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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-10-24
A SIf1lpnle for IA Verdict.

| heard jury story this morning
A German had got into a row with a
quarrelsome Irishman, who had long
been terror in his neighborhood, and
the Irishman had been left stone dead
on the field. A young and inoxperi-
enced lawyer undertook the defense Of
the German, and just before the case
was to be tried, he found, to his dis
may, that the jury was composed of
eleven combative looking country
men of the murdered man, the twelfth
man being a German. This, Of
course, would never do A defense
fund was Immediately raised and the
German was approached with all due
caution, and the promise that if he
managed to get verdict Of man
slaughter it would be worth 81, 900 TO
him; all he had to do was to stick to
that one word 'manslaughter" Well,
the verdict came in ''manslaughter"
in great shape, and the joyful attor-
ney for the defense couldn't get the
81, goo into the Germans hands too
quick. Shaking hands with him after
the money was placed, he slapped him
on the back and said: You did nobly
you must have had an awful time
making those Irishmen agree TO man
slaughter" ''Vell, should say so, .
replied Schmidt, "dey was all for ac-
quittal. Chicago Mail
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A cast steel gun, weighing 235 tons,
has just been shipped by the Messrs.
Krupp from Hamburg for Cronstadt.
The caliber of the gun is 134 inches,
the barrel is 40 feet in length. The
range of the gun is eleven miles, and
It will fire two shots per minute, each
shot costing between 81, 2J0 and 81 500.
At the trials of the gun held iii the
presence of Russian officers at Meppen,
the range of the Essen firm, the pro-
jectile, feet long and weighing ], 800
pounds, and propelled by charge OF
700 pounds OF powder, penetrated 1871
inches of armor, and went 1,312 yards
beyond the target. The gun is the
largest in the world, Detroit Free
Press.
Princeton college has this year the
largest freshman class in its history
about 200.
The mummy market is now 50 over
stocked that lovers of the antique can
obtain specimens for less than 500.
Contentmeat is better than riches,
and when man has both. he has great
reason to be thankful.
II Is now thought that Colorado's S
wool clip this year will beat the best
previous record by over a million
rassuds
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Moving Oualls.


The Easton (Pa.) Free Press calls at
tention to a remarkable migration OF
quails which has taken place near Louis.
vile, KY. 1t says that these birds are
not deserters, but merely exhibiting one
of their well known characteristics. They
migrate usually in September. 1t is done
by marching or running in bevies, gen.
orally in a southerly and easterly direc-
ton. It is estimated that they move
anywhere from ten to thirty miles.
In the local records Of Pennsylvania
when quails were abundant, the an
nouncement of the arrival of the run
ners on the banks of the Delaware river
was of regular recurrence each Septem-
Der. They moved from Pennsylvania to
New Jersey, and not from the latter to
the former state. This migration has no
unusual abundance of quails In Ken
lucky.
The gray squirrels of Kentucky often
indulge in similar migration. For no
apparent reason, they congregate in .
great body and move into Tennessee.
A new lens will show 1-204, 200, 900
of an inch.
Mr.. Wilson declares that servants
are getting worse and worse; his last
cook couldn't even boil water without
burning IT.
Elias Kerr, OF Hanford, Cal, is
herding band of 2,700 turkeys. He
counts them every night and hopes to
have them ripe by Thanksgiving day.
The French factory of Mantois is
the only one in the world where glass
large and perfect enough for the lenses
OF a big telescope can be successfully
cast
The parents Of Mr.. KoQ attache OF
the Chinese legation at Washington,
have written to him informing him
that they have selected wife for him.
He has never seen his prospective
bride.
Owing TO the low price OF cochineal
in Europe, the trade in this article,
which forms the chief export Of the
Canary Islands. is said To be steadily
declining.
The Eiffel coitfure is 10 be introduced
into London from Paris and will be
entirely composed of hair. The back
hair is 10 be worked up TO any peVnis'
sible height and is to end very taper
ingly.
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The ChrisfiHnitY of AssYrla.

