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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-08-12
lie HARMoNY o. coLoRs.

Selections in Fitting Up Apartments,
Dressing, Ete.-Hints to Merchants.
By harmony Of colors we understand
colors placed side by side in such a man
ner that they do not injure the effect of
each other; rather, on the contrary,
complete each other, l. e., they gain in
intensity.
Those who are familiar with the har-
nlony of colors can, by using objects of
familiar use, make such selections in fit
ting up apartments, in dressing, etc, sc
that with the greatest simplicity they are
able to produce a more favorable effect
than is possible with the most extrava-
CANT expenditure without a sense of har.
mony in color.
A merchant, dealing in colored goods,
can very greatly improve the appearance
of his stock by knowing how to group
them in such way as to produce har-
monious effect. Very often, owing to
a lack of taste with reference TO colors
among dealers, it will be found that the
silks in one shop will appear niue b
fresher and brighter than in another.
This difference in effect to colors is, how
ever, nothing more or less than one mer-
chant arranges his goods so that the col
ors are in harmony, while the other does
not follow any definite plan. In the
first instance the goods gain, while in the
second they lose in intensity of color
The attention of the ladies is particu-
larly called to the importance of har-
mony In colors, for the most of them in
the selection of their colored dresses,
bonnets, and trimmings, produce the
greatest discord in the composition of the
colors. Harmony in color does not de-
pend ON the win or caprice or personal
taste of an individual, but it is based on
the Interchangeable laws of nature, which
we shall Immediately discuss.
Red and Green-A red body reflects
green rays, while on the other hand,
green body reflects red rays. Therefore
green is the color which completes red,
and similarly red is the colorwhich COM
pletes green. Both colors, therefore,
gain in intensity.
Blue and Orange-A blue body often
reflects orange rays, and inversely |
an orange body will frequently re-
fleet the blue rays. Orangeis, therefore, !
the Complementary color Of blue, and /
vice versa, therefore each color intensi- |
fies the other.
Violet and Greenish Yellow-A violet
body reflects greenish yellow, and in
versely greenish yellow body reflects
violet. Both colors, therefore, complete
each other, and intensity each other.
Indigo and Yellow-Indigo reflects
yellow, and yellow indigo rays, hence
they are Complementary and intensity
each other.
1t would carry us too far to describe
all the other colors which are compile
photographer and Printer.
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Curious Way to Aid the Memory.

Judge Barney, of Massachusetts, who
has been conducting the Panel-ectric in
vestigation, has jumped into national
prominence. He is known in Boston as
one of the most noted lawyers in New
England. A friend of his tells me that
he can make 800, 900 year at his prac-
tice, and that he is inspired with the
genius of the law. He has wonderful
faculty of carrying all the points of a
case in his head. You may mix up
mass of testimony into a hodge
pOdge made up of irrelevancies, and pour
it into Ranney's brain. As soon as it
gets there it becomes filtered. The
refuse and irrelevant things vanish, and
order comes out of the chaos. Each fact
seems to drop into its proper class, and
out of nothing comes an analytic
whole. Judge Ranney has a cur
ious way of aiding his memory.
When he is looking up a case
and reading the papers in it he notices
nothing going on around him, and when
he comes to point which he wants to
remember, he writes it down on a piece
of paper. He does not keep the paper or
pay any attention to it. The writing of
If down fixes it as indelibly in his mind
as though he had stenciled it upon his
brain. After be has been reading
through the different parts of the house
you may find his footprints in the notes
of memoranda on the members desks
at which he has been sitting. He makes
notes any place and always leaves them
just where he makes them.-"Carp" in
Cleveland Leader.
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Markets of a siberian City.

