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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-06-24
DIAMONDS NOT ALWAYS RICHES.
How a Few Stones, by Being Reset Often,
Serve for Effect.

How Few Stones, by Being Reset Often,
Serve for Effect.
A gentleman walked into a jewelers.
store in Maiden Lane the other day, and
handing over three diamond shirt studs
asked to have them reset. He wanted a
new design, and minutely described how
the work should be done. %You have no
idea" said the jeweler, show many per-
sons come in here to change the setting
of the gems. A stud is made to serve in
a cuff button, collar button or a ring,
according to the owners fancy. But
this practice of changing the setting is
not caused all the time by fancy. There
is method in it. A show of wealth, you
know, goes long ways toward bringing
it in.
Evidence of prosperity is a sure road
to success nowadays. 1 know of one
man who has had five diamonds set in as
many different ways in one year. The
stones are good ones and are worth the
work; but, you see, he makes his ac-
quaintances think he is loaded down
with diamonds. For a few months he
will wear plain diamond shirt studs;
then he will have set of fancy enameled
studs, different finger rings and cuff
buttons. A man who can afford SO many
diamonds must have money, is the con-
clusion people come to, and he is thus
given chances to make more money,
which otherwise he would not have.
Ladies do the same thing, but from a
different motive. Of course with some
of the men vanity has something to do
with the matter, but with woman it is
all vanity and hardly ever caprice.
Some of the designs are very unique.
The man l referred to a while ago is al
ways studying Up some new and unusual
design for the setting of his gems. Not
long ago he was wearing two shirt studs.
The upper one was fine enameled gold
piece made in the form of a man hang
ing to a tree, with two diamond eyes
starting out of the head. The whole
stud was about an inch long, and the
two smallest of his diamonds were used.
The second stud was a little child with
an eagle plucking out its eye. The dia-
mond glistened in the eagles beak at the
points of its contact with the child's eye. !
He had ring in the form of a skeleton, |
and serpents for sleeve buttons. He |
called this his horrible set, and wore it |
AOA oOOAb bAACC IAOllAl5s WHICH lC iiAA |
the settings changed. If any curious |
person asked him about it he would an
swer that he had got tired of wearing it,
and left it at home in his collection.
That mans fine diamonds, which are |
worth about $3.50, have represented ten
or fifteen sets, the value of which would
be about $4,000. He has spent about
S125 in having them reset. and procured /
about $1,000 worth of reputation on it.
1t pays, tell you. New York Star.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-06-24
Position of English Society Women.

You must go to late dinners and later
balls. You must breathe the hot atmos-
phere of parliament, and the still more
sitting air at court; you must be clad in
the stiff garments that etiquette pre-
scribes for every hour; you must devote
yourself to a round of visits and enter
tainments which would be most agree
able in dreary winter, but now distract
you from delights that are rare in Eng
land because of the climate. At this
moment, when the climate and the
country are alike Saturnian, you forsake
the country and come up to town. For
so fashion DEGREES. Or rather SO the
sportsmen determine; the men will not
abandon their guns and their game in
the autumn and winter, and this leaves
only the spring and summer for town.
And in England society, like everything
else, is ruled by the men; the women
only exist to give them pleasure and do
them service; to marry them, to rear
their children, to preside over their
homes, to decorate their entertainments.
What the men want is always done, and
the women submit, as matter of course.
Adam Radaaus Letter
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A GIlmpse Of John RusI,in.

Mr.. Ruskin is the very preux chevalier
needed for English girlhood, grizzled
though his beard may now be. Has no
not said somewhere Il would make my
body bridge for the passage of a girl
that was pretty and good" His attitude
toward his young deciples at Whitelands
may be typified in story Mrs. Severn
drew from her memory. "When / was
very young" said Mrs. Severn. 81 was
once walking through a garden with
Rusxin, when 1 observed him to stoop
low down and glance sideways at tho
sky. Wondering at this movement of
his, heard him say: DO put your head
down here and you viii see what 1 see.'
And 50 bent down also and saw what
he had discovered-the wondrous lowell
ness of a trees buds against the sky. 1t
is this seeing for sweetness and light that
has given Mr.. Ruskin the secrets OF power
over human nature more than any of his
critical theories. Standard.
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VARIATION OF the Annual RaInfalI.

