The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-09-13
STRAY NEWSPAPER ITEMS.

1t is announced that there VIII be an
other Passion Play" at Ober-Ammergau
in 1890.
Of the 5000, 900 francs worth Of china
made last year at Limoges, one half came
to America.
Engines of 10000 horse power have
heen ordered for the new cruiser Blake,
at cost of e140,000.
1t is said that barely half dozen wa
teIing place hotels thus far have met
their expenses.
The reports of extravaganza and show
at our watering places are not SO loud
nor so numerous as usual.
The daily opening of the churches is
being advocated heartily by Lord Car
narvon and the bishop Of Cambridge.
Partisan swells steadily give way to
English fashions. They now wear the
regular short white tie for evening dress,
instead Of their former black butter
flies.
A newspaper in Constantinople SAYS
that 212 Christians and Jews have be-
come Mohammedan during the past year,
larger number than those who have
abandoned Mohammedanism for other
religions.
A Michigan peddler who sold goods ON
the cars, first singing comic song to
attract attention and please his Gus
toners, dropped dead in train a few
days ago. He is believed to have left a
fortune Of $500, 900, accumulated in this
manner.
Germany is doing considerable foreign
missionary work nowadays. It has
eighteen societies and supports 500 mis-
sionaries, who look after their 210,O00
converts. Last year the total receipts in
money were over 100000.
Three Chinese pheasants attacked a.
year-old boy near Vinegar Springs, Ore,
a short time ago, and fought him SO hard
that he dropped sack of wheat he was
carrying and fed for safety. When tho
neighbors went to the spot the wheat
and birds had both vanished. i,
An Australian football club has ar
ranged with an accident insurance COM
pany to pay any of its members who are
disabled while playing the game 30s.
per week as long as they remain on the
sick list, and e200 to the relatives if the
injuries received in the football field
should terminate fatally.
The great white marble palace which
Wilbur F. Storey, of Chicago, built, and
which is one of the features Of that city,
is again offered for sale. Although still
unfinished, more than 5000, 900 has been
spent on it, while it is doubtful if one
quarter of that amount will be offered by
purchaser.
Bolivia, which has an area of 500, 900
square miles and population of 2,000,-
600, is without single Protestant mis-
sionary. Two American teachers, en-
couraged by Bolivian gentlemen and
recommended by the Presbyterian board
Of missions, expect soon to establish a
school In La Paz, the capital.
An Englishman who was playing bill
Gards in public house in Bromley made
bet that he could get one of the ivory
balls into his mouth. He did get it in,
and there it stuck, in spite of all his
efforts to dislodge it. The surgeon who
was called in extracted the lump Of ivory,
but only after taking out several of the
s'experimentalist's front teeth.
At Spezzia, Italy, the whole Italian
fleet is to assemble for two months ex-
ercise. One of the items of the pro-
gramme is to show the facility with
which large force can be disembarked,
fully equipped for attack, and English
alarmists predict that it will show how
easily England could be invaded before
defensive force could be gathered a,
any point.
A monument to the memory of En-.
peror William will be erected by the in.
habitants of the upper Fichtel mount
aims on peak rising nearly 4, 900 feet
above the level of the sea. The spo,
affords on one side view Of the Saxor
lowlands, on the other that Of the Bo
hemian forest, with the Keiberg Gloss
by and the spires Of Carlsbad in the dis
tance.
A Bridgeport paper says that a cal
was caught by locomotive the othel
day and cut In two by wheel, which
passed over the body back of the shoul
ders. ''After the locomotive had passed, >
says the paper, "the forward parts of th'
cats body dragged themselves to thu
home yard, two or three rods distant
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