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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-09-02
cITIzgN GEORGE FRANCIS TaAIN.
Something About the Queer Old Man
who Talks Only to children.


who Talks Only to Children.
Up among the spring greenery of
Madison Square park, where the flowers
and the birds and the children grow
best, white-haired man has made his
home in the open air. The children all
know him and come to him for stories of
fairyland and for candy, and all the
birds, from the aggressive little fighter,
the brown sparrow, down to the timid
bluejay, come fearlessly up to his seat to
peck up the crumbs that they find scat
tered about for them. had almost said
even the flowers know him for being
with them SO much and for the interest
he takes in them. But here his circle of
friends stops, Beyond the children and
birds and flowers he knows no one to
speak to, though all the town knows the
still handsome enthusiast of the park
Citizen George Francis Train.
Eleven years ago, after travelling all
over the world and crossing the ocean
forty times, he came int, Madison Square
one bright spring morning and said he
would make it his home- On every side
about the little block of green freshness
the full tide of city life swirled and
roared. The tunult of Broadway came
to him, softened to murmur through
the trees, and the hustle of Twenty third
street and Fifth avenue beat against the
wall of verdure and lost itself in the
tinkIe of the fountain without disturbing
the bronzed philosopher.
At first he allowed himself to talk to
men for two minutes at time, but soon
he gave this up, and closed his lips to all
who had grown old enough to think of
self. ~ChiIdren and fools speak the
truth, = he said, and 50 his communica-
tions would thereafter be with only those
who were instinctively innocent. Speak
to him as you pass and ask an interest
ing question, and if this citizen of the
world likes your address out comes a lit
tie pad of paper and lead pencil, blue
at one end and red at the other. With
this he answers pertinent inquiries,
writing in kind of illuminated text,
somewhat after the fashion of the old
Bibles people read when Luther was a
boy. The chances are about even that
the reply viii be in psyche" verse, and
that one out of every three words viii be
understood. But the writing will touch
at the root of the matter, and viii sh0;T
a keen knowledge of human nature.
So the daily life Of this man Iuns
away-talking to children, feeding BIRDS.
reading newspapers ard telegraphing
two columns day of wonderful
psyche" news to The Tacoma puget
sound Ledger. No man in America
keens more thoroughly abreast Of the
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The Dirty and Dangerous classes.

People are clearly in proportion as they
are decent, industrious, and self-respect-
ing. Unclean people are uncivilized.
The dirty classes of great towns are in
variably the dangerous classes" of those
towns; and if we would civilize those
classes we must first Danish dirt from
among them.
Dirt forms no part of our nature. 1t
is parasite feeding upon human life
and destroying it. 1t is hideous and dis
gusting. There can be no beauty where
it is. The prettiest woman is made re-
pulsive by it. Children are made fret
full, impatient, and bad tempered by it.
Men are degraded and made reckless by
it. There is little modesty where dirt is,
for dirt is indecency. There can be little
purity of mind if the person is impure;
for the body is the temple of the soul,
and must be clean and pure to be
worthy shrine of that within. Dirt has
an affinity with self-indulgence and in
temperance. Sanitary inquirers have
clearly made out that the dirty classes
are the drunken classes, and that they
are prone to seek in the stupefaction of
beer, gin, and opium, refuge from the
miserable depression caused by the foul
conditions in which they live.-Samuel
S. Miles.
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Iitorature and Enelish Lords.


