The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-08-02
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Exchanges-Stray Items.
New York finds that an electric plant
for the execution of dogs will cost but
5000.
A lily, jet black in color, is in bloom
at Chico, Cal. It emits very disagree
| able odor.
s Two pure white robins have been taken
from the nest of an ordinary redbreast in
Galena, Ills
Twenty-one years faithful service en-
titles public school teacher to pension
in Wisconsin.
The cychorama of Niagara has had an
enormous success ip London. As the
English say, it has ''fetched" the town.
The president of the Imperial academy
| at Pekin has undertaken, by command
OF the emperor, to translate ''Hamlet'
into Chinese. ..-....
A mass of copper weighing about
twenty tons has been found at Copper
Falls, Mich, and is being cut up into
merchantable sized chunks.
The latest meteor story is one that is
alleged to have fallen near Kew, Rus
sia, and which, when broken open, is
said to have been found full of small
diamonds. tut
| A western man is selling large quanti-
ink" Its popularity is that the writ
| ing IN which it is used entirely disap-
pears after twelve hours.
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Farmers down in Jersey are about in
stituting ''bug days." wherein con-
certed effort will be made to exterminate
the insects that just now are playing
havoc with fruit and vegetables.
An experiment in tobacco growing il
now in progress in southern Florida. 1t
is said the product will be enormous, and
that three crops can be grown annually.
1t is a leading crop in some sections of
| the state.
| At a recent meeting of the French
Physical society Sir William Thomson
was present, and stated that, according
to his determfpations, the Fate cf diffu-
sion Of electricity was b hundred and ten
times as rapid as that Of heat In the best
conductors. ..-
| Reports received by the viticutural
commission show that the wine crop of
California this year Will not be Less than
s5, ZOO, 900 gallons as against 1900, 900
lastyear. THE outlook Tor raisns and
table grapes is also good.
| DIR. Donald G. Hood has collected many
facts relating to the use Of salicylb acid
for rheumatism. Of 72bpatients treated
with salicylates. 528 were ralieved of
their pains within seven days; whereas,
of 612 patients treated by other methods.
only 140 were relieved within the same
time. .. g..
The Rev. Hudson Taylor, of the In
land China mission, says: 'After eighty
years of contact with England, there are
$4,000 Christians, for which we may be
thankful, and 100000 opium
smokers, for which we may hang our
heads in shame The slave trade, the
liquor traffic, the licensing of immortality
these were bad enough, but the opium
curse is the SUM of all vfllainy."
| w. A. Lyman. of Milford, Conn, is
making the smallest possible specimen
of an engine. 1t will be made from
silver half dollar. The boiler is to hold
about eight drops Of water, but with four
drops the engine oan be worked several
minutes. When finished it is to be
placed under glass case three-quarters
of an inch In diameter and an inch and
one-eighth in height. Some Of the parts
will be so fine and delicate that they
cannot be made without the use of a
magnifying glass.
A specimen of a new campaign torch
which promises to become quite popular
is made from combined composition of
infammable matter, and when lighted,
burns dry; that is to say, it is free from
grease, does not run, and gives off no
bad odor. 1t may be stuck on the end
of handle or pole, can be carried in the
pocket and is always ready for use. 1t
yields large flame. 1t burns thirty
minutes, and three of them with the
stick form an outfit suitable for any
political procession.
Julian Hawthorne still continues to
write ON the calamities of authors and
literary people generally. In paper
ON literary syndicates contributed to
the current number of America, he
says: ''The magazines are all over
stocked, and no author can live on the
royalties of his books. A syndicate
will, indeed, almost always take short
story, if it be short enough; but short
enough means 1900 or 2,00Q words,
and what author, who values his reputa-
ton, will use up his plots at such rapid
rate as that2'