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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-11-21
How She Was Fooled.

/ have never said anything disre-
spectful of a woman, and | am not
going to break over the rule now but
/ heard story on a Chicago woman
in high standing which | think is too
good to keep. She had been to St.
Paul with party of both sexes. At
the conclusion of their visit they
boarded sleeper, and, ss they were
somewhat weary, they retired early.
In less than q half hour there was
some sort OF accident, the result of
which was the train remained all
night in almost the exact spot where
the party boarded the sleeper. On the
following morning the woman of
whom / spoke at first met her COM
panions, and, as is generally the case
with passengers who are acquainted
on sleeper, the question, How did
you sleep2" was passed around. The
heroine of my story said she had
passed a miserable night. Well, one
may pass a miserable night without
being on sleeper. But the woman
was not content with the statement,
for she added: II never could sleep
on the cars. The noise and continuous
rattle and humping of the train make
me nervous. And on this road, espe-
cially, which is so rough and full of
curves, you know"
Well, they had the laugh on her
when the situation was explained, and
she begged the party to say nothing
about it in Chicago, as her husband
was such a tease. The party kept
their word. They didn't say anything
about it in Chicago, but one of them
told it in st. Paul.-Interview in Chi
cago Tribune.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-11-21
Tho Hottest Spot on Earth.

The hottest region on the earth is on
the southwestern coast of Persia, where
Persia borders .he gulf of the same
name. For forty consecutive days in
the months of July and August, the
thermometer has been known not to
fall lower than 100 degs., night or day,
and to often run up as high as 1913
degs. in the afternoon. AT Bahrin, in
the center of the torrid part Of this
torrid belt, as though it We're natures
intention to make the region as un-
bearable as possible, no water can be
obtained from digging wells 100, 200
or even 5o0 feet deep, yet compare
lively numerous population contrive
to live there, thanks TO copious springs
which break forth from the bottom Of
the guk, more than a mile from shore.
The water from these springs is OBJ
tanned by divers, who dive to the bot
tom and fill goatslsin bags with the
cooling liquid and sell it for a living.
The source Of these submarine foun-
tains is thought to be in the green hill
of Osman, some 500 or 600 miles away.
St Louis Republic.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-11-21
The StyIographic Pen.

Several bankers have refused to rec
ognize the signatures of their patrons
when written with stylographic pen.
Writing produced with these pens is
wanting in most of the essential and
habitual characteristics of writing, as
when executed with two nibbed pen.
Whatever be the position of the pen or
the degree of the pressure, the line
made remains the same in quality and
in size. Such writing, therefore, not
only lacks character, but is very easy
of imitation or forgery. On the other
hand, in writing executed with the
two nibbed pen the line is varied in
quality and shade by the position of
the pen and degree of pressure, angles
and turns are modified and more sharp
ly defined, thereby introducing into
writing the whole multitude of pecu-
liar characteristics that give character
and personal identity and render it
most difficult to initiate. in
ST. Louis Globe Democrat.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-11-21

Make the marriage right and the off
snring will tend to be right. Perhaps
it NAV be true that we need q new
IDEAL Of the marriage relation The
old one In which tile Svoinan promises
to obey the man is perishing visibly
before our modern eyes. Often she
ought not to do 50, for the man may
be a fool or a brute. And the theory
adopted by many III mated couples
that marriage is discipline IS too
cynical to be either true or attractive.
The theory Of easy divorce aud fire.
ouent change as remedy for ordina-
rv disanreements has also serious dis
advantages, and is no sound remedy.
1t is only a poor refuge from iinme-
diate suffering. But a new and per
haps useful attitude may be gained by
looking upon matrimonv. as It Is. IN
truth, the only complete condition oi
humanity.
In no other relation can man OF
woman reach their highest develop
ment No character is full till 1t com.
prises its opposite. The very divergen'
cies at which each party frets are the
lacking necessities Of its own nature.
Each would be partial and narrow
without the other, and the new motto
we may propose for matrimony is ths
naw word develnnmeuL MarrtaDA Y
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-11-21

development. II not quite happy, it
is still generously educational. If love
dies out from it, yet charity, wisdom,
tact and hberality of mind may re-
main in it. Blind love may indeed
remain and leave the happy lovers
without its best effects, since even love
may remain narrow and selfish. But
the man who has learned to compre-
hend the feminine nature with its
delicate, sprightly, graceful qualities
in his own, and the woman who has
adopted something of masculine inde-
pendence. liberality and courage into
her constitution, will be far better
than the sole endowment nature would
have given either to be alone.-Cor
Woman's Cycle.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-11-21
Progress of Invention.