The markets of Irkutsk are an inter
estlng sight in winter time, for every
thing ON sale is frozen solid. Fish are
pied up in stacks like SO much cord
God, and meat likewise. All kinds of
fowl are similarly frozen and piled up.
Some animals brought into the market
whole are propped up on their hind legs,
and have the appearance of being act
ually alive; and as you go through the
markets you seem to be surrounded
by living pigs, sheep, oxen, and fowls.
But stranger yet, even the liquids are
frozen solid and sold in blocks. Milk is
frozen into block in this way, with a
string or stick frozen into or projecting
from it, for the convenience of the pur-
chaser, who can take his milk by the
stick and carry it home swung across
the shoulder. So, in a sense which is
unknown in other countries, a man can
buy his drink with "a stick in it.'-Cen-
tral Siberia Letter.
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The windows of some of the South
street ship chambers stores contain this
sign; Marine Oil"
ut is an oil specially prepared to
smooth an angry sea, " said one dealer.
Boiled oil or animal oil will do pretty
well, but this oil will stand a greater de-
gree of cold without congealin9 than or
binary oils. 1t is secret mixture of
common oils. The demand for it has
arisin through the publication by the
photographic office of the value of oil
in breaking sea. 1t has become the
fashion to use oil. 1t is a singular char
aeteristic, but many old sea captains
boast that they are not book sailors, and
take a pride IN refusing to do what the
books recommend and in refusing to
take up with what they call new-fangled
notions. They have heard about the
value of oil ever since whales were first
captured off Nantucket, but it was not
the fashion to use oil, so they let the
ships sink. New York Sun.
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The FORMATION of North America.


The opinion is expressed by an emil
nent American scientist, in recent lee
ture, that the North American CONT
nent had the beginning of its formation
in islands of matter rising out of theim-
mense ocean, which grew until they f.
nally touched each other. Many of these
islands were volcanoes that threw up
matter that had formed below the sur
face of the water, and were larger below
the water than above it. The Hawaiian
islands have had many volcanoes, and
were much formed by them. The whole
area above the sea is no more than that
of the state of Massachusetts,, but their
combined bases must be equal to the
whole Of New England and New York.
Thus the original islands of this conti-
nent could easily have been made to en-
large and JOIN each other, and the gran
tie rock is so abundant was once erupted
from volcanoes, like flowing lava.
Among the first volcanic islands must
have been Greenland, Canada, east of
Winnipeg. the Atlantic district, the
Rocky mountains and the Sierra Neva-
das; but as the islands rose and enlarged
great depressions would naturally COM
'mence and go on, and in this way the
depressions of Hudson's bay, the Missis-
sippi valley, and the Salt lake and Ne
vada basins were formed These de-
pressions would fill with massive
sediments, which would eventually be-
come rocks, and the depressions would
have a saucer or platter shape.-Chicago
Herald.
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Clam.pak,ng INDIAN. Of long 1.lana.

Mine host Dougan of the hotel Jerome,
at Sheepshead Bay, is not only typical
boniface, but a devoted archeologist as
well. He spends most of his spare time
exploring the Long Island creeks and
bays for relics of the lost races that once
peopIed their banks, and'he tells me that
he has discovered beyond a per-adventare
that the Long Island. Indians were mas
tiers of the art of clam-baking centuries
ago. Near Sheepshead is one creek
which is banked and bottomed with tons
of clam and oyster shells, whose friabil-
ity shows them to have been subjected
to the action of heat. From this he
argues that they were once roasted, and
there was none but the Indian to roast
them. Consequently the Indian must
have been a clam-baker. There is an in
calculabIe mine of this shelly debris,
which is now being dug up
for bodybuilding. His discovery goes
far to confirm the theory of an old
local historian l used to know at South
amnton. who claimed to have ascer-
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THE LAW.

Life is a Shylock: always it demands zsE
The fullest usurer's interest for each
treasure.
Gifts are not freely scattered from its
hands;
We make returns for every borrowed
treasure
Each talent, each achievement, and each
gain,
Necessitates some penalty to pay. S
Delight imposes lassitude and pain,
As certainly as darkness follows day.
All you bestow on causes, or on men,
OF love, or hate, Of malice or devotion,
Somehow, sometime, shall be returned
again.
There is no wasted toll, no lost emotion.
The motto of the world is @Give and take. y
1t gives you favors-out of sheer good
will
But unless speedy recompense you make,
You'll find yourself presented with its
bill.
When rapture comes to thrill the heart of
you,
Take it with tempered gratitude; re-
member
Some later time the interest will fall dua
No year brings June that does not bring
December t.s1
Ella Wheeler WiIco,r-
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A Queer Animal rom Japan.

