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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-09-16
THE KNIGHTS TGMPLAR RULES.
Discipline and Duties of tho AnoIsnb
Observation-Disclosures the Lion.

Discipline and Duties of tho Anoisnh
Observation-Disclosures the Lion.
Religious duties were strictly pre-
s,ribed, but were modified 10y good sense.
The knights, as a rule, were to attend
the regular chapel services; but If they
had been out on duty at night they were
let off mathis, and might say their
prayers in bed. If they had done any
thing wrong or foolish they We're TO con-
fess 10 the Grand Master or head of tho
house; if it was a breach of discipline
the head of the house set them pen
ance; if it was a sin they were sent to a
priest, who at first was a secular outside
the order.
They had little leisure; their chief oc-
cupaton was war. When not in tho
field they had their arms and horses to
look after, which they were allowed TO
| buy themselves, charging the account to
the house. Except by leave Of the
superior they We're to hold no correspond
ence with any one IN tho outer world,
not even with mothers, sisters, or broth
ers. No brother Of the order might walk
| about alone, or, when in a town, go into
the streets, unless with leave asked and
| given. Fighting men had hot blood, and
hot blood required TO be restrained. Even
an angry word spoken by one to another
was instantly punished and 30 was all
! light talk, especially when it turned on
the other sex. If a brother of the Tenn
pie wanted to converse it must be on
! serious or, at least, rational subjects. The
most innocent amltsements were consid-
cred trihing and were not to be encOur-
a A To- 1r.ta ,nt IN linz or
hawk or shoot, still less TO play idle
games.
One exception only was made; it is a
very noticeable one, which, by the bye,
had not escaped Sir Walter. In Syria
and Palestine there were still wild beasts,
as there had been in David's time. st.
Bernard could not permit his Templars
to hunt deer or net partridges; he did,
however, by special statute, allow them
to hunt lions. And, mind, those were
not days Of repeating rifles and explosive
bullets; it was man and lion face to face,
with spear and knife against teeth and
claws. The lion no doubt in st. Bernards
mind was a type of the adversary; to
hunt the lion was to hunt Satan. None
the less, just as he had taken care that
they should eat and drink enough, and
not emaciate themselves like intending
saints, SO he would have them men at
all point, and give them sport, too, 30
long as it was dangerous and needed
courage.
1t was customary in those days when
men of rank were taken in battle to hold
them to ransom, the price of redemption
being measured by their wealth, The
Templars had no personal wealth, and
the wealth of the order was to be spent
in Gods service, not in mans. If a
Templar was taken by the Saracens nj
ransom was to be paid for him; he was
to be left to his fate. His fate invariably
to be offered the alternative of the Koran
or the sword, and there Is scarcely re-
corded instance in which the Templar
saved his life by abandoning his faith
J. A. Froude in Good Words
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-09-16

