The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-05-09
FACTS AND HINTS.

Huge plates of glass are now cut by
electricity.
Last year 1853, 900, coo shad and about
10000, 900 trout fry were distributed
over the country by tie fish commits
sion.
An English firm has been using pc
troleum for fuel in q torpedo boat and
getting speed of twenty-one knots.
The oil is carried in the vessels double
bottom.
Charles Mourse, aged IA, and Nellie
Shattuck, aged 13, of st. Johnsbury,
VT, ran away and got married. When
they returned to their home the bride
got spanking.
Among some old papers in London,
recently, genuine likeness of John
Bunyan as he appeared in his cell
at Bedford has just been discovered,
for which the owner demands 1000
guineas.
In tearing down an old house in
Brunswick. Me-, large chamber was
found whose floor consisted of only
sig boards Each of them was over
two feet wide Gone are the moparchs
of the Maine forest
The Electrician reports rumor
from Berlin to the effect that means
tricity for ascertaining the true north,
instead of the magnetic needle; that,
in short, the new means will be SUI
perior to the compass and is likely to
supersede it.
Two men in Tioga county, Pa, who
had jointly bought a COW, quarreled
about dividing the milk, one claiming
that the other owned only the front
half of the animal Subsequently the
owner of the rear half was lifted by
the cows horns, and he wants damages
of the front part. The court will set
tie it.
A fee of $S7, 900 in good securities
has been presented by Mr.. II. NJ. Flag
Ter to DR.. George Shelton, of New
York, in consideration of his faithful
ness and skill in attending the case of
Mr.. Flagler's daughter Mrs. Bene-
dict, who died on her husband S
yacht, off Charleston, short time
ago, after long illness. This is de-
scribed as the largest fee but one, ever
paid to physician.
Did you ever figure up how many
miles your faithful old Dobbin has
travelled An eastern Maine man has
done it and finds that in the thirteen
years he has driven his horse, she has
gone so, 900 miles by the record. In ten
years a pair of eastern Maine stage
horses have travelled 20, 900 miles.
Cigar boxes are supposed to be made
of Spanish cedar, but there is not
enough of the wood grown for the
purpose, and nearly all the boxes used
by American cigarmakers are made
from West Virginia poplar. The
wood is sawed up into thin boards,
and the cigarnakers dye them brown
with cedar extract, which gives the
proper color and odor
Renan, the author of the Life of
Jesus, is described by visitor as a
short, Aeshy man, who looks like a
good natured priest with his broad,
clean shaven, Rabelalsan face, large
nose, small gray eyes and well shaped
mouth. He lives in an apartment III
the College of France. His favorite
companion is a large Angora cat.
Some time ago Mrs. Langtry engaged
chef at a salary Of SIS q day, to take
entire charge and provide everything
for her kitchen. The chef, French
man by the name of Broche, soon
found out that, owing to the luxuri.
Gus tastes of his mistress, the sum al
lowed him was entirely inadequate for
the contract. He brought in bill
for extra marketing amounting to
1925, which Mrs. Langtry refused tc
pay. He brought suit against her in
! the New York courts.