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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-03-25
THE CARE OF THE INSANE.
Home Treatment Often Desirable-The
Worst Cases-The Superintendent.

Home Treatment Often DesirabIe-The
Worst Cases-The Superintendent.
If insanity were better understood than
it is much greater proportion of the in
sane would be cared for in their own
homes. There is great deal Of senseless
fear of people so afflicted. Oftentimes a
slight mental arrangement is much
aggravated by the patient being forcibly
torn from his home and taken away tc
new and unfamiliar surroundings. The
prison aspect of our magnificent hospitals
has very bad effect upon many patients.
The fearful inconsistencies and the missing
of familiar faces produce some ill effects
with all. The hope which the asylum
holds out of q cure being effected Is ex-
tremely fallacious. Doubtless some are
cured who would not be II left at home,
but the proportion is very small Under
the hands of a good physician at home
probably nearly as many would recover.
But of course the worst cases can not
be cared for at home, and the terrible ne
cessity of taking them to hospitals has to
be faced by their unfortunate families.
That these families should watch over
them while there, Is but the dictate of
common humanity. But the majority of
people place them in these retreats and
forsake them. 1t is the bitterest cruelty
known to the world to-day Every pro-
perly managed institution invites inspec-
ton, and inspection should be made per
sonally by every person placing friend
in them. OF those who fear or resent in
spection nothing further need be said.
If there is position of responsibility
under heaven it is the position of superin-
tendent of one of these hospitals. The
position should be made so honorable.
that the very best minds in the medical
profession you'd aspire to it. And when
the proper man has been found the posi-
ton should be one of peFmRReace and Sc
curity. But heart as well as head is de-
manded of a good medical superintend-
emit Only a man of well-known kindli-
ness of heart and of naturally humane
impulses should ever be appointed to such
"a place The whole tendency Of the life in
such an institution is to harden the sensi-
bilities, and no man who is not noble, and
high-minded, and tender should be sub
jected to this hardening process.
A man who can ever cease to pity these
most miserable of all the worlds unfortu-
mates is not fit man to have charge of
them. He should be as compassionate as
Jesus. He should feel for them like a
mother. He stands to them in the place
Of God, and he needs wisdom and tender
ness that are more God-like than human.
Hattie Tying Griswold.
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THE WALTZ.

My arm is around your waist, love, your
hand is clasping mine;
Your head leans over my shoulder, dear,
as around in the waltz we Irvine
1 feel your quick heart throbbing, your
painting breath breathe,
And the Odor rare of your hyacinth hair
comes family up from beneath
To the rhythmic beat of the music, in the
floating ebb and flow
OF the tense violin, and the Iisping flute,
and the burning bass we go.
Whirling, whirling, whirling, in a rapture
swift and sweet,
To the pleading viOlincello's tone, and the
pulsing pianos beat.
The world is alive with motion, the lights
are Whirling all,
And the feet and brain are stirred by the
strain of the usic's=incessant call
Dancei dancel dancel it calls to US; and
borne on the waves of sound,
We circling swing, in dizzy ring, with
the whole world wheeling round
The jewels dance on your bosom, on YOU
arms the bracelets dance;
The swift blood speaks in your mantlins
cheeks, in your eyes is a dewy trance;
Your white robes fiutter around you
nothing is calm or still;
And the senses stir i'll the musical whirl
with swift electric thrill
w. w. Story.
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A eRAkEMAN,s LIFE IN WINTER.
Dangerous Work In had WpRther-JumP'
l.. NuEn L., L.