The average rainfall or our Atlantic
slope is about forty-two inches a year.
The Californians call their neighbor
"web feet" because Oregon gets some
ten or twelve inches more. 1t might be
interesting to know what they would
call the natives of Chera Punji in tho
Kassia hills, on the bay Of Bengal, where
the annual aggregate amounts 10 more
than 400 inches. Maj Kennedy, in re-
cent report to the London Geographical
society, makes the yearly total 4S4
inches. But even that monstrOus amount
seems to be a minimum of former esti-
mates, for Chambers Cyclop@dia speaks
of 527 inches as a yearly average. At
all events, the supply must be sufficient
to run mill on every acre of ground
Cor, Chicago Graphic News.
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Victoria Regia in Fun Bloom.

We are particularly favored in chanc-
ing to see the Victoria regia in full
bloom. 1t is a sight of which fairyland
might boast, and in truth the wondrous
lily seems a veritable queen of joys reign
ing in the midst of her devoted giants
the hardy green leaves. These latter lie
reversed on the surface of the water, in
Vulnerable veins criss-cross their surfaces
like lace work, and some of them are
almost six feet in diameter, so strong
looking as to make the romantic posi-
bility of hly.1eaf couch a very easy
thing after all. The flower itself is en-
trancingly beautiful. Its pedals at the
base commence in a delicate ethereal
pink, which imperceptibly blossoms into
dazzling white tint as it nears the top,
and it is very small compared with its
gigantic surroundings, in the midst of
which it daintily poises in its exquisite
oveliness.-London Cor. Philadelphia
Times.
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SPIRIT.

In budding splendor and most winsome
With face down-drooped, lest its full grace
be seen,
In swaying bronzen glory of her hair,
She violet-laden stands, her hat awry,
In artlessness artistic, and so fair
The amorous grasses kiss her garments
hem;
The willful clover bends its sturdy stem;
The winds embrace her as she passes by,
And birds in choric volubility
Startle the hillside's bright tranquility.
Is she some native spirit of the wood,
Whom mighty Pan for very love hath
wooed
Here in the dewy shadow of the pines
And noisy silence of the watchful morn,
That in quick light her beauty still con-
fines
With gloriole resplendant to adorn2
What art thou, down-drooped and uncon-
scious face,
That fiittest like Dryad's thro' the placer
Who art thou, creature of the tender
dawn,
BY light conceived, and of the morning
born?
With thdnderous roar and diapason
strong,
From seraphim and heavens assembled
host
The undulating music sweeps along,
From crystal walls again to be retost
In quivering echoes to proclaim thy race,
o, little solitary, tender facel
With hat awry and little shoes united,
| hear thee by the echo glorified,
OF the infinitude of saints forgiven,
"Of such as she, the kingdom is of heaven"
Alice H. Huston in Baltimore American.
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Description of tho "I,lot Gun. >,

When Chicago dispatch saying that
Inspector Bonfield had received a SAM
pie riot gun" from Connecticut firm
was read by Broadway gun dealer no
said:
ut is a repeating shotgun recently in
vented, and is very good weapon for the
purpose. A short steel tube under the
barrel holds six cartridges loaded with
buckshot or any other size Of shot. A
small cylinder just right 20 take hold of
with the hand is slipped over the car
fridge tube, steel rod running from it
to the mechanism of the guns breech.
BY sliding this grip piece along the car
fridge tube and back to it's place again
discharged shell is thrown out, fresh
cartridge inserted, and the gun cooked.
Each cartridge holds an ounce and
quarter of buckshot. The six cartridges
can be fired six times in three seconds.
They are now in use by the express com
panies and postoffice agents in the west
where road agents abound, and not
equalled by any weapon for demoraliz-
ing gang of evil dOers."
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-06-24
Mortality Among French Children.