An animal whose identity is at present
unknown there, was landed in San Fran
cisco lately from the interior of Japan,
where it first saw the light of day. At a
glance the curiosity might be taken for
either a dog or monkey. tits shaped like
the former about the head and neck,
but otherwise somewhat resembles the
monkey. Theanimal's favorite position is
on its launches, but with little urging
it stands ON its four feet, the body slop-
ing downward from the head like
giraffe. The claws on the four feet are
like those of dog, but two extra pairs
are furnished on the hind legs a couple
of inches above the balls of the feet.
The animal appears to be gentle, but has
a strong, high-keyed bark, which it
gives when spectators attempt TO stir it
up.-Chicago Herald.
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tradition of the Beaver Tribe.

1t is only in tradition that the history
of the Indian lives, and only one version
of the story is ever heard. Sometimes
this is so true to nature that no room for
doubt can be found. Such is the fol-
lowing chapter from the annals of the
Beaver tribe, which lives in the northern
part of the British possessions.
One day young chief shot his arrow
through a dog belonging to another
brave. The brave revenged the death of
his dog, and instantly hundred bows
were drawn. Ere night had fallen some
eighty warriors lay dead around the
camp, the pine woods rang with the
lamentations of the women, the tribe
had lost its bravest men. There was
temporary truce; the friends of the chief
whose arrow had killed the dog yet num-
bered some sixty people; it was agreed
that they should separate from the tribe,
and seek their fortune in the vast wilder
ness lying to the south.
In the night they began their march;
sullenly their brethren saw them depart
never to return. They went their way
by the shores of the Lesser Slave lake,
towards the great plains which were said
to be far southwark by the banks of the
swift-rolling Saskatchewan.
The tribe Beavers never saw again this
exiled band, but a 100 years later
Beaver Indian, who followed the for
tunes of white fur-hunter, found him.
self in one of the forts of the Sasl1atche-
wan. Strange Indians were camped
about the palisades; they were portions
of the great Blackfeet tribe whose hunt
ing grounds lay south of the Saskatche-
wan. Among them were a few braves
who, when they conversed together,
spoke a language different from that of
the other Blackfeet; in this language the
tongue. Youths Companion.
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vibrations from a Steam Hammer.

NM. Fouque and Michael Levy have
made experiments recently with the
steam hammer at the Creuset works to
determine the velocity of propagation
of vibrations through the ground. The
blow of the 100-ton hammer is not felt
by the senses beyond 1900 meters, but
it is perceptible by proper apparatus, such
as the nadiral apparatus of astronomers.
In the Permian rocks of Creusot the
speed of the wave is about 1900 meters
per second parallel to the strata, and
1850 meters per second perpendicular to
them. In the sands of Meudon, on the
osher hand, the speed of shock was
found to be about 500 to $50 meters per
'Iecond; but the wave was longer in this
case, that is to say, it lasted longer
Cleveland Leader.
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The Diet of strong Men.

The Roman soldiers, who built such
wonderful roads and carried a weight of
armor and luggage that would crush the
average farm hand, lived on coarse
brown bread and sour wine. They were
temperate in diet, and regular and con-
slant in exercise. The Spanish peasant
works every day and dances half the
night, yet eats only his black bread,
onion and watermelon. The Smyrna
porter eats only little fruit and some
olives. He eats no beef, pork or mutton,
yet he walks off with his load of 800
pounds. The coolie, fed ON rice, is more
active and can endure more than the ne
gro fed ON fat meat. The heavy work of
the world is not done by men who eat
the greatest quantity. The fastest or
longest-winded horse is not the biggest
eater. Moderation in diet seems to be
the prerequisite of endurance.-Detroit
Free Press
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NJ. Pasteur and tho Wolf rabies.