1t is the fashion to say that in these
day the barriers of rank are broken down,
that literary reputation is a social pass
port, and genius opens all doors; that the
aristocracy itself has entered the lists,
and recognized the equality of poets and
philosophers with its highest members.
But nothing can be more fallacious than
this opinion. The lords open their doors
to men and women of parts, it is true,
but the purpose is to amuse themselves,
not to do honor to literature. In old
times they had their testers and their
barcls to while away the time or to chron-
icle their deeds. Froissart and Ben jon
son were little more in their eyes. So
the queen still keeps a poet laureate to
celebrate the births and marriages of her
progeny; and duchesses have authors and
actors at their parties TO entertain their
guests, as they have music and ice
cream.
The geniuses would like to believe, be-
cause they are sometimes invited to din
ner, or even to country house, that the
feeling of the aristocracy is changed; but
let one Of them ask to marry the daughter
of a duke, and he viii discover how
wide is the gulf that separates them.
Let him presume in any way too far
upon the notice that he thinks is friend
ship, and he will be dropped with as lit
tie ceremony as if his lordship were dis
missing a footman. The people OF let
tiers are admitted or invited to-day and
forgotten or ignored tomorrow. They
may be in society for while, they are
never of it; and if they no longer wait in
the ante-room, as johnson did at Ches-
terrified house. they must make them
selves either serviceable or agreeable if
they expect to stay upstairs. They know
this very well, though they don't always
tell it, and the more dignified keep aloof
from the great world.-Adam Badeaw's
letter
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Discoveries In Central America.

A French explorer in Central America
said: II have found the first Maya Gem
etery that was ever discovered by ex-
plorers. From my excavations 1 have
taken, and have already sent home to
to France many curious and most inter
esting things that go FAR 10 sustain my
theory as to the newness Of the civilian
ton there. The most ancient cities prob
ably date from the eleventh or twelfth
century, and the last cnes were still be-
ing builded at the time of the arrival Of
the Spaniards. Among the things l
found in that cemetery were pottery,
axes, and utensils Of copper and bronze,
and other objects of use and adornment
in stone. There were also beautifully
made toys, representing small animals,
that were doubtless put in the graves of
children. n-Excb.npe
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telescope. They We're advised to wan
until the fourth moon appeared from be-
hind the planet and after am hour the
fourth moon did experimenting out
clear from Jupiter's disk, SO clearly as to
leave a place of separation between the
planet and the moon. On looking at it
again, perhaps twenty. minutes later,
what was the astronomers surprise to
find that this fourth moon had again dis
appeared He and the others present re-
peatedly looked for it, but it had disap-
peared behind the planet and did not
again emerge for perhaps twenty min
utes to half an hour. This is surpris-
ing case. One of Jupiter's satellites has
occasionally been seen by other astron-
omers 10 Ego back, seemingly, behind
the planet, after once partially emerging,
but has it ever been seen to go back as it
did in this case after emerging entirely?
OF course it is an optical effect which de
ceives one by atmospheric laws-perhaps
the action of light in Jupiter's own at
mosphere. But Mr.. Hale's observation
seems to have been curious one
Hartford Times.
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Curiosities Of Cuttinp a Cameo.

The way canoes are cut is this: Take
this oval for instance; it has a fiat top
and fiat bottom; the cameo-cutter take
this stone and with his saw cuts away
the white or Iight-colored top SO as to
leave a rough outline of a human head;
this cutting may be done in two hours;
then he puts in two days. with rough
tool, making little closer approach to
the shape of the head, and when he gets
down to the fine tools, it requires about
two weeks to finish the portrait The
portrait is always in white, and for this
purpose all the surrounding white is cut
away and polished colored background
left. 1t is slow, tedious and careful
work. Between now and Christmas do
not suppose we would be able to fill more
than eight or ten orders.
This polished oval stone and the cush-
ion shapes are cut into these designs at
Idar-O berstein, where there are mills
along the little river ON both sides as far
as a man could walk in five hours, dur
ing which time he would pass mill
every ten minutes. The rough stone
goes there from Brazil and is sold at
auction. Sometimes a fortune is made
in the purchase of one of these rough
stones, and sometimes fortune is lost,
as the onyx, which is cut into pieces
measuring from thirty to fortyfive mil
limeters-one and one-quarter to about
two inches-in length, sometimes turns
out very badly. After the stone is cut it
is polished by men and boys, who lie in
hammocks on their stomachs before big
wheels which revolve with wonderful
velocity. The cheap canoes sold in
rings, and which are worth from 81 to
IS apiece, are cut in these mills by boys
or men who have been trained to moth
ing else.-P. Schmidt in Globe-Demo-
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IA. O. ABEaxATET, DIX. c. A ALTERNATELY
-,0rs G. G. & G. A..ABERNATHY have
formed a co-partnership in the practice
of Neiicins and surgery AID oiier th9ir ser
Niess TO she citizsna OF Pulaski aud GIGS
EF4icE.-Third door south Of Peoples
Nstienai Baak, and Main Street.
May Ass
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Homicide Rooms Of tho Hotels.