The Ashiret Assyrians are wild and
untutored in their habits and customs.
Their Christianity consists in little
more than passionate clinging to q
faith they do not comprehend, and
which from this very fact is powerless
to influence their morals. Not only
are there no schools among them, but
their clergy are incapable OF instruct
ing their focks in the rudiments OF
religion; some of Them are quite un.
able TO conduct a service, others can
repeat the important parts by heart,
while few can read the ancient manu-
scripts, which are still in daily use
throughout the country because there
are no printed books. 1t is compare
lively rare to find a priest who can
both read and write with faa1hty; all
other learning is absolutely wanting.
Only during the winter months,
when the snow blocks the entrances TO
the mountains, when all agriculture
is at standstill and Kurdish attacks
become impossible, could these Ashir-
cts give their minds to education.
During the rest of the year the people
till their ground and pasture their
fiocks armed to the teeth, ready to re.
pei the attacks of which they live in
constant dread. Indeed, the Ashiret
Assyrians are in the position of be.
leaguered garrison in siege which Is
never raised; an unending succession
of assaults and sorties leaves them
neither time nor inclination to think
of more peaceful matters New York
Star
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Cold Proof.

According to The Waterville Senti-
mel, East Vassalboro hasa an aged citizen
who not only never rode in a railroad
car but has never been inside a stage
coach Another citizen, 81 years old,
has never resorted to the habit of wear
ing stockings and underclothing. lie
represented the town in the legislature
years ago, and during one of those cold
waves which sometimes sweep down
the Kennebec, when other legislators
were toosting their blue yarned stock
inged feet at the evening fires, Uncle
John sat back with nary stocking ON
his feet and made no complaint of
cold Lewiston Journal
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TINE IRON CAGE.
Designed by the Bishop of verdun, Who
Was Its First Occupant.


Was Its First Occupant.
For Louis XI of France-whom Sir
Walter Scott and Mr.. Henry Irving
have made SO familiar to the English
public-the iron cage had a great at
traction, and he seems to have eouip-
ped with it nearly every one of his
state prisons When the Due de Ne
mours. previous to his trial. was trans
ferred to the Bastile, he was put in a
cage of iron; and the king, learning
that some indulgence had been shown
to SO illustriousa a prisoner, wrote in the
most uncompromising terms to the
Sire de Saint Pierre. one of the COM
missaries appointed to try the unfor-
tunate prince. He was not pleased. he
said. to learn that the fetters had been
removed from the dukes limbs. that
he had been allowed to leave his cage.
and that he had attended mass when
women were present. And he charged
him to take care that the prince never
left his cage, except to be put to the
question-that is, to be tortured-and
that This should take place in his own
apartment.
Other important personages in the
reign of Louis made acquaintance
with these iron cages of his; among
Others, William of Harancourt. Bishop
of Verdun, and the Cardinal de Ia
Balue According to an eminent
French antiquary, each cage was
about nine feet long, eight feet broad
and seven feet high, and consisted of
a ponderous frame work of timber,
strengthened by solid iron clasps aud
fenced in with stout iron bars.
weighing altogether couple of hun
dred pounds, and costing about 367
livres, at the then value of money.
Philippe de Commines, the historian,
makes some characteristic comments
upon King Louis XI and his cages.
1T Is quite true" he says, that
the King our master ordered the con-
struction of some rigorous prisons
cages of iron and of wood, covered
with plates of iron outwardly and in
ternally, and with terrible iron bars,
each about eight feet wide and about
the height of a man, or one foot more
The man who designed them was the
Bishop of Nerdun, and in the very
first that was made he was inconti-
nently immurcd, and lay therein for
fourteen years. Many of US since
have poured our curses upon him, and
| forone, having had an eight months
taste of this kind of captivity. For
merly, too, the king caused the Ger
mans to make for him some heavy
and terrible fettcrs to fasten upon
prisoners feet, and an iron ring to
clasp around the ankle, with solid
chain attached, and IL great iron ball
at the end of the chain These instru-
ments of torture were known as les
fillettes du roy, or the kings maid
ens.' These, nevertheless, 1 have
seen ON the feet of many prisoners of
rank, who have since risen into honor
and great joy and have received many
favors from the king All the Year
Round
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Magma Charta.