A Paris correspondent of The New
York Tribune, speaking of the wolf-bit-
zen Russian who have died there, says:
m. Pasteur was at a sitting of the ceun-
ell of health reading paper on his inoc-
ulations when the news of Goleweski's
death was brought him. He was so
greatly concerned that some of his col
leagues feared that he might have an
other paralytic attack. He at once adj
mitted that he had not yet learned how
to time wolf rabies. But he did not
ike the fact that the red-hot irons had
not been used in cauterizing the gland
ular regions into which the VOLTS fangs
had Denetrated. Exchange.
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AN UNSUITABLE, eoTToMLess GRAVE

The Hole of Death-A- Quagmire That
Swallows UP Horse and Rider.
1t is an awful sight to see a man drown.
But with foresight and skill no man need
drown. Fancy a sea in which there is
no swimming, and sea into which you
may plunge unawares. A man is Looping
over the green prairie, looking out from
under his broad sombrero at the lazy
cattle and the prairie-dogs playing in the
sun. Suddenly there is sound like a
| giants throat swallowing a choked shout
of terror. The prairie-dogs run into
their holes, and moment later come
out cautiously, curious and frightened.
The tall reed-like grass is waving where
the horse and rider were just now. The
antelope on the crest of the divide
yonder look round them watchfully. But
there is nothing to fear-no man in
sight. He is going to town, that rider,
with the wages of hard winters work
in his pocket, riding his favorite bronche,
dressed in the bHckskins he had fr;nged
in the winter evenings, ready to show
the foolish girls how brave he looked in
his rude attire. Where is he now-he
and his horse? In a grave of Shiny,
shivering mud-alkali paste, blue with
nameless tint of putrid death, has filled
his throat-covered his eyes before he
could close the lids.
What does this mean-some hideous
freak of nature-some work of devil
endowed with moments power? No;
only an alkali sink; only natural well,
filled with paste as yielding as water
retentive as hell. Picture to yourself the
surface setting back to its normal
quietude with an indescribable gulp,
ghoul like smacking of grave-lips. A
grave that supplies itself with dead-a
grave that buries almost before it kills
an Unsuitable, bottomless grave, set like
trap for the living. The sink-hole is
not always covered with grass; some
times it has a caked and scanned crust of
blueish-white alkali ON the top of it. But
even that is a poor safeguard, for the
long grass around it will hide it from the
rider until it is too late to avoid it,
The tenacity of this paste of mud is
something incredible. have never seer
a man caught in a sink-hole, but have
seen man ride to the edge of one, dis
cover it too late to turn his horse, and
shaking himself in the saddle, vault over
the horn-pommel, when the pony was
caught, striking the ground far beyond
the sink-hQle. There were twenty men
there, and before the horse had sunk far
there were half a dozen ropes fast to
him. Half a dozen strong ponies can
pull most anything, but they could not
draw that horse back from the grave
that was closing over him. There is
strange suction about that alkali mud
it holds all it grasps with horrible
pertinacity.-San Francisco Engleside.
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A THOUSAND DOLLAR MOTH,
BY No Means Striking in Appearance
The Only One Ever Found.

Inc OnAy Onc Ever II OunQs
1t is by no means the most beautiful
or striking in color, for it is painted, as
you may say, in single color of grayish
brown, though in many, many tints of
that color. Its form is the more wonder
full, for its secondary or hinder wings
reach back into long tails an eighth of
an inch wide and over four inches long,
so that the insect measures about seven
inches from head to tip of tails, and be-
tween four and five inches across. 1t is
of the general shape of what is known
as our luna moth, the large, greenish
white-tailed moth; but in the luna the
tails are only two inches long. l do not
think any other moth or butterfly has so
great eccentricity of form. But the
most wonderful thing of all is that it is
the only insect of the kind ever found.
Thirteen years ago a son of Professor
Meyer caught it in barber shop in Rio
Janeiro, into which it had flown during
the evening. He sent it to his father,
who had been collector for many years.
When the box containing it was opened,
and the great entomologist dropped his
eyes upon it, he almost tainted with de-
light, and at once was offered 500
for it.
The news of the discovery of it spread
rapidly everywhere among collectors,
and dilligent search has been made ever
since to find another of its kind, but in
Win. 1t stands alone, perhaps the last
of an almost extinct species, but surely
the only one that rests in air on entomol-
ogist's pin. This fact that it defies dupli-
cation, together with its kingly form, will
help to remove the shudder that passes
over you as you hear its name, Jehovah,
for by this name the princely insect is
known among cientists-Endamonia Je-
hovah. 1t should be stated, however,
that its happy owner did not intend Civ
ing it this name, but somehow the real
name, Jupiter, was changed into Jehovah
when it was being catalogued, and so it
has remained.
1t is hard to place value upon this
precious insect, for DR.. Meyer values it
almost as his own life; but l have been
told 81, 900 would not induce him to part
with it, We can believe this when we
are told that kind of beetle found in
the west was sold, for several years at
800 a specimen. Professor Meyers en-
tire collection is valued at SAC, 000.~
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Dora Read Goodale.
ATTITUDES AND HEART DISEASE.