The favorite sword for performing
Seats in India is the gauntlet-handled
pata. The swordsman will first show
the keenness of his weapon, and his COM
mand of its weight, by cutting in two a
leaf laid fiat on the outstretched palm of
a friend, or by cutting a cloth hanging
loose in the air. He put one sword on
each hand, and, so armed, springing
from his feet on the bare ground, will
throw somersaults backward and for
ward, following each movement with a
wondrously complicated and simultane-
Gus gyratiOn of both swords round his
head and body. He viii have the naked
sword, more than five feet long, double
edged, sharp-pointed, and keen as a
razor, lashed from the back of his neck
down his back, and will again, from his
naked feet, repeat the somersaults.
Again, with sword and shield in his
hands, he will leap headforemost through
the stretched-out loop of a rope, held by
two men at the height of their heads, as
a circus-rider leaps through a paper
hoop, and light safely on his feet.
Blackwood's Magazine.
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have been achieved or late in such a
way; spaces of the midnight sky blank
: to the ordinary lens or mirror, have RE-
vealed to the sensitive film OF the plate
myriads of starry bodies. The crimson
cressets on the suns ridge have depicted
| themselves; his spots have registered
their periodic passage, and the time APP
] proaches, apparently, when an automatic
astronomer will be invented which win
chronicle event of the spheres with sleep
! less accuracy. We want TO know much
more of comets, Of nebulae, and of those
curious little members of oun, system.
the planetoids, which perpetuaily in
crease in numbers with closer observa-
ton, until they have grown up during
the present century to more than 25O
known and named bodies. They wander
as obedient TO law rs the very largest
planet, between Mars and Jupiter, tiny
islets of the sapphire ocean, small chill
dren of the cosmos, the biggest not much
more than 300 miles in diameter, few of
them so bulky as TO be visible without
telescope.
Are these little silver bees Of the sys-
tenn mere broken fragments of some in
termediate planet, or have they been
seriously created, and have they been
taken up with revolution and gravita-
ton, and all the rest Of it, on their own
account and for special purposes. To
answer that and many another question
OF the kind may doubtless, in en- Ameri-
can phrase, slick the Lick glass;" but
more and more, as astronomical concep-
tons expand, are they silently affecting
morals, thoughts and religion. We see
infnity and grasp eternity when we look I
forth into the starry space. The visible !
universe is palpably boundless, and im- !
plies an invisible universe Of which il is !
the shadow, the symbol and the imper-
feet provisional expression. All faiths !
heretofore delived to mankind have been !
prescientific, built on the theory-or ac-
cepting it-that the stars were set in !
heaven the light this little o, the earth,
round which the sun goes daily. Faith 4
has not yet ventued to look through /
Galileo's "optik glass" let alone the !
gigantic lenses of james Lick. BY and |
by mankind will understand, as well as Z
hear of, larger ideas. 1t will be better i
understood why the Divine Teacher Of !
Galilee said an my Fathers house are
many mansions, and why the wise east
has always insisted upon evolution and
progressive life for all which lives, be-
fore Darwin and Wallace were heard Of.
Astronomy and religion have yet TO com
pare notes and to labor through the same
elescOpe.-London Telegraph.
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Diplomacy of chinese Statesmen

Prince Bismarck complained not long
ago of the way our foreign office inun-
dated him with dispatches, but even the
writing powers of Downing street would
not be patch upon those of Chinese
statesmen. A mastery policy of mac
ton is there studied to perfection, and it
is rare that any case is settled until
reams of paper have been covered in
thrashing out every detail. A Chinese
dispatch must be written in certain
stereotyped form, and in acknowledging
a dispatch you must first begin by quot
ing in extenso all the documents to
which you are replying. This system of
reproducing all the previous correpon-
dence proves very cumbersome as the
case gradually develops. Like a lady's
letter however, the pith of Chinese
communication generally lies in the post
script, and practiced hand will grasp
the meaning at a glance. The viceroy
of a Chinese province peruses some hun
dreds of these documents every day, and
attaches a minute to each in business
like style, which is not excelled by om
best organized departments at home
Nineteenth Century.
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THE ENDLESS QUEST

o. height serene because am not therel
Why fees thy becoming calm as / draw
nigh
To yon remoter height, where earth and
sky
Commingling bound and make the scene
so fair,
1t breathes an inspiration and a prayer
In me, beholding it with wistfuI eyer
Why am bafIied thus WIENER try
The distant mountain height to reach and
share2
0! take it fondly home to thee, dear heart,
1t ever has been so since time began,
And ever will be; not alone thou art,
Striving to do what never can be done,
Ior even the angels only know in part;
Heaven were not heaven could its last
heights be won.
a L. Carlton in Pioneer Press.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-09-16
Forty Knots an Hour.