French chemists have discovered
not only a substance which is pre-
cisely that which the silkworm ex-
udes, but have found way of pro-
ducing this substance in continuous
filaments that can be subsequently
woven into fabrics that are, TO all in
tents and purposes, silk goods equal to
anything made from the silkwornl's
threads. The artificial silkworm will,
if generally introduced, save a vsst
amount OF mulberry leaves, and
should eventually make silk as com
mon as calico. The advance Of science
is sometimes perniciously rapid. I'M
less 1t is checked, some savant in the
shadow OF the Eiffel tower will invent
O machine that will turn out sealsldn
as perfect as that which nature now
has monopoly of, and which is found
only upon the bodies Of the soft eyed
mammal of the sea. And, then,
where should the wealthy look for the
insignia of midwinter luxury and ex-
clasiveness2--Pit Bulletin.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-11-21
smugxled Opium.

The order from the treasury abolish
ing the stamps on opium boxes, issued
last year, has been productive of much
harm in San Francisco. The stock OF
smuggled opium has vastly increased,
large stocks having been brought in
from Mexico, from British Columbia
and other places TO which il had been
smuggled while the stamp restriction
was still In force in California Fully
81, 900, o00 worth of the drug has been
sold in San Francisco within the last
eight months, and the smugglers have
cut the price down below what the
legitimately imported article can be
sold for. The collector OF the port
declares that q stamp 20 well made
that it cannot be oounterfeited shoul
DO put on again at oncs.-~
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-11-21
Exhibit of Diamonds.

On the Quai d'Orsay, Paris, is a
splendid exhibit of diamonds in the
pavilion of the Kimberley Mine,
South Africa The building repre-
sents an old Dutch residence of the
Seventeenth century. Going inside,
will be observed large, round win
dow, in which are displayed diamonds
in their natural state as they are
taken from the mine, diamonds half
cut, ETC., with the articles used in cut
ting and polishing them Also, sew
eral objects holding diamonds, such
as a diadem, in the center of which is
a triangle made of three diamonds
which are worth $50, 600 each; hand
some wreath, brooch, necklaces, a
cross, etc. Jewellers Circular.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-11-21

The girl with the iron jaw is what
the friends of Miss Lillian Toban, of
New York city, have named the re-
markable girl of II. She not only
chews gum as no other woman could,
but she chews kindling wood and
broomhandles, pine knots, bits of
broken furniture, and grinds the hard
est wood into sawdust and pulp. More
than this, her hair is so strong that she
can tic dumbbells to slender wisps of
it and whirl them in dizzy circles
around her head. Exchange.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-11-21

-r-zrurru Cl1Uws or Lue ws,Esa --
break into the splendor of eternal joy.
And SO we come into the harbor The
cyclone behind us. Our friends be-
fore US. God, who is always good,
all around us. And if the roll of the
crew and the passengers had been
called, seven hundred souls would
have answered to their names. And
so it came to pass that we all escaped
safe to land" And may God grant
that, when all our Sabbaths on earth
are ended, we may find that, through
the rich mercy of our Lord Jesus
Christ, we all have weathered the
galel
Into the harbor Of heaven now we glide,
Home at last!
Softly we drift on the bright silver tide
Home at lastl
Glory to tlod AL our dangers are Ger;
We stand secure on the gloritied shore
Glory to God we viii shout evernnore.
Home at last.
Home at iasti
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-11-21
A Babe in a Bouquet.

