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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-06-17
DIAMOND FIELDS OF SOUTH AFRICA.
How City spraug Up in the Desert-A
Vast Human Ant-HiII.

How a City spraug Up in the Desert-A
Vast Human Ant-HiII.
AS the pan-washing and cradling of
the adventurous prospector of 40 has
given way, on the Pacific slope, to the
operations of organized and scientific
mining industry, SO the individual oper-
ations of the individual diamond diggers
of Griqualand, South Africa, in 1871,
with their rude bucket and windlass,
followed by the inclined wire, have been
replaced by skilled labor. Tunnels have
been blasted through solid rock, shafts
have been sunk hundreds of feet into the
earth, and yet the precious bits of carbon
are found in quantities to supply the
greed of avaricious man and furnish a
living to thousands and wealth to q
lucky few.
In 1872 what is now known as Kimber-
ley was called De Beers New Rush and
had already been yielding up its carbon
crystals until city of tents and cor
rugated iron houses, with one huge music
hall and between 300 and 400 drinking
places had clustered around the enor-
nous excavation, whence the earth had
been removed by single bucketfuls. This
marvellous result of the labors of the
human ants who swarmed in its depths
and on its borders was the spot which
became known the world round as the
Kolesberg Kopje before it became the
Kimberley mine.
Some idea of the size of the Kopje and
the number of people working on it daily
will be gathered from the statement that
at the time now spoken or 800 claims,
each being thirty feet square, and an
average of about thirty men-say twenty
six black and four white-worked in
each claim, giving total of "a, 900 work
ing there. The first licenses to work
claims at the Kopje were issued on the
20th of July, 1871, and in little more than
a year the claims were carried down so
deep, many over eighty feet, that none
of the roadways were left standing COM
plete, though immense portions of them
having the appearance of huge broken
walls remained.
"The kopje has been aptly described as
a vast human ant-hill, says a writer of
the period referred to. Il do not know
more effective simile. Human beings
are everywhere moving about with an
activity and in numbers, like ants. They
pass over the narrow roadways, glide
down the face of the excavation, or are
at work at a depth which dwarfs their
statures intos that of mere miniature
men. Here men are feverishly risking
their necks day after day in the pursuit
of wealth. They pass over places where
false step-the slipping of foot or the
incorrectness of the eye in measuring a
distance-will cause their death. They
climb up ascents that to the expert seem
unascendable. They slip down ropes
that are only fastened to frail tree
branches driven into the loose earth.
They stand on lodges that are perhaps
forty feet away from the roadway above,
and forty feet above the bottom of the
claim below. They wheel barrows along
narrow pathways that would startle
even some expert mountaineers. They
work beneath tottering masses, and
every now and then these fall, manning
and killing.-Detroit Free Press.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-06-17
Timothy ritoomb ), as a Lecturer.

Holland drew good houses, and for a
time was very popular. But the public
soon outgrew the mild preaching of
Timothy Titcomb," and he withdrew to
occupy, with great grace the editorial
chair. His constant theme was home,
and his wife and family. He was one of
the most affectionate of men. mime days
from home!" was his first ejaculation
after being pleasantly seated, LAST
night was ten days from my wife. To-
morrow 1 will be eight" He was always
picking up bits for his novels. 1 had the
pleasure of furnishing him considerable
material for Bonnicastle. A fine boy
was his special idol. He was loved by
the young in return.-Cor. Globe-Demo-
crat
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-06-17
AT HOME.

The frugal snail, with forecast Of repose,
Carries his house with him where'er he
goes;
Peeps out, and if there comes a shower of
rain,
Retreats to his small domicile again.
Touch but tip of him, a horn-'tis well,
He curls up in his sanctuary shell.
He's his own landlord, his own tenant;
stay
Long as he win he breads no quarter
day.
Himself he boards and lodges; both invites
And feasts himself sleeps with himself
o. nights.
He spares the upholsterer trouble to pro
cure
Chattels; himself his his own furniture,
And his sole riches. Wheresoe'er he roam,
Knock when you will-he's sure to be at
home. Charles Lamb.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-06-17

An Experiment in Language Learning.
A few years ago a society Of eminent
Frenchmen discussed the question:
What language would child naturally
speak if never taught" Twenty differ
ent results were predicted.
To test the matter two infants were
procured and isolated with deaf and
dumb woman, who lived alone in the
Alps, surrounded with her sheep and
chickens
After six years the children and the
nurse were brought before the servants,
who were on tip-toe of expectation as to
the result. When, 10! not word could
either of the children utter, but most
perfectly could they initiate the growing
of the cock, the cackling of a hen, and
the bleating of sheep.-Western Plow-
man.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-06-17
Concerning the Hog of Honduras.

