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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-09-05
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Opposite Atheneum, St Johnsbury. Vermont
c M STONE. ARTHUR F. STONE
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-09-26

l saw a queer illustration of the
sleeping qualities of negro the other
day. Every one knows that a genu-
inc, unadulterated negro can sleep on
board with his face to the sun and
without covering for his eyes on the
hottest July day-and he sleeps as
peacefully as white man on the soft
est cot and in the darkest room. It
has been said that he could sleep
under tho mouth OF cannon in oper-
alton and believe it. Or, at least,
believe tho one of which shall speak
could. In going down to Augusta a
few days ago on the regular day pas
senger we were a few miles below
Union Point when the train suddenly
stopped. The fireman jumped from
the engine and ran back by the pas
senger coach, crying, There's dead
nigger behind" )" Everybody looked
out, and sure enough just behind the
rear coach, with his head resting on
the cross ties, was what appeared to
be a dead negro man. Two or three
train hands and a crowd of negroes
ran back to see If the train had struck
him.
Dat nigger amt dead. He's er
snorin, said one of the negroes, and
he jerked and kicked him until he
awoke, arose and walked off, followed
by kick from the brakeman.
The wheels of the engine and cars
had passed within few inches of the
negro's head, and had not even affect
cd his snoring. Atlanta Constitution.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-09-26
What They Bought.

One of the talkative people that I've
met at this busy, cheerful place. this
week, is drummer.
II call this a pretty slow town, I"
said he.
"You do, eh2"
II should say so. In town of this
size, out west, there would be five or
six big hotels, three or four newspa-
pers, two or three elevators, half a
dozen railroads, dozen beer gardens,
three or four shooting galleries and a
crowd on the street all The time. To q
man that's been travelling in the west,
this town seems like country village.
It's SO all through the east. Dead,
dead, dead. Can't sell any goods. No
use to try. I'm going to skip for the
live west, again, right off. The last
western town was in was daisy. I
sold four customers bills of six or
eight hundred dollars apiece in less
than four hours and didn't half try.
1t would paralyze me TO find town
like that in the east. Confound the
east, anyway. It's dead, I tell you.
have no use for it. want to be in a
place where there's some Hfe."
What do you selll" asked a mild
hammered little man in one corner
"Coffin.5," said the drummer, brisk
ly.-'Here. you, bring me yard and a
quarter of custard pie and no flies ON
it, my boy Journal.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-09-26
How to Disinfcct.

Clothing which requires disinfect-
ing should be submitted for about
three hours to a temperature of 250
degrees in a chamber charged with
sulphuric fumes from a large guam
tity of sulphur. The chamber should
be so constructed as to prevent the
fumes from passing off. No germs
can stand this.
After a room has been used by a
person sick with any contagious dis
ease, it becomes necessary TO disinfect
it before it is fit to be used again. This
is done by removing and burning the
paper on the walls, removing the bed
steads and other furniture, and expo
sing them to air and wind, and giving
them fresh coat of varnish; by hav
ing the mattress made over new and
the hair boiled; by burning in the
room three pounds of sulphur, and by
whitewashing, painting and papering
the room anew.
Now that it is generally conceded
that consumption Is caused by germs
which multiply in the lungs, a meth
cd of disinfecting them, which shall
be harmless, has been sought for, but
as yet without avail. The vapor of
creosote, the oil Of the eucalyptus and
carbolic acid have been tried, and
to some extent they may paralyze or
stun the germs and prevent their ra.
pid increase, but as the passages of
the lungs are delicate, and the vapor
cannot be brought very near to them
without injury, the good effects are
slight But there is one method which
cannot fail to prove beneficial and
that is the inhalation of large quanti-
ties of fresh, pure air This is worth
more than any disinfectant for the
lungs, and can do no arm.-Practical
Farmer.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-09-26

