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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-04-05
A Foremen,s Association,

An organization just formed in Pitts
burg is called the Foremen association.
and consists of foremen from every large
industry in the city, from the iron mills
TO the paint shops. Its object is to secure
suitable reading room, library, gymna-
sium, and especially lecture hall,
"where new ideas, both theoretical and
practical, may be exchanged" TO secure
places for skilled workmen in all trades;
to inaugurate system of visits to the
principal shops and mills for the inter
change of suggestions and comment, and
for the general advancement of the inter
ests of the foremen themselves, of the
employers for whom they work, and the
men whom they direct. 1t is the inten-
ton to make the organization national
one-New York Sun.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-04-05
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.
Herr Strauss, the composer, is cleve,
hand with the pencil and delights in
making caricatures.

Herr Strauss, the composer, is cleves
hand with the pencil and delights in
making caricatures.
Baby King Alfonso XIII is suffering
from epilepsy, a hereditary disease in
his mothers family, the Hapsburgs.
Mr.. P. d. Armour, the Chicago mil
lionaire, has gone to Carlsbad, Germany,
for the benefit of his health. Before
leaving he gave each of the clerks in his
Office an order for new suit of clothes.
Orders were given on one tailor alone for
over $1,000, and there were smaller
orders on several others.
A Philadelphia servant has distin-
guished herself by an original sort of
private theatricals. While her mistress
was away shs attired herself in the best
dress of the lady of the house, made calls
upon strange ladies and invited them to
return her courtesy. When they called
she entertained them appropriately,
showed them over ths house and felt
provoked because her girl had gone out.
The farce continued for s,me time.
Prince William of Prussia. since his
accent removal from Potsdam to Berlin,
has ceased to be the holder of season
ticket ON that branch OF the railway. As
an economical s4pater f@Inilias, . he pre-
fevred to subscribe for a first class return
I'ticke. at reduction rather than to pay
the regular tariff rate, the company
courteously holding a first class car at
| his disposal. His wife, who has had far
less occasion to go to Berlin, never took a
communication ticket, but paid the regu-
lar fare as she went or came.
Famous men all have fixed notions
about certain remedies for diseases, or
about things one ought not to take as
remedial agents, Mr. James G. Blaine
is strongly set against Turkish baths. He
believes they are pernicious stirrers up of
| otherwise well ordered systems, and
openly declares that they are not good for
either man or beast. Col. Ingersoll pins
| his faith to bicarbonate of soda as cure
all. 81 declare, he said, when telling
what wonderful thing it is, Il wouldn't
like to sprinkle bicarbonate of soda on
the grave of an enemy. 1t is so efficient
l am afraid it would bring him up"
If Louisa M. Alcott had pet aversion,
it perhaps was the morbid, the introspec-
tive; her impatience with any literature
that encouraged the young, and especially
young girls, to ''peer and pry into the
state of their little spiritual insides," was
sometimes rather ''vitriolic," as George
Elliot would say, in its expression. She
pronounced the Wordsworth maxims,
'To look outward and not in" and ''to
lend hand" to be ''sound mental hy-
giene." Like all strong hearts she hon
ored strength in others, and sometimes
resented its opposite. Once I remarked
with some surprise on the evident enjoy
ment of an almost exclusively feminine
tea party by a gentleman of our acquaint-
ance, and l vividly recall the sudden
fash of her eyes, and smile, as she said !:
''Oh, yes; but he's not man; he's a
transmigrated pussy cat; it's his mission
in life to sit in corner and purr affably p
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-04-05
Pluck of Railroad Emnlores.

AT the recent fire at the transfer house
Of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad COM
pany in South Chicago all attempts TO re-
move the cars from the transfer house
had heen abandoned, when suddenly the
cry was raised that several cars III the
burning building contained gunpowder.
The crews of three transfer engines vol
unteered to attempt to remove the cars
from the blazing building, and three To-
comotives at once started toward il. The
engines coupled on, and in few seconds
all the cars had been removed. One car
contained gunpowder, but was success
fully drawn out, it being itself in blaze
at the time.-New York Sun.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-04-05
She Paid the Price.