The truth is, there is hardly hotel Of
any age in the country that has not one
or more murder or suicide rooms. The
old-time members of tho travelling fra
ternity know about them and some the
atrical people usually have them, on the
list. The latter are especially supersti-
tious and would hold up both hands in
holy horror if they were assigned TO any
apartment with any such a history.
With the rest of the public ignorance is
bliss. A good hotel clerk is always care
full never TO put a person in such a room
who knows anything about II, for the
reason that imagination might get in It's
work, and one ghost story does incalcu-
liable damage to the reputation of the
house. - Hotel Clerk Cunningham ia
GlObe-Democrat.
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A well-to-do man was DIR. Osgood, par
son of the First church. In his time
Springfield was mere village and Indian
Orchard a sheep pasture. The parson
owned the main portion OF that ward,
conducted it as farm and sheep ranch.
and employed John Corey and his wife
10 run it. The parson drove out there to
view his possessions one day, and found
old Corey drunk, beating his wife. swell,
well, Mr.. Corey" said tile parson, "a
man whipping his wifel" Yes "Mr.
Corey, recollect that woman is the
weaker vessel" swell, let her carry less
sail theni" Dr. Osgood used to tell this
story often, and never omitted a word o.
old COrey's reply.-The Argonaut
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Ice in the Sick Room.

The writer's son suffered with typhoid
fever during the heated term of last
summer, when the temperature of the
room often rose to 80 or 50 degrees, and
the patients temperature ran up to 1O5
degrees Fahrenheit and over.
A number of tubs were placed in the
room, and kept filed with ice, and the
doors kept closed. The temperature of
the room sank to so degrees or less, an
average of 10 or IS degrees below the
temperature of the other rooms in the
house; and the cooler atmosphere not
only added to the comfort of the patient,
but aided in keeping down the body tenn
perature, and materially contributed to
a final recovery.-Cor. National Drug
nist
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The ancients used to indulge in prac-
teal jokes to a considerable extent; for
instance, the Thracians, at their drinking
parties, sometimes played game of
hanging. They fixed round moose to
the bough of a tree and placed under
meath it a stone of such shape that it
would easily turn round when any one
stood ON it. Then they drew lots, and
he who drew the lot took a sickle in his
hand, stood on stone, and put his neck
into the halter. The stone was kicked
away, and if he could cut himself down
with the sickle, well and good, but if he
was not quick enough, he was hanged
outright
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Diseases Caused bv sicvclinc.

Bicycle riding, like roller-skating, has
produced new class of disease. 1t is an
affection of the spine and kidneys, result
ing from the continual jar of the ma
chine. know of six or eight cases of it
that can not be classified by their sylnp-
toms with any heretofore known ailment.
In every instance it can be traced to the
wheel. 1t exists only, however, in men
of feeble organization and non-elastic
constitution. They have no business
taking violent exercise of any kind, and
1 don't know of any evil results follow
ing where the subject is active and
strong. In fact, we frequently recon-
mend bicycle riding as exercise, and in
most cases the result is good.-Dr. j. F.
Smith in Globe Democrat.
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A Word for Bank clerks.

u find" said Mr.. S. T. Williams, shat
bank clerks make the most rapid ac-
countants. Ordinary bookkeepers are
too slow as rule, and too confirmed in
their ways. The bank clerk is acus-
toned to figures, and he is at home
among them. Then, too, he is more
rapid worker. He has been used to work
with number of men who rush things,
each emulous of the other, and this has
trained him to habits of quickness and
certainty. Cincinnati Times-Star.
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The Doctrine of Practical Life.

