The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-06-14
MULTuM IN PARvO.

berlln Is 10 nave new cathedral.
Silver has turned up in South Africa
70 degree to produce a new mining
fever.
There are laws against using profane
language by telephone in all states except
Connecticut.
The receipts of the London Geological
Gardens have decreased $4,000 in the
past year and the managers blame Buff
falo Bills show for the loss.
Kansas has a genuine philanthropist.
Stephen Richardson, of Harvey county,
has planted three miles of peach trees in
the public highway for the benefit of
travellers.
The Turkish government will not allow
the writings of Dante, Byron, Voltaire
and Paley to enter its domains, for these
authors speak disrespectfully of Moham-
mechanism.
Europe has new coin. 1t is the coin
of the present German emperor and bears
his profile. The die was actually pre-
pared in the lifetime of the last emperor
A Paris journal asserts that an Eng
lish ex-hangman has been hired by an
American manager for lecture tour in
the United States, and is to receive $40,-
900 over his expenses.
Experiments at Cape Town in signal
ing with electric light reflected from the
clouds were a complete success. Ex-
periments were also made with vessel
at sea, with the result of flashing signal
fifty miles away.
Bismarck received 101 plovers' eggs
on his recent birthday. Plovers' eggs
are a favorite delicacy with the chancel-
lor, and every year on his birthday a
large number are sent to him from the
country,
Georgia, according to The Athens (Ga.) J
Banner Watchman, furnished three
regiments of soldiers to the Federal army
during the civil war. The soldiers came
from the mountain counties of the state.
The uncertainty concerning titles is
thought to be cause of dullness in New
York real estate. Many of the old family
properties were settled in careless man
ner, and in some instances heirs have re-
appeared, causing perplexity and con-
fusion.
The inhabitants of Rodriguez, an island
of the Indian ocean belonging to Great
Britain, were recently threatened with
starvation, owing to their isolated posi-
ton and the failure of crops. A relief
expedition from the Mauritius, 400 miles
away, finally reached them with 1900
bags of rice.
A convention of parrots will soon be
held in Turin, and great many learned
old fellows are expected to be present.
Prizes will be given to the best singer,
the brightest conversationalist and the
finest orator, A great many queer stories
have been told about parrots, but the
coming show will give the world chance
to know precisely what they have to say.
The New Jersey court of chancery has
rendered decision which deprives Henry
George, the land agitator, of bequest of
property aggregating in value about $10,-
900. 1t had been bequeathed by William
Hutchines, an eccentric admirer Of Henry
George, who recently died in Camden
county. Its object was to aid George in
the dissemination of his peculiar land
doctrines,
An interesting report Of the death Of q
native was recently made by coroner'a
jury in India. The native had had the
misfortune to meet a tiger, and the re-
port says: ''Pandu died of the tiger eat
ing him. There was no other cause of
death. Nothing was left of Pandu save
some fingers, which probably belonged
either to the right or left hand.n
London royalty is about to organize 9
charitable fete in imitation of that car
ried to success by the Princess Metteraiissh
in Vienna, The three little Princesses Of
Wales are to appear as Yum Yum, Pitt
Sing and Peep Bo in s'The Mikado" trio.
A Scotch ballet will be danced by titled
ladies', and it will wind up with panto.
mime in which all the players will take
| part,