The queen of Holland, on her hus-
bands recent birthday, presented him
with an enormous bouquet of flowers,
of the kind used on benefit nights kt
opera in Italy. SO heavy that it re-
quired several serving men to carry it..
As ii was brought close to the throne
the old king stopped forward to ex-
anime it, when, amidst the flowers, the
head of his little infant daughter
popped out, to the surprise of the mon
arch and the amusement of the whole
court. rt.-Fxchange
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-11-21
Entirely Too Literal.

Tommy Jones was not very bright
boy, and when his teacher, at the
close of school one afternoon, told
him he must write a composition on
the pump tomorrow, he took her at
her word. The next morning, there
fore, instead of starting to school at
the usual hour, he mounted the big
wooden box pump in the yard, and
with his slate on his knee began to
write the desired composition.
But Tommy's father happening to
pass that way discovered him and
asked him why he was not off to
school. And when the boy replied
that the teacher had told him 10 write
a composition on the pump, lLr. Jones
burst out in Q hearty laugh, much to
Tommy 'ssurprise.
An explanation followed, and the
boy jumped down from the pump and
started for school, convinced that he
needn't sit on a pump to write q COM
position on a pump or about a pump.
Atlanta Journal
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-11-21

DIR. Isaac Bartlett. OF Hope, Me-, Is
one of those who have attained good
old age, and he is said TO have lived
all his life on bread and milk, and
never TO have eaten an ounce OF meat
In his life, never TO have taken . tea-
spoonful OF intoxicating liquors and
never TO have used tea, coffee or TO-
bacco. He now weighs 2i0 pounds
and is in the regular practice OF his
profession. --Dctroit Free Press
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-11-21
An Amusing Fish story.

Speaking of fishing, reminds me OF
IN amusing little incident that occur
red in my family last spring. My
ing, and during the season we fire.
quently take a boat and row out to the
mouth of the river to fish for pike and
white bass with minnows. Some un-
scrupulous person has told my wife
that male fish will not bite a hook
held by man, and vice versa; so that
one lovely evening toward the latter
part of June when we had dropped
our anchor on our accustomed fishing
ground. / said: Now. my darling,
we will soon see whether there is
more he or she fish IN the creek. We
had hardly assumed the easiest nossi-
Bile position to await the bites, when
my wife, in her accustomed enc getic
manner, succeeded in landing a two
pound white bass. She did not say
First blood, women are so funny,
you know. but | am sure she thought
A weary half hour dragged away.
No bite. l began to think my min
now must be off, and pulled up to see.
While adJustlng the palb mean puI
brilliant idea presented itself TO me
why not catch her fish over againl
As her back was partly turned, and
she was intent on fishing, the plan
seemed feasible. / put her poor little
he bass on my hook and slid him gent
ly in. had hardly got my line oui
before / pulled it in again. ] said,
1--WE are even
This scheme worked like charm
so that, by the exercise of considerable
tact and BY working hard. ] succeeded
in hauling that fish in seven times be
fore dark. dragged him for herr al
over the river. Mostly she fish
tonight. s.sid. She said, Lets ri
home As had been having quite 1
| good time, did not object
Well. when we came to string thos'
fish there was but one In the boat
Only the sourd of the oars broke thl
| stiffness in that boat as we rode home
Forest and Stream
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-11-21
Where Colors Come From.

SO4OEs SoaoS SiohAs
The cochineal insects furnish great
many of the very fine colors. Among
them are the gorgeous carmine, the
crimson. scarlet carmine and purple
lakes
The cuttlefsh gives the sepia It is
the inky fluid which the fish dis
charges in order to render the water
Opaque when attacked
Indian yellow comes from the
camel.
Ivory chips produce the ivory black
and bone black.
The exquisite Prussian blue is made
by fusing horses hoofs and other re-
fuse animal matter with impure po-
tassium carbonate. This color was
discovered accidentally.
Various lakes are derived from roots,
barks and gums.
Blue black comes from the charcoal
of the vine stalk. Lamp black is SCOT
from certain resinous substances
Turkey red is made from the mad
der plant, which grows in Hindostan.
The yellow sap of tree III Siam
produces gamboge; the natives catch
the sap in cocoanut shells, Raw ST.
emma is the natural earth from the
neighborhood of Sienna, Italy Raw
umber is also an earth found near Um-
bria and burned.
India ink is made from burned
camphor. The Chinese are the only
manufacturers of this ink and they
will not reveal the secret of its manu-
facture.
Mastic is made from the cum of the
mastic tree which grows IN the Gre
clan archipelago.
Bistre is the SCOT of wood ashes.
Very little real ultramarine is founc
in the market. It is obtained from tht
precious lapislazuli, and commands {
fabulous price.
Chinese white is zinc, scarlet lis 10
dide of mercury, and native velmil
lion is from the quicksilver ore called
cinnabar. American Druggist.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-11-21

