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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-07-12
A FLOATING Vegetable Garden.

The Orlando (Fla.) Reporter tells Of .
vegetable garden owned by Lucius Mer-
ritt on floating island in Lake Apopks,
in which there are tomato vines with
sixteen feet of spread, one of which
yielded three pecks Of splendid tomatoes
at one picking. Cucumbers foot and q
half long and onions as big as sancers
are among the productions of this won-
derful island, which is about three acres
in extent. 1t is managed as a raft, and
it is said that when the Apopka steamer
is late and likely to give the island the go
by, Mr.. Merritt poles his garden up to it.
Chicago Herald.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-07-12
Niarara Susnensinn Bridre.

This Niagara railway suspension bridge
has been SO long in successful operation
that it is difficult now to appreciate the
general disbelief in the possibility of its
success as railway bridge when it was
undertaken. 1t was projected and exc
cuted by the late John A. Robeling.
Before it was finished Robert Stephenson
said to him; 'Tf your bridge succeeds,
mine the Victoria tubular bridge at
MontreaD is a magnificent blunder. :"
Tho Niagara bridge did succeed.
Pogart in Scribncr's Magazine.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-07-12
The Patients Explanation.

Book learning is good; but natural
quickness and ingenuity will sometimes
take its place, at a pinch.
"Why, how is this, my dear sir9" in
quired the doctor; "you sent me letter
stating that you had been attacked by
smallpox, and I find you suffering from
rheumatism,"
"Well, you see, doctor, it's like this, -
said the patient; 'there wasn't soul in
the house that knew how to spell rheu-
matism. m."-Medical and Surgical Re-
porter. .-~.s-- ,~rvsgs 9. s ;...i 10 :. ..s'''
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-07-12

Tie spring races have occupied the at
tention of the capitals upper and lower
circles for the past three days, and the
sports and fashion models have paraded
the lawn before the grand stand as they
might at any race course in western
countries. Pool tickets made and lost
dollars for the investors, and Jockeys
were accused of all the tricks they can
ever play. Horse racing was a favorite
sport of the daimios in ancient days, and
the modern japanese takes most readily
to the foreign methods of starting, tim
ing handicapping and pool selling. The
Uyeno race course is one of the most
beautiful tracks in the way of its land
scape setting, the course describing a
great oval in a hollow between two hilly
ridges, and the middle space being occu-
pied by 6, lotus pond. The young leaves
are just thrusting up their first shallow
blue green saucers, but in August the
pond shows acres and acres of enormous
leaves, starred with pink or white bios
SONS. A few weeks ago the cherry
trees lining the track were masses
of pink bloom, and if the races could
have been held then it would have been
a most aesthetic festival. By the enthu-
siasm manifested by some of the ticket
holders, it is possible that neither stately
lotus nor the fairy like cherry blossoms
could draw much attention while the
scrubby little China and IIokkaido ponies
were flying round the course with diinin-
utive Japanese jockeys clinging to their
backs.
A feature of one days entertainment
was the riding of six japanese ladies,
and natives and foreigners were equally
interested in the.spectacle. Toxic is moi
behind other modern cities in rage fol
riding schools, and in addition to the
number of army officers and men whe
learned the foreign style abroad, every
official or well-to-do citizen now aspires
to lessons in equestrianism. There is q
flourishing riding school near Shibs
| Park, and number of Japanese ladie:
belong to the classes. They wear the
foreign riding dress, and look well il
the Amazonian habit, although French
tailor would groan at the outlines oi
their figures, that are largest at the
waist, have no hips and the most slop
| ing shoulders. The six Amazons whC
bounced in the saddle around the UyenC
race course the other afternoon mounted
in the paddock, and the mounting wa
unique. The bettos, or grooms, claspet
their hands together like cradle, thu
Amazons stepped on with both feet, ant
the betto slowly raised them straight VI
in the air until they reached the level o
the saddle The feat was entirely tn
bettos, and the man who holds the 100
pound dumb bell or plays with cannon
balls hardly equals them.-Tokio Cor
| Globe-Democrat.
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Pa T IN = S

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chose remote from WASHINGTON.
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We refer, hero, to the Postmaster, the
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cials of tho U. :. Patent Oiiioe. For Circu-
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A French electrician says he will soon
be able to produce thunder storm when
ever demanded and in the district desired,
and the cost won't exceed S..
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-09-01
\ Mans Part in Good Housekesp.
ing.
From Good HOUSEKEEPING.