Dangerous W9fk IN Bad Weather-JumP-
ing from Train While In Motion.
The freight brakemen wear very heavy
clothing, although it is always short, as
they have to get around in q hurry some
times / have known the time when i
was braking on freight train, when the
train was running fifteen or twenty miles
an hour, against sleet and snow, and q
call had come for Hdown brakes" At such
time have been sitting on top of the car,
so stiff and frozen as to be unable to work
the brakes at all.
We do not mind the cold weather so
much on the freights as when there Is
snow ON the ground and on the cars. Then
it becomes very dangerous, as when the
train is running twenty miles an hour the
snow and sand will be hurled up between
the cars enough to blind man, and with
the ice-covered cars and running as wa
do, from one car to another, perhaps with
our lanterns blown out, it is pretty dan
gerous, and man has to be sure-footeu
and have his wits about him to brake on
freight in the winter time.
Many of the passenger brakemen live at
the way stations down the road, and when
they finish their work at one end of the
road they take an express train back, and
as it passes the station at which they live,
although the train may be going ct the
rate of from fifteen to tWehty-f miles
an hour, they will jump of and keep their
feet, although they have to run perhaps
the length Of the train before they stop
themselves, but still they seldom, If ever,
lose their feet. @ l4A
1t is quite a trick to jump off, and takes
considerable practice before it can be
done successfully. The way to jump is
always with the train and on the left
hand side of the latter, letting the right
foot rest on the step and the left foot
swing from the step. Then jump so that
the left foot will strike the ground first
and the right foot Immediately follow it,
so as to be able to run. Some of the men
jump from the middle of the train or
front, but most of them go to the rear car
and jump, so that If they fall they will not
roll under the cars. The only regular
train hand 1 ever heard of being hurt by
jumping was man who lives in Dorches-
ter, and who was struck on the head by
the car steps as he jumped and was badly
hurt. The best man ever saw, and the
only man who could hold his feet and stop
himself without running at all, was man
who is now conductor ON the Derby road
He could jump from train running
thirty-five miles an hour and stop without
running foot.-New Haven Journal
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American TOYS I'm the Load.

Talking with prominent toy dealer,
he told me that American toys have al
most shut the productions of the French
and Swiss factories out Of the market.
Ten years ago nearly all the toys sold in
this country were imported. Now we i'm
port only q few French dolls and Swiss
novelties, and export cargoes of our own
manufacture to all parts of the world.
Certain houses handle the products Of
dozens of factories, taking the entire out
put and jobbing 1t out to the retailers.
All the new inventions in toys are of
native origin. Indeed it was this that be-
gan the overthrow of the foreign toy
trade. The conventional and old-fash-
toned stuff imported had no show in the
market in competition with the ingenui-
ties and diverting novelties of our own in
ventors In cases where the inventor re-
served royalty, he has made handsome
little fortunes by his inventions. Gener-
ally, however, the idea is sold to the man
ufacturer or jobber for set sum, and
made and marketed at his risk and profit.
New York News HBabbleo
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small change at the Postonice.

Another thing people like to kick about
is the refusal Of the postoffios clerks to
take torn notes and great piles of nickels
and pennies in payment for stamps"
"Are they not bound to take them"
"Not much. The government has a
treasury for the redemption of mutilated
currency, and there is no more sense in
expecting the postofice to redeem it than
in expecting the paymaster of the navy
to do so. If it was once understood that
we would take torn bills, we should have
no other money to handle and nothing
else to do, We would embark in the
banking business, and somebody else
would have to be hired to attend to the
pcstohice. Then, as to nickels, three-cent
pieces and pennies, the postofice regula-
lions expressly provide that we are not
bound to take over twenty-five cents
worth from one person. "-C Chicago Journal
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London Journals and Journalists.

