The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-05-30
ODDS AND ENDS.

Tennyson derives from his works be-
tween $25, 1000 and $4,000 a year,
Browning $40, 1000 and Swinburne
$4,000.
God designs that charitable inter
course should be maintained among
men, mutually pleasant and beneficial.
Barrow.
Recent discoveries made by the use
of the spectroscope show that all the
heavenly bodies appear to be COM
posed of the same chemical elements.
Gayety is to good humor as per-
fumes to vegetable fragrance; the one
overpowers weak spirits, the other re-
creates and revives them.-Dr. S.
johnson.
All Russian ships of war are to be
lighted exclusively by electricity, and
by January next the whole Russian
fleet will be lighted by that means.
A Connecticut sea captain AYERS that
the albatross is quite as subject to sea
sickness as mankind in general and
womankind in particular.
Some men give more light and
knowledge by the bare stating of the
question with perspicuity and business
than others by talking of it in gross con-
fusion for whole hours together.-Dr.
|. Watts.
More than a third of the board
school mistresses in London get sala-
ries of over 81 900 year, and there
are altogether about 1000 in the me-
tropolis and the provinces together
who receive $3.50 or upward.
An Albany, Ga, young man made
desperate love at dance to the wear
er of mask Imagine his surprise
when the object of his addresses raised
her face covering, and said; "You
ought to love your aunt"
The Castle Meyerling, where Crown
Prince Rudolph shot himself, will be-
come q convent of Carmelite nuns, the
death chamber becoming a chapel.
Queen Victoria, who travelled to
France as countess of Balmoral, took
her own bed and bedding with her, a
custom which her majesty never
breaks, even il invited to stay in a roy
al palace.
The other day lady, distributing
flowers in a hospital ward, gave little
maiden rose with O. long, thorny
stalk. By and by she heard a plain
tive voice, 'iMa'am, you gave me a
flower with nails on It'll"
A horse at Ansonia, Conn, got a
pebble IN his nose while drinking
from shallow brook, and now, when
ever he crosses it, laps water there like
dog, though elsewhere he drinks in
the usual fashion.
Among the British exhibits at the
Paris exposition is the railway saloon
in which the great Duke Of Yelling
ton used to travel to and from London
when, as Lord Warden of the Clinque
ports, he resided at Walmer castle.
The sea gulls which nest by the acre
upon the sand flats off the Jersey
coast, make the sun do about half the
Matching of their young, and are never
found upon the nest save at night or
in very rainy weather
There is an admirable practice
which some school teachers have of
inviting their pupils to give an &c
count each day of important events
| mentioned in the newspapers. When
directed by judicious instructors, such
exercises cannot fail to exert power
full influence for good on youthful
minds.
The late Carl Rosa was q hoy prod
| igy,n and was billed at concerts sls the
Juvenile Paganini He married
Nine. Parepa, his prima donna, dur
| ing his first tour of the United States.
| He is said to have never taken q bene-
fit or testimonial in any form. Music
was his profession, but politics and
pictures were his pet hobbies.
A Washington woman, prosecutor
| in an assault and battery case, who
called the courts attention TO marks
on her face, the result, she said, of the
beating she had received, almost faint
ed when the judge ordered an officer
| to closely examine the injuries he
rubbed a handkerchief over her face,
when the marks instantly disappeared,
having been made with paint The
case was then dismissed.
Carlyle described his indigestion
''hke q rat gnawing at the pit of hi:
| stomach, y and said his hest physician
was a horse. Some one has jocosely re
marked tho outside of horse was the
best thing for the inside of man
Calvin was a sufferer from indigestion
so was Emerson, SO was Cowper, sc
was Darwin, so indeed were many Of
the great men of modern times. Al
old physician used to say: Tell ms
how man digests, and / will tel
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