The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-03-22
PEOPLE TALKED Anour.
Stray Eits of Interesting Personal Cos.
sip, Clipped from the Newspapers.
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Stray Eits of Interesting Personal Cos.
sip, Clipped from the Newspapers.
Sir William Harcourt is particularly
fond of cultivating cabbages.
The sultan of Turkey has prohibited
the further expectation of Arab horses.
Sam Small lays nine-tenths of the home
quarrels among children to the girls
This is small business for man.
Russell Sage, it is said, walked into q
Broadway clothing store the other day
and tried on and purchased $12 suit Of
''hand-me-downs. y
Probably the richest newspaper man in
the world is M. Abel, proprietor of The
Baltimore Sun, whose fortune is esti-
mated at $50, ,000,00O.
Senator Stanford is said to be the most
unassumingly dressed man in Washing
ton. This independence in the matter Of
personal decoration is one Of the ad-
vantages of being rich.
The present khedive is monogamise.
and no wonder lis wife is 26 wears
Did, and is described as having lustroGs
dark eyes, a brilliant complexion which
owes nothing to art, pearly teeth and a
lovely mouth, and being, indeed, very
| paragon of grace and beauty.
Tennyson feels l1eenly the stinGs of adj
verse criticism. lie once said: Il am
like a traveller. in lonely desert. when
suddenly there appears on the horizon
a figure which shoots an arrow that
reaches me, enters the flesh and ranlllcs
there; and, although the wound is small,
It's a asmartI l ,sapIot forget"
1t has been generally reported that the
crown prince of Germany has suffered 9
good deal of annoyance from his inability
to smoke his pipe. The fact is that
ssUnser Fritz" has never been in tho
habit of using a pipe except when hunt
ing or campaigning Cigarettes and
cigars have taken the place of his pipe
at most times.
Mr.. MacAlister, Philadelphia's super
intendent of schools, reports that the
normal school cooking class is doing
splendidly, the girls bcconl.r.g quite pro.
ficient. The world viii have made a
great stride toward perfect happiness
when every wife can enter her kitchen
with cooking intelligence in her eye and
gve orders in a confident voice.
How Bismarcll's speech went over the
world is shown by the number of tele-
grams sent out upon the day and evening
of its delivery. No fewer than 1915
press kilograms, comprising 1914, 29C
words, about it were sent from Berlin to
326 different places in Germany and
| &c t,1,
grams was effected by 235 officials on
222 instruments.
From London Mrs. Helen Campbell has
gone to Paris to study the condition Of
the poor, and will remain there unit
July, and then so to Germany to stay
until autumn. Mrs. Campbell had al
exceptional opportunity of studying tht
poor classes in London, and enjoyed i
after the fashion of a reformer. On hel
return to this country she will be pre-
pared to give all needful information rel
ative to the ways and means of living il
large cities without work or money.
Whenever Jenny Lind saw anything
''small, mean or false she was hardl,
able, says Scott Holland, to make due al
lowance ''for human frailty, nor ever
for the misunderstanding and confusion
which are so inevitable. Little blunder
were apt to get magniied. friendship
found themselves abruptly broken some
times. She had very high standar
for her friends, and woe to them if sh
suspected them of any lapse! It was
difficult matter to recover her esteem"
Col. Lamont is the Exchange reader
of the White House. He has had con
siderable practice in this department c
newspaper editing, and claims the abilit
to get through forty papers ga houl
which is excellent work. But it mus
be remembered that the colonel's ''nlisses
don't count, as he works for a scra
book, and not for q wide awake editor
: The colonel in his reading is careful (
clip all personal references to the pres
dent and his wife, and these are a sourc
: of much interest and amusement TO th
family when assembled for social enjoy
ment.