The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-03-14
ODDS AND ENDS.

The latest nickel-in-the-slot device
perfumes ones handkerchief.
The number of mems linen collars
made in this country every year is
100000. About one collar to every
eight men.
Porous glass for window panes has
been produced in Paris The pores
are too fine to admit draft, but they
assist in ventilation.
It has been calculated that not less
than 90, 600, 900 of meteors, each large
enough to be visible as shooting
star enter our atmosphere daily.
An Inch of rain" means gallon of
water spread over surface of nearly
two square feet, on fall of about 100
tons on an acre of ground.
To'protect children's clothing from
fire, add one ounce of alum to the last
water used in ringing clothes. This
renders them uninflammable.
Here is nosegay plucked from the
garden of thought: Character has far
more to do with determining history
than history has with determining
character.-George Macdonald.
A Frenchman is anxious to arrange
for fight between devil fish and a
shark in tank where 10000 people
can see the combat, but just how to do
it is what puzzles him, and he has
written to Barnum for advice.
The admirers of the late Frank Holl,
who desired to put a memorial tablet
in the crypt of st. Pauls, London,
have brought to public light the fact
that the fee for allowing the tablet to
be put there is two hundred guineas.
Mr.. Jackson, of Vincennes, Ind,
came home and told his wife that the
coal supply of the world would last
only 900 years more, and she fell in a
faint and broke her arm. She after
wards remembered that they had al
ways burned wood.
Within a period of ten years in India
the gain in the native community has
been: In the northwest provinces, G3
per cent in Bengal, 67 per cent. in
Madras, Sc per cent in Central India,
90 per cent. !; in Oudh, Ill per cent. in
| the Punjab, 155 per cent, and in Bonn
bay, $50 per cent.
The Lutheran church in the United
States breaches the Gospel in. the fol-
lowing twelve languages: German,
English, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish,
Icelandic, Finnish, Bohemian, Polish,
| French. Siberian Tor Serbian), Sol.
val1ian Cor Hungarian) and the Indian
dialects.
| Professor Matthew Williams, in The
| Gentleman's Magazine, urges the man
ufacture of locust paste, or .potted To-
Gusts, as delicacy for gourmands.
They resemble, he says, shrimps,
| prawns or Holsters, but are richer and
more aromatic; and a demand once
created, there would be no difficulty
in obtaining supplies. sS4
| J. Devlin, a train employe on the
New York Central. and Hudson River
railroad, found a pocketbook contain.
ing $50, 600 in a seat of drawing room
car attached TO the east bound train,
due at Albany at half past o'clock
| p. m. He returned the money TO its
owner, J. E. LOTUS, Bostonian, who
was returning from the west. Alr.
LOTUS handed Devlm 81 600.
A contemporary refers to the sssuc
cess which has almost invariably at
tended the womenas exchanges Cues.
| the editor must be single man, and
therefore, knows nothing of the wo
mems exchanges, by which mar
parts forever with a healthy oyercoai
| for blue crockery cat with pink trim
mings, or by which he secures an i'm
practicable vase done in green and
gold for pair of trousers only hal
worn ut-Boston Transcript.