Because Louisa NJ. Alcott received
about 100000 from the sales of her
books many hopeful and inexperienced
writer will imagine that literature is the
highway to fortune as well as fame
Let them remember one of Emerson g
nuggets OF wisdom. That is, that we
can take whatsoever we will if we but
pay the price. Miss Alcott paid the price
it was price few could pay. She
began teaching school and writing stories
when about 16, and although she loathed
the teaching she was forced to keep on at
it for fifteen years before her writings
produced an income sufficient to enable
her to depend entirely upon her pen for
support.-New York Press every Day
Talk"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-04-05
ALL sosrs OF ITEMS.
G,canin@s from the rtrcss Gathered by
the ssScissars aud ps,c', ssGitor.

G!canin~s from the rrcss Gathered by
the Scissors aud rss'c'' ssGifor.
lie Petit journal. of Paris, on orc eav
during The recent excitoinont printed
100000 copies.
The Municipal School of Art of Pr
mingham, one OF the greatest industrial
centers, shows great progress in technical
education.
The bell whichwas used at anderson
vile prison during war times is now in
possession of one of the Heys brothers OF
Americus, Ca, who values it highly as
wax relic.
1t iss singular fact that in Nebraska
there arc no legal holidays established by
statute, and in Minnesota Washingts IS
birthday is the only general holiday
provided by law.
DR.. Hammond is strongly opposed to
the substitution of elsctgicity for hang
ing, arguing that death by sttanguln on
with silk or cotton iope is painless ind
altogether rather agreeable sensation
An artificial limb maker said recently
tlsat ''after the war it was thought that
the wooden arm and leg business WAS 1T
al end, but the locomotive and laoor
sowing machinery have continued 10
|cteace aagiuentesi demands. -
The attempts to employ dogs in the
sentinel service have SO we'll s,icceeied
that it has been decided to extend them
to the whole army in the mount,lius of
Bosnia and Herzegovina. Consequently
the dogs are now being trained SO as to
| In, oh Ia fn ha IN, Ia.
maneuvers in the summer.
Senator Stanford's California ranch
contains $4,000 acres, and is probably
the largest in the country. Some 3, 500
acres are planted in graperines, and he
has wine cellar that holds 1000, 200
gallons. One bonded warehouse now
contains 10000 gallons of brandy made
on the senator's ranch last year.
In Nebraska. where glandered horses
are exterminated by order of the author
| tiles, the state pays the owner the value
of the animal. 1t is said quite profitable
business is carried on 10y parties who take
over the state line lots of diseased horses
from Dakota, Iowa and other localities
for the purpose of receiving the bounty.
Seaweed is coming extensively into use
for decorative purposes. 1t will be used
during the summer to ornament dresses
instead of flowers, and is already in use
for decorating dinner tables. IL can be
had in the natural color or delicately
tinted, and the effect is charming. lt
has also the advantage of never fading or
looking the worse for wear.
According to the latest accounts tho
Louisiana strawberry crop is the largest
ever grown. The west Tennessee straw
berry crop will be far below the average.
and so will that of Kentucky, southeast
Missouri and southern Illinois. The Ar
kansas crop will not be much over half
the regular yield Texas win not raise
more than enough for home use. Ala
bama viii not ship many TO northern
markets this season. The vegetable crop
in most of the southern states will be
large. Louisiana and Mississippi will
have fully double the output Of any for
mer year.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-04-05
Want to Chanre Their Color.

A few nights ago party of colored
swamps, in the southern part Of Georgia.
Zeke Mason, one of the party, while at
tempting to cut tree that coon was
supposed to occupy, cut deep cash in
his leg. His first act was to run to a
marshy, stagnant pool near by, and gath
sring handfuls of the Shiny mud, poulticed d
the wound, thereby obstructing the flow
of blood. The next day the wound had
healed, and the entire part of the leg OF
which the mud had been placed had
turned almost white. Colored people
from far and near are now making pill
grimages to the pool and daubing them
selves with mud in the hope OF becoming
white. te.-Cincinnat Enquirer.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-04-05
Rags Spreading Diseases.