While it would grieve me to offend the
modest vanity of the swine-breeders of
the states, truth compels me to say that
with all their efforts, and perfect as they
fancy their Poland-Chinas and Berk-
shires, those gentlemen have not sue
ceeded in producing anything resemb-
ling the hog of Honduras. But when
by some maccustomed circumstances
the hog of Central America has had food
enough to put little flesh on his ample
stock of bones, that flesh is incomparably
superior in flavor to the oily gross
product of the north.-Chicago Times.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-06-17
Putting the Mater Plainly.

A doctor is called 10 a man suffering
from asthma. His visit over, he is stopped
in the entry by the sick mans wife.
swell, doctor, what do you think OF
my poor husbandT
@Reassure yourself, asthma is a patent
of longevity"
"But you viii cure him Of it, won't
youY"-Detroit Free Press.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-06-17
An Easy-Going sandwich Island City.

Wailuku, the second city in the Sand
wich islands, seems to be a very easy
going sort of place. There are in it a
large number of wealthy people, mostly
Christians, but they haven't energy
enough to call clergymen to officiate in
the two Protestant church edifces in
the city, which therefore stand closed
The city contains no clergy, no newspa-
pers, no libraries, no reading-rooms, and
the citizens do not have the slightest in
terest in news of any kind. They spend
their time chilly in thinking what soft
snap life is and wishing it didn't have to
end-Chicago Journal.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-06-17
john burroughs as a Vegetarian.

John Burroughs finds that since he
gave up the use Of meat his health has
been materially improved. II find
need less physical exercise, that my
nerves are much steadier, and that 1
have far fewer dull, blank, depressing
days; in fact, all the functions OF my
body are much better performed by
abstaining from meat. Chicago Trib-
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-06-17
Fun which make Britons Laugh.

The superiority of American fun is ac-
knowledged by an editorial writer in The
London Daily News. He holds that there
are only two kinds of American humor
to which the Englishman objects. The
"jokes about counting between lovers
seated on snake fence, or about Sun
day schools and quaint answers there
given to Biblical questions, leave us
cold" He declares that in literature,
when Englishmen want to be even hys-
tericaIly diverted, they must, as a rule,
buy their fun from the American humor-
ist. I'VE are not at present, he says,
"a boisterously comic lot of geniuses,
and if you see the tears running down
the eyes of fellow-countryman reading
ing in railway carriage, if he be writh-
ing with mirth too powerful for express
sion, the odds are that he has got hold
of Yankee book. It is unsafe to rec
ommend any writer as very funny. No
man can ever tell how his neighbor will
take joke. But it may safely be said
that authors who really tickle their stu
dents are extremely rare in England ex-
cept as writers for the stage. Detroit
Free Press.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-06-17
The Value of Militia in Riots.

These discussions or exchanges of
opinion as to the value of militia, COM
pared to regular soldiers, are all right,
but 1 tell you some respect is paid to the
militia in times of disturbance. Ofcourse
they will shoot high, and everything
like that, and they will shudder at the
thought of shedding blood, where the
regulars will shoot to kill, their only
thought, aim and object being to obey
orders. But oftentimes it is not neces-
sary to shoot. The uniform and the
sight of a gun does a great deal. 1t
awes.-W. H. Trask in Globe-Democrat.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-06-17
RAILROAD Tie Plan tations in Kansas