The great charter was agreed to by
King John on the 18th of June, 1915,
at Runnymede 1t was, in truth, not
an act of parliament or statute, but
treaty between the king and his sub
jects, and was framed upon a series of
forty articles drawn up by the
barons and presented to the king.
There was consequently two separate
documents: one, THE Articles of the
Great Charter of Liberties, " and the
other, THE Great Charter" itself.
Neither were signed by either the king
or the barons. Both were sealed With
the great seal of King John; and, as
we shall see, there is some evidence
that the great charter was sealed by
some of the barons; but the barons do
not appear to have sealed the articles.
The original articles are in the Brit
ish museum, and a fac-simile of them
is exhibited 10 the public. They are
written in Latin, on parchment ten
and three-Quarter inches broad and
twenty-one and one-half inches long,
Including the fold for receiving the
label. To the label the great seal of
King John is still appendant; but,
unfortunately, the whole document
has been greatly damaged. Its history
was probably deposited at Lambeth,
and it apparently remained there till
1645.
At the end of the Seventeenth CEN
tury 1t was in the possession of Gilbert
Bunet, bishop of Salisbury, and he
gives in the History of His Own
Time" the following account of the
manner in which he came by it:
When the Impeachment of Archbishop
Laud was brought to the bar of the
lords, he. apprehending how it would
end, sent over Warner, bishop of Ro-
chester, with the KEYS of his closet and
cabinet. that he might destroy or put
out of the way all papers that might
either hurt himself or anybody else.
He was at that work for three or four
hours, till, upon Laud's being COM
united to the Black Rod, n messenger
was sent over to seal up his closet, who
came after all was removed. Among
the writings took away, it is be-
lieved the original Magma Charta pass
ed by King John in the mead near
Straines was one. This was found
among Warmers papers by his exccu-
tor, and that descended to his son and
executor, Col. Lee, who gave it to me-
So it Is now in my hands, and it came
very fairly to me.
For this conveyance of it we have
nothing but conjecture. As Burnet
had been allowed to search all the
public records, Lord Dartmouth sug-
gests that the above account was in
tended to allay any suspicion that he
obtained SO valuable document in
less justifiable manner.-Chambers'
Journal
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Wayside Cribbage.

A Maine traveller, who has been
travelling through the Pine Tree state,
tells of a fine beguiling little game
called ''wayside cribbage." the game
is finished at fifty. One person takes
the right hand side of the road, the
other the left, and both keep sharp
lookout for objects that are specified
in the game A horse counts one, a
COW two, a dog five and cat ten, and
are claimed by the person upon whose
side they are seen In other parts of
the state we would sometimes drive for
half day without seeing a sufficient
number of animals to decide the game
but here upon every hillside herds of
fifteen or twenty cattle would bring
shouts of triumph from the winning
side. Boston Record.
1t is stated that the Cunard company
will build two ocean racers next year.
The success of the City of Paris, of the
Inman line, in breaking the record pre-
viously held by the Cunarder Etruria
has, in the minds of the managers of
the Cunard line, made such step nee
essary. The two new vessels viii be
twin screw ships, and constructed with
a view of making a five day record.
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Alearneddoctor, Eggleston by name,
has promulgated in The American
Medical Journal the interesting fact
that to eat before going to bed is con-
ducive TO sleep. Persons who labor
after nightfall are well aware of this ;
but ii is an error TO suppose that the
practice will operate as cure for In
somnia-that most dreaded of foes TO
brain workers. The man who should
come forward with q sure medicament
against insomnia would deserve a
niche In a modern pantheon of I'm
mortals.-Philadelphia Record
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A correspondent wishes to know
''how TO become witty talker." There
Is no ready receipt for this accomplish,
ment that we know OF, unless II IL TO
take plenty of mustard That makes
the tongue smart.
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A NINETY MILE BEACH.
The Lovely Seashore on Whose Sands the
Australians Revel.