The idea that it is impossible to propel
ships at the rate of forty knots an hour
is being discussed in Europe. Professor
Thurston, of London, has recently taken
up the subject, and concludes that it is
possible. The ship that he proposes is to
be 800 feet long, 80 feet beam, and %
feet draught, with displacement of
about $4,000 tons. He estimates the
power required to propel her at 250, 900
horses. He calculates that her ma
chinery and boilers viii weigh only sixty
pounds per horse power, or 1900 tons in
all. She would burn about 175 tons of
coal an hour 8, 200 tons day, and 10, SOC
tons for voyage from Liverpool to New
York. The total weight of fuel and ma
chinery would be about $4,000 tons,
leaving 10000 tons for the ship and
cargo. For the hail he allows 1000
tons, leaving 5000 tons for crew, pass
engers and cargo.-Brooklyn Eagle.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-09-16

Consul Hoff told about hospital he
saw in his travels, which is run on such
queer plan that can not help repeat
ing it. It is situated in Trieste, Austria,
is built with a plain back, without an
outlet, to a little narrow street, which,
by some continuance, people can enter
and leave unseen. On the end of slide
is cushioned basket. Above it is a
large clock. ANY one who does not want
their child can take it there unseen and
unknown, and place it in the basket,
which Immediately slides into the build
ing, when the constant watcher looks at
the same clock, which has an inside face,
and registers the new guest by the time,
such as April 10, s o'clock, "A minutes
and seconds, 1886. A similar card is
written and placed on the babe, which
is wrapped in swaddling clothes. If the
mother ever wishes to regain her child
she goes there and says she wants to
look at the children. They are laid be-
fore her, and she examines the cards
until she gets one corresponding with the
hour she left her babe. Thus she knows
it is hers, and takes it free of charge.
The motto above the door was: ~Our
parents have deserted us; Jesus is our
Father. "-Pittsburg Dispatch.
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on a New JERSEY turtles BACK.

Mr. William a. Beard, the artist, re
members that forty odd years ago, in
Ohio, the boys used to amuse themselves
by cutting ON the backs of stray turtles
the inscription, &c. W., 1776," and then
letting the reptiles go; and one of hi.
humorous drawings depicts a solemn an
tiquarian in the act of examining tur.
tie SO marked. Mr.. Beard was interested
the other day to learn that distin.
guished brother artist had recently found
in New Jersey swamp turtle whose
back bore the same ~G. W., I776,
especially as the discoverer inclined &c
the belief that the animal, if not a relic
of the boyhood of the Father of his
Country, Wos at least true specimen Of
longevity.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-09-16
A Leather bag OF MANN.

Travelling in the east last year, from
Arabia to Palestine, met good Armen-
ian Catholic priest coming from Mcso-
potamia. Among various articles Of diet
he brought with him in his journey to
Constantinople there were about five
pounds Of mama incased in q leather
bag. At his meals he partook of that
food as we do of cakes. He POSITIVELY
maintained that such food falls FRI
heaven as white powder two or thre-(
times year, and is collected from tho
leaves Of trees and from the surface OF
fiat stones. The food, when protected by
leather, will keep for five or six years.
send you piece of this mamma for Curl
osity. i eat of this food, and it contains
a great deal Of sugar. From the posi-
tive description of the good priest it can
not be a natural emulation from tho
leaves and branches of the plant alliagt
maurorum, which was believed by the
early Arabian writers to have fallen
from heaven. The good priest had ex-
cellent credentials. We both wefS al
lowed to say mass at the historical Fran
ciscian convent at Jaffa.-Don Luigi
Sartori in Baltimore Sun.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-09-16
The Lazzaroni Have Disappeared.

In books of travels written thirty or
forty years ago one reads much of the
Naples lazzaroni, who subsisted en-
tirely on maccaroni, which they de-
voured in strings several yards in length,
and fairly encountered the pavements
with their presence. They are said to
have disappeared, and this fact is given
as an evidence of the industrial progress
of the city. 1t is possible that they have
disappeared, but the number of those
who can sleep as TRANQUILITY the night
through on a stene pavement as on a
spring mattress still astonishes the per-
son who knows the luxury of a comfort
able bed.-Naples Letter
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No ARGUMENT for the superstitious

The superstitious will make a note of
the unpleasant fact that one of the Off
GERS on duty at Garfeld's tomb commit
ted suicide, and one of the soldiers went
mad, and will in some way connect
these occurrences with Guiteau's curse.
The matter-of-fact people will emphasize
the circumstances that the suicide &C.
Cured hundreds of miles from Garfeld's
tomb. and that the unfortunate officer
had been a sH6arer from chronic neural
gia, and that the mad soldier had mani.
tested signs of insanity long before he
went TO Cleve1and.-Boston Transcript.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-09-16
The LOVES Of LINCOLN.
His First Sweetheart GOlden-Haired
RIoude-The LADY He Married.