A Vienna millionaire has just died
leaving a request for his only heir to
keep the family vault lighted with
several Jablockof electric lamps for
one year. But the authorities having
refused the necessary permission, the
heir has ordered candle and a box
of parlor matches to be placed near
the man in his coffin in case he should
wake up from his long sleep.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-11-21

A correspondent writes US as fol-
lows: Two tramps were tried in the
Paducah City court last week on a
charge Of vagrancy. The case was
submitted to a jury, and one Of the
tramps made a lengthy and feeling
speech in behalf of himself and com
rade, after which the jury retired, and
in about two minutes returned and
gravely delivered to tho court the fol-
lowing verdict:
'sWe, the jury, find them not guilty.
ard the mayor to give each one a dol
lar apiece 10 help them out of town.
w. G. Lewis, Foreman. "-Texas Sift-
ings.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-11-21

A large and very important discov-
cry 6f uranium is reported In Corn
wall. Il is a true assure vein, the ore
containing an average Of ! per cent. OF
the pure metal, going up as high IN
many places as thirty per cent The
market price Of uranium r ~. 900 .
ton.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-11-21
A Big British War Ship.

The new British war ship, Royal
Sovereign, work upon which has be-
gun at Portsmouth dockyard, will, it
is said, be the largest war ship III the
world. The vessel is to be completed
for sea, with all guns and stores on
board, by 1893 The Royal Sovereign
is one of the four armored battle ships
of IA, 900 tons burden which are to be
built under the special programme
She is to carry four sixty seven ton
guns of thirteen and one-half inch
caiber, arranged in two barbettes and
supported by a powerful battery of six
inch and quick firing guns.
The Royal Sovereign will be $50 feet
in length, rs feet in beam, and 2751
feet in draught, with displacement
of IA, $50 TONS She will far exceed in
weight any ship hitherto built for the
British navy. At the water line she
will be protected by an armor belt
eight and one-half feet broad, extend
ing over two-thirds of her length, and
having maximum thickness of
eighteen inches. The armor on the
barbettes will be seventeen inches
thick, while the protection of the guns
and their crews in the auxiliary arma-
ment as we'll as the ammunition sup
ply has been devised to meet the de-
velopment in high explosives and
quick firing guns. The ships engines
will have a maximum power of Ii, 900
horses under forced draught and 5000
under natural draught. The speed
with closed stokeholes is estimated at
seventeen knots an hour; with open
stokeholes at sixteen knots an hour.
The coal supply of the Royal Sover-
eign will be 800 tons, enabling her to
cruise 5000 miles at the rate of ten
knots an hour. Detroit Free Press.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-10-23
n Oh yirginia.

There IA mor interest and excitement
In the Virginia campaign than In all the
other electoral struggles now approach
leg climax. II seems to be desperate
struggle for the freedom Of the Old Do
miniou from one man power but there Is
anational interest In the fight, a. Malone
In the saddle will try hard to ride the
state into line for the next presidential
campaign, and he seems to have at his
sc,, ice all the elaborate machinery and
financial power 40 successfully used for
the election of President Harrison.
An immense amount Of talking IL
being done in Virginia, and the Demo-
Gratis are quite confident and cheerful,
but with Harrison, Quay and the money
bags eagerly backing Adventurcr Ma
hone, there Is ample ground for desper-
ate activity. An enemy Of that sort
cannot be too deeply showed
under. With characteristic skill
and cunning Malone has made bid
for the independent voter by boldly
nominating himself and declaring wor-
thy aims and intentions. He is credited
with Unlimited ambition aud knows that
success at this juncture would make him
great.power In the land.
His election rs governor would enable
him to claim almost any reward 40 the
breaker of the solid South.aD the "Na-
poleon Of Virginia "is said to be schem-
ing for the nomination TO the vice
presidency. The result In Virginia will
be awaited with great interest and
strong hopes Of the overthrow Of ths.
rising boss 81
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-10-23

