Mad

How Hollands Horseshoes Are Made.
In Holland the horseshoes are so made
that the toe does not touch the ground
when on the horse, tie weight being sup
ported by the middle and heel of the
shoe. The shoe is nailed perfectly fat to
the hoof, and has no spring. This leaves
the hold of the nails undisturbed.-
cago Herald.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-04-22
THE PLANT HUMAN.

Season of SHOWS, and season of flowers,
Seasons of loss and of gain;
But since grief and joy must alike be ours
Why do we still complain?
Ever our failing since time begun,
o my intolerant brother
We want just little too little of one,
And much too much of the other.
James WhitcOmb Riley.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-04-22
greeks and Romans on horseback.

Both the Greeks and the Romans rode
horseback without stirrups, and either
upon the bare back or upon saddle pad
which was mostly covered or concealed
by piece of colored cloth thrown over
it, but never upon regular saddle made
like ours upon frame, which was late
invention towards the decline of the
Romaa empire. The women rode side
wise like our own upon pad. The same
fashion was also adopted by men.-Bos=
ton BUDGET
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-04-22
TRICKS OF MICROSCOPE VENDORS.
The Manner in Which Intelligent People
Are Fooled Into Making a Purchase.

The Manner in Which Intelligent People
Are Fooled Into Making Purchase.
Vendors of cheap microscopes con-
tinue to play tricks upon the unwary. 1
will give you the secret. They use a
small particle of sour paste, pretending
it is a drop of water, and the objects
shown are anguilulae, or paste eels. The
following is the method of working the
trick.
The vender has standing before him
on the stand with his instruments glass
of clear water, usually containing bit
of ice. The instruments consist of a
short fenestrated brass tube carrying two
plano-convex non-achromatic lenses, one
of which is about 10 seconds and the
other 0.5 seconds focal length, and so ar
ranged that the visual focus falls on the
plane surface of the smaller lens. Be
sides the instruments and a glass of
water, number of clean wooden tooth
picks lie carelessly scattered on the
stand. On a little bench under the
table, and concealed from public view,
there is a small box of sour paste, plenti-
fully supplied with anguilulae.
When a customer steps up, the chances
are hundred to one, as every micro
scopist knows, that the question will be,
docs this here show the animalcules in
water?" The ready answer is, "Show
'em? Certainly! Fact is, L don't dare
to look at the water. keep melted ice
water for my use. That generally amt
got any," HAS that water got any in
it?" continued the querist. "We can see"
says the vender, and he picks up clean
toothpick, dips it into The glass, and pre-
pares to put a drop on the front lens.
His hand, however, is shaky, and the
toothpick drops, falling generally on the
little shelf which projects slightly from
under the table He picks it up again,
and under the pretense of wiping it
sticks it into the paste, gets a very mi
mute particle to adhere, again touches it
to the water, and smears the front of the
field or objective lens.
The victim then looks, and is amazed
and delighted and straightway invests
in scope, paying from 81 to 50 for
what costs the vender less than IS cents !
($1.75 per dozen).
This ingenious piece of rascality was
the invention of a man who formerly !
made his headquarters in Pittsburg, Pa, |
anu WHO IOT years HAS u6i1Neu d ldABe !
revenue from this and similar fakes
gotten up for the use of street vendors
who either pay him a royalty on their
use or buy outright the privilege of Sing
them. was told by three different in
dividuals that they paid the man $50
each for the secret of this fake" but
that not being able always to find paste
which contained eels, they were com
PEELED to purchase from him at large
price some starting" or cultivating fluid.
All sour paste does not contain the an
guilulae; vinegar eels are sometimes used,
but only when the cultivated paste eels
cannot be gotten, as they are too large
one of them frequently stretching en-
tirely across the field of vision. The cells
raised in paste without the use of this
fertilizing fluid are much larger than
those obtained by its aid.-Dr. Frank l.
James in Scientific American.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-04-22

A writer in The British Medical Journal
advises people to be careful not to slice
up pineapple with the same knife they
use in pealing it, as the rind contains an
acrid organic substance which is likely
to cause a swollen mouth and sore lips.
In Cuba salt is used as an antidote fol-
poison of pineapple peel.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-04-22
Buying BIack Wa1nut Fenoe Raila.

Canadian lumber-dealers are now glad
to buy the black walnut fence rails which
farmers split and used as they would any
other timber twenty or thirty years ago.
The long exposure has seasoned the wood
thoroughly, and it is valuable as material
for chair legs, spindles, and other small
articles Chicago Times.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-04-22
Invention Of the Term &c. on,

&C. o. d." which has become incor-
porated into mercantile phraseology, was
invented in Boston a quarter of a cent
ury ago by Henry Damon, who sold
many boots and shoes subject to pay
ment upon delivery. The express order,
collect on delivery" was then thus alb
breviated. Inter Ocean.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-04-22
BettinR on the old Clock.

The st. Paul Pioneer Press tells Of {
certain office in that city where the ole
and sadly demoralized clock is made t.
do service as a roulette gambling appara
tus. The clock is out of repair, and
when wound up the hands have a habit
of striking at two-forty gait, and revolv.
ing about the face until the handspring
is exhausted, when they come to stand
still, The employees in the Office make
bets ON the number nearest which the
minute hand viii stop, and also wager OF
the odd or even character of the resting
place of the minute-hand.-
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-04-22

The plain, untitled citizen can slide
along in life without receiving much
criticism and abuse; but when he has a
handle to his name he must expect
everybody to take hold and shake him
up.-New Orleans PicaYune.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-04-22
The Nagnetic Infiuence of one Moon.

