The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-08-16
SELECTED PARAGRAPHS.

Greece is about to begin national
library.
An organ being built for Sydney will
have 1876 sounding stops and five manuals.
A velvet pile Persian carpet was recen-
tly sold at auction for 81, 600.
A New Haven artist has painted 81
bill so realistically that he got 5000 for
the picture.
Two superb private railway carriages
have been made in Paris for the emperor
and empress of China.
Chestnut has become the fashionable
color in London. 1t is the craze, and
prcdominates in all dress goods.
How many people know it to be fact
that the legislature of Kansas years ago
offered 81 coo to the first man who raised
family of thirteen children within the
borders of the state? Such is fact
A very interesting speck of strife is the
suggestion that the Greek government
may make an attempt to recover from
France all Grecian objects of antiquity
which France has obtained unlawfully.
The paper money of Chill is so de-
preciated in value that guest at hotel
ordinarily pays 5000 day for his ac,
commodation. At one time, only few
years ago, calico sold for $4,000 yard
in these deprecated bills.
| The British government proposes to re-
place private schools in India by govern
ment institutions, and TO engage British
| specialists to supervise and enlarge tech
nical education. Moral training will be
provided for by a text book on morality,
based on natural religion.
An Allentown (Pa.) firm of tailors en-
ploys a pretty young lady as collector.
If a debtor n1urmurs something about
being short of money, and hints at ''call-
ing again." she smiles sweetly at him
and takes g seat, from which she seldom
rises without the money due in her hand.
A patch of sweet potatoes in full bloom
in Port Fulton, Ind., is attracting a great
deal of attention from the curious, scores
of whom go out every morning to see the
freak of nature. The flowers are highly
priced for their medicinal qualities, and
are similar in appearance to those of the
morning glory.
A society called the Columbia has
started a carrier pigeon service between
Strasburg and Vienna, and recently a
number of pigeons were started at the
latter city at o'clock one evening, and
the first of them reached Strasburg at
O'Clock the next morning, having trav-
eled at the rate of over thirtyone miles
an hour all night.
The Anglican church of New South
Wales has resolved to raise 81, 900, 900 in
five years to commemorate centennial
year, and have made start with $3.50,
900. The Wesleyans in the same colony
propose to raise $3.50, 900 in five years.
Other colonies and other sections of the
church are similarly marking the year,
and jubilee funds are in high favor.
The Texas and Pacific railway is equip
ping the entire line with Sheffield paper
wheel hand cars, which are capable OF
being easily run fifteen miles an hour.
This enables the laborers to put in more
hours at work for the company, and here
is where the advantage comes in. With
The old style hand car it took the section
hands great part of the day to go to
and come from their work.
The method of demagneting watches
by burying them in the ground has been
condemned in round terms by the treas
urer of the Waltham Watch company
and the electricians of the New England
and American Bell Telephone companies
Not only will it fail to demagnetize
the time piece, but it will render il
worthless by corrosion. A Connecticut
doctor was the author of the dangerous
theory.
France is surprised at the operation O
its new divorce law. The first year sucl
a thing as divorce was recognized by th'
law there We're 1,S00 granted, the SECOND
year 1900, and the third year 4,500
Sixty women demand divorce for ever,
forty men, and in more than half tn
cases that come before the courts Their
, are no children. There are four divorce
for every ], ,OG0 marriages in France now
and in Paris the rate is forty-seven TO
every 1000 marriages.
, Perhaps the Oldest railroad engineer il
) the country in length of service is Ben
| iamin Hafner, who has been employe'
| NV tho Erie road for fOrty-Seyeu wears