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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-06-17
A Boy without a csun,ry.

Some years ago Charles Busch, a
naturalized German-Ameriean, accom-
panied by his pretty Italian wife. sailed
for France to accept an engagement az n
tenor singer in one Of the opbFa eun-
panies in Paris. En- route, a. etdbl, wlp
named Charles Herman Busch, w,Iyfnsb
to them. The mother died sbsrty aftSr
eaching France and the fatftr sodg
followed her. The chlid, having 9ts5a
born on the high seas, was hGerall vzitli-
out country. The French authapties
refused 10 administer upon tlae fathers
estate or provide a gurChan for the infant,
because neither Of the parents was a eiti-
zen Of the republic. Consul Shackel-
ford could do nothing without permission
from the government.
After two years delay this permission
was finally granted. The American
colony in Paris became interested ia the
child, who is said 10 be remarkably
bright and precocious, and fund has
been subscribed sufficient ~ rear and
educate him until his 10Th year. when an
effort will be made to appoiUt him a
cadet at the naval academy AZ Annapolis.
The little fortune of Se7, 900 francs, the
proceeds of his fathers estate, VIII be
invested for him and placed at his dis
pOsal when he shall have finished. his
education Washington Cor. Chicago
News.
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At what Are GirIs should nrarrv.

The value of the literary symposium
was never more severely tested than in.
The Brooklyn Magazine, when an at.
tempt was made to decide at what age
girls should marry. The opinions thus
gathered do not, however, materially
differ. Miss Louisa NJ. Alcott, speaking
theoretically, says "from % to % is the
suitable age" Mrs Lucy Stone thinks
20 to 30 preferable. Mrs. Rebecca Hard
ing Davis says woman should not
marry until fully developed in mind and
body. AS the time Of development in in
dividuals varies, Mrs. Davis declines to
give definite figures. She believes that
marriage based en- a pure affection is
better, even under the worst circum-
stances. than single life under the best"
Mrs. Julia G. r. Dorr thinks the best age
for girls marriage is between 20 and
20. Mrs. Mary L. Booth warns girls
against immature marriages and declines
to commit herself to figures. She can,
however, be set down as favoring mar
riages between 25 and 3d. Mrs. A. ID.
7. Whitney says the answer can not be
put in figures, because it is matter that
should vary with all varying conditions
and developments. - Atlanta Constltu-
fiov,
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HINTS FROM The JAPANESE.

How We Could Learn from the AEfhRdO'a
People TO simplify Our Hsmes.
We have been looking at sone Japan
ese dwellings, interiors. How simple
they are! how little furniture or adorn-
ment! how few things" to care for and
be anxious about! Now the Japanese are
very ancient people. They are people
of high breeding, polish, refinement.
They are in some respects like the Chi
nese, who have passed through ases and
cycles OF experience, worn out about all
the PHILOSOPHERS and religions then on,
and come out on the other side of every
thing. They have learned to take things
rather easily, not to fret, and to get on
without a great many encumbrances that
we still wearily carry along.
When we look at the Japanese houses
and at their comparatively simple life,
arc we warranted in saying that they are
behind us in civilization? May ID not be
true that they have lived through all our
experience and come down to an easy
modus vivendiY They may have had
their bric-a-brae period, their overload
ing establishment age, thei various
measles stages of civilization before they
reached condition IN which life is a
comparatively simple affair. This
thought must strike any one who sees
the present japanese craze IN this coun-
try. For, instead of adopting the jap
anese simplicity in our dwellings, we are
adding the japanese excentricities to our
other accumulations of odds and ends
from all creation and increasing the in
congruity and the complication ef our
daily life.
What helpless being is the hsHsswife
in the midst Of her treasures. The
Drawer has had occasion 10 speak lateF
of the recent enthusiasm in THIS country
for the cultivation of the mind" 1t has
become almost a fashion. Clubs are
formed for this express purpose. But
what chance is there for il in the in
creased anxieties of our more and Dore
involved and overloaded domestic hfel
Suppose we have clubs-JapaRess ehfbs
they might be called-for the siJapliAca-
ton of our dwellings and for getting rid
of much of our embarrassing Iaenage!--
Charles Dudley Warner in HaHper's Has
azine
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sNIpE IN THE SPRING TIME.
Their Mysterious Arrival and Departure
Erratic Movements.