"The Times doesn't care for any sensa-
tiona1 correspondence, said a noted En-
glish editor, in the course OF an interview,
land has an inveterate aversion to all no
torious men. Now. Archibald Forbes,
for instance, has been dying to obtain a
position as Times correspondent for some
time and it will not give it to him. He is
too notorious. 1t wants simply the plain
facts, nothing else. 1t spends a great
deal of money in foreign correspondence
Take, for instance, the Berlin correspond
ent Of The Times. 1t gives him $500, be-
sides the sinecures Of his office. He lives
in first rate style, keeps two horses, etc.
In addition, he has a reserve for bribing
German officials. But, strange TO say for
over eleven years he hasn't expended a
penny of it. What's the reason? Sim
ply that Bismarck's influence is so great
that the subordinate officials dare not dis
close any of the secrets. It's different,
however, with the Vienna and Paris cor
respondents. They bride right and left
and send home flaming letters
"The Pail Mall Gazette is, perhaps, now
the most notorious of any English jour
nal. Smith and Son & Greenwood were
formerly the proprietOrs. AT the end of
1879, however, Greenwood quarreled with
the Smiths and started The ST. Jamcs's
Gazette, of which he is at present editor
and chief proprietor. Smith married his
daughter TO a former secretary of an Irish
lord lieutenant, Thompson, and as ThOmp-
son wanted to run for parliament his
father-in-law gave him The Pail Mall Ga
zette. He accordingly started out and
ran it on entirely new lines, making it as
American as possible"
"What is the general rate of journalistic
pay?"
"Wen, take The Pail Mall Gazette,
with which 1 am best acquainted, Green
wood, the editor, gets as editor 81, 500 a
year. If he writes any editorials he
gets pay at the usual editorial rates.
guineas column"
"How are outside contributors paid?"
AT the rate of guineas column. Be
sides the editorial column there is a col
umn of what are termed occasional notes,
For each of these, if accepted, the contrib
utOr gets half a guinea. The journalist
who has the biggest salary in London is
a friend of mine named Trail, who works
for The Daily News. He makes about
&, 600 year. San Francisco Chronicle.
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customs omoers of ConstantinopIe.

At the harbor there was one last strug-
gle; the customs officers went through my
knapsack to see that nothing was being
carried away that should not be carried
away, and then hired q skiff-caiques
they are called in Turkey-and started for
the steamer, which lay at anchor in the
Golden Horn, 100 yards or so from the
shore. One would suppose that after pro-
viding all these official documents and
undergoing such an array of forn1alities,
there would be no further trouble in leav-
ing their blessed land. The heather Turk,
however, for tricks that are dark and
ways that are vain can @see" the heather
Chinee and go him 100 better. Scarcely
was the calque fairly afoat than / was
signaIled by a small boat in the middle Of
the stream, which In a few moments
pulled up alongside, while a villainous-
looking fellow, as black as a coal-miner,
climbed over into my boat and signed to
me to unstrap my baggage.
He was another customs officer and pos
sessed of a wonderful amount of impu-
dence and boorishness. Before touching my
sack he said: @Blacksheesh." refused to
give anything whereupon he began a
search as il expecting TO find stolen dia-
mends. Everything was dumped out ON
the bottom of the calque. He took out my
letters, unfolded them and shook the en-
velopes. Every few seconds he would say
~BIacksheesh1 again, and on my con
Hnzed refusal he would renew tae sxans.,
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A Nightingale for the King.

The King OF Bavaria has been much dis
tressed because his manager, Herr Won
Perfan, had failed to provide him with a
real nightingale. In Wagner's "Parsifar
the song of nightingale plays q part in
the story. This is usually produced by s
silillful flute player behind the scenes.
''This will not do" said the exacting royal
critic; I'VE ought to have a real nightin.
gale.p Herr Won Perfall promised to dc
what he could toward engaging a nightin.
gale as one of the company, There is q
man who sings in the public places in
Munich who has a rare capacity for imi.
tating the songs of different birds. He
was diligently schOoled and conveyed to
the kings isolated theatre. His majesty
believed that he was listening to real
nightingale at the next performance Of
AParsifal, and sent most hattering let
ter of thanks to the director.-Foreign
Letter
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1ut THESE anIma1s can De poisoned by sur
iciently large doses, and then the symp-
oms set in rapidly. The most constant
oxic symptom was great prostration.
which was followed in a variable time by
;oma. These phenomena were less
marked in the dog than in the guinea-pig.
All the animals were troubled with vio-
eDt nasal irritation and sneezing, and dis
rcssed breathing was evidenced by over
-ction of the respiratory muscles. An ex-
.cssive secretion Of mucus from the bron-
aial tubes was also noticed. Notwith-
landing the gravity of the symptoms, the
iajority of the animals recovered. The
PRACTICAL outcome of these experiments is
% sanction the use of infinitesimal doses
uch as are already employed for artificial
lavoring of aliments.-London Lancet
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HarmfuI ness Of Artificial Perfumes.

