The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-01-19
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Interesting Paragraphs Clipped from the
Exchanges-Stray Bits of Information.
There is a proposition to cut a ship
canal across the instep of Italy's great
boot.
1t is asserted that New Years calls
have had their day in New York, and
that the custom is beyond resuscitation.
A kind of telephone which fixes the
spoken works on chemically prepared
paper has been produced by two young
electricians of Munich.
A Nevada ranchman, to protect his
cattle from the effects of blizzards, has
painted them all with mixture of tar,
red clay and linseed oil.
DIR. Gatling's new police gun, a seventy
eight FOUNDER, is warranted to kill 1000
rioters in five minutes Not much chance
for the innocent spectator" there.
During the last seven years more than
200, 900 acres in England have gone out
of cultivation. It means loss of $780,
100000 to the land owners and farmers.
Ascoast survey of iceland is to be made
by Denmark, at an expense of $50, 900.
Not much is yet accurately known of the
depths and channels of many of the
great bays and inlets.
A German family named Cleve recent
ly celebrated the 200th anniversary of
the date when one of their ancestors was
first selected as a postal clerk, place
that has been handed down in the family
SINCE
DIR. Gross, of Geneva, has lately ex-
perimented with himself In hanging.
His experiments established that the SEN
sations were only warmth and burning
in the head, without convulsions. Of
course his experiments didn't go very
far.
The shoe factories of Portland, Me-
have done So, 3,5S0,00 worth of business
the last year. the local factories contrib
uting 81, 1856. 900. The factories have
turned out 041, 900 pairs of ladies' shoes.
The factories employ AIT males and 35S
females.
For several years one Of the Nashville
penitentiary convicts has employed odd
moments in making q large frame for
cabinet photographs. 1t Is made of beau
tifully carved wood, and only with the
aid of pocketknife, and contains 30, 374
distinct pieces.
1t is estimated that pin factories In
New England turn out 10, 800, 900, 900
pins yearly, and that other factories in
the states bring the number up to 1S,
900, 100000 This is equal to about one
pin day for every inhabitant of the
United States.
A man who is said to look almost ex-
actly as Mozart did is making money in
London by exhibiting himself at fash
ionable parties and musical entertain
ments. He also appears in tableaux OF
the great musicians life. The man
charges $50 an evening.
The negroes of Baltimore are said to be
unusually thrifty, as rule, and there
are nineteen of them whose combined
wealth aggregates $S00,000. The richest
of them is Joseph Thomas, boss steve.
dore, who is worth $4,000. James L.
Bradford, a green grocer, is worth
$4,000.
A Minnesota newspaper reports one o1
the cleanest and quickest corn huskine
jobs on record. A prairie fire wen
| through six acres of corn in five min
utes, completely burning away ever,
| husk, leaving the corn ON the stalks clear
and bright, and in no way injured by th'
| fire OF smoke.
The seniors of the University O
Michigan held meeting the other even
| ing and resolved to adopt the cap ant
| gown, but at a subsequent meeting o
all the classes the resolution was re
scinded, the majority holding that sucl
a course would be too strongly sugges
tive of Anglomania.
Probably the best lookout point o
natural watch tower in the world
Caddo peak, in johnson County, Texas
1t is a beautiful truncated cone, risin,
800 feet above the level of the surround
ing country, and from the top of it, ol
clear day, one can see distance O
400 miles up the meandering Brazo
river.
Of the 1,4O8 students of Michigan
university, it is stated by presiden
Angel that the parents of 500 wer
farmers, III merchants, 93 lawyers, s
physicians, So manufacturers, "a me
chanics and 81 clergymen. He est
mates that as many as As per cent. be
longed to the class who gained thei
living by manual toll.