The state board of health of Massachu-
sets reports, through DIR. Wilmington,
the spread of infectious diseases by means
of rags. Small pox is proved to
have been, In some cases, thus trans
mitted; and more frequently by domes-
tic than by foreign rags. Cholera, es-
pecially, has been traced to the same
source. There is evidence that cloth
ing from cholera patients, and, possibly,
clothing merely packed in an infected
locality, has, when transported to dis
tance, and there unpacked, caused the
disease, thus starting fresh cholera
focus.' Danger is also averred to exist
in the cases of phthisis, consumption and
other diseases; as the dust rising from
rags may convey to the lungs the germs
of such diseases. s.-Globe- Democrat.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-04-05

The quizzing glass is the newest whim
of the promenade. These articles, which
are simply pair of magnifying eye
glasses attached to a long handle, have
for year or two been in use at the
theatre instead of the ordinary opera
glasses. Their first valuable quality in
the eyes Of bellies was utility, for their
long handles enabled one to hold the
lenses to the eye without raising the arms
high enough to burst seam of tight
corsage or to tire dainty muscles. But
ornamentation since set in, and now the
handles are often made very valuable by
means of carved ivory, shell or pearl, or
a setting of gems.-New York Cor. Ar
| pOnaut -
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-04-05
Shin for Carrying OIL.

Another bulk oil carrying steamship,
named the Chester, built at Greenock.
has sailed for Philadelphia to load pc
troleum for the continent of Europe.
Some idea of the vessels size and capacity
can be CLEANED from the fact that she can
carry over 1000, 900 gallons as a cargo.
The new craft is $40 feet In length, 30
feet beam and 25 feet depth of hold, and
registers 2, s51 tons. About dozen SIM
liar vessels have already been built in
Europe especially for carry ing petroleum.
Chicago Herald.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-04-05
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housekeeping in London.

'sKeeping house in London" writes cor
respondent, sis accompanied with conditions
very different from American housekeeping.
It is the tenant, not The landlord, who pays
all taxes except the property taxi in Eng
land, and consequently the deluded Ameri-
can who thinks he has got such dear little
house so cheap is Mortified to lind at the end
of the quarter that he is in for vestry rates,
poor rates, inhabited house duty, water tax,
income tax, local charities and lords and
commons know what besides. These bring
the rent up to a figure he never dreamed of. u
Boston Transcript.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-04-05
A VoO,loo Orean.

In little one story frame dwelling in
St. Paul, lives one of the most peculiar
Of women. She is voodoo queen, and
is absolutely worshiped by many of the
colored people of st. Paul. She is about
IS years of age, as black as black can be,
with short, kinky hair, and deep set,
bloodshot eyes. She foretells the future,
cures all ills, and can tell the lucky num-
bers that will win at policy. She has q
peculiar song which she sings on Friday,
and wears several amulets. Her in
fluence over the colored people of the
city is said to be simply wonderful =
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-04-05
New Method of Weighing.

A novel scale has been invented. In
stead of weighing in pounds and ounces
it indicates the value Of articles weighed.
For example, if man buys butter at
thirty cents pounds, an indicator is
placed at thirty. This so adjusts the
scale that the lower indicator shows the
value of any weight of butter at that
price that is put ON the scales. The ma
chimes on this principle will be manu-
faetured to weigh up to tons.-Chicago
Times
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-04-05

A thoughtful patron of Uncle Sans
mail service, who complains that papers
and packages, when placed ON the top Of
letter boxes, are frequently blown away
by the wind and lost, suggests that a
| wire basket or like contrivance be af-
fixed to the posts as supplementary re-
ceptaclG.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-04-05

Illinois has never had a speaker of tho
house or president of the senate, snd no
speaker has ever lived west of the Nussis-
sippi. Rhode Island and Delaware,
among the eastern states, have never been
honored with the speakership, and
neither Louisiana nor Alabama has ever
had speaker. Boston Budget.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-04-05

To "shell'' the shell road at SC. Angus
tine, Fla, for one mile and half will
take $4,000 barrels Of oyster shells. A
tramway viii be built TO transport the
material from the sea to the road, and it
viii be delivered for ten cents a barred
New York Sun
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-04-05
Driven to Reii-ion by n Ohnst.