One railroad board here, knowing that
the growing of wood, when set about in
in earnest, is neither a slow nor difficult
task, has established in Kansas the larg-
est artificial plantation of forest trees IN
North America. These railway gentle
men themselves gave out the contract
for planting over a square mile of land
with young saplings of the catalpa and
aiIantus; and their president, observing
the success of their experiment, and inn
pressed with its probable excellent finan-
cial results, has had planted at his own
expense, as a speculation, as much more.
These are situated near the little town
Of darlington, Kan.-Forestry commits
Goner Phipps, in Toronto, CAM Globe.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-06-17
nPIastic Memory of the Che

I'Plastic Memory of the Chess-Player.
DIR. Zukertort is of small stature and
light complexion. His appearance is
delicate OF the art of playing chess
upon board and with pieces that are
invisible to the player, he remarked: at
is principally task of the imagination.
One must see the game in ones mind. 1t
is a peculiar faculty and virtually dis
tinct from that of the general memory.
In lecture whish delivered before the
Psychological sNNciety in Berlin many
years ago 1 called it the plastic memory
l think no other term fits it so well. -
San Francisco Chronicle.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-06-17

the ground and rendered boring good for
the birds the moment their slender legs
settle down. Their long journey, al
though they make frequent halts for
rest, from the south has wearied and
made them hungry, and they set to
work most voraciously on their arrival
and gormandize themselves on the larvae
and angle-worms, with which good feed
ing grounds most abound, into an in
dolence and Indifference that never fails
to result in the birds woe and hunters
profit. Their slow fip-hap up from the
grass and reeds makes shooting no trick
at all, and under such conditions enor1n-
Gus bags are often made.-Cor. Com
,,1ercial CazetRo
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-06-17
German Test for watered naIIk.

A German test for watered milk con-
sists in dipping a well-polished knitting
needle into deep vessel Of milk and
then Immediately withdrawing it in an
upright position. If the mhk'is pure a
drop of the fluid will hang TO the'needle,
but the addition Of even a small proper
ton of water viii prevent the adhesion
of the drop.-Chicago Tribune.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-06-17
A Knottv Point i'm TheoIogy.

There is a story told of Drs. Chalmers
and Stewart, who argued on the street
corner on some knotty point of theology,
with Scottish pertinacity, until it was
time to separate, when one of them re-
marked: "You will find my views very
well put in a certain tract" of which
he gave the title. Upon which, to his
surprise, his antagonist replied: ~Why,
[ wrote that tract myself.-The Argo-
aaut.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-06-17
Enduranoe Of Climatic variations.

A scientific Frenchman, Marquis de
Nadaillac, estimates that Europeans can
endure temperatures as widely apart as
235 degrees at least. Thus, on Jan. 25,
1882, two vessels in the Kara sea were
exposed to cold of s5 degrees below
zero, while in the country of the Toua-
regs, in central Africa, Duveyrier has
known the thermometer to rise as high
az 152 degrees. -Arkansaw Traveller.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-06-17

It has been discovered by Joseph
knight that women's parts on the stage
ceased to be played by men at a time an
terror to that which is in general as
sumed to have been the case.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-06-17
HIehest E1ploit of sportamnnahin.

To drop an elephant with ball in the
forehead is still the highest exploit of
craftsmanship; for the brain is very
small for the size of the beast, and the
immense skull is almost wholly filed
with mazs of honeycomb-like bone, in
the cavities of which a bullet produces
no immediate effect. Chicago Herald.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-06-17
rrvtng - Keen Up Appearances.

The effort which some people make to
keep up genteel appearance would Dc
IaughabIe if it were not so pitiable. IL Is
pitiable because it deceives no one, and
only renders those who indulge in 1t the
subjects of uncomplimentary and wide
spread social gossip. In the so-called
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-06-17
Cement Used In China and Japan.