It's as much success to kill rabbit as
it is to kill deer. Let the young man
remember that. For that is just what
young men forget. The doctrine OF
practical life, of business, of bread-get-
ting-not of book-writing-is do the
next thingl Indeed, that is what we are
all doing. We are all pegs in the wrong
holes, and restless. Shall we jump across
Gods infinite Keyboard at one bound; or
shall we hop off one leg into the next va
cant hole, and into the next, and thus
toward our ambition? Let us hop, says
practical genius.-E. Hough.
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The Fun of collecting specimens.

Reader, do you know the fun of col
Iecting specimens" Do you know the
pleasure of breaking into hard lodges of
stone, to steal some secret of its struc-
ture? Do you comprehend the glory of
knowing the names of these boulder
stones and their history? how they were
made; whence they have Travelled, and
what is their designation? Well. that is
where science begins. Your boy comes
home with his pockets full of stones.
You wish he had thrown them at your
neighbor's hens. But it is in this way
that geology has its rise.-Cor. Globe
Democrat
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This Earth "A Big Magnet.

The meteorites that fall upon the earth
are composed chiefly of iron. Signor
Bombicci suggests an explanation of this.
The earth is a big magnet, as shown by
the proceedings of bar of steel freely
suspended and accurately balanced on
its center. Bombicci's idea is that this
big terrestrial magnet, when rushing
through space containing meteoric par
ticles. exerts a selective attraction for
those which are ferruginous. The fact
that 50 many masses of meteoric iron
have been found in the Attic regions, so
far rs it goes, supports this theory
Eranl- nqlia's
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The Production of Silhouette Portraits.


Until Daguerre made his discovery,
the wealthy had their miniature painted
ON ivory, but the cheaper portraiture in
vented by Silhouette was very common.
Profile cutters, as they were called, were
found in all cities and large towns, while
others went about the country from
house to house, so that it was rare to
find sitting room in any decent house
that did not boast of framed silhouette,
one looking to the right and the ether to
the left.
There were different ways of arriving
at the same result, but the work was
chiefly done by cutting the profile out OF
white paper, which was backed by
piece of black silk or black paper neatly
mounted. To insure success it was
necessary to have steady hand and a
correct eye; with these qualities one
could cut a likeness in few seconds.
There was also several mechanical con-
trivances for producing slhouettes, one of
which Sam Weller doubtless had In his
minds eve when, in inditing his valen-
tine to Mary. he hkened the growth of
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-09-02
Anotber yiotim OF OvervorI,.

Patrick" called a south side lady,
-have you watered the flowers in the
conservatory lately?"
"Not this wake, num-"
Mercy on me! What do you mean by
such negligence?"
"Sure, mum, I've been busy every
minute of the time. 1 couldn't find
second to spare for carryin' water. The
conservatory will be the death of me yet,
num-"
why, what has kept you so basy,
should like to know" as
"Pickin' off the dead leaves, mum. p
Chicago News.
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The Peculiar PropertIes Of ozone.

1t is a colorless gas, having rather
pungent odor and possesses the peculiari-
ties of oxygen, but in more marked de
gree. So powerful is it, indeed, that it
will perform many of the feats of fire
without the phenomenon of flame. AS
bleaching agent it is very effective. 1t
is especially made use of in this connec-
ton by dealers in pictures as a means of
erasing the yellow time stains" that are
found on old engravings and prints.
This is accomplished by bending the
picture around in the form of a cylinder
SO that the two ends meet with the face
inside, and suspending piece of white
phosphorus within it. The phosphorus
oxidizes slowly, and as this is one of the
chemical reactions that is attended with
the production of ozone, sufficient is
formed to completely renoyate the most
time-defaced picture. Since, however,
very little friction causes the phos-
phorus to ignite, great care must be
taken in performing this operation.-
Detroit Free Press.
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Useful Light for Industrial Purposes.