There is a. religious revival among tho
prisoners confined in the Birmingham
(Ala.) Jail which owes its existence to tho
superstition of the converts. The Jail is
filled with criminals of the worst class.
brought here by the wonderful stories
which have gone out concerning the
place. On the 22d of last December
George Williams, who had murdered
fellow convict, was executed in the Jail
yard, and the gallows, with the rope
hanging in the air, was left standing for
future use. The prisoners, 15e in num-
ber, crowded to their cell gratings to wit
ness the fral plunge of their friend
George. A. few nights later two or three
inmates happened to be looking out ut
the midnight moon and were Mortified to
see George again ascend the scaifold, ad-
just the rope to his neck and fan throu III
the trap with realistic effect. The
prisoners told their story as soon as they
recovered from their fright, and the next
night others witnessed the repetition Of
the dreadful spectacle. Since that time
the ghost has been nightly visitor, to The
terror of the inmates, who have gone to
psalm singing and praying. The iail
officials are not very anxious TO disabaaa
the minds of the believers in the ghost.
as it has the effect of making them more
peaceful. st. Louis Globe-Denocrat. 4
Il
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-04-05
Reward for Kiudncs-.

Several months ago the Prince Of
Wales was surprised by receiving from
the village of Brookline, Mass, superb
clock 1t was most beautiful piece of
workmanship, and it now adorns one Of
the rooms at Marlborough house. This
present came from an anonymous Amer
lean admirer. When the clock was re-
ceived at Marlborough house, in the pack
age was also letter, which said that the
gift was ''humble token of gratitude
for the princes kindness and courtesy in
picking up the cane of a cripple. The
prince has been very much exercised
over this peculiar present and epistle.
He has vainly sought TO recall TO mind
such an act as is described in the letter.
During the jubilee year there We're a
great many public ccremonials, and he
family recalls passing t. / n line of
spectators at one of the ceremonials last
spring and noticing a lame gentleman
who in his embarrassment in attempting
to get out of the way of the prince,
dropped his cane. OF course, the natural
thing for him was to pick it up, restore
it to its owner and pass on. The prince
has vainly sought to find out the name of
the giver of the present, so that he might
suitably acknowledge 1.-THE Argonaut.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-04-05
Things Are Not What They Seem.

This is a contradictory world. The forger
always appreciates the value of good name
Boston Gazette.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-23
stSmeIt Like a Bar-Rcoln."

The Young woman who determined
to shame her husband by taking to
tipping, says NcaJ8 State Gazette, be-
gan operations on Wednesday by
setting out an exceedingly vulgar, red
labeled bottle on the back parlor table
in the most transformations way. About
the hour her husband was expected
home she took q good gulp OF the
liquor, and when she heard what she
supposed to be his footsteps on the
stoop she drank another finger Of it,
and putting some more in her hand,
rubbed it over her lips. Then she fled
up to her room to wait for him. She
was intensely gratified by the conscious
ness that, as she expressed it, she
''smelt like a bar-room."
To her surprise the dOor-bell rang
and she went to the head OF the stairs
and peered over the rail to see who
had come in place of her husband. 1t
was her mother. her father, and q
cousin or two from the country. The
old lady spied her and there was a
nothing to do but to come straight
down and kiss and be kissed all round.
She was mortified, for her parents are
very straight-laced, pious folks, and
could not help but smell the gin with
which she had perfumed herself SO
literally. Worse still, while she was
assisting her father to rid himself of
his overcoat the rest of the party filed
solemnly into the presence of the red
labeled bottle in the back room. Moth
ing was said about the odor Of the bot
tie and she was too proud to try to ex-
plain what looked so badly for her.
She told her husband, however, and
he was so impOlite as to throw himself
on the bed in commissions of laughter.
She was SO angry that she threatened
to leave him. ''You can't" said the
monster; your folks would not receive
you. The most they would do would
be to put you in the inebriate asylum y
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-23
FARM NOTES.