His First Sweetheart a Golden-Haired
BIonde-The Lady He Married.
President Lincoln's first love was a
golden-haired blonde, who had cherry
lips, clear blue eye, a nect figure, and
more than ordinary intellectual ability.
Her name was Anne Rutledge. She was
the daughter of a tavernkeeper in Salem,
Ills. Mr.. Lincoln met her when he was
about %, and, after a romantic court
Ship became engaged to her. She died
before they could be married; and Lin
coin was so much affected by her death
that his biographer, Ward Lamon, says
his friends pronounced him crazy for a
time. He was watched carefully, and
became especially violent during storms,
fogs, and damp and gloomy weather. at
such times he would rave, declaring,
among other wild expressions, Il can
never be reconciIed to have the snow,
rain, and storms to beat upon her grave.
At this time he began to quote, tits said,
the poem which is SO well identified with
him, beginning
o, why should the spirit of mortal be
proudp
1t is supposed that he was think
ing of his first love during the times he
SO often repeated it, Years afterwards,
when he had become famous, he was
asked by an old friend as to the story of
his love for Anne Rutledge, and he said,
Il loved her dearly. She was a hand
some girl. and would have made good
and loving wife.
Lincoln's next love was tall, fine
looking woman, named Mary Owens,
L L
a year after Anne Rutlege died. Upon
her rejection of him, he wrote a letter to
his friend Mrs o. II. Browning, saying
that he had been inveigled into paying
his addresses to Miss Owens, but on be-
ing refused he found he cared more for
her than he had thought, and proposed
again. In this letter he says;
Il most emphatically in this instance
have made fool of myself. have
come to the conclusion never more to
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-09-16
A SEASIDE FILTRATION.

Again they have met for the season.
Brave Harold and fair Leonore
1mpelled by the old cogent reason,
They stroll by the sea as of yore.
They wonder so quickly time passes
And days into fortnights expand.
Forgotten are all the old lasses-
lie presses her hand.
u trust, 5ssse speaks low, @you remember
That daSJby the shimmering sea-
The words that 1 spoke last September,
The last that you whispered to me-"
'IEe time ] recall" and she bushes;
You spoke in a low undertOne.
We stood, 1 believe, by the rushes,
But-the words, dear, have flown"
mo wonder'-a storm now is brewing
my words you now fail to recall.
A fool interrupted my wooing-
Remember? That fellow named Hall?7
She answers in voice soft and mellow;
'And that, Mr. Brown, is not all
The man you call 'foop and fellow
/ married last fall. -
Robert Ainsley in Chicago Rambler.
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King Ludwig's Favorite Beverage

The late king of Bavaria's favorite
beverage was a mixture of white wine
and champagne, prepared in a bowl
with thick layer of fresh, strong
scented violets floating on the top. The
viOlets gave delicious perfumed flavor
to the mixture, much to the kings taste,
as Ludwig was so fond of scents that
the air around him was generally redo
lent of perfume. This fancy cost him
quite 10 pounds sterling. -Chicago Trib-
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-09-16
elderly Ladies in Germany

In England elderly ladies are often
laughed at behind their backs for dress
ing in too youthful manner. The Ger
mans 90 the other extreme; no sooner
do they marry or reach the age of %
than they think it necessary to wear I'M
becoming bonnets, dark silk dresses, old
fashioned mantles, and to assume all the
other signs of a lady advancing in years.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-09-16
Shortening Railways in saxony.