Their Mysterious Arrival and Departure
Erratic Movements.
Nobody knows when the snipe come.
Nobody ever saw them come, or leave
either, for that matter. They are as
mysterious and siler,t in their arrival
and departure as disembodied spirits.
They evidently migrase by night, riding
in on the first warm wave from the
south after the earliest spring rains have
accomplished their mission with the
frost in the earth. You may visit the
mipe grounds to-day, and beat them up
and down and across and back again
until your legs wear out, and never
jump a bird or hear a single 4skeap," the
inevitable plant of she startled snipe.
But tomorrow you go again and you
find the meadow full Of them. But il
the temperature is not just right they
are to be found only In isolated punches
of four and five. They are uneasy in
their habits, and will flush away out Of
gunshot, the first Asl1eap" sometimes be-
ing the admonition for every jack in the
field to rise. Under such conditions
they are up like a brown and white
streak; their notes are sharp, Disguised
and spiteful, and off they go, flying low
at first, but gradually ascending until
they are but mosquitoes against the
overarching background of blue.
Here have known them to fly for
hours in the most irregular preregrina-
tions, making great curviforms in their
aerial diversions, now shooting off out
of range of vision, but unexpectedly
making their appearance again and I'M
mediately overhead, as if dropped from
the upper spaces, 50 erratic and be-
wildering are their movements. At ir-
regular intervals during this flight that
distinct but far-sounding gutteral whir,
that tremulous hoo-oooo-oo breaks upon
the ear, which wierd sound is made
every now and then by the bird beating
its sides with uncomfortable rapidity with
its wings during it curvetings IN the air.
There is no telling what snipe may do;
his little shapely head is full of eccen-
tric notions, and he may drop down
within few feet of you, tlting dudishly
back in the reeds with the noiselessness
of a sprite, or continue his reticulated
antics in TIE air until he becomes the
veriest speck in the sky and then van
ishes for good.
At other times you find them lazy and
sluggish, and lying like lead, in fact
almost compelling you to kick them up
from their wallow in the warm mud.
This is the case when the weather is
sultry and spring -feverish, developing
thus suddenly after a gradual modera-
ton of weeks, during which process the
struggling sunshine and drizzling rains
together have extracted the frost from
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Tha YanI,ae. Of the orlent,

The japanese government has engaged
the two leading German architects,
Messrs. Ende and Bocmann. They are
to take a staff of skilled workmen to the
city of Yeddo for the purpose of super
intending the erection of a new palace,
and what our cities would call a court
house-a hall of justice" All who
want to stay have the promise of per-
manent engagement ON extremely liberal
terms, considering the difference of jap
anese and north European market prices,
the quotations of the provision market
being about as one to six.
Railroads and telegraph lines are be-
ginning to cross the main islands in
every direction. High schools have been
founded by the contributions of private
citizens. Yeddo has three Turner clubs
(gymnastic associations) on the Swedish
plan; japanese cities are vieing in the
arrangements for industrial exhibitions;
the prize drills Of the harbor squadrons
are patronized by thousands of specta-
tors; there are private rifle factories and
private rifle clubs; in short, it seems a
puzzle by what system of pressure so
much energy could be kept down for so
many hundred years.-Dr. Oswald in
Cincinnati Enquirer.
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statistics OF the Plano Trade

Piano manufacturing is regarded as
yet in its infancy. Just what its extent
is few people know, but saw statistics
short time ago which indicate that
there are not enough pianos in existence
in this country to give one to each fam
ny in the state of Missouri. The only
time when a record was kept of the man
llfacture of pianos was between the
years 1894 and 1870, when an internal
revenue tax of per cent. existed, and
manufactures made monthly returns of
their sales. The number has been esti-
mated, however, on a basis of total of
1900 pianos turned out between the
years 1880 1920. After then an annual
increase has been calculated upon of 80
per cent. every zen years or so. From
1881 to 1885 it is said 212, 900 pianos were
Manufactured, and the statistician who
Looked up the information and figured
out the result has given his opinion that
from 1880 until Jan. 1, 1886, between
950, 900 and 1000, 900 pianos left the fac
tories of this country.-Cor. Globe-Dem-
Ocrat.
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fashionable quarters OF the town there
are numerous families paying high rents
who do not actually partake Of sa0icifat
nourishing food to keep them h a good
state of bodily preservation. They haye
finely furnished rooms, but thea stnnn-
achs are not furnished with food very
plentifully, and they may be said 10 keep
Lent the whole year round. If they re-
sided in less pretentious portions of the
town they might have equally eomforta-
BILE quarters and plenty TO eat, and save
something from their yearly incomes be-
sides; but they foolishly prefer to live In
the same neighborhood with eur So
called aristocracy, and spend nsafly all
their money for house rent and dress.
These are the people who bay an eighth
of pound of butter and two eggs at one
time, and other equally small amounts Of
groceries and provisions.-Boston Budget
~Saunterer."
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LITTLE MANNERIsMs oF spEEcA.