4 man should first of all help his wife
IN planning her work. Let every hus-
band give his wife the benefit of his
practical business experience, and adj
wise with her how she NAV best arrange
and time her several duties that they
may least conflict.
In the second place, the husband
should give the wife the full amount of
money necessary properly to care for
the home.
Third. he should see that she has the
best tools that can be had to tighten her
labor.
Fourth, he should by every possible
means shorten her hours of labor. If
he finds that she is obliged to work
earlier and later than he, then he
such assistance as viii make their work
ing hours equal.
Fifth. realizing that for her labor she
receives no direct compensation, he
should at the least, be careful 10 give
continually that reward Of cordial
praise, which costs him nothing and so
much pleases her.
Finally, the man must recognize tha
many OF the domestic duties are essen
TALLY proper to him, and not TO the wo-
man such are ali that require great
physical eXertlon. Therefore, not only
should proper implements be generous
ly furnished for the woman's use, but
all the materials she mus. Use should be
provided and made easily accessible.
Plenty Of coal, wood and kindling
should be kept near the place where
they are to be burned, water should be
supplied so as to be handy and album
dant, plenty Of hooks, shelves, closets,
etc, should be arranged TO the best ad-
vantage.
At house-cleaning time the man
should either move or get moved the
heavier articles of furniture; he should
attend TO the cleaning and putting down
OF carpets, the setting up of stoves, and
the like; in word he should assume
the responsibility for all the heavier
and more disagreeable duties connected
with good housekeeping, and be willing,
on OccuslOn, 10 take a hand in those
which are lighter.
But if he won't do these things that
he ought to do, let him, at the least,
have grace enough to keep out Of the
woman's way while she Is doing them
for him, and refrain when they are
done, from rewarding his over-worked
help-mate with cross and complaining
EpppPh
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-09-01
About Mothers-in-Law.
From the san Francisco Chronicle

From the san Francisco Chronicle.
OF course YOU don't always find them
like this. Mothers-ln-law have bad
reputation. 1t is not deserved, per
haps. / don't know; | never had one,
bat somehow like Sol Smith Russell's
advice:
My bow, when you marry, marry ain
orphan, or some girl whose mother isn't
very well.
II is rather curious that a fair Young
girl, full of healthiul affection and SYM
patty and all that soit of thing, should
grow up 10 be a tyrnlzIng old mother
in-law. 1t does not seem natural, butit
1t weren't so would everybody have such
a decided opinion about them! Is ii
that d woman when she gets married
finds herself so domineeTed over by a
man that her only revenge Is to take II
out of the man who marrIes her daugh-
ter? Are daughters after all only kind
of bait 10 catch a man that a mother-in-
law can get even upon ! suppose that
is one Of the conundrums the all-wise
Creator has put into life to give US some
thing to guess. Ifevervthing were quite
clear and plain, what would We do half
the time for the employment Of
our alleged minds However, this
is a kind OF mother-in-law
VINO aDSOuIJeiN uepllNes ulalflmonN OF
all its sting. She had come out TO visit
her daughter, happily married and liv-
ingin coy little fiat surrounded with
every comfort. The husband has a
comfortable business and large store
of affection and devotion. Frequently
as Is not uncommon, the wife Will say:
Il wish | had house on Mob Hill; or,
II wish l could 60 10 Europe;
and the husband. 10 beiitlle
ner shemes, generally puts in, Il
wish | had 81" One evening at
dinner the frequent little episode
happened. The wife wished for some
thing very improbable and the hus-
band said seriously. Il wish / had 81
The Inother-in law grew fdgetty and
anxious until the husband got up from
the Ia bic and left the room. She fol-
lowed him hastily and stopping him in
the hall said, with hesitation:
L didn't know-I'm so sorry-but-
David can let you have 81 or more"
The family are Disguised TO think that
their mother has go little sense of
humoI, and they talk Of sending her
home.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-09-01
The Breath,
From the Youth 5 Companion

