The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-01-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


All Sorts of Notes and Paragraphs Scis.
sored from the Daily Newspapers.
The fund for developing the Niagara
falls now amounts to very near 500, 900.
A memorial to Helen Hunt jackson
viii be the Ramona Indian Girls school
at Santa Fe, N. NJ. The building will
cost 100000 and will accommodate $50
pupils.
Partisan dandies have tired of the gold
knobbed canes, crutch canes and canes
with ducks beaks that have been the
rage, and are carrying thick stick with
| the claw of a craytish for handle.
A lady in Virginia has a hive of bees
that go to neighbering distillery and
get tipsy. This is a sad revelation for the
moralist who is fond of holding up the
bee as q bright and shining model of
thrift, sobriety and industry.
By the gift of the wife of President
Diaz, of Mexico. an endowed creche. or
| day home for infants, whose mothers can
leave their children when going from
home for their work until nightfall, has
been established in the capital.
A very large body of people in this
country say practically, though not in
words, for such principles are not forinu-
lated by those who follow them: ITO
economize closely is beneath us. Wedo
not went to I've cheaply;; we want TO
hive well. "
By the failure of the queen to sign the
patent comforting an earldom on Lord
| Lyons before that statesman's death, the
inheritors of his fortune were saved from
paying some very heavy fees, which
would have resulted had the creation been
completed.
English etiquette has decided that un-
married ladies should never use a crest
on anything-note paper, servants but
tons, brushes or any other article. 1t is
usually found that the people best enti-
| tied to crests and coats of arms make the
least use and display of them.
An important feature of the Swiss
alcohol act recently passed, giving the
government control of all alcoholic drinks
sold in that country, is that 10 per cent.
of the net revenue which the cantons
will gain from the alcohol tax is to be
spent in unfolding to the people the effects
of alcohol.
| The fire in a stove in an office in Ply
mouth, Mass, getting low, man poured
On lot of kerosene oil. There was heat
enough to generate gas, which filed the
chimney, and with the air formed an ex-
plosive mixture, which of course exploded
with tremendous bang, blowing the
| chimney into smithereens, but doing no
damage i'll the office.
A correspondent recently saw in the
library of Mrs. Augusta Evans Wilson
the original manuscript of her novel,
''Vashti." 1t was entirely in her hand
writing and was as clear and neat as a
freshly printed page. This is the manu-
script for which Mrs. Wilson received
e15, 600, and it is kept carefully preserved
in case of heavy leather.
The Jew is found in every part of the
world; in Europe, from Norway to Glib
raltar; in Africa, from AIgiers to the
Cape of Good Hope; in Asia, from Cochin
to the Caucasus, from Jaffa to Pekin.
He has peopled Australia and has given
proofs of his powers of acclimatization
under the tropics, where people of
European origin have constantly failed
70 perpetuate themselves.
Recent experiments with the Norden-
feldt submerged torpedo beat were highly
successful. AT night she approached a
boat that was expecting her to within
400 yards, the agreed distance, without
being noticed. Then she dived and rose
within 100 yards Of the ship with snort
like whale and then disappeared. She
was regarded as a great success.
| Naugatuck Coma Congregationalists
are building parish house, modern
idea, worthy of imitation. 1t will have
twenty-four rooms, besides hall, cloaI
rooms and closets. The first floor has an
assembly room, reception room, Sunday
school library and seven class rooms; the
second floor eight class rooms, reading
rooms, kitchen and dining rooms, third
floor for pastors study and a agymnasium