A man who knows it all writes IN
The Agriculturist: "Have regular
hours for feeding hens" Now, /
have made a passing study of hens,
and II there is one minute of all the
hours of daylight, from tbs moment
it is light enough to see the surfsce of
the earth until it is too dark to distin-
guish grain of corn from a bowlder.
that a hen isn't feeding, must have
been away lecturing some place at
that time. When there is anything to
eat the hen feeds with the eager appe-
tte Of q boy who hasn't had anything
for ten minutes When there Is absd-
lutely nothing as on a wind swept,
weather beaten cellar door or the new
ly painted floor Of the piazza, she will
scratch away Justify and pause at in
tervals in her scratching TO go through
the motions of eating. She win affeot
to pick up the most luscious tidbits
from the bare, inhospitable face of q
polished marble doorstep, that has
just been scrubbed till it has a surface
OF glass, She will scratch on it, al
though it Is all she can do to stand on
its treacherous surface with all claws
set, and then with exultant clucks af-
feet to pick up in rapid succession o
soft shell grub, an angle worm, stall
fed and four inches long, a couple OF
blue point beetles and shedder lady
bug. Then she will walk away, cast
ing upon you glance of the most
hypocritical contentment and satisfac-
ton, as one who had dined luxurious
ly and escaped without tipping the
waiter. Why, if hen ate as much as
she pretends to, her alimentary canal
would have to be ed.-Burdette in
Brooklyn Eagle.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-09-26

Ing late SHOWS Inat. ne mas coucu
money elsewhere, and SO can afford to
take less.
If man at the head steps ont of
a lire at the ferry or railroad station
he loses his position, but not when in
line before steamship passengers.
When in the latter line he holds his
position until he makes bargain
What class of people pay high
rates with the least reluctance2"
South Americans. They never
kick. The average English tourist
and New York city club man are the
hardest to deal with. The English
man is accustomed TO the cheap rates
of London, and cannot understand
our higher charges over here.
1.-THE average Frenchman is a good
fellow to deal with. His trips are
generally to hotels close by, and he
pays well. Bostonians as class are
not good food for hackmen. The 25
cent rates in that city lead them to ex.
pect similar rates elsewhere.
Whenever you see a hackman
whose badge number does not CORE
spond with the carriage number keep
a sharp eye on him, because some
thing is wrong about the fellow was
the hackman's parting advice.
York News.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-09-26
How Glucose Is Made.

The process of making glucose will
be best understood by following the
corn from the time it enters the fac.
tory until it runs out at a spigot, clear,
odorless liquid. The shelled corn is
first soaked for several days in water,
to soften the hull and prepare it for
the cracking process. The softened
corn is conveyed by elevators to one
of the highest stories of the factory,
and shoyeled into largo hoppers, from
which it passes into mills that merely
crack the grains without reducing
them at once to fine meal. The
cracked grain is then conducted to a
large tank filled with rinsing water.
The hulls of the corn float at the top OF
the water, the germs sink to the bot
tom, and the portions OF the grain
containing the starch, becoming grad
ually reduced to flour by frictisn, are
held in solution in tho water BY an
ingenious process both the hulls and
the germs are removed, and the flour
part now held in solution contains
nothing but starch and gluten.
This liquid is then made to flow
over series of tables, representing
several acres in area, and the differ
epce in the specific gravity of the two
substances causes the gluten and the
starch to separate without the use OF
chemicals. The gluten is of a golden
yellow color, and the starch snow
white. BY the time gluten has been
completely eliminated the starch as
sumes plastic form, and is collected
from the separating tables by wheel
barrowfuls and taken to drying
room, where it is prepared as the
starch of commerce, or is placed in a
chemical apparatus To be converted
into glucose. American Analyst
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-09-26

Back. in the last century, the follow
ing circular, which is probably the
queerest marriage announcement ever
recorded, was current in Cumberland,
England:
Matthew boswell, in Bothell, Cum
berland. intends to be married at
Holm church, on the Thursday before
Whltsuntide next, whenever that
may happen, and to return to Bothell
to dipe;
ed; Edward Clementson gives a fat
lamb. to be roasted; William Elliot
gives hen, to be roasted; Joseph Glib
son gives.a pig, to be roasted; William
Hodgson gives fat calf, TO be roasted.
And in order that all this roast
meat may be well basted, do you see,
Mary Pearson, Patty Hodgson,
Mary Bushby, Molly Fisher, Sarah
Briscoe, and Betty Penthouse, give
each of them pound of butter. The
advertiser will provide everything
else suitable for so festive an occasion.
"AND BE HEREBY GIVES NOTICE,
To all young women, desirous OF
changing their condition, that he is a,
present disengaged, and he advises
them to consider that although there
may be luck in leisure, yet, in this
case, delays are dangerous; for with
him. he Is determined it shall be frs
come first served.
$50 come along. iassies, who wish to be masTyd
Matt Boswell IA vexed that 50 long he has
tarry,d"
Unfortunately, the world is without
any record of the wedding itself, OF
whether Mr.. Doswell's plan OF ap
pointing the day, before he had chosen
bride. was followed by wedding al
all.-Youth's Companion.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-09-26