FROM the 10Qtl : ION p6DlOn.
In the night of June 20, 1856, the In
dian nabob, Surajah Dowlah, having
captured the garrison of the English
port Of Calcutta, confined all his prs
oners. l46 in number. in a cell scarcely
twenty feet square, with but two small
windows, and these partially obstructed.
Only twentv-three survived the hOr
rors of the BLACK Hole" until morn
ing, and even these soon came down
with malignant disease, char acteriZed
by violent eruptions on the surface OF
the body.
Doubtless many of the imprisoned
garrison persisted in the fearful strug-
gle 10 get breath of fresh air at the
openings. Most of those who have
written on the subjec1 have inferred
that the carbonic acid expired from the
lungs, was the chief cause of their
deaths; but the condition in which the
survivors were left, led some eminent
experts, at a later period, to believe
that the deadly poison in the case was
contained in the exhalalions rom the
skin.
Recently two distinguished French
physicians, Brown-Sequard and DAT
sonval, have been experimenting, and
have obtained results which are thought
to prove that expired air contains an
other poison, additional to those Of car
bonic acid and ammonia, to which
mainly the dangerous nature of expired
air must be referred. The exact nature
of this poison has not vet been ascer-
tanned, but the experiments can not be
due either TO carbonic acid or TO
ammonia
By passing expired air, whether of
human beings or Of animals, through
water, a solution was obtained which,
injected into the veins Of animals, inva-
riablv gave rise to the same symptoms
"a slower breath, a rapid lowering of
the temperature, a considerable para
lytic weakness, especially of the hinder
limbs, and, after three or four DAYS, a
morbid activity of the heart.
Larger injections induced excessive
contraction OF the pupils, increased par
alysis, and a dIarrhea, something like
that of cholera. The eminent surgeons
who conducted these experiments are
disposed to regard pulmonary consump-
ton as largely due TO this poison. IF
future experiments should establish
this view, ii must greatly emphasize the
supreme Importance of thorough yentl-
latIOn in our homes and churches and all
places for public gatherings.
OF course, persons differ IN susceptI-
bIllty 20 all morbid influences. The
vigorous, who comply with the laws of
lie, may eliminate them when taken
into the system: but those of low vital
ity, whether hereditary or acquired,
may readily become victims.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-09-01
Russell Sage's Rustic Friend.
From the New York Telegram.

\ dozen or more railroad magnstes,
stock spectators and bankers We're
waiting in the outer room for admission
10 Russell Sage's private Office the other
day, when a venerable man--one OK the
farmers who are said to have havseed in
their hair-entered and said.
Where's Russ [ want to see him -
Please wait awhile, F." said the office
boy. ''All these gentlemen are ahead
of YOU"
The farmer took a chair and remarked:
" Well, l suppose I'll have to wait for
my turn"
Just then Mr.. Sage rushed out from
his private office and greeted the rural
repre- sentative with:
How are YOU, old boy? I'm right
glad 10 see you. Come into my rOoui
and we'll have good long talk about old
times"
The two men disappeared and were
together inside for fully an hour, while
the railroad magnates, stock SPECTATORS
and bankers impauently awaited an
audience.
After the farmer had departed a rail-
road man asked Mr.. Sage:
who Is the old fellow who has been
occupying an hour Of your valuable
time ~
He's a Rensselaer, County man was
Mr.. SaEe's reply; and | think great
dea. Of him, because sixty wears ago.
when We we're bows, We had games of
three old cat and tag with the young
sters IN the playground of the little old
fashioned school house where I learned
nv 4 Is abs -
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-09-01