The love of the seashore seems to be
absolutely universal. To young peo-
pie especially is trip to the margin
of the great deep source of delight
The Gippslanders are no exception to
this rule Though they have so much
delightful scenery readily accessible,
the excursion which is far and away
the favorite with them is still to the
ocean shore, where they can inhale
the ozone of the fresh sea air, and
watch the great rollers of the Pacific
come tt1mbling in upon that intermin-
able beach which fianks the whole of
the lake district To picnic on the
sands and to wander about, searching
among the sea wrack for delicately
tinted shells, seems to afford as much
amusement for the grown up folks as
for the children.
from inland scenes and life that gives
this fascination to the shore, for those
who live all their lives beside the sea
are as much under its influence as
those to whom sight of the ocean is
but an occasional treat Poets have
sung and men of letters have dis
coursed about the sea, but not one of
them yet has told US the secret of this
love for it, this all prevailing desire to
get near it, as if a companionship were
there found. This love for the ocean
shore fills the excursion steamers,
which run from Sale and BairnsdaIe
in the summer time, with crowds of
bright faced picnickers.
1t was in company with one of these
troops of holiday makers that made
acquaintance with the ocean entrance
to the lakes, and with those broad,
smooth sands which stretch SO far.
Landing at New Works, we toiled
dunes, and found ourselves on the
Ninety Mile beach. There is no ex-
aggeration i'll the name of this long
stretch of sand and shingle. Broken
only by tho narrow entrance to the
lakes and by the Snowy river, it ex-
tends along the southeast coast of Vic
toria for fully the distance that its
name implies.
There can be no doubt that at the
time when this part of the continent
last emerged from the sea, the lakes as
We see them now had no existence,
and the rivers of the district reached
the sea in the usual way The con-
slant ocean currents from the Ant
arctic which the confguration of the
land in this region concentrates and
therefore gives extra force to, aided
by the nature of the sea bottom close
in shore, have created the long stretch
of sand dunes which form now the
seaward barrier of the lakes.
In this work they have been aided
by the wild storms which are gener-
ated every winter in the comparative
ly high attitudes of the south Pacific,
and which, approaching Australia
from the southeast, impinge directly
on this coast with force only exceed
ed by the great winter storms of the
north Atlantic. Along the foot of
these dunes lies the Ninety Mile beach,
preserving everywhere the long line
of its very shaliow curve almost un-
broken by any projecting point
through all its long stretch, and SO
seeming TO the eye of the observer
wherever he may take his stand to
run IL a perfectly straight line on
either hand, up or down, as far as
sight can reach. = San Francisco
Chronicle.
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A Great American.

That the thinking people OF this
country were fully appreciative of the
genius of Mr.. Edison long before he
visited Europe, need not be reiterated
or dwelt upon here, but to judge by
the Paris correspondents it would ap-
pear it was a recent discovery. and,
more than that, their own. There is
no doubt but today Mr. Edison is
Americas greatest gun. No greater,
however, than in all these years of Sc
clusion when he kept curiosity and an
idle public at arms length, and pur-
sued the inventive spark, as genius
ever must. alone. Now that he has
emerged from his she'll, and rests for
a moment on laurels nobly won. too
much honor cannot be done him by
his countrymen, Do not, neverthe-
less, permit it to be said in his case
that a prophet is not without honor
save in his own country. Itdid not
need the Endorsement of Europe for
Americans to recognize the leading in
ventor of the age, and TO be proud Of
his success.-Boston Herald
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Gallantry Rewarded.