Confectioners and manufacturers Of
liqueurs are in the habit OF employing
various artificial perfumes, which, in
chemical language, are such bodies az
amylic valerianate,- butyrate, etylic buty
rate, propyl:c ether, and ccaprylic
alcohol. The edaF and the flavor Of
the apple, the pear, the pineapple, the
strawberry, and the raspberry can thus
be initiated. These limitations not only
remove the necessity for the use Of the
natural fruits but are far less expensive,
and, besides having perfect SINH litude
with them, give the appropriate favor in
a more aOeentuated form
NM Poincare and Vallois have sought
to ascertain whether these artinciAlly pre-
pared perfumes possess poisonous proper
ties by injecting them under the skin of
animals as well as introducing them into
the stomach. Dogs and guinea-pigs can
withstand even Large dosss Of these sub
stances Hhn infested Nn6sy thA-sEin
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Condition Of German Farm Labor.

Our consul at 'Breslau, Germany, has
made some interesting statements in his
report to the department of state relative
to tie condition of German farm labor,
the rsual of which might prove profita-
BILE TO many of our young tillers of the
soil who are discontinued with their lot.
The labofeF usually lives the year round
upon the estate where he is employed.
He can indulge in few luxqEies, receiving,
as he does, but $40 to 80 in cash Tor his
years services. Besides this he is allowed
twenty-four bushels of rye. three bushels
peas and IL bushels of wheat, with free
lodging and fuel; and it is customary to
grant his family the use of 100 square rods
of land for raising vegetables. His wife is
compelled to work in the field, Feceiying
from twelve to fourteen cents q day IN
summer and ten to twelve cents in winter.
The laborer gets but little meat, tea,
and tobacco, though occasionally INDUCES
In pipe of manufactured leaf He is
encouraged to work in harvest time by
being treated to "schnapps." 1t has been
estimated that family consisting of hus-
band and wife with five ehildten can live
on 81 .O91S week. When we consider in
connection with this the enforced military
service there can be no wonder at the
great influx of Teutons into our country,
where the condition of the agricultural
classes, though not all that may be de-
sired, is far superior 70 any they could
hope to attain at home. Boston Bud. etg
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4 Brief career in wan street.

The career of one of the best known
men in wall street has just been brought
to a sudden close. 1t illustrates the habits
of Wall street men forcibly, but not in a
complimentary way. Until a month ago
he was the most popular of men. A good
many people did not believe that his posi-
ton was a very honorable one, but then
the lines are loosely drawn that govern
Wall street methods, and this particular
man counted his friends by the hundred
while he was successful.
He had what a great many men would
consider an ideal position. His firm gave
him liberal salary, a commission on all
orders, paid all his bills and urged him to
live as extensively as possible. He was a
professional runner-in for his house; he
made it point to associate only with
young men of wealth, and all he was ex-
pected to do was to get them to speculate
through his firm. His commissions from
such actions were usually very large. He
spent a fortune every year, acted as
medium through which any rich man
could gain an introduction to any woman
of the stage who happened to strike his
fancy and was perpetually about town.
He drove the best horses, ate the most
elaborate dinners and swung in the most
reckless set here.
Everything went well until his firm got
into trouble with the millionaire father of
one of the youngsters whom the runner
in had managed to coax into speculation.
Then the runner was abruptly discharged,
his debts repudiated by the firm and he
has in a very few weeks sunk to the very
bottom of the line. Wall street worships
a successful man and condemns a failure
with the utmost heartlessness. 1t is in
credible that man so popular short
time ago should fall so low within
month.-Brooklyn Eagle.
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$500, 600 in Intellectual efforts to strike nat
ural gas by boring. 1t exists in veins and
you must strike one of them before you
get the gas. Its beauty is in cleanliness
and convenience. heat my house by
steam. The boiler is heated by gas, fed
automatically. The heat register is &ato-
matte, and the water feed in the boiler is
automatic. All that is necessary is to
look the thing over once day. In
cooking, we can have hot fire or mod
crate one in a second, and no kndlings to
split. New York Tribune.
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The varying Tastes of a SVEN.

at is hard to keep up with the varying
tastes of a swell, said leading dealer in
gentlemen's goods. "Here, for instance, in
lawn ties-a very small matter, appar-
ently-they wanted them half an inch
wide last fall, but can't make them too
wide for them now. They want them a
full one and one-eighth. The latest col
lars for these ties Is two inches high, with
only the smallest piece of the edge turned
over The pointers have not caught on
in this city There is a change also in
full-dress shirt bosoms-you want thirty
four pleates in them to be real swedish.
Philadelphia Press.
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An1nreniou. Method OF peyotlon.