er goes away and you'll see him helping
to get the vessel under way-bat you'll
hardly know him again, for he'll have on
old patched duck trousers. thick blue
SHIRT and tarpaulln hat and mebbe he'll
be barefooted, too"
Who Is he, and what is his name p
None OF Us know, and, as he seems not
to Want us to, we don't bother him.
Were not so anxious TO overhaul stran-
gers logs as YOU printin chaps. He's
been out with u two or three times.
and must have good locker some
where's, for | tell you the crews hive
high when he's aboard-lots of cigars,
wine. and nice grocery things.
why do | think he amuses himself
so? Well, now, friend, | don't think
it's matter of amusement, | think
it's kind of reverence he gives the
dead. You see he has told rs that he
was a fisherman a good while ago on
| the coast of Scotland; that his craft
| was capsized in gale, his three broth
ers were drowned and be was picked
| up by a sailing vessel and brought to
| this country, where he has since stayed.
Well, two or three times during the
cruise, at sunset, when We are on the
| fishing grounds, he'll 60 for'ard and
look way Oft to the eastward for a long
time, then like a man talks In his sleep,
he Il say, oh il such a sad way: Don
aid Sandy. Jamie -lads-where be We;
where be ye?'' Afterward he'll kneel,
cover hls face with his hands and sob
in such way that makes the boys swal-
low terbaccer juice without knowing
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-09-01
Thoughts Worth Rememberipo

Books are guide in youth. and an
entertainment for age. They gnnnort
Us under solitude, and keep us from
becoming burden to ourselves. They
help US TO forget the crossness of men
and things, compose our cares and our
passions and lay our disappointments
asleep. " hen we are weary of the liv-
Ing we may repair to the dead, who
have nothing Of peevishness, pride or
design IN their nversation-Jersny
Cutler.
Men want arguments TO reconcile
their minds 10 what Is done, as well as
motives originally 10 act right.-BurEe
An extrayagant man, who fas nothing
else to recommend him but false gem
crosby, Is often more beloved than a
person OF much NOR, inished charac-
ter, who Is defective In this particular.
ADDISON
Men talk as if they believed in God
but they live az ifthey thought there was
none; their VOWS and promises IRE no
more than words OF course. Il Is
TRANCE.
| fancy the proper means of increas-
ing the love We bear our native country
Is TO reside some time IN foreign one.
-SheHst0Ite.
There is an indissolublc union be-
tween nagnanimous policy and the
solid rewards of public prosperity and
felicity IIdSbiHgtoR
The rage of people is like that of the
sea, which once breaking bounds over
flows country with that suddenness
and violence as leaves no hopes of fiy-
ing.-,Su ", Temple
Every attempt to make others hap
py, every sin left behind, every temp
Iation trampled under foot, every step
forward IN the cause of what is good. IS a
step nearer to Heaven.-Deap Stanley.
he that does as well in private be-
tween God and his own soul, as in
public, has given himself testimony
that his purposes are full of honesty
nObleness and ntegIity.-Jeremg Idy-
L0r
Truth is a stronghold, fortified by God
and nature, and diligence is properly
the understanding laying siege to it; so
that II must be perpetually observing
all the avenues and passes TO it and ac-
cordlngly making its approaches
South.
Mere innocent amusement IS in itself
good, when 1t lnterferes with no great
Ell, especially as it may occupy the place
of some other that NAV not be innocent.
The Eastern monarch who proclaimed
reward TO him who should discover a
new pleasure would have deserved well
of mankind had he stipulated that 1t
should be biameless.- WhateJy.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-09-01
Crowland Abbey.

