The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-02-09
uTEMs OF GENERAL INTEREST.
Stray Bits of Good Reading Clipped from
the Various Exchanges

Stray Bits of Good Reading Clipped from
the Various Exchanges.
Chambersburg, Pa, has fire COM
pany that was organized 10S years ago.
The most trying position truthful
clergyman can be i'll is to be preaching
the funeral sermon of a man who died
rich and mean.
A movement has been started for the
purchase of the early home of the poet
Whittier and its preservation as shrine
for patriotic Americans.
An English firm calls attention to its
admirable supply of sermons for melan-
choly occasions, which they retail for
seven pence each. Special sermons are
two and six head.
A New Orleans newspaper says that
the millions of pickaninnies seen around
the cotton fields of the south furnish a
complete refutation. of the theory that
the negro race in America is dying out.
An eighty ton fiat car, which is claimed
to be the largest ever made in this coun-
try, is being built in Paczerton, Pa, and
when finished will be used for hauling a
lot of machinery from New York to
Bethlehem.
An Orlando (Fla.) newspaper man has
substituted a pair of sand hill cranes for
watch dogs, and he finds that their loud,
clear note of warning when tramp or q
burglar comes near is an effective means
of protection,
Themanager of the automatic. machines
VIZ hIcl furnish v-ai,rhtc r..
paper, and other things to London
people, recently showed the police half q
ton of lead and zinc dies and thousands
Of pieces Of cardboard that had been
dropped into the machine instead of
pennies.
The two new victorias of the senators
from California are said to be the most
elegant carriages seen in Washington.
Senator Stanford's attracts the greater
attention for the reason that the COACH
man and footman are in deep mourning
and match the somber hue of the horses
and the harness.
The crown princess of Austria pre-
sented her husband, Prince Rudolf, with
a complete outfit of goemetrical instru-
ments as a New Years gift. The case
of walnut, inlaid with silver, which held
the instruments, also contained a pretty
letter from the princess trusting that
their lives would "henceforth be hap
pier"
California is proud of her record for
1887. Three hundred miles of new rail
road were laid, the assessed value of
property increased $132, 900, 900. the
wine and brandy product was large,
50,000,000 pounds of canned goods and
35, ,000,0 of green fruit were shipped,
and there never was such a year for
tourists
Among the gifts offered to the pope
on his birthday is continuance by a
French engineer, named Arragon, for
ringing large church bells by electricity.
A similar arrangement is, we believe, at
present at work in London church, the
apparatus having been designed and
erected by some of the students at the
Finsbury Technical college.
A Russian general has created a great
sensation in Europe by furnishing an
elaborate scheme for the construction of
a railway through Siberia to the Pacific
ocean. 1t is intended to go by the short
est possible cut from the Urals to the
Pacific ocean. The total cost of the road
| is estimated at $500, 900, 600, which. it
is believed, can be readily raised in Rus.
sia itself.
Ex-Governor Alger's great Michigan
pine forest is located at Block river, on
Lake Huron, near Alpena. 1t comprises
| 10000 acres, or over 100 square miles.
| The annual product of the forest is from
75, 600, 600 to 10000, 900 feet of lumber,
according to the state of the trade. There
are 500 men employed in the nine camps
in the forest.
| Hucksters are SO numerous in some
parts Of town that they are a serious an
noyance to housekeepers A lady in
| West Philadelphia, tired of their repeated
rings at her door bell, adopted a very
| shrewd means of getting rid of them.
| She notified every one who came to her
house that she would have him arrested
| for selling without license if he came
again. 1t was only a guess of hers as tO
the license, but the shot went home in
every case.
The wife of United States senator is
believed to have broken the Washington
visiting record. She made forty-eight
calls in one afternoon. Assuming that
she galloped the round of her social duties
| in four hours, she made twelve calls ar
hour, or one every five minutes. De-
Quoting the time taken in going from
house to house and estimating it at two
minutes, the average duration of a cal
would be about three minutes. Three
minutes. however, is sufficient for the re-
quirements of Washington friendship.