Princess Victoria, of Denmark, has in
vented an ingenious method of attending
divine service. She literally has prayers
Hlaid on" like gas, by means of telephone
communications with the new English
church. The transmission of sound is
very well managed. Eight receivers bring
to the royal devotee in her study; one, the
the tones Of the priest at the altar; four,
the voice of the preacher in the pulpit,
and three, the sounds Of the organ. Thus
does her royal highness enjoy chamber
devotions.-Town Topics.
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ADurable Door of Paper.

A durable and weighty-looking door is
now made Of paper. While it costs about
the same as wood, it is much better, be
cause there is no shrinking, swelling.
cracking or warping. It is composed Of
two thick paper boards stamped and
nodded into panels md glued together
with glne and potash and then rolled
through heavy rollers. II Is first coated
with a waterproof coating and then with
q fire-proof coating, and is painted and
vanished and hung in the ordinary way
INLAND Printer
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Electric Lamps for Partisan carriag

Electric Lamps for Partisan Carriages.
The success of the incandescent electric
lamp for private carriages in Paris, as n
substitute for candles and oil lamps, is
pronounced complete. Not only the regu-
lar side-lights are included in this plan
but the interior of the vehicle is illumi-
mated by lamp sufficiently powerful to
read by, and in some instances a similar
lamp is placed for novelty on the head Of
the horse. The lamps are connected by
wires with small accumulatsrs placed
under the drivers seat. They are small
in size, being only about eight inches
square and four inches high, each Of such
accumulators being able TO supply a lamp
of five-candle power for the space Of some
six hours. During the day they are re
moved and charged with electricity from
q dynamo machine or otherwise. and at
night they are ready for use.-Cincinnati
Enu1irer
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On. w.v Of rr,a.ine Carbuncl...

The Lancet publishes an article. giving
an account of the successful treatment of
carbunculous diseases by the injection of
the oficinal solution of ammonia. DR..
Afendipe claims that it destroys the. bac-
iIlaria in all malignant pust4les, and is q
specific in this class Of diseases. AS ply.
sicians have found the carbuncle always
dangerous, and almost beyond the reach
of remedies, the suggestion may prove Of
great value to the profession and to suf-
ferers~Ipter Ocean,
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sew Ineandescent Electric Light.
An Awaltenine of Aspiration.

II every poor mans child in America
could be put, tomorrow, into an attract
I've schoolhouse, in charge Of well.
dressed, well managed and high-souled
teacher, and treated for five years as il
nobody expected anything but n worthy
manhood or womanhood in after lie,
there would be n revival of healthy Ois.
content with low living, and an awaken.
ing Of aspiration for better things which
would tell I'm every region Of society from
the trades unions 90 the White House.
journal OF Education
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Londoners have been making much ado
about nothing in connection with Tenny-
sons new poem, "To-MorrOT.' They &C
cused him of using a motive which had
been used before by Mr. Aide Where
upon Mr.. Aide and vario1s other persons
hasten to state that it is very old story,
claimed alike by Germany, Scotland, and
Wales Not long ago an American
magazinist trihed with the same theme
in a short story.-The Argonaut.
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nation With sfIn greater vigor. OF course
it was all mere attempt TO extort money.
He even went into my packets, and re
quired me TO show him my watch and
pocket notebook. When at length he
had exhausted even his resources for
annoying he climbed back into his
boat fairly shaking with rage, while J
looked him in the fafe and laughed H.
had worked over the baggage half an hour
and still eXtOrted no Backsheesh. The
thought made Linn furious. English
man, he muttered, mo give Backsheesh.
Englishman fool!s-Cor New York World.