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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-07-08
ARcH&oLoelcAL EINns-

Excavations at the AcropoIis of Athens
and Their Interesting Disclosures.
1t is not a little curious that while ex-
cavations have been made in nearly
every part of Greece for archaeological
researches no examination of the ground
Immediately. around and upon the Acrop-
oils of Athens has been made until this
year. Excavations have been begun
there which have already disclosed a
building belonging probably to the epoch
of Pericles, though its identity has not
yet been established, and about which
were discovered a great quantity of OBJ
jects in bronze, marble and terra Gotta.
These are generally fragments only,
some of them mere scraps, though there
are few nearly complete. figures and
one or two vases quite whole. There are
also a number of inscriptions on frag-
ments of columns and on ornamented
slabs of marble. The whole lot looks as
if the refuse from demolished temple
of early date might have been deposited
here by way of filling up hollow place.
All the pieces of statues are of very
early time; some are quite rude in form
and of clumsy workmanship, of no great
interest, except as supplying examples of
early Greek art. There are, however, a
few pieces of great interest in them
selves. One fragment of an archaic
female figure, with drapery, which is
richly painted, is preserved with remark
able distinctness. The drapery is painted
red, green and white, with dark brown
border, which is cut into small squares
and circles. Another well-preserved
female figure well illustrates the Greek
costume of the early periods. The hair
is arranged in unbroken waves about the
forehead, combed back behind the ears
and falls in long curls about the shoul-
ders. She wears three garments; over a
fine woolen Chiffon, visible only at the
breast, is thrown the himation, fastened
lightly at the right shoulder and passed
under the left arm; it reaches to her feet
and over it is short shawl-like mantle.
The Chiffon is red, the girdle green and
the himation has stripes of green and
dark red.
An interesting historical find has re-
Gently been made in Venice, where, near
the Fenice theatre, was dug up a metal
box containing great quantity of coins,
many of which are believed to be quite
unique. They belong to the Latin prin-
cedoms which sprang up in Greece about
the time of the earlier crusades. The
coins indicate in fact the titles of the
princes of Achaia and the dukes of
Athens, and it is hoped that much light
may be shed by them upon some very
obscure passages of history, but there yet
remains much to be done for their proper
decipherment since many of the coins
are crushed and massed together so
closely that it is a difficult matter to
separate them.-Philadelph Times.
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Crow Indians. Mode of Burial.

The influence of missionaries and the
agents certainly have caused the Crows
to pretty much abandon their old custom
of wrapping their dead up in blankets
and buffalo robes and placing them on
rude scaffoldings or in the forks of trees
high above the ground. They now adopt
the civilized mode of burial, although
many of the old platforms still remain.
This custom of disposing of the dead
originated in the practical motive of put
ting them out of reach of wolves and
coyotes, who are the scavengers of the
prairies, and who easily dug up bodies
buried no deeper than the Indians could,
with their rude tools, place them. This
particular graveyard smelled so dread
fully vile that was glad enough to get
out of it and HE me back TO the fort. 1
was very anxious to witness an issue of
rations to the Indians, but as such an
event was not likely to take place for
six or seven days my wish was not to be
gratifed. The Crows, notwithstanding
the civilizing influences with which they
are surrounded, 1 was told, still continue
to gorge themselves on issue day and
starve the balance of the week.-Cor.
Cleveland Leader.
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The expression ain good form" or
"good form" is taken bodily from French
law (see Littre's Dictionnaire), and means
that all technicalities have been duly OBJ
served. The opposite is expressed by the
English phrase "bad form" which has
degenerated into a cant term and is APP
piled rather unfortunately.
The question why is silent in often,
hasten, soften, castle, and kindred words,
has been explained by John Hopkins in
vestigators on the ground of physiology
and environment. This explanation is
entirely correct, the { in the words named
being placed betwees consonants which
are pronounced msre easily than the
hard and sharp is. AS a matter Of con-
venience or laziness, therefore, the was
dropped, and the less podantie pro-
nounciation has become the standard
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Simple Test for Drinking Water.