The network of railways of the king
dom of Saxony covers nearly five miles
less in winter than in summer-a fact
which Director Klauss recently proved
in a lecture before the Dresden Industrial
society. 1t seems that a steel rail of
seven and a half meters in length, at a
temperature of 10 degrees Reaunnur, con-
tracts eight millimetres; Saxony having
7,43S, 900 metres of rails mot tracks, the
contraction from cold aggregates total
of 1900 metres.-Cologne Gazette.
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What Lincoln Said to Mrs. stowe.

When Mrs. Stowe called to see Lin
coin toward the close of the war, she
says she spoke of the great relief he
must feel at the prospect of the early
close of the war and the establishment
of peace. And he said, in a sad way:
mo, Mrs. Stowe, 1 shall never live to
see peace; this war is killing me."-
Henry Ward Beecher.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-09-16
Effects of Mercury ON the system

a French Psychologist, who has been
studying the effects of mercury on the
human system, finds that it diminishes
the number of red corpuscles in the
blood, but at the same time increases the
bodily weight of the patient.
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Biggest BOOB in the world.

"Just outside of London they are at
work on the biggest book in the world, +"
said New York publisher the other day,
who has recently returned from trip to
England at will be more thhn four
times as large as Websters dictionary,
ane will contain something like 5000
pages. 1t is to be the ideal dictionary of
the English language, and will supersede
all pre-existing authorities. 1t has long
been realized by scholars that the English
language is deficient in this respect. The
French have two dictionaries, that of NJ.
Litre and of the academy, that are far
superior to our own. The Worterbuch
of the German brothers Grimms is still
more exhaustive and authoritative. Even
the Portuguese dictionary, by Vieira, de-
cidedly srpasses anything in English.
But the British Pathological society pro-
poses to fill this yawning gap in our
reference books. They hold that a
dictionary should be an inventory OF the
language and that its doors should be
opened to all words-good, bad, and in
different. This new work will not be
confined to definitions and cross refer
ences. The life history of each word
will be fully given, with a quotation
from some standard writer, showing its
shade of meaning and the variations in
its usage from one generation to an
other. New York World.
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Ou,ck TriD Around the world.

Mr.. S. S. Houghton has arrived at his
home in Boston, thus completing his
trip around the world, which he accom-
Tzlished in five months and four days
and saw everything" This is a note
worthy voyage for speed.-Inter Ocean.
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An Experiments in Dieting soldiers.

AS an experiment a company of Jap
anese soldiers was fed on bread and
soup, with an addition of beef for sup
per, for one month. At the end of that
time each man had lost in weight from
three to seven pounds. Chicago Herald.
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To Prevent shoes from squeaking.

The squeaking noise of shoes can be
stopped by sprinkling powdered pumice
stone between the soles during the pro-
cess of manufacture, or by driving a
dozen shoe pegs into the soles when the
shoes are first TO be used.-Boot and Shoe
Racnrder
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orIrin nr th. Rlond oranre

The blood orange is produced by graft
ing an orange scion into a pomegranate,
and at the end Of two years again graft
an orange tree.-Chicago Herald.
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Does Drinking water reduce Obesity

Does Drinking Water Reduce oboSisy
1t has been matter Of extensive behet
in France that the drinking of water IN
considerable quantities has a tendency
TO reduce obesity, by increasing tho
activity of oxidations in the system anu
favoring the burning away Of accuiliu-
lated fat The error Of this iuea mas JUST
been shown by DIR. Debove' wlto nus
proven that the quantity Of water taken
has no influence on nutrition or Dody
weight SO long as the solid diet remains
unchanged Boston Budget.
Upward OF 2s, zoe persons registered as
visitors to Bunker Hill monument the
past year. ---a---4
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A weak mind is like a microscope,
which magnifies small things but can
not receive great ones.
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white-headed robins are reported in
Massachusetts,.
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There are over sixty-four trestles In
the twenty-one miles of railroad between
Berenda, Cal, and the Yosemite valley.