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

she may exalt herself by o victory;
envy spies out blenishes that she may
lower another by a defeat.-Colton.
Hospital Sunday, days on which
collections were made Id the churches
for the benefit of the hospitals, began
ct Birmingham, England, Nov. Is,
1855. The hospital Sunday system
was adopted In the United States in
1874.
Melbourne, Australia, is to have a
public clock which will roll off pop
ular air every hour except during Sun
day, when only sacred music will be
played.
Forestry is a national object in
Switzerland. In 1888 nearly six mil
lion coniferous trees were planted, be-
sides nearly half a million of other
plants.
Censors were Roman magistrates
whose duty it was to survey and rate
property, and correct the manners of
the people. The first two censors were
appointed 443 B. G.
The number of admissions to the
Paris exposition up to the 18th of July
was 6,207, 900 as compared with 4, ,332,-
600 In the corresponding portion of
1873. The great majority of the visi-
tors are French provincials.
Heredity still rules in the old Lon
don publishing houses apparently.
Eyre & Spottiswoode announce the
death of their Oldest employee, Will
liam Scott. His name has been on
their pay roll eighty-one years, and
his fathers forty-four years before it.
In recent speech Lord Randolph
Churchill proposed to settle the Irish
question by an imperial loan of 9100,
000, 900 to enable tenants to buy their
holdings The Tory papers ridiculed
the proposition.
Near Paterson, N. j., in the Bergen
county village of Ridgewood, lives
Elizabeth Akers Allen, the famous au-
thor of ''Rock Me to Sleep, Mother, y
and other poems. She still pursues
her literary work, while her husband
is engaged in business in New York
An author is in the condition of a
culprit; the public are his judges; by
allowing too much, and condescend-
ing too far, he may injure his own
cause; and by pleading and asserting
too boldly he may displease the court.
Prior.
The lamp experimental with in
France to be used on the battlefield to
search for the dead and wounded is
about the size of locomotive head
light. 1t has a powerful reflector, and
the light is produced by the combus-
ton of two magnesium wires.
When Mrs. Anna G. Parks, one OF
the inspectresses at the New York Gus
tom house, caused the arrest OF an Ital-
ian woman in whose hustle was found
peck of dutiable jewels, was asked
why she suspected the culprit, she an
swered that she marked her out for
search because Italian women don't
wear bustles.
The cleanest and most perfectly pol
ished hard wood floors have no water
used on them. They are simply rub
bed every morning with a large fan
mel cloth which Is occasionally dipped
in paraffln oil. The floor is rubbed
with the grain of the wood, not across
it. This Is better than waxing.
Simultaneous observations taken in
all parts of the country show that
nearly all great storms follow the
same general direction, from the west
to the east. The same is true of cold
or hot waves. Therefore, to tell what
the weather viii be in advance, we
have only to find out the conditions
prevailing west of us. This is practi-
cally the course pursued by the signal
service.
Germany is not rich country; but
it is not stingy toward the Hohenzol-
lerns. The dowry of the Princess So
phia of Prussia, who is to be married
In the autumn to the crown prince OF
Greece, is fixed at 915, 0Q0-half of II
from the state and half from the EN-
peror. Also 1900, 900 marks will be
placed in trust for the princess, the in
come of which, at per cent, will be
$4,000 year-say 48, 500 year In
all. And Greece is a cheap country tc
live in; although royal personages
probably find that all countries are
about equally expensive.