A simple test for drinking water is
recommended by n German physician,
DIR. Hager. 1t consists Of tablespoon
full of clear solution of tannin TO be added
to a tumberful of water. If no turbidity
occurs within five hours the water may
be considered good. II turpidity occurs
within the first hour the water is un-
Wholesome. If turpidity is displayed
within the second hour the water is not
to be recommended. Previously, in 1866,
DIR. Hager recommended for travellers, as
a precaution in cholera times, the addi-
ton of the following solution Thirty
drops TO a liter or quartz 10 any water
they might be about TO drink: Tannic
acid, 5 parts; sirup, 4 parts; distilled
water, parts; spiritof wine, ~ 1-2 parts.
A more trustworthy precaution is TO
acidulate all bringing water with aro-
matte sulphuric acid.-Chicago News.
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Autooratic Ways of George Washington.
One hears much of "the earlier and
purer days of the republic, but the truth
IS form and state was adopted by Gen.
and Mrs. Washington which would not
be tolerated for an instant in the presi-
dents of to-day. At their levees they
received standing upon lofty dais. I'm
agine the roar that would go up now if
a two-inch dais were introduced at the
White HOuse-nay, the bare suggestion
of introducing one. Washington also
conceived when he was president that ne
had a right to influence legislation, and
spent much of his time in the halls of
congress. When legislation was going
to his liking he would not interfere, but
if it did not suit him he would march
into the house or senate, seat himself,
and scowl around with every indication
of displeasure. frequently members
were not brave enough to face his mighty
wrath, but sometimes they did, when
Washington made no effort to conceal
his disgust.
It must be borne in mind, though, that
there were no precedents il republican
governments in those days. Everything
was new, and naturally followed old
forms. 1t will be remembered that it
was seriously proposed to confer the title
of high nightiness upon the president.
John Adams, who was the son of a
tinker, was dreadfuliy worried over the
lack of titles in the new republic. Ed
mund Randolph, who was the son of a
gentleman, told him that titles in re-
public, or anywhere else, weren't worth
al forget what particular form of OBJ
jurgation he used, but it was exceedingly
forcible. Benjamin Franklin then gravely
remarked that if the president was to bs
his high mightiness the vice-presideTlt
could be called his superluous highne;s.
Sidney" in Chicago News.
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Cider Cure for Gout and Rheumatism.

Cider Cure for Gout and rheumatism.
The bluegrass craze and the boiling
water remedy for dyspepsia are now sue
ceeded by the cider cure for gout and
and rheumatism, which, strange to say,
is receiving the sanction of some of the
best physicians in Europe. Cider must
in such cases be drank sweet, and cele-
brated chemist gives the following for
mula to prepare this cheap acid agree
able beverage: "Cider should be made of
good sound apples and then left to fer
ment in the barrel. When the fermen-
tation has almost ceased, it should be
racked off into smaller barrel by a
siphon "a rubber tube) from the bung of
the first barrel into that of the second.
In this way your second barrel will
contain cider almost clear. Let it settle
for two or three days, bottle in cham
pagne bottles, cork, wire or fasten the
cork with strings, and lay the bottles on
their side. If the cider is bottled too
soon, or before fermentation has almost
ceased, it will burst the bottles. If this is
likely to happen, stand them up again
for almost a month; then lay them down
again. In this way you will keep your
cider sweet for more than a year. 1t
will have plenty of 'fizz' in it, and makes
an excellent drink, particularly in sum-
mer."
The new cure has already many adj
herents, and beautiful resort is about
to be opened in Devonshire, one of the
Ioveliest counties in England, where the
treatment can be carried on under the
most advantageous circumstances, as is
the case with the celebrated grape-cul-
ture establishments on the Rhine and
Moselle. A correspondent in the London
Times claims that he has been cured of
rheumatism of long standing by the use
cider, and it would be well to try the ex-
pertinent in the midst of some of our or
chards, situated in picturesque sites,
where the invalids can pursue their rou-
tine of treatment to the best advantage.
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Almost Persuaded Out of rheOsophy.

