The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-05-03
PARAGRAPHS OF INTEREST.
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Dynamos are being run by windmills.
Three eighty-one ton guns by Krupp
hive been delivered at the Dardanelles.
There are 200 men in Cincinnati who
Gerry an aggregate life insurance of Sl0,-
Geo, 900.
A big oak tree was recently felled ia
Pike county, Missouri. Ii made 429
fence posts and cords of wood.
Translators of French works, are so
plenty that 500 now pays for the trans
lation of any new French novel,
A London dealer in orchids employs
sixteen collectors in South America,
Africa. Asia and the Pacific islands.
The class of 'S5 of Yale holds its trien-
nial this year, and has no boy to receive
the class cup. This is said to be unpre-
cedented.
People who make royal marriages have
already arranged one between the heir
of the Italian crown and the third
daughter of the German emperor.
The trousseau of the viscountesse
Rouge was so magnificent that it was
publicly exhibited in Paris. 1t is said to
be the most beautiful ever made.
On her trial trip the Roma Regcnte,
the new Spanish warship. which has just
left the hands of her English builders,
developed a speed of twenty -one knots.
Out in India it is 'the man or the
tiger" but the man got ahead of the
tiger last year. Hunters killed l.400
tigers, and tigers killed only 1000 men.
The Parisians are SO dissatisfied with
the weight of the English high hat that
their hatters have invented a silk hat
weighing little more than an ounce and
half.
During the first three months OF this
year ZOO more immigrants arrived at
New York than in the same time last
year. There were 2S,945 arrivals in
March.
1t is said that the best paid colored
woman in Georgia is the one who cooks
for the Capital City club of Atlanta. She
gets 81, 500 a year and has 81. 900 as
sistant.
A sugar refining company, with
S5,000,00 capital, has been started to
use Mr.. Henry Friends new method Of
refining by electricity. The cost wiz he
about seventy-five cents ton.
There is regular boom in sparring at
Harvard this year, and more smuggling
has been done than ever before. Fully
400 students are boxing regularly. and
some are very handy with their fists.
The bursting of creosote tank at the
freight yard of the Midland railway at
Carlisle, England, allowed quantity cf
the creosote to run into a small stream
which is tributary to the river Eden,
and it poisoned tons of fish, including
salmon and trout.
About $40, 900 year is received by an
officer of the British government for
pulp, mostly made out of over issues Of
public documents. To that extent the
public treasury saves something. but it
| might save good deal more by not
printing the tedious stuff in the first
place.
A mortgage for 800, 900, 900, which
has just been filed in the office of the
| register and recorder of Lycoming county
! by the Reading Railroad company. is a
ponderous document. 1t contains $780,
900 words, and it is estimated that it will
take one man about three months to
record it.
There is such demand for Maine
spruce gum that there are fears ex-
pressed that the trees are giving out. A
correspondent suggests that they may be
coaxed to give more If treated as the
| nf 1a
hack the bark with their hatchets, and in
due time the tree weeps gum.
| During a heavy thunder storm at Mil
ledgeville, Ca, the other day. n tlemen-
dously big frog came down with the rain
and struck the sidewalk with thud.
He lay motioniess for a moment, then
Topped over on his feet. and then, with
mighty bounds, jumped into a store and
upon the show cases, greatly frightening
several women there.
A small brass statue was discovered re-
Gently near the Acropolis museum, Ath-
ems. 1t is in perfect state of preserva-
ton, and the figure bears close rcseni-
blance to the Apollo of Canachos in the
British museum. This statue is the best
| specimen of Workmanship in brass that
has yet come TO light in the course of the
excavations at the Acropolis.
/ A Boston cheese dealer says that adui-
terated cheese, when fresh and well
made, cannot be distinguished from a
| good skim milk cheese. II is made
largely in western factories, and Is COM
posed of stearipe, oleo oil, cottnfseed
oil and skim milk. The cream il first
| extracted from the milk, and then il is
sought to return fats of a cheape, quail
ity. considerable quantity of rancid
butter is also used.