In the preparation Of the Jewish
passover bread, the kneading is done
in the ordinary way. Pure gunpow-
der water is the only component add
ed. The time for the dough to be
baked is reduced TO the minimum. 1t
is broken into fiat cakes, and then run
between rollers into very thin sheets.
Over these workmen roll a pronged
steel to perforate the dough, so that
air holes may be seen in baked cakes.
A steel hoop cuts the dough into
round, fiat sheets, which are then
ready for the oven. The baker then
stands with paddle attached to a
very long handle. With the aid of
boy he thrusts the cakes into the brick
compartment, and in half a minute
pulls them out ready for use. A mat
zath cake is round, about four feet in
diameter, somewhat Drowned, and
having slight air hole projections on
its surface. They have rather pleas
ant taste, not unlike that of crackers,
and make good substitute for bread.
In some places there Is demand
throughout the entire year for the un-
leavened cakes by dyspeptics. About
eight cakes weigh pound, which in
large quantities sell at eight cents.
The cakes are very brittle, and their
pieces are ground up into fine meal.
This is the substitute for wheat flour
in the household during the passover.
The Milestone.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-09-26
When Car Brakes Crate.

Conductor"
1t was in a Fourth avenue car, and
all the other passengers looked up
when an elderly man, with the linger-
ing fragrance of hayseed suggested by
his apparel and the irritability of an
overtaxed brain or crotchety disposi-
ton apparent in his tone, snapped out
that imperative summons. The con-
ductor, a pleasant faced, gentlemanly
looking fellow, glanced at the speak
er, and stepping forward politely in
quired what he wanted.
''Tell that driver to take the brake
off immediately" snarled the excited
passenger. first thought he was a
"crank, +" as l had noticed nothing un-
usual in the application of the brake,
but, rather to my surprise, the polite
conductor vouchsafed a soft answer,
which failed, however, to diminish the
old mans wrath.
He has to use the brake in order to
avoid running on the horses heels, /"
explained the knight Of the nickel.
1.-The brake on this car is new and will
CRATE like this for a day or two until
It gets worn smooth. 1t can't be help
ed" Then he resumed his station on
the rear platform and after several ir-
ritable imprecations the dissatisfied
passenger followed him, cursed the
driver, stopped the car and aiighted.
After my attention had thus been
called to the jarring wheels !, too,
suffered somewhat from the contin-
ued grating, and before leaving the
car Inquired if passengers often COM
planned of new brakes.
"Yes, some one will remark upon il
nearly every trip" said the conduct
or. "However, it don't happen very
often. l don't know how long car
brake lasts, as we change cars so fire.
quently, but whenever / have the i'll
luck TO strike a new brake there is
sure to be some unpleasantness over
the grating noise. The driver is
obliged to keep his car in check all the
time, and rough, new brake is not
pleasant for high strung nervous
people. New York Herald.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-09-26