A Little Boston maiden, 10 years of
age, has been much exercised over eth
ical and religious problems during the
past winter. She was at first a Theos-
ophist, but when the Lenten services
at Trinity began it seemed to her that
the respectability of the family de-
manded that some one should occupy
their pew in the church and as nobody
else seemed likely to do so she gravely
betook herself to the afternoon meetings
and became much inclined toward the
faith inculcated by Mr.. Brooks. There
is a good deal of it that is like theoso-
ply" she assured me, "and think per-
haps it's better to go with your own peo-
pie instead of with folks that live as far
off as India, SO can't quite tell whether
I'd better be Theosophist or not. Do
come upstairs and see what a beautiful
new dolls house I've had built. 1t is
higher than my head and all like a real
house. "-Arlo Bates in Providence Jour-
nal
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the Enormous waste of Life.

An English naturalist remarks that it
is sad reflection that while the turbot
lays IA, 900, 900 eggs, not more than one,
on an average, ever lives to reach matur-
ity. In fish generally it takes yearly at
least 100000 eggs for each individual, to
keep up the average of the species. In
frogs and amphibians few hundred are
amply sufficient. Reptiles often lay only
a much smaller number. In birds, which
hatch their own eggs and feed their
young, from ten to two eggs per annum
are quite sufficient to replenish the earth.
Among mammals, three or four at
birth is a rare number, and many of the
larger sorts produce one calf or foal at
time only. In the human race at large,
a total of five or six children for each
married couple during whole lifetime
makes up sufficiently for infant mortality
and all other sources of loss, though
among savages a far higher rate is
usually necessary. In England an aver
age of four and a half children per
family suffices to keep the population
tationary-Arkansaw Traveller.
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THE PRopIeAL.

drained the nectar in life's cup,
That glowed and foamed and sparkled up
While round me echoed far and near
The drinking songs of comrades dear.
stood upon the rivers's brim,
kissed the goblet's golden rim
And tossed it up-it caught the light,
A sinking star o'erwhelmed in night.
Let misers blame my ardent haste
That could not sip, but close to waste
Exhausted joy, in one deep breath,
Leaving behind the dregs of death;
Nor kept the costly cup, indeed,
To pledge for gold in time of need.
Beggared and old, this thought is mine:
l drank, and found the draught divine.
Julie K. Wetherin in Times-Democrat.
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Discovery of an Ancient Cemetery.

Presiding Elder Paine reports that an
ancient cemetery has been discovered at
Stewards landing, on the Ohio river,
near New Martinsville. The bodies are
laid at regular intervals from north to
south, and the river running against the
bank has exposed the remains. The
graves are about two feet below the sur
face and the bodies were covered with
layer of mussel shells and the graves
then filled with earth. The graves lie
closely together for a considerable dis
tance along the river bank. The bones
have become soft by age and can be
broken with the fingers. Trees of con-
siderable age are growing over the
Sraves.-Wheeling Register.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-07-08

Mosquitoes an Antidote for Snake Bite.
The following story comes to us from
Florida: A man living in the neighbor-
hood of Tampa was bitten on the leg by
arattlesnake. A doctor was at once sent
for and the leg was bandaged tightly
above the wound, although it was ex-
pected that the man would die before
medical assistance could be procured.
The leg having been barred for the appli-
cation of the bandage was attacked by
mosquitoes, and when the physician
finally arrived he found the man in good
condition, but the ground around where
he lay was strewn with dead mosquitoes.
Medical Journal.
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JournaIisnn Dying I'm France.

Literature has been killed by journal
ism, journalism is soon to be killed by
As for reporting it will die
airy decadence Of our age; it is the man
of letters replaced by the concierge.
the pen has allowed itself to
be absorbed by the interloper, who dis
penses alike with style, with ideas, with
and with Individuality
Paris Letter
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LOVED you ONCE.