Leading minds in France have become
very anxious in view of the ascertained
fact that the population there is decreas-
ing, and, in order to apply a remedy, are
inquiring into the best way to lessen the
mortality among children. in their first
year, averaging 1S per cent, and esti-
mated to amount yearly TO nearly 49,,
900 deaths. This has also led dis
tinguished medical men of late years to
examine into the effects of the deplor-
able general practice, which still prevails
extensively in France, of putting chill
dren out to nurse, and it has been con-
demned in the writings of many of
them. Their aggregated views have
been formulated in this conclusions: at
is of public interest that mothers should
nurse their own children. New York
Grrr1
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Progress in Practical School Sanitation.
The Sanitary News commends the ap-
pointment of a young woman in Paris,
who had received a medical education,
to the position of medical inspector of
girls in the schools of that city. Her
duties are to see that the girls are not
overworked and that they perform their
tasks under the best sanitary conditions
possible This is a good step forward in
practical school sanitation. Since, in
most localities, attendance upon school
is enforced for certain periods, it seems
to follow as a logical conclusion that the
state should at least turn out the chill
dren in as healthy a condition as they
are received. That this can not be done
in the ordinary American school, under
the conditions generally prevalent, will
be readily conceded by nearly every one
at all conversant with school life. 1t
has been often argued that each board
of education should have medical Off
Ger, and it is a good sign to be able to
record the appointment of one with
specified duties.-EXchau2e
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The Art of CrvstaIIizine Fruit.

Several companies within the past few
years have attempted to crystalline fruit,
but they have all made failures of it.
The business is conducted exclusively in
France, where every person engaged in
it make speciality of a single fruit, the
art of crysfallizing which was handed
down to him by his ancestors. One man
crystallizes cherries, another pears, and
SO on, and he does not understand how
to prepare any other fruit than the one
he makes a specially of. These experts
have been brought from France to Cali
fornia, but they remained in the business
only sufficient length Of time to catch
the speculative fever that prevails ON the
Pacific coast, when they would abandon
their calling and engage in more lucra-
tive pursuits. Not single firm in the
country has made a success of the busi-
ness,-Cor. Globe-D Democrat.
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A NEW RHoNeeRARH PERFECTED.
An Intrument To BE Used During Court
Trials.


Some electricians in this city have been
at work for several months to perfect a
phonograph which can be used with such
accuracy as TO be an aid in reporting with
precision the proceedings of courts and
public assemblies. 1t is said that state
of perfection has already been attained
which will warrant the introduction of
this instrument in courts of justice.
When the phonograph is perfected it will
be great help to stenographic reporters
IN one way and great rival and hind
rance in another way. One of the ma
chimes can be taken into court, for in
stance, and all of the proceedings viii be
recorded by it. At the close of the day
it can be taken to a room and gauged to
talk at any rate of speed-at thirty words
a minute, which can be written out by an
ordinary long-hand writer. If it is de-
sired to get the proceedings transcribed
as fast as they occur new cylinders are
put in the monograph as fast as the pro-
ceedings are written out. For instance,
the long-hand writers can put in a cyl
inder and let it remain ten minutes, then
take it out and put in another, and trans
fer the cylinder which has the proceed
ings upon it TO another instrument, and
it is made to repeat the proceedings with
accuracy, and, at. the expiration of its
term, is replaced in the phonograph and
the other cylinder taken from it. and
so on, rasFr eI "a
One of the great difficulties the scien-
fists have encountered is in securing the
distinction of tone and voice. Hereto
fore the phonograph has not been suff-
GENTLY distinct in the pitch Of the voice to
make one voice distinguish itself from
another if they are similar in volume
and tone. 1t is believed, however, that
the instrument will be perfected within
a short time so that anyone who has
heard number of voices in a room can
readily distinguish them from the sounds
the phonograph will give out. It IS the
distinguishing of one voice from another
that gives the names of the speakers.
For instance, if the phonograph is used
to record the proceedings of legislature
it will not, of course, have the names OF
the persons participating in debate, and
the persons translating from the record
of the phonograph will have to place the
speakers by the tone of the voice;
1t is said that some of the official re-
porters intend trying the phonograph
within a-short time and determining how
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-06-24
Article OF West African diet.