An English scientific man rejoicing in
the name of Jones is quoted as comparing
the earth to nm inflated balloon kept dis
tended andiiloatipg in space by gas inside.
Professor Jones, though unknown to fame
on this side of tho ocean, must be a very
interesting variety of scientific man, but he
il himself deeply interested in the deep gas
wells of America; not financially, but
anxiously. He fears that the escape Of gas
may result in collapse and looking at tho
matter with disposition to alarm an i'm
sginativo man might see ground for panic.
Even il the escape Of gas Is so
trihing in comparison with the whole
mass OF the globe that there is no
danger Of collapsing earthquake, there
may still be fear that the loss of so much
buoyant gus may permit our great terres-
trial balloon To drift little by little from its
course. The first signs of this would be
changes of climate, and the cool summer,
the snow to-day, and almost ceaseless rains
that we have had are worth attention.
Returning from these speculations to the
old orthodox theory that the centre Of the
earth is flaming lava the timorous man
finds little to reassure him. If this is no
the gas had better be let out with all speed
for If by casual earthquake crack, or in
any other way, the flames should reach the
gas, there would be tho greatest explosion
that this journal has ever been called upon
to chronicle.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-10-23
LANCASTER, PA. October %. 1889.
A Childish Champion.

A friend Of the redoubtable John l..
Sullivan has been taking pains to clear
away some Of the many unpleasant
reports about him. According to this
friend he never goes on fierce and howl.
ing jamborees I" and has been terribly
wronged" by the reports Of his drunken
brutality he is not insolent, though
like any other man he may have
little debt that he can wipe out whenever
he cares to or thinks about II, y and his
father has twenty thousand dollars OF
his money. Finally this friend assures
an anxious nation that John l.. has
not now and never had the least
notion Of going to Congress. So far the
polishing up of the law-brcaker's char
acter appears TO have been pretty thor
ough, with the exception Of the trifling
matter OF debt that might be paid
when this majestic character chose to
think about 1t. Even this defect might
seem to have been left by the skillful
friend as beauty spot to draw atten-
ton to pleasing manifestations of his
ehAracter,--as the gift of money to his
father. But the friend mt last deliber-
ately spoils his own work Of art. Not
content with denying the rumor of con-
gressional ambition he exclaims, why
the man never cast vote In his life."
This statement, If true, retarnisbes
the whole Of Sullivan's laboriously
polished character. a man who has no
sense Of the responsibilities Of Ameri-
can citizenship and who does no. care
enough for the rights Of freeman to
cast single vote In lifetime IN not
worthy of any more respect than the
brutal drunkard. In fact John Sullivan
drunk might be pardoned apd pitied as
the victim Of vice that has lowered
many stronger men, but John Sui
livan sober and neglecting to exer-
else the rights and duties of
q thinking man Is most disgusting
spectacle. Men may honorably decline
TO vote in certain emergencies as re-
buke to party leaders. Soldiers and
sailors may hold aloof from politics and
refuse to use the ballot, from a patriotic
desire TO banish all possibility that alle-
-giancs~to party may outgrow zeal for
the government. Citizens may be par
doned for occasional unintentional fail
ure to exercise the right Of franchise,
due to sickness or mischance, but for
Q famously healthy and active man of
thirty-one to have 1t said that he never
cast vote, and no reason given, is
melancholy indeed. The friend a.
nounces proudly that his athlete knows
no more Of politics than baby, and
cares less. The brutality and drunken
ness Of Sullivan are too notorious to be
successfully whitewashed, but this ar
tist has called attention TO an infantilc
feebleness of character not generally ap-
preciated.
So, citizen, il you wish to prove in
finite superiority to the modern Her.
cules you have only to vote at the COM
ing election, or II you be Republican
you can more nobly refrain from voting
as . rebuke to the bosses who badly
need reproof.