1 loved you once; but now, alasl
The flame is out, the hearth is cold.
Love could not leap the chasm set,
1t missed its purpose, lost its hold,
And in the pit OF doubt it fell:
All, doubt to love is loves death-knelll
loved you once; but as a rose
Fades from its Summer into clay,
And never more may bloom the same,
So love lies in its grave to-day.
No resurrection may aspire 80
To raise again its dead desire.
loved you once; you flung me doubt,
And basely dealt untruths sharp thrust.
How deep the wound and scar VIII show
Where love is stabbed thro' its own trust.
You dug its grave-then why regret?
Tears bring not back the sun that's set.
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Tha MAN uith a RnndIe.

The man who has to carry bundle
can never have quite as high an opinion
of himself as he might otherwise. 1t un-
sexes any man who is compelled to keep
it up. There are few things which make
a man appear so confoundedly awkward
as to go pushing through the street or
into vehicle with a bundle under his
arm and his pockets bulging out with
others. 1t is like trying to find the
pocket in one of the modern and fear
fully made dresses for a man to handle
bundle with ease and grace. A woroan
may be so heavily loaded with packages
and bundles that no one would recognize
her, and yet she would carry them in
graceful, if not an easy, manner.
A man can't carry one bundle with
any sort of grace or ease. He puts it
under one arm, and it works its way out
and slips down. He tries to catch it on
the calf of his leg and totters over. Two
to one he loses his hat or, perhaps, falls
fiat on his face. Picking up the bundle
he puts it under the other arm.
1t either works its way out or the
string gets united and the contents fall
out. If he gets into car with it he is
sure to drop it. STOPPING in a crowded
car to pick up anything is not pleasant
job and is seldom accomplished without
some calamity following. Then man
can never find place to put bundle,
no matter how many receptacles there
may be in sight. He viii hold on to
bundle if he has to drop baby. Any
wife who will insist upon having her
husband load himself with bundles every
time he goes to the city might as well
put the petticoats on him first as last.
That's what he'll come to if he has to
keep up the custom. Chicago Herald.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-07-08

A moonlight mirage was lately wit
messed in Illinois. The moon was shin
ing brightly, but dense fog hung over
the flat-lands near st. Joseph, and the
passengers in a railway train saw a
phantom train suspended in the air un-
der the fog bank. The apparition was
visible for several minutes. Chicago
Herald
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American Converts to Buddhism.

A missionary writing from Japan
gives currency to the report of a Kioto
paper that the various Buddhist sects
have agreed to join their forces to COM
bat the inroads of Christianity, and even
to begin a campaign of aggression by
sending missionaries to America, En-
gland and France to propagate their re.
ligion. Perhaps they were encouraged,
he thinks, to attempt the conversion Of
people in other lands by the recent addi-
ton of two American professors to the
Buddhist ranks. Both are men of cult
ure, and one is a graduate of Harvard
university. The latter has been a teacher
in the university of Toxic for some time,
and was always an avowed infidel.
The other "a physician) is reported as
having said that his reasons for uniting
with the Buddhits were: II. That as a
code of morals he detected but little diff
ference between Buddhism and Christi
anity. 2. Christianity is lacking in phi
losophy. Buddhism is not. 8. Christi
anity is opposed to science. Buddhism
is not. 4. Buddhism teaches other
things besides ordinary branches of
learning, as electro biology and occult
sciences. And 5. Christianity has
reached its zenith, while the advance of
Buddhism promises to be perpetual" If
such reasons were honestly given, it is
evident that their author knows little of
what he speaks; but it is intimated that
those two neophytes are simply taking
the means of gaining information in re-
gard to the inner life and history which
is open to them now as it would not be
otherwise. Cor. New York OBJ
server.
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Anstralla,s natural RIrd Trap.