aOTe piece or grounu-a square foot or
more-thcy proceeded to execute what
looked comically like a war dance
upon the perforated territory. They
also occasionally tapped the ground
with the tips of their wings. My in
tense curiosity to know the possible
utility of this process was at length
gratitied by seeing worm crawl, half
it was immediately pounced upon and
Presently another worm made its APP
pearance, and so on until the wood
cocks had devoured as many as doz-
en- of them. Then the ''vein" seemed
exhausted, and the birds took their
leave.
l have subsequently, studied the
philosophy of this method of digging
bait, and have come to the conclusion
that certain birds are great deal wis
er than certain bipeds without feath-
ers. If you will take a sharpened
stick and drive it into the ground a
number of times. in a spot which is
prolific with worms, and then tap on
the ground with the stick for a few
hiEutcSs yOu Will ulu tudt tuo WOrulS
will come to the surface, and that they
will come up through the holes which
you have made. / account for it by
the supposition that the tapping of the
stick somehow affects the worms the
same as the patter of rain, and it is o
well known fact that worms come to
the surface of the ground when Il
rains. The antics Of the woodcocks
after they had made their borings
then, were simply nnimetic, and In
tended to delude worms into the be-
lief that 1t was raining in the upper
world. The worms, being deceived,
came up and were devoured. All
this may seem ridiculous, but, il it is
not true, will some naturalist please
state how woodcock can grasp and
devour a worm when its bill is con-
fined in a solid, tight fitting tunnel Of
soil, and also how it is enabled to
know the exact spot where it may
sink its bill and strike the worm2 And
further, of all those who have seen q
woodcock feeding, how many ever
saw it withdraw q worm from the
ground with its bill9-Forest and
-
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; -
sunnites and Sheitos.

There are among the Moslems two
great divisions, the Sunnites and the
Sheites. The Turks are all Sunnites,
the Persiars all Sheites. They differ
in that the latter regard Ali, the ne
phew and son-in-law of Mohammed,
with greater love than they do Mo-
hammed himself Ali married Fatima,
Mohammed's daughter, and by her
is said that Mohammed predicted their
death; and indeed one day Ali and his
two sons, and a large number Of
friends and attendants, were massa-
cred The Sheites declare that Mo
hammed encornpassed their death,
and to this day the two sects hate each
other even more than they do the
Christians
The anniversary of this fatal day is
celebrated religiously every year
among the Sheites They gather in
groups around certain man, who,
seated in their midst on some elevated
spot, begins the recital in monotone
OF the tragedy Gradually he warns
up, he becomes excited, he throws up
his hands, he even sobs with anguish
as he proceeds and graphically de-
scribes the misfortunes of the i'll fated
Ali and his two sons. And his audi
ence, with downcast eyes reyerently
shaded with their hands, follow with
all absorbing interest his words. Pres
emily they begin to sob, and finally to
cry aloud with anguish and beat their
heads and breasts and tear their hair.
The reciter sways his audience with
thronging words of passion, with soft
whispers of entreaty, with broken
calculations of agony.
Then suddenly his mood changes.
What has passed has been confession
of their sin and confession Of the
JUSTICE of any punishment that might
| fall on them. For the Sheites were
| originally Sunnites and approved OF
the death of Ali, and it was only Later
| that they became Sheites and seeded
from the Sunnites, and by this cere-
mony they lament over and expiate
the sins of their forefathers And now
succeeds earnest prayer with -upraised
hands to God 10 receive Ali and his
two sons into favor and to pardon
them in his mercy. Then, when this
is finished, narghilehs or hubble bub-
bles are handed round, and the whole
company enjoy quiet smoke to calm
1 their excited feelings. In some places
knives are made use of and fearful
] wounds self inflicted, and in some
cases death has resulted.
A Magazine.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-09-26
A Painters Good Fortune.

Today Drexel & Co. can raise more
money in twenty-four hours than any
financial institution in the United
States. Yet it was not great while
ago that old Francis Drexel was n
poor portrait painter. Somehow or
other the old man about fifty years
ago got an order to paint picture for
Brazilian grandee and went down to
that country TO do the work. The
Brazilian took fancy to the poor por-
trait painter and not only paid him a
good price for the picture but let him
in on some money making scheme.
out of which Drexel realized quite o
sum. He returned to Philadelphia
and went into the money lending bust
ness. BY careful investments he
amassed big fortune and his three
boys, Francis, Anthony and Joseph,
increased it. When the old man died
he was worth about SIS, 900, 600. When
Francis, the oldest boy, died he left
$25, 900, 900. Joseph left about SIS, 600,
900, being less of a money maker than
the others, and Anthony, the only one
left, Is estimated to be worth any
where from 500, 900, 900 TO $50, 900, 900.
st Louis Globe-Democrat
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-09-26
HACK DRIVERS GRIEVANCES. :
They Have Them Against Each Other. thu
Man with q PULP and the Public.