In keeping your COWS healthy and see
ing that they have only clean and whole
some food and water, you serve double
purpose. Youno5 only improve your own
chances for profit, but you contribute TO
the promotion of public health by offer
ing only wholesome dairy products for
c0nsum ption.
The time for corn planting varies with
the latitude, a1d also depends muck upon
the weather. Whsn the days are mid and
tho ground warm, is a safe rule, wherever
that may be- Ill all localities. Three con
diLions are essential to the production Of
g paying crop Of corn, namely good
SEED, rich pliable soil aud through till
age.
There is always az uncertainty regard
ing the tenn perature for churniDg While
from go TO go is usually accepted as the
proper temperature, the milk Of some
cows produce cream that requires as high
as G79 to form butter. On each dairy
farm practical handling OF the milk only
can determine how best to churn for first
class butter.
WOrn-Out soils can be made. fertile If
first manfred and green crops grown
thereon and plowed under. IS may re-
quire two or thrse years to bring such a
soil 80 fertile condition; but 1t can be
done. Many mineral elements. such as
lime, soda, magnesia, potash, etc, can
easily be supplan.ed by the use eff arti-
fetal fertilizers.
Seed that is slow OF termination is often
overtaken by grass, the rows being com
pleteiy covered and destroyed. An ex-
celienb method of marking the rows so as
10 define them, in order to work them
with the hoe, is TO drop few radish seed
1t intervals of about one foot. AS the
radish soon comes up, the rows may be
worked and the radish afterwward pulled
out.
If hogs are given a variety of green
food, with but little grain, in summer,
they will keep ia excellent health and be
in proper condition for fattenipg in the
fall. Less food is required now, and it is
not beneficial to have the hogs fat at this
season, except to be in good condition, as
many diseases are due TO the system of
heavy grain feeding during warm wealth
er.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-23
ErieI fening Children.

The influence that is brought 10 bear
upon child during the first decade OF
lis life will have decided effect in deter
mining his power of self control in later
years. Il is in the home more than in
any other place that this influence must
first be exercised, and upon nurses, gov
ernesses and parents devolves this most
important duty, a responsibility which,
considered in its true light, becomes a
privilege and a sacred trust. child
cannot understand the ''why and where
fore" Of many things which TO an adult
are perfectly plain ana Ineligible. He
is timid and naturally shrlnks from
sights aud sounds which, TO him, are
strange and unaccountable. To in any
way brighten a child is not only Thought
lees and cruel, but the act itself may be
followed by serious results. For one TO
say NO harm was intended, and that it
was only in fun, is nc excuse. II is of
some of the ways in which this abuse is
sometimes offered, and their consequent
atten dant evils, that I wish to speak.
There are some people who seem to
take a morbid satisfaction in frightening
young children by suddenly appearing
before them with the face hidden by a
mask or the entire body covered with a
sheet, az the same time uttering loud and
unnatural sounds, and gesticulatiLg in a
wild and frantic manner. Occasionally
we ind person who is SO regardless of
possible accidents as not to hesitate to
point at a child a gun Or pistol, and feign
to strike with a knife or Ratchet. The
setting of a strange dog upon one who
already shows signs of terror at the CON
| Of M of ia nj mai "a eft as
followed by unexpected and painful re-
suits. For little acts of disobedience,
children are sometimes shut up IN dark
closet or temporarily confined in the attic
or cellar. At other times they are told
great stories Of ghosts and threatened
that, if they do not behave, they will be
sold to the rag picker. or that wander
ing gypsies will steal them and carry
them away.
These and other such frightful appari-
tions are relics Of barbarian and super
stition, which should have no place in the
Christian light and intelligence of this
nineteenth century. And not only this
such scenes, stories and threats are gross
ly decent and deliberate falsehoods, the
nature of which the child will some day
| understand, and he will be very likely tc
form just estimate of the moral char
aoter OF those in whose confidence and
honesty he firmly believed It is also to
be remembered that it is possible that g
child may be so often frig htened in one
way or another as to eventually weaken
his character, and even sometimes produce
a deplocable state of mental imbecility
and there are many cases on record where
child has been SO frightened as to cause
insensabilty, convulsions and DEATH
| David n. Patterson, NJ. D., in Good
| Housekeeping.