Inc GnaSne6c VI the
An Austrian savant has ascertained
that the moon has an influence on a
magnetized needle varying with its
phases and its declination. The phenom-
enon is said to be more prominently
noticeable when our satellite is near the
earth, and to be very marked when she
is passing from the full to her first or
second quarter. The disturbances are at
their maximum when the moon is in the
plane of the equator, and greater during
the southern than the northern declina-
tion,-Boston Budget
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-04-22
Hash at a Boston Boardinp-House

First landlady-I don't give my board
ers hash nowadays.
Second lady-Indeed What do you
do with your odds and ends of cold
meat? You don't surely throw them
away?
First landlady-Oh, no; make them
up into croquettes.
Second landlady-Ah, 1 see; your hash
is idealized. Boston Budget.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-04-22

Pneumonia has been cured by diet of
onions. A physician claims to have
cured himself in severe attack by keep
ing n crushed onion constantly renewed)
under his pillow and eating only the
pulps Of grapes broken mp with crushed
ice in teasnoon
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-04-22

The available coal of Alabama, col.
lected into one lump, would be forty
hYe nailes long by twenty-five miles thick.
A breaking off O. 5000 tons daily from
the lump would leave a large part of il
untouched at the expiration of 5000
Chicago Herald.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-04-22

The city of New York embraces ar
area of 24,394 acres. Within the city
limits are 500 miles of public roads, ex
elusive of parks, and to clean this ST..
100000 was expended in the year 1885,
Seventy-five thousand dollars is annu-
ally spent in removing snow and ice
Chicago Journal.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-04-22
Best speed Made bv Ice yachts.

Much has been said concerning the
speed of ice yachts, but reports are, no
doubt, highly exaggerated. Fifty and
even sixty miles an hour may have been
made under a sudden pressure, but one
half that distance is doing well, and how
much better is this, indeed, than tn
fastest steaming. New York Letter.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-04-22

In Zanzibar the leaves of a species o
fig are used for polishing wood, just a
we employ sand paper, and are said K
give finish which sand paper can no
Observation-Disclosures Traveller.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-04-22
The .Rogues' Gallery of Scotland Var

The ''Rogues' Gallery of Scotland Yard.
There is almost a library of photo
graphic albums of malefactors. They are
all represented with their hands laid fiat
on their breasts, it having been ascer-
tanned by experience that the hands often
furnish llnalterable clews to identified
ton. As these likenesses are safe-guarded
in testimony against them, the habitual
criminals betray an extreme antipathy
to having them taken. 1t was weeks
labor to get a correct counterfeit pre-
sentiment" of the modern and more art
full Jack Sheppard, the late Charles
Peace. He wriggled, grimaced, changed
his expression. and distorted his features
with such monkey-like quiokness that it
was well nigh impossible for the mar
with the camera to catch him. He was
fixed in the plate at last as he was in
tently watching the iogging of a com
rade.
Whether it was the effect of precon.
ceived notions or not can not say, but
there did not appear to me to be a sol
itarY good countenance in the comnlete
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-04-22
Development Of a New Indu.trv.

American stone jewelry, although a
new industry, is already represented in a
variety of designs. The minerals EN-
ployed in its manufacture are agate,
moss agate, jasper of all hues, pyrite,
moonstone, rhodonite, etc.-Chicago
Herald.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-04-22

DR.. Saliva, an Italian surgeon, says it
is always possible to transplant portion
of muscular tissue from one animal to
another, differences of species having no
effect upon the definitive result of the
OnerafiOn
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-04-22

Every permanent state of mind is
largely the effect of habit. Just as we
can perform an action so continually
that it comes to be habitual, so we can
encourage conditions of mind till they
too come to be habits of thinking and
,v-ar of faolino
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-04-22

WOrkingwomen in England and Wales.
According to the latest official figures
the number of workingwomen in Eng
land and Wales is 7,7O6, 545. They are
employed in $50 different branches Of
work
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-04-22
Largest Mass of Solid BrIckworl.

The Mengoon pagoda is one of the
most interesting sights in Burmah, and
in its unfinished state is the largest solid
mass of brickwork in the world.-Chi-
cago Tribune.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-04-22
The Puriacatiop OF MANUAL waters.

Recent German researches show that
the publication Of natural waters is
effected almost wholly by plant and
animal agencies, the chemical action of
ozone, peroxide of hydrogen and atmos-
pheric oxygen exerting but a feeble
inhuence. --ExchanRe.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-04-22
The Harmlessness OF ReIio-Hunters

Relic-hunters are kind of lunatics,
sometimes harmless, but often otherwise,
and generally foolish, their particular
vanity being allied to that of people who
inscribe their insignificant names upon
public edifices and monuments.-New-
burYport Herald.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-04-22
Eager for Religious Instruction.

A missionary says that Japanese Chris
tians are so eager for religious instruc-
ton that the same audience will often
listen to seven sermons in succession,
each one nearly an hour long, with only
an intermission for tea after the third.