Everybody Is More or Less of Nuisance
at Times-Contradict
Everybody has some little mannerism
of speech or gesture that he never knows
he has. They chaff the English about
"Don't you know" but 1 wonder how
many of the Americans who use the ex-
preston constantly know they do it.
"See?" is a common addition, period, in
terjection and exclamation. know
several men who in telling anything say
"And so forth and so on" three times a
minute; and "All that sort of thing" is a
most frequent expression with any num-
Der of people.
The man who interludes his eonversa-
ton with "Don't you think so?" is more
of nuisance, because you never know
whether he expects you to answer him
or not. "Sayl" is an abrupt and harsh
way of attracting attention; yet ladies
are most given to the use of it. Every
body is more or less a nuisance at times.
One man sits perfectly still and talks so
deliberately and slowly that you get mad
either because you know five minutes
before he gets there what he's going to
say or you have to wait SO long to find
out. Another fellow talk so fast and 50
much that you get tired of the subject,
however entertaining. A third fellow
gets up and walks about in the most
irritating way while he's prosing. A
fourth begins about one subject and
goes all over the earth before he gives
you chance to get a word in.
But the most universal impulse in
human nature is to contradict, and nearly
everybody does it. The man who agrees
with you in everything is awfully pleas
ant for one trip, but you never make a
great friend of him. He does not COM
pliment you, because he generally ends
by producing an idea in you that he
either knows as much as you or he is
agreeing with you from indifference. 1
like man who contradicts and sticks
up for his contradiction. Argument is
he salt of social ife.-San Francisco
Chronicle "Undertones.
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Draining the Everglades of Florida.


In the southern central part of the
state, however, extending from latitude
26 degrees 80 minutes to latitude 90 de-
grees 80 minutes, is a network of little
lakes, rivers and swamps, which was
long considered unfit for any of the pur-
poses of civilized life. This region is be-
tween forty and sixty feet above the
level of the sea, SO that there is no reason
why it should be considered undrainable.
The lakes and swamps have been formed
by the rank vegetation, which for cent
uries grew, decayed and fell into the
rivers, thus damming them up and
partially flooding the surrounding
country.
The company organized by Disston, of
Boston, obtained from the government
a grant of all the lands which should be
drained by it. The company brought
down dredges and began it's work by
clearing out a channel from the Lake
Okeechobee to the Atlantic, distance of
forty miles. If the project is ever carried
out, it will shorten by about 260 miles
the sea voyage between points on the At
lantic coast and the gulf ports. The
company also intends to drain the south
east Everglades by the same method en-
ployed in reclaiming the northern
wamps.-Florida Cor. Cincinnati En-
Quirer.
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The Jews and Russian Industry.

The extraordinary fact In connection
with the Russian conscripts drafted into
the ranks in 1885 is shown by some sta
tistics just published. The total number
of conscripts accepted was 947, $50, of
whom no fewer than 43, $50 were Jews. If
we take the approximate Russian popu-
lation among whom the conscription is
SO, 900, 900, and the Jewish population at
5000, 900, this remarkable disproportion
is abundantly apparent, and would in
dicate a determination on the part of
the imperial government, through the
military authorities to check the hitherto
steadily increasing monopoly of the Jews
in nearly every branch of Russian in
dustry. Jewish trade enterprise Is less
remarkable in the capitol, where strin-
gent and repressive bylaws are still
enforced, but in south Russia generally,
and in Odessa more especially, it may
safely be averred that four-fifths of the
entire home and foreign trade of the
province and the city are in the hands of
the Jews.-Brooklyn Eagle.
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seals As 1ndlan por., Pets.

Ernest Ingersol sends message about
some Indian boys of the Makah tribe,
who live at Neah bay. Well, it seems
that the Malah boys have pets and a
form of amusement denied to most
youngsters. In midsummer great guam
titles of fur seals approach the shores in
that region. and are chased in canoes
and killed by the men of the tribe for
the sake of both the hides and the flesh.
With them come many little pup seals,
some of which are always captured and
taken home. Tying strings around the
necks of these pups the Indian boys
make them swim in the surf just outside
the breakers, and tow their canoes across
the bay, and even after them up the
rivers. In short the Indian lads have a
world of fun with those gentle and
graceful water dogs.-St. Nicholas.
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nInnnfacture of "one-stare,, nnrrels.