A cement very much used at the pres
ent day in China and Japan is made
from rice. It is only necessary to mix
rice -four intimately with water and
gently simmer the mixture over clear
fire, when it readily forms a delicate and
durable cement, which answers all the
purposes Of common paste.-Boston
Budget
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-06-17
Wires Laid Under Grount

In spite of the alleged impossibility of
operating telephone wires under ground
the Bell Telephone company's report
shows that 9, ,2O3 miles of telephone wire
were put under ground last year in the
cities of Washington, Chicago, New
York, Pittsburg, Boston, Brooklyn, Bal
timore and Milwaukee. There are now
3,42S miles of telephone wire under
ground in these cities Chicago News.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-06-17
When Christians Were Not Soldier

Dymond states that for 200 years not a
Christian soldier was to be found in the
Roman armies; and that only in the third
century, when Christianity was more
corrupted, they began to be enrolled
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-06-17

1t is better for the general health OF a
community to have one goodSnaqlred
man in a neighborhood thaA four doc,
tors.-C Chicago, Ledger.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-06-17

To die is easy enough-but living!
There's the test. Anybody can die, but,
ah, the infinite difficulty of living-"Am-
ber'' in Chicago journal.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-06-17
Hard Times in the German Capital

An increase of more than II per cent.
in the pawnbroker's business is noted at
Berlin for last year over the year before.
Unless it can be shown that the popula-
ton has grown enough to account for
this increase, the report is an indication
of harder times for those who mostly de-
pend on temporary loans-workingmen
and small traders.-Inter Ocean.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-06-17
Law for tho protection of birds.

It is recalled by Forest and Stream that
the first effective law for the protection
of insectiverous birds was prepared BY
Henry William Herbert. The original
draft is still in tence.-Exchange.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-06-17
Oscillation of Bunker Hill Monument

Bunker Hill monument is 221 feet high,
built of solid granite, and every day it
osciIlates to and fro, as the heat OF the
sun expands the eastern or the western
side. Exchange.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-06-17

When you wish TO affirm anything,
YOU always call God 70 witness, because
He never contradicts you.-Queen Of
Ronnania
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-06-17

Against poison-so far as has been
hitherto ascertained-the elephant is
practically proof.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-06-17

A clear head and an honest heart are
worth more than all the law Of all the
lawyers.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-06-17

Arkansas mas a sJaUe agn0urJrai socI-
ETY. formed exclusively of colored men.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-06-17

Artificial ice is used on some Of the
English steamers.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-06-17
cold ana p1atInum Jeweiry.

The association Of gold and pihtLnlikn
is being made use of 10 produce new o.
fects in jewelry.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-06-17

The crescent moon shone dinnly above
the trees in the park. 1t was the chilly
hour before dawn. Shadows, many and
silent, glided about among the shrubs
and now and then ray of moonlight
shone upon pointed steel. The castle
stood black and silent; only two win
dows were lighted up ON the ground
floor. All at once a laundering voice
reared out:
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-02-25
Application for Patent.
Notice No. 1895.

Notice No. 1895.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. January IL, 1886.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
authorized Agent, Charles E.. Kitchener, of
Stockton, in Tooele county, Utah Territory, has
made application for a United States Patent for
the Homestead Lode mining claim, situate in
Utah Territory, consisting of 1,5O0 linear feet of
the lode, and surface ground 200 feet wide, being
Lot No SS, and described in the field notes and
plat OF the official survey on file in this office,
with magnetic variation at IL degrees east, as
follows: Commencing at the discovery point
grees 40 minutes 500 feet to the center of the
eastern end line of the claim and thence n IL
degrees 20 minutes E 100 feet to Post No. l;
thence IL degrees 20 minutes w 200 feet to
4s6.1 feet to Post No. 81 thence IS degrees 30
minutes w 10145 feet to Post No. A; thence n II
degrees 20 minutes 207.S feet to Post No. 5;
thence n S. degrees 80 minutes E 9S5.5 feet to
Post No. 6; thence S 70 degrees 40 minutes
513.9 feet to Post No. J. of the exterior boundary
lines of the surface ground of the said claim,
containing an area of 5.905 acres, inclusive of
conflicts with Lot 81 A, the Quandary No 2
claim, 0. 725 acres, and Lot 60 b. the Great Basin
claim, 1747 acres, and after excluding there
from the area in conflict with Lot 81, the Victo-
ria claim, 0975 acres.
From the discovery point U. s. NJ. NJ. No. 3
bears IS degrees 30 minutes w 200 feet distant.
The said mining claim being of record in the
office of the Recorder of said Mining District,
ut Stockton, in Tooele County, Utah. The near
est known location being the Victoria Mining
Claim.
l direct that this notice be published in the
published nearest the said mining claim, for
'''e p''-oN '' H. McMAsTER, Register.
BIRD & LOWE, Attorneys for Applicant.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-02-25
PATENT NOTICES.
Application for Patent.
Notice No. 1897
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE.

UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE.
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, January IL, 1886.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN THAT
~ Charles E. Kitchener, E. P Kitchener and
John T; Kelly. of Stockton, in Tooele County,
Utah Territory, have made application for a
United States Patent for the Contention Lode
mining claim, situate in Rush Valley Mining
District, Tooele county, Utah Territory consist,
ing of 1.454 linear feet of the lode and surface
ground 200 feet wide, being Lot No. 81, and de-
official survey on file in this Office, with mag
netic variation at II degrees east, as follows :
Commencing at the discovery point of the said
claim, and running thence S 70 degrees 3O4
feet to the center of the eastern end line of the
claim, and thence N 17degrees L 100 feet to Post
2; thence N73 degrees w 1,0SS feet to Post No. 81;
thence N So degrees IS minutes w 1866 feet to
Post No. 4; thence II degrees j. 200 feet to Post
No. 5; thence IS degrees IS minutes E 1874
feet to Post No. s; thence 70 degrees E ], 116
feet to Post No. 1 of the exterior boundary lines
ing an area of 5.223 acres, inclusive of conflict
with Lot SO, the Quandary claim, DOLL acres
and after excluding therefrom the areas in con-
fict with Lot 81, the Katherine claim, O514
acres; Lot "a, the Emerald claim, 0.021 acres,
and Lots 81 and &c. the Silver Queen and Gov
ernor Murray claims, 0.91S acres. From Post
No. of the said Contention claim U. S. NJ NJ
No. bears 81 degrees Is minutes W 1,5267
feet distant The said mining claim being of
record in the Office of the Recorder of said min
ing district, at Stockton, in ToOele County, Utah.
The nearest known locations being the Emer-
aid, Governor Murray, Katherine and Boston
No. g mining claims.
direct that this notice be published in the
SALT LAKE EVENING DEMOCRAT, the newspaper
published nearest the said mining claim. for
the period of sixty days.
H. McMAsTER, Register.
BIRD q LOWE, Attorneys for Applicants.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-02-25
Application for Patent.
Notice No. 1881


SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, January IL. 1886
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT
~ Charles E. Kitchener, E. P. Kitchener and
John ?. Kelly, of Stockton, in Tooele County,
Utah Territory, have made application for
United States Patent for the Shamrock Lode
mining claim, situate in Rush Valley Min
ing District, Tooele county, Utah Territory,
consisting of 1,250 linear feet of the lode and
surface ground 2c) feet wide, being Lot No So,
official survey on file in this office, with mag
netic variation at IL degrees east, as follows:
Commencing at the discovery point of the said
claim. and running thence 81 degrees "a min
utes 436 feet to the center OF the eastern
end line of the claim; and thence n Is degrees
30 minutes 100 feet to Post No. 1; thence IL
degrees S5 minutes w 200 feet to Post No. 2;
Post No. 3; thence IS degrees 80 minutes w
S34.3 feet to Post No. 4; thence n IL degrees %
minutes 210.4 feet to Post No. 5; thence n IS
degrees 80 minutes E 1927 feet to Post No s ;
thence S 81 degrees "a minutes E 6.35 feet to
Post No. of the exterior boundary lines of the
surface ground of the said claim, containing an
area of AL acres after excluding therefrom the
liz acres; with Lot 49, the Keystone claim 0.78
acres, and with Lot 63 A, the Great Basin claim,
006 acres. From Post No. U. S. NJ. NJ. No. 3
bears S % degrees so minutes w 200S.5 feet
distant. The said mining claim being of record
in the Office of the Recorder of said mining dis
trict, at Stockton, in Tooele County. Utah. The
nearest known locations being the Leonora,
Keystone and Great Basin mining claims.
direct that this notice be published in the
published nearest the said mining claim, for
the period of sixty days.
II. McMASTER. Register
BIRD & Lowe Attorneys for Applicants.