The ornamental Pisonia grandis Of
Australia has seeds Like an elongated
barley corn, which are covered with a
sticky gum. This adheres TO the legs
and feathers of winged creatures coming
in contact with il, and makes the plant a
natural bird catcher, no less than 100
birds having been known 70 be captured
by one tree in Victoria. a.--Arkansaw Tray
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ApYERTIsINe RATES
immense

an immense variety OF soul
narrowing sounds. There was
projectile, used by some Of the Confoder-
ate artillery in the campaign between
the Wilderness and Petersburg, whose
sound, though not the loudest, was very
stirring in its effects, and our men nick
named it "The Great Demoralizer." For
there were few backbones in the Army
of the Potomac that did not involunta-
rily bend whenever this shot with its
fearful combination of rasping, tearing,
screaming and roaring sounds all in one
passed over them.-T. +. Galwey in Chi
caoO Times
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-07-08

The so-called peanut factories of Nor
folk, Va, handle and put on the market
81, 500, 900 worth of peanuts each year.
The factory is simply a cleansing, polish
ing and sorting establishment, and the
work is all done by Chicago
Herald
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Sounds of Bullets and Cannon Balls.

SouHuS OF buuets ana cannon BallS.
There were those who pretended to tell
by its sound what sort of cannon or
small arm projectile was passing them
in the air. Certainly there was a great
difference In the sounds. When a
musket ball was at full speed it made a
whiz like some huge and rapidly flying in
sect. To advance under a fire Of in
fantry often seemed like attacking a
swarm of bees or hornets, the air was so
constantly cut by the little messengers OF
death. But as the force of musket
ball diminished it gave melan chol y
long-drawn wall, almost exactly IKE the
"meowl" of a cat that is scolding its op-
ponent Between the ''whizl" or the
''stl" of a musket ball and Che fear
full hubbub made by the greatest
of cannon projectiles there was
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Retire Soon Alter Sunset.

To obtain perfect rest go to bed as
soon after sunset as possible, for it is laid
down as a universal law that the hours
of darkness are the only ones during
which healthy sleep is possible.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-07-08

If we can't hope to be missed in the
work we leave behind us, let us try to
leave at least vacancy in hearts that 1t
win be hard to fill.-"Amber" in Chicago
Journal
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Like some of Our Acquaintance.

That big ugly-looking, blue'nosed
monkey at the Zoo, known as the man
drill, does nothing in the world but eat,
drink, snarl and growl at the bright,
frisky little monkeys that play about
him. How much that old fellow does
resemble some Of your and my acquaint-
nncesf-C Cincinnati ENQUIRER.
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Various Vegetables as Remedies.
Spinach acts as diuretic.
Dandelion as a tonic and laxative.
Asparagus as a blood-cieaner.
Tomatoes as cholagogue.
Beets and turnips said to be tonic.
Onions, garlic, and leeks are stimulat-
ing and narcotic.
The red onion acts as a narcotic in
insomnia and euralgia.-Western Plow-
nnan-
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How the blind Recognize words.

Some of the blind can read five or six
hours without feeling fatigued. They
use both hands in reading, the right fore
finger being used chiefly to separate the
words and syllables, while the left fore
finger recognizes the word by itself.
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IaTwn-Thirds PIaitad siIk.

A writer, speaking of the Chinese,
says that while the men appear to have
great deal of hair, examination of their
pigtails reveals that nearly two-thirds of
that appendage is plated silk thread
Exchange.
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Methods of Protection Against Thieves.

Methods OF Protection Against Thieves.
Every large jewelry house has its Sc
cret methods of protection against
thieves. There is one place on Fourth
street that numbers among such
a popularity effective and ingen-
ious arrangement. It consists of
mechanical floor surrounding
the floor of the vault. For a space
of about ten feet the planking rests upon
delicate springs that would be instantly
depressed by the slightest weight. This
depression brings together the two poles
of am electric battery, and notifies the
police through an annunciator that there
is something wrong. The connection
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-07-08

The notion formerly was that thunder
had the effect of raising els from their
mud, and so rendered them more easy to
be taken in stormy weather.-Exchange.
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The Viceroy Ii has had a complete toy
steamer made for the empress Of China,
SO that she may work 1t herself and soc
the importance Of steam locomotion.-
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Crowinq Uglier and Commonplace.

William Morris, an artist and designer
of London, deplores that in spite of tn"
efforts of people for forty years to raise
the taste in art, the world Is growing
ugIer and more commonplace.