The chief diet is foofoo, or yams, an
esculent not unlike an Irish potato. The
drink is mimbo, or palm wine. The fl
thiness of the table and of the ground
the chiefs guest was extreme. Greasy
debris of the various courses, and great
splashes of the gushing mimbo disfig-
ured the men, while on the right of each
person the ground was wet with the re-
peated ibations poured out to the ghosts
of their fathers as every fresh bumper of
mimbo was about to be drained, and
with portions of the solids thrown to the
ground as offerings to the same invisible
participators. The meal consisted of
roasted plantains and vegetable cheese,
roasted yams in slices and fresh palm oil
mixed up with bruised dried shri1nps
and salt and red pepper. The midday
meal is usually the favorite dish foo
foo. The small cross-legged table was
brought up to the coach of the chief. No
table cloth, knives, forks or plates are
used.-AndreW Murray.
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A Rello Of IN. rrIddle Ares.

"Andorra" is an Independent state in
the Pyrenees, adjoining the Spanish
province of Leredo. 1t is not dependent
upon either France or Spain and has been
governing since the time of Charlie
magne. That great monarch recognized
the Andorrans because they helped him
against the Moors. This little state has
an area of about 600 square miles and an
estimated population of 900. Those
who indulge in dreams as to what the
future may bring forth believe that it is
the fate of modern Europe to break up
into small communities which will be
governing locally while acknowledge
ing central authority, which would
dominate the western world. The most
perfect form of democracy known to
ancient or modern times was the New
England town meeting. The neighbors
in the several localities met and managed
their own affairs. This seems to be i'm
possible in densely populated Cities
Demorest's Monthly.
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An Aneodote of Charles Darwin.

1 have lately heard an authentic anec-
dote of Darwin, that seems quite worth
repeating. 1t refers 10 his old age-the
period when he was bringing out his
books on the habits of plants. His health
was poor; and an old family servant--a
woman-overhearing his daughter ex-
press some anxiety about his condition,
sought to reassure her by saying: "Hi
believe master'd be hall right madam,
hif g only 'ad sopethin' 10 hoccupy
is mind; sometimes e stands in the con-
servatory from Inornin' till night-iust
a-lookin' at the flowers. Elf e only 'ad
somethin' to do, ed be hever so much
better, him sure" No one enjoyed tho
joke more than the great naturalist him
self. f.-Cor New York Critic
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PEACE.

Two trayel-worn and weary feet at rest.
From paths of pain now shrouded in the
past;
Two cold hands folded on a colder breast,
From which the soul has taken flight at
last:
Two eyes from whose dark vacant cells
the glow
OF sunlight seems forever TO have fed;
Two mute lips meeting like an unstrung
bow
From which the final arrow, speech, has
fed.
This is the subtlest Of all mysteries;
Some call it Death, and others name it
Peace.
Daniel f. O'Sullivan in Southern
BiYouac.
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A Remarkable Telephonic Invention.
Nature describes, under the name of
the "phonophore," a remarkable tele-
phonic invention about to be introduced
to public notice by Mr.. Langdon Davies.
The name is given to a contrivance
which, while absolutely non-conductor
of continuous electric currents, still al
lows of the passage or transmission of
rapidly alternating currents such as cor
respond to sounds in vocal and harmonic
telephony. The "phonophore" consists
essentially of two insulated wires laid
side by side, twisted together and wound
up upon a bobbin, one end of each wire
being completely insulated. Regarded
as condenser, its capacity is very fee
BILE indeed. Regarded as an induction
coil neither the primary nor the second
airy forms closed circuit. Yet it trans
mits telephone speech perfectly. 1t fol-
lows that Mr.. Davies has solved the
problem of telephoning on an open cir
cult.
But the real object of the invention is
to enable telephone messages, including
both vocal and harmonic under that
name, to be transmitted through the
ordinary telegraph wires without inter-
ference with or from the telegraphic
messages that are simultaneously passing
through the wires. Mr.. Davies has de-
vised a whole series of new telephone
apparatus in which not only the induc-
tion-coils of the transmitters but also the
bobbins of the receivers are replaced by
Open-circuit phonOphone coils. Apart
from its purely technical value, the new
instrument presents several points of
great scientific interest, and opens up
sundry new problems to the mathemati-
cal physicist.-Scientific Journal.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-06-24