Billy Emerson, the minstrel, while
attending a theatrical performance in
London, saw lady drop her pro
gramme from the box she occupied.
Il picked itup," he goes on to relate,
land handed it to her. She was a
great swell, could see, and I noticed
that she looked at me pretty hard.
'Hullo, thinks |, I guess I've made a
rIash.' had on bang up suit and
looked pretty nattT,. SO l looked at
my lady again with sort OF half eye.
Just then the curtain went down and
she made a beckoning motion with
her head 'Ahap | says to myself,
I've made an impression on her roy
ais / leaned forward and I'll be
smashed into pulp If she didn't hand
me sixpence.
What's this iot SAID l.
All, you were kind enough 10
hand me my programme, she said.
We'll, you can bet l was mad.
Excuse me madam, said /, put
ting tho coin on the edge Of the box. i
am an American p"-New York World.
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betting on Rain.

A writer in The Times of India de-
scribes system of gambling in Cal
cutta on rain. II is carried on in
compound" off the Burra bazar,
where, when rain cloud crosses the
sky, crowd collects of eager, excited
men; some rush about frantically,
others perch themselves high on ad-
joining roofs and gesticulate wildly to
friends below, while all gaze anxiously
at the sky. There are the suita, or
rain speculatorS, and the system. as
explained by the lessee of the com
pound in which it is carried on, Is ex
tremely simple. On the roof of his
office there is ditch which will hold
eight surs of water. If raincloud
bursts and the fall exceeds this
amount, the overflow is discharged
into the compound by spout This
decides all the bets, those who wager
ed it would rain winning The bets
are entered by the proprietor III a
book, the commission being one pice
all settled at 10 o'clock the following
morning. A defaulter is hardly ever
known; the gamblers are mostly
money lenders, men of substance and
we'll known to each other. They are
class by themselves, and the stakes
are usually inconsiderable, whereas
in Bombay it is not unusual to have
thousands of rupees on the rain. The
system has one advantage-rainclouds
cannot be manipule ted; they cannot
be loaded like die, or faxed" like
horses; there are no handicappers, no
starters, no owners and no jockeys
London Globe.
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Call no man happy till he is dead,
says the maker Of apothegms. Name
no son after a living man." is a good
maxim to supplement the old saying
with. Your feeling toward man no
longer living is less apt to change, for
one thing; certainly he himself can
do nothing to alter il, and till man
is dead. or at least arrives at an age
after which no mans character
changes, it is a leap in the dark TO
tack his name on to helpless infant.
Conversely, it is pleasure not un-
mixed with pain to hear your name
coupled with degenerate son of even
your dearest friend.-Critic.
The range of the Mannlicher rifle
was proved again in a startling man
ner the other day, when an Austrian
soldier was killed by one at target
practice at reputed range Of over two
miles and half.
A Mohammedan mosque has been
built in Woking. England, and a
Buddhist temple has Zen opened in
Paris. There are about 800 Buddhists
in Paris.
The will of the late Professor Elias
Loomis bequeaths the bulk OF his es
tate. which Is valued at from $3.50, ooC
To 1900. 600. 10 Yale university, to be
known as the "Lootnis Fund.
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Good by, old Tabernacle. put my
fingers to my lip and throw kiss 30
the departed church In the last day,
may We be able 70 meet the songs
there sung, and the prayers there
offered, and the sermons there preach
ed. Good-by, old place, where some
OF us first felt the Gospel peace. and
others heard the last message ere they
fed away into the skies Good-by,
Brooklyn Tabernacle of 1871 But
welcome our new church. q see it as
plainly as though 1t were already
builtD Your gates wider, your songs
more triumphant, your ingatherings
more glorious. Rise out of the ashes
and greet our waiting vision! Burst
on our souls, oh day OF our church's
resurrection BY your altars may we
be prepared for the hour when the
Ere shall try every mans work OF
what sort Il Is. Welcome, Brooklyn
Tabernacle of 1sool
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DR.. TALMAGE'S FIRST SERMON AFTER
THE coNFLAGRATIoN.

His Text Was These words-"But None
and Affecting Discourse In PuiI-Iarge