They Have Them Against Zach Other, the
Man with a PULP and tho Public.
In even the hack business trust ten
denotes are manifesting themselves,
according TO cabman, whom re-
porter of The News met at one of the
Jersey City ferries the other day. The
vast majority of hacks in this city, he
explained, are under the control of
one man who claims to have "A "pull'
at the city hall, but who does not own
a single horse or vehicle himself
How can that bet" asked the re-
porter.
"Well, he enjoys the privilege OF
going within the wharf gates and
Soliciting patronage while the regular
hackmen are kept outside. lie, con-
seauently, has monopoly OF the busi-
ness connected with four or i've OF
tho principal ocean steamship lines,
aud the others can have what is left
after be gets through
"Ho makes arrangements with the
big car companies which enable him
10 collect large commissions on the
business he turns over to them. Hack
men," the speaker thought pan out
about the same as other people. In
the matter of honesty their regulations
are bad" he explained, because
many persons think they charge out
rageous prices, yet If those persons
were TO consider how much time is
lost in waiting for an ocean steamer
TO tie up or train 10 arrive they
would not have SO bad an opinion of
the cabmen.
"Of course" in reply to another
question tho haekman proceeded, Il
know some cab drivers are dishonesa,
| but they belong to that class to whom
| licenses are issued without investiga-
| ton as 10 character. Anybody can
get license in this city. Men who
own their rigs are generally an up
right lot, and the rascals are those
fellows who hire cab or coach for a
few days or weeks in order to get
chance 10 fleece he public.
| Have we any rule about custom
ers among usl' Certainly. 1t is that
the first driver at gate should have
| first position, and each man afterward
in the order of his arrival, and Is un.
derstood by all hackmen. II the first
man cannot arrange satisfactory terms
with his first call, tho call Is passed
over TO the next, and so on, the last II
the line being general y the cheapest
| why is the last man in the Lint
cheapestf'
! "Beaauss the very fact OF his com
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-09-26
A Live Trout In a Block Of Ice.

The Virginia City New Chronicle
is responsible for the following: John
Commerton, the Comstock Ice king,
wbile loading his wagon yesterday
morning, noticed dark substance in
the center of a block of ice, and remov-
ing the sawdust from the surface Of
the block discovered a trout frozen in
the center of it.
EIe placed the ice in tub of water
and when he returned home few
hours later the block had melted and
he was astonished to find the fish,
which had been in its icy grasp for
several months, swimming about in
the tub. The trout measures thirteen
inches in length, and, though slightly
emaciated, Is not otherwise the worse
for its long fast.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-09-26
The Cautious Prophets.

Down in Georgia an old darky call
ing himself the prophet Daniel induc-
ed three young men to walk into an
iron furnance. They did it as easily
as anything you ever saw done. But
coming out again was part of the feat
that caught them cold, and they stay
ed in. The queer thing about these
religious lunatics is that God never
tells them to do anything of that sort
themselves; he always tells them to
get somebody else to do it. However,
the stock of fools in the world is al
ways large. We suppose you might
burn up couple Of hundred of them
every day for six weeks, and then find
a good market for any kind of an
elixir you should advertise. Burdette
in Brooklyn Eagle.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-09-26
Salt for Moths.

For moths salt is the best extermi-
nator. The nuns in one of the hos
pital converts have tried everything
else without success, and their expert
ence is valuable, as they have SO much
clothing of the sick who go there, and
strangers, when dying there, often
leave quantities of clothing, etc. They
had room full of feathers, which
were sent there for pillow making, and
they were in despair, as they could
not exterminate the moths, until they
were advised to try common salt.
They sprinkled it around, and in a
week or ten days they were altogether
rid of the moths. They are never
troubled now. In heavy velvet car
pets sweeping them with salt cleans
and keeps them from moths, as par
ticles of the salt remain in the carpets
and corners. Salt is not hurtful to
any one, and has no bad smell. Here
is little hint / add, which, perhaps,
every one does not know: For clean
ing wash basins, bath, ETC., use the
same thing, common dry salt. Rub a
little of the salt with your fingers on
the basin. Often sort of scum is ho-
ticed in the basins in marble wash
stand in the bathroom; the salt takes
it off easily, and leaves the basin shin
ing and clean.-Philadelphia Press.