The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-07-25
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Webster.
Cable cars are run at the rate OF
fourteen miles an hour in parts OF
Chicago.
A Kansas editor says that sixty
thousand railroad car will be re-
CURED 70 haul the wheat crop OF
his state.
lis there anything / can do for
YOUR asked Mrs. .Cumso, tenderly, |
when her husband was suffering
from seasickness. What do you
want?'
az want the heart" gasped Cumso,
as he again leaned over the rail-
New York Sun.
81 have sometimes thought" be-
gan Mr.. Porridge, wherea: Miss
Rashly gave an exclamation OF
amazement, and then remarked
apologetically: at may be. or
course | have no knowledge OF
what you may have done before l
becams acquainted with you. y
Rlchm Cnd DiSpa.cn'
Important di coveries have been
made by the Italians on the cite o
Adults, in Africa, where, in The
sixth century, the monk Cosmas
Indlcopleustes found the Marmor
Adulitanum, which records the
conouests OF Ptolemy Euerk etes.
So far the columns Of some public
building and a number OF ancient
coins have been brought to light.
The son OF very eminent law
yer, while awaiting sentence is the
felon's dock, was asked by the
Judge: $50 you remember your
father p "Perfectly," said the
youth; whenever entered his
presence he said, run away my
lad, and don't trouble me-" The
grea. lawyer WAS thus enabled to
complete his famous work on the
Law of Trusts" and his son in
due time furnished practical COM
mentary on the way in which his
father had discharged that most
tacred of trusts committed To him
in the person of his child.-lndian-
apnlis Sentinel.
Says dispatch from Milbank,
Oak: 1.-THE crops in the wetstone
valley are the best at the present
stage that have been grown since
1886. Up TO June 18th there were
grsve apprehensions that the con-
Iinued dry spell would make the
crop of wheat very light, but on
the 18th it began raining, and rain
ed for four days In succession, not,
however, continually, but with
showers each day, thoroughly SOAK
ing the ground, and since that
there have been other good rains al
short intervals. just at the crit
cal time for the crops the Chris
tan people of Milbank, without re-
gard to sect or denomination, held
meeting in the Methodist Epis-
copal church to pray for rain, and
II came, as stated above"
The Gardner's Chronicle says
that the gingko Is proving itsel
one of the best trees for st EEL
planting insmoky cities, thriving il
the most impure atmosphere, and
not having as yet been attacked by
insects or fungus diseases. In this
country, according to Garden and
Forest, extensive use has not been
made OF the gingko as a street tree
except in Washington, where. oil
course, it is not subjected to the
test OF an atmosphere impre2na-
ted with smoke. "If IL is, indeed
able TO withstand the most unfa-
vorable conditions, it might be
more generally adopted, for i,
grows rapidly, its sha.' &c we'll adapts
IL for association with architectu-
ural forms, and the peculiar char
acter OF its foliage always makes il
interesting TO the popular eye"
According to Nature, the Rus
sian Academy of Sciences offers O
prize OF ~, 500 for the best inquiry
into the nature and effects of the
poison which develops in cured
fish. The objects of com petitors
must be: To determine, by means
of exact experiments, the
physical and chemical nature
of the poison which develops in
fish; 2 to study, by experiments on
animals, its action upon the heart,
the circulation of the blood, the or
gans OF digestion and tho nervous
system; 3 to determine the rapid
ty OF It's ABSORPTION by the digest
i've organs, and 4 to study and de
scribe the characteristics which
may serve TO distinguish contami.
mated fish from such as are not
contaminated" The fifth and sixth
questions relate to the means OF
preserving some fish from the de.
velopment OF the poison, and to
the question of counter poisons and
the medical treatment of poisoned
persons. The competition is, open
to all. The memoirs must be sent
in, either in manuscript or printed
by January /, 1898, and may be
written in any one Of the following
languages: Russian, Latin, French,
English or German.
can incident which may be add
ed TO the fund of anecdotes that
illustrate the present works of the
International piracy which stan DIS
in the place that should be ocou.
pied by the international copyright
happened in the customhouse here
not long since" relates Boston
correspondent in the Book Buyer.
IAN American author who was
travelling in Engla came across
pirated edition Of one OF his
books and bought a copy to bring
home. The volume struck the
notice OF the vigilant inspector who
examined his baggage when he
landed here, and he seized 1t.
Well the author said, when he
vas told that he could not bring
1t into the country where IT was
copyrighted, i wrote the book: it
has been largely sold in England
without my getting any royalty; i
paid full retail price for it in Lon
don, and / supposed that i should
be allowed the poor privilege of
bringing home copy for my own
library, but If the United States
government is determined to pro-
'ect my copyright there does not
seem to be any way in which can
help myself The officer answered
that be had, of course; to obey or
ders, but he laid the book down on
Trunk tray and managed to for
get 1t, SO that the author has q