The Risk which Some People Run-Dan-
gers OF the Higher Levels.
The Medical Journal has just reported
paper read before the American Climat-
illogical association, by DR.. A. L.
Loomis, of this city, which may be of
vital importance to many people propos-
ing to visit mountain resorts the coming
summer. DIR. LOOMS datails four cases
in which heart disease was brought on
by change from lower to a higher
altitude. Two of these cases were per-
sons going to St. Regis lake, in the Adj
rondacks, at an elevation Of only 2, 900
feet. One was that of visitor to the
Catskin mountains, and the fourth had
gone to Colorado. Though a relief was
afforded them by return to lower lev
els, they all died within four or five
weeks. 8df
AS the result of his experience in
twenty six cases, DIR. Loomis concludes
that "the risks which one with even
slight cardiac insuficiency runs by pass
ing from lower to higher altitude is
certainly very great; and, if the INSULT
cheney be extensive, such change be-
comes Immediately dangerous. This
conclusion, strongly supported as it is by
DIR. Loomis' data, is especially important
when it is remembered that cardaic in
sufficiency may exist in those who give
no evidence of it while at, or moder-
ately near, the sea level.
1t is well known that sojourn at the
high resorts of the Swiss Alps is contra
indicated for persons suffering from dis
eases of the brain, heart, or the
large vessels. The change in the blood
is due to deficiency of oxygen (calcula-
ton will show that ordinarily at am alti-
tude of only 1000 feet 178.48 grains less
of oxygen are inhaled than at sea leveD
would alone explain the perils which
many people incur by exchanging tide
water for high mountain. air.-New York
Herald.
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And Keep on Climbing Forever

There is not horse, mule, ass or
bicycle in Alaska; each and all would be
useless as a means of locomotion. The
whole country leads toward heaven at
an angle of forty-five degrees. To move
on you must climb and keep on climbing
forever. The Indians, for that reason,
with level heads avoid the land, except
as a place to sleep on; they live and
move in canoes. What the gondola is
to the Venetians the canoe is to the peo-
pie of Alaska. Alaska Tourists Letter.
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aazardousness Of Railway EmplOyment.

Gazardousness OF hallway Employment.
Speaking with well informed rail-
road man recently on the hazardousness
of railway employment, he said the aver
age life of freight brakemen is only about
ten years, and that in the neighborhood
of 20 per cent. of the men employed
on trains are injured every five years.
The great majority of accidents, he said,
occur in the handling of freight trains,
and are due to the fact that the engineer
has little or no control over his train.
There has been very little improvement
in this respect for years past, and yet
there are modern appliances for use on
freight as well as on passenger trains, by
the use of which the liability of accidents
would be vastly lessened. If the rail
roads would use driver-brakes on their
freight locomotives and automatic brakes
for freight cars, the hazards of employ
ment on this class of trains would hardly
be greater than on passenger trains. And
yet the companies go on paying heavy
damages for accidents and enormous
fees and costs for litigation rather than
provide their trains with these improved
appliancess--Cor. Chicago journal.
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A treaty ON a SILK handkerchief.

A Swiss correspondent of The Repub-
lique Franchise, in looking over the
papers of the eccentric duke of Bruins
wick, deposited at the library Of Geneva,
has found the draft of secret mutual
assistance treaty between him and the
late Emperor Napoleon. 1t is dated
Ham, 25th June, 1874, and is not only
signed Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, but is
written by him ON white silk pocket
in marking Glasgow
Mail.