An appeal, II Is stated, viii be made
for subscriptions IN aid Of preserving
Crowland, o. CroyIand Abbev-''Well
known as a national monument from
becoming a total ruin, saws the English
Builder. The beautiful relic stands
over st. Guthlac's tomb, in South Hol-
land. Lincolnshire, southeast of Deep
ing Fer, on the right bank of Welland
locally known as the Wash and by
the borders OF Cambridgeshire and
Northamptonshire. In the midst of the
then well-nigh impossible marshes, aud
not many years after the landing of 81.
Augustine at Ebbes Fleet, in the Isle of
Thanet, hermitage was set up here by
Guthlac, a scion Of the line MerCian
kings. This. in 10, temp. Ethelbald,
overload OF Mercia, was replaced by
BenedIctne monastery, which, raised
upon piles of ash and oak. the Danes
pillaged and burned In $50. together
with Medehamstead Peterborough
Ely Thorney, and Soham. Rebuilt by
fdrhead, or rather -Ethelrhead H.,
was again sacked and destroyed by the
subjugation of Mercia and East Engh bv
knut In 1II2 the Abbott Jofferhaed
established the monastery on a scale
il had never reached before. At the
dissolution its estates and manors were
assessed as worth, teste Dugdale, g.
OS3 15s, led. year. The site was then
made over to Edward Lord Clinton. The
present church OF IS. Bartholomew and
Guthlac, having tower, nave, and chan
eel, was forAed out Of the abbey.
Some years ago the late Sir George Gil
bert Scott directed a reconstruction of a
portion of the old Western front. The
learned Ingulphus (l030-ll09) was
abbott of Croy land and in this parish
its population now about 5000 was
founded. soon after the conquest and
before the close of the eleventh century,
the earliest school of any Importance
for the young in England.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-09-01
An Old Traveller in Jesusalem.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.


when | was Young man" said
PIttsburg iron manufacturer yesterday,
Il travelled very extensively with two
or three others. We visited every con-
tinent on the globe, and spent five
months in the Holy Land.
Jerusalem WIS Just such city then
that it is now. Its Inhabitants we're dis
reputable and dirty, and always on the
lookout to teat traveller either by fair
or foul means. The walls Of the ancient
city had crumbled and lis only decent
street was the Via DolorosB, over which
Jesus passed on the way 10 Calvary
But W hat wish 10 say is that | don't be-
iieve a skeptic ever visited the
place In which Christ lived but
that he came away thoroughly
convinced of his divinity. There
is the doorstep on which he sat for a
moment 10 rest under the burden Of the
cross, and if have gone over the road
To Calvary once while | was there, | am
sure l have walked ii twenty times.
Such flood of feeling invariably took
possession Of me that il IL useless to try
TO describe it, but ! know my visit
there changed the course Of my living.
Ii led me to think differently.
Il went down into the Holy Sepul~
cher thoroughly skeptical, but with the
rest of nv companions, none of us the
most reverent of mortals, found my
self involuntarily kneeling, and / kissed
the stone Ifanv man had told me before
that | would have performed this oscul-
atorv act, IL all probability l should have
laughed in his face. While / remained
in Jerusalem | lived with the monks
They never charge anything, but one X
at liberty to give them what he thinks
is right. if be can afford it. learned 70
love the order, and always carry with
me to-day pack Of snuff, which | offer
them, should chance 70 meet any,
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-09-01
Points About Popcorn.

From the New York Telegram
Manufacture of All Kinds of Pop
Corn Is the legend on a sign i'll an East
Side cellar-way. Headiong steps lead
to dingy, ilI-furnisbed, underground
apartment.
There a reporter found a man and a
boy, the latter filing gay-colOred en-
velopes with popcorn, and the former
bossing the job.
The lad went on with his work I'M
hossed while the man talked about tie
popcorn trade with the reporter. He
WIS modest enough to own that his
place of business was about the smallest
of its kind in the city. There We're
three or four others. some Of them doing
large business.
He used from FIVE to ten barrels of
corn 8 week, and popped it in a kettle
over a little stove The great thing IN
the popcorn business was TO keep the
kettle over the fire Just long enough 10
Pop every grain Of corn, but not so long
as to scorch any.
Most Of the popcorn came from Mas
sachusetts and Indiana, though some
was grown In this state principally
Broome County. What Is called rice
corn is small and white. The Indiana
corn Is pointed. He bought corn IN the
market at from &c to Sc a pound.
The best Kind Of popcorn to sell, he
said, was the Igared variety. tits pre-
pared for Elarket IN balls, blocks and
sometimes loose. The red popcorn is
eoloIed with cochineal. The block form
Is made chiefly IN winter
The corn Is put in gay colored wrap
pers and ornamented with crimped It's
sue paper and the ike to attract the eve
Of possible buyers. The manufacturer
sold only TO dealers
He could not guess how much popcorn
was prepared in this city in the course
Of year, but he thought a good many
thousand barrels