nAanu1acture OF EOne-StaVe' BarrelSs
Flour handlers and others who use bar
rels are just now interested in "one-
stave" barrel, manufactured near Detroit.
While the size and shape of this barrel
are the same as the ordinary kind, the
body of the barrel consists of a single
sheet of timber held by hoops. The tim
Der used is elm, which is cheap and
abundant. Canada is the main base of
supplies. The logs will be RATED over
during the season of navigation, and
brought by rail in winter time. The logs
are taken from the boom or yard into the
sawmill and cut into two-barrel lengths.
Thence they go into steam chest, where
they remain until thoroughly steamed.
In this condition the log is converted
into thin sheets, or veneering, used in the
body of the barrel. By special process
two-foot log becomes rolls of wooden
sheeting in minutes time. There re-
mains upon the mandrel an eight-inch
core, which is utilized in making barrel
heads. These sheets go next to sand
ing machine, by which both sides are
made perfectly smooth. After passing
through cutting and growing machine
they are so cut by goring machine as TO
adapt them to the shape of a barrel.
Thence they go to drying-house. From
the dry-house they go to the sizing saws,
where they are cut the desired length,
when they are ready for the cooper shop
or for shipment. They are shipped in
bundles and in the "knock-down" to be
put up at their point of destination.
Three thousand of them can be stored
and forwarded in an ordinary box car.
The headings are shipped in barrels
Boston Budget.
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The Heaaauarter. of neelzebub.


If Beelzebub means "Gnat God" the
temple of that deity ought to be erected
at Barras, near the junction of the Anna
zon and the Rio Negro. Even at Fonta-
boa, some 500 miles further inland, the
mosquito swarIns surpass any conception
a North American could have formed in
eastern Arkansas, but at the mouth of
the Rio Negro the great plague becomes
so absolutely intolerable that neither
commercial advantages nor eXuberant
fertility of the virgin soil has thus far
induced any Caucasian bipeds to make
the delta their-permanent home.
The lower eighty feet of the atmos-
phere are literally saturated with clouds
of winged blood-sucl1ers. Thousands and
thousands of them hang like a gray mist
about every tree, and hover and hum
over every pool, and drunken man fall
ing to sleep in the open air would prob
ably be bitten to death before morning,
The wood-cutters at the steamboat land
ing wear gauze wells, like Carmelite nuns,
and defend their cabins with a battery of
ever-smol1ing pestazotes ~stink-pots,"
filed with a smouldering mixture of dry
dung and waste tobacco leaves.-Dr. Fe-
lix l.. Oswald.
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Ho Knau ~ nInnI .na rhere.

The name of the late Charles L. Davis,
Esq, of Portland, stands on the hat of
Names great lawyers. His intellect was
subtle and his diction choice. He made
one of his incest and most iRvslved ar
guments before Judge Colt one day.
After he had addressed the court learn
edly and warmly for an hour or Raore he
asked: "Does your honor see the thread
of my arguments" Il don't quite sec
the thread OF your argument, Brother
Davis" said the court, with a smile, @but
plainly hear the spinning OF the wheel. Z"
Lewiston GIe.) journal.
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There Is somethinr in a Name.

There's something in name, especially
far an actor or author. No man bearing
the name of Smith has ever been heard
of as an actor, though some have at
tanned distinction in literature and poll
tics. 1 met Hjalmer Hjorth Boyesen,
the Scandinavian author, at Mrs NJ. E.
Palmer's reception on Friday evening,
and some acquaintance were chatting
/ him about his peculiar name. my
manner" he said, laughing; Il wouldn't
take anything for it. 1t is part of my
capital. 1t is my trademark. 1 might
have had some success without it, but it
has helped out. 1 signed my first story
H. II. Boyesen.' When The Atlantic
came out with it the editor had substi-
tuted 'Hjalmer Hjorth' in all its jaw
breaking glory for the simple initials. 1
asked him about it. why, "H. H."
wouldn't attract attention, he said.
Anybody could be III. H"-Henry or
Hiram, or even Harriet or Hannah. But
"Hjalmer Hjorth"!-it smells of the
North sea and sounds of the sagas and
vikings. Folks will remember it-espe-
cially if they try to pronounce it. So it
has proved. 1 wouldn't take anything
for it."-~Halston" in New York Times.
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threw his crutch at the Prussian ana MT
one of the guards ON the nose.
The colonel shouted: mind the pris-
oner does not ESCAPED"
At last they reached the town-hall. The
prison door was opened, and Walter
Schnaffs was thrown in and unbound.
Two hundred armed men mounted guard
around the building, and then, in spite
of sundry symptoms of indigestion which
began to torment him, the Prussian, wild
with joy, danced around his cell-danced
like madman, throwing up his arms
and legs, and giving vent to shouts of
maniac laughter, danced till he fell ex-
hausted against one of the walls.
He was prisoner! Savedl
And that was how the castle of Cham
pignet was retaken from the enemy
after only six hours occupation.
Col. Ratier Gn private life tailor,
who performed this gallant feat at the
head of the national guards of La Roche
Oysel, was decorated. from
the French for The Argonaut by Helen
ROurchier