An invention which, it is claimed by
gas engineers, viii revolutionize the
present system of gas-hghting has just
been perfected by DIR. Auer in the
chemical laboratory Of the Vienna uni
versity. Briefly described, the invention
may be said to consist in rendering a
cotton wick incombustible by impreg-
mating it with a metallic liquid. Thus
treated the wick, instead of burning,
merely glows, emitting a radiance not
unlike that of the electric light. The
whole process is very simple; and the
great advantage of the invention is that
it may be applied to any gas-burner. -
Chicago News.
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A Conva1escent Home for Horses.

In London steps have been taken to
procure a convalescent home for horses.
The object Of the home, as set forth at a
meeting of those interested, is to enable
the poorer classes-cabmen, tradesmen
and Others-to procure, on moderate
terms, rest and treatment for horses that
are falling from overwork or accidental
causes, and which are likely to be bene-
fited by few weeks rest and care
Foreign Letter.
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Soldiers Under the First Napoleon.

There are at present 74O old soldiers in
France who have served under the first
Napoleon, and each of whom receives a
life annunity of 20 francs. 1t is stated
that this venerable battalion loses an
nually ON an average 1S5 of its members,
and it may thus be expected that within
the next four years the last veteran will
take his departure from this life.-New
Orleans Times Democrat,
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FIshInc with Axes in FIorida.

Eight miles below Charlotte harbor is
a coast in which you can wade fearlessly
1900 feet from the shore. 1t is on this
coast that men go fishing with axes"
In certain seasons large fish, weighing
fifty pounds and upward, to escape from
the pursuing porpoises plunge into this
shallow water, in which men stand AK in
hand, and in which they are ruthlessly
murdered. From the hungry porpoise
they fly to evils they know not of, and
become a dainty morsel for remorseless
man.-Cor. Cincinnati Enquirer.
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To Remove Unpleasnnt odors.

To remove unpleasant odors burnt
coffee is the best disinfectant, and it is
very agreeable. For water closets, night
chairs, ETC., chloride of lime and even
common lime should be used. This is
effectual in cleansing utensils from bad
odors. Or charcoal powder and camphor
dissolved; the articles we'll rinsed with
the composition.-Dem Monthly.
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The school was celebrating the birth
day of Oliver Wendell Holmes. And
now" said the teacher, who is DR..
Oliver Wendell HoImesi" And the
school shrie4led out, "Versed in war,
versed in peace, versed in the hearts of
his countrymen!"-Burd ~ ES|5szss7~
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-06-24
did Not Eat with Their ringers.

While making excav ations in ruin on
the Appear Way, near Rome, three two
prong silver forks were found, which
would indicate that all the old Romans,
at least did not eat with their fingers
Chicago Herald.
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Brabery am no sign o sense. DE game
rooster will fight tell he dies, but he amt
got ez much sense ez de guinea chicken
dat won't fight nuthin'. - Arkansaw
Traveller.
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A unirer.ltx Proposed COZ ssberia.

The Russian government has decided
to establish a university" at Tonsk in
Siberia. Like our western frontiersmen
the dwellers of the Tundra have imbibed
with their raw native air penchant for
rough and ready independence, and the
arrival OF the government text books
will probably be followed by con-
signment of patent MISUNDERSTANDING.
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He Somewhat Surprised the Guest.

The president of a literary club, whois
famed for his lack of tact, somewhat
surprised guest of the club this winter
by saying: Il should have asked you to
speak, Dwight, but you didn't look as
though you had anything to say.-Boston
Beacon
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A Valuable Dictionary Proposed.

A dictionary for the scientific and
technical terms in all languages is pro-
jected by Professor Yilanova, and Is
indorsed by the international geological
congress s.-Exchange
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-06-24

1t is said in a German newspaper that
a carp recently captured had ring on
which was engraved the year 1918,
which would make him 26S years old.
Commercial Gazette.