The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-09-16

think of marrying, ana for TINS reason
that can never be satisfied with an,
one who would be fool enough to hav,
me-
Still, it was not long after this that h,
was engaged to Miss Mary Todd, well
educated, rosy brunette of Lexington
KY, who was visiting at Springfield
where Lincoln was a member of the Hi
nois legislature. Both Lincoln and
Stephen A. Douglas proposed to her
She refused Douglas and accepted Lin
coin. Lincoln became suddenly i'll, and
it was more than year before the mar
riage was contaminated. 1t took place
finally in Springfield, and the couple be
gan their married life by boarding at
the Globe hotel at 81 a week. Lincoln
was 80 years old at this time, and Mary
Todd was 21.-Frank c. Carpenter in
Lippincott's Magazine.
Forests in the Planet Mrs.
A French philosopher, NJ. Maurice Les
piault, who ranks high among astrono-
ners, has lately preached the theory that
.he people of the planet Mars, having
been put to discomfort by the want of
regular rains, have undertaken the af-
foresting of their globe on an extensive
scale. Every one is familiar with the
broad bands which seam the surface of
Mars, and which it has been the fashion
to consider canals. In Proctor's map
the name of seas has been given to these
canals. One is marked Phillips sea, an
other Beer sea, another Tycho sea, an
other Schroter sea. and SO ON.
But N. Lespiault, who has studied
Mars through telescopes more powerful
than his predecessors used, concludes,
first, that the mathematical regularity of
the idea that they are natural phenom-
ena; and he rejects as absurd the notion
that the people of that planet can have
constructed canals over 1000 miles long
and over fifty miles wide. He thinks it
more likely that the Martians, who in
habit much colder world than this, cut
down all their standing wood for fuel,
that droughts ensued, and that to obvi-
ate universal starvation the emperor or
grand tycoon or president of the Marian
realm compelled the people to plant lines
of forest trees extending quite round
their globe, and spreading from thirty to
sixty miles in width. 1t is these forests
in his notion, which we have denom-
mated canals.-San Francisco Chronicle.
Numerous Mineral Springs in Russia
1t is not generally known that there
exists in the region of the Transbaikal q
multitude of mineral springs, the waters
of which are said to possess many medic
inal qualities salutary in the treatment
of various diseases. 1t is to be desired
that these waters were properly analysed
and made known to the world, if the
report upon them at all agree
with the popular local belief in their
efficacy.
The only points where any prepare
lions are made for visitors are at Daras-
Ourisk and Tourkinsk. But even here
the accommodation falls far short of the
luxurious, and is supplied by person
who rents the two nearest springs from
the government. 1t most of the other
springs visitors are obliged to lodge in
the huts of the natives. Visitors are
sufficiently numerous in the summer,
and have been SO for many years, but
they do not come from great distances,
FOR the reputation of the waters, though
well established among the people, has
not yet spread to the great world. There
ire no doctors and few comforts. The
natives use the waters, not only for
but for their cattle. Thou
sands of sheep, oxen, and horses, suffer
ng from cutaneous maladies, are
brought to certain of these wells every
Ipring; the custom is an immemorial |
ne.-Chicago Times.