Useful Light for Industrial Purposes.
What promises to be useful light for
industrial purposes, where work has to
be carried on in the open or in large
covered spaces by night, is described by
the English Steam Users Journal. The
light consists of cylindrical vessel ca
pable of containing thirty gallons of
heavy hydro-carbon oil. Air under a
moderate pressure is conducted 70 the
cylinder, which is fitted with a special
burner having two tubes, one within the
other, leading up to it. The inner tube
dips into the creosote, and the pressure
of air on the latter forces itoup the tube.
A portion of the air finds it's way to the
burner through the annular space be-
tween the inner and outer tubes, and the
air and oil combining at the burner form,
when ignited by match, a flame which
gives a light that is useful for general
working purposes over radius of $50 to
200 yards. The proportions used to form
the proper light are four of air to one of oil
by volume. Ths jet being produced
under pressure is not affected by either
wind or rain.-C Chicago News.
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A New bacterial for Pine Joints.

Ferroid is the name of new material
for pipe joints that has made some
what remarkable record. Joints made
with it have resisted water pressure of
from 80 to 200 pounds per square inch,
and steam pressure of rs pounds. 1t
has a tensile strength of from $50 to
1900 pounds, requiring force of 5000
pounds to crush it. 1t is easily melted
and easily handled, flowing in the molten
state like water. Its specific gravity is
81, being one-third as heavy as iron,
and it successfully resists the attacks of
air. water, and earth. Chicago News.
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Amateur Photographers Becoming tx
art

1t is known that amateur photography
has been cultivated with enthusiasm of
late, especially in this country, where it
has been carried in several instances to
the point of perfection. There is doubt,
indeed, whether some of our amateur
photographers are not more expert than
the tradesmen. Ia England the taste for
this amusement is growing steadily, and
it has the approval of the prince of
Wales, himself skilled photographer
Frank Ieslie's.
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SYSTEMS OF ENUMERATION

"A. Tresize Saunders.
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Neither written Nor Printed.

A curious book is at the library at
Paris. 1t is neither written nor printed.
Every letter of the text is cut into the
leaf, and as the alternate leaves are of
blue paper, it is as easily read as the
best print. The labor required and the
patience necessary to cut each letter may
be imagined. The work is so perfect
that it seems as though done by machin-
cry, but every character was made by
hand.-Chicago Times.
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The Mexican and the Yankee PIows

The mexican and Tie Yankee Flows
The pillow generally in use in Mexico is
q crooked stick, with sometimes an iron
point. American plows are beginning
to be introduced to a considerable ex-
tent, but the Mexican peasant ON coming
into possession of one generally cuts off
one handle, in order TO make it conform,
as far as can be, 10 his ancient imple-
Inent. A bundle of brush constitutes
the harrow. "Their hoes are heavy grub
hoes, and grass is cut by digging it up
with such hoe. David a. Wells.
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A Great Change Had taken place.

n Oreab NhauBo AAftO AdAAeA EAAc6s
The other day young man came down
from the Saginaw valley and said to the
policeman at the depot:
1--WE got $50 in cash and $500 worth
of enthusiasm, and I'm bound to have a
good time"
swell, look out for results cautioned
the officer.
"Oh, I'm no chicken, responded the
young man; and off he started.
About midnight he was brought to the
Woodbridge Street station, with a black
eye, a bitten ear and a generally forlorn
look up and down and across him. The
officer recognized him and asked:
"Aren't you the man with $50 in cash
and $500 worth of enthusiasm 2"
81 was the man, he answered, @but
there has been a great change. You can
now refer to me as the person with no
cash, no enthusiasm, but a heap of ex-
perience. Say, how did this thing come
about, anyway" Free Press.
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pead RIrds 800 in Good Tnste.

We submit that dead bird is not a
good decoration for hat. 1t is not in
good taste, to say the least, and, save
that the present fashion blinds the eyes
of many, no one would think for an in
slant that it was in any way seemly to
put stuffed songster on a bonnet. 1t
ought to make any decently sensitive per-
son ashamed of his race to consider this
illustration Of how far the vanity of
fashion can make respectable people for
get their own primitive instincts of hui
manitv.--N Haven News.
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Not worried About the Dog.

A cute little girl of 3 is the delight of
Washington boulevard family for her
prettiness as well as for the bright and
odd things she says. The other Gay a
company of militia passed down the
STREET in front of her home, and her min
ute black-and-tan barked furiously
through the window pane at them. The
little girl arose in alarm and said: SHUT
the door, mammal Fido will bite the
army Chicago News.